Champagne Lifestyle on a Lemonade Budget.

helensbiggestfan

Hello my lovely friends.  

Champagne moments yesterday....,,My DS1 giving me a haircut.😁  Spent a lovely day with DS1 and grandson.  Need a quiet day today to recover. 😂

savingmore

my champagne moment today is having two squares of dark chocolate with lunch.  yummy.  savoured and enjoyed.  having a duvet day as weather miserable, watching american series Bones which we discovered on amazon prime.  we love it, watched two out of the 12 series.  amaerican professor who solves dead bodies through their bones and her partner an fbi agent.   

missychrissy

Chippings arrived today to finish off around my raised bed built by my youngest son. I’m really pleased with them. I’ve put a picture on the Prepping thread if anyone wants to see them. Definitely a champagne moment. Looking forward to growing more veg.

joedenise

Used to love Bones.  Have seen most of them but good to know they are available on Prime.  Something to watch again in the evenings when there is a load of rubbish on the TV!

helensbiggestfan

savingmore said:

my champagne moment today is having two squares of dark chocolate with lunch.  yummy.  savoured and enjoyed.  having a duvet day as weather miserable, watching american series Bones which we discovered on amazon prime.  we love it, watched two out of the 12 series.  amaerican professor who solves dead bodies through their bones and her partner an fbi agent.   

Doing something similar.  Intended doing some gardening.  Not likely.  Far too cold for me.  

Don't know about anyone else, but thoroughly cheesed off with everything right now.  Can't even be bothered to do any diy.  A first for me, I usually enjoy painting and doing.  But not at the moment.

reckon I've lost my mojo. 😢

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sugarbaby125 said:

My Champagne moment yesterday was watching Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake at The Sadlers Wells Theatre on You Tube for free and it was an absolutely sublime, modern take on this ballet classic that I found absolutely superb. I was memerised by both the acting and the dancing. I would give this a 10...

Going back to your post from a few pages ago...

We saw Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake as a live theatre performance streamed to our local small cinema and it was great.

Another ballet you might like is The Northern Ballet's 'Dracula' from last year.  Very dark, gothic and intense.

Not sure if it is being offered online anywhere, but if you notice it anywhere I can definitely recommend it.

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Just to add I have found where you can watch a performance:

https://northernballet.com/dracula

There is info at the bottom of the webpage listed above.  There may be a small fee to pay though.

phoebe1989seb

Lovely warm, sunny day here in Carmarthenshire, which goes a (very) small way to compensate for the fact that we're not yet going to be allowed out/shops re-opening as per England 

I, too am becoming increasingly frustrated with lockdown - we haven't been able to see our only DS since it all began and our granddaughter will be two on 8th July, but it's looking increasingly unlikely we'll be allowed to cross the border to visit them in Brighton as planned for her b/day 

Anyway, enough of my self-indulgent doom and gloom, lol! In better news I've had a productive day weeding in the rose beds, where several more David Austins are blossoming and the orange day lilies are starting to open! Elsewhere, lots of plants are filling out at last - and although many won't be flowering this year, it finally feels like money well spent. We've achieved so much in only two years - I can only imagine how mature it will look in another two 

Indoors, we've got a weekend of bathroom gutting to look forward to - happy days - and we'll also be needing a(nother) skip here soon, not least to finally get shot of the old loo DS left here last Autumn....don't ask 

Hopefully we'll find time to relax in the garden with a glass of wine too, although I believe there's thunder on its way so that might end up being in what our US cousins would call the 'screened porch' - not that ours has a screen and it's not really a porch!

Have a great weekend everyone.......

Edited to add - just popped over to the prepping thread to look at your garden progress, missychrissy and your raised beds look fab! 

sugarbaby125

Spider_In_The_Bath said:

Just to add I have found where you can watch a performance:

https://northernballet.com/dracula

There is info at the bottom of the webpage listed above.  There may be a small fee to pay though.

Thank you so much Spider In The Bath. I had a quick look and I will make time to watch this northern ballet production of Dracula tomorrow. 

sugarbaby125

My Champagne moment yesterday was having my grandson and his girlfriend come to my home for a visit.   As it was a prearranged visit, I had time to cook chicken drumsticks in gravy with a yellow pepper and onion with basmati rice and sweetcorn. For dessert there was a Tesco Finest lemon drizzle cake. We drank Shloer in my red stemmed wine glasses and after dinner, we sat talking and laughing together.