I posted this a few months ago originally but seeing as it's my worst ever fashion disaster, I decided to repost it to enter in to the April Tots 100 Blog Hop.  Afer all, you couldn't possibly get more of a disaster than that hair could you?Miss Frugal has just discovered that our new printer has a built in scanner so you can imagine what we've been doing tonight.  Yep - the house and everything in it has been now been scanned to within an inch of its life! After about half an hour of scanning random drawings and magazines I decided to brave the garage (filled with boxes and spiders) … [Read more...]

 Take a look at this picture.  If you can see what's not right about it, you'll be able to understand why I have just walked around Tesco with people staring at me and sniggering!   … [Read more...]

We've had a few interesting conversations this week that I thought I'd share with you.... Me: Miss Frugal, come downstairs please. Miss Frugal: In a sec Master Frugal: We don't have secs in this house, do we mam?Master Frugal: I lost my breath at school today mam, it's OK though, I found it under the table after PE. Miss Frugal: I'm not eating this bit of chicken - it looks like it's willy.   … [Read more...]

Mr Frugal and I have been married for ten years this week and to celebrate we went to see Peter Kay last night at the Newcastle Metro Radio Arena and it was fantastic - a perfect way to celebrate.   I know this picture doesn't show it but we actually had really good seats (apart from the fact that everyone was squashed in like sardines) and my chest actually hurt from laughing solidly for two hours.  His new material is fantastic and I can't wait to buy the DVD!Courtesy of last night, the kids new favourite new joke is: My mates just been sacked from his job on the dodgems, it's OK … [Read more...]

Not that we're twelve or anything but when someone gave Miss Frugal one of those electronic twenty question games, we couldn't resist trying out it's knowledge of slightly more grown up objects.  By we, I obviously mean me and Mr Frugal and not me and her - now that would be wrong! Our first word of the day was vibrator ;-)Is it Animal, Mineral, or Other - Other Is it shiny - Sometimes Is it flat - No Does it get wet - Yes ;-) Does it open - No Is it made of metal - Sometimes Is it a common household object - No (Bit of an argument about this one) Does it have writing on it - … [Read more...]