Your Day (apart from gardening) - what took place?

Just got back from a nice massage. made me lunch. Has black truffle oil on top.

 

I've been dividing sacks of coal (our Xmas/New Year treat bought multi-save + 20% off voucher) into daily rations to prevent excessive use of it.

 

That requires expensive energy, our stove is fueled by free pallets, Dog sticks and Tesco [1]magazines after the coupons have been cut out.

[1] Remembered that yesterday I spent a while going in and out of a few Tescos (whilst out getting the 90 to 100% off bargains) collecting enough of the free sweets they were giving out to wrap in coloured cellophane and give to Mrs Scrungee for Xmas.

 

10AM, cleaned up kitchen, made some breakfast. did not open gifts yet. watching TV. relaxing.

 

Went for our usuall walk this moning (6am), farmer george was out feeding his bullocks with his tractor, we could see him coming down the road along away away because he had all lights on, then he stoped and turned around and drove down the road backwards i know there's some strange folk around here, but

 

just a good tidy up around the house today.

 

Me too ready for everyone coming over tonight. Quick cuppa and mince pie then start to put the buffet together.

Rusty

 

No gardening for us today as it is far too frosty and cold and I am still recovering with this knee problem so after lunch I suggested we pop over to the garden centre as I had read on their website that they had got a sale on and it would give me a break from being in the house for another day.

Anyway,we had a look round but didn't see anything that we needed in the xmas decoration dept so we carried on walking round until i suddenly spotted an item we had considered buying as a replacement for Mr Kandys old strimmer that packed up in the summer and we can't get any replacements for as they no longer do that make any more because evidently they were prone to breaking down so no garden centres or lawn mower centres stock them now

As we were looking round the stand we saw that they had got a sign up saying there was a 30% sale on certain items although the strimmer we wanted had no sticker on it.Anywayi suggested to Mr Kandy that he asked a sales assistant if that one was in the sale so she took a scan of the bar code and went off to the till to see if it was indeed in the sale.

After a couple of minutes the lady came back and said yes that strimmer was in the sale from £199 down to £139.30 a saving of £59.70

I quickly got out the gift card valued at £100 that Mr Kandy was given as part of his retirement prezzies so all in all we got the petrol strimmer for the grand sum total of £39.30.

 

Bargain, Kandy!!! Well done

 

As it was a sunny afternoon we went for a walk around Arne RSPB reserve. The car park usually has 20 to 30 cars at the weekend, today there were around 150 with probably two or more people in each, the new visitor centre and cafe and promotion on Autumn watch has made this normally quiet place so popular it is not as pleasant to walk around as before but I suppose the mass increase in cafe, shop and car park revenue is what it is all about.
It is also hosting Winter Watch as well!!