by Thrifty Lesley | May 6, 2020 | My Diary
Stuck in limbo in a loft extension It’s ages since I’ve done a catchup post. I’m trying to update lots of recipe posts to make them look nicer and be more usable, bring back cheap family recipes from the dead with all the recipe loading that...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 21, 2017 | My Diary, Saving Money
Progress at last! The Loft For the last 18 months, we have been trying to get planning permission to convert our loft space. We don’t want anything complicated or too expensive, just a bedroom each end and a bathroom, and the stairs, in the middle. For all the fuss...
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 | May 15, 2015 | My Diary
I fancied bran flakes for breakfast this morning. I had finished the packet I had been using, so got another one out of the cupboard. When I opened it, the flakes were horribly stale, and when I checked out the best before date, it wasn’t surprising – 1st July 2012!...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 17, 2014 | My Diary
I’m off to a funeral today. We weren’t really close, but she was a relative, so I’m off to pay my respects. So I thought I would show you a quick kitchen update. You can see the size of the space more now. The table is out there now and being used...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 6, 2014 | Christmas, My Diary
The kitchen is coming along beautifully. Most of the floor is down now and I hope to get the tree up in the next few days. We moved the table out there today and had our first meal on it. I didn’t remember to take a picture of that until it was too gloomy! The...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 21, 2014 | My Diary
The de-humidifier has been running, but the windows were still streaming this morning. It all takes a while to dry out. Walls next! Yesterday, SIL-to-be plastered our ceiling. Not much to look at in a picture, but another big step forward. The de-humidifier has been...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 13, 2014 | My Diary
Several things to report back on today. I have been quiet I know for a week, but I have an excuse Miss! There is a lot of colon cancer in my family, much of my Dad’s family dying from it, so I am monitored on a regular basis. Two years ago they found something that...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 18, 2014 | My Diary
Lots of progress today. The oven was disconnected and moved out of the way. The new oven housing was put in place, the oven fitted, and connected. The microwave is in the housing above. Eventually, I will replace that with a flat bed combi oven that fits the space...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 11, 2014 | My Diary
I have now updated the 4th meal plan with current prices. A couple of things have come up while I was doing this and the other ones. mySupermarket totals are inaccurate! I had no idea, did you? I only noticed because I was creating the shopping list simultaneously...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 7, 2014 | My Diary
This is where we are up to today. The picture above was taken this evening, showing the 300mm pullout unit in place, without the metal baskets. To go back a few steps, the corner, emptied out. The corner with some floor tiles down to go under the unit as it is a walk...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 27, 2014 | My Diary
Spotted these little fellas having a team bath this morning and took this picture of them through the window. Didn’t dare move in case I scared them off. DP has been working hard over the last two days getting the old tiles and hardboard off the kitchen floor....
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 22, 2014 | My Diary
In addition to the soup post today, I thought I would give a bit of an update on the kitchen, and other things. As you can see from the picture, there was some ‘dobbing’ and ‘dabbing’ going on today as DP and SIL to be lined the new part of the kitchen with...
by admin | Jul 21, 2014 | My Diary
Edit: How extremely annoying. I posted this last night and WordPress for some reason decided to chop it off right at the beginning, and I can’t access the Revision copies either. So I’ve had to re-write what I could remember. Goodness knows what you...
