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Complicated life

  *** Please enjoy this random photo of some art I bought yesterday. It has nothing to do with my post but I like to add a picture with each blog 🙂**  Life is feeling hard right now. I know and...

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Thursday

 It's been a bit of a busy day.  It started bright and early with our neighbour knocking on the door asking to borrow some milk as they'd run out. I passed them the end of the 6pint bottle we had as...

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Family news

  It's all been a bit epic here in the Frugal household! Poor DH has just returned home from a 2 week (almost...12 days!) Hospital stay. We've had to cope with brushes with sepsis, the possibility of...

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It's Thursday

 Good evening 😊 Thank you all the kind messages and good wishes for DH. He says he feels a little better each day but is getting quite frustrated with his lack of movement. He is okay doing things with...

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That Friday feeling

 It's Friday! Another week survived 😊This morning I popped the children to school and then had a reading cafe session with DD3. It was lovely to have some 1:1 time together. She really does have such a...

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School Christmas Fayre

 Today we took a trip to our Primary schools annual school fayre. The PTA alway put on a great range of things to see and do, this year was no exception.We of course had to visit the Santa's grotto ☺️...

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Easter half term begins

  Hello Strangers.It's been such a long time since I last found a moment to blog. It had crossed my mind a few times lately to come back here and try to get back into the habit of Blogging our little...

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Friday

  Friday was spent mostly at home.  A neighbour of our has been struggling a little with life lately and I've been trying to help out. So on weekdays once I've gotten up and sorted my own household...

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Saturday

  Today we all took a soggy walk into Eastleigh for our first free event of half term. All 5 of the children happily joined in with the Easter wreath making, I couldn't resist a photo of them taking up...

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Sunday - Wednesday

  Sunday's mean church for our family so that's where we spent the morning. We were all invited to take communion which isn't something we regularly do during our services, but we were in preparation...

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Easter Sunday

This beautiful little lady turned 5 yesterday so it's been a little bit of a topsy turvy Easter. We spent the morning at church for the Easter service where we'd been asked to run the kitchen at short...

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Baking experiments and mystery boxes

 I had a lovely suprise this morning when a parcel arrived out of blue from my friend Angela from Tracing Rainbows.A whole box stuffed with ribbons, thread, stickers, card, and all sorts magical things...

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Coronation weekend

 This weekend has been wonderful. On Saturday I put on a little coronation buffet and invited my parents to watch all the goings on with us. We toasted the King with a glass of champagne as the Red...

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Flower power

 I picked up a tray of 20 mixed marigolds for £2.99 a few days ago. I couldn't resist them at such a good price. Yesterday I gave the front garden a good sweep, refreshed the teapots, jugs and planters...

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Not our greatest week

 This week has felt like a bit of a disaster. Our car needed repairs, two of our children have been having difficulties at school and we needed to use the local food bank.It's all felt a bit...

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It's getting warm again

 Today has been very warm and a little bit busy. We had fun though. Miss W was very kindly invited to a birthday party by one of her school friends so while she was attending that I took the other 4...

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Back to school

  The three smallest humans all headed back to school today. Mr G is in year 4, Miss W in Year 1 and Miss C has started preschool.Which means once the older two go back to school tomorrow I will be...

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Tuesday

 The eldest two went back to school today which meant I spent most of the day thinking it was Monday when it obviously isn't! It was just me and Miss C for the day.I'm not very happy with Miss C at the...

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Saturday

  We have completed our first week of back to school. Everyone seems to have had a nice time and though there's been a few hiccups here and there, it could have been much worse!   On Friday I survived...

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Getting into the swing of it

 As much as I still dislike it, I am getting used to having free time during the week while the children are all at school. This morning after I visited the community pantry and had sorted the house I...

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