Tuesday 21st October

jayward

Happy Birthday Johannas Mum :bdaycake:

good morning,waves to all
im making brown rolls today
and am continuing with the bedroom sort out did 2 draws yesterday
dw has been sorted and i thought i would do a brown loaf today
i have some ham in the slow cooker for eating when cold
but tonight we are having gammon and fried potatoes

Shez

Good Morning to everyone!

Sunny here today so I'd best get the washing on & out! Gas man has just been and read the meter - so a nice bill coming for me:o

Looks like it's a Pork Day on here today - I've just taken out some chops for tea!

Popped into Lidl to get some toilet cleaner blocks and bleach and they had Leeks on offer half price to 64p!

Have watered the hanging baskets - I can't believe that my bizzies & lobelia are still flowering!!:eek: I've got winter pansies & stuff ready to do winter baskets - but the summer ones haven't finished yet!

Today's job is taking mum carpet shopping! Then she can have a cuppa and a piece of my HM Coffee/walnut cake (curtesy of twink!)!:D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOANNAS MUM!! :beer: have a lovely day!

Glad

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

Morning Guys!

Im off to the hospital for my Iron Infusion which will take about 4 hrs, so I am taking a packed lunch and a book. For some reasons I keep having nose bleeds and have bruises all up my arm ....will get them to take a look this morning though.

Hi PP

take care at the hospital

I posted to you on yesterdays daily about DD's prescription, I'll copy it here if you don't mind
then it won't bump up yesterdays thread with the answer

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

DD is at opticians with OH as her glasses broke yesterday and as you know she is blind literally without them. She is in her uniform but will depend on how long it will take as last time it took 3 hrs to get the special lenses as they has been scratched badly when they dropped.

Hi PP
do you mind me asking what her prescription is
My DD is also very shortsighted and when we need new lenses we have to wait 2 weeks for them, maybe I need to change opticians?

Glad

slept until 10 today been sleeping so much this last 2 weeks
I fully intended to have the flu jab this year but typical that I got full blown flu before I got around to it

feel weak as a kitten, but nose stopped running and cough easing so back to work tomorrow for a half day, I've only got patients in the morning so can get off early if I'm shattered

windy again today so washing on line again

having some sort of lamb hotpot for dinner, I buy half a lamb off a friend every couple of months and always end up with bags of bits!! so all going in the SC today

wannabe_sybil

Now sunny, but how long that will last is something I would not like to bet on.

Well, yesterday evening I cleared out three bin bags of rubbish. Now, some of it, I am sure, could have found it's way to the charity shop but I am unconvinced about how to get the dratted stuff there. Dear heart won't, he has other things to worry about, and it is still awkward for me. So I am sending it very begrudgingly to landfill, although I suspect some of it was too tattered to do anything with regardless. I wish that there was a recycle bin for things made of fabric.

I confess to a shameful decision. Recycling and donations to charity shops happen now as I can manage it conveniently until I can get a little more order in my home. I just feel so overwhelmed by the piles of things that occupy so much of my home that I have to strike out for sanity somehow. Dear heart is in a mood to throw things out, which is an encouragement to me.

I have a small mountain of clothes that little bear had when he was tiny. I keep promising myself it will go on ebay. I haven't got round to it. The mounds are growing alarmingly. Last night I was almost convinced just to throw them out, but I couldn't quite. People will buy them on ebay which will bring in much needed pennies and it will stop more and more dumping of rubbish in holes in the ground. Really it is the waste of it all, good fabric, buttons, clothes with plenty of wear in them (as Granny Weatherwax would put it), all going to the tip, and I find it so lowering.

As for books.... We have five or six bookcases filled with books, most of which we are never going to read again. I am determined to put those on ebay.

And groceries. Dear heart was really upset last night. I rather reluctantly decided not to go with the veg box, cost being the final consideration, but I thought that I would try for a weekly delivery from Sainsburys but to try and restrict the amount I spent on each delivery. When dear heart realised I would struggle to feed the three of us plus evil cat for a week on £25 (which I know lots of you manage but I am currently spending at least three times that and trying desperately to reduce it) he was quite upset.

I have just spent a whole hour trying to produce a meal plan with plenty of fresh veg (as he requested) for next week for a very reduced sum. Sigh. I've managed to get it to £36.17, but that includes running down the freezer.

When I get better at getting out then I shall be able to look more for the whoopsies, which will also be a benefit.

Little bear has been a mischievous bear today - nothing has escaped him. I have spent two solid hours taking things off him and putting them out of reach before being reduced to putting him in his playpen, where he is currently napping. The £36.17 does not include any nappies, as I couldn't stop cloth nappies leaking and in August there was an extremely good offer on disposable nappies which I took full advantage of. I suspect my stash of nappies will last until at least the middle of November, even after little bear's runny tummy.

I had better go - little bear has woken up, spotted evil cat and is now shrieking with delight in a way designed to wreck the baby monitor.

wannabe_sybil

Hope you feel better soon, Glad, as flu is so serious. Please take care of yourself.

mambury

Thanks to the fantastic, interesting and downright useful information posted on MSE (but mainly OS) forums I now spend more time in cyberspace than in real life which means...........
- mount everest sized pile of ironing,
- washing coming out of my ears
- dust that would probably kill an asmatic (SP?)

and the list goes on, and on, and on, and on.............

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

But also a big thank you for everyone that has..........
- saved me money
- given me a renewed interest in cooking
- made me giggle
- and all the other things I should say thank you for!

Mambury

:T

moggylover

Well said mambury! MSE is truly addictive - but at least it pays well if you listen to some of the advice!:D

Perhaps Martin needs to open a new board - Weening oneself off the MSE fix!:rotfl:

hm71_2

I love the world of MSE I don't have to acknowledge the exsistance of my horrible 17 yr old off spring who spends 95% of the time ranting about how hard he has it & 5% wanting me to give him evrything he wants cos then he will stop moaning!!!
long may it continue (mse that is not my sons moaning!!)

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I know what you mean,I want to try to find some time to try out all the lovely recipes that are posted but never get the time.How bad is that.