Learning to walk before I run

rtandon27

ooo - the food market sounds lovely!  Good call on breaking up the hike with a food reward.

Suffolk_lass

Decorative bark can attract tiny flies like fruit flies. Maybe consider horticultural grit  to top dress the borders?

edinburgher

We've had bark since we moved in and only one summer with significant numbers of fruit flies. My issue with grit is that it's very heavy to work with and won't stop the horsetail coming up any more than the bark. Much easier to weed through bark than grit/gravel in my experience.

edinburgher

Work is relatively calm today, workload down a bit and all bosses off

£6.05 OPed and £13+ made from Prolific, so far. 

I notice that Morries have a "Christmas" type offer already (basically spend £60 for 3 weeks and get £15 of vouchers). While I realise that these sorts of offers are gimmicky, they're ok in my experience if you'd need to do the shopping anyway. I'm currently at £185 of points and vouchers towards the cost of Christmas, this would take me up to £200+, which would probably cover us for dinner for 7. 

edinburgher

A tiring day. Worked my usual hours, took DD1 to Guides, did 2 hours of overtime, £25+ on Prolific.

On the bright side, only one hour of overtime left for the week as I did a little extra last week. Long weekend coming up.

Suffolk_lass

edinburgher said:

I notice that Morries have a "Christmas" type offer already (basically spend £60 for 3 weeks and get £15 of vouchers). While I realise that these sorts of offers are gimmicky, they're ok in my experience if you'd need to do the shopping anyway. I'm currently at £185 of points and vouchers towards the cost of Christmas, this would take me up to £200+, which would probably cover us for dinner for 7. 

I received a notification from M&S that Christmas Food to order has opened. We're still on our holidays though!

edinburgher

£2 on a £5 spend at TCB today folks 👍🏻

LadyWithAPlan

edinburgher said:

Well I never! Micromanaging boss has informed all of the senior members of the team that they will no longer be micromanaging us reviewing all of our work They have been doing this for several years. In all this time they have identified perhaps 2-3 things to be corrected in my output, if I'm generous. Apparently they're off to micromanage some new recruits instead. 

No longer will I need to write for the three audiences of the recipient of my response, the boss who doesn't understand it and the ombudsman who needs to have everything explained twice  

Woohoo! That’s a real result ! 

Tx  for reminder on the Morries - I haven’t been there for a while but have a few £5 waiting for Xmas - I will look at this offer  & the TCB one 

Baileys_Babe

edinburgher said:

£2 on a £5 spend at TCB today folks 👍🏻

Thanks @edinburgher as usual you have informed me before TCB, still no email from them, but thanks to you my account has been credited with my cashback and bonus before 9 am 👏🤗

edinburgher

At the risk of injecting too much nauseating positivity, I had a damn good week!  

1. Knuckled down at work and got a lot off my plate before the BH weekend
2. New post I want to apply for is hopefully getting advertised a week today
3. Cancelled mobile broadband still paid cashback - £110 for less than a week's service £100 to home maintenance budget, £10 to OP budget
4. Mrs E's mega bonus has finally paid out. This was 10% of her salary before deductions (about £2,500 after) and it meant that she has just had her highest monthly wage ever (in 40 years). It's probably a one-off, but it was great for her. Basically she was promoted, so highest performance grade had to apply

There were some things that didn't work out (lack of sleep, still a bit frazzled, not as many studies of the quality I'd like etc.) but definitely a win in the end. 

Today we've been to the local shopping mall with the children and tomorrow Mrs E is taking DD2 to watch an animated film at the cinema in the morning.