by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 21, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Lunches
A Month of Low Syn Budget Meals. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, the lot Are you following Slimming World? Or maybe you’d like too, but can’t see how you can because you’re on a tight budget as well? That’s not an easy combination. Dieting is...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 19, 2017 | Christmas, My Diary
Reverse Advent, Slimming World and Books Do you remember me talking about a reverse advent? I have been getting inexpensive shower gel, some toothpaste, a box of biscuits, mince pies, some tubs of Quality Street and Roses, which I split up and packaged prettily, and a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 29, 2017 | My Diary
A day out to see Adele at Wembley, what an experience! I’m sitting on my sofa, back after a couple of days away. Back before Christmas, I noticed somewhere or other that Adele tickets would be on sale for Wembley. Well, I’m a bit of a fan, so I decided to...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 29, 2017 | My Diary
Changes in the garden and a walk by the sea Changes in the garden The apple tree above has masses of beautiful blossom, hopefully, the apples will follow eventually. Been having a lovely time planting and tidying in the garden this week. Gradually getting it into...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 20, 2017 | My Diary
Getting lost 3 miles from home, lots of digging and a few flowers Getting lost 3 miles from home I forgot to say last time, that I had a frustrating thing happen on Monday. I was supposed to go to the U3A committee meeting. It wasn’t at the usual venue, as that person...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 14, 2017 | My Diary
Bumps, crashes, walks and lunches. Are people out to get me? Bumps I wrote in this post about how a friend had accidentally bumped into me. On Friday, I took the car up to the repairers and they did a lovely job. On Saturday, I picked it up again and we now have a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 28, 2017 | My Diary
A new start, a shortened walk, a pub lunch and stubby onions I’m sorry I haven’t been around much during February, life has got in the way, as it has a habit of doing. I am cutting back on activities as Mike loves to go for a 5 mile walk, then lunch in the pub. I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 16, 2017 | My Diary
Blooming fat demo’s Blooming fat demo’s? Well not quite! I’ve got three separate things to report and I was just playing with the title Long lasting poinsettia In the middle of December, Mike and I were walking in Eastbourne. We had a little browse round the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 5, 2017 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
A brisk Sunday walk and a mulled wine apple crumble Darkness and Light January and February are such dark and gloomy months. I like to get outside whenever I can to get some daylight on my face. Can’t say sunshine as there probably wont be any! Yesterday, Mike had...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 24, 2017 | My Diary
Bugs, diets (again!) bargain mangoes and books It’s still germ central here. I had a hacking cough, a week off, then a head cold. Now Mike has a cold. I’m hoping it isn’t different to the one I had, or I might get that one. On the other hand, I was at my daughters on...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 8, 2017 | My Diary
I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 500 more Had a lovely day today. We wanted to go for a walk yesterday, but it was drizzling all day and we are both fair weather walkers. It was much nicer today, so off we went. We’re really enjoying getting out and walking,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 1, 2017 | My Diary
First day of the new year Happy New Year to you and yours. Did you go out last night to ring in the new year? We didn’t, we very rarely do. We have had enough socialising by now, had enough of eating a lot and are feeling generally partied out. We watched a film on...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 11, 2016 | My Diary
A walk in the sun, a lunch in the pub and big ears What a beautiful day we had in East Sussex today! Warm, sunny and bright, all day. Can’t quite believe it’s less than two weeks to Christmas, feels more like spring! We went for a walk from one end of Eastbourne to...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 28, 2016 | My Diary
A walk in the sun, the wind and the cold at Rye – and a nice warm pub On this beautiful, sunny and crisp day, we decided to have a jaunt to Rye. Mike recently bought a map of walks in Sussex and we wanted to do the one featured in Rye. Ooh, cold winds – brrr...
