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The Moneyless Chicken can eat for a few more days
IN - 4 tubs of egg noodles, 5 bags of salad leaves (2 varieties), 3 bags of bread rolls, a tray of dips, 2 containers of root veg mash, a pack of vegan "pastrami" and "cheese" and a bunch of bananas.
Also a Vegan cookery book and a very nice Rohan fleece lined top.
OUT some bread and salad for my brother and his tortoises and a bag of books to the charity book stall.

I got some food for free today. 20 hand dived scallops. Which was a very nice surprise. I got a message from a friend asking if I’d like some. Obviously it’d be rude not to expect.

I sometimes get food from my holiday cottage change overs. I should probably make a note of what freebies I come home with. I don’t actually like seeing food left when I open the cupboards or fridge. It usually means they’ve left the place in a mess!

A bag of spuds & an avocado left by tenants at holiday cottage today. (And it was a horrible mess)

How ungrateful of them. What's their address and I'll go and sort them out.

My IN is a pair of brand new denim jeans from M&S. Only one problem with the size - the legs are about 6" too long. The biggest turnups in the world (that's turnups NOT turnips). I'll be chopping them off later and going with the frayed hem look as I'm too lazy to hem them.
OUT went some more books to the charity book stall.

haha - "Mess" not "Message" . I'll still sort them out for you!

My IN today - 12 sachets of cat food. The dogs don't know the difference. Please don't tell them.

Has a message this morning from a lady who had given me the remains of her Christmas hampers at the beginning of the year.
"Did I know anyone who would use some out of date food - like packets of pasta, rice?" Needless to say, I do know someone.
The few packets of food turned into 2 carrier bags - and lots of the food was actually in date for 2022. Apparently, they'd stocked their cupboards at the start of the pandemic when it looked like food might be difficult to buy or shop for - and now, they were clearing it out!
Tins of tomatoes, soup, the inevitable tinned spaghetti and macaroni cheese, packets of microwavable rice and mixed grains, pasta in sauce, instant mash, noodles - so much emergency ration type food that I've run out of space in the kitchen cupboards to store it. Most of it I wouldn't actually buy, but as a standby when I can't afford the electricity to cook a meal, I'll be glad of it.
Also picked up a bag of books.
Nearly forgot, 4 cans of Malibu and Gin& tonic and a tiny bottle of some sort of Cream Liqueur.

INs - more unwanted food - a box of Jacob's crackers, more noodles, tinned fruit and custard, porridge, tin of mackerel and some tuna in a sachet. Every little helps.
Also a small bag of Westland compost for which I swapped a couple of cucumber plants and some lettuce and courgette seeds.

IN came a "Flower Tower" and a Lazy Susan.
The Flower Tower is a tall plastic tube with 30 holes in the side and a watering tube in the middle - I'm thinking strawberries.
The Lazy Susan is to go beneath the Tower so that it can be rotated and each side will see the sun. As luck will have it, the base of the tower fits perfectly inside the glass bowl of a halogen cooker - and I have a spare one of those. This gives the tower a heavier base as it seems a bit lightweight to me.
OUT went a pile of magazines, a bag of unwanted toiletries and some clothes. All to the same person who collects for a women's refuge - though I don't think they'll be having the magazines!!

IN came lots more tinned food to feed the Moneyless Chicken in hard times - mostly tinned fruit and veg, soup and tuna and 2 packs of rice. Most of it in date until 2023/4.
Also a Ziplock organiser bag for A4 papers, 2 tiny LightLoad towels. they're about the size of a small roll of Sellotape but expand, with water to the size of a hand towel. Washable, reusable, highly absorbent and, apparently, something that everyone needs to survive. I'll keep one in the car for emergences.
AND a Fitness tracker watch that does not need an app or bluetooth. About £25 on Amazon. One of the local freebie group's members is an Amazon reviewer and is sent all sorts of wacky things to review. This is one of them. Not sure what her Review says but for me, so far so good. Still finding out what it does - not sure I fancy it monitoring my sleep.