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Strumpet's Diary - Welcome to Planet Strumpet!!!

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  • The_Dragon
    The_Dragon Posts: 9,749 Forumite
    strumpet wrote: »
    Getting there slowly but the study is being put off - I'm being quite naughty!:naughty:

    I see the G&Ts are going down well though! :whistle:, and I am working on a piece of counted cross stitch but not one that is needed for Yule! :doh::naughty::doh::snow_laug
    Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for thou art crunchy and good with catsup :D
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  • strumpet
    strumpet Posts: 652 Forumite
    Sunday 26th October 2008

    Really enjoyed the extra hour in bed last night and was lovely and warm thanks to the joining together of the 9 tog duvet with the 4.5 tog one - winter has well and truly arrived it feels!

    Was trying to see November in before putting the heating on, but I simply can't study in a cold house, so it has been on intermittently so far this weekend. I will turn it off again for this next week, perhaps only coming on for an hour in the morning while I get up, to dry the towels if nothing else. Thankfully, having continued to pay my D/D over the summer, I am in credit with Eon!

    It's 10:30 and I have already done 1hr 45 minutes of study today. Having 15 minute break for coffee and toast and then will work through until 13:00 then stop for lunch.

    It's quite fine heare at the moment so may try drying the sheets on the line.

    Might even consider going for a run/walk later on if it stays fine. Strumpet has got to get fit one way or another as OH wants to go abroad next year and he's so slim and toned, and I look like a big bag of jersey royals! It's actually maming me unhappy but I think it might be a hormonal thing. Might need my testosterone dosage to be reviewed!!!

    Let me know what you lot are up to today!
    NIL ILLEGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM!
    Nov Grocery Challenge: £0.00 / £150.00
    Horace & Strumpet's NSD Challenge (Nov): 0/8
    £2 Savers Club #088: £200 since 01/09/2008 (£0 to bank) (Banked £200)
    Slimming World: 15½lbs/21lbs (74%) at end of Week 18 (Target date for 13st: 25/12/2009):dance:
  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    Come along and join the DFW running club thread.........we will soon make a lithe athlete of you :D

    You're doing well with the studying. I agree, though, that working in a cold house is much harder, so if you need to put the heating on for a bit, then you are very justified in doing so.
    Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)
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  • strumpet
    strumpet Posts: 652 Forumite
    hypno06 wrote: »
    Come along and join the DFW running club thread.........we will soon make a lithe athlete of you :D

    You're doing well with the studying. I agree, though, that working in a cold house is much harder, so if you need to put the heating on for a bit, then you are very justified in doing so.

    Thanks for the advice Hypno - I shall do just that.

    And thanks for assuaging my guilt over the central heating!
    NIL ILLEGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM!
    Nov Grocery Challenge: £0.00 / £150.00
    Horace & Strumpet's NSD Challenge (Nov): 0/8
    £2 Savers Club #088: £200 since 01/09/2008 (£0 to bank) (Banked £200)
    Slimming World: 15½lbs/21lbs (74%) at end of Week 18 (Target date for 13st: 25/12/2009):dance:
  • Horace
    Horace Posts: 14,426 Forumite
    strumpet wrote: »
    We'll be checking up on you so watch out because that Horace and that Mrs P, they are right nags you now. They never stop carping on! They're dreadful!!!:laugh: :rolleyes:

    Oii - I heard that...you cheeky monkey. If it wasn't for us you would have forgotten your hospital appointment again:rolleyes:

    Oh we have a Boundary Mill store too but thankfully it is off Junction 10 of the M6 and I don't venture up there these days. I like Dunelm Mill which is closer and Lidl which is closer still:D

    Thanks for the tip about the sausages. I am so angry that I could spit, my OH decided to put on a performance on Saturday "oh I don't like those sausages, I like ones that are made out of rusk" so muggins puts her nice sausages into the freezer and takes out the butcher's own which are more rusk than meat (I am not keen on them), then OH says "you're not giving me sausages for dinner" at which point he packed his bags and threatened to go so I said "go on then" and so he did. I decided to ring him and tell him to clear out the rest of his clothes because I could do with the space at which point he came back with his tail between his legs and took me out for dinner:rolleyes: He went home today thank goodness but now I am left with thawed out sausges that I don't like but will have have to eat to save wastage. I shall serve them with the last of the purple sprouting and maybe some cauliflower (or I might save that til tomorrow and have it with some cheese sauce). I need to start thinking winter food because we have been promised snow this week (a weather warning for the North and the West Midlands). No sign of it yet, the sun is out.:D

    Enjoy your G&Ts Strumps.
  • strumpet
    strumpet Posts: 652 Forumite
    Hey Horace,

    You could always make a casserole out of the sausages:

    onion
    mushrooms
    tinned tomatoes
    few herbs

    fry off the sausgaes to give a bit of colours, then chop into chunks.
    put the other veggies etc in a pan and simmer for 20 minutes until soft
    add the chunks of sausage and simmer another 10 minutes

    Serve with pasta

    almost like meatballs but a bit different!!!


    What was OH playing at - has he had a bad day? Seems like he was bieng a bit of a diva!
    Glad he came back though!

    Strumpet

    Ps - It's on and off rain here so my washing never did get put out for a drying on the line.
    NIL ILLEGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM!
    Nov Grocery Challenge: £0.00 / £150.00
    Horace & Strumpet's NSD Challenge (Nov): 0/8
    £2 Savers Club #088: £200 since 01/09/2008 (£0 to bank) (Banked £200)
    Slimming World: 15½lbs/21lbs (74%) at end of Week 18 (Target date for 13st: 25/12/2009):dance:
  • MrsPorridge
    MrsPorridge Posts: 2,928 Forumite
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    Hi All,

    I've got visitors at the moment.:eek: Its lovely to see them and spend time with them but I want things to be back to normal. Only another week to go:j

    Boundary Mill sounds like my kind of place! Glad I don't live there. Don't think I'm going to meet my NSD targets this month either. I'm gonna have to buy diesel one day and on Friday I need to pay for DS' golf lesson. I did think I was a bit ambitious with 15, so will make it less next month.

    Went a bit mad in M&S today. Just had a trying on session and half of the stuff is going back next Saturday.:T

    Horace, you could always cook those sausages and then freeze them again.

    Off to make a cuppa....
    Debt free and Keeping on Track
  • Horace
    Horace Posts: 14,426 Forumite
    Thanks for the tips Strumpet and MrsP - the sausages were turned into toad, so I ate three sausages for dinner with roast tatties and mixed veg. I shall split the rest of the toad so that there are 3 sausages in each portion and freeze them (if its good enough for aunt bessie then its good enough for me:rotfl: )

    Who knows what is up with OH - I think its a man thing:rolleyes: The poor love spent most of Saturday asleep on the sofa - to be honest I think his brain hurts because he is having to study on a course with work something to do with investigations. I don't think his poor brain can cope - I am not saying that he's thick because he isn't but he just doesnt have the same brain capacity as me:rotfl:

    I have been doing a bit of studying of my own, answering emails, ringing virgin mobile re the call from virgin media on Friday where they insisted that I have a sim card with them as they are all the same company now. I didn't like the way I was manoeuvred into saying yes when I wanted to say no:mad: Regardless, when the new sim arrives I have to call virgin mobile and they will sort it out for me. I cooked my dinner.

    Tomorrow, I shall have to wash the bedding (this has to be done in stages because I have very little drying space and its going to rain and be cold tomorrow so my washing line will not get used). I have to visit the chamber too to sign some papers and pick up my paying in book:j

    Hope you have a good day at work tomorrow Strumps.

    xx
  • MrsPorridge
    MrsPorridge Posts: 2,928 Forumite
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    Horace - I go through similar times with my DH. He has what I call "strops" and "tantrums". I put it down to age and the male menopause:D I like your suggestion better that the brain just can't cope.:rotfl:

    Strumpet - hope you have a good day at work today. Weather is terrible here, torrential rain and black skies.
    Debt free and Keeping on Track
  • Horace
    Horace Posts: 14,426 Forumite
    Hate to say it the weather is glorious here but it is bloomin' cold. The air has a lovely smell of autumn about it and when I walked to the bus stop I kicked through the leaves like a little kid:rolleyes: The forecast has said that we will have rain this afternoon and on Wednesday we are due to have snow:eek:

    Hope you have a grand day at work Strumps xx
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