What small DFW things will you do w/c 16th September?

ditty1234

Hi thanks pf.
NSD day.
Car share to work, but embarrassingly drove to ride and drove to 5m club run.
Ready meal from fridge for me and ds - we come back from training at different times.
First half day of cover tomorrow afternoon.
Long day at work.
Bring on Tuesday

Baileys_Babe

We have a full sized dishwasher now, before we renovated the house we only had room for a slimline. It was on virtually all the time when there were 7 of us living here, particularly as we cooked from scratch, baked, made preserves.

1LL I'm pleased to hear you talked to your Dad about Xmas hopefully now you can be relax in your preparations. In related news I ordered my first Xmas present today, we I gave BIL details of what I want to order, we both have things we want to buy from the same shop but neither order qualifies for free delivery, together they do.

We have started a batch of chutney off this evening, apples - windfalls from the garden, marrow - donated by friend, most of the ingredients in store or regular buys. I'm going to bring it back to the boil in the morning to finish it off.

foxgloves

BB- I sometimes used to do that with jam, back when I was working & a lot shorter of time. I'd prep the fruit & cook it, then add the sugar & jam it the next day. It always seemed to work fine.
F x

foxgloves

Morning Campers,
A quiet house today, as Mr F is on a 14 hour shift. I am. Hoping to get plenty of jobs done on the home front & to watch a film. this evening. Money saving bits as follows:
*Wash hair using new shampoo bar. It looks like it will last quite a long time.
*Peg out the laundry I did overnight on the cheap tariff. Another load churning to fit in a bit more time at the cheaper rate. Great day for pegging out.
*Pick more tomatoes, chillies & herbs.
*Feed sweetcorn & peppers.
*Explore recipes for pears.
*Knit Christmas present. It's really growing now but I think the generic yarn quantities were a wild over-estimation by the designer & I'll have a lot left.
*Check online banking for a funds transfer I did yesterday.
*Do all the ££ jobs I wrote on my action plan when I did my mid-month budget check-in yesterday.
*Mr F has taken a portion of leftovers with him as will need to eat at work tonight. In the same use it up spirit, I'm going to use a single small salmon fillet & a tiny pot of l/o home made pesto to make myself some pasta.
*Shake my fruit gin jars.
*Today's free fitness will be progressing garden clearing.
OK, that's me nicely caffiened up for the morning ahead.
Love to all,
F x

ditty1234

A slower day today
Catching up on house work this morning
Walk dog
Then off to two different work things this afternoon
A quick shop for breakfast and lunch stuff for the rest of the week.
Try discounted club swim tonight - only starts next week
Have another lovely sunny day

trailingspouse

A day 'off' today, so will see how far I can get through this list


- check bank account statement and transfer all the numbers to my trusty spreadsheet Done. Sort of - I normally get my bank statement (paperless) on the 15th of the month, but it wasn't available today. If it's still not there tomorrow I'll ring them. But I noticed that Sky have overcharged me, so gave them a ring and got it sorted.
- hoover and dust. Nope. Will do it tomorrow.
- give the worktops and tiles a good clean (not just a wipe over, actually moving things, cleaning under the toaster etc...). Done
- go in to my 'other' job (at the museum) for 3 hours training. It's mandatory, and just happens to fall on a day off from my 'proper' job, so that's a relief. Three hours' pay is three hours' pay! Done - and got a free re-useable cup and a cotton bag for going!!

- hair appointment. Saving so much now that I don't have it dyed. Done

- make stock for soup. Done - soup is all ready to be re-heated when I come in from the gym
- if the bedding I washed yesterday isn't quite dry, pop it in the tumble dryer begrudgingly (it's been hanging around long enough!). Done - just for 20 minutes. Need to remember to take it out and put it away!!


Timings are tight - I'll have to go straight from the hair dresser to the train station, which means wearing the museum regulation T-shirt to the hair appointment. She'll offer me a coffee, which I think will be my only chance to have one this morning!! Made it without a hitch - and got another coffee (and a bikkie) at the training.


I hadn't realised what a busy day off I was going to be having until I wrote it all down here!! Didn't get home until gone 2, so had to have a late lunch - then dropped off on the sofa (which is why the hoovering didn't get done). Never mind. Off to the gym now.

Toni'sfriend

Morning

Well. yesterday was a good day. Phoned Virgin and got bill reduced by £15 for the next 12 months and I got an unexpected PPI payout of £6613.68 (or at lease I will have when the cheque arrives!). I've had a smile on my face since the postman brought the news yesterday. But not to be diverted from my MSE task today's jobs are;

Check banking
Tend to plants (some more mint needs potted up)
Charge phone and tablet
Take medication
Iron what needs done (not too much hopefully)
Shopping (mostly non food)
Lunch and dinner from freezer
Very quick tidy and extra very small job (Himself is out tomorrow so hoping to get much more done then)
So I'm off to finish my coffee and get started.

Have a lovely day.

La_escocesa

Hi everyone :wave:

Busy little thread.

1LL - pleased to hear you've now got Christmas plans sorted, especially because it's been on your mind for a while. We can't figure out what to do this year. Ideally OH wants to stay at home and tell his family to visit us, but his mum invited us to theirs in August...! Would it be bad of me to think she asked us so early so that we didn't get a chance to invite them to ours?!? Now we can't invite them because we know they're hosting Christmas dinner... Then if we say we're not going on Christmas Day they will be kinda fine with it but then make us confirm when suits us for Christmas Day #2 when we do the whole thing again anyway... So, all things considered, I've told OH we should just go to theirs on Christmas Day and get it over with in one day! Still have Christmas morning at home and then the roads will be empty when we travel. Ah, discussions continue... :rotfl: My family are much more laid back and we'll see them in December at some point. Just wish they lived closer and we could spend Christmas Day with them more easily...

Toni'sfriend - good news about your PPI payment:T

Here's me:
- HM bread
- Chased old energy company for refund of credit balance
- Checked banking/sorted budgets
- wee class with LO today
- batch cooking
- make soup with veg to use up

carrielovesfanta

Toni's friend - that's amazing news!

DawnW

Morning all
Waiting for baby GS to arrive (babysitting duty) so thought I would pop on here quickly while I have the chance.
Great news on the PPI refund Toni's friend I had one earlier this year, which was a lovely surprise.

So far today:
HG fruit with breakfast
Usual kitchen clean up
Tracked down code for an Amazon voucher from a survey site in my email - I thought it hadn't arrived!

Collected prescription and changed flu injection appointment, which turned out to be the same day as a friend's wedding
Dry washing from airer folded and put in airing cupboard

Cleaned my black leather boots which I had had reheeled, collected yesterday. Used up some really messy stuff out of the shoe cleaning box, got it everywhere :eek: thankfully outside though! Binned remainder, as I think the packaging must have broken down for it to make such a mess. I don't want to go through that again! Boots now drying on lower shelf of mini greenhouse where they can't make a mess / little GS can't get hold of them :eek: Anyway, despite that I am pleased that my old boots will do another year
Put stuff brought back from my sales unit yesterday away, or at least upstairs ready to be put away properly!

Got my lovely old glass bulb vases out and 'planted' (using water) some of the prepared hyacinth bulbs I bought at the weekend. Now back in the dark cupboard to grow I have some bulbs left, so will have to invest in a small bag of bulb fibre and plant them in a nice bowl (one I already have, not buying a new one!).
Sounds as though GS has arrived, back later!