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Karmacat wrote: »

I'm really hoping gluten free puddings were overcatered this year

Good luck with the puddings:beer:. I'm hoping to stock up with regular Christmas puddings as we love them and they have a really long 'best by' life. We enjoy them at any time during the year, not particularly at Christmas. I remember one year I was able to nab a lot of the really posh ones that I'd never have bought at regular price. There seemed to be a glut of all sorts of puddings that year:j. Last year I only managed to find 2 small cheapo puds across 3 different supermarkets. This year DH and I are both going, I'll be dispatching him to some shops so I can concentrate on others;). I WILL get some Christmas puddings somewhere this year:rotfl:

Karmacat

Ooh, I remember a pudding glut - 25p for a 450g nice one. I bought about a dozen today, one of my supermarkets had nice mince pies at 25p for six, hurray. A bit crowded, but not too bad, and deffo good to get out there early-ish.


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Karmacat wrote: »

Ooh, I remember a pudding glut - 25p for a 450g nice one. I bought about a dozen today, one of my supermarkets had nice mince pies at 25p for six, hurray. A bit crowded, but not too bad, and deffo good to get out there early-ish.


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Good to hear your pudding mission was so successful:T:beer:.


DH and I haven't even left the house yet:(:o

Karmacat

There are plenty of days I don't leave the house, FS - not a problem.

Today - oof, not one of those days. I was at my sister's, a slightly larger family celebration, which was lovely. My Christmas pressie was a monthly donation to Cats Protection, with a named cat at the local branch that I'm entitled to go and see
:j:j:j **swishes tail happily**

Collapsed into the armchair as I got home, though I certainly kept on eating :rotfl::o and I've been buying a bit: a new phone, as I've just been learning about planned obsolescence in terms of sh** breaking down and also Game of Thrones S8 which has me wildly excited :rotfl:

The phone is another Samsung, the A50, found a deal (on Amazon of all places) for £225. More expensive than I strictly need, of course, but in opening up to matched betting mobile offers, it will pay for itself very quickly. Shattered after that though, it took a while!

Nightie night

beanielou

Great present

greent

oooh - the A50 - very nice - DS1 has that one. I debated for ages between that one and the A70 - finally was persuaded to the A70 by the salesman and the fact that the pretty blue colour was in stock that day for that model! :rotfl: (OH's old company paid, too - and I got a free pair of wireless headphones as part of the deal - always handy for the boys....)

Karmacat

Ooh, if a company had been paying, I'd definitely have gone for the A70 :rotfl: that's nice, greent! The A50 is for sale at plenty of places for £309, currently, so I'm happy that, weirdly, Amazon is one of the better places to buy, though I'm sure it can be found cheaper *somewhere*.


Today is a tidying up day. If I go over the doorstep, it will be to use the wheelie bins, or to clip the neighbour's leylandii. Though I might not do the leylandii today, the arguments I'm hearing through the party wall are .... intense. There's plenty to do in the house and the back garden.

apple_muncher

Hope you're having a good day. Those leylandii can wait if needs be...

Karmacat

Don't worry, apple, I let the leylandii wait I ended up faffing in the house for a while (even a bit of cleaning :eek:), then sawed back the dreaded cherry laurel :rotfl:I even wrote and posted a letter I'm catching up with myself!

Karmacat

I went on the Healthy Walk this morning, nice to have something ordinary and familiar and still Christmassy, catching up on people's news. Faffing/ tiddling in the house since then, with a background of Barnwood Builders

The biggest job is finally getting rid of my bathmat, sob ... very old, and dare I say it, grimy. But my airing cupboard already contains 10 towels, ta da! So, I pulled out a non-matching one (though the colour is right), and hey presto, a new bath mat, cost zilch.

Getting my 2020 diary the way I want it - and reading other people's financial summaries of 2019 on here, yikes. I can't do that on a financial level because I'm afraid I haven't been keeping records :o:o I'll do a review, of a kind, but what I might also do is a check on my travel expenses (trains to London and buses to my sister, mostly), my food and fuel. The latter will be *very* rough and ready, because my inputs to the meter reading scheme have been very few and far between I have all receipts because of my tax declarations, even though I have no income, because of the French apartment declarations in the UK.