5 months to emerge as a butterfly

benbenandme · 7 May at 10:18AM

One tree has gone already, they've just started on the second one

Buffythedebtslayer · 7 May at 12:43PM

Yay to the trees!

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benbenandme · 8 May at 8:43AM

Morning, up early, showered and on the second load of washing (stripped ds bed now he's gone to work). Today I have someone coming round to get something I put on marketplace this morning then I'm meeting a friend for a walk and talk. Other than that it will be pottering and staying on top of things in the house.Currently I'm sat in the conservatory with a coffee and the dog, and am going to have 5 minutes to start thinking about plans for the garden.

benbenandme · 8 May at 5:46PM

The person did turn up so that's one more thing cleared out the garage and another tenner into the savings pot.
I met my friend and we had a lovely walk down the beach then coffee and cake on the way back. Dishwasher is on, clean washing has all been folded and put away, bed remade.

This evening will be some more pottering and an early night as I didn't sleep too well last night. Spends today = £4.95 on coffee and cake and £37 on Pure Heavenly chocolate bars which will last me about 6 weeks (no sugar, no palm oil)

benbenandme · 14 May at 8:59AM

Morning, another weekend already!
Not much to report this week. although I did get my £150 council tax rebate so that has been sent to the gas/electric fund.
Last night I had my nails done then met some friends for a drink by the river.
This weekend will be quite chilled, nothing much planned. I do have some jobs I want / need to get done though:

Post a letter
Send back old Sky box
Do an online order for my cards
Plant some bits in the garden
Food shopping
Tidy front garden

Now that the trees have gone I can make a proper start on sorting out the garden and getting it looking nice. Hopefully the weather will be nice today and I can get out there and get on with it. Ds is working all day so its just me, i can please myself all day

benbenandme · 14 May at 10:40AM

Quite a productive morning so far, I've been to the Post Office and posted the letter and sent back the sky box. I've also done the food shopping. Washing machine is doing its thing, all the windows are open and its almost time to get out in the garden, plant some bits, top up my vitamin D and hopefully get the start of a tan, or at least get back to a healthy colour rather than the milky white glow I currently am sporting.

I have also opened a Chase account on my phone, a friend sent me her link and we both got £20 for doing it, you just have to pay in £20 within a month of opening it and the £20 bonus is applied straight away. If anyone wants a referral please just send me a message or reply on here x
Another helpful chunk towards the heating bill in the winter

benbenandme · 15 May at 8:05AM

Morning, a wet one here so far although it is looking like it might brighten up. One clap of thunder in the night but not much really.
Today ds is working again so another day to amuse myself, I want to get some steps in and then carry on with my hula hoop, I was doing it last night and it was great fun but this morning I've woken up with a whacking bruise on my hip from it

Thank you to the reader who contacted me for a referral, another £20 added to the heating fund ... I can refer up to 20 people so if anyone else wants one give me a shout - no direct debit transfers etc needed, its just another current account but it actually has decent interest rated too - it has a savers account within it and that pays 1.5% AER and it has a roundup facility that pays 5% AER. Anyway, I'm not really pushing for you all to get another account but its an easy £20 each if anyone wants one

Right, time for coffee then some more hula-hooping

benbenandme · 20 May at 8:50PM

And we made it to another weekend, only one more week to go until we break up for half-term

This week has been crazy busy at work but other than that its been fairly successful - I have managed to complete the following every day since Monday:

20,000 steps
1800 cals a day
5 x 1 minute planks
20 minutes hula-hooping
Minimal sugar
2 litres of water

I've definitely got my mojo back, I can't praise my patches high enough! Tomorrow I need to do the usual food shopping and housework, Sunday is the final day of the PL season, can't wait! Other than that I don't have much planned so far ...

Thank you to those of you who have asked for my referral code, I did spot this week that Martin Lewis rated Chase as the best bank in 3 categories in the weekly email

Referrals still available if anyone else wants one x

Blackcats · 21 May at 6:34PM

Sounds like you've had a great week for health and fitness.
I've been having a couple of mugs of green tea each day. I do like the fancy Twin nings flavoured ones but inexpensive green tea with a squirt of lemon juice is very refreshing.
I'm looking forward to the footie tomorrow too. I'm going to watch at my dad's and make a roast dinner followed by rhubarb crumble!

benbenandme · 21 May at 6:48PM

We're having a roast dinner too BC as Benben has a rare Sunday off! I've got someone possibly coming round to collect something off marketplace tomorrow too. Today has been spent doing the food shop, emptying the washing basket while the weather was nice, watching the League one playoff final and starting off this years tan

I need to pop over to Sainsburys to pick up my prescription, I'll walk over there in a bit, I'm leaving the dog here though - I took him up the forest for an hour this morning and he's still tired

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