Monday, 30 November 2009

17 Again

Welcome time cadets. You're probably feeling a little disorientated at the moment if you've just zipped on along from looking at Helen in 1999 so take some time to let your body catch up.

Feeling better? Great. Welcome to 1984, I hope the ride wasn't too bumpy. Once again, I must remind you that there should be no smoking, eating, drinking, video taping or flash photography whilst in the time machine. The first one because it's bad for you. The second two because they are bad for the time machine (crumbs and liquids can play havoc with the circuits). And the third? Well they're bad for me! It's enough that I have all this memorabilia - nobody else needs to have it too!

OK, so here we are in 1984. See that young girl, full of hope and optimism for the future? She's over there, posing prettily on that ugly barbed wire fence? OK, you can see her? Good. Well... that's me! Aahhhh... 1984... I remember...

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My hair colour is... brown. Mousy brown if you prefer. Pretty boring and I've not thought about colouring it at this point.
My hair style is... long(ish) and permed. Oh, the perms! Why, why, why do I ever think having a perm is a good idea? I envision flowing soft wavy curls but end up with tight poodle style hair that takes forever to loosen and grow out at which point I do it all over again. Must remember to remind myself of this if I ever decide to have a perm in the future.
My favourite brand of makeup is... nothing really. I've never been one much for makeup. If I do wear anything it's a bit of mascara but to be honest I don't even wear that much.
My "fashionable" item is... that whole plain t-shirt under a more dressy shirt look. Basically what I'm currently wearing. You may not be able to see it from where you're sitting but this green shirt I'm wearing has a pattern of black gridlines all over it and the buttons are black too. I feel really good. Modern. With it.
My favourite outfit is... the one I'm wearing, I love the little ties on the ends of the 3/4 length sleeves. I love to dress up, I love colour but still like to pair it with black. Classy. That's me.
My favourite colour is... red. I know, I know, I'm not wearing red at the moment but it is red. I'm drawn to it like a butterfly to a flower.
I drive a... shhh... don't tell anyone but I haven't passed my driving test yet so I obviously don't have a car. I'm having lessons and hope to pass soon.
On a Saturday I go... in to town with my mum. We shop and shop and shop, well I say shop, we mostly just walk around the shops looking at stuff, then meet up with my aunts, uncles and cousins in a café or restaurant somewhere and have lunch. We'll be in there all day though.
On a Saturday night I go... either round to my boyfriend's house or he'll come mine and we'll watch a couple of videos. Sometimes we'll go out for a drink at a pub somewhere.
On a Sunday I go... nowhere special really. Probably I'll see my boyfriend again and go out for a drive perhaps?
Monday-Friday I go... to work. I work as a junior accounts clerk for a really small firm of accountants called Glyn-May, Bird & Co. Once a week I go to college on day release, I'm working towards getting my AAT qualification.
My best friend(s) is/are... I'm going to have to say Nick, my boyfriend. I don't really have many other friends. He's a 'bit' jealous and possessive you know and so I don't really have any friends outside of him.
My favourite place to go out is... the Grasshopper pub at Ashburton. My boyfriend dj's there sometimes and so I go along with him.
My favourite subject at school is... well, I left school last September, after just a couple of weeks in the 6th form, but it was physics.
When I grow up I want to be... happily married with a couple of children. I'm not sure about this career I've fallen in to, I suppose I'll just see how it goes.
My favourite drink is... pernod, black current juice and lemonade!
My favourite food is... roast. Chicken, beef I don't mind but my absolute favourite is roast belly pork. Yummmm... crackling.
My favourite shop is... Top Shop. It's cheap.
I want to marry... my boyfriend.
My favourite actor/actress is... a toss up between Tom Hanks or Kathleen Turner.
My favourite band is... Wham! George Michael is a girls dream.
My favourite TV programme is... Just Good Friends. Penny and Vincent are so funny.
The one thing I want to do but can't is... I can't think of anything off the top of my head. I'm pretty happy with life at the moment.
My most used mode of transport is a...
bus. I have to catch one everyday to and from work. Sometimes my mum or dad will pick me up but not very often. So, it's the bus for me.
If I had all the money in the world I would... love to travel. I've not really been anywhere and there's so many places I'd love to visit.
I wish I could visit... America and see if it's like it is on the telly.
My favourite sport is... gymnastics. I was Devon's under 14s schoolgirl champion but stopped a couple of years ago as I was getting too old. Still love to watch it though.
This autumn I... don't know what I'll be doing. Life is pretty much the same at the moment. Nothing exciting happening.
At Halloween I dressed up as... nothing. We don't really celebrate Halloween in the country. It looks like it's big in America though.
I recently saw... Ghostbusters and thought it was... okay, not as good as it was hyped up to be. Everyone was talking about it and I'd built it up to be so fantastic. Felt let down really.
I am reading... Pride and Prejudice - again! Love, love, love that book.
The big newspaper story this year is... the minor's strikes. I'm not really following it much, it's boring, but it's all over the news.
The most dangerous thing I've ever done... isn't really dangerous, just stupid. I shoplifted some sweets from a shop near school. I was 12 or 13 and all my friends were doing it so I just did it too. I got caught. First and only time and I got caught. Probably a good thing though, except it didn't feel like it at the time because the school called mum and dad!
The furthest away from home I've ever been is... up to Cambridge to see dad's family. They all live up there. At the moment I'm in North Wales so pretty far from my home in Plymouth.

Ok, time cadets I'm sorry I wish we could stay longer but time waits for no man (hahahaha) and we need to move on so please strap yourselves in and get ready to travel forward to 1995 where we'll be able to catch up with Caroline and see what's she's up to.

Sunday, 29 November 2009

We Are (Almost) Ready For Launch



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Are you ready cadets? This is mission control. Please remain seated at all times. Keep your arms and legs inside. No smoking, eating, drinking, video taping or flash photography. We are (almost) ready for launch.

Be prepared to go on a journey through time, not space. Check in will be at 4pm tomorrow, Monday 30th November 2009, and be afraid, be very afraid. Warning: links may include dodgy 70s clothes, scary 80s hair, or 90s, well, can't think of anything too bad with the 90s so you may be alright with those!

Saturday, 28 November 2009

Today

Let's talk playlists. Today I'm listening to:

  • Crazy In Love - Beyoncé

  • Happy Day - Tim Hughes

  • Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyoncé

  • Feeling Good - Michael Bublé

  • Love Song - Sara Bareilles

  • Low - Flo Rida

  • Off I Go - Greg Laswell

  • Umbrella (Christ Mix) - Coffey Anderson

  • 7 Things - Miley Cyrus

  • Toxic - Britney Spears

  • How You Remind Me - Nickelback

  • Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers

  • Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

  • The Man Who Can't Be Moved - The Script

  • I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas

  • 1234 - Feist

  • Another Now - Kate Alexa

  • Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie

  • Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron & Wine

  • Don't Speak - No Doubt

  • That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings

  • Hurt - Christina Aguilera


Quite a mix. Particularly loving 'Off I Go', 'Hurt' and 'Feeling Good'. What are you listening to?

Friday, 27 November 2009

Freebie Friday #2

Yay! At last. Apologies for the delay but I do have an excuse. In fact 78 of them. That's how many cupcakes I have made today. To say I'm physically exhausted is an understatement. Anyway, more on that another day.

This has obviously meant though that it's taken me longer than I thought to get this weeks freebie online and posted. But the wait is over. Welcome to Part I of my Kit's Kitschen digital kit.

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Hope you like them. Just click on the 'Download Now' button and Bob's your uncle. Which for most people would be very odd but for me it isn't because I DO have an uncle called Bob!


Please let me know what you think of them again if you create something with them please post a link and let me see. Thank you.



Watch This Space

Freebie Friday #2 will be arriving later today.

This week and over the next few weeks I've decided to try out something new. A whole digital kit. Each week I will post a download link to different parts of the kit, which if you come back each week and download you'll eventually end up with a whole kit. I've not done this before. Finished a kit that is. So hopefully this will spur me on to do just that.

So what's on the menu this week? Some beautiful softly embossed dotted papers. Don't forget to pop back later today and check it out.

Thursday, 26 November 2009

So...?

What's occurin'? I'll tell you what's occurin'. Gavin and Stacey. That's what. Ow, I'm not gonna lie to you... it's lush, it is... crackin'!

All of which will only make sense to those of you who've watched it.

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Top Kit Tip Tuesday

I imagine there are a lot of you out there currently thinking, planning and preparing for Shim's Journal Your Christmas class. I'm right there with  you.

This will be my 3rd year of taking this class (remember you only pay for the class the first year and thereafter you get to do it again, and again, forever at no cost! FREE). However, I've not yet completed an album. I want to mumble in a very quiet voice here, as I am ashamed to say, that I've pretty much only kept up for the first 3 or so prompts.

But not this year. Oh, no siree! No, I'm not going to put undue pressure on myself but, thanks to Shim's Blogging for Scrapbookers class, I'm going to utilise my blog to help me. If I don't have time to sit down and create I know I will have time to just jot down a few notes or post a photo as a memory aide. That way I'll be able to go back over my posts and catch up as and when I have extra time. Clever, eh?

So, on to the point of this post. Digital Christmas kits. There are some great kits out there, along with some, shall we say, not so good kits! These are some of the ones I'm currently loving, in no particular order (just click on the thumbnail and it should take you to that store):









Some of those kits have some great add-ons too so don't forget to check them out too. And here is a bunch of other random Christmas/Winter stuff I just really like the look of:



Saturday, 21 November 2009

A Room With A View (Inside and Out)

Welcome to Blog Around The World.

I loved Play School as a child. Jemima, Humpty, Big Ted and Little Ted. Brian Cant. But one of my most loved things was the 'Through The Window' section. Which brings me round neatly to introduce this blogtrain where we will, if it all works according to plan, take you on a look through windows all around the world. A trip that should take you round the UK, to the US, to Australia, to Europe and who knows where...

This is the view from my Swindon, Wiltshire, UK, window today:

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A grey, dull, some would say, typically English day. This was take at around 2pm this afternoon. And because it looks like this outside, this is the view you would have seen inside:

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Yes, they are playing the Disney trivia game, apparently No.1 daughter won! No my son does not normally wear such highly 'fashionable' (fashionable in the 60s) trousers but was showing off his new costume to Grandma.

So what next? Or should I say where to next? Well click on over here and check out Debs, not too far from me, just a hop, skip and a jump to the county of Hertfordshire and she'll tell you where to go from there (politely tell you that is!). I've never been to Hertfordshire (those few words remind me of a song, guesses on a comment below), it's probably one of the few counties I haven't but it does have one thing in common with Swindon. A Magic Roundabout. No not to be confused with  this one but these ones, here and here.

Have fun on your travels, I know I'm looking forward to looking through those windows. The only question is, will it be the round one, the square one or the arch one?

Friday, 20 November 2009

Children's Noticeboards

Must take photos and blog and scrapbook about these. They sum up their personalities. What they are in to. What they are passionate about. Their tidiness/untidiness etc.

Freebie Friday #1

So here we are, at the first of my Freebie Fridays and here is the first freebie:

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As I said in this post I started to design this Holly Berry kit with the intention of creating my first full kit but it never materialised. I'm not sure why. I think partly because I wasn't confident of my skills as a designer, partly because I thought what will I do with it once it's done and partly because work just took off and I didn't find time to go back to it. If you like it please just click on the 'Download Now' link above and it should take you straight to the download page. This is the first time I've tried anything like this so if you have any problems please say as I have plans for more stuff like this so want to get it right.


If you do download it please let me know what you think of it and if you actually create something with it I would love to see it so please post a link in the comments. Thank you and hope you like it.

Kissing For Cash

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I had a job interview last week. The company I was working for went in to liquidation over the summer and I've been looking for another job ever since. We need me to get a job. The job interview last Friday was for the post of  school auditor for the local council and I really, really wanted it. It sounded so interesting and would be a great opportunity for me. Plus it was school hours and term time only - and we mothers know those are like gold dust!

I heard today that I wasn't successful. It's frustrating and not a little deflating but I have to take comfort in the fact that I have sor far applied for 2 jobs and have got called for interviews for both of them so that's something.

After I told Noah he told me how sorry he was and then went off to do whatever it is 7 year old boys do. After 5 minutes or so he came back and we have a conversation that went like this:

N: Mum, I have a job for you. Every day if you give me 5 kisses and 5 hugs - I'll pay you. That can be your job!
He then proceeded to 'collect' his kisses and hugs and then comes back a few minutes later with a handful of coins from his money box (around £1.50 or so - I definitely spotted a 50p and a £1 coin plus some coppers).

Me: Noah, I don't need or want to be paid for kissing and hugging you as they are my pleasure and I would in fact pay you for hugs and kisses.
He becomes insistent that he pays me and we argue/haggle over this finally settling on my just keeping 1p.

N: Just think mum if you do this every day for the next year you will get £3.65, £3.66 in a leap year. And you can do shifts if you'd like!

THIS is what being a parent is all about. Better than any paid employment.

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

This Day In History

Time flies by so fast which is one of the reasons I love blogging. It records all those things, the little things, the big things, that you would otherwise forget. I've been blogging since August 2005. I started for a variety of reasons. As a way to try and keep in touch with my friends and family back home in the UK whilst I was living in Nova Scotia, Canada. For therapeutic reasons, enabling me to 'get things of my chest', to be able unload some of the stuff I was working through (the homesickness, the struggle of living in a different country, missing proper bacon!). At a basic level as a diary, a record of the little things the children said, a record of our day to day.

So what does this day, month, season look like over the past 4 years? What was I doing on, or around, 18th November?

  • November 2005 - Stumbled at the first hurdle here as there are NO entries at all for the month of November 2005. I couldn't understand why? I was at the top of my blogging high and enthusiasm - hey I'd only been blogging 3 months! But once I looked at the first entry of December I realised why - we moved countries in November! Aha! Now I understand why I may have been a little too busy to blog. So November 2005 saw our leaving Nova Scotia and returning to England.

  • November 2006 - No actual blog entry for the 18th but one for the 23rd. It's funny to read this one as I am still struggling with some of the same thoughts and ideas, scrapbooking related, now as I was then. I always seem to put myself under so much pressure to create 'the' layout rather than just letting go, relaxing and just having fun. Although I seem to be making some headway in this department as I did actually scrapbook recently and didn't procrastinate. I just did it.

  • November 2007 - LOL, I have no idea whether I blogged in the month of November, or even in December or January (2008) for that matter as this is around the time I got my first iMac and I made the, in hindsight, bad decision to move my, then Typepad, blog to iWeb (an iMac application). I talked about my move to iWeb here and then just a few months later about my return to Typepad here. It's interesting to see that I'd been wanting to move away from Typepad for longer than I realised. Incidentally iWeb obviously didn't work for me as I only made 2 blog entries over 3 months and they were so boring that I didn't even bother to import them back into Typepad!

  • November 2008 - Again nothing for the 18th but a blog entry on the 19th and interestingly it's about another blog move this time from Typepad to a self-hosted Wordpress. Which means that tomorrow is my 1 year Wordpress blog anniversary!


I'm generally not one for looking back, preferring to look forwards to the future, but it is interesting to see how far you've come or how your life has changed over a set period of time. In the process of looking back on some of my earlier posts it was funny to find references to my eldest daughter as a 9 year old - she is now 13 - and to just take a moment to see how she has grown and changed and matured.

So what about you? What were you doing this time last year? Or the year before? Or even the year before that?

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

The 'C' Word

By which I mean christmas!

Yes, I know, it feels too early to mention this upcoming holiday but it is looming really fast. I always feel like christmas is like the dinosaur in the side mirror of the Jurassic Park movie and should come with the warning 'objects in the mirror are closer than they appear'. Christmas still seems to be ages away but it is in fact only 5 weeks and 4 days away!

So why am I talking about christmas? Because, for those of you so inclined, there are a couple of really great classes out there to help you record your christmas memories, traditions etc. And for the discerning shopper amongst you they are great value for money.

First up there is a free, yes totally free, class being offered by Jessica Sprague, Holidays In Hand. This class will help you to focus on what matters most to YOU during the holiday season, no matter how you celebrate. Instructions on how to sign up for this class can be found when you click on the Holidays In Hand link above. Jessica's classes are really great, especially for digital scrapbookers and you can access the class content FOREVER. I love her classes, in fact Jessica Sprague was instrumental in my quest for digital scrapbooking know-how and got me started in the first place.

The other class I would highly recommend is Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas class which works for both digital and traditional scrapbookers. Yes, there is a small charge ($32 US dollars or £20 UK pounds) but you get to automatically do the class every year for free for however long you want to join in. I first signed up for this class in 2007, then tagged along again in 2008 and will now be doing it again this year. You have to agree that that is great value for money!

My plan is to try and incorporate ideas from both classes in to one journal or album. So far I've not completed a full christmas journal but am hopeful, as always, that this year will be THE year.

Watch this space...

Freebie Fridays

I've got my blogging mojo back! And along with it my scrapbooking and digital designing mojos.

So to celebrate this I am going to start Freebie Friday where I will either give away something I have designed myself (dependent on time, although I'm good for a few weeks as I've been playing for a long time) or point you to someone else who is giving away a freebie that I like the look of. Sound good?

This Friday I will be giving away a set of papers I made as part of a kit I started designing called Holly Berry (gold star for guessing a christmassy theme). I never did finish the kit, only getting as far as the papers but if people like the papers enough then maybe I'll be persuaded to design the other stuff to go with it?

So don't forget to check my blog entry for Friday and pick up a set of digital papers at the same time.

A Whale Of A Time

Yes, quite literally, I've been having a whale of a time. A 7ft 6in, according to Richard, who is a man and obviously needs to know these things precisely, whale of a time.
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Why (and yes, I've asked myself this many times over the last 2 weeks)? The crêche at church are currently telling the story of Jonah and they asked, as they have this idea from somewhere that I'm 'crafty', if I had any ideas? Well, I always have ideas I'm just not sure if I should in future tell people what they are because before you know it you've volunteered to make a HUGE papier maché whale! And I've never done any papier maché before!

So where to start? Obviously first step was to search the web for 'papier maché whale'. Results? None, unless you wanted to make a little 12" 2D whale to put on the wall. The other end of the search fell in to the 'I want to make a whale as big as a house for my museum' category. Not helpful. So it was back to having to use my creativity and come up with a way to do this. The main problem was creating the framework for the papier maché to be laid onto. I briefly went down the route of 'can I find balloons big enough to support my whale sized proportions' but quickly discarded this as no, I probably couldn't. Chicken wire saved the day - and I have the scars to prove it!

After that the rest was easy, if not time consuming. The most frustrating part was waiting for it to dry between applying layers and the fact that it was a 3D object which meant covering all sides of it.

So my life this last week or so has consisted of: papier maché, dry, turn, papier maché, dry, turn, papier maché, dry ... I'm sure you get the picture.

He went down a treat though. And yes, I do mean he. It's definitely not a she - just ask Noah. He complained when I once referred to it as a she, "but mum, I'm surrounded by girls, there are already 4 in this house and only 2 boys, can it be please be a boy whale?".

Who's the 4th girl? Well that's a post for another time but I will tell you it's a hamster named Ruby.

Thursday, 12 November 2009

A Layout

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Credits:



Papers: Softly Dotted - Amy Wolff, Once Upon A Whimsical Morning - Lilypad Designers, Deacons Closet Reloaded - Studio Flergs, Sweater Weather - Kate Hadfield
Scalloped Strip Masks - Katie Pertiet
Happy Overlay - Mary Ann Wise
Flowers: Fresh Air - MSA Collab, Time After Time - Ferguson & Rockwell, Katie Pertiet
Paint Splotches - Studio Flergs
Label/Pin - Katie Pertiet
Glitter Action & Journaling Label - My Own

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

"I'm Only Good At 2 Things Mum"

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That's according to him that is:

Me: What are you good at?
Noah: Maths and ICT. Do you know what ICT is? Well, I've learnt how to break a laptop using only my fingers!

LOL, what can I say to that?

Apparently he told the teacher but she said not to worry "it was only a spring".

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Monday, 9 November 2009

My New Look Blog

And I'm not ashamed to admit that it's had me tearing my hair out at times! I can't count the number of times I got it 'almost' right but then there would be one little thing that just didn't look right and then I'd tweak it only to find that it had, somehow (don't ask me how) messed EVERYTHING up. I then ended up having to reinstall and start from scratch.... arrrrgggghhhh.

The hardest part was trying to find a basic theme that would allow me, with my limited CSS and HTML skills, to customise it and get it to look the way I would like it to look. I spent hours, and I mean hours, trawling the internet looking for just the right theme and guess what? It turns out that the default theme that's installed with Wordpress is just perfect. Wouldn't you know?

Anyway, here it is. Complete. The graphics side of things was sorted out in the wee hours of this morning (which was not a good idea considering I had to get up again at 7am - Jools + 5 hours sleep = not a good mix) and I've spent the better part of today trying to work out how best to fit it in with my main domain page, getting the links to work, coding up my main domain HTML and CSS to match the Wordpress blog. I still need to sort out my blogroll and other links but to all intents and purposes I'm done. This is it. For now anyway!

And who knows I may actually blog now...

Saturday, 7 November 2009

Highly Recommended

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I’m sure that most of us are feeling the effects of having to tighten our belts in this economic climate. I know we are, especially as I currently am not bringing in a second income. In our home the largest expenditure (after the mortgage) is our food bill. I should feel ashamed admitting that, I know(I have those lines in Dirty Dancing going through my head – “Are there still starving children in Europe?” “Try Southeast Asia”) but with a family of five, 3 of which are growing children that’s the deal. I’ve commented to friends that when my children come home from school it’s like a plague of locusts, they come in through the front door, rapidly moving down the hall to the kitchen and proceed to eat anything that’s edible! I’m lucky if I get a “Hello mum…”.

A job doesn’t seem to be easily obtainable at the moment, not for want of trying and a job interview next week, so in the interim we are cutting back where possible. The food bill, the one that could possibly support a small country, is something we can cut back on. To start with buying our groceries online helps. It really does. However, this has gone by the by since the beginning of the summer holidays and I just haven’t got back in to the routine of it. Also Richard has argued, on more than one occasion, that the delivery cost is expensive but I disagree. The delivery charge is less than the cost of the all the extras/impulse buys that inevitably find their way in to the shopping trolley when I do the shopping in real life so to speak!

The big question is do I shop online with Sainsbury’sAsda or Tesco? My shop of choice is Sainsbury’s. Richard’s is Asda. This difference of opinion is largely affected by our different cultural backgrounds, which is perhaps a post for another time.

However, today I decided to get back to that routine when Richard tells me about this brilliant website that he’s seen. It allows you to compare and shop. But it also does so, so much more than that. In short. It. Is. Amazing! Let me tell a little bit about it.

First off the website is mySupermarket and you’ll need to create an account. Don’t worry it’s free. You’re then given the option of shopping with your store of choice, for which I obviously chose Sainsbury’s. But what about your ‘favourites’? You know, the easy option you have of shopping directly online with your store of choice? Where you can just call up your favourites and add them to your shopping cart? No problems you are given the option of importing your favourites. You just click on the option to do so and enter your store’s online log in details (username, password) and it retrieves your favourites for you. Simples. You can even book your delivery slot!

You then just shop, either by favourites, or aisles or by searching. It will show any special offers the store is currently running, including BOGOFs etc., and you just shop away as you would if you were logged in to the store’s online shopping site. But. But, but, but… at the top of the page it will show you how much that trolley of shopping would cost, in real time, at 3 other stores! Can you believe that? So I’m shopping at Sainbury’s and not only can see how much my shopping is going to cost me there but also how much it will cost me if I bought it as Asda, Tesco or Ocado.

Even more brilliantly you can then chose, at the click of a button, to change supermarket. So if it’s cheaper at Asda, just click on the Asda tab and you’re shopping at Asda. But this isn’t all! Want to save even more money? Then just click on the ‘Swap and Save £’ tab and it will show you alternative items, allowing you to swap those items for the ones currently in your trolley and save money.

Again, that’s not all folks! Right next to the ‘Swap and Save £’ tab is the ‘Swap and Save Cals’ tab, which, yes, you’ve guessed it, shows healthier options (lower calories, fat, sugar and salt) which, again, you can swap for the items currently in your trolley. Pretty fancy, eh? But, I hear you shout, what about actually buying the items and checking out? Do you have to then re-enter everything in to the supermarket site? No. It sends your trolley to the supermarket site, you just then logon and check out as usual.

It’s great. What more can I say? Try it. I saved around 10-15% over and above what I saved by not impulse buying. mySupermarket + Jools = happy Richard’s wallet!

Monday, 2 November 2009

In Progress

Ok, so I’ve signed up to do Shimelle’s Blogging for Scrapbookers class to try and get my blogging, and scrapbooking, mojo back. And what’s the first thing I do? Yup, start to pfaff around and not get much of anything done as I decided that I just had to create that ultimate, fantastic, personally created blog and this has meant nothing has been accomplished. So. What to do? What to do?

Well I’ve just installed an autumnal off the peg wordpress theme and am going with this for now. And my intentions? To blog more often, hopefully around once a week and try and get my mojo back.

We’ll see…