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redofromstart

@Alchemilla long line v neck, pale khaki green.  M&S sale for £10.  I was buying boy socks and made the fatal error of looking.

@astrocytic_kitten hurrah, in good company then. I also bought two kindle books (spendy day)

astrocytic_kitten

I have also bought books this month, following some disappointing news (now all sorted out). As you say, in good company 🤣

moving_forward

Oh dear that jumper sounds right up my street. **Runs off to m and s site**

Alchemilla

redofromstart said:

@Alchemilla long line v neck, pale khaki green.  M&S sale for £10.  I was buying boy socks and made the fatal error of looking.

@astrocytic_kitten hurrah, in good company then. I also bought two kindle books (spendy day)

Ooh M&S sale?!

redofromstart

Sorry - hope I didn't set off anyone else impulse buying.  While I admit I don't need a jumper, it is the right shape neck, length and a colour I will wear so hopeful it'll be a keeper.

Had an hour to kill this afternoon, took a boy with me and replenished his wardrobe a little with warmer clothes so a spendy week indeed.  Also bought more veg as we are doing 800 calories a day and need the veg to pad it out.

the sun is allegedly out all weekend here so I am hoping to fill the green waste bins and split out some of the hellebores, cyclamen and snowdrops.  Might even shift all of the self seeded bronze carex up to the bare beds in the stone circle as the basis of prairie planting rather than my usual scented romantic attempts

flat battery now, but have a lovely evening 

moving_forward

Your gardens sounds wonderful x

juliejim

redofromstart said:

Had an hour to kill this afternoon, took a boy with me and replenished his wardrobe a little with warmer clothes so a spendy week indeed.  

You do know it's supposed to be getting warmer not colder now don't you?

redofromstart

@moving_forward sounds is right, it was lovely for a bit then ignored when I was I'll. trying to reclaim, which is a slowly slowly process
@juliejim yes, but not after 4pm, and he is underweight and feels the cold (50% like his mother...)

EssexHebridean

I ventured out for the day without a coat yesterday - and much to be glee was perfectly warm enough until the very last bit walking from tube station back to the car - but that was only 5 minutes so not an issue. it's defintely stil getting chilly in the evenings and overnight though - we* had to scrape a car windscreen this morning. (*royal we - I'm too short to reach the centre of his screen anyway! )

redofromstart

I managed a couple of days gardening in short sleeves @EssexHebridean before we had snow, sleet hailstones, rain and unbridled sunshine for a few days, often a few minutes apart.  None of it stuck so I am still vaguely hopeful of my 'fools spring' sowing of cheap annuals on the freshly rotavated cat toilet of a flower bed. I have enough for another two batches, but I am sure the cats will defeat me.  They are very appreciative of the attention to their comfort at least.

my window ledge showings of runner beans, tomatoes and sweet peas are doing nicely. They have not been slept on yet at least. 

Pay day happened, and the end of the month round up.  His old monthly saver matured and generated a whole £17 of interest. On top of that there was enough left, despite birthdays, to save another 20% of the months net of paid income too.  

Material spends will be high for April, materials for plastering and wainscoting the dining room, which has been bare brick for a good ten years.  I also tidied out the boiler cupboard, much to the disgust of Mrs Brady, Old Lady who has been nurturing the smell and dust balls for some time.  She is also most indignant about rising fuel costs and my switching off at the wall of the boiler.  The cunning feline had worked out how to press 'boost' so I had no choice.

water up (metered but 7 Trent)
CT up to £290  - and no £150 refund due to band
fuel £190 to £240 per month, which probably isn't enough.
and national insurance up to who knows what.  The HMRC wants me to add a note to the payslips to say the extra costs are going towards social care and the NHS.  I would mind less if I believed this.  Temped to add 'this is a party political broadcast' to the payslips but had better not. Work remains challenging when my sympathies are with the staff.

My favourite non political redundancy story from some years ago:' SACKED STAFF at Ibstock Bricks have won Inside the System’s Bolshy Workers of the Week award. The 17 staff, who were made redundant from the Kingswinford factory in the Midlands in December, took sweet revenge on their bosses. The workers’ last act was to create a batch of 30,000 bricks with the word “b   O   L  L * CK s" stamped on the side instead of the company’s name. Factory bosses did not notice the word had been indented on the bricks until puzzled customers began to ring in. The consignment was worth 40,000. The bricks have now become prized items, reportedly changing hands for 5 each on the black market!'

A former colleague worked there and verified the truth of the story, the bricks turn up on eBay every so often.  Every Catbert HR person should have one as a paperweight reminder that we are dealing with people.