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InkyCats20

eco wrote: »

right the recipe for Blackberry oat bars,
225g plain flour
200g porrige oats
250g butter
175g caster sugar, i use normal sugar
100g pecan nuts, or what ever chopped nuts
300g blackberries

1, put your oven on 190c/170cfan/ gas5. line your tin I use a 6x6 tin thats 2 cm deep.
2,put flour and oats in mixing bowl. Add butter and rub in with fingertips,stir in caster sugar and nuts.
3, spread 2/3rds of the mxture in tin press it down, scatter blackberries on top, sprinkle on rest of mixture, I use the berries frozen and press the mixture down. If the berries are fresh I tend to squash them when I press them down.
4, bake for 40-45 mins, cut in to slices while hot but leave till cool b4 removing from tin.
they are quite filling and taste better than shop bought.

Thanks eco & I've got all the ingredients in the cupboard, I'll make some tomorrow, along with some sticky toffee puddings (a Delia recipe)

Lula-Hula

Hi everyone,

Oh Sarah, that is such carp news re your car. I hate recurring problems :mad: . My old one for some reason kept blowing fuses & all the lights would go. It went to the garage so many times & eventually my dad sussed out that the rear lights were filling up with water when it rained... so he drilled a small hole in the plastic bit & all the water drained out & the fuses never blew again :rolleyes:.

Great news on the shoes - try a shoe stretcher to make them a bit more comfy

eco

Inky that's why I like the recipe it's all store cupboard stuff and I'll use whatever nuts I've got, enjoy the sticky toffee puddings there my favorite.

sarahb123_3

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Hi everyone,

Oh Sarah, that is such carp news re your car. I hate recurring problems :mad: .

Me too:mad: I am just annoyed because prior to this year it was a good little car which never needed any work doing, I am saving for a house and paying things off so I want to keep this car as long as possible. However, I have my Being Happy book at my side and am trying to remain positive See!

TDQO

sarahb123 wrote: »

arrghh!!!:mad: TDQO, just wrote a long reply to you and there was a glitch on the forums and it got lost:mad: I am off to bed now, will try to write it again tomorrow, keep your chin up, just realised the time difference,:o have a good day at work.

Here's a post I just made on a biker forum full of my mates (have actually emt them lol):

I owe Emma an apology... I was rather rude on FB last night. Sorry Em!
I'm actually having the worst time I've had since I was at school (over 4yrs ago). I hate the fact that I can't talk to my friends, that I don't have enough money to go and do anything interesting. I hate the fact I have to pretend to work because they don't have any mining engineering for me to do. I hate having to fight for the simplest things like internet access and working air-con in my flat. I hate the way I go home to an empty flat every night knowing full well that I'll do exactly the same thing tomorrow and the next day and everyday for the next 6 months.
I'm normally very positive and work hard to get through bad times because I believe things will improve. I've been here for 5 months now and it's not getting any better. I've had 4 offers of work and not a single one has actually materialised. I'm meant to be getting my aussie driving license and that hasn't happened. The company has told us that nothing will improve for us this year because it's "too late". My boss is away so I can't get him to draw up a contract for me to go and work elsewhere. I know full well that I could quit and get another job in the mining industry within 7 days using the contacts I have but that would mean uprooting from where I am and losing the few people who I actually socialise with.
All I want from this trip is to work in a mine (or several) and do some bloody good work for a company and go home with experience and a great batch of memories. So far I'm just wasting a year of my life. If I don't get a mining job for a minimum of 8 weeks I'll also have wasted 3years of my life as I won't be able to graduate thus forcing me to re-think my entire future.
I had great plans to start going to the gym and to eat properly and stop smoking (again) and come home with a tan and much fitter. I've got a pack of Davidoff in my pocket and just ordered a bacon n egg burger... I have absolutely no motivation to improve anything whatsoever. The only possible reason I have is so I can go back and impress girls but there's only one I want and she's got a new BF and we don't even talk anymore cus I !!!!ed her off so much.
I've started to relish the 2hrs on a bus everyday because it makes me anonymous, no one is judging me or ignoring me, I'm just a part of the background. I'm not expected to talk to anyone or do anything. When I do talk to people I'm just being rude and angry at them for no reason. I've become one of those sad, pathetic, self-pitying people that I have always despised for being weak.
Rant over. Please don't try to make me feel better, I already do after writing all that down.

Lula-Hula

Ohhh poor TDQO

think you need a dodgyhug too :rolleyes: . Cant cope with the time diff, have you had your chicken casserole yet ?

Things could be worse... you could own my fridge with its entire contents : 5 carrots, a scraping of butter, nugget of cheese, jar of mayonnaise, bottle of tonic water & 1/4 bottle of wine :rolleyes: hence my supper of spaghetti with mayo & grated cheese.

Never mind marriage; I just need a guy that can cook

Really hope you find work soon, will dredge my contacts list to see if I can find any mine owners on it

TDQO

My casserole looks awful, I cooked it last night and it looks rank. I'll try it tonight but it look like I'll have to chuck it atm. The soup is ready to be cooked so hopefully that'll turn out better...

runmichellerun

Sarah - your car breaking all the time must make life very very difficult. Hope it's all sorted soon

TDQO - I don't know what to say. Your post made me so sad. I don't know what to suggest to help you, as you seem to have explored most avenues. I just really hope things improve for you, and no matter what happens, at least you're going to be back in the UK within a few months. Light at the end of the tunnel and all that... small comfort I'm sure.

Not much news from my end, except I've been paid so been able to stock up on the wine which had run out a few days ago (traumatic)

sarahb123_3

TDQO, if the fact is that if you don't get the 8 weeks experience then you won't be able to graduate then you need to forget about everything else and concentrate on that. You feel that you are wasting a year but without that you will be wasting three. It's what you went out there for, I know you are very demoralised at the moment and it's hard to motivate yourself when you are feeling like that, but if, as you say, you can get a position somewhere else within a week you need to do it now. That's 2 months and you only have 6 months left.

I know you don't want to leave the people you know, but you are not particularly happy there, how do you know that you won't meet other people if you move somewhere else. You could end up having the best 6 months of your life. You must do this, please don't come home having spent 3 years on a degree course with nothing to show for it. I assume when you come back permanently you will be looking for work, it will be so much easier with qualifications. Even if you move and it turns out not to be ideal, at least you will have done what you originally set out to do. Don't come home and realise what a huge mistake you have made. Come home and impress everybody (not just the girls:D )

I really feel for you, you sound very down at the moment, as regards your ex, everyone has been through it, I realise it doesn't make you feel any better to hear that, and that you are having to go through it without the support of your friends which is not nice, but it will get better. You won't always feel like this. Do anything you can to take your mind off it, keeping busy is a godsend at times like that, more motivation to get that job!

Go to that garden party if you can, even just for a change of routine. You are not the only one who hates your job and goes home to an empty house, but it won't be forever. When I get home to an empty house if my flatmates are out I always put the radio on for a bit of noise, could you get some British radio stations on the internet at home, might make you feel a bit less lonely. There are always people on here so you can pop on for a chat at any time, i realise these things are not a great help but they might help take the edge off things.

TDQO

runmichellerun wrote: »

Sarah - your car breaking all the time must make life very very difficult. Hope it's all sorted soon

TDQO - I don't know what to say. Your post made me so sad. I don't know what to suggest to help you, as you seem to have explored most avenues. I just really hope things improve for you, and no matter what happens, at least you're going to be back in the UK within a few months. Light at the end of the tunnel and all that... small comfort I'm sure.

Not much news from my end, except I've been paid so been able to stock up on the wine which had run out a few days ago (traumatic)

Hurray for wine! I can't drink out here unless I go out with some people from work as last time I drank on my own I had an "episode" lol.