Mrs. P's Savings, Paying Off CC, being more organised diary

MrsPorridge

NSD 17/19

Another lovely, sunny but cold day here.  Did a bit of work in the garden and a bit of housework.

Made a sponge cake.

Did my meal planning for next week.  Finalised online shop which is arriving tomorrow.

Breakfast was porridge.  Late lunch will be mixed grill with jacket spuds and veggies and Diane sauce (a return to the 70’s)!

Our local butcher does a mixed grill for £3.99 comprising, gammon, steak, sausage, chicken and pork.  They are small portions, but even so one does for the two of us.  Its nice for a change.

MrsPorridge

NSD 18/19

Dreary horrible drizzly, fog and rain here today.  Glad I made the most of the sunny weather the last couple of days.

Pay day for me today – DH tomorrow, so I’ve distributed to the various pots.  Trying to have a frugal month in March.

Well, I didn’t make my NSD’s, so for March I think I will aim for 19 days and see how I get on.

My Sainsbogs online order due to arrive in an hour.  The only thing that’s not on the list is potatoes!  Well, that’s fine.  I am going out tomorrow so will get them then.  Its great to get the heavy stuff delivered online. 

Not too much else planned for today, I need to sort my knitting out – gone wrong somewhere so think I’ll make a coffee in a minute and take a look at it.

Breakfast toasted teacake, lunch pea soup (I need to make a batch), and dinner tonight is scampi, oven chips and peas.

EssexHebridean

Teacakes sound lovely - I've not made those for a while, must do them again at some point!  

MrsPorridge

NSD 0/19

Happy Pancake Day. 

We met friends for coffee and toasted teacakes at a local garden centre.  We made the most of the journey visiting the butcher and Lidls – I like the frozen salmon they do there.  Its wrapped individually (which I guess is a waste – but its convenient for the freezer).  They also do a nice spatchcock chicken – both the salmon and chicken are very well priced and a lot cheaper than anywhere else. 

Also poked around a couple of charity shops.

We had the toasted teacakes as breakfast.  When we got home we had American style pancakes with banana and syrup.  Later tonight we will have some southern fried chicken.

another_casualty

Happy pancake day ! 🥞

MrsPorridge

 

NSD 1/19

Admin morning – renewed our driving licences £14 each!  Then we sorted out and downloaded our land registry and title deed for our house and MIL’s house which is co-owned with DH. 

I batch cooked some cheesy leek pancakes and they have gone in the freezer.  The hall floor has been hoovered and mopped.

Breakfast was porridge, lunch be bacon fried egg sandwiches and dinner tonight is chicken stir fry.

MrsPorridge

NSD 1/19

Walked into the village today to get my medication from the surgery.  Also got some more milk and stopped off at the café for a coffee.

This afternoon we went to the cinema to see The Duke – what a great film with plenty of laugh out loud moments.

Breakfast was muffins, lunch sausage sandwich and dinner Coronation chicken and chips (from the chippy).

MrsPorridge

 

NSD 2/19

Nice and sunny here, windy but cold.  I have taken advantage and hung some washing on the line.  Not sure it will dry, but at least it will take the moisture out and give it a nice line dried smell.

Baking also done, some shortbread and some muffins for toasting for breakfasts.  Just got to make a sauce and assemble my fish pie and then that’s ready for tea later.

Breakfast was muffins, lunch coronation chicken salad and tea tonight is home made fish pie.

MrsPorridge

NSD 2/19

Nice and sunny here, windy but cold.

It’s St. Piran’s Day today (patron saint of Cornwall).  Would have been rude not to have a pasty today, so walked into the village and bought a pasty for lunch and sat outside to eat it.  Was lovely to be out and about in such nice sunny, but cold, weather.  It has really blown the cobwebs away.

Breakfast was muffin, lunch the pasty and dinner tonight is chicken curry with some home made onion barghis and home made nann bread.

MrsPorridge

NSD 3/19

Last night as usual I took my two hotties to bed with me.  I usually put one at the very bottom of the bed and the other beside me.  Watched a bit of TV then went to move the hottie at the bottom, it had sprung a leak – one very wet patch on the mattress meant DH and I moved into the spare room – luckily I had made that bed up a week or so ago.

Today I have put a towel and another hottie (not a leaking one) to help soak up the excess  Its almost dry now.  So a bed change later on today and we should be good to go back in our bed tonight.

Brunch today of egg and bacon.  Later on we will have the rest of the chicken curry which was left over from yesterday.

Weather dry so far, but very dull and windy again and also cold.

Our new driving licenses arrived yesterday – only took a couple of days.  They ask you to cut up the old ones and return them – does someone really check???  Anyway I had an odd stamp, so have decided to return the old ones, so that is now ready by the front door to be posted tomorrow.

Finished knitting my jumper and am really pleased with it.  Just started one now for DS.