Monday 21st to Sun 27th January

Monday, 21st

Client meeting at an office in meeting. Fingers crossed, fingers crossed....

Spent £2.79 on lunch but should be able to claim that back.




Tuesday, 22nd

Another client meeting, this time at her house in Greenham/Newbury.

Spent £2.50 on coffee (not in the same meeting, obviously. That would just be mean).
Groceries £4.46
Book - 20p


Wednesday. 23rd

Took the McBaby to see Quartet which was quite a cute watch. Loved the bit where there was an operatic performance and the crowd applauded, prompting the McBaby to start clapping enthusiastically!

£3.60 on cinema ticket
Pyjamas for McBaby £6
Playgroup £1
POundland £3
More groceries £16.19



Thursday, 24th
New room at doctors

£3.09 fruit
£1 cake
£1 tombola
£1 books
Groceries £7.20

Friday, 25th

New route through the Elcot Park Hotel to get to the swimming pool!

Tesco £15.31 and then another £6.51


Saturday, 26th
HUngerford Primary School!

£10 on tea and cakes but paid for with a voucher that I won.
£4.20 groceries
Jumble/books £1.35

Sunday, 27th

A rest home and trip to the seaside in Birchington.

January 14th to 20th

Monday, 14th

CRINGE! Truffle, parmesan and asparagus crisps. Pathetic!

Today's spend: £8.37


Tuesday, 15th

This is now becoming a habit. Went into a hairdressers to make an appointment. Got scared and came out. HELP ME!!

Today's spend: £2.49


Wednesday, 16th

Went to someone's house for a sewing lesson. It did not go well!

Today's spend: £20.21 petrol
£25.13 diesel (I know -we swapped cars halfway through the day. Worked out quite well for MrM.)
£17.12 Baby stuff
£13.79 food


Thursday, 17th
The conference room at the Hilton.

Spends £1.39-coffee
£3 jumble/cake/tombola


Friday, 18th

SNOW, SNOW, SNOW! I couldn't get to Shepton Mallet as planned, so went round the back of a house or something. Pathetic.

Spends: £5.63 on M&S stuff. Not sure what.


Saturday, 19th

New thing was my friend's bedroom to change a nappy!

Spends: £4.28 on oart of my friend's birthday pressie, £1.02 at M&S,




Sunday, 20th

New thing was doing my own house viewing! A first. We shall see how it went.

Today's spends: £20 on food. Think MrM covered me for my share of a lovely meal we had at Cafe Rouge with friends. I think I accidentally diddled them as we split the bill and I forgot that the McBaby had a meal! They're so polite that they never said anything so I will make it up to them next time I see them!

January 7th to 13th

Monday 7th

The front room of the Bear in Marlborough to see my beloved Mark Chadwick perform alongside Rev Hammer and Nick Harper. Awesome night!

Spending:

Drinks £3
Waitrose £10
John Lewis refund of £29
Bike lock £13 (£10 voucher)
Labels for my new shop (cough, cough!) £3


Tuesday, 8th

The back room of Save the CHildren in one of my ridiculous adventures.

Spending:
Wilkinsons £11.21 (£10 with voucher)



Wednesday, 9th

New things were doing a presentation to a group of businesswomen and then the back office of a place near Hungerford where I had a job interview.

SPending £14.36


Thursday,. 10th

Roderick Anthony to make a hair appointment but realised it wasn't for people like me and came out again (I do this a lot with hairdressers -it's akin to going to the dentist for me).

Spending 70p (voucher)


Friday, 11th

Wellbeing centre for the first time since its revamp..

Spending
Cafe rouge - I know, I know £14.95 (£10 voucher)

WIlkinsons £10.76 (£10 voucher)
post office £3.50

Saturday, 12th

Another hairdresser. I need help. PLease could someone brave come with me or book the appointment for me!

£10 M&S (voucher)
£2.60 Bonjela - much-needed



Sunday, 13th

Finished my book, The Tipping Point., loved it!

Also...ta-dah! A no-spend day!

2013!

I can't quite believe 2012 is over! It just flew by - last time I looked, it was February. Is it because I'm getting old or because I spent the year getting to know my newborn? Newborn, schnewborn - he's now a year old!

There have been a lot of changes so as part of my new thing every day, I'm going to publicly state how much I've spent. It should read £0, so shout at me if it doesn't!


January 1 - Tuesday:
Watched Catch me if you can, appropriately, on catch up.

£0

January 2 - Wednesday
My company car went back today, so I decided to drive to Ramsbury to use up some diesel - ahem. We have been to the Bell before, but not to the lovely cafe at the back!

£26.62 EEEK

January 3 - Thursday

Sports Direct. Never set foot in here before but needed some trainers as mine got a bit muddy.

£61.54 - BLIMEY!

January 4 - Friday

The new services in Wincanton. Yay!

£85.38 - not going too well, this non-spending. Should say that I didn't spend it at the new services but on cleaning stuff, petrol, groceries and thank you cards.

January 5th - Saturday
The Duke WIlliam Pub in ickham. very nice and paid for by MrM, so I spent.....


£0

FINALLY!


January 6th -Sunday

The Adjustment Bureau film - not bad and so nice to watch something with a happy ending!

£1.50

December 2012

I can't find my diary and who cares now? We should be looking forward to 2013, not backwards!

22nd: We took a new route down to Cornwall!

23rd: Polzeath beach and Lidl in Wadebridge (don't ask!)

24th:Padstow! Never been here before but will definitely be back - it's beautiful. Checked out my sister's two shops here and enjoyed a pint in the Ship Inn (where McBaby flirted with a little girl for 45 minutes) and a bit of gorgeous walnut bread from the Chough bakery.

25th: A very quiet Christmas with a pre-lunch walk at Mawgan Porth.

26th: The SNowman and the Snowdog

27th: Lots of traffic so cut through Bath and stopped off near Weston-super-nightmare

28th: Was meant to go to a funeral, but McBaby was ill, so I took him to a shop we'd not been to before.

29th: The re-furbed Royal Oak in Ecchinswell. Lovely meal with family in a side room that we shared with that chap off BBC Breakfast!

30th: A walk around Silchester to blow away the cobwebs before stopping off at the Calleva Arms.

31st: The Green Dragon in Marlborough.