Gosh these weekends go quickly !
I have had a very productive few days, in fact I have barely stopped but feel like I have made progress in a few areas.
We have had some rather alarming cracks appear in the wall of our house, that have caused me to worry a lot ( I have gold medals in worrying and this was keeping me awake at night).I had rather hoped Mr Mee would sort this out but unfortunately he is not one of life's problem solvers and I decided on Friday that I needed to get a grip and sort it out. I rang our builder, who happened to be between jobs.....he came within an hour, looked at it and said there was nothing to worry about. Just caused by the extremely dry weather and he got his "lad" to repoint it..........just like that

. I was expecting him to charge me a couple of hundred quid but he wouldn't take any money and just said to get him a crate of beer

Hopefully that will sort it out and I am feeling very relieved.
I was up and out early on Saturday morning with DD, and called to Lidl to pick up their weekend deals (washing tablets, grated cheese and kitchen roll ) It was perfect timing as we were on our last box of washing tablets. We then called to @sda to buy wine (6 bottles 25% off). We have been running down our stock of wine for ages now ( Mr Mee used to be in a wine club and bought more than we could drink) and we finally got to the end of it ( it has been tough people

) Anyway I opened our last bottle of red on Friday

so time to stock up again. I will charge this to our entertainment budget I think, rather than to groceries.
I then went shopping with DD and ended up being £25.00 better off

( a dress she returned that I had paid for on my card).
We were back home for 10.45 and I cleaned all the bathrooms before visiting the outlaws.
We did end up ordering a Chinese takeaway on Saturday night (£13.00) but we find the portions too large and I froze the leftovers for another night.
It was grocery shopping yesterday and I was really pleased that our spend was well within budget despite not shopping for two weeks. Once again I found that the second week of a two week shop was quite illuminating. I realised

that vegetarian sandwich filling (eggs and salad) are cheaper than cooked meat.
The blackberry compote was luvvery on the overnight oats, so need to get picking some more...free fruit what is not to like.
I also used up some half price meat balls, made a tomato sauce and used 20p value spaghetti. This was delicious and reminded me that spaghetti is a much cheaper than shaped pasta.
Yesterday afternoon I started to tackle DS's room and now have 5 bin bags of stuff to take to the charity shop and one bag full of rubbish. I now need to get him to come and pick up what is left.
I discovered the base of his bed is broken (I am not going to ask

), so after a bit of research I have ordered another from JL. A bargain £70 for a white metal bedframe which has great reviews, so hopefully it will be good for the money. I also bought two birthday gifts from JL and used my free £10 ICE voucher
I think that is all...I am working from home today so better go and get myself logged on