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I’ve been day drinking with dsis. I am so tipsy drunk.

Fell over when I came back home. Dh was not impressed. Scraped all my toes. Oops. Bottle and half of wine to myself. Oopsy.

Lovely camping pics Howl, I hope you are ok in this weather, it has been biblical here today!

Pay day tomorrow and I still have £300 left in my account. That's especially good as it's the summer holidays. I have put it in my ISA for safe keeping.

Ah nice work peeps.

Great for looking though sing. Well done frugal dh.

Still meh today and too much chocco eaten. Oven element just gone too. Pizza maybe be rescueable or may be takeaway

Love lavender, it's so calming.

Need to buy new shower head and food. Cba with either. Need to change meal plan of no oven

Thanks to you all for being so lovely as well, it does help. I hope going back to school will be good for dd, if nothing else I think she will be hungrier as will be up earlier and doing more.

I'm signed off until the 11th of September 😕 at least that gives me time to just think about dd and get her settled back into school.

Spent £50 in Aldi today, now I'm 'feeding' dd I have bought lots of stuff I think she might like as well as stuff to add calories to meals! We had our veggie chicken pie tonight and the white sauce had double cream, cheese, roulade and a ton of butter in it 😬 was bloody delicious and dd did eat most of her portion 😊

I've also been baking and made carrot cake muffins and banana bread.

Em love a bit of day drinking, make sure you drink a pint of water before bed though 😉

Mrs a long bath sounded just what the dr ordered after that day!!

That pie sounds amazing Girlie! Pleased dd ate it too. Also pleased you have been signed off, like you say it gives you a bit of time to get back into the school routine and so on.

Mm that pie sounds lush.
Bloody pouring down today

Saved myself £££ by getting a new shower head form Sainsbury's for £10 fingers crossed it works.

Good valuation of the house. Another today and a few viewings lined up

Pie sounds amazing Girlie

Pay day, paid myself first. Still on old pay!

Have cleared the majority of what I spent on the credit card on blinds and furniture, doors etc in the last month. When I've bought school shoes today, which I always do on the credit card, I'll clear the last bit. No interest paid! I did have to take half of the money out of the isa but that's what it's there for

Today we need school shoes ££ rugby boots and two pairs of trainers £££

I think we are done for back to school/back to sports then. I've got stationary and notepads stashed that I've bought on sale over the last month and I've got masks on order!

FFS wolf that's shit you were promoted before me! But yeah pay day.

11 bags dropped at charity shop. Wahooo.

Also reported a car to the police. Weaving all over the place driving in front of me. Terrifying.

Big hugs girlie, but at least having the sick note takes off the work pressure now.

🤬 at the lack of pay being sorted wolf

Pay day here too! Childminder bill to pay (including a whole day of care next week x2) so a big one. Must also settle hairdresser and photographer final invoices.

Been into town. £2.50 card factory, £15 McDonald’s. £60 Primark.
£115 Sainsbury’s But got six bottles of on offer champagne plus the 25% off 6 bottles offer so pleased with that. That’s post ceremony drinks now sorted. Just juice to buy for the kids nearer the time.

Ha ha love our wedding champagne was on offer from sainies too. We cleared the shelves in three big branches and were drinking it for the next 3 years

I’ve just made the Anzac cookies again and I think my (overloaded) spoon is rather bigger than Unescorted’s granny’s. They’re very bendy - too much golden syrup I think. We’ll just eat them quickly (they taste five!) so I can try again with the adjusted syrup spoon. In the interests of research, you understand.

I was up till 4am working (deadline, not working today and needed someone to review it this morning anyway) so am a bit shattered. I am also completely full of cold. Totally bunged up, sore throat, yuk. No temperature though, phew, and DS is the same. We don’t have to isolate as we don’t have coughs /temperatures but we’ve cancelled our plan to stay with friends on Sunday /Monday as I don’t want to even give them a cold. So it’ll be a quiet BH at home.

We’ve got people coming over for the next 3 weekends - friends and staggered family for DS’s birthday. I feel knackered just thinking about it. At least I can tidy up a bit this weekend. I need to sort out a cleaner again now the kids are going back to school. Before I divorce DH.

It’s a big day here though - THE STAIR GATES ARE COMING OFF!

I think FIL has emptied Sainsbury’s for the rest of the booze sea . I think he’s ensuring that we wouldn’t run out of wine for six weeks DP and I are not big drinkers, my parents don’t, but the older members of DPs family are!

Just ordered more weddingy face masks plus a few spares for guests, a cake knife set and some favour boxes.

We think we’re going to have to wear masks to sign the register. The rest of the time bride and groom seem to be exempt, but probably not everyone else. We’ll certainly have an interesting photo album! 😷 👰 🤵 But, we’ll have something else to remember 2020 for.

Yay to removing the stair gates!

Yay to stair gates coming off

Yay to us not needing new school shoes. Seems feet are the only bits of ds not impacted by puberty! He asked for new PE trainers though, so whilst I'm convinced that they still fit I know what it's like to be bullied for bit having the right stuff, so I've ordered him some new ones.

Went for a walk in the rain with dparents.

More decorating prep done now I've taken bookshelves off final wall, filling, sealing bubbly paint/plaster, caulking etc. Df unhelpfully told me I only need one good coat of gloss over undercoat. I could have been finished much faster if I'd known that earlier. I'm going to whack two coats of emulsion on tomorrow and undercoat two lengths of skirting. I reckon I can be completely done in the attic and office by Sunday. Wooo. An end in site.....

Except ds wants his room decorating

Ds has locked the oven by putting it on a clean setting. Sadly dinner is in the oven.

Em can you switch it off at the wall/mains? Most electronics have a two minute reset

Done it wolf but apparently it needs to reach a certain temp to unlock.

I’ve ordered from the pub down the road

Oops. Enjoy the pub
I feel sniffles and sneezing. Hope I'm not getting cold.
£51 Aldi £19 Iceland

Yay to the stair gates coming off! We took our off a few weeks ago and the house feels bigger (well, slightly!).

Nsd plus dh and I both got paid. Hooray!

Oh I dream of stair gates coming off.

Hooray!!!!

Pub pizza was nice. £20

Stair gate removal is a deffo celebration moment.

Sea sounds as if it is a butter issue - it has to be proper butter full fat cholesterol forming otherwise reduce the amount. They are high fat and high sugar so they can make the loooooooong journey by boat to Europe. If they had moisture in then they moulded on the trip. Increasing the syrup normally makes them spread in the oven but makes them crispier and more liable to burn when Yodel turn up in the middle of a baking session. Not that I have a PhD in Anzac making...

I am on holiday... for a whole week. It has not come soon enough.

Big milestone stair gates coming off
Pie sounds delish Girlie
Enjoy your Hols Unescorted
Had to pay TV license today £157.50
otherwise nothing else
watching Vera now , can't remember whodunnit so it is alright We watched lodgers for codgers it was good to see such lovely youngsters

Unescorted I wouldn’t dream of using anything other than proper butter . They did spread a lot. Afterwards I weighed out the syrup I used, roughly, and it was about 150g (oops - I scraped both sides of a very loaded spoon!) . So probably about twice what you said. Anyway, there’s not many left as DH is quite partial so I shall have a chance to try again soon .

I napped for a couple of hours this afternoon and have been cutting out masks all evening. Seriously, I can’t stop. I think I have A Problem. My dining table looks like a sweat shop. DD keeps chirping ‘mummy is making masks!’ (She’s over her fear of ‘sewing machine fings’ now).

Tomorrow I have to do housework. Not just sewing.

Oh, and my oven power keeps cutting in and out. Honestly, this range cooker has been nothing but trouble! Guy is coming to look at it on Tuesday. I need it to limp on till we get the new kitchen, just hoping I’m not waiting a month for a spare part like last time. And that it doesn’t cost £££.

I am still gloating over my nice gate-less stairs. Can’t believe how different it feels!

Oh, anyone who wants the mask pattern, pm me your email address. I’m sure I should be able to find it on the internet and link it but I’ve not been able to track down where it was originally posted.

Me please sea. And yeah no stair gates