Eating a Vegetarian Elephant

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, lots of good things there! One of my tasks for the next couple of months is figure out how the heck to use supermarket points 😂 I know that sounds stupid - I've just never got my head round it! Oh dear!

Chiglepig

Spent Sunday evening in A&E having my foot x-rayed after falling on the evening dog walk. Fortunately not broken, but a lot of soft tissue damage which the nurse assured me would hurt a lot for the next 72 hours . I supose at least I got the garden and the weekly shop done earlier in the day and now I can't get out to spend any money! (I know there is the web, but I don't have a lot of patience with online shoppin )

Chiglepig

Cheery_Daff said:

Ooh, lots of good things there! One of my tasks for the next couple of months is figure out how the heck to use supermarket points 😂 I know that sounds stupid - I've just never got my head round it! Oh dear!

I think it depends on which supermarket, CD!

Cheery_Daff

Oh no!! Hope your foot heals soon, how vexing. 

Chiglepig

Cheery_Daff said:

Oh no!! Hope your foot heals soon, how vexing. 

Driving me mad already, CD because I can't get around the garden. ANd I just had a call from the hospital to say it may be more serious than first thought.

Cheery_Daff

Urgh! Hope it heals quickly (and that you have people to wait on you in the meantime!)

Fortune_Smiles

Ouch Chigle.  Hope you're feeling better soon.

Fortune x

Chiglepig

Thanks @Fortune_Smiles, I actually don't feel too bad unless I forget and put weight on it. The hospital actually phoned this morning to say they had reassessed and think I may have done more damage than they originally thought, so I have an orthopeadic appointment on Wednesday (bloomin' good service - thank you NHS).

@Cheery_Daff, DH drove me to an eyebrow wax this afternoon and has just put dinner in the oven. DD just nicks my crutches!

FtbDreaming

Oh god. Hope it feels better soon xxx

Chiglepig

Right, foot mostly sorted - well I'm in one of those big boots to stabilise for at least two weeks, which means I don't need crutches so much. The concern the hospital had turned out to be normal for me, so not a problem.

In money news S&S ISA spiked up last week, now back down a little but still beating a savings account even after fees if my maths is right, need to add to it.

Although MrChiggle's pay was down last month and will be the same this month we have still managed our usual mortgage OP, the usual payments to savings (including ISA), plus a bigger surplus in the current account than I was expecting - even with the scandalous council tax bill - then at the end of May it will go up again once his phased retirement is factored in. It probably says something about my (still) lack of spreadsheets that I didn't realise we would do so well, but I think it is that all of DH's work on reducing insurances and other regular payments has paid off.

It might all come off the rails though because for the first time since Feb 2020, he will be doing the main weekly shop on Sunday. He got worryingly over excited just going to our local farm shop on Tuesday

Nectar points are now up to £62.90 so I'm hoping by the time Christmas shopping comes around that will cover pretty much everything foody - and fingers crossed my parents will be able to come (they're in Europe), haven't seen them in the flesh since Jan 2nd 2020.

Thanks to Sky VIP, we have a Reginald D Hunter special for 'free' on Friday night - saw him at the Fringe years ago and he was brilliant, but it won't take much to be better than Jonathan Pye last week - we're vetrans of comedy clubs, pretty much everyone who is big on TV right now (Katherine Ryan, Josh Widdecombe, Tom Rosenthal, etc  generation) we saw in clubs playing to less than 100 people (I'm so old, I saw Jack Dee play to a room of about the same size when he was bottom of the bill!), so I feel confident to say it was rubbish!

Anyway, I'm waffling now. Have a good day.