The weekend approaches so time to start cranking up the spending - and perversely therefore the savings!
Friday's are usually pretty good as there is a bar at work - it opened today at 3.30. Coupled with the array of savoury snacks and cakes assembled for a colleague's birthday, I can leave the office a couple of bottles of Staropramen and a mildly lined stomach to the good.
The plan is to head to a pub for a former colleague's leaving do (read someone's card must be behind the bar) before meeting up with the partners' friends (when the spending starts).
Weekend will be full of blagging my way onto guest lists, trying to persuade people to drink in Wetherspoons (you can still have efficiency savings even when ringfencing ale spending) and sponging off my partner's mum who lands in the UK on Sunday morning.
But on reflection, is too much sponging really in the rules?
This is about cuts, not being a student again. And the coalition government is trying to avoid going cap in hand to anyone.
But then, the principles of the Big Society seem to be don't spend money on something you could get someone else to do for free.
So, when is it sponging and when is it just civil society doing its duty?
Anyway, it's probably wise not to blog when drunk, so until tomorrow...
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