And now we go again...

Seasidegal58

How frightening and awful for you both!  So pleased to hear that Mr EH is on the mend though. x

lucielle

Pleased to read he’s in the mend 
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foxgloves

What a scary time, @EH. I do hope that Mr EH is continuing restful recovery & am glad that you were on hand to help with getting him swiftly assessed. My Dad used to say, "These things are sent to try us", & they really do at the time. It can take a little while to recover one's equilibrium, can't it?
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jwil

Glad Mr EH is on the mend, what a scary time.

Sunshine_girl2

What a worrying time, good to hear Mr EH is on the mend. 

EssexHebridean

Thanks all - your lovely comments are much appreciated. Yes, Foxgloves is bang on about the equilibrium, too. "Getting there" I think - but will take a while yet - on both our accounts I think! 

So - where have we been at as far as MSE Stuff is concerned?

- Awaiting the money back from the accommodation for the festival - if it's not arrived by the end of tomorrow I'll probably suggest MrEH sends a "nudge" email to manage expectations, at least. 
- in the interim money has been transferred from one of the savings pots to cover the shortfall in the joint account, with a note made of how much and where from.
- Our Washer-Dryer finally made the sort of noises that suggested that the end was nigh while doing one of the loads of clothes that were worn during the festival - fair play, beer festival washing is grim prospect! Anyway, I revisited the comparisons we did previously, spotted that the LG machine we'd earmarked as being the best bet for us was on offer, and promptly placed the order for delivery last Friday. Joining the "membership" scheme for the supplier proved to be a money saver as got us extra off the price which cancelled out the fee, and added free delivery and removal of the old machine.
- The new WM was paid from the joint account because cashback - and money also temporarily transferred from elsewhere to cover that. Once the expenses are back, I'll get things sorted out and balanced up
- The garden continues to help with feeding us - more beans than we can shake a stick at, courgettes now arriving regularly, and a cucumber every few days which is plenty of cucumbers by anyone's standards! 
- I'm dealing with beans every few days by prepping, blanching very lightly and loose-freezing, and a lot of also being eaten at the very lightly blanched stage too. 
- Pesto stocks in the freezer are building thanks to the successive sowings of basil. 
- a well timed Lil's visit last Friday gained us a really excellent green box - always a win, and more so as it included some delicous flat peaches, and a very-nearly ripe mango that got scoffed over the weekend
- A job my Mum needed doing prompted us to purchase a replacement for our old knackered jigsaw - and we were able to use a £6 off voucher which meant the spare blades we purchased for it cost us practically nothing, so that was a win.

The weekend is likely to be mostly home/garden related I think - at the least we want to finish the prepping of the shed/office walls ready to begin work on the new log store. Now we have the jigsaw I may also set up the workbench to do some chopping down of bits of pallet ready to turn into kindling ahead of the winter. MrEH will no doubt crack on with making paper bricks, too. Hopefully there will be a barbeque at some point as it looks like the first of our sweetcorn might be ready for harvesting - and there is literally no better way of eating them than picked and thrown straight onto the BBQ! We have fuel, some tasty lamb burgers (farmers market last weekend) and some Y/S'd burger buns already in, so that might be a low-cost option, too! 

lucielle

Love sweetcorn!! Garden pickings are doing very well. 

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PennysIntoPounds

Just me who spent several moments wondering what sort of hardcore jigsaw puzzles EH does? 🤦‍♀️

Wanna_Bee_Free

Not just you - me too! And sharpening the pieces definitely sounded like an idea, I've never tried that before!

EssexHebridean

I've definitely done actual jigsaws where sharpening the pieces might have helped them fit!  

We were out last night for a few beers and food with pals, which was excellent fun, and we all had our sensible heads on so left the pub at 10pm in plenty of time for us all to get home. Costs of beers and food and travel (although we both had money on our Oysters for the tube bit) from personal spends, of course. We've travelled in this morning in my car, and will use separate ones to get home as of course MrEH's was left in London overnight. His HR department are thoughtfully insisting that he leaves slightly early at the moment as well so it may well be a bit of a race to see who actually makes it home first! 

The expenses claim for the hotel has been paid - but also by the look of it overpaid, so a small amount will need to be transferred back I think. MrEH will sort that out with the relevant people and work out how to transfer it to them. I can however now sort out transferring various bits of money back to where they need to be - so that's a win. 

I've got around to dealing with the return for a pair of trousers I bought last month - I bought two sizes and have kept one, but the one I'm returning wasn't as good a fit so are going back. Opted for the £2 cost of a return via InPost lockers as it would cost more to get to a store to do a "free" return that way, plus taking far more time. Assuming I remember to pack them up this evening, we can walk that way tomorrow morning and drop them off then. £13-odd to come back to me, which will find its way back to my clothing account I think.  while down at that end of town we can probably call in at FF's as well as we're almost out of tinned tuna.

I've got two coupons to use in Lil's tomorrow, both for free bakery items, so there will be a mid afternoon treat to be had, and I see that there is a plus card offer on Halloumi again, so I'll add that to my list and stock up. I need a food plan for the weekend and next week too - although that BBQ will feature I think, and I happen to know there is a HM curry and some daal still in the freezer, so those may as well come out. We've got lemons and limes that need using (the ones we rescued from being thrown away post beer-festival) and have pretty much decided that the limes are going to be made into curd - with a small jar also heading off to each of our Mums as both love fruit curds and of course it doesn't keep as well as things like jams etc.