Champagne Lifestyle on a Lemonade Budget - 2021

candygirl

Happy Birthday SUGARBABY.Hope you've had a fab day xx

helensbiggestfan

Happy Birthday SUgarbaby xx

sugarbaby125

Thank you Mrs. Salad Dodger, Helen and Candygirl. 

My Champagne moments yesterday were all to do with having a lovely quiet, relaxed birthday at home with my son and daughter.   

MrsPorridge

Belated Happy Birthday Sugarbaby x

helensbiggestfan

Happy Easter Everyone 🐣💐❤️

sugarbaby125

Thank you Mrs. P 

MrsPorridge

Happy Easter to all.

We are off to the cinema later on to see Operation Mincemeat - we will take our Easter eggs with us!

sugarbaby125

My Champagne moments today:

This afternoon I went to my local Odeon with a silver cinema ticket to watch the film Belfast. The ticket only cost me £3.50. For me the film was a 9.5/10. Even though the subject matter was really serious, there was so much humour in the story. I found the film uplifting even though it was about the civil war in Northern Ireland, it had themes about family connection and strong family bonds.      

This evening I had another masterclass with Neighbourhood Voices and it was so interesting. It was with Devon Johnson who had recently worked as a story liner for Emmerdale, then Holby City and finally Eastenders.     It was so enlightening learning about what the role of a story liner involves. I had never known that continuing dramas needed story liners, not just story writers. I wrote just over 10 and a half pages of notes in the 2 hour masterclass. There was just so much to learn and I was trying my best to get it all written down. My right hand was aching, but it was so worth it. This is a career in writing that I had never heard of, so once again this programme has opened up new avenues that any of us writers on the programme may feel we have the writing skills to try our hand at. 

I cancelled my Disney + subscription today as I could get a 6 month Disney + subscription with only £8 of my Tesco Clubcard vouchers, saving me £47.97. (you usually only get a 3 month subscription)   

sugarbaby125

My Champagne moments today: 

I bought a few items of food yesterday using my Nectar card points in a local Sainsburys, saving me £10 and I spent a further £12.50 of Nectar points today in another local Sainsburys on a meal deal, some mini chocolate eggs and 5 packets of 4 muffins. Free food seems to taste even better.    

I took all of the muffins into Blackfriars Settlement to celebrate my 60th birthday with everyone in a small way. The discussion group was lively and interesting today.     

I made an effort to fab myself up, as the weather is warm enough not to need a jacket. I wore my long red linen mix skirt, a red sleeveless top with a black cardigan. I wore a pair of my black patent leather Van Dal sling back shoes. I got a compliment from one of the other women about my shoes and one of the men in the group paid me the loveliest compliment of being astonished that I was 60 years old and tole me I looked more like 35 years old! That was just what I needed to hear today, 2 lovely compliments.     I had layered my red door perfume with some of the matching body products and I was wearing solid gold jewellery and my gold plated Tissot watch.   

I had a black man on his bicycle turn to look at me and call me an Empress 

The 18ct gold necklace and cross that I bought on eBay with all of my birthday money from my 4 adult children today arrived by courier and it looks good on me. I will wear it most days, as it is not too ornate for everyday wear. 

MrsPorridge

My champagne moment today, after tea went for a lovely walk - its sunny and a lot warmer now than it was earlier in the day as the wind has dropped.  Was a lovely walk and so quiet and peaceful.