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Old Style Daily Wednesday 03 July 2024
Good morning folks.
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Old Style Daily Tuesday 02 July 2024
Morning all.
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Old Style Daily 1st July
Morning allPinch, punch first day of the monthA bit dull here. Will make a second attempt to get my photo done for my new passport today as forgot on Friday!Well, weren't England lucky last night!Ironing to do laterHave a good day all x
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Weekly Flylady Thread 1 July 2024
Welcome to the weekly Flylady Thread. What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US flylady idea - but we work on the principle that housework is not fun, it's boring, can be time-consuming, is often thankless but, unfortunately, necessary. It's here on Old Style to provide the support we all need and to make the whole…
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Old Style Weight Loss Challenge - 3rd Quarter 2024
Hi All Welcome to the Old Style Weight Loss thread for quarter three 2024. Please feel free to start posting your weight loss goals for the next challenge which will run from the 1st July until the 30th September. You do not have to submit a loss or gain for the first week as it's our starting week, you can post your first…
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O/S Daily Sunday 30th June 2024
Good morning, be back in a minute.
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O/S Daily Saturday 29th June 2024
Good morning, it's a grey start here, don't know if it's going to rain. I've got a few jobs to do round the house today, and I want to go down to the High Street. Hope everyone is ok.I'll pop back later.
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Nigel Slater cookbooks
I was recently given a Nigel Slater kitchen diaries cookbook and enjoyed it so much that I wanted to order the others in the series but I've had a look online and I'm completely confused as to how many books are in the series and what the correct covers are. I looked on Amazon and it's still confusing. I ordered KD1 with a…
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Old Style Daily Friday 28 June 2024
Good morning all.
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Old Style Daily Thursday 27 June 2024
Morning all.
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Old Style Daily Wednesday 26 June 2024
Good morning folks - BRB
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Simple healthy food plan for one
Hi, I live on my own and have done for twenty years now, I work full time, generally don't have the time or motivation to spend a lot of time cooking. I also suffer with depression and anxiety so when I have bad days I often end up just eating toast for my tea. I used to virtually live on ready meals but I have stopped…
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'Easy but impressive' - Buffet/Party food
Hey everyone, We're about to hit family birthday season which sees us have about 10 birthdays from mid July to start of September.. Which often means we'll do some kind of buffet type thingy. We've been doing similar sfuff for ages and I think it's time go switch it up! Sort of things we'd usually do * Side of salmon -…
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Making your own wine
Just wondering if anyone else does this? I grow my own soft fruit so 6 bottles of wine are the cost of one bag of sugar and a teaspoon of yeast - less than 30p a bottle. Plus you have the excitement of opening the first bottle...will it be OK? Will it be fabulous? Will it be only fit for cooking with? I also harvest…
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Tips for knowing when you need to re-stock on household essentials
I saw on Facebook recently a post where someone suggested buying three bottles of washing up liquid at a time (green, yellow and red) and always using them in that order, so you knew you needed to restock when you were on the red bottle. I can't find the FB version now but here's the same idea on TikTok: Source:…
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July 2024 Grocery Challenge
Welcome to the seventh Grocery Challenge of 2024! ******** Please post your budget in BOLD and HEADING 2 ******** If your new month starts early feel free to join this thread, or if you're still working on your June Budget then keep on posting in the June Challenge. As always this challenge is to reduce your own grocery…
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O/S Daily Tuesday 25th June 2024
Good morning, it's cloudy but warm here. Yesterday was a lovely day, it's great to see some sunshine. Dp1, sorry to read that your dg d was upset at the party, and your poor Dd as well, how sad. Hope you enjoy your holiday Camelot, it'll be exciting. Taff, I like those old style kitchen cabinets, my mother didn't have one…
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Heating off, fans on ?
It hit 26.4C in husband's office in Surrey today and was 23C here. Usually, when Spring is much warmer, we would have been in Summer cooling mode since May. When husband came home, we rearranged our bedroom a bit and put a tower fan back in there. We have a Levoit air purifier on 24/7 365 because husband has COPD and we…
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O/S Daily Monday 24th June 2024
Good morning, it's a lovely morning here. Sorry all - I got the date wrong yesterday! Visiting a friend today, then I've got jobs to do here. Everyone seems to have had a good day yesterday. We had a visit from d's and co, with an early birthday present for Dh, we and they will be away on his birthday next week. Hope…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 24th June 2024
Welcome to the weekly Flylady
Thread. What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the
US flylady idea - but we work on the principle that housework is not fun, it's
boring, can be time-consuming, is often thankless but, unfortunately,
necessary. It's here on Old Style to provide the support we all need and to
make the whole…
