by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 5, 2017 | Christmas, My Diary
Chocolate or no chocolate Last year I took part in a reverse advent where instead of having a chocolate every day, I gave away items on freecycle or to local charity shops for each day of advent. Well, to be strictly truthful, I try and avoid chocolate as it gives me...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 2, 2017 | My Diary
After spending time in Newark and York, we arrived at our destination for a week, Rothbury. The reason, amongst others, that I wanted to explore this particular part of the wonderful Northumbria is that I wanted to go and see the Alnwick castle gardens. Originally, I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 31, 2017 | My Diary
On our way up to Rothbury, and back down again, we stayed in York for a few days. What a beautiful city, and so full of history, starting way back in 75AD with the Romans. On the day we arrived, we walked for miles around the city, investigating The Shambles, amongst...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 25, 2017 | My Diary
Did you guess we’d been away? I hate not been able to tell you about our adventures whilst they’re happening, but it’s horribly easy to find my address, and you never know who’s listening do you. Don’t want to put an advert out, come and rob this house, they’re away!...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 15, 2016 | Saving Money
Fancy a ‘Free’ holiday? Stressed? Broke? Need a holiday? Want a free one? Well, who wouldn’t want one or three of those! It seems too good to be true doesn’t it. Infeasible, gimmicky and quite possibly untrue. But woah, hold your horses. The concept is mutual...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 28, 2016 | My Diary
Didja miss me? I missed waffling away to you over the past week. We’ve been away again and I’ve agreed not to talk about it whilst away, but I really don’t like it! We’ve been on a fabulous walking holiday in the Swiss Alps. We went with Great...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 24, 2016 | My Diary
We’ve been away! I would love to chat away to you on all the lovely things we do when away whilst they are happening, but Mike thinks it is a security risk and doesn’t like it. I suppose he’s right, it would be easy to find out where we live, so I, reluctantly,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 12, 2016 | My Diary
We’re away for a few days, well, a week in fact. First stop was my Mums on Saturday for her 89th birthday. She’s doing really well (hello Mum – waves), and lives with my sister in a little village near Northampton. Then Sunday we drove 20 or so miles northwards to...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 19, 2014 | My Diary
Did you guess that we have been away? When we got back from our trip to Scotland, DP said that he would rather the world and his wife didn’t know the house was empty, and I reluctantly agreed with him. I have hated not being able to share properly what we’ve been up...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 18, 2014 | Bready Things, My Diary
I have lots of lovely pictures to show you, but they simply won’t load today. The broadband speed is appalling this evening and everything is taking for ever. So I’ll post this and get the pictures in when I can. Shame about the piccies I’ve updated with the pictures...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 6, 2014 | My Diary
Well what a lovely Bank Holiday that was. Nice, sunny, warm day. Pity we don’t have anywhere to sit outside yet. What will be our sit ooterie is currently covered in rubble and building supplies. We went out to our favourite Indian on Saturday evening with DD1 and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 29, 2014 | My Diary
We set off bright and early this morning to drive 300 miles back home. It wasn’t a bad trip at all, we didn’t stop much, just wanted to get home. First thing I did, after picking up the mountain of post on the mat, was check the greenhouse. All looked fine, phew. The...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 28, 2014 | My Diary
First of all, we went to a power station yesterday. It was amazing, there was almost nothing to see from the outside. They had, literally, hollowed out the mountain, Ben Cruachan, and put all the machinery inside and built a dam in a basin on the top of the mountain....
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 27, 2014 | My Diary
Edit, I tried to post this yesterday, but the broadband was even more erratic than usual and I had to give up. So here is yesterday’s post, today. We’re back in Kendall today, so have just driven 200 miles. I’ll tell you about the visit to a power station tomorrow....
