OS Daily Friday, 4th July 2008

Pippa.S

:hello:
Mornin and what a lovely mornin it is too, better than yesterday makes you feel good does`nt it???
(((((((((HUGS))))))))) for everybody needed or not
Annie O great news and as you said well timed :T

Happy 4th of July N9eav , key lime pie mmm, we had it in New York 2 christmas`s ago when we went over for a wedding, and just luved it :drool:

Kathy have a lovely time and dont worry you wont drop off, not in a car full of girlies, no chance, if they are anything like my lot its yakety-yak all the way :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

poppy aahhh dont worry it will turn up when its ready. Yes things will take time, but if it`s meant to be it will be
Hester O well done, good marks :T :T
RedRuby I`d be :mad: too, poor girl, sunburn is awful and sometimes v.painful, I know, I am fair skinned and blonde (though it is going white in streaks now,wonder why:rolleyes: ) so if I go out without lotion I look like a lobster, and my nose... well... I look like Rudolph :rotfl: my 2 sons are the same and 1 of my grand-daughters, so they grow up knowing they have to plaster the sun lotion on.

Good luck for today tired-mum

We watched it too Dazi, I`m really looking forward to seeing it as soon as it comes out:j
Washings just finished, I decided to strip the bed as its such a lovely day.
Need to give Oh`s wardrobe a turn out, dont know what he does in there but it looks like a jumble sale, his shoes are in a huge mound in the bottom, dont know why because he never wears most of them, while he is out I`ll have a root around in there and sort the good ones out for the charity shop, hide them in the spare room wardrobe for a few weeks just to see if he misses them, then they can be taken to the shop, I will then deny all knowledge of their whereabouts :rolleyes: I know its devious but its the only way.

Off to put the washing out back later
have a nice day
Anne
x

redruby

anniebooklover wrote: »

redruby when I googled them it suggested they were fried cornmeal breads.

opps, sorry, thought they were the drinks :rolleyes:

Beth, good news re your DB :T :T and your DD :T :T

Taplady sorry to hear about your DS car xx

mioliere

Oh, Beth - that brought tears to my eyes, too. Massive (((hugs))) to you and your DBs. I'm so glad your DD's test weren't what you were dreading. Your day out sounds lovely - it obviously did you the world of good. So far the Remoska has done egg and chips (didn't want to waste anything dearer in case it all went wrong - but it was great!) and today I'd doing a toasted cheese sandwich. Nothing else to report yet!

MrsMix - sending lots of (((hugs))); you could do without neighbours like that, miserable s*d that he is.

AnnieB - (((hugs))) to your DD.

Must get on.

See you all later.

KathyXX

taplady

Betheebee - great news for your DB - am really pleased for him x

Mrs_Mix - your neighbour sounds horrible:mad: , hope you have got over his nastiness x

TomandBarbara

Hello!

Really I am in an ideal situation...but I am so disorganised I am not making the best of what I've got.

An allotment - currently growing cabbages, potatoes, tomatoes, sweetcorn, broad beans, runner beans, onions, climbing beans plus more I probably don't even know about as my o/h does all the growing.

A chest freezer full of frozen fruit, damsons, plums, rhubarb, apple, blackcurrants, gooseberries, redcurrants.....

also broad beans, climbing beans, chopped courgette, tomatoes, tomato sauces, and god knows what else in the freezer oh soups too, courgette mainly not that keen on it but o/h made loads of it about 2 (!) years ago and it really needs eating.

Lots of dried fruits and nuts in the cupboard, along with loads of different lentils that i obviously bought for recipes in the past but have just not been used.

I occasionally remember to get some fruit out for a crumble or pie or something but mostly forget to....and the only meal I make out of the frozen veg is a beef mince pasta stew which I chuck everything in to and which lasts us a couple of days.

I've got binders full of recipes but they are in no order whatsover and it looks like it would take me a week just to sort them out!

I enjoy cooking, not a great cook a bit slap dash but I've got loads of cooking gadgets that don't really get used much as well.

bread machine - love it use it all the time
Slow cooker - an old one I've never used that was given to me
deep fat fryer- brand new also given to me
juicer- hardly used
kitchen aid - I saved for ages to get this and finally got it last year when £100 was knocked off the price! only used it yesterday for the first time!
pasta machine-never used was a pressie
smoothie maker- used to use it loads but not touched it this year at all
and another mixer/blender thingy with a bowl and a jug

So i have all the basics, lots of food, and things to make life easier but i am completely stuck in a rut!!!

I shop at waitrose once a week and spend about £30-£40 for 2 of us plus 2 cats. A recent check on mysupermarket.com showed that I could only save 30p by shopping elsewhere but I prefer waitrose anyway its much nicer!

Daily bread probably every 2-3 months for oats, dried fruit etc about £30 spent.

Plus a lovely butchers where we probably spend about £15-£20 a week...this is one area where I am really stuck. The cheapest thing I buy is beef mince which is about £1.50 for a 250g bag, other things I buy are sausages, sausage meat (for making sausage rolls), pork joint (this I think is a good buy about £4 and lasts for a good few meals and pork sarnies!) beef joint (have pork one week, beef the next), bacon, lamb chops (for o/h only I don't eat lamb), cheese, cooked ham (very expensive about £2.50 for 2-3 thick slices) and then free range eggs come from the farm over the road. stewing steak i sometimes

I am stuck cooking the same things over and over......lasagne, cottage pie, spag bol (all my favourites), the beef stew thingy, something thrown with potato wedges when I can't think of what to make, a tuna pasta back when I've forgotton to get meat out......

I want to start making use of what I've already got in the freezer, and cupboard, plus reduce what I spend at the butchers and buy things that are not so expensive and go a long way.

Basically I need to get organised!!!

Thanks in advance!

celyn90

Quick :wave: from me as I'm running around like a headless chicken again this morning - no change there then

Marking is now all done (well ahead of deadline too ) - very tired but complete for the year including the extra ones I was given, but I'm really grateful for the extra work. Lots of lab work to do and some writing, I'm half way through four thesis chapters, have one completed and two I haven't started (introduction and biological assays). Three papers in progress, boss has one, collaborators have the other two. Very tired. Twelve weeks left
No sleep for me

Then I have to find a job :eek:

Still, must dash, have a good day all, cel x

KAAT_LADY

good morning folks

have a lovely day and take care of yourselves

Ann

Bargain_Rzl

Morning all :hello:

Penny-Pincher!! - so sorry you're feeling so sick at the moment - (((hugs)))
anniebooklover - I hope DD is feeling better soon. That's fab news about being almost debt free - are you going to be a Mortgage-Free Wannabe after that?
betheebee - great news for your DB and DD :j :j

Am at work today - boss is off, at a funeral, but I WILL NOT spend half the day on MSE There are a few tasks I can work through today which will be "quick wins" in terms of getting stuff off my to do list. My colleague has just handed me a bag of mint from his garden :T so I need to think about something interesting I can make with it tomorrow (or prep it to be frozen for future use).

Off to the opera tonight (yes, again ) another of these things at Holland Park with £10 tickets :j Friend I'm going with is absolutely skint so it's my treat - thing is, last year the tickets were £20 anyway, so it feels a bit like a BOGOF! Programmes are effectively free (you pay £7 for the first one of the season, then get the others for free, so very good VFM when you are going to all 6 shows) and we will take our own wine, so a pretty MSE evening all in all!

What with the price of everything going up lately, here's a word of IMPORTANT advice for anybody who occasionally travels into/out of London Victoria station: the loo now costs 30p :eek: Best be warned in advance about this rather than find out the way I did last night, having legged it all the way across the station concourse after spending half an hour in extreme discomfort on a train with no loo... now indescribably desperate and on the point of having an accident... only to find that the 20p I make sure I sensibly keep in the back of my purse for such occasions is no longer enough to open the turnstile _pale_ _pale_ Some people were getting in by vaulting the turnstiles but that would have involved uncrossing my legs which wasn't an option at this stage :eek: Fortunately after some frantic rummaging in my handbag I found the £1 coin that I keep there for the supermarket trolley/gym locker... put it in one of the change machines and it fell straight out again... aaaargh... put it in the other change machine and SUCCESS, thank goodness... actually had to pay 40p of course as I now had a handful of 20p pieces, but hey MSE was not the upmost thing on my mind and made a run for it (actually more like a very awkward hobble) down the stairs to the Ladies where fortunately there was no queue and I made it in the nick of time oh the relief! :cool: Moral of the story: HAVE 30p ON YOU AT ALL TIMES WHEN TRAVELLING THROUGH LONDON STATIONS!

Now I think about it, it's gone up to 30p at Waterloo too - but I'm sure Victoria was still 20p the last time I was there.

Right, need to get moving and do some work... back later

Love Rzl xx :wave:

VickyA_2

Good morning everyone :hello:

Huge ((((hugs)))) to Penny-Pincher!!

I've got some PPA time this morning, so I've just planned a phonics lesson for next Tuesday (when Ofsted :eek: are in) and I came on here for a bit of light relief before planning Numeracy and Literacy. I know what I'm doing, it's just writing it all down properly......... I've given a huge list of jobs to my TA to do. It's all just double checking that I haven't missed anything out in the class and tweaking displays, but it's a job that (sadly) needs to be done! I'm not the tidiest of people and she clucks round after me, bless her! I hope that I have the same TA next year as we've got a really good working relationship now.

I've had a few days now that have been complete no spend days. I don't have any money AT ALL in my wallet as I just haven't had time to go to a hole in the wall. Having said that, I need to get some petrol tonight which won't be cheap. I've only got a little 1.2l Renault Clio, but when I filled it up a couple of weeks ago it cost me £49 for the tank. :eek: :eek: Since then, petrol has gone up AGAIN. Having said that, I went far further on that tank of petrol and I'm now averaging 50mpg. :T

I forgot to give DH the shopping list this morning, but I think that a supermarket shop tonight will be the light relief that I need after an afternoon with my cherubs (class!). One boy "really misses" me when I'm not there, and then as soon as I'm back continues to behave poorly. I popped into the class that is my new Year 2 class next year. There are a good few CHARACTERS in there too, but I'm hoping that I can squash them. I don't mind creative characters, but disruptive characters is a no-no!

Better go for now..... do that Literacy and Numeracy planning!!!
Vicky x

pollyanna24

Wahey, it's Friday! :j My first full week back at work after a week's holiday and it felt like a long one. They always do. Still, only 38 days of work left after today until I go on my maternity leave. :T


Hi to everyone. Still can't remember any names as I'm not on here very much. Maybe one day I will. :hello:


Easy to say I'm looking forward to maternity leave, but I'm finishing at 32 weeks and have no idea what I'm going to do with myself. Never been out of work since I left school at 18, nine years ago.


Had to do all morning chores by myself as bf went to work mega early. Was walking muttley with bedhead and everything. Oh well, neighbours are used to it. I usually walk her at night with my jammies on! :rotfl:

Sounds strange, but I'm getting a funny pain when I stand up in my bum/leg/back area. Think baby might be sitting on a nerve on something. It kinda goes away when I walk about, but the initial standing up is a problem sometimes! My boss has been giving me funny looks whenever I walk to the photocopying as I must look a bit odd hobbling about.


Like the sound of this Remoska, but don't think bf would let me buy one. What's wrong with the cooker? is what I'd get from him. I've stopped cooking for our lodger (he was supposed to be out by the end of last month) and last night I found him boiling water without the lid on for veggies. I tried explaining that it's quicker if he put the lid on and he said, “Oh, it's okay. My nuggets won't be ready for ages yet, so I don't mind if it takes ages. I had to bite my tongue as bf thinks I get over irate over things like this, but what a waste of gas!


Breakfast was some cereal I found in my drawer at work that they were giving away at Euston Station ages ago. Bit out of date, but tasted okay.
Lunch is tuna sarnie, crisps, apple
Dinner is Goulash and bread as the bread needs using, so took the goulash out of the freezer last night.


And I get to have a coffee at 11am, as I didn't have one this morning in all the rush! Wahey!


Poppyoscar – sorry to hear about your ring. These things have a habit of turning up when you're not looking for them. My dad lost his wedding ring years and years ago. It turned up when they were moving out. He had hung it on the trigger of an ornamental gun hanging on the wall. Random huh?!


Essex-girl – I too hate London and the tubes, and the crowding. I work just off Oxford Street and I avoid it like the plague! Can't wait till I'm permanently in the suburbs with a baby (hmm, remind me of that quote when the baby is up at 3am screaming).


Redruby – that's terribly irresponsible of the school. I would complain to high heaven! :mad:


Tired mum – just want to wish you luck for your interview!


Celyn – everything you said went right over my head. You sound awfully clever! Don't think I could have any kind of job like that. I'm supposed to be working now, but it's so much more fun on here!


Bargain Rzl – what a nightmare. Can totally emphasise with needing the loo (being pregnant does that to a woman). I always make sure I go before I leave work, walk 15 minutes to Baker Street Station and then go again in their free loos just outside the station. For public loos, they are surprisingly nice! I did manage to get all burnt/heat strokey at Brighton earlier in the year though as they were charging 20p for the loo each time and so I hardly drank anything to combat the loo situation, and therefore ended up not very well.