Escape to the country & living off savings

~FlowerPot~

SYA ~ biggest hugs, horrible news for everyone. Sending love

Flowers x

Skint_yet_Again

Thank you all for your support and kindness. 

I am back home now and trying to get back into some sort of routine which I find comforting. Aquafit this morning. It’s turned so cold only 16.5 degrees in the sunny rooms this morning. I have started putting the heating on just in the bathroom when I have a shower in a morning. Otherwise my towel is not drying and smells fusty. It’s supposed to be warmer over the weekend. 

I have fixed my gas & electric tariff with BG and gone onto direct debit £77 a month. I received £60 compensation for their delay which I have left on my energy account. 

Shopping in aldee this week was £26.40 as only a part shop. Went out to lunch with DF & niece & baby then called into a “company shop” of which she is a member and I got 1kg corned beef & joint of beef half price, total £10. DF had some of the corned beef, I have frozen the rest of it into portions for meals in my freezer. The beef joint will be cut in half and I will cube it to make stew and beef curry in my slow cooker. I also have chicken thighs to make a casserole & I made butternut squash soup yesterday. 

SuzeQStan

Hey there SYA - lovely to see your post today xx 

on the preparing for winter thread some posters mentioned using microfibre or Hammam towels which dry more quickly than regular Terry towels to avoid fusty smells.

And Cherry mentioned putting a micro fibre cloth on top the bath mat as well to prevent it getting soaked which I thought was inspired and have recently adopted. 

Things are supposed to warm up a bit for us all with some sunshine next week as well (🙏🏻🤞🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻)

 take care you x 

Skint_yet_Again

Thank you SQS 😊

Picked up a hot cooked chicken for lunch after aquafit. The rest will make meals over the weekend. Towels washed including the one today from the pool. Put my dressing gown & pjs in too to make a full load and all dried in the afternoon sun. 

Cauliflower from the freezer for tea with cream & cheese sauce and a sprinkle of corned beef. 

DF has brought me the last marrow & beetroot from his allotment. I have 2 tubs of tomatoes picked yesterday before the frost this morning pretty much killed off my 2 tumbling tom plants. They are at various stages of ripeness, plus half a tray of green which I put on the kitchen windowsill in the afternoon sun. Hopefully they will ripen. If not I have heard putting them in a paper bag with a ripe banana works. 

I am looking at curtain poles this weekend for my kitchen/ diner. It’s a large 2m window & I already have the curtains so hopefully they will help keep the cold out. 

I’ve finished the books from our community red phone box so I will hang washing out in the morning, put slow cooker on and have a walk up the hill to return the books and hopefully get a few more. 

 

doingitanyway

Glad you got some compensation. 
I'm following your electricity/gas journey closely as soon I'll need supplier.
Uphill walks are so good for us. You must be so much fitter since you retired.

Skint_yet_Again

Thanks dia. I would definitely not recommend BG. Their customer service has been diabolical. They have now sent letters to my previous address due to their failure to update their records (lucky for me DS still lives there) 

Not sure about my fitness at the moment. 😉 Struggled up the hill today but took 2 books back and got 3 more. Have had a lazy afternoon and am already half way through reading one of them. 

One load of washing dried outside. Chicken casserole cooked in slow cooker. 3 portions in the freezer. 5 beetroot cooked in microwave. Much warmer here today. Treated myself to an ice cream when the van parked outside. Would have been rude not to ☺️ Rain is forecast for tomorrow but next week is supposed to be sunny 

Time2count

It is indeed rude to ignore the ice cream man 😉 Sadly my flat is too high up so I see and hear the van but haven't enough time to venture out for one 😟

Skint_yet_Again

That would probably be a good thing for me Time2count as I have little willpower. I don’t buy any for my freezer as I would probably eat it in one go 🤦‍♀️

Today I am going to nearby shopping retail park with DF to collect a curtain pole £23 paid from last months interest. I also need to get a birthday card for my friend whose daughter has terminal cancer. I am going to try and get a nice card with no message and write my own 

Washing is just finishing and will be hung out to dry. 

Interest 1 Sept 
multiple pots £2.80
Regular saver £24.06
Savings builder £14.54

(Further interest due when bonds mature feb 25)

Time2count

Hope you found a nice card SYA.

I'm getting better with willpower, but I'm not a massive ice cream fan, it's the whippys I like so I'm pretty safe!
Finally tried the a@di fake pepsi max, I wouldn't say it's identical but it was ok. Would buy again anyway.

SuzeQStan

Ah that reminds me T2C - i got a bottle of aldee fake dr p@pper - it could be worse - which is saying alot for a long term dp drinker!