I loved these posts especially the water beads on - I've got to get mine out again now T is less likely to put things in her mouth again

I'm starting as well - need to bleed the radiators as some of them weren't very warm when I tried. Also going to clean the gutters as found that we had to do some damp repairs under the flat roof last year when we got a blocked gutter which cost us a lot.

We've got a butchers in town that do a winter meat package and that's one of the best ways that I've found of saving on the weekly shop as it was £39 for around 50 meals (lunches, dinners) once I bulked up stews and caserols with other stuff and used all of the meat in left overs