Just before half term, it occurred to me that I hadn't seen Master Frugal's PE kit in a while and I joked to him that it must be getting smelly as I couldn't remember the last time he'd brought it home to wash. His reply astounded me.... It's OK Mam, it's not dirty because we haven't had PE in a while.We're way too busy doing extra SATs work to do PE! I spoke to his teacher and he was right, the year 6 pupils are apparently too busy revising for the SATs to do any PE and there were no plans to bring it back until after the SATs had been done.  His teacher was lovely and tried to reassure … [Read more...]

At the start of the month I shared with you my Springtime resolution, which was to lead a healthier lifestyle and today I wanted to give you an update on how the month has gone.I've lost a total of 6lb in April so far which is brilliant, even though it's a little less than I had hoped for as I was aiming for a steady 2lbs a week.  I'm really pleased with the weight that I have lost since I started on Slimming World a few months back - especially as the clothes I've just bought in the sales are now a size smaller than I would have bought before.It's a huge boost trying on clothes in a … [Read more...]

This is the second time I've started to write this post because the first time around went into a fair amount of detail about something that's been worrying me for a few months and turned into a rant about my doctors.  I think I was up to about 700 words before I got to the happy part so I deleted it and I'm going to give you the much abbreviated version instead.Basically, a spot appeared on my arm which wouldn't go away started to look crusty.  I stupidly Googled 'crusty spot on arm' and you can imagine what comes up.  The doctor told me that  he couldn't tell what it is but it should be … [Read more...]

Before I got my Kindle, I used to love nothing more than wandering around the local charity shops looking for new (to me) books to read. I'd read them and then hang on to the books I loved because I would often re-read favourite books. The problem was that my favourite books pile ended up overtaking the bookshelf and eventually a big corner of the garage too.So when Mr Frugal presented me with a Kindle as a gift one day, I was a little bit disappointed that he'd wasted his money as I knew I'd never be able to enjoy reading a book on it. He'd bought me it almost as soon as it came out, more … [Read more...]