Escape to the country & living off savings

Chrystal

Thinking of you and sending well wishes for the house viewing.  (((hugs))) XXX

doingitanyway

Ooh lucky you with your dream. I got those in the year after I lost my dear relative but I don't get them now 
Nice your niece thought of you and picked you up such good meat bargains. It will be nice to see her and little one tomorrow 

Skint_yet_Again

Thanks jwil, Suze, Chrystal and dia. 😊

EA said viewing was very positive so 🤞

Spanish chicken was lush 😋 Peppers, onions, courgette, butternut squash, tin chopped tomatoes, sprinkled mixed herbs & garlic powder plus a couple of squirts of Tom purée. Added half a horseshoe chorizo chopped & 5 chicken thighs (boneless and skinless) in slow cooker for 6 hours on low, added half tin kidney beans for last half hour. (Tinned kidney beans are already cooked so no need to boil). 

The beef brisket was also cooked in the slow cooker with about 200ml water and was yummy sliced up with gravy & green beans, broccoli & sprouts from the freezer. 

All leftovers portioned up & frozen. 

Brunch at spoons was lovely. My turn to pay £11.60 from entertainment fund. 

Looking forward to seeing my niece and little one today 🥰

doingitanyway

Lots of lovely food there 
I will be doing the Spanish chicken. I buy FR chicken wings that are very tasty. I will trim them and see if that works...
Enjoy your family time

Skint_yet_Again

doingitanyway said:

…I buy FR chicken wings that are very tasty. 

What are FR wings dia? Probably something obvious but my brain can’t work it out 😵‍💫🤯

Feeling very washed out this morning so today will be mostly resting. My friend invited me to hers for lunch. 

Today’s forecast is partially sunny with light wind so I am going to wash spare room bedding and hang out. 14 degrees in my room right now but I am still cosy in bed. Heating will be on when I get up. Supposed to be 2 degrees outside up to 5-7 degrees later so maybe I won’t need the heating on later. 

I have reviewed my maturing bond online and chosen to reinvest £5k for 1 year at 4.11% and withdraw the rest. Balance at maturity is expected to be £16445. £10k will be withdrawn to live off April 2026 - March 2027 and the remainder will go into my diy / emergency pot. My 2 year bond has another year to go so they will both mature next January. 

KajiKita

FR = Free Range, I'm guessing?

Gentle awesomeness noted here in how you are manging your resources until SP kicks in ....

Hope you enjoy lunch with your friend and it's restorative for you

KK

doingitanyway

Yes, free range @Skint_yet_Again I get them in morries and they are sooo tasty and not much more... £1.50 for 500 grams 
Glad you are listening to your body and resting when you need it 

Skint_yet_Again

Thanks KK & dia 😊 I have done very little since Friday and don’t think I will do much today either. I did wash double sheet & king size duvet with matching pillow cases on Friday which mostly dried outside. They are still on the clothes airers in the kitchen so I will fold & put away today. I want to do a trip to h bargains to get vacuum storage bags to store the king size duvet. Not sure I will be up to that today. 

Yesterday I wiped down all upstairs windowsills & did a bit of sadmin. I need to charge the 🦈 hoover battery and do upstairs this week. Also need to go to the local library for some photocopying. I’ve tried to look online for a cheap printer/ scanner that would work off my iphone but the library was free last time I used it.

15.5 degrees here this morning and raining. It’s very dark. I’m still in bed 🤦‍♀️ Heating is off 

Arrietty

Good morning,

very pleased to hear you are resting in between tasks and there is nothing wrong with being in bed on a Sunday morning if you've nowhere else to be.  I'm a firm believer in January being a month for resting and recuperating.

Hope you have a peaceful day
A x

KajiKita

Very grey and foggy here. We’ve only just surfaced and only because Mr KK has someone coming round at 10am to sell him (yet another! 🙄😂) WW2 helmet - rescue party this time, apparently … 😊

KK