Visiting Family and Friends
Wow Sunday already and January almost gone, I've come to realise that for every year that I get older the months just whizz by faster and faster - I remember when summers felt endless and 6 weeks off school felt like an eternity.....
Work was very busy on Friday but a least I was minuting the one meeting that I actually enjoy 'The Environmental Sustainability Development Group'.
Yesterday Peter was at football so I went to visit my parents and bought them some well deserved flowers to say thank you for their help on getting our immersion tank situation sorted. Mum and Dad's place is 'almost' on the market, they just need to get their HIP (home information pack) sorted. I do hope they find a buyer quickly - meanwhile the pressure is on for them to find a new place. The market is so deflated at the moment there's next to nothing up for sale that meets their criteria. I would dearly love for them to move back into a village environment so that they've got more of a community around them and can get involved again in village life.
Mum was doing the RSPB bird watch hour when I got there - as they are surrounded by fields they get some amazing birds. Whilst I was there, as well as the usual garden birds a wood pecker, a flock of long tailed tits, a barn owl and a sparrow hawk passed through (sadly not all in the same hour though so they can't all count!).
After seeing mum and dad I met up with friends Wendy and Julie for lunch and the watching of a couple of films (as well as a good chin wag of course). I'm not into chick flicks as such but as we are all pretty skint we borrowed some DVD's from Wendy's daughter number 2's collection - 'Over Her Dead Body' and '27 Dresses'. The first one was a bit pants but 27 Dresses was actually ok and had some funny as well as moving moments.
Dashed back to Eastleigh just in time to collect Peter from the Station and we settled in for the night - although the offerings on the box were dire.
Tomorrow I am using up some apples that I froze during the summer to make some puddings for the freezer, topping up the car levels and generally having chill out day with the papers and a good book.
Today's Expenditure:
Flowers for Parents £10
Pudding for Friends £2.79
The Guardian £1.60 (just can't give up the Saturday Guardian!)
Cheese & Bread £4.78
Lipstick £5.37 (god, that's gone up - existing one worn to a stub)
Freebies Today:
Borrowed DVD of Sweeney Todd from Wendy.
Free Tub of Utterly Butterly using voucher (saving £1.08)
Work was very busy on Friday but a least I was minuting the one meeting that I actually enjoy 'The Environmental Sustainability Development Group'.
Yesterday Peter was at football so I went to visit my parents and bought them some well deserved flowers to say thank you for their help on getting our immersion tank situation sorted. Mum and Dad's place is 'almost' on the market, they just need to get their HIP (home information pack) sorted. I do hope they find a buyer quickly - meanwhile the pressure is on for them to find a new place. The market is so deflated at the moment there's next to nothing up for sale that meets their criteria. I would dearly love for them to move back into a village environment so that they've got more of a community around them and can get involved again in village life.
Mum was doing the RSPB bird watch hour when I got there - as they are surrounded by fields they get some amazing birds. Whilst I was there, as well as the usual garden birds a wood pecker, a flock of long tailed tits, a barn owl and a sparrow hawk passed through (sadly not all in the same hour though so they can't all count!).
After seeing mum and dad I met up with friends Wendy and Julie for lunch and the watching of a couple of films (as well as a good chin wag of course). I'm not into chick flicks as such but as we are all pretty skint we borrowed some DVD's from Wendy's daughter number 2's collection - 'Over Her Dead Body' and '27 Dresses'. The first one was a bit pants but 27 Dresses was actually ok and had some funny as well as moving moments.
Dashed back to Eastleigh just in time to collect Peter from the Station and we settled in for the night - although the offerings on the box were dire.
Tomorrow I am using up some apples that I froze during the summer to make some puddings for the freezer, topping up the car levels and generally having chill out day with the papers and a good book.
Today's Expenditure:
Flowers for Parents £10
Pudding for Friends £2.79
The Guardian £1.60 (just can't give up the Saturday Guardian!)
Cheese & Bread £4.78
Lipstick £5.37 (god, that's gone up - existing one worn to a stub)
Freebies Today:
Borrowed DVD of Sweeney Todd from Wendy.
Free Tub of Utterly Butterly using voucher (saving £1.08)
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