The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

greenbee wrote: »

I had white wine and fried halloumi for supper... I really couldn't be bothered to do anything else. Luckily I had a HUGE salad for lunch and lots of roast veg for breakfast...

My Dear, I would LOVE to have been able to write that!! :D:D Can you not give me a heads up when you've next got that combination on the menu, I'll strap BG to the back o'me bike and head on over! :rotfl:

The garden sounds as though it is coming along a treat. I can see both sides with tradespeople, I'm sure they get their fare share of folk messing them around, but it does seem awful unfair when all you want someone to do the job they're trained for, and to part with your hard-earned in return.

Lovely to *see* you

Greying X

Good Morning :hello:

One of the things that I have found that I adore about little children - having not been around them much in life (no younger siblings, on hand cousins, wee next-door-neighbours etc), is the 'immediacy' with which they live life. Baby Greying has this morning been delighting in getting onions or cooking apples out of the stand in the kitchen. You would think that this 'new found' (for today) play thing is the crown jewels; the care, reverence and devotion that they are being treated with... especially if you try to take that onion back....... :rotfl:

So today's plans are to..... get outside! I have seen the buggy, it is no longer in the boot

I've the financials to take care of with a little money shuffle :dance: And if I get bored, there is always tidying, and as a last-resort, cleaning I've trades to contact and hair to pull out......

Tea this evening is a mystery - I didn't get around to doing my menu plan at the weekend. We're a bit low on 'things' but I'm going to have a proper cogitate and try to use what I've got without anything extra first and foremost. I've done reasonably well this month, and should end with a small surplus, so the incentive is there to be inventive.

Right, BG has now turned to getting everything out of everywhere, so I best vamoose.

Ta for popping in and reading.

Greying X

Well, that was a fruitful pootle up the high street

I've done my money shuffle :dance: twice :dance: so the bills will be paid and I can pay off the cc too. Despite needing cheese and coffee, this late in the month, I may yet end it with a few shekels left in the food budget. I did also splurge £2.99 of the food budget on a non-food item today.

I had been waiting for this film to come onto DVD at the library, and then go down to 'normal' price to lend, rather than premium. Anyway, this has got lost in the ether of time. But I saw it today in h0me bargins for £2.99. I figured you'd not get an ice-cream at the cinema for less than £3 these days, so Dear Reader, I bought it Turns out it was a good punt, as if I had loaned it from the library, it would have been £2 loan fee, and 70p reservation fee, as there aren't copies in the local library. So, for an extra 29p and considerably less hassle, I've bought a copy, and can think of several people who would freely borrow it off me to watch - and even if they don't I can put it in to the chazza, knowing it saved me money

Right, better get on. The kitchen is currently the room of doom - so best get on with washing up and drying - despite having done it 2 times already today!

Greying X

Good Morning :hello:

Well, wonder what the day has in store for us? If that auld saying about Shepherd's opinion on the weather, according to the colour of t'sky is correct; we're in for inclemency.

Plans for today include definite sorting and tidying. I still don't see where all this 'stuff' comes from - we've decluttered so much, and still there is 'stuff'. I will freely admit that a large part of the issue is still storage. And we'll just have to bite the bullet somehow. Whilst there is no point buying cupboards/filing cabinets/drawers specifically for this house, we've got to have something functional on a day to day basis, that may well be serviceable for any other property we live in. I'm still miffed I missed a chest of drawers and some bedside cabinets in a chazza, because we saw them on a Sunday, when it was closed, and I couldn't have got transport to get them, the next day the chazza was open - even if a closer inspection had proved them suitable Ah well, thems the breaks.

Tea this evening will be a 'buddha bowl'. Of the genuine - little bit o' this and little bit o' that variety - because it is the last day of the month, and I'm determined to try to hold on to what is in my purse to prove a point to myself! :rotfl: I paid the cc bill yesterday, and the money is in place to pay all our September bills, so we're sorted on that front.

Can't think of owt else MS to report at the moment.

Ta for popping in and reading. It is appreciated. I was reading post #4331 Teacher2 had written on Secret Saving Squirrel's thread over on the MFW board, and thought to myself how rare it is to get that support in RL amongst family & friends. You are incredibly lucky, it would appear, if you operate in a circle of like-minded folks these days. So thank goodness we have this space where we can meet and share with each other the joy of our lives, which is not necessarily consumer driven. It's certainly appreciated, greatly, by me.

Greying X

LOVIN' your *postcard* from Berlin Cheery Thank you

Feels like we're there with you reading about what you can see etc in real time

Greying X