What small DFW things will you do this week? W/c 3rd April

DawnW

Afternoon all
Not much activity going on here today, as I have little GD, who has been poorly again, but is a bit better today. We have already walked into town (well, she rode in the pushchair mainly) to buy dog food. I also got her a little chocolate egg and some animal cutters for her playdough as she was good (both together less than £2 though) and we stopped for a while to play in the park.

Been making playdough animals ever since But now come to see what I am doing.

Other plans for today:
GD wants to make a cake, an apple cake apparently. We have the ingredients, so will do this after lunch She forgot about this and had some of the fruit cake from the tin instead
Plant the gladioli bulbs that DD bought me for Mothers Day, GD can help with that, too Done
Also need to plant 2 strawberry plants I picked up yesterday, in some old rain hopper things that OH has screwed to the garagewall for me Not yet!
Maybe sow some seeds Sowed lettuce, rocket and lambs lettuce in a large shallow round planter
HM meals from what we have in, plenty of beef stew left for dinner Yes, that is what we are having. plus a jacket potato!
Look for surveys later - I claimed the £40 payout from onepoll yesterday :T Still to do!
Right, better find some lunch for GD

foxgloves

DNMS - Great scrounge on the re-purposed flower buckets. Good old Co-op! Another useful thing for veg planters is the big cans which wholesale olives come in. We used to have an olive stall on our market (sadly the 2 guys running it gave it up, which is a shame as it was fab). They buy in the olives in massive cans, then marinate/stuff them themselves for selling on the stall, so I asked what happened to the big empty cans. Bless him, he ran home to collect two he'd just emptied. He gave me those for free & said he had been getting a few enquiries from gardeners so he was going to sell them for £2 each. I bought 3 more. I was fine with £2. Obviously free is my favourite price, but compared to buying a stylish large planter from a garden centre, these were a good buy & looked really cool dotted around our veggie garden. So if you pass any funky local olive stall, flash 'em your best smile & see what happens to those big empty cans! Nothing ventured, & all that :-)

foxgloves

Ziggy - I felt similar to that first thing this morning, not a lot of energy, though that's supposed to be a possible side effect of the drug I'm currently on, so maybe that wasn't helping. I woke up ridiculously early having had a silly dream in which me & mr f were driving to Whitby for the day with a complete stranger in the back of the car. We got to 3 miles outside of Whitby when he (mr f) screeched to a halt, did a sharp right turn into a really weird ex-industrial site full of dodgy caravans & announced that he had to stop off here & do something urgent for work! I woke up then & thought I may as well get up & dressed & write my job list!
Anyway, since mr f made me some cheese on toast, I've been going at my job list hammer & tongs and have barely sat down! Think it must have been magic cheese on toast!
Anyway enough of this woffle & better kick in my list now I'm on here.
F xx

foxgloves

And hello to everybody else!
Productive day once I got myself going:
*Parked on outskirts of town & walked in to avoid paying for car parking.
*Entered a competition.
*Posted an ebay item. Bizarrely made 50p profit on the postage, which made up for the 51p I lost on the one I posted last week (and I had weighed & measured both of them!)
*Bought the ingredients for my Easter baking (decided I will give home made gifts this year which I will enjoy making & trimming up & it will definitely cost less than our usual Thornton's run). Also bought the remaining things I need for icing & decorating my Dad's big 80th birthday cake. This has been quite an expensive cake, as it's a fruit cake & larger than I would normally make, but I'm enjoying doing it. Dad's health is really not good (he's on oxygen cylinders) & I know he will really enjoy sharing his birthday cake out among his friends & family. I did make one good saving. I don't have any tin or cake dome big enough to take this cake, so I set out to buy one this morning, expecting it to be around £20, possibly more. After talking to the cake decorating shop owner, I learned that fondant-iced cakes don't need to be kept air-tight....in fact it's better if they're not, as the fondant can sweat, so I saved quite a chunk of money by spending under £2 on a big cardboard cake box instead.
*Treated ourselves to a toasted hot cross bun in Waitrose......money from our personal spends & free coffees with our loyalty cards, so nothing naughty to report there!
*Meal plans going well this week. L/O smoky sausage & beans tonight, which I made the other week in the slow cooker (very easy tasty recipe) with a portion of mr f's lovely home made jacket wedges. Remembered to take a stray piece of frying steak out of freezer for tomorrow as will shred it & make some kind of Chinese-type 5-spice rice with onions, peppers, soy sauce, chillies, etc. That makes a little meat go a long way.
*Laundry is blowing dry on the line.
*Checked tomatoes, etc, to see they'd made it through their first night out in the greenhouse. They seem ok.
*Cleaned conservatory using washable microfibre cloths & diluted Stardrops. Was going to hoover it but decided to have a good sweep up instead so didn't even use any electricity.
*Made tomorrow's packed lunch.
*Put a bottle of pink fizz back on the shelf at the Co-op. I fancied it for my birthday, but as mr f quite rightly pointed out, we have spent this week's grocery budget & it isn't my birthday yet. As both these statements are true, I couldn't really argue!!
*Made a loaf in the bread machine.
*Cast on 2nd of B-in-L's birthday socks. This fell off the list yesterday but will be done in the next half an hour.
I don't think that's too bad for someone who woke up at Stupid O'Clock with not a lot of energy. Hoping for a productive day tomorrow. Already started writing my list.
Take care all.....
F x

FatVonD

CCL, hope you get a good nights sleep and that tomorrow is a better day.

Foxgloves, I spotted a chopped tomato version of your olive cans in the rubbish outside a restaurant near work recently. I debated whether to pick it up but my garden has a white/lime theme and it was a bit, well, red so I passed. Olives sound wonderful though.

I managed to get my car booked into a different garage this afternoon and it passed so I can now do the tax :T

We got all the forms signed to give me power of attorney if it's ever needed so that's a weight off my mind.

I dropped the flea bay parcel to the shop.

I am so, so tired I had a little snooze while I was waiting for the car to be done but I haven't done any jobs around the house today (admittedly I've not been here for most of the day.) I feel totally stuffed after a big lunch so won't want much to eat tonight but there appears to be lots of good stuff in the YS fridge today (smoked salmon and lots of different types of soft fruit) so I must stay awake long enough to go down for that at least!

carrielovesfanta

Evening squires

Will not be the evening I planned as am still in work - last minute change of plan with regards to vessel mob and project kick-off meeting means that I won't be going to Lowestoft on Monday, and now I need to finish all my project prep tonight instead of Sat/Sun as planned!

On the plus side, I earn a healthy overtime rate and it's a few extra pennies

Touch wood also, my body appears to be illness and pain free (apart from the slight residual vertigo). In fact - I think that I feel like my old self. Please cross all fingers and touch all wood!

big hugs to all

clf x

DawnW

Good luck CLF!
And CCL, hope you are ok

ziggy2407

ziggy2407 wrote: »

Good Morning All

After a few good weeks my "get up and go" has got up and gone, so today's plans

Packed lunch for DH & DS - Done
Check Bank - Done
Submit online Mr T order for bulky heavy items) - Done
Buy milk - Done
DS wants a haircut after school - No, he changed his mind/COLOR]
DS to footie training - Done
Ironing - Done
List couple of things for sale - No, not yet
Craft -
Continue purge on emails - Done a few
Enter a few comps - Done a few
All meals from cupboards/fridge/freezer - Done
Check: Lucky Phone, Ashleigh, Numberplatelotto, FPL - Done
Read - In progress

Have a great day all!

C x

Not bad considering I also slept for 6 hours :eek:

determined_new_ms

Morning - been semi productive since getting up, checked banking & paid cc and did a couple of transfers and partially reconciled bank acc. Made mine and madam's lunches

Have to leave early today as have to drop madam off at cm which is in the opposite direction to where I need to go and have to be at work at 8.30 :eek:

Will need to get more petrol on way to work today - was hoping I'd be able to get the rest at Mr M to get the points but that isn't now worth it in time as road works going on in the city. Best to avoid!

other than petrol (which is now spend neutral due to expenses for the week :T) I don't need to get anything so today should be a nsd :T

after work I will pop to the lottie and pick up some pots to do some potting on and check on plants/dig out any marestail I see :mad: think I'm going to email my next door neighbour and ask if they mind me putting weedkiller on their mushrooming population of marestail. They are not actively working their plot until they get letters threatening to those it and my eyes are honed to spot the hideous weed and I keep looking at their plot with horror and the saying "one year's seed equals 7 years weed" keeps whirling round my head!

take out compost of my boot before leaving. Pot up raspberry canes with said compost

relist unsold items on fleabay

check meal plan and get something out

give worms veg scraps taken out of the freezer yesterday

Ok that'll do. Better think about getting ready as have to leave in an hour. Hope you all have a good day x

DawnW

Morning all
Ziggy if you slept for 6 hours yesterday, you must have needed to! Hope you feel better today

Loving hearing about your allotment adventures DNMS

Aims for today:
Going to next, slightly bigger, town to visit the market this morning, must get a move on in a minute! Done, only bought bread at the market, but did buy some soap, some scented candles and a top in the charity shops £8 spent, plus a little bit more on business bits from the weekly antiques / junk market. Paperwork for this is done :A
Take a cheque with me to pay in, as the bank branch in our (small) town has closed Done, what a faff, the bank branch only had machines for paying various things / obtaining cash, and the paying in ones kept malfunctioning and there was just one poor lady trying to sort them all out
Haircut at 12.00 Done
Sort out some stuff for sales unit Done, and just as well, as some items had sold and my shelves had gaps! Can't have that! Also asked shop owner about an item that had sold but I didn't receive the money for it, in my monthly payout. It had been missed off by accident, all sorted now
List a couple of items on ebay, which is very slow for me at the moment Done
Relist things that haven't sold Done
Make fish cakes for dinner, to use some of my abundant flat leaf parsley Had fridge bits instead, will do the fish cakes tomorrow
Water anything in the garden that needs it Done
Sow some more seeds One for tomorrow!
Check for surveys later Did one for Yougov, must check onepoll in a minute, couldn't face it earlier!
Check banks Still to do
Pop into building society branch in town, to enquire about transferring our ISAs, and will look online - see which option is the least amount of faffing about! Went into the branch, and it took AGES, made me late for my hair appointment, though lovely hairdresser didn't mind :A Anyway, it is done now, and I dragged OH, so his is done as well. Interest is a pittance, but slightly better than the previous provider :eek:

More coffee called for, then must get on! Hope everyone has a good day