A full oven

So as not to waste money by just using the oven to just cook a tray of cakes I also made a tray of chocolate brownies for hubby to take to work for his colleagues. Five portions of piri piri chicken with rice for hubby's lunches and cooked a gammon joint. The gammon has been thinly sliced, some will be used for lunch tomorrow and served with veg and yorkies and the rest is in the freezer bagged up in convenient portions.

Who needs TV

This is Norah she is sat watching the fish she has just fed, the TV is next to her and wasn't turned on all day, there were too many other things to do.

Colouring to do

Conkers to find

A book to make

Cakes to make

Free money

Today is the last day before I go back to work full time so Lizzie & I decided to earn a bit of dosh.
I had a pile of metal down the side of the house and Lizzie had an old radiator. I also had a bag of old clothes and shoes an Lizzie had 3 bin bags full of outgrown children's clothes. We piled the whole lot into my car and set off, first stop the scrap metal merchants, where we got £17 for the metal scraps, then on to the cash for clothes place where we got £24. I checked the mileage and we'd driven 4 miles, so we feel we've made a profit, not a huge amount but for the sake of a little effort it was worth it.
I've tried comping and never won anything, I've also tried surveys but I always seem to be in the wrong age group, but today was definitely a success.
I also threw some steak and kidney in the slow cooker this morning when I got up and it's cooked now and will go lovely with some mash and HG cabbage. The steak is actually ox cheek that was £2.10p the kidneys were reduced to 40p, I added a thinly sliced HG onion, some seasoning and a cup of water. There are at least 4 portions there.

Mr Grumpy

It's hard work living with hubby at the moment, he's being Mr Grumpy, I'm trying to be patient, I realise he's tired, he's worked 20 days without a break, one day he covered 2 shifts and worked a 15 hour day. He is also still working in the garden after work each day.

He refuses to admit he's tired, he just thinks I'm doing things to annoy him, he seems to forget he's no spring chicken but as he keeps saying, 'Think of the money'.

He has a week off coming up, it can't come soon enough!

Full time next week

After a discussion with my Dr it has been decided that I will return to work full time next week. It will be kill or cure, only time will tell. At least it's not long 'til half term and then I can recover.

Gee whizz, whatever next!

My poor husband has just about got used to having a flat chested wife, I swear of the 4 stone I lost most of it was boobs. But now it seems I'm going bald as well, not sure for why, it could be reaction to having been ill, the hair loss might slow down it might not, hey ho, I'm still alive, lets be grateful for small mercies.

Sponge Bob Square Pants

I was sat on the sofa, pretending to watch the TV, when in fact I was watching the insides of my eyelids. There was a knock on the door, when I answered it there were two small boys stood there with their Dad. 'Sorry to bother you but we've thrown our ball into your garden, could we have it back?' As I walked away one of the boys said 'Dad, dad, tell her it's a Sponge Bob ball or she might get the wrong one' to which Dad replied 'Shh, she won't know who Sponge Bob is' He was wrong, I know all about Sponge Bob, Peppa Pig, Curious George, Dora the explorer and many more. You see I'm a grandma and any grandma worthy of that title ends up knowing about all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff, I'm even quite knowledgeable about football and I can't stand the game!