Thursday 18th December

purpleivy

Perhaps while I have my lunch...ricecakes with the tuna and corn mix left from last night's jacket pots!

NoahsPennilessMummy

Hi all:D

Just getting all the bits done before DS breaks up from school tomorrow.
The list seems to be getting longer:eek: .

Need to make a final food list and get that shopped for tomorrow evening.
DS has his xmas school play at 6 30 tonight and we have promised him sausage and chips from chippy after it.
It is also his school party tomorrow so I have just baked 2 huge traybakes to take in which need icing later.
I love xmas but when you are organising it all it is hard work:rolleyes: .
Will be happy Tuesday night when all jobs are done and can relax properly and enjoy it.
DS is revving up for xmas and getting a bit hyper with it all......xmas and autism don`t always mix well:cool: .

Taplady hope all goes well tomorrow, as others have said see it as a way of celebrating her life and remembering your special friendship.
Mudgekin sorry about you and DH`s bad news, you will get much support on here when you are ready.

hugs to anyone else ill or finding life hard

claire

Squiggly_Diddly

AFternoon,

been to Uni, then popped into placement (where I gather half the team are off sick...). Home again now & feeling absolutely wiped out, however i have my letters to type for my paid work, & then watch some mini-panto sketches at youngest DD's school tonight. At least if I get the letters done now then when we're home again this evening I can go straight to bed.

((((((hugs)))))) mudgekin, thinking of you.
Taplady, hope all goes ok tomorrow & you remember the good times as well.
Betheebee, i'm sure your DB's appreciate all the support you provide, you are very generous of spirit.

sistercas

Mudgkin - I am so dreadfully sorry that you have had such awful news, as everyone has said if you need to off load we are here for you x
taplady ((( hugs)))
thriftlady how is DS? has he fully recovered?

Money_saving_Diva wrote: »

Morning everyone!


sistercas - Watched it, drooled and thoroughly enjoyed it!!
Me too, he had a bad throat too bless him. I agree about george clooney having beautiful eyes,

come home from work to a terrible mess in the kitchen, the lights were on there was hamster food and bedding all over, the iron was on the floor ,DD2 has left all her xmas presents behind. I have come to the conclusion that it was a normal morning for two hormonal teenage girls and a stressed out DH- lol ( not sure where the hamster comes into all this though) it is usually a tetchy time trying to co-ordinate them all to go out at the same time, i am glad I leave much earlier

anyhow peace is restored and the kitchen is back to normal
not sure what we are having for tea yet, cant decide

just got some brocoli and stilton soup yellow stickered from £2.69 each to £1 so thats xmas day starter sorted

meanmarie

Afternoon all,

Damp, dull but very mild day here...was in airport at 6.50 this am with Japanese friend who is taking her almost one year old daughter to meet her family...13 hours from Amsterdam, wouldn't be keen on my own with a baby!

DD2 went shopping this am and baby slept the whole time she was gone, so not much bother to mind.

Mudgekin...hugs and shoulders should you need them

Taplady, be thinking of you to-morrow.

Roast of beef in oven for dinner, carrots and potatoes....very original

Hugs to all in need or want

Marie

HockeyDuo8083

Hi peeps,

Well it's nearly the end of the week, just want to get rid of this stinking cold!:mad:
OS for me is HM soup for tea later and losts of housework..boooo hisss!

Not much chat for you all apart from the fact i am excited about 2 things-

• Getting hair done on Saturday
• Going home to parents for 2 weeks

More hugs to you all, it's nearly the end of the week, chin up it's almost Christmas:beer:

Pippa.S

Evening all :santa2:
I did mean to post earlier, a lot earlier, but I got sidetracked....so what else is new :rolleyes: .....does'nt take much really, I see a book or a photo album when I am tidying up, and thats me out of it for an hour at least

Well what a day, I just havent stopped, put SC on and this time chopped all veg and apples (no not together) in my new toy,so its beef stew and apple crumble for Dinner,
made up the other bed for DGD2, changed our bed, did 3 loads of washing, vacuumed everywhere, thumped the life out of all pillows and shook the duvets till my arms felt like they were falling off,mopped all hard floors,cleaned bathroom, turfed out and scrubbed utility room, I've had enough now, but must make the Hob-Nobs I promised OH. Mind you he did offer to make them himself :eek: can you imagine what the kitchen would look like when he had finished....I shudder to think

WBSybil - I used to read Terry Pratchett all the time when I went to work on the bus, got so engrossed once I missed my stop:o I seem to remember Nanny Ogg kept her loose change up the leg of her drawers,and she jingled when she walked, or was that Granny Weatherwax??? I loved their adventures,Lords and Ladies and Witches Abroad were 2 of my favourites.

taplady - my thoughts will be with you and Lesley's family tomorrow x

Diva - Yes I start around November time too for a month or so,

dealwithdebtdot - hello and welcome, glad you decided to join us there's all sorts goes on in here, and a lovely friendly crowd of people you will love it

Hope all the poorlys are feeling a bit more themselves now xx

Better go get Dinner sorted out OH said he is starving, yes he looks starved....not.....:rolleyes:
Back later
Anne
x

ivyleaf

:santa2: Good afternoon/evening!

I didn't expect to be on the pc at this time, was expecting to be round at DD2's looking after DGS (he has tonsillitis) so his Mum could collect his little sister from nursery but she needed to pop out for a few bits anyway so will collect DGD on the way home. I presume one of the staff will hand DGD over at the door! Poor DGS, the doc was going to prescribe Erythromycin but DD asked for something else as Erythromycin makes him very sick, so he's got Penicillin, which makes him hyperactive :rolleyes: His temp has stayed down since yesterday evening though, so that's one good thing. Other DGS (15yo) is also on penicillin, he's had a very bad cough and the doc said his bronchial tubes are infected. She also said she's seen over a hundred patients with the same cough in the past week :eek:

betheebee - what a lovely sister you are! I do hope you manage to get some "me time" at some point over Christmas!

JackieO - Hope you got to Bluewater okay and were able to get some oilcloth.

taplady - Will be thinking of you tomorrow. ((HUGS))

Hester - Glad the Slumpie was so tasty! Thanks for finding the recipe online, LameWolf. I shall have to try that!

We had bought a new kettle for DD1 and DSIL for Christmas as theirs was in a bit of a state with limescale. They had bought a new one twice, but the new ones both blew up :eek: DD rang last night to ask if they could have the kettle a bit early, as the "old faithful" one had now blown up as well :rolleyes: If this new one does the same they will tell the Council their wiring needs checking! I think it was rewired before they moved in a couple of years ago.

So much sad news and illness about atm! Huge ((((HUGS)))) to all who need them.

I'd been feeling very "un-festive" myself lately, then yesterday I heard that one of my friends and her husband had been nursing a neighbour with advanced Parkinson's because his wife, who cared for him full time, had been taken to hospital with a heart attack. My friend and her DH looked after him between them 24/7 until his son and DIL managed to get there (the son and DIL had 'flu so couldn't come at once.) :A Anyway, it made me realise how much goodness and kindness there is around, in spite of all the bad news. They are trying to find the old man a place in a nursing home as he's really too ill to be cared for at home now, even if his wife was well enough.

Tonight's dinner - probably steak pie (not HM I fear ). Last night I made the last of Sunday's chicken into a curry, and there was plenty left over to freeze for another time.

I was thinking of the turkey crown we've ordered from the butcher. It's meant to be about 2.5 kg, which seems an awful lot even though I did say I wanted enough for 6 servings. I'm hoping the weight includes the bones (I don't think I specified that I wanted a boned one:rolleyes: ) or we'll be eating turkey until Easter...... or mid-January at any rate!

Well, bestter go and put the next washload in.

Best wishes

ivyleaf xx:snow_grin

halight

Hi all.
I hope that i find you all ok.
yet another bad day at work today!!!!!!
another 5 people to lose there job!!!! and everyone who is left will b going on a 4 day week when thay go back after there 3 weeks christmas hoilday.

We will find out who is to lose there jobs tomorrow. But no one will lose there job untill we go back after christmas. thay will be doing it in the first week back.

I may very well be one of them.
so far in the last six months there has been 22 people who have lost there jobs at our place pluss now another 5 that harf the work force.
all shift work has now been stoped so the folks taht are there are already down on ther money and will now be even more down with going on a 4 day week.

On a plus side the twins are doing really well with there baby rice and there juice. still mostly on there milk but coming on great!!!!
And we have also got the christmas tree up now!!!!!!!!! The twins love the lights!!!!!!
And last night we went to asda and got a lot of our chrismas food and drink shopping done!!!!! pent a lot less this year than in others but so have evryone else!
Got some of the gifts for people too. will be getting more this weekend.

anyway i hope that you all enjoy your evening
all the best evryone

enjoy yourselfs

Reverbe

You know you're OS when.... someone asks you what you want for Xmas and you realise you don't want a single thing.