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And the ginormous working day is done! Started at 4.30am.
Very quick doggy walk before I went in. Just starting to get light.
Nipped home for 20 minutes just because I could! A very small break in a long day.
Tips were okay. Home briefly. Then back out to prep for a new to me job. I start on Tuesday. Will be working 6 days a week throughout summer…ya know because I’ve got nothing better to do just now😆😆😆
Snuggles with my doggy boy. He went to the beach today…I know the cheek…without me!
1 I pondered around the garden, dead heading, tidying out
and re filling the water troughs, cussing a lot at the squirrels who have had
my mini sunflowers that “were beautiful”. Created a new hanging basket. Ended
up ordering watering pot idea as my home-made versions of all sorts haven’t
worked at all.
2 Hair pack, face pack, neon nails, I at least feel
presentable.
3 Easy from the freezer food tonight, chicken pieces and
pizza slices.
4 About to finish a book, I don’t want it to finish.
An early morning wander around the garden with the first cuppa of the day.
Bacon butties and catching up on all things Ambridge.
Rest of the morning was spent in the garden, weeding and sorting out the beds, planting up another pot of salad leaves, tying up the clematis and generally pootling about.
Chicken for lunch, followed by lemon tart and then a lazy afternoon, listening to the cricket and reading our books.
Evening walk with small dog, looks like there are two young kestrels as they were flying between trees, screeching for food.
Tents! Flowers! Dough! Ice Cream Lollies. Chicken Fajitas! The Admiral always does the peppers sliced inn last for free mins! Selling Up? Pasta! Off Work! Crossants! Buns gone wrong?
Read a buck a day!
Admiral - maestro of the pressure washer?!
The Admiral uses a water cannon! Especially inn water fights. Shame the old squeezy bottles are no longer around, but the old trap unblocker gives decent yardage! You asked four it D4V!
Bacon Banjo's Proper Food!
This is now!
And welcommen newbies!
I nose, bin offs busy! Loads done and things!
Was ate the Vets Brakefest on FryDay. Snorkers abd beast back was taken with banter and tee drinked. All was good!
Swapped the barbecue nite too FryDay and we has the sticky chicken wings, from the discount surplus stores, with onion snorkers. Very tasty! Strawberries where also served!
Eyed the T20 cricket on FryDay nite and sampled some wobbelades and cheeses! Played with the free money on the airbets thing and up on the weak! Please note that The Admiral does give financial advice butt when he does, he is correct!
Has the usual snorker fest on SatDay, best back and snorker, mushrooms and poached eggs! The toms we has from the discount surplus stores are massive! Tee was taken.
We has cake on Satday as well, and enough for SunDae!
Watched a free film from me bankers on SatDay night! The Spy who Dumped Me. Very good, woobleades were taken!
Again has the snorker fest on SunDae after keep inn up me beech ready looks inn the Jim! Tea was taken, with that cake as well!
Watched the Cricket! Then we has the dainty sandwiches of crab and potted beef, with pork pie and the last of the cake for tea! Just lick the overpriced hotel but fresh sandwiches, not two day old carp!
Then we watched Act 1 on the opera stream! Rigoletto. very good and wobbleade was taken!
Up withs the sparras and packed The Albatross off with a well stuffed lunch box of good foods. It is good that the lettuce we has from the discount surplus store last a full weak, when we bought from the boo tick, it was off inn three days! Cucumber the same. Buy using the discount surplus store, we are paying a lot less!
Now sat withs me mug of proper tee gotting reddy for the cricket!
1. felt a bit rough, which i thought was a glastonbury recovery thing but i think it might have been a hangover 🤔😮 2. went for a bike ride 3. then a walk by the sea with OH who'd been volunteering all day 4. salmon with roasted veg for tea, for which 5. the friend from saturday joined us.
Worky work done…well for job number one! Job number two starts tomorrow for 6 weeks. Fingers crossed! I can do it…ask me in six weeks time what I really think 😆
Rubbish sleep as per usual. Hey ho! Even though I’m cream crackered I still don’t sleep well. anyway time spent with doggy boy before I went to work.
Good company. Much banter and joshing and chatting.
Good enough tips.
Bought a very RTC plant not what it said on the till. I’ve just googled it and it ain’t that! Anyway it was cheap, just needed a good drink and is pretty.
And washing dried outside though it must have had several ‘ rinses’ but very blowy so all dry now.
A wonderful, relaxing dog walk early this morning. Dog poked around in the ditch again but stuck to the dry stretch. We walked down to the river and sat on the bank gazing out at the river slipping by and the clouds of damsel flies fluttering above the water.
Another good library book for an after lunch reading session.
Good bit of decluttering done including getting rid of a number of vintage spices.
Chat with a friend sharing photos of narrow-bordered bee moth (mine) and various damsel flies (hers).
Delicious lunch of parmesan chicken and various veg cooked in the airfryer - a gift from DD2.
I forgot to do my OS pleasures yesterday, but as it was a pretty frustrating day with a covid scare meaning all plans were cancelled it was probably for the best!
Today's OS pleasures -
1. Finished my book in bed this morning with a cup of coffee
2. Nice chat with my mum on the phone talking about our upcoming family holiday. And I'm being given the double room to myself - yes!
3. Got all my washing dried on the line and put away.
4. Had lots of fun catching up on threads I follow on MSE forum.
5. Lovely dog walk along the river this evening.
Live the good life where you have been planted. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2022 - 15 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2023 - 6 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2024 - oops! My Frugal, Thrifty Moneysaving Diary
