Put away your purse & become debt-averse

PurpleFairy26

Ooh, was it those things you pour hot milk on foxgloves ? I saw them in the catalogue and thought they looked good. Someone kindly gifted one to my small and she loved it.

Sounds like a productive day all round. I too got wet in town and had to change in return. However, parking was free as I peeked further out. Figured I was getting wet either way :rotfl:

Happy Sunday

DawnW

foxgloves wrote: »

I want toads in my house now, Dawn! We do get the occasional one in the garden, but our wildlife pond has been so taken over my frogs that I don't think toads get a look in any more.
Wouldn't you know it, that monster slug failed to appear last night. Rubber gloves still poised for action though.
F x

At some times of the year we have to be careful not to step on them in the conservatory and the kitchen :eek: We get frogs too, but don't have a pond unfortunately, due to lack of space and a succession of small grandchildren, but live in an area with a river, streams and marshy land nearby (our house is much higher up fortunately) and I think they migrate away from the water in the autumn to find somewhere to hibernate, and then back in the spring to breed. Though it is not unheard of to find an amphibian living in one of my large pots during the warmer parts of the year. Last year I had a frog living in one of the big tomato pots. Every time I watered it would make him jump, and that would make me jump :rotfl:

foxgloves

Purple Fairy - Yes! That's exactly what it was! I thought they looked a bit different. I like the hot chocolate spoons & similar stuff, but those balls with mini marshmallows in, which float to the top.....I know a few people who would enjoy those. Assistant said more expected at end of Nov, so I can try our two most local city centre branches plus online if necessary.
F x

foxgloves

Dawn W - I am always jumping out of my skin in the garden when a frog pops up! There is always one who wants to live in my watercress growing bowl, despite the fact that we have a perfectly good wildlife pond!
Still haven't caught the slug. Maybe he's on a different schedule since the clocks have gone back.
F x

foxgloves

Greetings diary readers,
A very pleasant & useful day today, as well as achieving well over my 7000 daily step target.
I picked up quite a few useful little Christmas gifts in town this morning, as well as a couple of toiletries I needed. I did feel a bit annoyed with myself later when I looked at my Bo*ts receipt. I paid for my moisturiser in full using my monthly spends & didn't twig till I got home that I'd got sufficient loyalty points on my card to have had it for free! Grrrr!!
Mr F on a half day today so he said he'd help me get the garlic planted this afternoon. That horrible garden pest the 'allium leaf miner' is active in our area, so we have to make sure that the garlic bed is totally covered with insect mesh. It's a bit of a palava but would have been quicker had Mrs Numpty not cleared, weeded & dug over the wrong bed, which we intend to use for a couple of bonfires. So he had to dig over the right bed while I tried to find a piece of mesh which hadn't been run over by the lawn mower. It's all done now. Garlic needs a spell of cold weather for the cloves to form properly so we like to get it in this month.
Anyway, never mind garlic - I've got much more important news in our little dfw community..... guess who I met today for coffee? Only Crazy Cat Lady & her two very nice children! She gifted me a lovely piece of crochet which looks so good on my little vintage conservatory armchair that I keep having to trot through there to have another look at it! How civilised to have an actual real life catch-up. I really enjoyed it.
I've just been informed by the Beloved that he is cooking tonight, so I've loaded the washer for cheaper overnight laundry & I'm calling it a day. Actually, I think I'm going to cast on my new jumper. There's a lot of work in this pattern & new skills to practise, so it will be interesting. Over 300 stitches to a round though, so it will be slow progress with regular breaks to finish knitting my final gift (for a December birthday).
Oh.... & much as I want to tell you that I got back from town to find a letter from the solicitor waiting for me on the doormat, there was, of course, a great big massive fat nothing. Aaaaagggghhh!!!
Love F x

crazy_cat_lady

It was so lovely to meet you Foxgloves... and thanks again for our lovely gifts - ds started on the biscuits on the way home and they get his seal of approval. Your town is lovely - we spent ages wandering round and spent very little money (mostly because I don't have any to spend) and looking in lots of lovely indie shops. I could have spent a lot of money.
I'm going to brave the jam making soon - I have to. But I suspect I'm going to sit on my bum and crochet mostly. I did get some blackberries earlier in the year - there's a carrier bag full in the freezer, but I will be happy to pay for fruit anyway.

foxgloves

You're welcome, CCL. I'm glad the biscuits passed the test, lol. They do keep you going..... must be all those jumbo oats!
Your frozen blackberries will be fine for jam if you do decide you fancy making some. I've got a bag of them in my freezer too. Not sure what I'm doing with them yet. Might even use them for a big crumble if I have hungry folk to feed x

PurpleFairy26

foxgloves wrote: »

Purple Fairy - Yes! That's exactly what it was! I thought they looked a bit different. I like the hot chocolate spoons & similar stuff, but those balls with mini marshmallows in, which float to the top.....I know a few people who would enjoy those. Assistant said more expected at end of Nov, so I can try our two most local city centre branches plus online if necessary.
F x

Thanks - I'll keep a look out for them.

crazy_cat_lady wrote: »

It was so lovely to meet you Foxgloves... and thanks again for our lovely gifts - ds started on the biscuits on the way home and they get his seal of approval. Your town is lovely - we spent ages wandering round and spent very little money (mostly because I don't have any to spend) and looking in lots of lovely indie shops. I could have spent a lot of money.
I'm going to brave the jam making soon - I have to. But I suspect I'm going to sit on my bum and crochet mostly. I did get some blackberries earlier in the year - there's a carrier bag full in the freezer, but I will be happy to pay for fruit anyway.

How lovely, wish I'd know I could have come over Maybe next time.

Blackcats

Evening all - skipping back a few posts to the topic of vile smells - a few years ago I had an intermittent but foul smell in the kitchen. Eventually, using lieutenant columbo like skills I traced it to the vicinity of the washing machine, but it wasn't the washing machine smelling. Back in the day I used the most expensive brand of washing capsules so my washing still smelt of "sunny skies and butterfly breath" or whatever nonsensical smell the manufactures sold me. However, the smell got worse when the machine was on. It got so bad it made me heave so I called in family plumber friend.
As a plumber he has a very strong constitution for smells etc. He pulled the washing machine out and there was the putrefying corpse of a mouse (which explained the unusual interest both cats had in the washing machine a couple of weeks before). Anyway, Plumber friend asked me if it would be ok with me if he took the rotting mouse home with him .....so he could put it in his plumber mate's lunch box as a joke !!!!!!

foxgloves

Eeeeeewww, Blackcats, glad you eventually traced the smell, but fancy the plumber wanting the dessicated rodent bits for his friend's lunch box! It takes all sorts, for sure!
F x