I can't think of a witty title, so here is July's Frugaleer Thread! All welcome.

[Cagliostro]

Hello :)

Well done Trying! :) You will have to change your name to Succeededinsavingup

Hmm, actually I will not have to spend £4 a week on basketball as DD is now really stressing out. Turns out she LOVED the sport aspect (which actually surprised me). But the lesson was far too noisy :( due to there being lots of basketballs used at once, echoing everywhere etc. Poor kiddo. She definitely has the sensory processing issues that go along with autism. :(

Thanks trying will check that out, depends on if interest is calculated daily or on the balance on a particular date.

sierra spag bol here too

Le yum

£36 in sainsburys

€200 on car tax today, budgeted & saved

Dhs wifi radio arrived!!! But we can't set it up. I think I need to get all techy and hard reset my router to reset the username and password. If I do this will I it work? As in will the username and password reset? Anyone know?

No idea but interested to hear how you get on em

I'll try it tomorrow. If you don't hear from me for a while...it's because I broke the Internet.

Bon chance Em :o ne breakez pas l'internet. :)

Also need to buy a desk fan tomorrow. Bizarrely we've never actually had one! But DD is struggling to sleep in the heat. Also wondering if it will be a good source of white noise (she's been using ocean waves for the last week or so via youtube on the laptop). I'm guessing Wilkos would once again be a safe bet? Needs to be fairly small though as we barely have space.

Work today. Air con in reception but I'm upstairs in the call centre. Will be hot. Hoping for nsd am about to hang my washing out.

Yes cag wilkos.
It will be hot in my office too.

I've never been so happy to have air con in the office. It's going to hit 34 degrees here today. That's about my limit. I may melt. Wondering how many will actually be in today. There were a few moaning yesterday "should have taken the week off"" can't we go home?!""I wish I was outside""I might not come in tomorrow..." Sigh.

If I'm left without a team I'll cry. won't actually cry but I'll be pretty disappointed

It won't be nsd today. I have to buy a bottle of water and will probably send out for cold cold drinks. And ice lollies.

£54 on food shop which is ok but then spent £10 on a summer dress as I don't have much to wear in this weather!

It won't be quite that hot here Em but they're predicting 27 or 28 degrees which is very hot for Ireland. Met Eireann have actually issued a weather warning - normally they issue weather warnings for bad weather. I don't plan to sit out in it but I'll be in and out hanging out clothes and that will probably be about as much as I can handle. I'm not complaining though because it's glorious. I might go for a walk this evening when it cools down a bit.

DD is off to a friend's house for a playdate so I've warned her about applying suncream every two hours as she's so fair. Also to wear her cap and sunglasses at all times. I'll ask her friend's mam to remind her.

Should be a NSD unless you count €3 for cubs.

Italian have fun with your DH's family.

A pity the basketball isn't working out Cagli especially when your DD was enjoying it as a sport.

Cag I often forget to write it down too, though I'm trying harder now as I've realised that it is predictive of everything else that is going on with me. You can get ovulation test strips from amazon if that's any help:

www.amazon.co.uk/One-Highly-Sensitive-Ovulation-Fertility/dp/B006J6MO12/ref=sr_1_8_s_it?s=drugstore&ie=UTF8&qid=1468921714&sr=1-8&keywords=Fertility+Strip

Your gardening sounds great Trying. We have huge problems with invasive weeds here so I'm avoiding imported soil. I can make compost very fast though, so I may go that way. It's so hot and fertile here that I've even had raspberries run riot. It's very strange after moving from the west of Scotland where most plants are quite well behaved.

Where are you Ipso?
I also make compost. My wooden compost bins were a house warming present from some friends, who even came and put them together. One side is full now and I have manure in the other side. So now I am stuck for where to put the compostible waste.

Cheers Ipsos I will check that out in case it happens again.

Off to take DD to writing class, first time I've left the house since... Erm. Possibly since last Tuesday actually (don't worry the DCs have been out with DH/friends!).

Will get the fan on the way back and I expect I will get something easy for the DCs' dinner because I am knackered. I reeeeally don't wanna be a grown up today!

It's currently 32 degrees here. Feel sorry for the dc at school it's so hot in their classrooms. Luckily they each have a garden with a canopy

33 degrees here. Too hot to do anything.
They close schools when there is snow or fog. They should close them when it's this hot. It must be too hot in many classrooms.
Sorry to any parents that would be affected.

Trying I'm in East Anglia, inland, so quite continental weather and we have very deep topsoil in our garden as I think it was previously farming land.

It's boiling hot here too Wreck. I feel quite cooked. I see we're due some thunderstorms though, so that should break the heatwave with a bit of fun to be had too.

Do any of you give thank you cards and presents to teachers at this time of year? Ds was very keen last year but I think he may be a big boy now and too cool to write a thank you card. I thought I would just send it from me instead.

It is just waaay too hot. Got a little mini fan for a tenner. Hopefully that will be sufficient. Got a few drinks/snacks in Wilkos as well. Managed to resist getting an easy dinner (mostly because the thought of walking along to the supermarket filled me with dread). I'm going to do microwave rice with a little tuna and microwaved veggies. DD loved it last time so she's happy. Have to actually go and make it. It really doesn't feel like half six!

Oh and I did have a cheeky spend on Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/4-Pack-Callippo-Silicone-Moulds-Calipo/dp/B008U9R3XU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468949134&sr=8-1&keywords=calippo+moulds at that price I figured it's worth a shot.

No storms forecast here. I'm not doing a present as dd has the same teacher I'll get her to do a card though.

This was dinner

If I have to listen to one more person at work moan about how bloody hot it is and that they wish they had booked the day off someone is going to get stabbed.

I get it. It's hot. You don't want to be in work. None of us do. Suck it up and get on with it.

It hit 35.7 degrees here today. And the whiners were right. It's bloody hot.

Dh is complaining. Because I got my nails done after work meaning I met him later than usual. And he only left work at 6. So couldn't go to the beach. not my fault

I'm now trying to sort shopping lists (because we have to go to the shop later on) dinner washing and some admin things. And he wants to go to the beach.

I've told him to go on his own.

Spends £35 nails. £7 on ice lollies and cold drinks for the miserys at work. Ungrateful fuckers.

Ooh that looks nice Wreck!
I got through the rest of the day without spending any more money. Taking it easy in the heat and trying to keep out of the sun as I am extremely fair and will burn in minutes in this weather!