by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 30, 2017 | My Diary
Last Saturday, (ye gods, a week already!) Mike and I went to the 3rd annual Show Me The Money Annual awards, the SHOMOS. It’s a group of UK Money Bloggers UK Money Bloggers is a community of people who write online about money and personal finance – from frugal and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 21, 2017 | Budgeting, My Diary, Saving Money
Rail Cards As husband and I are using trains more often, I decided it was time to get a Senior Railcard. We are due to travel soon, so I thought I’d combine the two. Off I went to the Railcard site. Ah, I thought, lets have a look at discount vouchers first. So I had...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 17, 2017 | My Diary, Saving Money
Just a quick post today to tell you about some free fun we had today. Walking is the most popular leisure activity in the UK. It’s good for our well being, our health, obviously, and all sorts of good things health wise can come from it. And I’m sure the fact that...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 14, 2017 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Sides
Mike went to the Co-Op this week and came back with one of those little magazines that supermarkets do. One of the recipes caught my eye. It used pears, but we eat our pears unripe, straight from the tree, still crispy. I thought it would work well with the apples...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 13, 2017 | My Diary
I’ve blogged before about silk flowers, showing what I chose for both a spring and summer arrangement. I like to keep a large arrangement in my kitchen to brighten up the place. I have a base arrangement of plain green leaves in a ‘glass’ vase, and each season, I add...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 5, 2017 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Sides
Cipolline is pronounced chip-oh-LEE-nay and is a flat type of onion used in Italy for this dish. How to make Cipolline in Agrodolce (Onions in Sweet and Sour Sauce) Peel some onions, without removing the roots, or the onions will fall apart while cooking. Place in a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 3, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners
We had a roast chicken on Friday, so I had lots of lovely leftovers to do something with. This is the first thing I did, a lovely buttery leek base, along with the chicken, in a white sauce, and topped with an oaty savoury crumble with a hint of stuffing. The topping...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 2, 2017 | My Diary
After spending time in Newark and York, we arrived at our destination for a week, Rothbury. The reason, amongst others, that I wanted to explore this particular part of the wonderful Northumbria is that I wanted to go and see the Alnwick castle gardens. Originally, I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 31, 2017 | My Diary
On our way up to Rothbury, and back down again, we stayed in York for a few days. What a beautiful city, and so full of history, starting way back in 75AD with the Romans. On the day we arrived, we walked for miles around the city, investigating The Shambles, amongst...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 27, 2017 | All Recipes, Budgeting, Lunches, Saving Money
Diet The diet started again yesterday and the 3 pounds I’d gained have gone again as of this morning. Went to help our eldest do some unpacking yesterday as they moved whilst we were away – good planning on our part I thought! Left theirs needing a shower...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 25, 2017 | My Diary
Did you guess we’d been away? I hate not been able to tell you about our adventures whilst they’re happening, but it’s horribly easy to find my address, and you never know who’s listening do you. Don’t want to put an advert out, come and rob this house, they’re away!...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 23, 2017 | My Diary
Couple of good reads for you today. I’ve got through a lot of books lately, and in amongst some not so good ones, or ones I would be embarrassed to recommend (so so scifi) are these two crackers Mice The first is a thriller called Mice, by Gordon Reece. Gordon writes...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 15, 2017 | My Diary
Today is one of those special days. Mike and I have been together a very long time, but didn’t actually get married until 2015…..2 years ago today! So it’s our anniversary. We got married on the anniversary of our very first date. And the more...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 11, 2017 | Budgeting, Saving Money
Do you remember us talking about regrowing vegetables from waste? This post had some spring onions. Well, a while ago, I put some spring onion stubs in an egg cup until they grew baby roots, then put them in the garden. These whoppers are the result! I have in fact...
