OS Daily Thread - Sunday 13th December

Morning! I've not posted on this thread before but I just thought I'd say a quick hello. I'm at work at the minute......wishing the last hour of my 12 hour nightshift would go a bit quicker!!! I'm so looking forward to cuddling up under my super thick duvet for a few hours!!!

Today when I get up I'm going to visit my parents and brother. Will be having dinner and tea there too so a cheap day for me today! Having an evening in with OH when he finishes work tonight and planning some low cost activities for our days off.....last week we went to see seals on a local beach, this week it will probably be walking somewhere but we also need to finish off some christmas shopping.

Reading the posts on here has reminded me its about time I got my knitting back out, only trouble is I've never done it that much so I have to concentrate hard so if I want to watch something on TV I can't do both!!

Hope everyone has a good day.

Ding dong merrily on high,
In heav'n the bells are ringing:
Ding dong! verily the sky
Is riv'n with angel singing.
Gloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooria, (lol)

Hosanna in excelsis! :xmassmile

Morning :santa2: Hi Lisa :hello:
In my calendar today - a cracker :snow_grin
I usually put the decs up two saturdays before Christmas, so they should've been done yesterday. They're still in the loft :rolleyes:

We were rescued yesterday - mr tru's boss lent us two heaters, and a friend called round with another one :T I turned them all on and sat there til I thought I'd melt. It was bliss Found out that mr tru is being paid on the 18th instead of the 31st, just as well cos it's costing us just under £300 to fix the boiler (ie. all my Christmas money :rolleyes: ).

So today I'll be tinseling Might have some mulled wine, and I have some iced mince pies that need testing...............................

Morning,

Up and about early, DS been coughing all night, might ring Newdoc for them to check his chest, its one of those mucussy ones sorry if TMI.

Thanks for the carol tru .

nothing to report today , the usual housewifery duties

xx

Morning all,

Bright and sunny here, but no frost, shame, cos I lke it frosty, need to strip the beds today and re make them, and get at least one of them washed and on the line. There is loads of washing hanging on the airer and rads, so need to put that all away.

Dinner today is a cottage pie, I made the base ages ago and have had it in the freezer, so just some mash and veg to do, dd will have a veggie cottage pie hm and also in the freezer. I do miss my roast on a sunday, but I am trying to empty the freezer either in preperation for the move or for Christmas, and also i am not going to try and not have a roast now before Xmas, and then the dinner will be extra special.

Got a load more packing done yesterday, basically we have packed everything that is not vital for the next few weeks, dd's room still needs doing, but she had terrible ear ache yesterday, so will get that done during the week.

DD is off out with her dad today, so OH and I will get out for a nice long walk, it seems like weeks since we had a proper one, what with the rain and packing etc, so I will make up sandwiches and a flask and off we go.

Tru, my tree is not up either, I normally put it up on about the 18th, I don't like it up too early, but I need to get a move date before I put it up. Dont want to be packing it all away again :rolleyes:


Have good days all xx

Good morning!:hello: I didn't get around to posting again yesterday

Thanks for the carol, tru - that's the one we always sing to end Midnight Mass! My fave is "O Little Town of Bethlehem", tho I'm not entirely sure why.

Diva - Hope you hear from Tris xx

Welcome Lisa :hello:

I finally started writing my cards yesterday - I'd only sent one before that,as it was for abroad. I decided the best thing was to do the other two overseas ones, and then write the ones for people we'd already received one from, making a list of who they are as I went so I've done 15, still probably got about the same number again that will need to go by post, and then ones for my neighbours, and friends from church. It took quite a while as most of them were ones which needed a note written inside :rolleyes: but I'm glad those are done as I usually put them off til last and end up having to put 1st class stamps on them

The tree's not done yet - it's down from the loft and DS was going to get the tree decs down yesterday but then had to go to work unexpectedly. Shame, as I was really in the mood to do the tree, but I did a load of washing up instead which was more useful!

CRANKY - Loved the pic of Pixel in the tree - she'll be very peeved when you put it away again :rotfl:

Last night's dinner was a recipe from the Dairy All Year Round Cookbook. I'd never tried a recipe from it before (just liked the pictures :D) but made this as I already had most of the ingredients. Marinated Pork and peppers. It was Delish! The marinade consisted of tomato ketchup, Worcester sauce, Soy sauce, clear honey, and a bit of English mustard. It was an unopened tin of mustard powder which I noticed had a best before date of sometime in 2007 I obviously bought it when I was first really getting interested on cooking as fun, IYSWIM, and was building up my storecupboard! The pork melted in the mouth. The only "dairy" aspect in this particular recipe was frying the pork strips in butter, and DH isn't meant to have much butter so I just used oil instead. Will definitely make that again!

Tonight's dinner is gammon, mash and cabbage, so a bit less interesting but will be tasty.

((((HUGS))))to all.