Old Style Diary Archive - JUL 05

spendaholic

I'm a prav too.

Ticklemouse

JAMIEDODGER wrote:

pots with ING....how does that work????

ING 'pots' - an easy way to keep your savings at a high rate of interest, but have them for specific purposes. You open an ING account then once the main one is up and running, you can open up other accounts online. You give them all names - I currently have 'holiday' and 'garden', the latter of which is about to become 'Christmas'. I transfer monies from my high street banks into my ING account as and when and split it up appropriately between the accounts. I don't know how many 'pots' you can have, but a fair few.

You should be able to do this type of thing with other banks and working them online means you can see what's going on and be in charge. (Hmm - currently owe my holiday account about £600, I just keep a note and pay into it when I have a bit of cash.)

greenlogo

afternoon all!

at work for more or less ever today so not terribly O/S today...

quietish at work with a lot of time spent "hold"ing on the phone, so I've been collecting lots of recipies to try out over the weekend.

Everyone else's days make me feel exhausted just reading about them

Incidentally, ebayers out there, where do you get cheap packing supplies from?

apprentice_tycoon

Viking Direct (0800 424444) is good for bubblewrap and parcel tape, cardboard boxes are best picked up from shops and supermarkets and packing peanuts can be bought on ebay. Viking also bombard you will free gifts and nectar points as well, they are VERY good

Lillibet_2

Evening All

No chance to get on here today as I have been visitng my Mum, at the dentist & for an ante-natal appointmet.

Day started well enough, house work all done before we left home at 9am(!), went to the cash & carry with Mum & stocked up on a few things to see us through the next few hetic weeks, only just realized now that I got over charged by TREBLE on one item:eek: Usually I would check my reciept straight away but cos Mum & Hubby were with me & fussing & we were late for the dentist I have only just got around to it. Unfortunatley Mum & cash & carry are 50+ miles away so not much option to go back & sort it out in the next few days so will probably break the habit of a lifetime & let them get away with it:mad:

Then heard we'd got the olympics....as non-supporters that means we've got 7 years to save up enough money for a month touring Australia to get away from it when the time arrives!
We do set ourselves some challanges:rolleyes:

Finally saw the midwife who was running very late, she told me, in complete contradiction to the last midwife 2 weeks ago, that Spud ISN'T engaged & is in the wrong position.....sometimes I really don't think any of them know what they are talking about:mad: Having been all geared up for a perfect, if maybe early birth, now both are looking unlikey. Grrrrr.........

Only just got home to a very over excited dog who's desperate to go for a walk (he's had access to the garden all day but it's just not the same thing:rolleyes:) and am seriously considering scrapping my old style dinner plans in favour of a takeaway & a dvd:p

Well done on your star Rage:j

Queenie, thanks for letting me know about CQ .

See you all tomorrow;)

omega_2

Lillibet wrote:

and am seriously considering scrapping my old style dinner plans in favour of a takeaway & a dvd:p

If not now, when? What a day for you! Sending calming thoughts your way.........

JAMIEDODGER

hi everyone,

up at 4.30 this morning :eek: as oldest wasnt well....so a very early start today...got everyone breakfasted and off to school, by the time i got back at 9am i was feeling drained so when baby went up for her nap....so did mum

woke up about eleven and decided to walk into town to get the car tax got home, pottered for a bit, did some housework and washing (all dried hooray) windy but no sun..where is the summer

after school collections (3 kids at 3 different schools...total nightmare!!) came home did tea....but about 6pm after id put baby to bed got a burst of energy!!! made strawberry and apple crumble, white loaf, chilli enough for tomorrow nights dinner and one for the freezer!, did all the washing up then baked some everyday biscuits!! yummy!!

i think ive run out of steam now as im getting lathargic again, so every thing else on list can wait until tomorrow....busy rest of week, 3 different sports days, two school fetes and a school play to attend!!!! i think i will be trying to put my feet up a bit this weekend

Rage_in_Eden

soba wrote:

Bakewell tart next on my list!

Are you working your way round the country insulting people here? Are you Jeremy Paxman or John Humphries? I think we should be told!!!

Rage_in_Eden

LILLIBET: How was the take away? Don't worry about being told the wrong thing - happens all the time. i was told i had sprained my left ankle once - yeah right so that's why i ended up haivng a pin put in it. and this was after i'd had an x-ray and I saw the break and had to argue with the doc that it wasn't a "scratch on the film"!!!! If there's one thing being a medical secretary has done for me it's to make me answer docs back - they love me (and a couple have been known to turn 'round in the corridor when the see me coming!!!! Ah POWER!!!!)

Zziggi

Spent today picking yet more raspberries, washing and freezing.

Made a loaf in the breadmaker and the kids ate the bread (crusts as well) in sandwiches tonight.

Kids asked (!!) to go to bed a 6.15pm - now how could i refuse? (although they'll be up at 4am i bet...), so spent this evening making stollen from the receipe book i got with the breadmaker. Have just served OH a slice with a cuppa. He's scoffed it in about 2 secs flat and asked for another slice. I never knew stollen was so easy to make.

Am going to get all adventerous tomorrow with the breadmaker and try to make naan breads (also in the booklet that came with the breadmaker). Peshwari and garlic & corriander naans i though would go well with Curry_queens (?) korma receipe. So i've just popped on-line to print a copy of the receipe off ready for tomorrow. Wish me luck...