Staycation!

We are staying at home this week. Biggles bike is not right so has to go back to the mender peoples.  We have so far spent a day in Newcastle - Discovery Museum and done some shopping at TESCO ( Monday). Tuesday - cheap day at the cinema for Weeny and me.  She has only been once before and this time it was 3d. We don't often get the chance. We took our own sweets. Baked fairy cakes. Baked biscuits. Recycled clothes with enviroclothes and made £23 which we three spent on Lunch at a pub with soft play and a walk around a nature reserve lake. ( Wednesday) Today we took in the music festival in Alnwick - ice cream and a slide ride thing.  Tomorrow we are thinking of the beach depending on the wind.

Good stuff!

• I managed to snaffle three nearly new bras from La senza  via The Sally Army in my normally odd hard to find size for cheap for 1.50 each.
• Making £23 from enviroclothes and having a no spend lunch out! I feel a bit  bad about not donating to charity but when I go into most charity shops and see the prices I don't feel bad at all. Apparently Enviroclothes ( paying 40p per k) trades clothes at low cost  direct to communities in less wealthy countries. Rags apparently recycled.
• Weeny's reaction to 3d film!

Bad stuff

• Not getting the bike back til Tuesday then working out it has to go away again as its not right!
 
• Having a facebook debate with a 'friend' about a racist comment to the tune of Only Junkie Foreigners get benefits help these days - those deserving white folks are looked over. I could have picked the statement apart forever but chose to make a point that the local dole offices in the towns in all of Northumberland are dominated by  white coloured British people and maybe more than a  few of them are likley to be drunks heading off to the local cheapie bar Shameless Stylee as soon as they ge their money.   Did nt go down too well ( snigger) but point was made. I have no time for prejudiced people.  Person was  even more thick than I realised when we got into the 'debate'.  My God the same shite arguments are being used twenty years later! Some escheleons of society especially in the provinces will never learn. They think they are multi cultural if there is an Indian takeaway or Chinese within 15 miles.  FFS!
• Holidays going too quickly
• Local kids asking if my 4 yr old is allowed out to play at 8pm at night. NO! They are allowed too my freedom IMO around here.  She is not getting into that habit.

We have not managed a no spend day in ages. Well apart from Wednesday where we ran at a profit!

I have loads still to try and do  before work starts again but hey only four days woo hoo!

Monday ...Morrissey and a resplendant Team GB!!!

Today we trotted off to Newcastle - I had an appointment but afterwards we took in the free Discovery Museum. It started to rain so after a mooch at the motorbikes on Westgate Road we stocked up at Tescos. I managed to snaffle a black lace top for £1 in the chazz shop.

We plan to go to the cinema tomorrow - its cheap day Tuesday.  Biggles takes deliery of his fixed bike to morrow so once he has checked it out we can decide if we are off for a night or two with the tent via Clackmannanshire.

We are loving the Olympics. Fantastic - I loved the Ennis, Farrah and Ginger Greg wins on Saturday night.  What a celebration of modern Britain - A Ginger chap, a black man called Mohamed and a mixed race woman all winning Gold -  celebrating the best of all that is Britain! One in the eye for the racists of the world including the EDL, Nick Griffin, The whinging Daily Mail and that MP Adrian  Burley and all the other prejudiced whiners out there!

Oh and that Mr Morrisey can STFU. How dare he whinge on about people feeling the pinch.. I don't think he is in any position to feel the pinch of the austerity measures and I for one who has been royally f*cked by austerity measures and hit by the double snake of redundancy and a pitiful house price market and negative equity, am loving it!

Morrisey go boil your maudlin  whinging head!

Weekend in Republic of South Yorkshire!

Back home now.  We managed to get our hair cut, start the nasty C shopping - it was cheap and also bag some free tea towels.

Arrived late Thursday - managed to do all the shopping stuff on Friday durng the day. Watched Jessica Ennis on Friday night before heading to the local for a few beers.

Weeny and I went swimming then to Hillsborough Park for ice cream on Saturday while Biggles got to watch his beloved Wednesday ( Sheffield) in  a pre season friendly.

We spent the evening watching the track andd field events.

What a fab count at the area!  I also loved the fact that our three gold medals at the track that night were won by a ginger chap, a black man called mohammed and a mixed race woman.  How perfectly modern British!!!  Excellent  Team GB!!! And as Billy Bragg said thats one in the eye for Nick Griffin, The EDL, The Daily Mail and other idiots I am unable to recall!

 I am very proud to be British and Go Team GB!!!!   Jessica Ennis is a terrier! and a tiny one at that! Full of spirit!  Olympic Gold forged from Sheffield Steel!!!





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The Gods of Freecycle doth shine on Moi

Feeling smug as have snaffled a stick hoover! Brilliant as my old cheapie naff I pick up nothing hoover has gone to hoover heaven aka the tip. Not salvageable am afraid. Was held together with Duct tape!

So a gas barbecue, patio sized full length cream lined curtains and a hoover! Its small but perfect for my purposes as I only have carpet on the stairs and in one bedroom. Will get some carpet down in my bedroom at some point lol.

Food for the week
Monday - yesterday we had lamb and gammon. I don't like lamb but the Biggles does so as part of his meat haul he had four lamb chops. I made a red currant and rosemary and red wine sauce to go over his chops and mash. We had Gammon rounds. All with carrots, calui and broc that needed using up.  I have the rest of the wine to drink. It  was from Biggles stash of red wine that he has been given over the years but never drinks as its red and gives him headaches. Nom Nom Nom for this evening.

Tuesday - Pizza - not home made but cheap ones, 60p per pizza that Weeny can decorate with her own toppings. Chorizo, ham, sweetcorn, extra cheese, onion and pepper.  I may put spinach on mine.

Wednesday-   Chorizo pasta - using up left over peppers and chorizo and onion stuff ,30p Garlic bread as a side.

Thursday - off to mother Biggles till Sunday. Lovely food - We have a late breakfast/beans on toast etc then nothing till the evening. Weeny has a snack typically too.

Sunday  Home again  - Sausages and burgers probably using my gas barbecue.



Our plans are to  get our hair cut, purchase a cheap toy for a birthday pressie and chill out. We will make it to the pub on Friday night then have the house to ourselves on Saturday when Mother Biggles and her partner go out. There are plenty of parks and if the weathers good some petting zoos and such.

Weeny has a party on Sunday at 1:30 and Biggles has promised that she can go. Not my arrangements. She discussed this in some depth with him and he capitulated..... as ever ......snigger.


They trotted off to day care today. No mummy just the two of them walking together.

Ahhhh bless

Ahhh the day of pay!

Well tis the day of pay and also the day of paying off a last bill! two down one to go!!!

Only 5 more months of a credito card! One one of the 0% interest ones of course. Well worth the juggling. The other final £40 payment is also a 0% interest for 12 months style thing I got from Argos when I purchased the gas cooker christmas rush. I am still looking for a mini oven with hob. if they ever appear in Lidl again I will snap one up.

Weekend was grand. I snaffled a Gas barbecue from Free cycle. I have tried it out once with much charcoaling! IE burnt sausages. I have yellow flame which means I either need a new regulator ( ok cheap enough) or need to clean out the grill - likley need both knowing my luck. Came with a full large gas bottle as well as! Ita a bit tatty but for my purposes all fine. Failing that the scap metal neigbour man can have it!

Hoping to snaffle some wall mirrors as well as a karaoke machine for Weeny and a mountain bike that needs a new chain! Will see how fortuitous I am.  Bike and a mirror would  be good.

Biggles purchased 15 of meat for the barbecue and beyond. He is on leave for the duration of the Limpics. Nom Nom nom! On both counts.

Off to see Mother Biggles in Yorkshire at weekend.
Weeny girls last few days at daycare as she is off to big day care after our hols.

Very relaxed weekend. A few jobs done. Chip away at the mountain and it becomes a hill in time lol

Bloody Hell its only Wensda!

It is warm. Very warm but not sunny which is pish!

It is only Wednesday.  I still have to wait six days till pay day. This is not good given that it is only Wednesday, and I am penniless. Ok apart form saves bu t I shall not use them!

I am getting fat. I caught a glimpse of the derriere in the bethroom mirror and it is gettig very comfortable with wobbly bits.

My mission should I choose to accept it is to get down to ten stone. Preferably 9:12. Though ten will do!

The Fridays return to me next month and I shall endeavour to do active things. I also need to curb the foodage- quantities and qualities.


Curtains still ace. And Approved food delivering today!