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MrsChaos

Maybe make a list of things you could really do with buying and another of the stuff you'd do at home if you didn't go. Which one is more fun/ important to achieve/can only be done tomorrow?

I'm probably going to spend part of Sunday shopping with DS2 in Sheffield - only place with access to all the shops I need. What I really want to do is visit the Asian supermarket near Dewsbury, but can't really justify it. Oh well...

redofromstart

This morning I looked at our current accounts, and we (just) have enough to cover the scary dentists bill with five days to go till his payday. This made me happier - the bill has to be paid over two months but its comforting knowing I have it. The tax money is in the tax savings, and any shortfall/surplus comes from/goes to the emergency savings. His car insurance is almost covered by the no council tax in February.

The bigger challenge is that my current contract runs is till end of Feb, not expecting an extension as the project should go live in a few weeks. Tedious is dead, and has been for several months. The business account had been trickling me a small wage but once the corporation tax has been paid that pot will be empty. I need to stop procrastinating and start doing something about income streams, just in case an interim doesn't fall in my lap overnight like the last two times.

So, I did the sensible thing as suggested by MrsC, and thought about what do I actually need - milk, carrots, eggs, peas so I did the grown up thing and went to local small town instead, and got the bits I needed.

Seasidegal - I've always loved the Heyers, my paperbacks are worn out from my annual rereads so it makes sense to buy the kindle ones. I read Jean Plaidy as a teenager too but not since, must keep an eye out for those.

redofromstart

Draft accounts and draft returns done, and it looks like a surplus in the savings. I could just send and pay now, but will re-work backwards tomorrow before submitting just to be on the safe side :cool:

Nothing else done, but that is the most hated job out of the way.

Happy Friday!

MrsChaos

Acting like a grown-up isn't always fun, is it!

You've done well, though. One of my jobs for the weekend is to get all the documentation together that will be needed for the return. It's a very simple business, so doesn't take long once I get my head around it. Not tonight, though - I'm too tired.

HairyHandofDartmoor

Seasidegal58 wrote: »

Oh I haven’t read a Georgette Heyer for a long time. Loved Jean Plaidy as well. Her books fired up my interest in history when I was a teenager!

I used to love Georgette Heyer when I was at school and I read a few Jean Plaidys too .

Well done on your grown up shopping Redo.

Chrystal

I have read, and re read, Georgette Heyer for the last 50 years! (My go to when feeling miserable) My books are falling to pieces and trying to replace them is not easy, so will look at Kindle..... she has the dryest wit and I still giggle out loud when reading them.

HairyHandofDartmoor

They are feel good books . You see nice copies in charity shops sometimes.

MrsChaos

I'm now curious and will have to hunt down one of her books. Not today, though, otherwise nothing will get done.

redofromstart

Try the library MrsC ? The second hand bookshop I used to work in (in my drop out years) used to have dual language copies, english on the left, german or french on the right which was clever.
Chrystal - oh the same here, only 30 years for me though. I hate books where characters I like die. Even in her classic crime ones the deaths are low key or unpleasant characters. There are a few at 99p on kindle, but I don't like Simon the Coldheart and the very historical ones. Venetia, Frederica, Cotillion, Grand Sophy if I had to quickly choose some favourites.

The Book People sometimes have a few as sets.

MrsChaos

Thank you! Will have to do the adult thing and start a 'list of books to read', rather than go with my usual response of visiting amazon. Must not start a new book this weekend. It can be my half-term treat.

On a positive note, DS2's waterproof coat has turned up. We'll now need to decide if he can survive with that (and the shoes we borrowed from school) until half-term or go shopping tomorrow. At a push we could buy the coat online, but I refuse to mail order shoes.