Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

Sunshine_girl2

What a lovely cake . Happy Easter to you both. 

Suffolk_lass

foxgloves said:

Thank-you x
It's not a difficult cake at all - Mary Berry's coffee sponge which has coffee buttercream. I just added a layer of caramel before sandwiching it together. As for the chick.....well, not long after the LBM, when we were busy debt-busting, I bought a box of 36 chicks for 99p in the (now defunct) 99p shop in town. Let's just say I stilll have sufficient chicks for many Easter cakes to come!
F

Re the chicks, there is an industrial relations thing going on where our DS works, and as a bit of a protest (while the union are negotiating) a number of small animal models have been deployed. I believe Easter chicks were to be the next thing. In desk drawers, in the lavatories, on top of the cisterns, around the wash basins, on top of doors, hanging from light switches, and so on.

Happy Easter, Coffee cake looks lovely. Here , we remain on our respective diets. I did show Mr SL a bar of 70% cocoa solids chocolate but at 24% fat and 34% carbohydrates it remains verboten for him. He knows the thought was there, if not the physical treats

foxgloves

Oh, I love that idea, @Suffolk_lass. Workers exercising their democratic right to protest through the medium of Easter chicks!
F

foxgloves

Morning Easter Bunnies, Thank-you for the Easter wishes.
A nice slow start to the morning in which Ash is being a purr machine.
No outings planned. Re going out on BH weekends, too many traffic queues. I always think I could get the same experience by simply parking our car on the drive & sitting in it for 3 hours while dying for a wee! 
Defo not planning to go mad with jobs today, but budget-friendly bits will be.......
*Baking bread.
*Sorting out yesterday's roast lamb leftovers & making some if it into a bhuna for tonight (& freezer).
*Getting bones (& some from freezer) into slow cooker for stock.
*Dosing plant babies with seaweed solutiion.
*Having coffee & Easter cake discussion to finalise the best way to divide & allocate the money I recently inherited. We pretty much know where it's going, but actual numbers still need confirming before I go ahead with fund transfers this week.
*Mr F probably popping out to pick up a click & collect order - an electric drill/screwdriver combo which was reduced by £50 in an Easter promotion. Our old one was not recoverable following repeated shed floods & was v old - actually mine from before we got together.
*Possibly weed a bed ready for lettuces if I need to do some stretching.
For leisure....starting a new library book, finishing yesterday's crossword & maybe starting the horrendous-looking (but fun) big Easter one in Saturday's Guardian & creating an Easter biscuit hunt for Soot & Ash.....though this is very much more Soot's thing.
Have a lovely bank holiday,
F x

Suffolk_lass

"No outings planned. Re going out on BH weekends, too many traffic queues. I always think I could get the same experience by simply parking our car on the drive & sitting in it for 3 hours while dying for a wee! " 

Just hilarious. I almost choked on my first mouthful of coffee, trying to swallow and laugh simultaneously. Happy Bank Holiday Monday. Enjoy your cake x

Sun_Addict

Made me laugh too 🤣 Nothing worse than BH traffic. 

Ooh the drill/screwdriver set sounds interesting as that’s what Mr SA wants for his birthday, where’s it from? 

rtandon27

Haha - OH reminded me if the same just before going to bed last night when I expressed an interest in our seeing our local wonder today, which by default would be one big queue!

ladyholly

I know exactly what you mean with bank holiday traffic. Not only are there queues but it seems to bring out the worst drivers.

Makingabobor2

Totally agree about BH traffic. 
DH is at work till 12 & I'm off to start a wardrobe/drawer sort out to see how much I can find to list on V*nt*t or put in CS bag. 

foxgloves

@Sun_Addict - From Bee & Queue. We'd been in to look at them a couple of weeks ago but he didn't really consider this brand (De Walt) as he's seen the resident builders on our street using tools from their range & thought they might be more sort of towards professional level. We looked at separate power screwdrivers & drills, but this is a nice sturdy looking case containing both with a £50 reduction, so it was a bit of a no-brainer. Its first job will be putting together the new raised beds. 
Oh & he says to tell you it comes with a spare battery so one can be charging while the other is in use. £200 down to £150. The separates we had initially priced up would have come to more than that so he was happy to order it.
F