creme holiday sounds fab, whether it's good value or not I can't tell with not knowing the cost of hols from uk. Crete is amazing, I spent an entire summer there when I was in college and had an amazing time, worked hard and played hard 
cag I looked in the window of Rainforest Cafe when I was holidays in January and the prices of the cuddly toys made my eyes water, we didn't even bother stepping inside the door.
don't I know you've no income but please do not rush back into work if you're not fit for it, you don't want to set your progress back. I definitely returned too quickly to my evening job after ds and ended up taking a load of time off from it as a result
Best of luck coming off the fags, do you smoke a lot? dh gave us 40 a day habit 10 years ago with nicorette for first couple of weeks, I gave up my miserable couple of fags per day about a fortnight before we got together.
Great idea to work out how many shifts will help you meet your savings goals. Hope we don't have to apologise for long posts, I regularly post long posts I figure people can read them, skim read them, or skip right past depending on their time and interest levels 
wreck that's hilarious about your ds and it not having anything to do with you because you weren't there, my dh thinks it's funny when ds does it when I'm out with him but doesn't find it so funny when it happens to himself. He compared ds weeing on him while he was carrying him wetting his tshirt and us going straight back to the car to ds weeing on me when he was sitting on my lap on the ferry home and me having to sit for 2 hours with wet shorts unable to move in because I'd a huge wet patch 
Welcome to biscuit your friends tom and danny da say hello, they are escape artists and are regularly spotted racing past our back door 
We had an extremely busy weekend.
Sat 10am mass followed by two birthday parties and a day out yesterday at a fairy festival. Very pleased with our frugalness yesterday dd was offered a treat as a reward for doing well all year in school, she chose to have a picnic on our day out! Entry was €17 for 2 adults & 3 children, 3 children got glitter tattoos €12, we planned on getting chips/ice cream for the way home but both vans were closed up when we were leaving so I cooked the two pizzas I got for free last week and chips for dinner and we'd ice cream at home to follow
Welcome noodle myself, tayto and creme are Irish but creme lives in UK. Check out My Money and Me on RTE player if you get a chance it's a good series, there are 3 episodes still available to view it gives good ideas. Noodle I'm south west too
bab hugs for your poor ddog and 
for you
tayto I love the idea of meeting a friend for breakfast once a month as a treat, my friend who lives in Dublin and I sometimes meet up and do that when she's down visiting, once the older people were starting to come in for their dinner at 12.30pm and we were still lounging around 
I bought a few craft bits in aldi for dd & ds to be entertained with during the summer
My wet cold feet yesterday and your pic match perfectly tayto