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Oops, my information was wrong - sorry. The Sun had only a coupon for £3 off a shop of £13 in Poundland. My son ran into the paper shop and grabbed a copy of the Sun (embarrassment in case he was seen buying the Sun...) and ran out without looking at it (it always has a picture of whatever coupon on the front). He was really disappointed not to get his free veg because they are a vegetarian family with a new baby and skint, to put it mildly. Fortunately, I hadn't gone to get my paper so I bought it off him. I've never spent £13 in Poundland as I seldom find more than one or two things that are useful but I'm sure I can do it this once if I put my mind to it. They sell plastic cups that we use at church, for example. I would like to go back to making my own greetings cards as I used to really enjoy that and I know they sell packs of ready folded cards with matching envelopes. Actually, my eldest granddaughter might well like a pack of those in her Christmas stocking. And the other grandchildren might well find something from Poundland in their stockings this year too... Sometimes they have the shampoo that I like in stock and just occasionally they have a food item that is cheaper there than elsewhere. But I too was looking forward to a free £5 of fruit to make some more jam for the coming year and am disappointed.
I am told that the voucher is in the pipeline so if you are interested, then check out the Sun each week, usually on a Thursday.
On Thursday, our farmer friend was free to come with us to school to teach us how to take down a tree as there was a dead one and we had permission to do it. It saves the school the cost of a tree surgeon and definitely benefits us! The tree was not close enough to a building to be dangerous, which is why they were willing to let us have a go. I was amazed how quickly it came down. There was just the trunk as the branches had been cut off at some time in the past. However, my job was to clear up afterwards... I spent a good four hours sweeping and raking the grass where the tree had been cut up. We filled 6 sacks with the chippings and sawdust which, once dried, will be used to fill strong bags like flour or sugar bags or small boxes to make wooden "logs" to burn. There was still more but we had to be creative in hiding that in the bushes as we had no more sacks : ).
Our friend cut the trunk into big slices with his ginormous chain saw and then left us to it. (He holds this chain saw steady in one hand and sharply pulls the cord to start it with the other hand - I can't even lift the chain saw...) Our job was to ferry the the wood to the car in a wheelbarrow, make the trip home, unload with a wheelbarrow and go back and start again. My husband did the ferrying while I cleared up. I was SOOO tired. Still, for the cost of some diesel, several cakes for our friend and a LOT of tiredness, we will have a nice stash of logs. When we were just about ready to go home for the last time, one of the caretakers spotted us and said that he had put three pallets aside for us. We thanked him kindly but I have to admit that it just about finished me helping to lift them on to the roof bars of the car. We did not get to our lunch until after 4pm as my husband didn't want to stop to eat and I was so tired that I just wasn't hungry.
And I've seen my new little granddaughter four times this week since she was born. Definitely a biased grandmother here. I'm extremely partial to my other three grandchildren but there is something special about a very new baby : )
I am told that the voucher is in the pipeline so if you are interested, then check out the Sun each week, usually on a Thursday.
On Thursday, our farmer friend was free to come with us to school to teach us how to take down a tree as there was a dead one and we had permission to do it. It saves the school the cost of a tree surgeon and definitely benefits us! The tree was not close enough to a building to be dangerous, which is why they were willing to let us have a go. I was amazed how quickly it came down. There was just the trunk as the branches had been cut off at some time in the past. However, my job was to clear up afterwards... I spent a good four hours sweeping and raking the grass where the tree had been cut up. We filled 6 sacks with the chippings and sawdust which, once dried, will be used to fill strong bags like flour or sugar bags or small boxes to make wooden "logs" to burn. There was still more but we had to be creative in hiding that in the bushes as we had no more sacks : ).
Our friend cut the trunk into big slices with his ginormous chain saw and then left us to it. (He holds this chain saw steady in one hand and sharply pulls the cord to start it with the other hand - I can't even lift the chain saw...) Our job was to ferry the the wood to the car in a wheelbarrow, make the trip home, unload with a wheelbarrow and go back and start again. My husband did the ferrying while I cleared up. I was SOOO tired. Still, for the cost of some diesel, several cakes for our friend and a LOT of tiredness, we will have a nice stash of logs. When we were just about ready to go home for the last time, one of the caretakers spotted us and said that he had put three pallets aside for us. We thanked him kindly but I have to admit that it just about finished me helping to lift them on to the roof bars of the car. We did not get to our lunch until after 4pm as my husband didn't want to stop to eat and I was so tired that I just wasn't hungry.
And I've seen my new little granddaughter four times this week since she was born. Definitely a biased grandmother here. I'm extremely partial to my other three grandchildren but there is something special about a very new baby : )
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