As threatened here I am again 🙂 Finished my cvs and emailed them across, so that’s my internet supply paid for the month in an hours work 🙂 (tip from one of the frugal sites is to work out how many hours work it takes to pay for stuff and then decide if it’s worth …
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A different life…
It’s a beautiful winters morning here again today. It’s been a really cold and frosty night so everything is twinkling in the sunshine as it melts, the sky is deep blue, the remaining leaves on the trees and bushes are beautiful burgandy, burnt orange and red hues, glossy red berries have sprung up on the …
If you can use some exotic booze..
Did some productive financial stuff this morning, feeling quite smug about my ability to live far more frugally than I’d ever imagine possible with no real feelings of hardship so far. Which could of course serve to make me feel shamed by living otherwise previously, but hey, we enjoyed it while we had it! 😉 …
What would you do if I sang out of tune…
In summary a rather good day although it was not without it’s moments. First thing was TT for Tarly who was in some sort of minx mania mood and refused to sit when she was supposed to, take turns or go where she should be. When she did as she was told she was excellent …
Oh the autonomy of it all!!
Nice day today with plenty of child led learning happening hither and thither. Due to a communication issue (i.e text messages which stacked up and then all came through at once despite being sent about 2 hours apart – why we didn’t just ring each other I don’t know!) we spent most of the morning …
Today…
Sort out life insurance to get cheaper price; Get wet washing in off the line and drape around the house; Find TT T shirt for Tarly for tomorrow (is it clean, is it dry, is it still screwed up in the bottom of the TT bag like it was last week necessitating a quick squirt …
Full time :-)
Alls well that ends well then really. After my decluttering frenzy this morning I managed to go and finish what I had started after lunch, threw all the broken shoe boxes that were doing a very sorry job of containing my many pairs of shoes away in the recycling, put a bin liner full of …
Lunch Break :-)
Going pretty well so far today 🙂 Davies has spent all morning on the pc – he played Cat in the Hat again, then loads more on the Nick Jr site and then finally he asked for Zoombinis. Earlier this year he drove me to the brink of insanity with that game as he wanted …
Just had an excellent evening 🙂 Went to see Michael Buble in concert in Brighton. Another of the tickets bought in a concert ticket buying frenzy back in the summer and without great thought really. I first heard him singing ‘Fever’ which is a song I love anyway when I got in Ady’s car one …
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…
Is what we’ve got going on here just now 🙂 and very nice they are too! This morning we watched some of the coverage of Remembrance Day on tv with Davies and chatted about the wars and various references to them he had already got. We talked about evacuation a bit, he knew more about …
Splendid Saturday…
A very photo-y blog today 🙂 My turn to get up with small people this morning so my day started shortly after 6am – which is not such a killer really but my body just totally resists getting out of bed while it’s still dark. 🙁 I was somehow in a cheery mood just the …
Heather said I should!
So here it is 🙂 With full credit to Chris P 🙂
I’m back. To let you know that I can really shake ’em down….
Yep, got my baby back 🙂 Long story and I may well be without it again at a future point but today I drove through the wind and the rain to collect my lovely laptop rather than wait for them to come deliver it on Monday morning. I simply couldn’t face a whole weekend without …
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Look for the bare necessities
Just been watching Jungle Book and listening to Baloo’s song about Bare Necessities (although I suspect it’s probably called Bear Necessities I can’t be bothered to check!) which resonated a fair bit with me. All about finding what makes you happy and enjoying it, not searching for stuff which you can’t find and therefore not …
And better late than never!
Happy Birthday Claudia 🙂 Hope you’re having a wonderful day darling, lots of love from us (and some for your Mummy and Daddy too!) xxx
Brief Catch up…
So you know that I haven’t been repossessed and the children posted up on ebay more than because I’ve got anything much to say. Loads of stuff going on in cyberworld at the moment, none of which I am going to get involved in. Aside from not being emailable I am no mail on all …
It never rains…
Will blog properly tomorrow but for information, due to a mishap with the laptop I don’t have email access atm. I can access my blog and probably will do again in the morning but any emails sent to me after about midday won’t be read until the laptop is back up and running -hopefully by …
Didn’t know what I wanted to be…
I seem to be doing a big old life shake up at the moment. Brought on by the whole finances thing I have decided that a policy of honesty and doing what is right for me, Ady and the children is my top priority. Not sure it’s ever been anything different really but I have …
The weekend
Which was kind of nothing like the last one. On account of not having any parties or houseguests and only the two of us for Ady to produce a roast dinner for tonight! We’ve spent both days at my parents house as Mum was off yesterday and so was Frazer. So we’ve been fed lovely …