This isn't going to be a whingey whiney post (at least I'm not planning it to be) but I'm struggling a little bit lately to keep on top of everything and I thought it might help to get it down here and come up with some sort of plan to get myself a little more organised which, in turn, will hopefully make me feel happier with myself.These little beauties are the first part of my plan:It's a box set of four little notebooks that I bought from Tesco a few weeks ago because they were just too pretty to leave on the shelf and until today, they've just been sitting on my kitchen shelf … [Read more...]
Thrifty Thursday – 15 Ways to save money in the kitchen….
It's OK, I'm not going to go on about meal planning again although that's clearly my first way to save money in the kitchen - if you don't already meal plan, you should. If you do, you'll be nodding your head right now agreeing that this is by far the easiest way to save money in the kitchen. But even aside from meal planning, the kitchen is one area where you can save money easily without really changing much at all. Here's my favourite kitchen moneysaving tips.... Cook and serve the right portion sizes - Pasta and rice are the main foods that I regularly over estimate the amount I need to … [Read more...]
Siblings – June….
I say this every month, but I look forward to writing this post every month and it's easily my favourite post of the month.Like all brothers and sisters, my two argue but on the whole, they get on really well and they actually seem to like each other most of the time. Believe me though, when they do argue, they really do and there's door slamming and hair flicking all over the place! ;-)We've had a lovely month this month, made even better by the lovely weather we've had! We've had lots of mini adventures and have lots more planned for the rest of the Summer too.... … [Read more...]
This week’s meal plan (with a difference)….
A little while ago I started to share my meal plans over on my meal planning blog - Meal Planning Made Easy but it felt a bit boring just writing our my meal plan on a Monday as a list so last week I decided I was going to do things a different way. So for the last week or so, I've been posting a picture of our tea along with a recipe or some pointers on how to make your own version!I'm going to keep doing that this week but I wanted to post on here to tell you about it in advance because this week's meals have a bit of a theme going on - they're all going to be made using the 'by … [Read more...]
A Rainy day doesn’t have to be a stuck in the house day….
All week, I've been hoping forward to a lovely sunny weekend so I could make some inroads into the overgrown mess that is currently our back garden. Clearly it wasn't meant to be though because I got up this morning, pulled open the curtains and was greeted by a cloudy grey sky instead of the sunshine I wanted!So now that I have a gardening free weekend stretching ahead of me, I decided to have some fun with the kids even though I think were secretly hoping to spending the weekend being lazy and playing Minecraft.Last Summer I wrote a post about our favourite thing to do when it's … [Read more...]
Having a T20 Blast….
Last Thursday we were invited to pop along to Durham Cricket ground to watch the Durham Jets play a home match in the T20 Blast series.If I'm honest, I wasn't particularly excited about this as I had no idea how to tell the difference between a stump and a wicket (still don't actually) or how to tell a four from a six (that one I do know now) but Mr Frugal was quite excited when he heard it was a T20 Blast match and not an actual cricket match - he assured me that these matches were shorter and more exciting than traditional cricket matches. The kids were really excited too although … [Read more...]
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