Right, everyone think of five sentences that describe Florence Nightingale. Done? Now use 4,32,28,+,- and = and makeup as many different sums as you can, then if you wouldn't mind drawing and labelling a plant.If you can do that, you have successfully completed Miss Frugal's (aged 7) homework!I presumed she would know the Florence Nightingale bit but no, she couldn't remember anything about her other than she was a nurse. Thanks god for Google eh!Just so you know (in Miss Frugal's words) :Florence Nightingale was trained to be a nurse.She liked to help the soldier men.She was born in 1820.She … [Read more...]

It's a bit miserable outside today isn't it? Grey skies and drizzly rain mean that we're not going far today. Miss Frugal is still at her friends house and Master Frugal is really missing her. He's sat on the settee in his Power Ranger's costume with a sad face waiting for her to come back. We decided to look and some happy pictures as I was downloading them from my camera to the computer and these are his favourite four taken yesterday at the playpark. They cheered him up for all of about ten seconds and now he's miserable again! Oh well, lets see if Handy Manny can cheer him up.... I … [Read more...]

It's like Valentines day in the Frugal house today, it started when we popped to Morrison's after school and Miss Frugal saw some of those gingerbread hearts that came in a pack with pink icing and pink glittery stuff, the ones you decorate yourself. She asked me if she could get them for her boyfriends (note the plural there!) and because I thought it was really cute I let her get them, extremely un-frugal of me at £1.79 for five biscuits!Anyway we got them home and she has carefully decorated each one with a different boys name, apparently Jack, Kieran, James, Damien and Rebecca (don't ask … [Read more...]