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Food and Budget Update: 13/02 to 19/02/2016

Posted on February 23, 2016 by nicdempsey

It that time of the week! Here’s this week’s recap on what I ate and spent on eating. I should start off by noting that it was a bad week not for budget or shopping but for eating because I … Continue reading →

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Life Happened: Small Children…

Posted on February 22, 2016 by nicdempsey

Last week was not an altogether great week. Monday was fine, after work I went to the Baxters to help with bedtime and get told that there was ‘no hitting, no throwing and no throwing stones’ in the Baxter household, so … Continue reading →

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Friday Links

Posted on February 19, 2016 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Here are this weeks links… Koalas are on the endangered species list and get chlamydia. The only thing I knew about koalas before that was that they aren’t actually bears and that sometimes they fall out of trees … Continue reading →

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Breakfast wraps

Posted on February 18, 2016 by nicdempsey

I am a creature of habit in lots of ways, I like routine and when I like eating something, I tend to eat it a lot until I’m sick of it. I’ve about reached that stage with my breakfasts, the … Continue reading →

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Food and Budget Update: 06/02 to 12/02/2016

Posted on February 16, 2016 by nicdempsey

It that time of the week! Here’s this week’s recap on what I ate and spent on eating… SHOPPING  This was the list for this week, which was quite long I tend to split the list into shops, so Lidl … Continue reading →

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Life Happened: Slogging through February

Posted on February 15, 2016 by nicdempsey

It’s the middle of February and February is the month that everyone has SAD. We’ve got through the difficult dark post Christmas days of January and are rewarded with another dark month. It is getting lighter but by teeny tiny amounts so … Continue reading →

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Housework Task List

Posted on February 13, 2016 by nicdempsey

Now that the kitchen is under control, I’ve decided to tackle the rest of the house. So here are the chores that need to be done in for the rest of the flat. I was going to do separate lists … Continue reading →

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Friday Links

Posted on February 12, 2016 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I hope you had a good work week and have fun planned for the weekend. Here are this week’s link… Grace Dent on holidays. Funny When economists ignore human behaviour in favour of rationality, things go wrong. Why … Continue reading →

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White Bread

Posted on February 11, 2016 by nicdempsey

My office is full of interesting people, one of them, who shall remain nameless is the food police. He (and it seems that it’s always a he) lost a lot of weight some years ago and now exercises strict discipline … Continue reading →

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DIY Bleach Spray

Posted on February 10, 2016 by nicdempsey

2016 seems to have started as the year that I can’t stop cleaning. This is mouse related but in January I went through 4 bottles of Flash with bleach and although I seem to have seen off the mice, the cleaning … Continue reading →

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