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Free groceries from Marks and Spencer

The final update

It's nearly Christmas!

This Weeks Catch Up

Where We Are This Week

A Hard Post To Write

Books, Herons, Celandine and Tomatoes

Cooking Up A Storm, Birthdays and Snow

Matilda and singing

Best Book Club Books

Books I've read recently

A sleepless night

my meal plan for week 10th August 2020

my meal plan for week 3rd August 2020

my meal plan for week 20Jul20

my meal plan for week 20Jul20

my meal plan for week 13Jul20

Stuck in limbo in a loft extension

A Charity Shop Haul

The Diary Of A Bookseller

SHOMOS 2019 and a holiday

The garden in July

Progress on the loft and on the blog

Some book suggestions from books that I've read recently

Good books that I've been reading

Reverse Advent, Slimming World and Books

A reverse advent for 2017

Progress at last!

Time for a catch up

A day at the SHOMOS

Lots of phone calls and a few tickets

A Sunday walk that left me feeling refreshed and uplifted

Changing silk flowers to suit the season

And finally, our ultimate destination while away, Rothbury

What we did in York while we were away

We've been away. This is what we got up to in Newark

What I've been reading lately

The answer to the universe and everything

We decided to have some rainy day fun today

Birthday celebrations. I'm feeling thoroughly birthdayed!

A charity shop haul

This months cookery group recipes, including some invented ones

A day out to see Adele at Wembley, what an experience!

A seasonal change over of my silk flower display

Now it's merely very hot rather than scorching, here are some piccies of the garden

Fascinating speakers at TEDx, and some less so, then wonderful singing

It was the U3A cooking group today, we made LOADS today!

Some beautiful quilts by some very talented people

The West House and what to cook

What a gorgeous time of year! Here's a few pics of the garden

I haven't been on holiday, the days have just slipped away and I've neglected you

A bit of a walk and a day out in Alfriston

Changes in the garden and a walk by the sea

Bargain picture frames, book clubs and the Heffle Fair

Books, bonding, scarecrows and demos

Easter Fun, Easter Eggs and half price posh chocolate

Lots of vegetables, houses, birthdays and plants

I've found a new favourite thing!

Getting lost 3 miles from home, lots of digging and a few flowers

Bumps, crashes, walks and lunches. Are people out to get me?

Fresh flowers, and silk ones - a comparison

My first shower, shabby chic and old budgets

Lumps and bumps, this weeks foodie treats and off to the hospital

A new start, a shortened walk, a pub lunch and stubby onions

Blooming fat demo's

Bugs, diets (again!) bargain mangoes and books

I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 500 more

First day of the new year

Happy Christmas to one and all

Bugs and books

A walk in the sun, a lunch in the pub and big ears

Stuff and Clutter. I don't want any more of it.

A walk in the sun, the wind and the cold at Rye - and a nice warm pub

A good speaker, some beautiful flowers and a call to action

Good Company, Bad Company and kitchen experiments

Long walks and deep discounts
Can 1 sausage can make 2 sandwiches? Plus a sublime fruit and nut case paste

Saturday at the SHOMOS

Something old and something new. A lovely pie and a leftovers pudding

Bank Holiday Monday at Le Marche

Kandersteg and the Swiss Alps

The first, or is it the thirty ninth anniversary?

A free day out - the Eastbourne Airbourne

Treat time

Repeats, next steps and down in the woods

The last few days

On our Hols

This week, a charity shop haul and overnight oats

A long walk and UK Money Bloggers posts of the month for June 2016

Insomnia, a good read and Halloumi for dinner

High fat or low fat, where do you stand?

Groombridge Place

Heathfield Agricultural Show

Veg, fish, steps, shopping and a demo

Leftovers for lunch

In the garden

A number of books

Back to reality

Away for a few days

A lovely day in the sun

Chapatti, muffins and a warm salad

Wedding hats, knits, shrinkage and wild garlic

Joy and jubilation and hang the bunting out

Did you work it out?

Fridge soup that's Paleo, I think, an avocado smoothie and a breadcrumb topped crumble

Another weigh in report - hope I'm not boring you!

Buying books

How my feelings were affected by a machine today

weigh in day
A Too Busy Week

Three week review and too much temptation
Filming, working out and power cuts

Well, I've FINALLY finished it!

This week, free food and cold days

Two hours up the gym today, and still hungry after dinner

An early start, millions of calories, old favourites and new discoveries

The New Year Diet

Sunny days, charity shops, handbags, puddings and good reads

A long walk, lost keys and no mince pies
Those questions

A weekend in Bruges
Music and MAS
A trip to Uckfield

A trip to London
Fish, waste and poverty

Loving Leftovers

A few wedding pictures

Shrieks, Draculas and Scary Monsters

What a busy week!
Miss-made recipes, insomnia and exercise

An apple harvest

Lovely Marks and Spencer food free with vouchers
Internet, no internet, internet......

Westward Ho! and our last day on honeymoon

Went to Bideford today

South Molton

The last four days

Weddings, wasps and white hands
Two Tables & A Carroty Tip
A dirty Sunday

Balls, Bums and Wedding Pics

No power, bargains and giant bargains

Walks, books and muesli

Lampshades, nails and meal plans

Freebies, gardens, shades and stones

Happy Solstice / longest day - what did you do?

Getting back to Earth

Cuttings and pots

A busy day, lots of driving and some good ideas to try

Using up Salsa di Noci

Woods, Meadows, Lakes & the garden

Bran flakes and shed beds

Michelham Priory, khaki gunk and lost keys

Big lunches and delicious leftovers

More wedding preparations, Greek Cuisine and 4 large pitta for 6p

Another dress, getting plastered and spicy lentil soup, just 15p

Dresses, lasagna and resolutions

Smoked salmon, classes and leftovers

Another long walk followed by excited squeaks

No sleep, a long walk and a big cake
A Relaxing Day

The gym, average curries, out of season garlic and lots of potatoes

Poop, larders and less than £1 a day, how about 53p?

Small loaves and 3 freebie tins

Bargain hats, freebies and dead dough

Sunshine, Snaps, Seeds and Sowing

Two books and a lipstick

Curries, U3A and wild garlic

Round the block, round the garden and a hot non-cross loaf
Antibiotics, websites and another LBLUK list
An update

Sequins, off-cuts and an alternative LBLUK list

Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite

Sorting through the bling

Spring is Springing
Cooking around the world

A not very nice lunch, summer sewing and too many earrings

Inventing wings, folding a la Kondo and a good clean

Snowdrops, friends and being perfect

Going on a course

A general Saturday

Happy Valentines!
An update on all the goings on since Monday

Crocus and nearly meal plan 8 soup
Lunch, Snow & Leaks
Book Clubs and wide ranging discussions

Using what I've made, leftovers soup and make do and mend repairs

Weights, weight and mattresses

Sheeps pluck, two weddings and .......

Springing in the garden

Valuable programmes, little round batteries and exhortations
Aching muscles and brain, and a shopping list

New Years Day

New Years Eve

Live the life you wish you had & Merry Christmas!

It's Christmas Eve - yay!

Kitchen update

Kitchens, Christmas Menu and avoiding debt

Trees, bags, walls and floors

New ceilings and old favourites

Pea soup, Approved Food order and Christmas food bank contributions

20p lunch, 19p vanilla pods and extremely cheap vanilla & cinnamon extract

Bread cooked in the slow cooker - who knew you could!

Things I am going to try this week

I have been quiet I know for a week, but I have an excuse Miss!

The cutest teeny tiny christmas stockings

Fireworks, Fictitious Whiplash and Feta

Pumpkins, crowbars and autumn leaves

An unexpected little visitor

Tables and Boards

What's in season in October, can I grow anything in the garden now? and update on Action Aid

A new vegetable? It was to me!

Smoothies, thickies and wedding invites

Old Socks - again, and Fabric Yarn, especially from T-Shirts

WI garden group, giant tomatoes and unreliable broadband

Loving leftovers, sock bouquets and using plastic bottles to make boxes

Kitchen happenings and a possible Christmas Thrifty Lesley in the media

Posh puds, what to cook with no hob and getting to grips with Pinterest

Nans, Drawers and Wedding Cakes

A waste of a day

Inaccurate mySupermarket totals, a shock in Sainsbugs and a kitchen update

Progress today

2 ton units, meal plans still £1 and trying not to sing out loud

Emptying cupboards, draughts and printers on strike

Boot Fairs, New Fabric and Big Sums

Fruit, Floors and Gifts

Teething, rain and quilts

Dobbing, Dabbing, Snowdrops and Quilts

Airbourne, Divi & progress

Woman's Own, early apples and meal plans
A chilled out day

A late walk, some early blackberries and a mish mash

10,000 steps and gooseberry crumble

Giant chairs, tiny flatbreads and zero cost dollies

Run off my feet by a 6 year old
Rust, dust, concrete and bears
An Approved Food order
Flowers blooming in the garden and wraps made with dough that's been in the fridge for several days
Kitchen Plans
Tissue or handkerchief, which do you prefer?
Off to Wickes for a quote
Sports day and risotto
Hair conditioner used as makeup remover
Free groceries arriving in the garden
A garden visit, youth re-visited and salady musings on the bus
The garden party this afternoon

Progress today in the kitchen
Some freebie fruit, lucky me
Using up stale focaccia at breakfast, cherries, lovely ripe cherries, and a pot wot I painted
Don't know about Thrifty, I'm more like Filthy Lesley today
20 handy hints using everyday items, do you know these ones?
A lovely Sunday stroll
Prolonged periods of bottom sitting
Wedding invitations, jaunts out, and what to plant next
No doors or windows, and not much food either today
A Salmon pasta lunch and other things
Motivating myself and getting fitter
Confession time, What I've actually been doing this week
Bread, bread and more bread
Glorious roses
Late nights, coming crops and what to put in next
Huge lintels and sunny days
More fracking and the garden
Fracking in East Sussex
Old phones, pretty flowers and glorious sunsets
Elderflowers and cardigans
Taking Stock a la Jen Gale
Cherry tree shrouds and un-crusty bread
A skip of rubble
M&S free foodie goodies and Quidco
Robin Bobbin moves out, DAC and tortilla
A mountainous larder, raspberries, pasta and crispy fish burger

Robin chicks, Resolutions lunch and Basics cheese spread (1)

A WI lunch and some Basics finds, what to do with them?
Mealy worms, double crumbles and cooked radish
Bank Holiday weather, Finance Packages and Mr & Mrs Robin Bobbin
Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig
Back in Kendall for the day

Walking in the forest, outstanding views and meeting new/old people

Going to Jail in Inveraray

Portsonachan

A Day in Kendal

Halfway to Scotland

A walk round the garden

Quilts, Extension and Scotland

Quilts, Speakers, Pancakes and Noodles

LBLUK 2014 - Day 5. Challenge completed! Can you donate a few £'s?

LBLUK - Day 4, nearly there now, but I am still craving a cup of tea

LBLUK 2014 - Day 3

LBLUK 2014, another alternative basket, from Aldi again
LBLUK, an alternative £5 basket, from Aldi

LBLUK 2014 - day 2, I really want a cup of tea!

LBLUK 2014 - day one, successes and failures

Living Below The Line - 2014

Quilts. Old, new and unmade

Robins in the garden, 19 freebie books, mahoosive, bright red bags & shall I do LBLUK?
Mixed deli meat, tiny tomato seedling and Approved Food order
Fruit Trees, Date & Apple Muffins and Sugar Paste Flowers
Fritters, Soup, Gloves and Karen Millen

Glass ramekins and what to do with them

Demo's and anchovy pizza, 39p

Exasperations, interesting impulses and what's happening

Happy News

Post Christmas Diet
More Christmas Gallivants
Christmas en famille
Christmas Pie at the WI, not a 50p one!
Apples, apples and ............. apples!

Even more plums, a few apples and yukky fingers

Cheap lentils, slightly cheaper chorizo, and practically free silky hands

Jamie Oliver's new programme and effing great tellys

Pottering in the kitchen and finding uses for plums

Plums, plums and more plums

The first of the plum harvest

500g packs of Aduki Beans from Approved Foods for 20p!

An abundance of Courgettes

Free Berries From A Good Friend

Monsoon Bargain
Massive Tomatoes @ Tiny Price
Great British Budget Menu - is £1 a meal really such a big challenge
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