Giving every £ a job

PennysIntoPounds

Flippin eck, how big is your hall?! I am most impressed, and very pleased to hear you have a petite bibliotheque in situ. Never too late to adopt smoking jackets and cigarettes in long holders with a cocktail 😁
I used to make my parents friends come into my library (a row of books in my bedroom) and take a book out, and of course kept a thorough list of the withdrawals and returns. I'm sure they were absolutely engrossed 😂

Re the shredder, my previous one (it was former partners', I didn't have to dispose of it) used to seem like it had broken but had just overheated and had to have a rest then was fine a couple of hours later so don't chuck yours out too hastily

Sun_Addict

The pot for the pre-Christmas treat is such a lovely idea.

CRANKY40

I was thinking the same as PIP about the shredder. Mine does the same - stops dead when it thinks it's done enough. 

foxgloves

Ditto re shredder issue. Mine will only shred a certain amount then decide it needs a rest. 
F

Blackcats

thank you for your comments about shredders.  unfortunately mine has not read the MSE memo about resting and starting again and is well and truly kapput.  Mr BC has dug around in it (unplugged it first thankfully), given it some oil and it just groans and moans (and not from pleasure!)

I was busy huffing and puffing about having to buy a new one when I'm trying to eek out our budget for the next couple of months when "ping" I remembered the "replacement tech and household items" pot which is fairly well funded so the spend can come from there.  Now to set aside some time to have fun browsing the online world of shredders!

@PennysIntoPounds - my house does have a big hall which was fairly wasted space and gives us a great excuse to abandon shoes, coats, boxes, bags etc there.  the little library used the space under the bay windows so its a bending down and peering type of library.  Like you I loved playing libraries when I was a child but never managed to get any human customers, just my toys.

I received another £50 credit from Octopus for referring a friend to them.  If the weather ever warms up I might end up finishing the winter with some credit on our account.

i went for a walk with DD and DGS to feed the ducks today.  It was so windy that as soon as DGS got out of his buggy it got caught by a gust of wind and careered off towards the pond at super high speed.  just as it was about to plunge headlong into the water the wind changed direction and it hurtled off towards the path.  I've no idea what we would have done if it had gone into the water - DD says she would have walked away as if it was nothing to do with her!

PennysIntoPounds

Fab about having and remembering the pot!

I have hall envy and am very pleased to hear you're making good use of yours. Surely space for a lil cocktail, cigarette holder, and smoking jacket annex 😁

The buggy incident must have been alarming but very funny to the cosily tucked up reader! I hope as a responsible mother you would have told DD to go and tidy her pond 😂

savingholmes

How nice that you could spend time with DD and DGD - despite the wind. 

Well done for having a tech pot. I looked at a replacement shredder - but some are extortionate prices now...

Blackcats

@PennysIntoPounds - I did say to DD that knowing our luck the buggy would float into the middle of the pond and we would be arrested for fly tipping.  

@savingholmes - the joy of not working anymore is that it's absolutely ok to spend a couple of hours having a walk, feeding ducks and then having a hot chocolate.  Bliss!  It's also the duck pond where my children used to feed the ducks so we were probably feeding the great, great, great ducklings of the ducks we fed back in the 1980's.

we've sold another item on eBay.  A piece of furniture that hasn't been used for about 3 years but has hung around looking reproachfully at us.  An item listed as an eBay auction ends in 5 minutes - it's very entertaining watching the last minute bids.  Yes, I realise we need to get out more.

Whilst standing and staring into the freezer (another fun way to spend a Saturday evening) we agreed that we would try to eat from the freezer as much as we can.  Helps create some space and good for the grocery budget this month.  Will put together a meal plan based around the freezer contents but supplemented with lots of fresh fruit and veggies.

hope everyone has been able to enjoy some sunshine today.  It's been a beautiful spring day here - people seem so much happier when the sun shines.

savingholmes

I like your dry sense of humour.

I think it is lovely to feed the ducks with your grandkids in the same place their parents did. 

Sun_Addict

How fabulous to carry on the duck feeding tradition in the same place 🥰

Your fly tipping reference reminds me of the time I mentioned I litter pick at the park across the road to a council member in charge of refuse at a park volunteer meeting. She asked me where I put the bags of litter I collected and for a moment I thought she was going to tell me off for fly tipping when I said I put them in the park bins 🤣 She was concerned I was putting them in my own bin by the way. 

Well done with the eBay sale.