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October continuing into Novemeber frugaleers part trois

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Lovetoknit · 21/10/2015 12:46

Hope it's okay to start the new thread since the other one is already full
£1 at Cornwall Ambulance shop for 3 books for dc after I dropped off my old slow cooker and some books and £1 at Prospect hospice for some wool and fabric
Just made cauliflower cheese with some bacon and cavolo nero for dh who had it for lunch and there is enough for his dinner too, the rest of us are having homemade burgers, buns and wedges

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NK5BM3 · 26/10/2015 20:22

House of Lords have defeated the bill!

CremeEggThief · 26/10/2015 20:28

Really NK? That's fantastic! Wow, off to find out more.Halloween Smile

£42 for next block of Pilates lessons and £1.70 bus fare home.

Pointlessfan · 26/10/2015 20:28

Me too collie this is a lovely thread. Hope you enjoy your guests.
Very impressed with your organization and effort lachatte!
Been meal planning and writing shopping list. Going to be making lots of soup as we are all really into it at the moment, especially DD.
How was your autumn arboretum outing babs? Hope you enjoyed it. We had a lovely day but DD was too excited about running around in the leaves to eat much of her lunch. She's had a big dinner but I reckon I'm going to be up early with a hungry girl in the morning!

SpottyTeacakes · 26/10/2015 20:31

LaChatte that's amazing. I'm in bed Blush I've still got a cough/cold and I sense a second night of ds being up with his. I have to leave for work, with both dc in tow, at 6 tomorrow morning.

babsmam · 26/10/2015 20:34

The arboretum was lovely. Lots of leaf kicking here. Ours does a great Halloween trail too and has birds of prey. Dc are shattered.

Chat away frugaleers

ipsos · 26/10/2015 20:36

Sorry to hear about that spotty. I hope the cold goes away quickly.

Brilliant news NK5 about the Lords defeating the bill to remove tax credits. Nice to know they can be properly useful in an emergency. Smile

NK5BM3 · 26/10/2015 20:40

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34631156

Here you go. It's at least delayed it somewhat...

needastrongone · 26/10/2015 20:43

Initial indications from number 10 suggests they are not going to take the defeat lightly....

ipsos · 26/10/2015 20:44

I just looked and it actually says they've been delayed, so now it goes back to the government so they can have another think.

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 26/10/2015 20:59

Delayed with potential support for a labour plan to provide transitional support for at least 3 years. Thank God for that. Could have been better but also a lot worse.

Fairly low spend day.
£3.30 for swimming
£6 in laundrette
£2.58 in Tesco

Expecting an extra £500ish in overtime tomorrow which will be good and I've done 6 more hours OT this month than I thought I had which will help.

ipsos · 26/10/2015 21:00

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needastrongone · 26/10/2015 21:04

Osbourne is talking about this being 'unconstitutional' and appears a bit pissed off!!

£500 overtime is not to be sniffed at rafa, a good amount of hours you must have worked there.

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 26/10/2015 21:18

A stupid amount of hours. I may have spent the first few days of my annual leave the other week just lying on the sofa doing nothing. Doesn't seem to have caused a huge issue with my health which is good.

Big doom and gloom meeting about budget cuts and not replacing leaving staff isn't making me hopeful about my request for a permanent increase in hours though.

Fluffycloudland77 · 26/10/2015 21:28

Free pumpkin on topcashback, up to £3 worth so you can get several.

ipsos · 26/10/2015 21:56

need I don't think "Unconstitutional" is that important compared to poor people suddenly not being able to feed their kids. He can pissed off as much as he likes, as far as I'm concerned.

Fluffy I'm super-frugal on pumpkins this year as I grew three in the garden and didn't even water them beyond seedling stage. Yay!

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 26/10/2015 22:12

There's a sort of satisfaction that comes from imagining how pissed off Cameron and Osbourne are right now. I know it'll end up going through in some form anyway but just for tonight there's a huge smile on my face.

CremeEggThief · 26/10/2015 22:19

Osborne looked mightily annoyed on the clip on tonight's BBC 1 news.Halloween Grin

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 26/10/2015 22:29

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34643741

He's hammering home the elected/unelected thing. I don't think he's got another argument. He's forgotten that Cameron said he wouldn't cut tax credits before the election so they can't really claim the moral high ground that they were elected by the people to do this.

ipsos · 26/10/2015 22:46

Lord Lawson, the Conservative Chancellor from back in Maggies' day, stood up and said that the policy needs not just to be thought about, but to be changed. This vote was partly a knock back by Conservative Lords, and Osborne's probably smarting a whole lot from that.

I don't think the government was voted in because the electorate wanted him to bash poor working families anyway (which is what he's saying). I think a lot of them just didn't want Labour in an SNP armlock. I think he could really drop the tax credits. Labour have even promised not to take the mickey if he does.

ipsos · 26/10/2015 22:50

We should start a petition on the parliament site saying:

"We promise not to take the mickey if you drop the tax credit cuts policy. We'll all just forget you ever mentioned it, honest. "

That would be fun.

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 26/10/2015 23:25

Osbourne has to be the only person who didn't see this coming. It's like he's just realised that everyone else thinks this is a bad idea. He'd have had a lot less egg on his face if he'd made a quieter U-turn weeks ago.

I'll sign that petition, but next week. A bit of mickey taking and 'Have I got news for you' need to happen first

Pointlessfan · 27/10/2015 06:47

Good for the House of Lords! Looking forward to HIGNFY this week Grin
Off to Asds this morning with a huge shopping list although a lot of it is veg so it might not be as bad as I'm expecting cost-wise.
Yesterday I noticed that petrol at the motorway services is 10p a litre more than at our local stations - pleased I didn't need to buy any!

Collieputthekettleon · 27/10/2015 06:56

Yep spotty I did read it Grin

Spendy day here. £30 at Sainsbury's on stuff that'll fit. Hopefully! Budgeted for & being funded by my eBay sales.

Unescorted · 27/10/2015 06:58

Morning.

I am confused about the role of the HoL - what are they supposed to do for their ?300 per day turn up fee, if they can't moderate what the Commons puts through.

I am on holiday - although trying to get organised for a bike race in Fort William at the weekend. It is the boy & dh riding not me. I am pit bitch - 24 hours of feeding them and making sure the bike is in one piece. So much fun....not.

Today's cooking - cake, energy bars, cake, cake and energy bars.

northender · 27/10/2015 07:36

Checking in from holiday again as I seem not to be sleeping well, the dc are still asleep & I'm wide awakeAngry. So yesterday was good, a walk which all 18 of us did, picnic lunch & the only spend was on a drink at the pub part way round. Today is Alton Towers so spendier but will take food& drink.

Agree it was great to see GO so pissed off about the tax credits vote. It'll be interesting to see what happens next.

Had a pretty standard reply from Tesco so far, will keep you posted.

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