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 | Aug 2, 2017 | My Diary
I’m feeling thoroughly birthdayed today. It was my birthday this week, oh how those years whizz by! Mike bought me a magnificent double stemmed orchid, and a lovely soppy card. I seem to have success getting orchids to reflower, so I have quite a collection now....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 26, 2017 | My Diary
I updated my silk flower arrangement today, to be used for the next three months. This is what it looked like before. A base foliage display, fixed in resin in the vase, white Ranunculus and three different shades of Lilac. Stripped out the Lilac and put them away...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 18, 2017 | My Diary
By heck it was hot today. Mike wanted to go for a walk, as he did yesterday. There was NO WAY I was walking in a squillion degrees! It was too hot to do very much until this evening, when the temperature dropped from 31 to a mere 26. I took a few pictures around the...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 31, 2017 | My Diary
I love this gorgeous time of year! Everything is hurling itself out of the ground and I’ve taken a few snaps of what’s happening in my garden. The Iris Ensata are loving our damp, clay soil and are blooming in profusion right now. The bees love them,...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 9, 2017 | My Diary
Day out today. We pootled off down to Alfriston. I wanted to have a leisurely look around after visiting the village briefly on a WI garden group visit to Alfriston Clergy House recently. Cheekily, we parked in the massive car park of the Deans Place Hotel. Parking is...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 16, 2017 | My Diary, Saving Money
How’s your Easter going? We decided to get a leg of lamb on Friday and drove to Aldi at Bexhill to pick one up. But we’d left it too late and they’d sold out, no matter. The shop was completely rammed! We got a couple of other things instead and we’ll get some lamb...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 12, 2017 | My Diary
I have got SO much to tell you! Can’t believe it’s been a week again! Tuesday On Tuesday – the U3A cookery group came to my house and as last month, I got them to explore more recipes using lots of vegetables. We did the Avocado, Orange and Tomato salad, a very quick...
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 | Mar 7, 2017 | My Diary
Fresh flowers, and silk ones I like to have fresh flowers in the house. Not many, just the odd bunch. Last year, I bought a lovely display from Bloom, which makes high quality silk flowers. They are so realistic, that, to start with, I felt compelled to say ‘you do...
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 | Dec 16, 2016 | Christmas
On Wednesday, we had our annual WI Christmas party. It was lovely! We all brought a plate of food to share. I was asked to hold a list of what people were bringing, as several years ago, we had far too many offerings with smoked salmon. Lovely as it is, there is such...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 24, 2016 | My Diary
On Wednesday evening it was the WI garden group Christmas do. We hired the hall where we have our monthly meetings – the garden group usually meet in members homes or go out to gardens to visit. A lovely pot luck supper We all bring something delicious to share....
