Old Style Tuesday 16th December

candygirl

Afternoon all:D
Am busy trying to clean this sty and get my decs up, very half heartedly I must say:rolleyes:
Have just had a letter with the amount the DWP are paying towards my mortgage, and it's not enough.Sometimes I wish I was renting then they'd pay the full amount, as my mortgage is a pittance but I will find it hard to make up the short fall on benefits
OS wise i'm cleaning, making a cinammon loaf for my friend and making soup.
HUGGLES to all in need today, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY MSD and NELSKI:j :j

LameWolf

redruby wrote: »

Now then Lame Wolf, you know thats naughty, you must get it done and soon xx

I'll see if I can cope with it once we get the New Year out of the way. Don't need the violent physical reaction I get plus the fortnight or more of bad-enough-to-wake-me-up-screaming nightmares this side of New Year.

Money_saving_Diva_2

Hello darlings!!

Just popping in to say thank you for all the lovely birthday wishes!!!

Am having a lovely day but not really spending any time on here... (am too busy eating Viennese truffles and cheesecake...:rotfl: :rotfl: )

Normal service will be resumed tomorrow!!

love and hugs to all

Diva.xx

wannabe_sybil

Boston baked beans in slow cooker I have impressed myself.

I also got mustard powder all over a pale grey sweater. I suspect that this is the end of the sweater - any suggestions? I suppose there is always dye. Except I can't think of any dye that dratted mustard won't work through in blotches. Sigh. It was actually a nice sweater, and one of my few bought ones. I am going to have to save them for when I take little bear to play group so that people don't think that I am odder than they already think I am. No-one there seems to knit at all.

Otherwise, not good day. But better and better all the time.

Hugs to all, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to those celebrating.

Lame Wolf - I hope you manage to get out to D&D. I had a session with dear heart last night and it was a lot of fun.

I sprinkled evil cat with water to try and get access to my mouse. She was so traumatised that she left me alone for an entire 5 minutes.

mioliere

Happy Anniversary to Mr and Mrs Tru - have a great day! (We forget ours almost every year - we met on my birthday, so that's what we consider our anniversary). Don't you think it's time we had an 'anniversary' icon on here?!
Happy Birthday to MSD and Nelski!:bdaycake: :bdaycake:

Sistercas - you must be very proud.

Well, must go and get ready to pick DGS up from school. It's really foggy out so I hope I can see where I'm going! It's really cold, too, but I've put the heating on so that DGS doesn't get cold!

I walked up to the Post Office today and spent more than £10 on parcels!:eek:

See you later. More (((hugs))) for all the poorlies.

KathyXX

mrs_mix

Afternoon all
well I've had a good day ds1 and I went into town on the bus as I go free and I can get a cheap ticket for him I managed to find a short black cardi for dd to wear of Friday so thats sorted we also bought lots of stocking fillers in poundland and new pj's for christmas eve in primark/qs all that is now wrapped just have to wrap all the other stuff now,I haven't done a lot else in the way of job's but there's always tomorrow .I am going to get the cards done today though will start on them soon.
pam xx

Churchmouse

Hello everyone:hello:

Thanks for the text ivyleaf I wasn't driving, and to Aussie I wasn't asleep either. I also have not run away with the milkman :rolleyes: ( Have you seen the local milkie:eek: No hair, and hardly any teeth:rotfl: )

I was typing a reply much earlier, but DIL and DGS2 arrived earlier than expected so I had to abandon it. She and DS2 wanted to do a food hamper for my Dad for Christmas, so I went along in the role of advisor. We got lots of indulgent goodies for him, along with a tipple or two. I'm going to assemble it for them because apparently I have artistic talents:rolleyes: :rotfl:

OS has been patchy chez Churchmouse, it's such a busy time of year. Have got the tree in, and it smells wonderful. Might even get to decorate it properly tonight. So far it only has white lights:D I'm very simple at heart (Aussie don't go there) and would be happy to leave it at that with the star on top, but the DSs and DGSs prefer it more laden:D So it will be glitter and glam, and lots of chocolate, and I'll still love it.

Got the Christmas lunchclub tomorrow, so that will be a full, very tiring day, but very worthwhile ( I'll remind myself of that frequently tomorrow, when I crawl out on hands and knees:rotfl: )

Best dash, got to make mince pies, and haven't even thought about dinner tonight. Freezer surprise again:o

Congrats to those celebrating today, although in the case of the trus, that will be Mr tru on his own then:rotfl:

CM x

Pooky

Good afternoon all

Hugs to all the poorly ones - seems to be a fair few about this year.

DD1 coughed the night through but wasn't awake enough for medicine - I tried several times to no avail, but she insisted on going to school today to take part in some class fashion show and to collect her extra merits for translating 2 Latin stories (no idea why she's so good at Latin but it's clicked for her). She handed out her xmas pressies yesterday - some of the girls weren't impressed with HM pressies - their loss, DD put in a lot of effort and they looked fab.

Made a sausage and bacon cassarol with a dumpling topping for dinner last night - was yummy....just had the left overs for my lunch. Chicken soup tonight, made from the stock from the SC (used homemade apricot wine to cook the chicken in - was a lovely flavour)....made some soda bread last night so will have some of that with it.

All housework is upto date so I'm going to treat myself to a couple of hours sit down with some sewing.

Wannabe - Try a squirt of washing up liquid on your jumper before you wash it.....it never seems to fail to get stains out for me....something to do with breaking down the enzyms I think.

This site was mentioned on the "celebrations" board - I've had a good look through - some lovely stuff there....

http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/projects.php?startpoint=20

Hope you all have a great day :j

candygirl

WS if washing up liquid doesn't work stardrops usually does;)

bargainbird

If all else fails WS dye it mustard colour :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: