Have their been any thrifty things this week? Not many
- We took a flask and snack to hospital on Tuesday to save using the cafe ( and thank goodness we did as we were there 2 hours longer than we thought.)
- Free heat and hot water as usual
- Used home grown leeks, squash, Brussels sprouts, apples and beetroot plus apricots from the freezer.
- Home made bread all week
- Several extra portions of various dinners have been popped in the freezer, handy for me when Col is in hospital.
- Got a discount on feed by asking around for who wanted bird peanuts/feed to make up to 10 sacks
Today was a big bake day and Col choose sultana buns, I choose coffee sponge and by mutual agreement cheese straws were made too. Some are for the weekend and the rest have gone into the freezer. Plus sausage rolls for dinner and to put in the freezer and 2 mince pies with a scrappy bit of puff pastry that was left over from the sausage rolls. A few years ago that little bit of pastry would have been chucked out but not any more!
We rarely get a hoar frost, the sort that leaves everywhere covered with frosted edges, perhaps because the air is dryer or it's windier nearer the coast.This morning just for a while everywhere sparkled and I snapped the sage
I quickly grabbed the camera again later because the redpolls were back on the niger seed feeder and facing the right way to see the colours. They'd gone a second after clicking so only just in time.
Many thanks for comments yesterday, regarding which I have a dilemma. When I was posting just 2 or 3 times a week I had time to answer comments individually. Now I'm posting everyday I seem to have to choose between answering comments or reading other peoples interesting blog posts or spend longer on line which would leave me no time for reading which would be a Disaster! I do read all comments of course but what to do about answering??
Which reminds me to reply to Phil - Knodishall church is thought to be built in the 15th century around an earlier Norman building. The tower is 15th Century, the buttresses 19th century but there are much later improvements. There is no record of a village around the church but it seems that the village as it is now grew in the 19th century around a green and mill ( a mile away) rather than around the church. The Victorian primary school ( now a house) is actually half way between the church and the newer village almost as if they hadn't decided which part was more important.
Oooops nearly forgot to welcome Marjorie, follower 344 in the google pictures
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Sue
