Everybody Look! Intriguing Tiny Elves!

mhoc

Quite a productive day in all.

This morning I had to tax and insure youngest sons car which had a SORN on it. Overnight I had an email from his old insurance company with the proof of his 2 years no claims bonus so I rang Admiral again and told them the details over the phone. This took £167 off the total price of the insurance :T

We have a local specialist garage and it went off there this morning to be inspected as its been stood for 6 months and son said there was a fault light. OH picked it up about one o'clock and garage said it was almost perfect, checked everything over brakes and lights etc. The fault light was not the significant thing son thought it was just low washer bottle fluid and they only charged £42. One tyre though is an odd one and illegle and it should not have gone through its MOT and been sold like that so a new one is ordered but actually the cost of this has been covered by the saving in insurance :T

so then I finished the back log of holiday washing including all of the cats blankets and got it all the holiday wear packed away ready for the next trip.

and I had a bedroom tidy out ready for Christmas guests so just got to get OH to round up his wardrobe which is scattered everywhere.

Managed to make a nice pile of stuff for the charity shop and another for the food bank which I can take when we go to Mr !!!!!! tomorrow.

and then we went on a Christmas tree hunt ...

wendyak

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spud01

bubbs wrote: »

whole salmon £4.00 per kilo @ Morrisons
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/whole-salmon-4-per-kilo-morrisons-2351786

Thankyou bubbs, my £10 Morrison voucher from the sun arrived today, so a cheap salmon for me, and I will get the fish monger to fillet it.

mhoc

The Christmas tree hunt

Firstly we went to Aldi which was tree less.

Then we went across the road to Morrisons which always has a man with a container of trees every year so we asked him how much - the small ones were £25 and the big ones, the size we wanted were £45 :eek: - about twice as much as I was expecting to pay

so then I said we would try another place by a pub on the way home but in the meantime as we were going to Sainsbury's I said we would look in at B & M - I am short of gift bags ideally silver and ideally reduced but B & M didn't have them, in fact very few decorations left.

Firstly we found a trolley with a £1 coin still in

Our B & M has an excellent garden centre outside and its been a great place for plants over the last 2 years.

And then we found Christmas trees, OK not bare rooted as I wanted but still they had Christmas trees of the right height and shape that I wanted so I got a chap to fetch one for me.

The best thing was all trees and wreaths now have 25% off so a £24.99 tree was £18.75 :j

Then OH pipes up "You do realise that we are in the wrong car and there is no way in hell that tree would fit in the small car"

Then he emphatically denies that he was aware when we setting off that we were looking for trees and hoping to get one today :eek::mad: - who on earth was I talking to before we set off then - the cats :rotfl:

Yes I should have noticed myself that we were in the wrong car but its such a mither now getting out of the house - as well as nagging OH out of the door even though he was insisting he was at deaths door you have to remember the shopping lists, the right loyalty cards, tills pits and MOCS for the shops you are going to, £1 for the trolley, bags for life, the basket with the recycling stuff etc and you automatically just pick up whatever keys are for the car easiest to get out of the drive or pointing in the right direction.

so the chap put the tree aside for us and we drove all the way home again.
Then OH decided to take youngest sons car as its an estate car - only just taxed and re insured it this morning and freshly back from the garage - very good timing
I was aghast, very nervous about cars I am not used to being in but its a very comfortable safe car but it was the right car to take as the tree only just fitted inside

so we did another trip back to B & M - so about 20 mile all told and sons car which was messy anyway now is full of tree bits

But we now have the Christmas tree and its standing outside in the cold for the time being in a bucket of water to keep it hydrated.

mhoc

My next problem is a Christmas tree stand - you solve one problem and then cause another, always the way.

I said it would be not problem, there is bound to be a suitable bucket in the garden and I've got a bag of sand to stand it in and decorative gravel for the top :rotfl:

But OH insisted on getting one of the nasty green plastic Christmas stands from B & M :mad: which cost £14 :eek: - the tree cost less than £19

I asked the girl if there would be any issues bring the base back and she just said to keep my receipt so now I've got to find a prettier looking Christmas tree stand for less than £14 in the next 3 days - hoping to at least get it up with lights on before Sunday

I've put a message on Freecyle which is showing already. I've put another on Streetlife thinking I might be able to at least borrow one if someone is away this year and wont be using theirs
so now I just have to live in hope.

mhoc

bubbs wrote: »

mhoc you do paint a good image of your husband:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
I have missed your rants:p:D

at least you lot listen when I need to vent off steam, OH just tried to talk over me. I end up writing down on a piece of paper whatever point I am trying to get across :rotfl:

My OH - well he cant be all bad for us to have managed to stick together all of these years

shirley999

mhoc, I am going to be sure and read your posts properly when I have time later, thanks.

mhoc

emerald21 wrote: »

Free coffee and mince pie from Greggs when you buy the double issue of Woman magazine this week £1.90 though

I think the B & M mince pies were only 50p for 6

was there a Greggs app freebie offer last year in December?

mhoc

shirley999 wrote: »

mhoc, I am going to be sure and read your posts properly when I have time later, thanks.

yes they are for bedtime reading with a hot milk y drink laced with brandy :rotfl:

bubbs

wendyak wrote: »

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And what?:p