Preparing garden for winter

Last weekend I have spent almost 1 day clearing our little garden. I had to destroy our tomatoes plants & peas as they got grey mound. Our french beans didn't like September cold nights and started to die and broad beans got thousands of black flies on them.
I had cut all bushes down, weeded the beds and moved the pods in place of tomatoes. That is to stop cats making it their toilet over the winter. :-(
So this is how our winter prepared garden look like now. My Cornish lily is in bloom and my Sedum is beautifully red. :-)

Our second baby furniture - Glider chair

I have won it, I have won it! Yep, the chair on the e-bay! I started to look for some very comfy chair but they are really expensive! Even on e-bay the Glider or rocking chairs in good condition go for about £80! Used ones! So when I have found one very near us (3 miles) and bids were staying on £5.50 I took my chance. I stayed on e-bay until the last possible time and then bid the maximum what I would be comfortable paying for it. I bid £30 and I have won it for £23! It wasn't in the best shape.
Advertised as with stains and with pen mark :( I wanted anyway to make a cover for it as these chairs come with really ugly slip covers. So no harm.
I have borrowed our company van to transport it and when we brought it home it looked like this:

Dirty (found number of shreddies there + stains everywhere)

Our first baby furniture - cot

We have our first baby furniture! It was given to us by Rob colleague. It is just a simple wooden one and have been used before, but it is in good condition. We were so excited that we have put it together in the evening.  Also to check if everything is OK and working. The cot is from Ikea and it was quite simple to put up.

Visit of my workoholic family

What happens when you get a visit from your workaholic family? DIY and some more! Yep, that is what happened on the first day of my parents & both my brothers holiday in my house.
I was showing them around and last was the attic (here in England very important room) as it is the only storage what we have. My dad and my middle brother (I am the youngest one) had one look at its unfinished stage and started straight away on it! Asking me where is our jigsaw cutter (It needed some translating as I didn't know how it is called in English) and then sending me to Screw fix to buy one!
In all chaos I took some pictures. Please be warned they were working and not posing. :-)))

My dad doing the finishing of the loft hatch.

Review of budget

With a new arrival on the way I am in the process of reviewing our budged. We are already quite good with money. I am up to date with the best electricity & gas deal, broadband + rental line, we are aware of the cost of water and we are using water butt for our small garden. Our mortgage has the best deal (unfortunately ending this October). We buy food staples in bulk when on offer and I make the most of our freezer. Also my no buy year (OK half a year :-)) showed me that I actually have more clothes than I need.

Source: Web

New page on the blog

I have added a new page named: Pregnancy & baby. There will be the most important "staff" regarding our first.
So far I have been so lucky and didn't have the usual pregnancy symptoms. No running to bathroom first thing in the morning or staying in the bed for me! :-)
I have been only a little bit tired so going to GYM had to go and also I have rested more so no blog for a while. Now I am 14 weeks and I am thinking about going back to GYM. I can feel that my body isn't as strong as used to be.

Also we are thinking about slowly changing our second bedroom to more of baby room. We will sell our futon. It served us very well. Also getting rid of small TV and TV stand to make a room for some dresser for baby staff. We will keep 2 wardrobes (as there is my husbands clothes) and also the computer desk.
We will be buying cot/bed on e-bay and just getting new mattress. I am at the moment looking at dressers. I want just some long and made of solid wood. I will probably sand it down and paint it white. I am quite looking forward to some more DIY!

No clothes buy year - update 5

This is update 5 and unfortunately the end of my "no buy year".  I have lasted about 8 months but unfortunately being prego put an end to it. I just can't fit in any of my trousers or skirts! So we did a big pregnancy shopping last week and I have spent about £70 on clothes in one afternoon!

I have just bought some basics. Tops in 1 and 2 sizes bigger then 2 skirts with elastic waist, 1 tailored black trousers 2 sizes bigger, a pair of black tights and some sweat pants which can go under my expanding tummy. It will tie me up until I will have to buy a proper maternity clothes.

Very exciting news for Home in Surrey!

We have very exciting news here. Home in Surrey is prego!

That is why I didn't write anything for a month. To be honest I was so tired that even switching on my PC was too much!
We still finished all running DIY and I still did my second job but something has to give and my GYM and my blog unfortunately were put on hold.

We had a scan on 04/09/14 and this is our 12 week old! So far everything is good.

Now they are doing some blood test for genetics. We just hope that our baby is healthy.