“Just Say NOvember; Batten Down the Hatches 2016”.

nannygladys

Hi everyone

Hope everyone is OK and keeping warm

Friends now left and we were talking that much this morning that I didn't find time to make a cooked breakfast, (they didn't want to go out) so they left just having marmite toast!!! But at least the bread was hm

Anyway had a lovely time chatting and achieved a sfd today. So that's

Sfd - 8/13

Breakfast toast and marmite
Lunch - hm soup
Dinner - veggie spag bol with fruit crumble for afters.

Nannyg

Toni'sfriend

Thrifty – Thanks for the recipe. We never had lamb when I was small so I think that was why Granny used leftover mince or stew. Your recipe sounds very much like hers in all other respects. I'm going to try this for C at some point.

Had to post a recorded delivery letter today so since I was spending anyway bought items for son's lunches next week. Still under budget so pleased about that.

Have to confess I'm not good at any kind of crafty stuff. Can take up a hem and sew on a button but that's about it. Granny taught me to knit but I haven't done any of that in years apart from to help little girl next door with a school project. Apparently nobody in her huge extended family knew how to knit.

Still cold here although the snow has gone now. Hope your heating is fixed, Calling. Not a good time to be without it.

Off to put the mince pie in the oven for dinner.

Hope you all have a peaceful night.

crazy_cat_lady

Hi all
Time is whizzing past - I haven't even had time to read Martin's email this week. So busy at work, which is great on the mse front but less so on the 'life outside of work' front. I'm still plodding on with my crafty Christmas. It's interesting to read other people's thoughts on crafting. My mam taught me to knit and crochet when I was a kid, and I used to do it a lot. Then got out of the habit and only started again about this time last year, and now I absolutely love it... Any knitting or crochet - but I hate sewing with a passion. Just never could get interested in it at all...
Onto nsd 8 - tomorrow will have to be a spendy day because I need food and fuel. Exercise still going on as normal, healthy eating going well and I'm generally doing ok. Lots better than I have been for the past few months.
Hope everyone else is ok - love and hugs to those that need.

FurryBeastOz

Glad I'm taking this week off the challenge. It would be an epic fail - we are buying fish fresh off the boat every day. Delicious. Thankfully it's from the holiday budget.

I am allowing myself a personal spend tomorrow while DH goes off deep scooter diving with another techie diver. I'm indulging in a massage. As I budgetted up until a December without a guaranteed salary and am debt free, I'm not going to feel too guilty.

Although, that may change if last nights dream comes true and the power has gone off while we're away. There must be £400 worth of food in the freezer:eek:

Exercise going very well. About 3 hours a day and it doesn't feel like it:rotfl: Seen some lovely turtles, lobster and barracuda (yum)

Healthy eating going very well also. Fish and salad galore. Hopefully I'll have dropped a few pounds on my return.

Hope you up north are surviving the snow. It's 30degrees in the water here. Very glad I packed my coat and gloves as it sounds like I'm going to need it back in Blanefield.

Have a good weekend everybody. See you properly on Monday.

Massa1982

thriftylass wrote: »

mothernerd & massa1982, sometimes wonder why people can't sew or crochet etc as it is normal to me to be able to and to have been taught as a child, we even had it in school (I'm 38). But then many people must still be able to do those things as haberdashery is selling well I read recently.

OH's Grandmother was mortified at me sewing back on a button to OH's work trousers rather than buy a new pair. Apparently i'm tight! there was nothing wrong with the trousers bar the fact that OH had caught the button badly and even handed me the original button to resew. me and OH just concluded that neither of us are wasteful and can be actually quite resourceful at times. His Grandmother seems the other end of the spectrum despite being a baby born in the time of rationing! She later commented she didnt know how to knit, crochet or sew.

Another NSD managed today, bringing me to 5, also managed to get 2 free bus travels through the kindness of others.

Food £103.71/£285
Travel £79/£185
Xmas /200
Entertainment 14.4/100 (built into mini break & Xmas shopping, budgeted & Planned, hotel already paid for)
Toiletries /0
NSD 5/13

Fmess

Hi all,

Sorry for my absence this week, work is crazy. Three SFDs and one spend day this week.

mothernerd

A NSD. local history day. Very quiet.

Today I am grateful for the heavy overnight rainfall making a rainbow effect on the paving, for interesting new books from the library and for good companions.

jojitsui

Hall of shame for me I listed nothing on facebook and went to the pub. I have also spent £19.67 on shopping and £25.01 on petrol!!! I haven't caught up on the previous posts but hope you are all OK and have been better behaved than me xxxx

thriftylass

GOOOOOD morning from a frozen but sunny Scotland.

Well those NSD are still coming (good), loads of healthy eating and exercising going on.

I really enjoy your little stories about your experience with sewing etc. Can't believe someone would throw out a pair of trousers because the button came off. The only thing I regret is that I never asked my gran to teach me to knit. Unfortunately by mum lives in a different country but will go and visit after new year, so might ask her. That's one thing I would definitely still learn. I can crochet and sew etc. Have this weird ambition to be a "proper" granny when i'm old, with a bun in my grey hair, glasses half down my nose, sitting knitting in front of the fire with the grandchildren siting in front of me playing :rotfl:

No NSD here today as I will need to pop to the wool shop and do a top up shop. Will also keep a few coins a side for the tooth fairy that will visit DS soon. His two bottom teeth are wobbly.

That's me for now
Have a good day

dolly84

Hi all.

Bob - hope your son is better soon, when is his party?

DS is off school for a training day today but DD isn't which is a pain as I still had to rush around for her this morning then we had more bus traumas and a slight altercation between me and the bus driver.

I'm not sure how me and DS are spending the day but other things that need doing are cleaning (when does it not need doing), dog walking, visiting mum, school run again, packing for DD's camp this weekend then dashing to the back of beyond to get her there for 6.30pm.

Tea is fish and chips but from the freezer not shop bought.