Phil and Fern

Well, take a look at Little Hal - totally upstaging Phil and Fern on ITV last week!

The First Bike is available from http://www.whywoodworks.co.uk/ or http://www.treasureislandtoys.co.uk/

As you can see, its great fun and easy to use!

A Thrifty Scot - surely not!

You really must check this out http://www.thriftyscot.co.uk/credit-ratings-how-to-use-them-to-your-advantage/ it's a good blog, and although I'm in a rush outta the door right now I just had to pass it on!!

Bye for now!!

Bugaboo sale!!

A little pushchair birdie tells us there's a Bugaboo warehouse sale (up to 70% off) under London's Vauxhall railway bridge on Fri 26 June, noon to 6pm, and Sat 27 June, 9am-5pm at The Beaconsfield, 22 Newport St, London SE11 6AY. Better Gecko-ver there, sharpish!

eBaying Mad!

I've gone eBay mad. There's a box in my lounge now that's overflowing with goodies, I've taken photo's of 78 items altogether, and listed about 30 so far..... See my auctions at http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/moon_scarlett So far there are lots of bids and our little total is at just over £30, but there's still 2 days to go so we're hoping for some last minute shennanigans to shake up the bidding and drive our prices up a bit!

Himself has never sold on eBay before and is very enthusiastic, especially to log in and see the 'watchers'... I hope he'll like it quite so much when I send him to the post office with armfuls of parcels!! :-)

Who needs a dishwasher?

I wouldn't normally go on about dish washing but the new 'Dishmatic' I've discovered is great! Bought in Tesco for £1.19 and I love it.

Now... I have a man who doesn't like spending money on things he doesn't have to, so buying 'a new dishwashing contraption' was not a good move, initially... especially as when you look at it, on first glance it looks like a little washing up liquid muncher. But read on...

Dishmatic has a plastic (recycled) handle, with a green end bit that has a lid that lifts off. Then there are interchangeable sponge heads with scrubby sides on them for really dirty dishes. What you do is get your Fairy liquid and fill the handle to this contraption with washing up liquid then use it as a normal washing up brush.

Simples.... as a much loved Meerkat would say.

However, Himself eyed it with suspicion. How much liquid is THAT thing going to use each time you wash up? he cried... and I admit I wondered too. We gingerly placed about an inch of washing up liquid in the handle (just incase...we didn't want to fill it all up and rsik losing the lot you know!)

The first washing up experience was great, the green scrubby sides were good for most stuff, even some burnt on sausage on a frying pan, it really went the extra mile!

But what about the washing liquid in the handle you ask? It seemed to all still be there! Yet we had bubbles in the bowl and all the greasy muck was off the dishes! So how?

Well actually we're not sure! But we both love the new Dishmatic, we know that! So far we've used it 3 or 4 times and it still appears to have the same amount of washing up liquid in it! Himself thinks its gods gift to washing up as he won't eve have to buy any more fairy...

I'm fairly certain it must use SOME Fairy but my goodness it'll last forever!!

By the way, you can also buy refill sponges to place on the same handle if you scrub so hard they wear out.