National Shopping monitor...

for years and years we have been members of the National Shopping Monitor. Whenever we go shopping we have to scan it all in to them. We get points for till receipts, and sometimes I do surveys which also get us points. We have used some points over the years, but never really bought anything huge. Anyway we have around 400,000 points now which is worth about £400. They have mounted up over the time and we have not used any, so there has been a buildf up. Anyway I was using our vacuum cleaner in the extension this morning, and realised just what a rubbish one it is, so I said to Vin that we might as well "cash ibn" some of the points and get a new one. You can get Argos vouchers so that is quite handy for bigger items. We had a look at a couple of sites and also a look at the QVC one which has a a number of cleaners one of which looks good. The Miele S6 which is good for cat and dog hairs. It's the same price at Argos so we decided to get their vouchers and get one from there. it's round about £200 but does seem to have high recommendations .Vin has done all the online work, so we sit back and wait for the vouchers now. jane rang up just after lunch, she is still innundated with work, but is getting to the end of it now I think. She's a bit strapped for money so I said I'd put her rent money in for her this month, reminding her that it is nearly three quarters of my old age pension money for the month. She said she felt really bad now... must admit I didn't expect to be still keeping a child in cash at the age of 28..but hey it's only money.. Vin is out in the garden this afternoon doing some weeding, but he came in before because he said Bobby was looking thirsty.

We gave her some lacto free miklk which she slurped up, and then went out again. He said he'd come in if it got too hot. It does get really sunny at the back of the house in the afternoon. he says the pots are getting very dry, and some of the spirea are shrivelling up a bit. Trouble with pots and containers is that they dry up very quickly in the sun, so need a lot of watering. Tonight we are having: lemon and black pepper escalope potato croquettes bread sauce mushrooms and vegetables.