Sharing from the wrong side of consciousness really..so it may get bumpy.
1. September is here, its windy, rainy and the trees have given up and are surrendering their leaves and conkers etc with nary a complaint.
Hey you hear that segment on the radio about tree's stomach's rumbling? must find the link…
2. September for us is b-us-sy. We have visitors, birthdays, parties, relatives all in a concentrated area of time. its like all our plans have slid together and bunched up. Weird how that happens sometimes and then its the C word round the corner.
3. The sun is coming up later now and when it does it turns the sky the most amazingly deep blue. Im talking early doors though…
4. Strictly is back. Whoop-de-Whoop. I love it. Not sure who half the celebs are but im thinking that the dancers are becoming crowd pullers themselves right?
5. Also (and i hate myself for saying this) ive actually enjoyed the X factor (the bits i have seen) and it has mostly to do with one Gary Barlow. Isn't he lovely….
6. Thoughts on going to a hotel/restaurant for Christmas lunch? I know i said i wouldnt mention it but i was thinking about it today and wondering if its worth a look. I, obviously, have to work christmas day at some point (yeah…really…'please don't push and go home and watch the royal family…doesn't work) ..so thinking lunch out might take the strain…although there is the thought of 5 off the chart excited kids raising havoc in a constrained area.!!!
7. A friend of mine has recently found out they are having an oopsiedaisy baby 🙂 and its a girl. Hooray said i….Not least because girlies are lovely (don't fling the eggs, boys are too) but mostly because i have a one plan drop off shop for all our hand me down girlie stuff.
8. Hubster was telling me about a price comparison site you can go to and just put in the barcode number on you grocery receipt and it will do a price comparison and you can claim the difference back. Anyone use it? Seems like it could be a good idea or one of those things that you curse the amount of time it took to get 60p back.
9. Someone tweeted that something they had on ebay sold with one bid for 99pence. That has got to suck. That probably doesnt even cover your shoe leather costs for walking to the post office.
10. I went to a meeting at school this evening which was about kids music lessons in school. Little miss M is keen to learn the violin and i was flabbergasted that they lady doing the presentation kept stopping and waiting and asking for quiet and shhhh-ing the toddlers and babies who were in with their families for the meeting. My view, if the school don't want small kids in meetings then they need to give an alternative..like a creche. Until then…its pretty darn hard to get an 11 month old who thinks walking is the greatest thing she has done so far (which i suppose it is) to stop moving, sit still and be totally quiet…geeez…
and with that i am fuzzily signing off…
yes…
i know….
fuzzily isn't a word…
why don't you do a ten on tuesday and link it somewhere so i can check it out. twitter: apartyofseven 🙂
teamjames
I’ve not used a regulary price comparison site, but if you shop at Asda, they guarantee to be 10% cheaper than anywhere else. I go to their site, stick in the details off the receipt and nearly always get a voucher even though they are almost always the cheapest to start with. Sometimes it’s for under £1, but it is regularly £3+, sometimes as much as £6-7 if I’ve done a really big shop. Then you just print off the voucher to get money off your next shop. Not quite the same as cash in your pocket, since you have to go back to Asda to spend it (a brilliant way to garner customer loyalty though). But it’s definitely worth the time spent keeping receipts, visiting the website and printing off a piece of paper.