by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 21, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
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 difficult enough, without adding in financial restrictions. Well, in an...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 19, 2017 | Christmas, My Diary
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 few other treats. On Friday I went off...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 29, 2017 | My Diary
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 see if I could get any. I was on that site on the dot...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 29, 2017 | My Diary
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 shape. Mike has been doing some paving and it’s...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 20, 2017 | My Diary
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 was on holiday. I had been to this other house 3 or 4 times...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 14, 2017 | My Diary
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 beautiful, clean, shiny, sort of super waxed looking bumper...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 28, 2017 | My Diary
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 really like that too, but I need to create free days to do it in!...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 16, 2017 | My Diary
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 Christmas market there, along...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 5, 2017 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
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 cabin fever and was pacing the house, it was dark,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 24, 2017 | My Diary
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 Sunday and during a vigorous...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 8, 2017 | My Diary
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, even if it isn’t proper walking, you...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 1, 2017 | My Diary
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 Freeview and by the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 11, 2016 | My Diary
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 the other. My ever present Fitbit on my...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 28, 2016 | My Diary
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 When we had arrived and parked, it was still crisp and sunny, but the strong...
