Weekly blog from North West England about food budgets, cutting bills and frugal living on a tighter than tight budget
My emergency break glass snack bag (which I hasten to add is formed entirely of yellow sticker purchases and cashback app freebies) has taken a serious battering this past month. The more I think about eating better and starting to get out and start running again, the more I snack. I always have my snapping... Continue Reading →
This is not a reblog for a specific post. This is a reblog for the YouTube channel J Mantzel. Jamie was on Ben Fogle's New Lives In The Wild and, give or take the computer games, is pretty much what I would be if dumped on an island. His thought processes make sense. His ability... Continue Reading →
I've joined up. Why not give it a go...
If you're broke, taking a bath isn't going to help because it costs more to take a bath than it does to have a shower and I can tell you this as someone who budgets for every drop of water and every cubic whatever of gas and electricity. Also, showers are equally gadget free zones.... Continue Reading →
There have already been some far reaching implications from the new work from home style that has affected everyone. I hadn't thought about all the implications but a radio phone in recently made me think more deeply about this. Many businesses may decide they can keep doing this, and in fact may have had their... Continue Reading →
I've been lucky. My life hasn't changed much, if at all. And my family have all done pretty well too. My second niece was born mid-May, but I'm not upset about having not met her yet. I live a long way from my family. I am used to only seeing them four or five times... Continue Reading →
The UK Missing Persons Unit website is one of the most haunting websites I have ever looked at. On the site are approximately 570 cases of unidentified bodies found in the UK from 1966 to the present day. Many are homeless people. Many are suicides. Some are homicides. Some are parts of bodies. Many are... Continue Reading →
I have now been living in my flat here for two years and two months. It's the longest I have lived in one property since 2012. For the first time it's given me a sense of what it could be like to settle permanently. Not here of course, because I don't want to spend the... Continue Reading →
Growing up, there was a lot of tv and radio comedy in my life. The 1980s and 1990s were full of progressive new comedy styles. Sure, I'd listened to a lot of my parent's comedy - the Goon Show, Peter Sellers and Dudley Moore, Carry on Films, Round the Horne. But then there was a... Continue Reading →
I've been thinking about how nature has changed since lockdown. I see more of it. I hear more of it. The Wood Pigeons strut down the road like they own the place. I can hear Blackbirds calling in the evening, hear the Swifts screeching overhead and listening to Goldfinches is a joy. Now every time... Continue Reading →
Fit for Denton 