Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2015

Prinzessilein wrote: »

Morning all!


Silvasava:....You are on the 5:2?...it's how I have managed to lose most of the weight I've lost so far. I love the plan. It is really slow - especially with my inability to exercise, and the fact I take meds that 'may cause weight gain' (and for 'may' read 'absolutely will'!) - but it DOES work for me...and it means I can still indulge my love of food!



Quiet day planned for today...I have a 'new' book to read ....an unabridged version of Head Girl Of The Chalet School...I love the old school stories! .....and then I want to start knitting the third purse I am doing.


Have a good day all!

I love the Chalet School!! My sister in law and i are going on a pilgrimage to Pertisau (Briesau am Tiernsee) one day. Did you want to be Jo when you were growing up - I wanted to be either her or Mary Lou. :rotfl: Didn't want 11 children though :eek:

Also a 5:2 er. i love it - have just got Hubby on board. He has lost a stone, but has stalled a little at the moment.

For the record I am 5'7" and 10 st 3 (down from 11 st 8! ) With brown hair that strangely goes grey if i haven't visited the hairdresser in a while

I am hoping to get a jumper i have been knitting for a year and a half to the "making up" stage tonight. :T

I love this thread.

Just had to tell you this, Prinzessilein; my friend's daughter who has never married because of her Down's Syndrome, has been given a book called, 'knit your own boyfriend' - I remarked that it was a brilliant idea - you could unravel him if he didn't behave! Bread recipe following a bit later.

Viv xx

JackieO - well done that young man - a treat from his Nan will be a cherished memory for both of you.
Yup - I'm a 5:2er - find it easy to fit in with my lifestyle (never know what's going to turn up!) No calorie/points counting no special foods - great!
Love the idea of knitting your own boyfriend - no hogging the remote, the quilt, oooh the possibilities

Morning

Many thanks for the bicarb tip, it worked a treat. There is a slight lingering smell so will give it another go, then hopefully we will be sweet smelling.

There is nothing nicer than the smell of fresh bread and filter coffee. It takes me back to my childhood where my gran would cook around the stove.

Today for me is a day of cleaning and pottering as there is no excuse now I've sorted the vacuum, also the weather is cold and damp so looks like the gardening will have to be done another day.

I would like to start another project later but I'm struggling to make up my mind as there are so many possibilities... I was thinking of making a lovely scrap book to put all of these recipes and tips that you all kindly share on this thread.

Well time for breakfast. Have a smashing day everyone, x

Good Morning Everyone,

Having a late coffee as I'd taken my cafetiere over to the tribe last night when I went round for a meal (cooked by my friend - home made pasta - she made us all a lasagne, or rather two as there isn't a lasagne dish in existence aside from a catering tin big enough to feed the whole lot of us) and had forgotten to bring it home. It's absolutely perishing outside here today; the wind is whipping through the trees something chronic.

I love the First Ladies Detective Agency, silvasava and I've never read a Mills & Boon either, or Barbara Cartland come to that; although I was partial to Dennis Wheatley in my youth, although if you dip into them now, they are terribly racist -'autre temps, autre mores'. I'm more of a non-fiction reader, but one of my favourite books is 'Katherine' by Anya Seton; she's buried in Lincoln Cathedral.

Am relatively organised for my meal tonight - I hate rushing around in the kitchen and not enjoying my guests; so just the first course to make, the pudding and the dumplings, and I'll do those intermittently through the day.

DB has business in Prague so am feeling a bit lonely; I fully appreciate it has to be done and needs to be done, but it doesn't stop me wishing he was here.

Recipes later; I really ought to tidy some of my groaning bookshelves but it's perishing in the lobby where most of them reside! It didn't help that at 5.45 this morning I got a text from an old dealer friend (antiques, not drugs!!) telling me how warm it is in Thailand and how brown he is.

Love Viv xx