Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

milasavesmoney

Score one for Pips!

The OH went to the store for limes for the Tom Yum soup and came home with a huge buy of sale ribeye steaks and kielbasas. Blew my grocery budget right out of the water but as he was so pleased with himself (it was a great deal) I didn't say a word...just congratulated him on his smart shopping. He's a cute hunk of a man!

Pippilongstocking

Happy shopping Mila - hunks and otherwise.

We had mince and tatties for tea (mince from the freezer).

Himself is off rehearsing and being a rock star.

I've a quiet evening of not-quite-what on now.

Pippilongstocking

Writing and bath and bed. That's all that I managed.

Today is first of my four at home normally days except Im' off to be a removal lorry for DS tomorrow.

We've got a car full of pallets and a broken chair - 10 pallets to be precise my tetris skills are getting better.

I've a house to clean but refuse (do you hear me house, REFUSE) to spend all day doing it. Fly lady is working a bit again (although in my general rebellous form, I will not shine my sink or put on lace up shoes).

So I need to timer it and do 15 mins in the peripheral rooms, as they will nosey in all of them, we've not managed to get together in two years - lol. And I'll do a bit more in the not-so-evil ice room and the kitchen cos we're eating.

Spag bog for tea - but gluten free so I got some special pasta I required a mortgage for. Like if its got less stuff in it why is it so blinking expensive. 20p savers pasta this is not I could have got 12.5 packets of savers for this stuff. So I'm using reduced mince and tomatoes for the rest of it. It will still cost under £4 the lot but the pasta is the £2.49 part of that.

Outraged of longstocking here.

So 15 mins per room - 3 bedrooms, twa pee rooms and twa living areas + kitchen - fingers and toes.......bleurgh still around 2 hours cleaning. Buttrocks.

Then its garden or I might do it intersperced but I will not spend the whole day doing it. The chap won't care and as long as we do the show around during dusk, the dust won't show either!



Aside all of that and emptying the car, pallets away and some gardening sounds like a delightful day.

First coffee and birds to watch. Priorities and all that.

Greying_Pilgrim

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Outraged of longstocking here.

*snort* :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I thought i had wandered into the Daily Wail letters page just now :rotfl::rotfl:

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

First coffee and birds to watch. Priorities and all that.

I like your style. I had a glorious time watching a goldfinch yesterday, it was bouncing about on a weed - a spiky sow thistle, the size of a primary school child in my garden .........- but it was lovely to watch ................

Greying X

Cheery_Daff

Tee hee Pipps I confess I might have been giving them Mash Bolognaise :rotfl:

I have (yet again) abandoned all normal housework. Doesn't seem much point - there's barely room to put the nozzle of the hoover down on most of the floors anyway :eek: Although we did buy a new sweeping brush for the kitchen yesterday (which is tiles with a big giant rug, a stupid combination that means it rarely gets either hoovered or mopped, just swept every day). First new brush in 15 years! :eek: Old one is a bit manky but now belongs entirely to the garden rather than having to share (which was a bit unhygienic... but nobody was ever going to even try and eat their dinner off my floor anyway :eek: :rotfl: )

Have a good one Impressed with the amount you've fitted in the car!

Pippilongstocking

Greying I'm outraged folks with dietary issues (and she is a real colieac)have to pay for their food.

Cheery's right I should have just done mash.

We've got greenfinches, blue and great t*ts, robin, dunlin, sparras, robin and various large blackbirds/thrushes.

There were nowt but sparras when we arrived so I'm polishing my knuckles for my bird feeding capabilities.

My best thing last year in the garden was a hummingbird hawk moth.

So I've planted lots of verbena this year too as its supposed to love it.

Spikey sow thistles are lovely even when they are the size of a small child. I've only ever seen a firecrest (which sadly the cat brought in up north a total travesty). But, it was bonnie and yes we did put it in the freezer to show the kids not for supper.

Cheery thank you - my brush goes both ways. I'm a clart. But I'm healthy.

Cheery_Daff

Glad it's not just me with the multipurpose sweeping brush :rotfl: But ours really is rather grim now after all those years :eek: Especially now with odd combinations of food scraps/mud/plaster/hair, oh dear! :eek: :rotfl:

Best banish it to outside and start again I think. Who knows, I might splash out and treat myself to ANOTHER new one in the new house :eek: £3.99 down the drain, what on earth would Martin think??

beanielou

Confesses that I do finally have an indoor & an outdoor brush.
Tis cause I am very lazy!

Pippilongstocking

Cheery I bought a rubber job like fly lady 5.99 promised myself it wouldn't go outside and used the old kitchen brush outside. Lasted until I lost the outside brush. About five minutes probably.



Beanie well done you, that's quite a confession.

hope you're well love. xx

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: I wondered about those rubbery brushes - will they do both carpet and tiles?? Not that I'm going to buy a new one now!

I just went to the local hardware shop to get mine - they have a cheery selection of brushes hung up outside which always makes me smile (no rubber ones though). They also have a cairn terrier called Mouse, which is the main reason I find an excuse to go in there all the time - buying one screw or washer at a time usually :rotfl: