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Thank you for the energy reminder, i'll add it to my list.
I hope you have an afternoon out planned to remind him that he is a pup parent too & what you have been through- Mortgage: 1st one down, 2nd also busted
- Student Loan gone
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No need for that, he has got up the last two mornings to let me sleep late. He's good like that!
A bit of bee activity yesterday, some planned, some unplanned! We were planning to move the small swarm from the nuc they are in outside our back door to our friends who are about 6 miles away, so that they orientate away from the back door. The forecast was rubbish and he had changed his shift so that we could go early. Mid afternoon, however, and the phone rang with someone from the next village asking if we could help with a swarm. So we collected it - my first solo into a skep, but then DH had to walk them into the hive (a nuc) as I knew my Mum was going to video call. I offered them to someone on the BKA WhatsApp group and some novices came to collect it. Their equipment and ours not compatible so they have taken our brand new nuc, wrapped in sheets and a strap, which they will return (hopefully) when they have decided what they want to do.
Normally our swarms involve sharp thorn hedges or ladders but this was lovely - about 6-7 foot up a tree on a whippy branch so it was a text book collect.Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
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Suffolk_lass said:I'm sure everyone who reads this will have seen Martin's alert that today might be the day to fix your energy bill price but I'm just putting it out there in case anyone has not got round to reading the email yet!I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on the Debt free Wannabe, Budgeting and Banking and Savings and Investment boards. If you need any help on these boards, do let me know. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.
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enthusiasticsaver said:Suffolk_lass said:I'm sure everyone who reads this will have seen Martin's alert that today might be the day to fix your energy bill price but I'm just putting it out there in case anyone has not got round to reading the email yet!Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
My new diary is here3 -
You're one of the experienced bee keepers now! Wow
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Fixing a rate ... oh dear. I don't currently have the headspace for it ... I wonder if the deals are all gone now? Maybe over the weekend. I'm a rotten moneysaver!
Hope the pup parenting is still enjoyable for you both2023: the year I get to buy a car2 -
I picked up a TGTG bag yesterday evening from Morries it was literally all F&V. I could feel some weight but didn't check it before running round and picking up a few treats for the weekend. In with the treats was a 650g pack of strawberries, that I had 10% off, plus I had 10% off fresh fruit - and deep joy, they applied both to the same item.
Of course, when I got home, my bag contained, yes, a second 650g pack of strawberries. So I have made a lime jelly and popped the ones going pink in that. I may make a compote/looselow sugar jam to go with the scones I bought buttermilk to make. My bag also had two bags of 4 oranges, a bag of clementines, 2 swedes, three large onions, and five bags of herbs; two parsley, one chives (I have sage, rosemary and thyme outside lol) one dill and one coriander. Fish cakes and a curry will definitely feature this week, to ensure no waste.
I think we will just work to eat through stores now for the rest of June. I could do with a cheap grocery month. Only eggs and milk (delivered) and one huge sack of Italian flour to receive and hopefully by the time the fridge is less stacked, it will all be from the garden.
Speaking of which, we spent yesterday weeding and chopping back; in DH's case, to deal with climbers so the decorator can get at the house next week. In my case, it was to pull thistles, and clear other weeds before they spread their seeds. I still have two thug patches of docks and lemon balm in one bed out front. I was sleeveless and in the course of clearing (four barrow-loads, I swiped my arm with sticky willy (aka goose grass, cleavers or galium aparine to use its latin name) and ended up with an itchy, burning, spotty rash.
My trip to the SM included a quick run into the pharmacy to see if my missing HRT gel had arrived. The pharmacist took me into a room to discuss options as it is still OOS (thanks to an awareness campaign and the change in regs that means GPs can prescribe a year's worth) - why would they make those changes without first securing supplies? [Really shoddy implementation of change by (new) civil servants who think they know best and don't know how to develop policy properly. After the 2010 "bonfire of the quangos" this country has suffered from a lack of technical expertise, undervaluing experience in favour of bright young presentable graduates.] So basically, there is no HRT gel. In the alternatives options discussion we talked about patches (I have some problems with reactions to plasters, insect bites etc) and the pharmacist asked about the rash. He did look slightly less worried when I reassured him it was sticky willy rash though. It's not looking good as the patches will almost certainly not be a good option for me.
Back to the garden, it seems the birds have scoffed all the redcurrants and all the gooseberries this year. That's it! I am going to build a fruit-cage around two raised beds and permanently move the fruit bushes so this does not happen again. The un-ripe blackcurrants are also suffering but that is the decorator and his ladder, together with DH and a one-ton (capacity not weight) aggregate bag of weeds, smashing off huge branches, heavy with currants (🤷 what can you do!?).
Once the fruit bushes have moved, I can then clear, add raised sides and improve the border that had the fruit in, and turn it over to crops of food instead. I will even be able to reach the middle to weed!
Not much with money except that I will have to move some EF money back to pay the decorator and DH's bike trip spending, before my RS matures. The decorator costs increased by about £90 after he called us outside to see the colour we had chosen on Thursday evening and it was a much brighter banana colour than anticipated. I am glad he checked. So we have abandoned it and gone for a deep cream with yellow tones instead, so more paint. I may try and sell the other paint on.
Have a good weekend everyoneSave £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
My new diary is here6 -
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So busy, and so productive! Sorry about the HRT meds, though - and as you say, ill-thought through policy with many fewer experienced ones to put their oar in, has led to this situation. Grrrr.2023: the year I get to buy a car2
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HRT supply issues have been going on too long in this country and really need resolving
. I had problems with several patches before finding an OK one- the ones I managed ok with (no problems skin wise) were Estradot - but last time I checked (last Dec) there were huge supply issues with those too, as they were being prescribed as an alternative to lots of women who were having supply issues with their original.prescription. I don't think it's taken seriously enough
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Perhaps they should prescribe HRT for a few men, that might get it sorted. They don't seem to treat it as seriously as they did 10 to 20 years ago.
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