OS Daily Thread - Saturday 24 January

mummysaver

Mrs Mix - thinking of your mum and her poor friend and family, what a terrible way to go xx

Bargainbird - hope things have gone well and that you and lo are doing fine xx

Welcome Rach, lovely to have you join in as well, everyone here is really friendly and helpful xx

Otherwise, what Peyton said - think she covered it all, lol!

Done some of my os chores, now playing make up with my dd's who are not using that word any more! Well not for now anyway lol! Thriftlady, it is just this one word that really gets me, not even a swear word just a really nasty derogatory word.

thenanny2die4

Oooooooooooooooohhh Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggggghhhh.

Well, that's a bit better.....

Okay, it's my fault, I know. If I wasn't so damned lazy and cleaned the oven once in a while, it wouldn't get in such a state.

OH took himself off to do a bit of shopping (spending money unnecessarily, I call it, but what can you do?) and whilst he was out I decided to tackle the disgusting oven. Brillo pads, stardrops, soda crystals, elbow grease in bucket loads, I used it all and was relatively pleased with the results. The inside of the oven is sparkling but, try as I might, I can't get all the carbonised black stuff off the shelves, although they're tons better than they were.

So what happened when he came in and saw the last shelf on the side??? He said, "Is that rust or just dirt?".

Ooohhh. Flippin' cheek.

Off to comfort eat....

celyn90

....just a quick hi from me.... thanks to another mad busy week. I had an e-mail from my internal examiners PA yesterday which started something along the lines of "the board of graduate studies seems to think you don't know when your viva is" :eek: :eek:

They were right - noone had told me. It's a week tuesday!?!? :eek: talk about short notice - and I'm really really busy at work too Normally they stick a notice up on the board in the department - but because my internal examiner isn't from my department, the note must be on the wall in her place of work rather than mine. _pale_

Made lasange last night using the rest of the pasta sauce from Thursday - seems okay. Dinner is unidentified frozen thing as I'm working today to try and free some time up later in the week to do some revision.

Made birthday cake for a friend yesterday - worked okay, although the kitchen is now covered in cocoa powder... (notes not to use the hand whisk on high again)

ivyleaf

Chrisca - There are a lot of urban foxes around here, and now and then there are angry letters in the local press, some from people who consider them vermin and some from people who think they are lovely and yes, feed them! Is your DW okay now btw? I think the problem in ours is the solenoid which lets water in when it shouldn't. The floor is uneven too so the DW isn't properly level - DH wonders if that's making it worse, and keeps saying he'll see if he an make it more level before putting the new flooring down, but he hasn't been that mobile in the cold weather so he hasn't been able to try it yet.


Peyton - I treated myself to a cream slice:o

Hester - Sending you some big ((((HUGS))))

katholicos - how was the test drive?

We're going to Germany to visit my DB in April and have been looking at where to have out overnight stops - had decided Metz on the way there and were wondering about Colmar on the way back (just because it's so pretty) but it looks as if Metz has more to do on a Sunday, so may stay there for 2 nights instead on way back instead. DH has emailed me the info about Metz from the Michelin site, so will have a look presently.

I just coudn't think of anything I fancied in a sandwich at lunchtime, so ended up using a Jambalaya bought from Asda for DS back in July - he didn't eat it, so I put it in the freezer and kept thinking "Really ought to eat that jambalaya" and finally got around to it! The chicken and fish in it tasted okay but the sausage tasted a bit odd, so only had one bit of that! I didn't eat it all but at least it hasn't been completely wasted.:A

DW is on atm, and this morning I rounded up the washing-up that won't fit into the DW and did that.

I rang DD1 y'day to tell her that her cousin's GF had had her baby, but DSIL answered the phone - DD was asleep, they have all been ill and both DSIL and DGS15yo have had tonsillitis! DS has been off school ill for so long - he had tonsillitis in November, was back at school for about a week, then a bad chest infection in December which made his asthma much worse, and then he got tonsillitis AGAIN :eek: and only managed to go back to school this week, having been off since 5th December. He's such a lovely lad and works so hard to try to keep up with his school work. The school wrote to DD and DSIL expressing their concern at how much school he was missing, so as they were all going to the doctor anyway they asked him to write a letter confirming DGS had genuinely been too ill for school all this time, which he did. The school is now allowing him to resit a GCSE module he didn't do well in as he'd missed so many of the relevant lessons, all his teachers now know that he's trying to catch up with his work at lunchtimes, and the school are going to write to the doctor saying they think DGS should be referred for a tonsillectomy because his education is being constantly disrupted by bouts of tonsillitis, so we hope something comes of that! :T (He's always been prone to it, and actually had his first bout of the autumn only a few days after the start of the autumn term)

ivyleaf

Celyn - What a nasty shock abot your viva! Good luck with it!

thenanny2die4 - When i used to be an Army wife and had to get the oven looking really sparkling before moving out of our quarter, we used to put the oven shelves in the bath in a strong solution of ammonia and leave then overnight, then rinse. It worked a treat, even though it was rather smelly It was a tip from older and more esperienced Army wives!

katholicos

ivyleaf wrote: »

katholicos - how was the test drive?

thanks for asking, ivyleaf

Well i've never driven a diesel car before, and this one has a funny gearstick that i have to lift up and then put in reverse...also the handbreak is different and only needs a small amount of levering up and down whereas mine has to be cranked up almost to the roof to stop from rolling :eek:

I drove around for a while with the lady who is selling it and i stalled twice
...it's going to take some getting used to, but i love it. It actually has windows that go up and down by electric...mine are windy up and down ones and in fact, on the driver side the winder falls off when i am driving and often ends up under my car seat

And the rear window will have one of those window demister thingies that actually work...and one of the rear doors won't open on my current car and this one is only a two door so it won't take the kids too much getting used too as they are already used to it.

The rear view mirror in my current car fell off about 3 years ago and the garage stuck it on in a position that i have never been able to see the cars behind me anyway....but with this i will be able to see what is behind me!

I should be taking ownership of it tomorrow or Monday. It'll hike my insurance up a bit though, but if it saves on the garage bills, that is the main thing. It has a car alarm which is good though as my current car doesn't...not that i can imagine anyone wanting to nick it

csarina

Well I should have kept quiet OH has had 2 diizy do's the second with the nausea feeling.........I did manage to get a block sewn in between.

Got OH out for his walk, then went to the library Mr T's and Wilkinsons........Mr T's had some of OH's Brunswick ham reduced so I bought a couple of slices and a crusty granary baton to have for lunch.

Cooked the macaroni ready for supper, I just have to run it through the micro after the spud has cooked.

Tesco are selling low energy light bulbs 5 for 40p, I managed to get 4 screw fitting ones and a bayonet.....so well set up for lightbulbs now.

wannabe_sybil

Dear heart is making cottage pie with the remains of the value joint that was not value at all! V fatty and despite being cooked in stock in the slow cooker, shrank like a Dr Who special effect.

Got a mortgage approval in principle.

Saw a house we would like - but four rooms instead of eight, so I am going to have to investigate skips! Little bear was very good looking round.

Hugs to all

Hester - I hope that you give them hell!

And good luck to bargainbird.

katholicos

ivyleaf wrote: »

I rang DD1 y'day to tell her that her cousin's GF had had her baby, but DSIL answered the phone - DD was asleep, they have all been ill and both DSIL and DGS15yo have had tonsillitis! DS has been off school ill for so long - he had tonsillitis in November, was back at school for about a week, then a bad chest infection in December which made his asthma much worse, and then he got tonsillitis AGAIN :eek: and only managed to go back to school this week, having been off since 5th December. He's such a lovely lad and works so hard to try to keep up with his school work. The school wrote to DD and DSIL expressing their concern at how much school he was missing, so as they were all going to the doctor anyway they asked him to write a letter confirming DGS had genuinely been too ill for school all this time, which he did. The school is now allowing him to resit a GCSE module he didn't do well in as he'd missed so many of the relevant lessons, all his teachers now know that he's trying to catch up with his work at lunchtimes, and the school are going to write to the doctor saying they think DGS should be referred for a tonsillectomy because his education is being constantly disrupted by bouts of tonsillitis, so we hope something comes of that! :T (He's always been prone to it, and actually had his first bout of the autumn only a few days after the start of the autumn term)

The school my children attend sent me a letter and then they got the Education Welfare to send a letter, to say that if my son didn't go back to school they would take further action. It turns out that the school claimed he had 15 unauthorised abscences, but i had phoned the school to let them know on each of the occassions my son was ill. As it happens, he also has asthma and he had a really bad chest infection, and then around the same time he started losing hair and feeling faint and was having heavy nosebleeds frequently...often the school would send him home when he did go into school!

He was only 12 at the time (he is now 13) and he was having regular blood tests as there also seemed a problem with his blood cell count and for a while i thought he may even have leukemia and the school were crud and very unsupportive...his school mentor was absurd and told my son there was 'nothing wrong' with him...well we were seeing specialists and what have you and I had phoned the school on every occassion to let staff know what was happening with my son...and then to get these letters when i was already worried sick...

So i realised that the problem was i wasn't going high enough up the chain, and i also realised that the lady who worked in the school and took the calls, had a problem with me (we knew each other on a personal level and she had blanked me when i had seen her a couple of times socially).

So i wrote a letter, laying my case against the ridiculous insinuation that i was allowing my child to have time off school unecessarily, i had the doctor and the specialists support and my doctor wrote a letter of support and it turned out, after months of agonising waiting to find out what was wrong with him, that my son has a blood disorder called beta-thalassemia and we never even knew he had been born with it!

If he has children with someone else with the same disorder any offspring they have will live a terribly painful and short life, and for my son, he has very low iron levels which mean he is often lacking concentration, is moody, has hair loss and other symptoms.

I wrote to the deputy head and he phoned me up to respond and we had a huge conversation on the phone where he assured me that he would quash any absences that had been put through as unauthorised and that he would be there for me to discuss any matter that concerned my son's health and schooling, should i have any further problems.

We parents have enough to be getting on with, with the caring for and worrying about our children, we don't need the school nipping at our heels and having unrealistic expectations of recovery from illness etc.

I'm so pleased that your DGS is being allowed the GCSE resits, and so he should be too. Most parents are responsible and don't keep their children off school for a sneeze, it's high time the schools were more supportive of our children and their parents as caregivers.

When my daughter was studying for her GCSE's she was off school with an infection and i phoned the school to ask if i could pick up some work for her to do at home....they weren't very hot on about wanting her to do any work at home and arranged precisely nothing for her to work on at home for the 2 weeks she was off!

What a joke!

sistercas

back from Mr S and got some reasonable offers
just thought I would give you heads up on their packs of breaded/southern fried chicken goujons.
they are £2.29 per pack but £2 for 2 packs:j in the chiller cabinets

really tired now on my 4th load of washing
cleaned through
scrubbed the bathrooms and polished up all the tiles
having chicken and bacon warm salad with spinach and balsamic vinegar - yum
then i'm going to flop on the sofa and watch carp on the tele