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[babsmam]

I took the liberty as we were nearly at the end of the last one.

@ the pony again. He does cheer me up!

Hi all, sounds like you have all had nice wends poor me has been working all of it - boo!

Dd has had a lovely time with her nan and is completely knackered now, I am pretty tired as well as the rain kept me awake last night! It has been beautiful here today though, feels like summer has started!

I think I have managed a NSD Saturday and LSD today - put the car through the car wash for £5.

I loved the famous 5 as a child and was hoping dd was going to enjoy them but no she finds them a bit scary

Cag not sure on dates or where you are staying but welcome to leave luggage at mine if it helps assuming I am not at work :)

That's a lovely thing to have all those CDs for your dd need. Ds and I have started listing to my old cassette tapes now, and he is enjoying them. I have this series:
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He puts years on my life Creme.

He also wiped his face on MY FACE this afternoon when I put him in the field, just after he had eaten all his sloppy tea, so I was covered in pony chaff and slobber. DD was rolling around laughing, I was not......

£13.48 in Aldi for lunch stuff for next week. Also included a pack of 4 cider for £2.79. DP needed to change his car insurance and add work insurance so did a search and found somewhere cheaper. His DD is now £11 PCM cheaper so £132 saved over the year. My deal is nearly up with EON. My dual fuel tariff is already crazily low at £35pcm but I've found a company (not one of the big 6) who is quoting £27pcm Going to ring up tomorrow and find out more.

I really want my two to enjoy Tintin but they didn't take to it when I showed them. Will try again though as it was a while ago!

I've not heard of that, Ipsosgenix, they look interesting. I miss the DC's being that young sometimes. If I looked in the box, there would be tons of stuff that I had forgotten, she loved a series of books about a girl whose parents were vets, I can't remember the name of that series.

She used to come out with random facts about Shakespeare or Newton or Elizabeth the First, due to Horrible Histories when she was about 6

I can see why EBs would be scary sometimes! Nasty men running about with revolvers!

I'm writing a children's book that is very much in the EB style except mine's politically correct - was inspired by the editing work. DD is doing similar bless her! When I was about 10, I met her daughter (EB had lived locally and there were events celebrating her centenary). I told her about the story I'd been writing. She gave my parents her address so I could send her my story, and then sent back a letter with lots of lovely comments. Fond memory :)

My DCs like audio books. Thankfully they don't use them to go to sleep anymore (I only say thankfully because they got really dependent on them and went through a phase of barely sleeping because of it!) but they still quote them, especially Charlie (I got a set of most Roald Dahls from the Book People). My favourite as a child was Stig of the Dump! :o

Oh east you are a sweetie :o

need dd does that! On Victorian day last week she said 'it's a good job it's not Viking day or we would have to wash our hair in our own wee'

I didn't even realise that horrible histories were on tape! We have a lot of the books (mostly accumulated while I was volunteering in a charity shop :o) but they don't really read them yet. I loved HH as a child although can't help feeling slightly different towards Terry Deary since he ranted about libraries a couple of years back. All of us at work used to scowl at the huge shelving unit which housed his books! :o

Hmmi always forget about audibooks. May need to investigate. Anything to get my two off gadgets and doing stuff. I can't stand the im bored/ I don't know what to do when I take them away. There's a room full of toys fgs.

Hi all.

Been a spendy week again. Friday £12 lunch with 2 colleagues, one has just returned from maternity leave. Ordered a replacement suitcase for DD(returned her new one as a zip broke). Paid £40 less 10%, so £36. Got a frill refund. When ordered online, I discovered my 20% off voucher had expired , the online price was £35 and I found a 20% off code online.click and collect to avoid paying delivery charge.

Saturday £111 in Aldi, that did the bulk of our shop. Then £82 in Tesco, but included £20 for a new paddling pool. 50p parking. Iceland £10 for 2 packs of sausages, burgers and meatballs. Got a free pack if Muller yogurts.

Today £65 on 4 pairs of shorts for DS from Gap. Got 25% off, should have got free delivery, but it didn't have a code or get deducted, so I have emailed them.

DD can be like that sometimes. DS will happily play on his own but DD is like ENTERTAIN ME OR I'LL CRY :o

Babsmam it's the same here. Lots of toys but always wants to go on his tablet or watch TV.

I may investigate the audio cds. My son loves Roald Dahl! He used to love reading. He still does however he seems to find his school books very boring and a chore. It's quite sad because you always used to find him reading a book.

Well done Tutan you can leave a tariff 49 days before its up with no penalties.

creme Flipping heck I wouldn't want to look at that either.

£6 Tesco.

Mine all love audio books, we also have the Roald Dahl ones. Got DD1 David Walliams ones for Christmas and found them unopened the other day . We'll take them when we drive to the Netherlands for half term.

I can't clear my credit card bill this month, which I don't like. I overpaid tax last year (due to changing my car in February). HMRC sent me 2 new tax codes in March, the final one higher than the one that was used, but now they think I have underpaid tax so have whacked this "underpayment" off my tax code. Hopefully they'll repay last year's over payment (I think about £100-£150) and sort out this year's code to give me my extra money back for having a new efficient car.

I also uddenly realised that I had still not bought DD1's first communion photos from last May. £85 for all th pictures on a memory card.

I was also a huge Roald Dahl fan, read every single one of them several times over. And Charlie & the chocolate factory was my first book to film disappointment

It's much worse in RL AND he doesn't even live there, Fluffy. Apparently he bought the house cheap at auction, found out it was full of woodworm and has been slowly working on it ever since. I've been here nearly 11 months and I'm not being mean, he seems to have made zero progress in all this time! The other day, he was actually sitting out there, relaxing, with a can of beer and looking straight at me, when I was washing up, so I had to pull the blind down for some privacy. He also seems fond of bonfires that he leaves smouldering all day. A couple of weeks ago, he bought this ancient caravan and then went round the whole street and the parallel street, asking us all to take our washing in, because he wanted to burn the insides of the caravan; he only wanted the trailer part of it. Then, he didn't even make a bonfire until the next day. Honestly, I've run out of patience with him now and I've a good mind to report him next time he starts a fire!

Gosh, sorry everyone, that was a bit of a rant!

No worries crème , he sounds like a charmer.

Makes you wonder where they get the cash from to buy a house like that then leave it empty. There's an owned derelict house by mil, the council cleared it but it cost £30k. The owners just walked away from it. She lives locally.

Our neighbours had their first BBQ of the season today, last years rancid fat burnt off a gas grill which makes you heave. So we fired up the chimney fire starter which sent masses of smoke their way while it burned. It was a spite bbq.

Checkmate.

Housing in this area goes for as little as £20,000, at auctions, Fluffy. at spite BBQ. Shame I don't like fire, so it wouldn't even enter my head to have a bonfire in revenge. My 2m screening will have to do!

Speaking of fire, I've gotten sick of everyone throwing rubbish into sitting room grate so I cleared it out today & have my lovely outdoor lantern inside now.

I spent two hours flying through the cleaning today to see what is reasonable to assume cleaner will get done in two hours. Delighted to find that everything I want to get done is possible in the two hour time frame.

Got lots of clothes washed, dried, folded & put away too

Spent €2 on 4 pack of fruit shoots for our picnic today, seems to be becoming a weekly thing.