50p a day til christmas, healthily?!-Weezl's next challenge (part 2)

nopot2pin

Kittikins wrote: »

Hi nopot2pin....could you share the anti-midge secret with us please? The little blighters love me

No problem....
Its Avon's Skin so Soft, dry oil, body spray...
They do have a few different fragrances, however the green one it the one the midge's dont like

Here's the LINK
Oh... and it looks like it is on offer at the moment :T

Confuzzled

nopot2pin wrote: »

No problem....
Its Avon's Skin so Soft, dry oil, body spray...
They do have a few different fragrances, however the green one it the one the midge's dont like

Here's the LINK
Oh... and it looks like it is on offer at the moment :T

i can attest to how effective skin so soft is. i only ever had their original one (it had pink lettering) but even that kept them away even whilst gardening and of course raking up quite a swarm of them... good stuff and smells nice too

Elfinwings

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

hope not bob cos were having her for dinner on sat and we'll be mighty hungry if shes gawned! Think shes just been busy being a mummy!

I've been wondering where Weezl was too! Maybe the frugal electricity plan is keeping her away from the computer

Elfinwings

nopot2pin wrote: »

I have been away for the weekend, camping.
To Oban, and midge land
I was ok though...as I had the secret weapon in midge repellant :cool:
We walked for miles.. up, down, round, in rain, in sunshine.
To Mull, and Tobermory
We even went on an open air, walking theatre, about Clan McDougall, at Dunollie Castle... which was very entertaining....the rain held off which was good, and the wind was slight, which keep the midge's with the boots on at bay

Camping... It is great fun... but I am soooo looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight

It sounds like you had a fabulous holiday! Sounds marvellously frugal too, just goes to show you can have a great holiday without blowing the budget. :T

Kittikins

Thanks for the Avon tip

I'm off to to an inventory of the dented tins (are there any other kind?) in my kitchen cupboards, they're groaning under the weight and think I need to make some meal plans up to keep me away from the dented tins areas in the supermarkets. I think I have an addiction...lol

boredofbeingathome

nopot2pin wrote: »

Hmmmm.............. I did wonder this myself :)



But is it Ceridwen ?
If its too late now, then what will you think in 10 years when they are the norm ??



I have been away for the weekend, camping.
To Oban, and midge land
I was ok though...as I had the secret weapon in midge repellant :cool:
We walked for miles.. up, down, round, in rain, in sunshine.
To Mull, and Tobermory
We even went on an open air, walking theatre, about Clan McDougall, at Dunollie Castle... which was very entertaining....the rain held off which was good, and the wind was slight, which keep the midge's with the boots on at bay

Camping... It is great fun... but I am soooo looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight

You brave person with all those midges...which repellant did you use? They seem to avoid all the bits where i repelled and get the rest:o I use Autan, which works for most of the time but the odd hardy midge does appear.:mad:

queen_of_string

confuzzled

I noticed you used part of a tin of coconut milk. Just in case the rest is still lurking in the fridge, I hit the same problem earlier this week.

Solved it by accident by making a lemon and lime and a bit of syrup sponge ( added some tiny bits of chopped, previouslly frozen lemon and some lemon juice and lime juice, about half a fruits worth of each to a 2oz, 1 egg sponge mix), couple of spoons of syrup in the bottom of the pyrex and microwaved the sponge til springy.

Then made up the coconut milk to 1/2 a pint ( there's only two of us) and used it to make custard in the normal way.

OMG it was awesome.

Highly recommend using coconut milk like this with some kind of lime flavoured dessert. Am wondering if there's a trifle variation hmmmmm.

Confuzzled

queen_of_string wrote: »

confuzzled

I noticed you used part of a tin of coconut milk. Just in case the rest is still lurking in the fridge, I hit the same problem earlier this week.

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so i did and i realised i actually meant 1/3rd a package of coconut CREME (i've amended that) the milk is so much more expensive so i buy the creme but thanks for that idea, i have a huge package of lime jelly crystals that i need to use up and it sounds delicious. the package gives instruction on how to turn it into coconut milk so i'll give it a shot, thank you!

queen_of_string

confuzzled

Sounds like the makings of a trifle to me :-D

In_Search_Of_Me

weezl is alive I promise...unless someone is texting me that aint weezl....have told her you are missing her!