OS Daily thread for 16th September 2008

Churchmouse

Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 16th September. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything OS and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come in, put your feet up (although check the fence hasn’t just been painted first!) and join us for an OS natter. The more the merrier!

When you make a post, if you feel like giving it a title, that will help others that don’t have the time to read everything skim through the thread quickly but if not it's not a problem, we’re a laid back bunch here so you won’t hear any complaints. Please do not start a new daily thread before you go to bed at night because this often leaves things confusing with two daily threads live at the same time. The idea is that a member would start each new daily thread after they get up in the morning

Some people who chat here like to try to answer everyone. Don’t feel you have to though, a general “hi everyone, hope everyone’s well” type start does just as well

Go on, shoot me, I've not been to bed yet!!!

Been so busy last few days:rolleyes: Actually Sunday was just another fun family day:D One of my darling nieces invited us over for a BBQ which was lovely. Wonderful food ( cooked by her lovely OH ) and good wine, what more can a girl ask?

Charlies mum, you looked fantastic ( and not just for a fifty-something:D ) and the bride was pretty OK too:rotfl: Glad it all went well:T :T

I actually visited the gym again this morning:o Some people recognised me:rotfl:

Happy Birthday Kaatlady:bdaycake: Hope it's a good one!!!

Bethebee, so glad DH seems OK:D :T

We've had an e-mail from the Canadian branch to say that the pregnancy is progressing quite well, and that the due date has been moved forward 1 week. That's OK we've added to the stash to be sent soon:D

I suppose I should get to bed, we've a full day tomorrow. Dh and I are going to see the Chelsea match tomorrow / today ( Essex girl, I expect your support:D ) We'll have a nice meal in an Italian restaurant before the match.


Hope you all have good days,
CM xx

whatatwit

Morning Churchie :hello: and all followers and lurkers

I'm here again [strike]bright[/strike] and early, having waved the intrepid explorer off over the Pennines again.

Kaat, hope it goes ok at the hospital & happy birthday :bdaycake:
Beemuzed, don't over do it.
Floss, we're regulars at Nunzios and Ocean Palace hope you feel better today
Hester, any sign of a lodger for the empty room, or have you got the Vacancies notice at the window.
Pen-Pin, did you clear the air with your helper and are you back and forth to hospital this week?
Scuzz, any decisions on the job in Spain.
Smoky, hope the poorly toe is improving and the weather holds out for the weekend.

My dress fitting went ok, although if I could summon up a pair of boobs it would look better Mioliere & Pippa, get kntting.

I've got some mince to make a bolognaise, so that'll go into the slow cooker soon and my fruit cake muffins are delicious :drool: even mum likes them :rolleyes:

Like Hester, I'm waiting for an engineer to call today at work. I'm not always there (you might have noticed ) so I ask for them to ring my mobile 15 minutes before arrival or when they are leaving the job before. Usually I get a call to say they have arrived or they don't appear and when I query it they say oh we called and there was no one there At £68 call out and £68 per hour it's not cheap.....rant over.

Love and hugs to those in need and those caring for poorly partners, poorly parents and poorly offspring. :grouphug:

Not seen Silvercharming for a few days either, hope Dave is ok.

Love to all The Twit. :beer:

frugalswan

Morning Churchmouse and Whatatwit, and all that follow. Ugh, another early start and it's dark. Just another day at work planned, although there'll be food shopping tonight rather than tomorrow night as the OH is working on something tomorrow night. I get to go to mum's for tea, so that's me not cooking (yay!). Tired today. I'm looking forward to getting home so I can have a mini rest before bed

Hope everyone has a good day. ((((hugs)))) to those in need.

x Swan x

jannyannie

Morning all

It's so flaming dark here, hate getting up for an early when it's like this. Today is my wedding anniversay. Didn't make it to Nando's yesterday as DS and I felt so crap. Ended up buying OH a takeaway for his birthday and some beer. Hope to go out today.

JAYWARD glad to hear your OH has still got a job.
DAZI congratulations.

Off to work in a mo.

Have a great day all.

Jan :A xxxx

N9eav

Morning.

It's dark is'nt it? I will go down and make the sandwiches soon and some for myself as I am on a course today. It's a cheapo course run by social services.
A whole 2 days of course and no lunch provided!!! Pants is'nt it? I would not go except I need to complete it to get a further course that I do want.

Missus car goes for the MOT today, so that's more expense I could do without.
I also have to get 4 tyres for my car within the next few weeks. Looks like the credit card will be making a debt appearance. Bummer.

Well folks, have a nice day.....

mioliere

Good morning all! I've just read yesterday's thread very very quickly to try and catch up. I couldn't come back on here after my first post because we've been decorating my office so my poor computer was under a dustsheet all day. I kept crawling under the sheet to check on emails but I couldn't get to the keyboard - it felt horrid being cut off from MSE like that! Still, the office looks lovely but it took all evening to put the stuff back, especially my books - I have thousands of them! DH is always having to make bookcases to hold them all! I still have to reorganise all the files and folders but it's nearly back to normal.

Charlie'sMum - you looked gorgeous at the wedding. What a lovely couple, too. Best wishes to them for a happy life together.

Well, DH is not back to work until tomorrow so we're going shopping today; we both need new slippers, how exciting is that?! I still have some birthday book tokens to spend, too - more books! One of my ambitions is to have a library room with floor-to-ceiling shelves and one of those ladders on wheels, a big squashy chair, a reading lamp and a music system that only opera and classical is allowed to be played on! One day - if I win the lotto (which I don't do very often so that's not likely!).

(((Hugs))) to Smoky, PenPin, Jayward, Candygirl's Mum and Dad, Essex-girl's Dad, Beth's DH (I'm so glad he's on the mend), Jo's DH - I know there are a lot of others but the names have escaped me. (((Hugs))) to everyone.

Churchmouse - :hello: :hello: :hello:

Welcome to any newbies I've missed!

I had to attend the asthma clinic yesterday afternoon - I'm not really asthmatic but have what the nurse calls an 'unexplained cough' which gets really bad if I have a cold or the flu. I get a bit wheezy every now and again. I hadn't been to the clinic for a while because I've not felt ill but the nurse phoned me to see if I wanted the flu jab or the one for pneumonia or both. I opted for the pneumonia one because it offers lifelong protection. She also gave me some more inhalers to get me through the winter. Having had three colds since September last year, I'm not planning on having any more - I don't know if anyone remembers, but last Christmas I had the mother of all colds and I'd hate to go through that again.

I'm getting my Christmas head on now that DS1's birthday ha been and gone; I still have DIL1's birthday in November and DS2's in December to organise pressies for, but will go through my present store and start writing up my lists! I hope I haven't panicked anyone but it's only three months away! It's my Mum's birthday at the end of September and I'm going to stay with her for a few days in October. I wanted to go for her birthday but I'm looking after DGS and DGD after school for a few days at the end of this month because DIL is on a field trip (she's a geography teacher) so I'll collect them and their Dad will pick them up later.

I made some tomato and lentil soup in the Remoska yesterday and it was gorgeous, really tasty, and there was loads left over for the freezer. I've been making soup most days so DH never knows what he's having for lunch. He'll be back to sandwiches once he's back at work tomorrow! I also made stovies and that was delicious, too. I would hate to go back to life before the Remoska because I really resent putting the oven on now!

Anyway, considering I only posted once yesterday, I think I've more than made up for it in this post!

See you later and have a great day, everyone!

KathyXX

Well, I'd better go and have a shower and then wake DH up.

mioliere

Jannyannie - Happy Anniversary for today - I do hope you are well enough to enjoy it. (((Hugs))) to you.

KathyXX

Dumyat

off to a course today, where lunch is provided N9eav Mind you on the last day there wasn't anything too exciting.
happy anniversary and happy to birthday to all those celebrating. and great news jayward about OHs job.

today, as I said, course all day. baked potatoes and cold meat for tea. yesterday managed to conquer the ironing pile, do some shopping, clean bathrooms, and..cant remember what else...

have a good day everyone.

Sunnyday

Morning peeps :wave:

it`s nice to see that the smileys are back :j

Dazi - great news about the job, hope that you enjoy it!

Jayward - good news about your OH`s job, i know from experience how worrying that situation can be.

Taplady - your story about the postman made me smile, it reminded me of a few years ago before we moved house, there was a giant spider on the wall on the stairs and i daren`t go past it to get up to bed in case it leapt onto me i went walking down the street to find a neighbour who was still up (it was past 11pm) and begged him to come and get the spider for me, his wife was in stitches but confessed she couldn`t have gone upstairs past it either.:D

Gena - It sounds as if your company policy if people are off ill is very similar to the one that we have, i don`t agree with it either .

This morning i woke on the sofa at 4am, the last thing that i remember is trying to stay awake to watch the end of silent witness so i still don`t know whodunnit!

The wm, dw & bm are on and Mr SD can turn them all off when they are finished as i`m at w*rk.

Sausage onion and garlic patties with spicy wedges and rattatouille for dinner tonight and only 4 more sleeps to our hols :j

I double checked with the rellies who are staying at our house to feed our cat that everything is still ok so i`m in a good mood today.:D

Off for a cuppa so have a wonderful day everyone!

SD

poppyoscar_3

Happy Birthday Kaat-Lady (according to facebook it is anyway!) have a purrfect day!

Happy anniversary to jannyannie!

Morning to everyone else,

Am going to have to start getting up earlier - i have to weed everyone's garden on facebook before i come here!

Work today - a busy one I think, but some good mileage and that means good mortgage overpayment in a couple of months.

Only 9 days to go until OH comes - started clearing some wardrobe space last night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hugs to all the poorlies and sad.

back to the gardening! LOL!!

PO xxx

redruby

Happy Birthday To Kaat, hope you have a great day xx :beer: :j :T

Morning all,

Looks like it might be another nice day here :T , I think I am out of washing, will try and hunt some down.

Not at work today, so will keep myself busy at home, I am making somones (was is hester or aussie ?) cheeseburger pie for tea, never done it before, looks nice though.

OH has just come in from outside and said its 4 degrees this morning :eek: , goodness thats cold for this time of year.

I am afraid my head is starting to think of C*****Mas too , have bought a couple of presents, but must start to order, I also do 90% on the internet, I also have 9 birthdays before then :rolleyes: .

Happy anniversary to the jannyannies :T :T

Kathy, M + S are good for slippers, a bit more expensive, but they last for ages x

Sunnyday your hotel looks fab, it must be one of the only ones where they allow dog guests x

Well better get on xx

Have good days all xx