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 same and the children and I were dancing round the house singing Jungle Book songs from first thing! Lots of cuddling up on the sofa and watching TV until Ady got up.
Before we left home Davies pretty much got the hang of skipping in a brief ten minutes in the garden 🙂
An ill fated trip into town followed with me trying (and failing) to open a new bank account without making an appointment first (WTF? I must have had bank accounts with all the main banks in my time and you always used to be welcomed with open arms and have a chair pulled out for you to sit in straight away if you’d come to open an account – today I spoke to spotty 16 year olds straight out of school who were saying they ‘could fit me in’ at 3pm!) left in disgust and will try and sort it via the trusty old internet instead!
Headed over to Chris and Julie’s where we sat and ate our picnic lunch of white bread sandwiches, crisps and chocolate biscuits while they enjoyed a home made soup! Oh the contrasts! It’s been a lovely day today, really mild and sunny so the kids all played round and about and inside and out while we sat and chatted and drank tea. Then at about 2pm we headed off to some woods to look for chestnuts.
It was lovely, if a bit muddy and we all came back with pockets full of chestnuts which we plan to roast tomorrow on the fire. The children loved it, the whole ‘treasure hunt’ appeal of searching for something and the running about in mud and fallen leaves. Really nice 🙂
Loads of pics on flickr but here are a couple of favourites:
Ady and the children came home and I nipped to Tescos for yet another in my new lifestyle of frugal food shoppin experiences! Tonight’s dinner has the beauty of being both frugal and delicious as it is pheasant caught by one of of Ady’s work colleagues and given to us for free, beautifully cooked in red wine and shallots. I love pheasant, one of my favourite foods 🙂
Tomorrow we are off to see Michael Buble in concert, one of the many things purchased back when we pretended we had money and still to be enjoyed (also have tickets to see Shakin Stevens (me and Davies are going!) and Little Britain all bought before the axe finally fell!) so unlikely to be around much as we have plans to drag out the Christmas decorations and maybe get the photo taken for this years Christmas cards of the children if they are in obliging moods.
Is Tesco’s a “frugal” shopping experience then? When it opened up here a couple of years ago we thought we’d made it!
Stews/casseroles have to be the epitome of frugal comfort food 🙂 (after tinned peach crumble!)
Decorations….as in putting up? WTF!!!!
well no Chris, just getting them in from the leaky garage..
but it won’t be long before they’re up though…. everybody ‘It’s the most wonderful time of the year’ ding dong!
There’s a house just by the garage that has Christmas lights all over the outside of it already. I guess they’d call them Winter decorations or something, then they could get away with it …?
we have village lights attached to our house. chris still to buy the xmas tree
Or village lights are already going up (ahve been for coupl of weeks), but it is volutarey thing so th chaps that go round puttign them up seem to moslty do it at weekends . They put soem round the front of our house last weekend,and once we have got a tree to go over the front door (there is a little flat roof) they put som eon there as well apparently. Don’t get turned on until December though.
Tonight’s veg/bean chilli was another good frugal comfort food 🙂 Nic, get yourself down to Lidl and be done with it 😉
My frugal comfort food is lentil soup so think you can stand your spoon in it, with meally pudding on the side. Or stovies. Yum yum