Pippi's Diary, 2024 edition.....

Cheery_Daff

Well I am grateful you are peeking above the parapet too 😁

Old boss is quite clearly a poopy head and doesn't deserve your fabulousness xx

Don't be ashamed about not doing stuff in the garden! You obviously have had enough on your plate. It will be there waiting when you are ready xx

peb

How wonderful that you are back. 

Im re-reading Piquant's diary and was thinking of you (especially as I'm plotting a trip to Orkney)

Glad you have found a more suitable job 🎉

pippilongstocking123

peb said:

How wonderful that you are back. 

Im re-reading Piquant's diary and was thinking of you (especially as I'm plotting a trip to Orkney)


Glad you have found a more suitable job 🎉

Cheery_Daff said:

Well I am grateful you are peeking above the parapet too 😁

Old boss is quite clearly a poopy head and doesn't deserve your fabulousness xx

Don't be ashamed about not doing stuff in the garden! You obviously have had enough on your plate. It will be there waiting when you are ready xx

Well peb thanks and that was such a fun diary to be involved with. When are you planning your trip, how fabby, I haven't been back in erm it will be ten years this autumn. Wow time flies eh.  Rather wierdly my new job is with a lovely human who also has Orkney connections. Small world, you'll love it up there, is it your first trip?

Cheery, sadly they are a sausage of a boss, tried to hand my notice in before xmas and left a meeting very unhappy as I was told I clearly hadn't thought my options through if I waanted to leave. She just wouldn't listen.

You'll love that the lovely GD (now 3) uses the word sausage a lot to describe very silly things. It always reminds me of you.

Gardening is one of those things isn't it, maybe its a bit like being a Dr, if you're a gardener the last garden you really look after is your own. I often think, when I'm doing private work, if only I spent this much time in my own garden, it would loook lovely.

New job is based in various local community gardens, with apples and bees and polytunnels, I'm so looking forward to it. 


Boxed up some soup I made earlier so that's 3 more lunches in the freezer
Had a scout around the cupboards so I have a list of things we need
Looks like I can't do the bread until I get some flour...... can't decide if I go and brave it or not. If I go tonight I can likely squeeze in some paid work tomorrow, depending on the weather.

Tea will either be leftovers or a cheeky air fryer freezer dinner as I spied some fish in there and some chips.....might even have some mushy peas in the cupboard.

Too many decisions, ah the high life eh.

jwil

Welcome back

Cheery_Daff

Sounds like boss will have to listen now! Silly sausage indeed. Love that GD uses that phrase 🥰🥰🥰 I don't use it often enough at the minute, will have to revive it in your honour!

A job with apples and bees and a polytunnel sounds like the very thing for you 😊😊

lucielle

Hello, lovely to ‘see’ you. 

L

pippilongstocking123

Hello jwil lovely to see you too.

Lucielle - how are you lovely. I hope life has been good to you. x

Cheery - we've moved to an area where there's lots of projects around to help produce food and tasty nosh locally with added bees, I'm quite excited. Hopefully the boss is processing all the stuff now and I'll find out where I stand but TBH I don't' hold out much hope, 2 years into a national charity project no one can ever tell me which holidays I'm entitled too, but on the positive, a firm line is now drawn. 

GD started nursery today, I hope there aren't many silly sausages there for her.

Tea was delish, stores/fridge/cupboard and one full tea portion for the freezer.

A NSD woo hoo! 

Raked the stores and found some flour to make bread.  So that's doing its mutant thing on the counter. I really don't understand sourdough.

Took out a tin of chilli/beans and added some soya mince to that to bulk up to a main meal for tomorrow (look at that organising) will use up todays left over rice.

Jobs for tomorrow:
Invoices x 4 to send as I forgot about one
List for shopping I really need dog food/flour/seeds/nuts/veg and might ask DS if he can do a veg shop at his work (they have a reduced veg bit in his factory)
Do some batch cooking and portion
Maybe chop some logs or at the very least fill up the log baskets and stack all the 'found' wood by the chopping bit?
PO for some returns and to send something up for a lost property claim which came good.
Walk mutt
Clean something, probably kitchen/living room
Washing

Joining @EssexHebridean on her January grocery challenge

Our budget for food/household/pets etc is £365 a month which DH puts in the bank, for one mutt, one GD (age 3) who stays one or two nights a week (and days too, and two hungry adults who are outdoors a lot. Its generous but I do try and buy local, reduced and seasonal. 

Enjoy your evening folks! Thanks for making life so cosy.

See you in the am.

pippilongstocking123

Soz meant to say trying to get food spends down to £200 this month. 

Can you edit your own posts? Can't seem to see how.

TIA

Cheery_Daff

pippilongstocking123 said:

Soz meant to say trying to get food spends down to £200 this month. 

Can you edit your own posts? Can't seem to see how.

TIA

There are three little dots in the top right hand corner of your post - click those and you get an option to edit. That's how it works on my phone anyway! 😊

EssexHebridean

I’m not sure how many posts you need to enable editing - but Cheery is spot on with the usual method - works that way on tablet and PC too. 

Delighted you are joining in with “How low can you go January” on the groceries front - no, I don’t think that challenge name is going to catch on, either! I’m just genuinely going to try to see how little I can spend against our budgeted £225 per month I think - I ought I be able to make a fairly substantial saving though.