Bloody cat

For an hour I've been trying to get the cat in its now 11.35pm I've been out quietly shouting quickly followed by louder shouting tempting her with treats

Oh no she thinks it's a game
Off she runs
Up and down the back street
Teasing me on the wall
At arms reach
Out comes the laser pen
Not tonight this girls not for coming in


Followed by me in crocs
Pj pants
A yoda t shirt
No bra
Doing laps of the bloody back street with a laser pen

I've had to come in the neighbours are looking out the windows

She can stay out the little minx

Raining cats and dogs ooop north

Its been raining all night and all morning up north

the evenings seem to be drawing in and starting to feel chilly first thing in the morning, OH gets up for work around 5am and ive noticed a difference in temperature

its funny old weather thou, one minute torrential rain and the next brilliant sunshine, just as easily then turns to hail and thunderstorms

i hope we are not in for a long wet winter

meh

im off back to bed for half an hour with a cuppa then off to work i go

catch you all later 

Sammie xx

Penny pinching

I ended up with a thumping headache last night so didn't manage the hill walk..

bugger!

I didn't fancy the stir fry either..

oh heck! 

that got shoved in the freezer

I wanted something stodgy and filling as feeling sorry for myself

 (well more of a cant be arsed mood to be honest)

into the depths of the freezer i went..

i grabbed a cheap 99p farmfoods cheese pizza

some reduced spinach balls i cooked and froze in november

a squishy tomato from the fridge

the last teeny piece of cheese

and threw it all on

i found some spiral fries in the freezer to so bunged a few on a baking tray shoved it all in and cooked for 30 mins

that jazzed up a boring pizza and was bloomin lovely, with leftovers for lunch today too

much better!

So while all that was cooking i diced up some going squishy toms from the fridge and tubbed them up for the freezer ready to add to a lasagne or pasta, and cut up the reduced baby corn i bought for 20p, brought to a simmer and popped them on a tray for the freezer too

ahhh

another job jobbed, ill add the corn to some currys i think or whatever springs to mind :D

The fridge is almost bare now, with only milk, butter, eggs, coconut oil, some sundried tomatoes and a tin of cat food, its all been used up

When i finish work this afternoon that will be my first job, i'll give the fridge a real good clean out

how does it get so mucky it gets wiped down every week!! 

The freezers a bit more full i think ill have a run through and see what i can use up and what meals i can cobble together for next week

easy tea tonight something along the lines of egg, chips and beans

or soup and toast

shopping day tomorrow

Sammie xx

literally turn my back for two minutes and the three amigos are at it again

straight up on the sofa on me blinking furry blanket

one snuggling on it 

one scratching it up

and one licking it

Ahhh thats better ive shoved nipper off mum night night

please play ball mum before you goto work

go on then!!!

god help me hahaha

Three amigos

Just look at these three ...I wonder who will catch the fly first

Nipper Pixie or Darcy

They do make me laugh

Just put the washing out and it looks like rain off to find the crocs ready for a dash outside

Hopefully I'll burn a few calories running in and out lol

Back soon

Sammie xx

Back in the land of bloggy world and some yellow stickers

Hello everyone

Its been a while again we've had no internet as the laptop decided to give up I thought there was a virus on it so eventually forked out for Norton antivirus software and touch wood it's been fine since, worth it at £19 for the year I think, I'm sure Norton used to be around £70 odd pounds a few years back..any who fingers crossed.

Grabbed some yellow stickers this evening spent a total of 89p

That'll do me

Two bags of stir fry 15p each

Packet of baby corn 20p

And a hovis multi seed loaf 39p

should have been £4.10 so a nice little saving

We'll have the stir fry tomorrow and I've frozen the loaf and will use for my breakfast and lunches in the week.

Now I've put on a bit of weight and suffering from a bad hip and back hells chuffing teeth only 36 and really feeling my age so ive started walking up the massive hill every evening with the dog absolutely kills me but when I reach the top I'm rewarded with feeling good and a lovely Tesco extra store, If I time it right usually around 8.30pm ish there are a few bargains to be had so all's good, and I'll only buy things we can use or need, that reminds me I had to get a tin of cat food the cats have decided they don't like anything at the moment only tinned gormet pate! Christ on a blooming stick even I don't get pate! Luckily have found some offers on it in town some places 3 tins for a pound and others 4 tins for a pound ..honestly!

Anyway Im still blaming my thyroid although it's probably the love of Jammie Dodgers that's got me putting on weight :D if I'm honest

Ah well we can't all be perfect

I'll be back soon

I promise

Sammie xx

Library's Closing

Well I don't know how I missed 4 yoghurt's in the fridge about to expire today i wasnt going to bin them so I emptied them into a Tupperware and popped them in the freezer ill use them in smoothies and shakes..strawberry and cranberry, and black cherry..waste not want not..

I was reading our local newspaper online and was saddened to read that the council are planning to close approximately 240 libraries up North due to council cuts, one of them is in a new state of the art college that cost 10 million to build and only been open 2 years..Bloody madness.. for want of a better word, pissed me right off!!

There are a total of seven library's in my area alone that are closing, what about the people that rely on these services, the elderly, parents and children, community groups, the old chap that goes to read his newspaper in piece every day the decent folk who use the computers as the can't afford their own, the people who do actually read and look forward to checking out new books every week, not to mention all the workers who will be out of jobs..I honestly feel left confused by this news, what are things coming too.

Hells teeth

Another story was apparently one million people have decade old food in their freezers! My freezer gets checked every week and drawers wiped down regularly a decade old? Chuffin eck not in this house! my mother says 'you lot are bloody gannets in that house' lol we're not we just like our food.

ha ha ha

working this morning then i have a list of things i need to do .. (ooh i do love a list)
- finish the ironing
-walk the dog
- cut the hedge out front
- hoover the draping cobweb off the ceiling that i noticed last week ..huck hum
- tidy spare room for parents arrival - thank the lord i have 2 weeks its full of things ive been clearing out for charity and the tip! my mother would literally die if she saw it id get a clip around the ear, apparently not too old for one of those either at 36 

ha ha ha

Catch you all soon

Sammie xx

Its been a while

Hello everyone

well its been a while

- broken internet

- laptop virus

- illness

blimey its been one thing after another here

but im back

ive missed bloggy world

So nothing major really here, still plodding on, scrimping, saving, being frugal and paying off debts

but we are all happy so no problems here

all the illness has finally decided to bugger off- thank chuffing goodness :)

such a lovely weather change to, that really brightens thing up no end

My son was desperate for some new t shirts and he had some money saved from christmas/birthday/easter  and it was burning a hole in his pocket, so i allowed him to spend it on what he wanted too....shock horror he has taken a liking to R*ver I*land, he came home with 1 pair of jeans and 1 t shirt for £50 chuffing pound...thought id taught him better but i allowed him to go and enjoy his spend

yes it was a lovely t shirt but not worth the £16 price tag, since discussing with him the cost of living and the price of fashion i asked him if he'd like to look on ebay with me to see if we could find any R*ver I*land t shirts that took his fancy, i assured him they would be well washed by me and would be like new one laundered and ironed -ok mum was the answer so we looked

we managed to find 4 lovely t shirts all in the style he loved and we got the lot including postage for £12.50

winner

one happy mum and one happy son

phew

a mighty saving from new of £64.00 we saved £51.50

my kind of shopping

(3x RI 1x N*xt)

Whats on the menu plans this week?

Its farmoods cod in batter tonight with peas and new potatoes, and cheese pie for LS

i always make a meal plan for the week so i know exactly what to buy and exactly what im cooking everyday, starting to run out of different meals weekly, dont get me wrong we sometimes have duplicate meals and that fine but i need some inspiration..so fire away with any meals ideas you use and love.. sons a vegi and myself and OH happily eat vegi, or meat dishes.

Well il sign off for now and catch up on some bloggy reading.

See you all again soon

Sammie x