Where has the weekend gone?!!! I must admit for some reason i'm quite chilled about going to work this week even though i've got a lesson observation for performance management on Friday then the dreaded appraisal afterwards. Normally on a Sunday evening I start to feel a bit anxious about going back to work. Had a lovely chilled out weekend though - well apart from when I had a look at my finances :(. A very tight belt is needed for the rest of this month I think. Definite meal plans and no spending at all on anything that isn't an essential. Have slipped into buying a coffee here and there which I promised I wouldn't. I really have to stop this if I want to get anywhere. As i've mentioned before though we do this as a means of getting me out and about. I'm going to find my flask out for the rest of this month though and suggest a short walk with the dog and a coffee from the flask. Think its just a matter of getting out of these old habits. Once i've broken them i'm sure we will be fine. Got hubby to put on socks and a jumper tonight instead of the usual turn on the fire or put the heating on. Again this is a lazy habit that has to be broken. I've also agreed to don my cleaning up clothes and help to bag and take to the tip all of our rubbish from the garden and shed over a day of the Easter holidays. This is a cost cutting exercise as the tip is only about 3 miles away and a skip would cost about £100. See I am trying!!!
Got treated to lunch today by my brother. I didn't really want to go but he insisted. Was lovely though and I really enjoyed it. It was a thankyou for giving my sis in law lifts home from work every week. Had daughter and grandaughter over for sunday roast tonight. Beef didn't shrink much in the oven so i've got enough left to have with chips and peas tomorrow night. Made an apple pie too and had with custard. Again half left so we will have it tomorrow evening. Bit of a rare treat as we don't usually have a pudding in the week. Could freeze it for next week I suppose but I would have some very disappointed people as they've already been eyeing it up. I was going to take photos of the roast for you but the troops were starving and wouldn't wait. What I did take a photo of though was the amount of peelings I  had. I also had the apple peelings to add and some teabags. Teabags make excellent compost by the way. I haven't bought any compost for the past 2 years as I have 2 compost bins and the quality of the soil that comes out is excellent. I do buy growbags for the greenhouse though. I'm toying woth the idea of putting my tomatoes into pots this year though with some of our own compost. See how it goes?

Hope everyone has a good start to the week. Only 2 weeks left until Easter and hopefully we will all get a break.
Take care

Jules x