Old Style Diary Archive - NOV 05

Queenie

((moggins))

nicki - :T :T :T Great news!! :T :T
re: your door ((hugs)) thank goodness you have found out about it *before* anything serious occured! My d10yo left our utility room door open the other night (dh is away) scared me witless when I discovered it, not because anything *did* happen, but simply because of what *could* of happened He was a real sweetie and has now made it his own little task to check that door is locked every evening at .... 6pm SHARP! :rotfl:

purplegirluk1 - have a wonderful time at your party tomorrow - love your attitude towards your ironing pile too, it's the *only* way to keep on top Shepards Pie is basically a savoury mince with mashed potato on top and baked in the oven (or browned off under the grill if cooked from leftovers).

taplady - Good luck tonight, hope you raise HEAPS of money ... it's such a good cause. "Break a leg" (but ... er ... not literally!!!)
Hope the brownies turn out as you plan



Well, my patio windows are now shiney and bright (helps that the sun is shining) and the garden has been put on hold - d11yo thought he might have trampolining club tonight, but phoned to say it's Tuesday :rolleyes: so I need to alter my schedule to account for the 2hrs shaved off my day :rotfl:

Instead ... I'm going to ... :shhh: do nothing :silenced: :whistle:

apple_mint

Queenie wrote:

apple mint - oooh, working at home two days on the trot ... :j :j :j (How did OH do with the pheasant???)

It's the only way I can do any clear-headed thinking and rapidly write reports - there's no peace and quiet in an open plan office :rolleyes: It does mean I can pop the washing machine on and have home made soup for lunch Another bonus is have a lunch break where I can surf OS.

Ahh the pheasant ... still hung up in the outhouse (where it is nice and cold). By the time we had our evening meal and washed up it was 7pm an OH decided he had had enough. So the deed is to be tonight or tomorrow morning - I think it will be tomorrow whilst vegetarian daughter is at work. I have plans to roast it (taking instructions from an old recipe book).

Ticklemouse

Hello everyone :wave:

My usual Friday morning rush, when DS2 has to go to speech therapy - I walways have lots to do in town - well, Mr TM has given me lots to do in town, but I have to get DS2 back and fed before pre-school. However, I did manage to get to the market and buy lots of meat and chicken for this month as well as 3 huge bunches of bananas for £1. I will be baking lots of banana cakes this weekend (I'm addicted to them) May even make enough to freeze some :whistle:

Just finished the HM bread up as toast for lunch and finishing my :coffee: BM is on again, DW about to be switched on, load ready for TD and load for WM again. It's absolutely bucketing down here too. Then I need to get on with some cleaning and will have to get some bits ready for recycling when I go to pick up DS2.

Managed to get rid of all mine and neighbours stuff to charity shop, yesterday. They came to collect and I was expecting the van and man that collects when they leave the bags. No, I opened the door to a diminuitive OAP with a Vauxhall Corsa - we had fun squeezing it all in, but TBH I left some of my stuff in the garage. I'll take it in next time.

OK, must dash - those apppliances won't switch themselves on....but better finish me :coffee: first, hadn't I?

Queenie

Ticklemouse wrote:

...... DW about to be switched on .....

:rotfl: :rotfl: Sorry TM but every time I see DW I automatically associate it with "Dear Wife" - especially after reading an Ivan post. :rotfl::o

Bargain_Rzl

Taplady, that sounds like so much fun! (Well, for you - I hate dancing, I was born hopelessly uncoordinated and am not exactly fit ) I could come along and sing tho'!

I've fallen off the wagon this week and it looks like it might continue that way for the next few days. I was going to wait until I got home from the show I saw last night before eating, but I was starving so had panini (£2.95) AND ate the meal I'd defrosted once I got home! I forgot to take anything out of the freezer for today's lunch, so this morning took a plastic carton of soup out of the freezer to take to work. Put it into what I very soon realised was a bottomless carrier bag, and it hit the kitchen floor smashing the lid of the carton to smithereens around the frozen block of soup! Had to leave to catch my train, so no time to salvage the soup in a way that would mean I could bring it to work - it's now sitting in the fridge slowly melting and I'll have it for lunch tomorrow! Still, it was my only option for lunch today, so will be going out for a takeaway at yet more expense :rolleyes:

BF wants us to go out to a restaurant this evening - he wants to go somewhere quite expensive and has not offered to pay :rolleyes: so I have told him I will only go if they do a well-priced set menu. Cheaper than otherwise, and much nicer than Wetherspoons, but still a £20 night out which will have to come out of the "buffer" budget. I do have about £100 between now and Christmas that isn't strictly spoken for, but was hoping not to use most of it up at the start of November!

Tomorrow must take all three pairs of my work shoes (boots, heels & flatties) to the menders - I thought only two of them needed repairing (this was in the budget) but now the other pair have gone too :mad: . I just hope none of them are terminal, cos I have already spent my November AND December clothes budget (desperately needed new suit) and have promised myself I won't buy more clothes until the January sales.

At least, much as I hate sewing hems/seams, I will be saving £5 by mending 2 pairs of trousers myself. One of my other pairs of trousers has just died forever (big worn-through hole in fabric in embarassing place) so unless I want to go to work all next week in just a blouse and pants :eek: I have to face my mending pile!

Tomorrow I have no fixed plans at all - which happens about once every 6 months! - so shall be being seriously efficient and OS-ing in a big way. Will be popping into Lidl for about £8-worth of groceries to complete the ingredients list for the 3 dishes I have planned (which should last me, and the freezer, until the end of next week). Will have a curry in the SC, with a bacon pasta bake and a fish pie in the oven! Yum yum! Will also be washing, ironing and doing some serious housework. Will probably do an Amazon order for some Christmas pressies (in the budget) and the Money Diet book (not in the budget, so another £3.99 from my overflow fund!) and have a look at setting myself up as a seller on Ebay. Will also put in order at Argos for shelving unit which I have needed since March when I emptied the financial drain that was my self-storage lockup, which left me living among crates and boxes.

Hope you're all having a good day :j

Ticklemouse

LOL @ Queenie.

Ok, just for you , I think we OSers ought to refer to DW's as 'Dishy's'

Mind you, I could do with a Dear Wife of my own, to help out once in a while. My DH isn't much use (although I can't tell him that. If he runs the vac round the MIDDLE of the room I have to sit him down with a cup of tea and a bucket load of praise :rotfl: )

Queenie

((((Bargain Rzl))))) - you may have stumbled, you have not fallen
When you go out tonight, think of it as a "reward" for the mending you will be doing and the amount that alone will be saving. Go through your wardrobe and have a think about it in the same way that you would "menu plan" ... work out how many days your need "outfits" for between now and the January sales: try different combinations of things - have a play - then see just how many different combinations you could manage to wangle. You just might surprise yourself and find that you might be able to get by until the sales after all; I hope so. Good luck.


TM - "Dishy's" .... :think: .... I thought hunky men were "dishy" ... and then ... we'd be back to square one :eek: "... dishy turned on ... " :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

tootles_2

I have had an OS morning, cleaned the bathroom and bedroom, made leek and lentil soup for lunch, cheese and potato pie, baked tomato's and rice pudd for tonights supper and washed a coloured load, some of its in the dryer, its raining here, the thicker stuff I will put in tonight.... have to go to tha bank this afternoon, hope there is not a queue, everytime I go the queue is out of the door and down the road..........drives me mad........

I have started a quilt with a golfer on, want to try and get some of the applique done this afternoon if I can..... we are going to the allottment in the morning to do a little more work on it, the shed has arrived, its waiting to be picked up and errected, but that will be next weekend. We are off housesitting on Sunday for 3 days......

Sarahsaver

I've got old style dust all over the house cos the bathroom is being ripped out and renovated, bits of crud falling down the old style chimney sweeping access hole beside the kitchen chimney place, old style bees nest in the roof, and a skip full of old style wattle and daub from the ceiling.
I am NOT doing much cleaning until the work is finished, because at the mo if I clear some dust more will quickly replace it.Its getting in everywhere even with the room doors shut
Not even cooking today cos Im going out and the kids are being fed @ the babysitters.

Aril

Hello everyone!
It's a bright sunny day here today so put the heavier bits of washing on the line in the hope that they'll dry today and the rest out on the airer. Have also stripped the beds and changed the towels before coming to work.
Very pleased because popped into Wilko en route and found some very cheap Chrissie cards for small person to send to his friends and 15m wrapping paper for £1.50.
We have a meeting this afternoon then I plan to make 2 malt loaves this evening as we have friends coming for tea tomorrow. Will also make HM salads, chocolate crunchies and bread. The rest has been bought either from Lidl or by careful budgeting from Tesco last night. We're meeting them at one of the local parks first. In the evening we're going to a friend's bonfire party.
Other OS plans are to finish my velvet scarf I've been making from my old hippy skirt which had disintegrated beyond repair as my Mummy has treated me to some posh beads and lining material to finish it off properly [she works in a fabric shop] and put some bulbs in that I've just remembered I was given as a present last year.
The new yogurt maker is very swanky- had a quick look at the recipe book that came with it and it covers everything from yogurt[obviously] to icecream and cakes.Shall need to do some experimenting in the forthcoming weeks!!
Have a fab OS weekend
Regards
Aril