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DFW Daily Chat 13 November.

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  • Cat-
    Fossil trip? !!!!!!?
    and duvet day is soooooooooooooooo lovely so far. Just contemplating making my cheese sauce for my cauli/cheese im doing for lunch...

    Would it be greedy to do it with bacon when i've already had bacon for breakfast?
    Empty pockets never held anyone back, only empty heads and empty hearts can do that -Peale
  • cat4772
    cat4772 Posts: 2,467 Forumite
    I'm the youngest and apart from Deb (SIL), the rest of them are fossils (pensioners), but we join them and MIL for their annual Turkey and Tinsel holiday.

    Because I don't get paid overtime I usually end up with more holidays than Wayne so this is our week away from each other. Of course I'll not be joining the fossils next year cos I'll have Evie with me so Deb and I will probably book a cheap trip to Jersey for some nice duty free shopping but this time we'll fly to Jersey as a 15 hour coach and boat trip isn't that great!

    Cat.x
    DFW Nerd Club #545 Dealing With Our Debt
    :onever attribute anything to malice which can be adequately explained by stupidity, [paranoia or ignorance] - ZTD&[cat]
    :othe thing about unwritten laws is that everyone has to agree to them before they can work - *louise*

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  • Lucifa73
    Lucifa73 Posts: 7,726 Forumite
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    and duvet day is soooooooooooooooo lovely so far.

    Would you like to rub our noses in it a bit more? I'mnot sure I'm jealous enough yet:p
    Would it be greedy to do it with bacon when i've already had bacon for breakfast?

    Nope - I give full permission. Duvet days are all about being self indulgent! (plus you'll run it off in training and added protein is good for you when you're training)
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  • cat4772
    cat4772 Posts: 2,467 Forumite
    I'm off to my sign language class - back in an hour and half.

    Cat.x
    DFW Nerd Club #545 Dealing With Our Debt
    :onever attribute anything to malice which can be adequately explained by stupidity, [paranoia or ignorance] - ZTD&[cat]
    :othe thing about unwritten laws is that everyone has to agree to them before they can work - *louise*

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  • Lucifa73
    Lucifa73 Posts: 7,726 Forumite
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    cat4772 wrote: »
    I'm the youngest and apart from Deb (SIL), the rest of them are fossils (pensioners), but we join them and MIL for their annual Turkey and Tinsel holiday.

    Cat.x

    I thought you were off on an expedition to find dinosaur bits!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

    Stick you're bump out and the fossils will be all over you and offering extra choccie biccies to keep your strength up!;)
    26.2.19/14.1.19: T MC 3629.26/3629.26 : VM 0% 1050/13876.59 : W 0% 100/1485 = 4409.26/18990.85 =25.17%
    28.1.19/28.1.19 Hubs 0% £400/£2,977 =13.44%
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  • JET34
    JET34 Posts: 1,144 Forumite
    Well it seems that my Mum & Dad have had a chat and it's all being sorted out!!
    I feel 100% better now and it feels like a wait has been lifted......... Lets juat hope it will be a end to it.... I did say to my dad that even though its my mums debt in name we as a family were all responsible for it and he agreed which I have to say shocked me!!! I think things are definatley going to be different in my family from now on in.....
    DEBT FREE 23/FEB/07 TWO YEAR's!! £2 £1020.00 Banked New total £268+ and counting SAVINGS 3000.00- ISA £30. :j
  • excellent news Jane......!!! Your poor mum has probably been keeping this to herself for such a long time, it's good to see the old DFW adage of "getting it out in the open with partners is the first/hardest step. It's never as bad as you think." coming true....
    I'm just a seething mass of contradictions....
    (it's part of my charm!)
  • Maz
    Thanks to you, cauli/cheese now in oven cooking...HM cheese sauce ever so slightly lumpy but hey ho...
    Empty pockets never held anyone back, only empty heads and empty hearts can do that -Peale
  • Lucifa73
    Lucifa73 Posts: 7,726 Forumite
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    That's great Jet. Maybe this wee black cloud has a silver lining if it has brought your family closer and opened them to communicating with each other;)
    26.2.19/14.1.19: T MC 3629.26/3629.26 : VM 0% 1050/13876.59 : W 0% 100/1485 = 4409.26/18990.85 =25.17%
    28.1.19/28.1.19 Hubs 0% £400/£2,977 =13.44%
    SPC 2019 #073


  • Maz
    Thanks to you, cauli/cheese now in oven cooking...HM cheese sauce ever so slightly lumpy but hey ho...


    did you steam your cauli first...? i wasn't sure if i had to before putting in oven with cheese sauce, but i did anyway... thought it was a stupid question to ask...

    mine was delish so hope yours is too, i'm sure it will be! but you've got me thinking i should have it again with bacon.....???

    i have had sausage casserole in slow cooker overnight, which will just need heating up, have a cabbage to go with it... what do you guys think about fried potatoes with that? just have a notion for them....

    then bubble n squeak tomorrow! yum yum!
    I'm just a seething mass of contradictions....
    (it's part of my charm!)
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