Never before has a month seemed to fly by so fast!! It's been a fab start to the year...we seem to be gettting on top of a few things - paperwork (some, not all) plus my business is going great guns and I feel more organised with storage for that too.
And amazingly my food shopping seems to be really working out - lots of freezer food and my beloved Abel & Cole organic order have been so great this month. I've planned a weeks' worth of menus and pretty much stuck to it. Just got into a great routine with it all. I think I have saved quite a bit too which is good as things are a tad tight due to a non-paying tenant (not easy to pay for someone else to live in your house for 3 months!)
I am managing to not spend and not even visit the charity shops (well...only one day of rummaging!) although I am being tempted by Emma Bridgewater again and new shiny pottery - even the brochure is such a treat to read. Maybe in March I will think about a teeny spend in her online shop.
Twice I've made sticky pudding with dates that I got in my weekly box. I'm not keen on eating dates but they do make an amazing pudding. The recipe is much easier than it looks and the results are good.
Also we celebrated Burns' night at church - wonderful haggis and I got to say the Selkirk Grace which is lovely.
We had a friend to dinner last night, one of our neighbours and she brought me a huge bowl of fabulous hyacinths - they are not in bloom yet but their heather-coloured papery skins look amazing just as they are.
All in all a good start to 2011 and now onto February!
1 comment:
We're lucky to live close enough to visit the Bridgewater factory shop. Daren't go too often though...it's so tempting!
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