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Happy weekend everyone ⭐️
@Debsnewbudgetwe had tiny pansies (violas maybe?) in the hanging baskets before and weirdly they died at the end of summer, but migrated and we have had little pansy flowers all over the gravelled drive all winter. They flowered throughout all the snow and frost and it has been so cheerful! They are still going strong. Clearly they decided baskets weren’t for them!MrWW was on nights last night so I pottered today. I changed over to my new bag, did my nails in a lovely sunny yellow (which 2 have chipped already 😖) and popped to Ldl. I bought 2pots of narcissus daffs and then planted them in the hanging baskets. The bulb roots were so intertwined that I didn’t dare risk pulling them apart, so they are sitting in a bunch in the middle of each basket. They look very cheerful though and I can’t wait to see how they look when the buds open up.I need to spend some time doing my March budget ready for Thursday. Maybe March will be my month 🤣
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I'm off to the start of your diary to catch up2
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WhiteBunny said:I'm off to the start of your diary to catch upNot all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
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WinterWarrior said:we had tiny pansies (violas maybe?) in the hanging baskets before and weirdly they died at the end of summer, but migrated and we have had little pansy flowers all over the gravelled drive all winter. They flowered throughout all the snow and frost and it has been so cheerful! They are still going strong. Clearly they decided baskets weren’t for them!Save £12k in 2025 #33 £2531.77/£5000 (If this carries on I might have to up my target!)
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My violas did well in sheltered pots on walls but they also had many pretty babies on the patio and driveway. I love them, such pretty markings. I have creeping violet under a nasty spiky pyracantha so I just weed it out when it starts to invade.The narcissus sound good. I think they look better in clumps anyway. Once they have died down I re home them elsewhere in the garden and spread them out a little more.My mortgage free diary: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6498069/whoops-here-comes-the-cheese
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The daffs sound lovely. I planted lots in pots near the back doors where I can see them from my chair. The squirrels have had them from a couple of pots…I shared them out so all pots had the same so I want to nip to Morris@ns to get some flowering ones to plant out. They’re growing between pretty purple violi (or is it violas) which have been in flower since October….they’ve certainly earned their keep. 👍
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I do plan to plant the bulbs out when they’ve flowered. My garden is rambling and wild, with a small wood down a steep hill (rabbit housing) and a burn at the bottom. Anything wild does well so there are many clumps of daffs, snowdrops and crocus all over the place. I don’t have any success with your average bedding plant, the garden does what it wants and doesn’t care for my interfering at all 😅 This year I plan to attempt some tidying, fingers crossed.I saw the herb pots a ldl today, but they mostly looked half dead! I like to kill them myself, rather than buy them ready dead 🤭 It would suck all of the fun out of it 😁Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
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Happy Monday ⭐️
Work was dire, but is over now, so that’s something 😅 And payday week so that’s something too. Roll on Thursday for the great money shuffle. Let’s get this less than stellar month behind me!I ordered all the pets food today, which came to £310 as stocks were running low 😖 This will be out of next months budget. I had factored in a healthy £300, so had to nip back to by budget and adjust that. To be honest half of the time I am feeding the birds with the cat food as the fussy devils all take the top off the dishes and then demand new flavours. Each morning there is a massive cereal bowl full of scrapings that goes out to the birds, the dishes go in the dishwasher and we start the whole thing again. And these are the pouches and tins of pate they all really like. There would be a complete hunger strike if I tried to downgrade it. Including the dogs chicken and the cat litter the 5 beasts cost more to run than the humans!
I hope you have all had a great day.
Todays wins were that I enjoyed L*dls own crisps more than the usual walkers (I don’t know why I had forgotten that, but I’d got out of the habit of buying shops own and this time I did and I like them) and I really enjoyed my plain Greek yoghurt with a spoonful of runny honey and a handful of muesli. So nice I shall repeat them both tomorrow 🤭Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
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Your garden sounds lovely!"Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee1
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