if you are looking for any relevance in that title you will be looking awhile! I do like them though, filled with cream. I quite like the squirty cream laced with alcohol that you can get nowadays. They are something we buy without fail every Christmas, in the Davies tradition that my parents always bought them too. And continuing the Davies tradition they kick around and almost always end up being the dessert on my birthday (so yes, I will be bringing some to make an exotic dessert based around brandy snaps! 😉 ) but other than that there is no relevance to my title!
A good day / bad day sort of day today, so I’ll do bad day stuff first (day is an anagram of Ady you know and when slightly inebriated I am inclined to move my fingers in the ady direction rather than the day one first!).
Bad stuff – shouted lots again today. I really tried not to but I didn’t manage it. Did offer plenty of cuddles and love too so I guess it was balanced.
Spent £40 at the dentist – however this also falls under the good day stuff so we’ll talk more about that then.
Fell over while carrying Scarlett – hurt my right ankle (quite a lot actually!) and my left knee and Tarly bumped her head. She recovered very quickly and fortunately no one witnessed it except Davies (unlike when I did the same stunt with her when she was 2 days old and it was seen by an entire bus queue!)
Tarly fell asleep at 4.30pm, slept til 8pm ish and is currently still dashing up and down the hallway 🙁
Electric monthly payment has increased from £25 to £67 which is a bit scary!
Good stuff 🙂
Posted the cards for abroad and delivered the local ones with the children this morning.
Made my parents Christmas card and it is charmingly Home Made 😉
Dentist is a new dentist, having left our previous private very pretty waiting room with oak sideboards and classical music cos we can’t afford it anymore we’ve registed with the NHS dentist across the road. We’ve cancelled our medical insurance at £50 a month and today’s bill, which is all there will be for a further six months was under £40 for all four of us – which can’t be bad 🙂
We lifted the midweek alcohol ban what with it being Christmas week and all and so I am very pleasantly merry and at peace with the whole wide world!
“am very pleasantly merry”…
I’m a very pleasant Merry… shall we make a club? 😉
Is the increased leccy payment justified by your consumption? They have a tendency of increasing the payments by more than necessary. check the bills/underpayments etc. if they seem to overchaging you can get them to reduce the payment.
You *found* an nhs dentist who was taking patients?????
we must sort out dentist down here – prob one about 10 miles away likely to take new patients.
much much cheaper – kids go free!
Our leccy bill has just gone up from £35 to £69!!! This includes a £180 debit from last year – I will be changing from Npower after things have settled, we have had our £50 rebate and we find the cheapest after Christmas. Well done on finding an NHS dentist – rare very rare these days. xxx
Merry – OK, shall we have laminated membership cards? 🙂
Re: Electricity – I think we are not with the cheapest supplier and have probably been underpaying slightly for the last year or so. In the new year I’ll shop around and then find out exactly how much the debit is so I can decide whether we can pay them off and start again or not.
Re: Dentist – my Dad found this one and it happens to be literally across the road from us, but when I tried to change our appointment yesterday to one after Christmas they said they have just stopped taking on new patients so unless we went yesterday they couldn’t take us on. Amazed at the cheapness though 🙂
How are the injuries?
We keep finding NHS dentists who lull us into a false sense of security, and then after a year tell us they are going private, so we either need to leave, use denplan, or risk a private bill. It’s bloody annoying. We gave up a year ago, as we just could’nt find an NHS dentist and finally took on denplan, but I resent it. It’s (touch wood), 17 years since I needed any dental treatment at all, and even then it was only a filling, so it was £18 twice a year, and now it’s about that every month. Bob is a bit more, as he’s got a crown, so all in all about £50 a month, with Hannah still free. And it’s still bloody impossible to get an appoinmtent without a three month wait, as the dentist fell out with his partner, and is now on his own. But if you move dentists, it’s another joining fee to denplan, so reluctant to move again.
Helen Kids go free whether it is private or NHS. I think even private dentists claim from the government for children. We don’t have to pay for Emma and we have Denplan.
No, our old dentist used to charge £10 each for the children’s check ups. Or maybe they were really expensive stickers he sold them for being good!?!
Knee not so bad but ankle still very sore 🙁 I have weak ankles which turn really easily and I am often falling over even when not drunk – they are weak due to:
a) too much time spent on high heels in my youth
b) many previous incidents spent falling over when wearing high heels and being drunk
c) having to carry my weight around all day every day which is a massive strain for the poor things even though they have grown with me to a degree!
Our denplan dentist sees kids free. But that’s because he doesn’t treat children privately. If you have private treamtent for kids, then you pay for them. Same as private medical treatment. But if the parents have denplan, then a lot of dentists will treat the children as NHS patients, even if they won’t accept any other NHS work, or take kids whose parents aren’t on denplan. Anyway, I came back here to say I *love* brandy snaps. Can;t remember when I last had them though. I’ll visit in the spring, and we can make them 🙂 I also love rum babas.
Grin.. we can have weak ankle twin-ship too then… though mine stem mainly from not having toes to help them out. I’ve never been able to wear heels, due to toes, so it can’t be that… and SURELY it can’t be my precious extras stones? 😉
I love brandy snaps too, I sincerely hope you stick to that birthday plan 😉
I hate brandy snaps, they’re banned from the house. So there.
We decided to go private this year – so nice having your teeth looked at in a building that isn’t falling down – not on denplan though, it sounds like a horrendous amount to pay Joyce. They do kids free.
Fine, we’ll have contraband brandy snaps out of the back of the car then! 🙂
I’ll join in the contraband. I have a late pass.
It is an awful price, isn’t it? I felt quite relieved when Bob brake his crown on holiday this summer. Denplan paid 100 quid to a dentist in brighton to do a running repair, and then another 400 for the new one when we got home, so I felt at least we’d had the benefit this year. I don’t think he will go for Hannah smacking him in the mouth with a raquet ever year though just to make me feel better.