:) What small DFW things will you do this week - w/c 2nd April?

allydowd wrote: »

* Just realised that they are closing the road I take to work over the weekend. :mad: This turns a 25 min journey into a 70 min journey. :mad: I thought they were just closing it overnight, but apparently they're closing it the whole weekend, so my journey to work on Saturday is going to be miserable and cost me more than it would usually. And they're doing this for three weekends running. :mad:

Ah that really sucks. Maybe a good audio book or podcast would soften the blow?

Morning Frugalistas,
Some more rain here. Great. Because I don't think we had quite enough rain here yesterday. No. I could definitely have enjoyed more than the 3 huge downpours (on my washing!), hail storm & the intermittent grey drizzle we got for the rest of the day ensuring that Cat kept coming in distinctly moist & insisting on drying himself on my trousers. I have to go out for a meeting tonight, which requires a little prep, so I shan't get as much done as usual. Some useful stuff though:
*Have updated my signature as I like to keep a tally of survey income. £114 so far this year & awaiting £50 from Yougov. All destined for LPDF.
*Rained-on laundry has re-dried on heated airer overnight.
*Bread dough made for pizza base & cobs - just on its 1st proving, will need bashing about in a minute, as need to eat early tonight.
* Fed sourdough jar ready to mix up loaf tomorrow.
*Make tomorrow's packed lunch - not done yet.
*Listed another 12 items on ebay.
*Continue crocheting around my little knitted squares - am using black, as this sets the colours off nicely. I did 6 last night - just plain trebles, about my limit when it comes to crochet, whereas I'll try almost any knitting pattern confidently.
*Sorted through remaining yarn stash & identified 3 different lots of self-patterning sock yarn I can use to knit presents - 2 lots were gifted to me, the other I bought to knit a pair for someone last year, then gave him a different present instead. I shall cast a pair on as socks a nice portable knitting project to have in my bag......I knit everywhere.....festivals, picnics, outings, in the car (only when am passenger, just in case you are now all planning to avoid roads in the East Midlands!), in the garden, when I'm hanging about waiting.....etc, so may as well get them started for popping away in the presents box.
*Turned 2 upstairs radiators down so they are really barely on.....& they won't be on after the end of this week.
*Sort through gifted knitting magazines. Some may be suitable for listing on ebay but I haven't even had a look to see how old or what they are yet, & I may want to keep any with great patterns, I'll see.
OK, must crack on.
DNMS - Hope your little op goes well.
Dawn - Best of luck with yours next week - is that GB coming out? Am only asking as mine is destined to follow at some point, although I seem to have dodged the major surgery I was told I'd need this year, so I supposed that's something!
Love to everyone else......
F x

foxgloves wrote: »

I knit everywhere.....festivals, picnics, outings, in the car (only when am passenger, just in case you are now all planning to avoid roads in the East Midlands!)

:exclamati Glad you clarified that.

Hi fellow frugalers

Thanks to all who made comments about our holidays - we did have a really lovely time and it was worth every penny. Its just quite shocking to spend around £50 on lunch most days when that would normally cover most of my food budget for a whole week! :eek:

In other news my online banking smart key has still not arrived! :mad: its quite annoying as my CC needs paying soon which i cant do without getting on online banking - not to mention £300 sat there with another £300 to come on Friday that I cant transfer - why do they have to make it so hard!

On the MSE front :

:A all meals from stores
:A NSD today
:A warming up here so took a chance and planted some potatoes, beans and peas in my raised beds
:A no heating on again
:A car tax came out but had money in my car pot ready to cover it
:A realised this month I'll get double child benefit so an extra £190 to play with - will cover my dental work and hopefully some for debt jar :T
:A many, many surveys done.
:A cashed out from qmee and curious cat so another £18.50 paid on MBNA - thats £638 total in 9 weeks - proud of that :j:j
:A mum brought round loads of CS stuff she'd bought for the kids in next size up - good stuff too - ted baker and monsoon mostly.
:A found some dried potato caserole i brought back from USA in the back of the cupboard so served that for tea along with rubber chicken

Think thats it - its my long day at work tomorrow so am out and about doing visits - really need to resist the temptation to pop to the shops on the way home!

Morning all :hello: make sure you rest up DNMS you don't want to overdo it.

I'm not feeling up and at it either, whilst I've slept ok the last 2 nights almost a week of not sleeping properly before that has taken its toll. My litttle list today:
Fish out of freezer for tea
Wash to come on later
Shuffled some washing around inside
Loaded DW and put on
Quick shower
Last of last weeks ham in last of beetroot wraps (wondering if I can make my own beetroot wrap.... will investigate later)
Froze last bit of ham for a risotto one night
Hot drink for work
Going to do a presentation today, so not going to Office. Probably a good thing, have plenty of thinking time as it's a decent drive
Saved £265 on DH insurance in the end last night, will pay that to loan later
Check banking and see if credit card has updated. It's very slow to update payments
Message amazon seller as they have finally dispatched something DH ordered about 3 weeks ago and said we received it last week, which we haven't.

Have a good day folks. I think it's going to be dry :T