Oh to be a consistent Target Member!!

I like those big wool headbands/ear warmers as well as sometimes a hat is too warm but my ears are freezing !!

Enjoy your shopping
 
Have a lovely walk, and yes, remember your hat Janet!

It was only 2*C here this morning :winter_brr:

What chocolate bars do you buy from Aldi? My hubby likes the Choceur milk bar with Almonds, and the milk chocoalte coated brazils that are instore for christmas.
 
2*C...oh my...I don't want to see that low anytime soon! You Welsh & northerners are hardier than us southerners!!!

The Aldi chocolate is the Moser Roth...70% dark choc in a box with 5 individually wrapped bars. They make them that way because 'they' know I can't be trusted with a big bar!!!! :p My fave was the 70% chilli bar but the last lot I bought (4 boxes!) tasted a little different and when I checked the small print they'd downgraded it to 52%...not good! Joseph likes the Choceur dark hazelnut bars! He also gets the Moser Roth 85% dark but I find it too bitter.
 
That is true Janet, and it was still only 4*C at lunchtime!

Lloyd see's a huge difference in the temperature when he comes home.

Hubby used to have the Moser Roth individual bars, so, maybe I will get some again for him, he has also had the dark hazelnut, but everytime I buy something different, like the fruit and nut, he moans that he prefers his favourite...lol.... I like really dark bitter chocolate, just don't buy it, or I will eat it!
 
If I'm honest and those who know me can attest to the fact I just love chocolate...and type and flavour except coffee and marzipan! A box of Black Magic used to be my absolute fave but they changed them so much I was disappointed in them. BUT...checked out a box in Morrison's the other day and they seem to have put a good range back in the box again so Joseph said he will get me a box for Christmas. Half will be gone before I get out the bed on Christmas morning!! :D As my old neighbour used to say "I just can't eat those things daintily"....:sigh:
 
Wish you could Jaffa...I have two coffee creams in white choc sitting in a otherwise empty box of chocs. Joseph would eat them but doesn't like white choc.

Had a bit of a day today. We've been sort of hassling our property owner (they're a property company) to replace the big sitting room window, the front bedroom and the whole of the front door unit. They weren't playing ball at all last year but have finally agreed now...but it will put our rent up quite a lot. But the windows are a problem so I feel we just have to bite the bullet and agree to the increase. I don't know why they didn't replace them at the same time they obviously did the ones at the back of the house....

Eating hasn't been very good again today...
I saw some Linda Mc cheese & leek plaits in Morrison's on offer for £1 so got two boxes. I ate one for lunch...23 syns, tasted very nice.
Extras also been pkt snack a jacks, hola hoops, galaxy ripple, 2 biscuits. Enough I think! :( I'll try harder to get back on plan tomorrow.
 
Well I don't think it's illegal because we're agreeing to it and they wouldn't be doing the windows otherwise. When we first moved back here from Spain we moved into a pretty grotty 3 bed maisonette on a 6 month tenancy...we hardly unpacked any boxes because I started searching for another place...it took me several months before this one came up. It's a lovely house; except for those windows so we don't really want to move and I think another place this size would be hard to find.
Truth is that if we moved out now they would let it again as it is, without doing the windows.
 
Evening Janet,

Kind of think it's unfair that your rent increases for necessary repairs.

What type of tenancy agreement do you have?

Maybe under the terms they can't increase it?
 
Well we signed a 6mth contract when 1st moved in and then we went to a verbal agreement which means one months notice for us and two for them. That is standard.
In January we will have been here 2yrs and haven't had any increase in rent during that time. As I said...it's our choice, no windows no increase. They're not forcing us to do anything, rather we have forced them to do something about their windows. It will cost them several thousands and I know we pay our rent but they have done a lot of things to the property that we've asked since we've been here. Basically, we don't want to move and they appreciate us as good tenants who pay their rent on time.
 
Well living on state pension topped up with benefits means it's always tight but we manage.

The temps are about 13*C today I think we'll go to the other part of town and trawl around the second hand shops for a table and four chairs. We have a table and 6 chairs which dominates the dining area...we need to downsize. I wish we could do an exchange in a charity shop but seemingly they don't do that.

Scales were down 3/4lb - 10.4 3/4lb so happy with that.
 
janetelizabeth said:
Well we signed a 6mth contract when 1st moved in and then we went to a verbal agreement which means one months notice for us and two for them. That is standard.
In January we will have been here 2yrs and haven't had any increase in rent during that time. As I said...it's our choice, no windows no increase. They're not forcing us to do anything, rather we have forced them to do something about their windows. It will cost them several thousands and I know we pay our rent but they have done a lot of things to the property that we've asked since we've been here. Basically, we don't want to move and they appreciate us as good tenants who pay their rent on time.
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All seems very reasonable when you put it like that Janet, and the new windows should make the place warmer too!

Shame about not being able to do an exchange with the table and chairs.
 
Yes I know a lot of English housing stock is old Victorian era, we have our share down here too, particularly down in Brighton.
When I was married before I lived in my husband's old family house...circa 1750. One day we had a letter saying it had been listed as a grade 2 listed building. They said the original windows were the thing of interest. Never mind that they we cold and draughty but we weren't permitted to replace them so the best we could do was install secondary glazing.
The inside wall were lathe & plaster and single brick, upstairs were hanging tiles with no insulation beneath. My ex took all the tiles off and felted it so that helped but generally the house was a nightmare. He still lives there!
 
I know that old houses can take a lot of money to maintain and upgrade.

Food for today...more or less!

Breakfast: Options (2) fruit & yogurt hexa, walnuts hexb
Lunch: 1/2 baton of garlic bread, 1/2 bowl homemade soup (1) 2 sausages, SW wedges, baked beans
Snack: Options (2) small bar choc (7) naked bar (7)
Supper: Warburtons gluten free cracker thins hexb (?) small amount feta hexb, tomato, Options (2)

Syns a bit unknown but as I'm at least 3lbs down from the last 2 Saturdays I'm OK with today's eating.
 
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