Old Style Diary Archive - NOV 05

Katgoddess

Ancasta - Couldn't you sell the excess on Ebay, maybe for a profit!?

Rzl - Your landlord will probably sell the house quickly if he sold it as it is. Three of my friends have just brought properties in the borough, all in serious need of refurbishment. They liked the idea of a bargain, and can still live with their parents while its all being done. But you aren't going to tell him that.


My mother came home with a slow cooker last night!!!!! It's an old Tower one with just high/low settings, picked up from a boot sale. She tried to cook split peas or chick peas (I wasn't paying attention) over night and complained that it was too slow. :rolleyes:

I've persuaded her to put the joint of beef she was cooking for tea in the slow cooker. Any ideas of what to do with the stock afterwards?

I have this week off work, and am really happy because I can now have a play with it. :j

Off to the shops for cheap red wine and pearl barley.

How does Batman's mum call him in for a meal? Dinner dinner dinner dinner, dinner dinner dinner dinner - BATMAN!

Alfietinker

kiwichick wrote:

I've just FAILED a mock driving test

If it's any consolation I failed my real one 3 times! You will get there in the end

taplady

Hi all you OS'ers ! day off today !!!yippee :j

have spring cleaned the lounge and am now having a tea break, BM is on to make rolls for lunchboxes.Leftover beef for tea tonight with cauli and sprouts and roasted parsnips and spuds.

Had a bit of good luck over the weekend.we were visiting friends and they mentioned they had bought a new wireless computer and their old one was going spare so its now ours! :j its only 3 years old cost £1300 and they've only just finished paying for it!
Ours is an ancient thing with windows 98 so this new one is a big improvement. OH going to set it up tonight hopefully. it5s about time wqe had a bit of good news!

Hope you all have a good day ! catch you later :wave:

squeaky

:eek:

I've just realised - started off my yeast in warm water and sugar over an hour ago!!!

Off to make some bread real quick!

Bargain_Rzl

ivyleaf wrote:

RZL - poor old you, no sooner does work show some hope of improvement than you get probs with your home! Keep trusting and it will all sort out "timeously" (one of my ex-employer's favourite words, along with "vision"!).

Thanks love. I would feel really uprooted if my accommodation circumstances changed in the very near future. Chances are that by this time next year, me and boyfriend will either have moved in together & got engaged, or gone our separate ways (hopefully not the latter!) so what I don't want now is to spend £1000 of my savings on moving house when I might only end up being there for six months before having to shell out the same again. That's what happened at my last address (rented a house with 2 friends that was supposed to be "permanent" but had to leave after 8 months cos one housemate moved out and the place became a financial burden for the remaining two of us). I hope at least that I can live in the same place until I'm over my current career hurdle, cos if I have to pay to move house AND to take some time out from work, there go my savings at one fell swoop! The whole point of living where I do is that I am paying next to nothing for it so can afford to build up savings and have a really busy lifestyle.

If all does not go according to plan with boyfriend, plan B was to get my savings into double figures then stop bothering so much with them and rent a room a bit closer to Central London. That won't happen before the end of 2006 (unless I get a serious payrise!) but before it does, I'd like to get my stuff all sorted (especially my gigantic collection of opera programmes which I'm in the process of scanning into electronic format so they don't take up space I haven't got).

Katgoddess wrote:

Rzl - Your landlord will probably sell the house quickly if he sold it as it is. Three of my friends have just brought properties in the borough, all in serious need of refurbishment. They liked the idea of a bargain, and can still live with their parents while its all being done. But you aren't going to tell him that.

Too right I'm not! He's been making vague noises about "possibly" selling up for absolutely years. So I'm quite used to hiding/binning the flyers that come through the door from the local estate agents saying "we have a shortage of properties like yours"

An old schoolfriend's partner used to live with his parents while he had a derelict house done up. He also had a project going on to do up a Triumph Spitfire (which at the time was languishing under a tarpaulin on his parents' driveway) and sell it on at a profit. "Doing stuff up" was clearly his main interest - and as he met my friend when she was a size 30 with no self esteem, and joined a gym with her and helped her get all slim and gorgeous and confident, it did make me wonder whether he was planning to sell HER on for a profit as well

Last time I looked my friend up on Friends Reunited she was complaining that she STILL didn't have a kitchen floor after three years

Ticklemouse

Hello everyone :j

Well, the white stuff has just stopped falling, although it's not really stuck - which is a good thing because we live at the end of a private road, so no gritting and the entrance onto the main road is down a slope :eek:

Been to mum's and done her cleaning, quick nip into Tesco and have bought (hangs head in shame) chicken nuggets and pizzas. Well, I have 6 kids here for tea today and tomorrow, the dining room is still out of action so I need something they can eat fairly tidily and also something I don't have to prepare.

I'm so behind with this decorating malarky, the rest of the house looks like a bomb has dropped and I even forgot to take the loaf out of the BM yesterday. I heard it beep when I was painting the ceiling, then forgot until over 3 hours later Bit flat on top, but it's not too bad. Must put BM on again in a bit.

Must start the last of the glossing in a bit, if DS2 leaves me to it Just having a toasty and tea for lunch. Hope you all have a good a day as poss and hugs to those in need.

TM

Chipps

Hello everyone
((((hugs)))) to all poorly ones, all those having a bad day at work, or with the driving test blues, and anyone else who needs them.
I need to hug someone anyway, feeling yukky having spent most of the morning at the dentist, I had a crown which needed re- fixing as it was loose, and a tooth which had broken very badly and needed a huge filling.
I was up bright & early, done d/w, washing washed & hanging to dry in airing cupboard & been to help my sister deliver a fridge. The fridge belonged to my dd, it was only a year old & they bought it for the flat they were living in, but now they have a house they have space for a fridge/freezer, but as the fridge was so new, dd wondered if her brother would like it, as he is engaged. There was also a lovely little "butchers block" style cupboard, so I brought that home when I visited last week, & my sister - who has a bigger car than me (and I drive a discovery!!!) - brought the fridge home last night. So this morning we took it to my grandma's house, & put it in her garage, until ds should need it.
So I guess passing fridges round the family is a fairly OS thing to do!

Sweet_Pea_2

Hi All, :hello:
Its snowing! :j I was beginning to feel left out here in the Mids.
Dont think its sticking 'though.
DD1 (10) rang to say her netball after school is cancelled, and she was very excited about the snow. Doesn't look like snowman weather yet. :cool:

henhog

:hello:

Hugs to all who need them!
I just seem to be shelling out at the moment - first it was the car tax and MOT, then my hair (keeping quiet about that one! ) and now vets bill! Every month I say tomyself, next month will be better, but that certainly won't be true in December! Still, I will break open the piggy containing all my £2 coins soon - can't wait to see how much is in there - hoping for about £100, but i really don't have a clue. DH thinks it will be a lot less because he doesn't think 50 £2 would fit in the piggy. What he doesn't know is that I've been taking any £2 coins that he leaves in his pockets when I tidy up / do the washing!!!! (It's not stealing - it's distribution of wealth!)

Best get on with ironing whilst DS2 has his nap.

Have a good day and keep warm.

Henhog.

scuzz

kiwichick wrote:

Not really Scuzz, I've just FAILED a mock driving test , I was feeling quite confident before it too. More EXPENSIVE lessons for me then. At least my instructor will have some money for xmas :rolleyes:

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Don't worry, I failed my mock, but passed the real thing. Just make sure you're ready before you go for it. Tests are expensive, so it's better to pay for the extra lessons to make sure you'll pass