It has been a strange few days since I last blogged on Thursday. Hello and welcome to my new follower Jenny Freeman. Thanks so much for visiting x.
First of all…
KATE AND WILLS ARE BAKING A ROYAL BUN! Congratulations!!
So very excited when this news broke in the UK yesterday afternoon. Cannot wait for the 3rd in line to arrive next year. Much discussion at work about boys / girls and twins as apparently extreme morning sickness is often associated with multiple births.
More good news is Christmas, is bought, paid for and sitting in my spare room waiting to be wrapped. Nothing was bought full price and I was especially pleased with some Clarins sets I picked up which I got 10% off. A saving of £6 across the two. But, the bonus was the free gift, which I then snaffled, and was just as good as the sets I had just paid for.
I am just waiting on something arriving from Ebay for The Chap, which should be here by the end of the week.
As I bought the wrapping paper in January when it was reduced (buy plain gold / red / silver rolls and they last all year - 10p for 3meters). I am ready for the weekend when I will start wrapping.
Christmas cards were also picked up in January at 50p for 10 from Tesco. £1.50 for 30 and that will be it for 2012 festivities.
So that is the good news.
We have had a some bad news this week, a relative has taken a very nasty tumble and is in hospital, battered, bruised and unconscious in Intensive Care. Everyone is flying around visiting and helping out, but it is very upsetting and the relative is a very kind elderly person. No-one should be in hospital this time of year.
This morning, I was late to work, by nearly 90mins as they closed the road. A pedestrian had been hit by a man in his car with his 3 kids in the rear. I had to turn back and completely retrace my journey to get into one of the offices. As I started to swear about commuting, the air ambulance flew overhead, and that shut me up. It really is serious when that arrives.
How quickly anticipation for the Christmas season can seem so shallow, and lives can be changed irrevocably. Not just the pedestrian and my relative, but also the man driving the car and those close to ones taken ill.
Around this time of year there is so much bad news and so many joyless existences. It has really come home to me over the past 4 days.
My Mum is very good at raising funds, and this year she decided that she would raise money for our local FoodBank. Surely a roof over your head and a fully tummy are basic human rights? Well she thinks so and I agree. It is criminal in today’s society, here in the UK people are hungry.
She attended the local Christmas Light switch on with a Bottle Tombola and made £140.
Our local Tesco on Saturday was asking for food donations to the FoodBank and was giving every customer a list of items it needed (all non perishable). I was not able to get much, but I did pick up a tinned pie, tin of peas and some tuna. Tesco then gave another 30% on top of my donation.
I think this is a great idea, but apparently it was only on for one day. I wish there was someway to ask Tesco to have a bin, in which shoppers could donate every week. Just a tin / week from 20% of shoppers would make a huge amount of difference.
So this week, give your loved ones a little extra squeeze from me and if you would like to help out those who are hungry in the UK. Please see here.
Frugally yours
Abigail
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Our local Tesco had this offer on for 2 days, Abigail. I had one of those £5 off vouchers if you spent over £40 so I picked up value goods (£7.96) and was able to put 26 items into the pot. Tea bags, coffee, UHT milk, pasta, tinned vegetables and porridge (probably a bit more but it's now three weeks since). There had been a news article on the local news about how people were living on the poverty line, I actually knew some of these people, and they live quite near me. It's a time for neighbours to help each other.
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