u/Educational-Ground83

£67.44 - 2 adults 2 kids (age 7 and age 10 months.)

Mostly Uber Eats Fresh Monday - fruit and veg plus lots of top up items, store cupboard and stuff on sale. (plus bananas for scale already in the fruit bowl off camera)

I've found myself taking uber up on the various deals they have on at supermarkets. Did a waitrose one yesterday for loads of 40% off stuff. £46.80. Sorry no photo.

So this will see us through best part of 2 weeks I think now, maybe with the odd bits and bobs like fresh fruit etc.

So £114 for 4 of us for 2 weeks (ish).

*EDIT I also got £3.18 UberOne credit with this order. This is newly added by Uber. You used to only get credits in taxis now it's on everything I believe.

I'm on my second pair of Altra running shoes. First pair split where the ball of my big toe sits. I got them replaced under warranty.

Changed from experience form to FWD VIA for the replacements. Done about 600km in them. Soles look brand new.

I know they're probably nearing end of life in terms of distance but it seems so wasteful chucking a pair of shoes.

Anyone else get these splits? If so does anyone repair them?

I did a thing.

In preparation for the next heatwave, thought I'd have a go at making some external velux blinds so I don't have to sit in my attic office in 32°c, wearing nothing but underpants on my important work calls.

Had a brief test today, nothing scientific as don't own a thermal imaging camera. Window with newly installed foil backed bubble wrap blind was far cooler to the touch than the other one that just has an internal blind.

Cost: £11 for 6 metres of bubble foil stuff. The wood came free with my fridge weirdly.

Today saw the East Coast Mainline just south of York experiencing delays and cancellations because of damaged track.

Does anyone know how this would have been spotted? By a driver or inspection?

Anyone any idea what causes it? To me it almost looks like it's subsided? Not sure that would cause a buckle though!

Finally got round to pointing the Yorkshire stone path today.

As was pointed out in my last post, the entrance end looks a bit quirky perhaps but once there's plants growing around it I don't think it'll be too noticeable.

Quite pleased with the end result. Just need to come up with a plan for the edging.

In order of preference:

1. Rake out the rubble on the wall side and plant some hardy herbs like thyme and lavender.

2. Chuck down some gravel

3. Lay something to fill the gap, think it'll look too harsh against the wall and slabs.

Posted a few weeks about with phase 1 of the new front garden path, consisting of breaking out the old concrete path and dry laying the new one.

Phase 2 completed yesterday, laying the 4 metre long Yorkshire stone path.

Hired a mixer, wacker plate and slab laying sucker machine thingy. £138 for the weekend.

We worked from 10am until 6pm, first building up the sub base layer with Type 1 MOT. I bought 5 bags initially. Ended up needing 20. Should have kept more of the original broken up path to save money on MOT. If I'd have known it would have been significantly cheaper to get a tonne bag delivered.

Same for the bedding layer. Ended up going through about 20 x 25kg bags not the predicted 12. A tonne bag would have done perfectly I think.

I didn't order tonne bags because I didn't want to be left with a bag of sand on my lawn for the next few years. If I'd have calculated better before hand then this would have been a big help, cost wise and also saving 3 trips to B&Q / Travis Perkins yesterday.

The laying went well, did about 6 mixes, all good except 1 mix that had too much water in. We used it anyway which we might come to regret.

Only thing to do now is to come up with a way to edge it so I can point it up. Then get some cold lay tarmac to meet the pavement.