The decreasing To Do list
Aprilia is with mum and dad until tea time today and so far this morning I hve….
Sorn-ed Duke’s "projet bike"
paid off Duke’s remaining credit card debt and the few other remaining small-ish debts (the money from his endowment came through so I’ve cleared the debts! 
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Checked over the Rainbow accounts to make sure I’ve not forgotten to put anything in
Sorted out what I need for the next 2 meetings including 2 new starter packs which I need to nip to the depot to buy the bags for (the trouble being that then all the other girls will want the Rainbow bags and at £3:35 each for 10 girls…..)
Done a quick rough and ready budget for next term for Rainbows and realised that I hvae enough on hand to buy a parachute and a few other big games!
Done a quick rough and ready budget for our finances to allow for Duke’s nicely regular income and the changes to outgoings caused by clearing debts, closing endowments and changing to a full repayment mortgage! Really really wish we had ditched the endowments years ago, they have barely kept up with what we are paying out in interest on the mortgage and having more paid off means we pay a lower interest rate so they were costing us more than they were making 
talked on the phone with Harley (who is up and down more than a whore’s drawers at the moment) and my MIL who asked me if I had any learn to crochet books she could pass to Alex (her youngest grand daugther, the nicest one of the lot IMHO!)
found on-line UK crochet instructions and printed them off
read a good chunk of Drawing with Children which I got from this second hand book site
So taht leaves….
Baking for Duke - he’s been hankering after caramel shortbread for weeks, I have all the ingredients I ust haven’t got round to throwing them together yet
Swimming (in just over an hour)
Rediscovering the bedroom floor which suddenly dissapeared under a mountain of clean washing a few days ago
Doing waht I had intended to do on my "day off" and sitting down with my drawing books to draw the flower, leaves and (half peeled) orange that I actually remembered to buy when I did an epic shopping trip yesterday (how on earth it’s possible to spend over 2 hours in Asda I have no idea but I did and I have very full cupboards to prove it!)
bah, housework can wait! Off to bake then draw whilst the baking is doing which should just be done in time for swimming….. who needs to see our vile carpet anyway!!!!
