Well on Thursday I did something I swore I would NEVER do......I drove to London!! OK it was Twickenham so it was the outskirts and not Central London but even so! Very proud of myself. :) As the travel was for work I got mileage allowance and they paid for lunch....win, win!! I went to my favourite coffee shop Harris & Hoole for lunch. Got home late and had cous-cous and goats cheese stuffed pepper (all from stores) for dinner so notched up a No Spend Day (NSD).
Friday a work colleague brought me in a Latte and a Cinnamon bun as a treat - the bun was so big I didn't want any lunch, I had a bag of crisps (70p from vending machine) mid afternoon instead. Picked up OH from station for the weekend. Dinner was Chicken with Goats Cheese and Tarragon, home-made potato wedges and salad as had all the ingredients except tomatoes already. Took out new £50 grocery budget for the coming week and promptly spent £37.90 of it, bought things like loo rolls (enough for the next 2 months) as well as food for the weekend/week though. I got some really good bargains too like 2 packs lychee's, reduced from £1.99 a pack to 19p!! They were lovely a juicy too.
Today we had a lovely lie-in, I made cooked breakfast and then ran into town just in time to pay in my £145 before the bank closed. I couldn't do the MS because I had stupidly forgot to print off the briefing notes when I printed off the questionnaire earlier in the week....doh!! We went to Westbury Manor Museum for an hour or so and also had tea and cake (£7.20 from remaining grocery budget), they are a small free museum, they also have changing main exhibits and currently it was bikes through the ages. This is a Spacelander... originals from the 50's are apparently worth around £27k now!!! This is a reproduction from the 80's.
OH had an afternoon nap whilst I pottered around the house catching up on jobs. Tonight's dinner will be ginger & garlic chicken in a chilli tomato sauce with rice picked from my massive pile of recipes ripped out of magazines. Hmmm, might have a nap myself now....

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