It is tough NOW. So how are we coping

mummysaver

Good morning!

Thanks for everyone sharing their favourite ways to spend ME time! What a lot of simple pleasures we all seem to find, I feel all warm and glowy now lol!

Nanna - I look forward to reading your report! Sounds like you have a great time with your grandkids, I wish mine had a nanna like you, but there is a distinct lack of interest from either gran!

Sammy - it's lovely to see you back! Glad that everything is going well for you and your family, and I bet your lo will be thrilled with his present if he's wanted it for sooooo long! One year my ds wanted a Reach Powerbrush, think he'd seen the advert with the cartoon boy flipping his head right back and opening his mouth 180 degrees, and thought he'd be able to do the same! He nearly fainted with excitement when he unwrapped it, the toys went unnoticed!

Rizl - thanks for the info about Aldi and the bargains, could do with some more citrus fruit so will be making a trip later I think. I went to Lidl yesterday and they have loads of fab veg bargains, carrots, sprouts, parsnips, leeks, red cabbage. The onions were 19p a kilo, so got several bags as they will keep out in the garage for ages, red onions were only 29p! Oh and mangoes are 20p each, great as I need to make some more mango chutney, they jars I made seem to have walked off with assorted visitors!

Sparrer - I'm sure your cakes will be safe, well I hope they will!

Well to stay on topic, another thing that I'm doing more of now than I used to do, is shop around more for veg, making full use of Lidl and Aldi offers. Throwing stuff in the trolley in Mr T's is but a distant memory, as is my veg box now! The veg box just got way too expensive for the amount it contained, and as I was shopping to supplement it I thought I might as well do all my own veg shopping. We make a meal plan and sometimes adapt it to fit the veg that we have in the house or what is on offer, at the moment root veg keeps very well, so I can meal plan around the stuff that I've already bought.

itsmylife_2

oystercatcher wrote: »

I was furious yesterday, sitting talking to one of my 'new mums' on the ward when a pile of visitors arrived. One said "I won't kiss you I've got flu" . Well of course she hadn't got flu or she wouldn't be there but I gave her a good telling off for bringing germs into the hospital.

"But she's my sister, I wanted to see the baby" was the excuse......... have people no sense at all. Some of our babies are very small and poorly and a nasty cold could be the last straw to their system!!

OK rant over!!

Oystercatcher

Oh I so know where you are coming from, I work in a children's medical ward (but the way things are of lately it might as well be a baby unit!) and I despair at some people... bringing their germs in... or even more bizarre, bringing their own healthy newborn baby onto the ward to visit a cousin to pick up all the nasty bugs that are already floating around...:rolleyes:

swadey1

Bargain_Rzl wrote: »

The spuds are still 39p (along with lemons, clementines, sprouts, carrots and parsnips) The Aldi fruit & veg offers normally change over on the 1st of the month so the current offers should be good till New Year's Eve.

Was in my local Aldi only yesterday and I asked at the till. These 39p offers are definately valid until Christmas. Yippee makes a big difference to the cost of Christmas dinner for 12.

itsmylife_2

mummysaver, I've just given up on my veg box too... it was working out very expensive, I went to the local market, where I normally go to get meat anyway, and got the same stuff for £3 less - in fact now that I think about it, I probably got more veggies and I know we will eat all these ones!

elizabunny

Good Morning Everyone!

mummysaver -I also have to confess that I have given up on the veggie box. It was getting really expensive and some weeks there was not alot of variety. But I think there are some great bargains to be had out in shops like Lidl -have never tried Aldi but think I might give it a go. Also the local markets are great and by the end of the day there are usually a few extra bargains to be had. Can't wait to start 'growing' again next spring. I promised myself I would try and grow a few bits through the winter -but whoops:o the cold weather seems to have got the better of me.

I also meant to say -sorry about your cloned cards, what a horrible thing to have happened just before Christmas. It's a bit like my stolen purse -the inconvenience of cancelling, ordering and waiting for new cards and hoping no one gets their hands on your hard-earned cash. I did have my cards insured but its still a real nuisance isn't it:mad:

I was wondering if some kind soul on this thread could tell me how to insert a quote in my posts. I keep trying to do this but can't seem to get it right and sometimes I would like to post a quote, of just part of a post. Sorry to be a bit dim, but just can't seem to figure it out -another senior moment I'm afraid.

Have a lovely day everyone!

cw18

To quote a post, click on the button under it.

If you only want to quote part of the post, then delete the unwanted text -- but make sure you leave the stuff inside the square brackets (and the brackets) - [ and ] - at the start and end of it.

Then just type your text underneath, and away you go

Primrose

elizabunny wrote: »

I was wondering if some kind soul on this thread could tell me how to insert a quote in my posts. I keep trying to do this but can't seem to get it right and sometimes I would like to post a quote, of just part of a post. Sorry to be a bit dim, but just can't seem to figure it out -another senior moment I'm afraid.

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Thanks for asking this question. I too have been struggling trying to work this one out, so am trying it now to see if it works. If it doesn't I'll have to stand in the corner with ny dunce's hat on.

PS Yippee it works !

elizabunny

cw18 wrote: »

To quote a post, click on the button under it.

If you only want to quote part of the post, then delete the unwanted text -- but make sure you leave the stuff inside the square brackets (and the brackets) - [ and ] - at the start and end of it.

Then just type your text underneath, and away you go

Thank you cw18, that's great!

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I have been on the go all morning and am feeling shattered. Men!!!! they have no idea, my dh tries to help but :huh: sometimes he does get in the way and I have to keep smiling because it is the trying that counts

Anyway my os treat after I have cooked lunch, will be to slide upstairs to our silent lounge, which overlooks grass, trees and tranquility. Then I will put my feet up on a lounger chair and do NOTHING.

Margaret54

Hi everyone, wish we had an Aldi shop here. We have the ads on t.v. and I can see how cheaply you can buy fruit and vegs. We do have Mr.T and Sainsburys and Lidl, Co-op and a few others though. I have been having my grocery shopping delivered a long time now, (illness) but cancelled it yesterday as dh was off work for the day and we decided to go to Sainsburys, and use up coupons points etc. Got some reduced stuff which can be used for the next few meals,so that is great, and have the freezer packed now and lots in the store cupboard, which is always full too. Made enough spagetti bolognase last night for dinner and froze the other half so that will be handy too. Stocked up on bread flour yeast etc. and lots of loo rolls washing powder etc which were on offer, and everything is now posted and wrapped and written, so going to take it easier today, and just read my book with my fleece around my wee knees, my time.:)