Old Style Diary Archive - FEB 06

kiwichick

Morning Oldstylers,

PP-I reckon you won the crossword on Pigsback chick, the prize is 2000 points daily. WELL DONE!!!

Stressedoutmumof1-well done you, sounds like you're going great guns there, that £150 treat at the end of the month sounds like the best motivation.

MATH-You skinny fella you, CONGRATS!!

Well, today will be a mega clean day at chez kiwi. Tomorrow I am having my spa day, my xmas pressie from dh (its only taken 6 years of hinting) and dh has all the kids to contend with for 14 hours!!! Its the longest hes ever spent alone with the 3 of them. So today I will be making lists for him, leaving clothes out for kids,making all the meals for tomorrow etc etc. If I dont then I am liable to come home (all relaxed and gorgeous looking/smelling) at 7.30 to find them all still in their PJ's eating dried cereal :rolleyes: .

Doing a roast for the first time today, I forgot to buy yorkshire pans though as wanted to make them myself. Can I do them in muffin tins or are they just too deep??

Off to browse for a bitnow, enjoy sunday guys,
Al.

Dobie

Morning everyone

I'm sending out supportive vibes Stessedoutmum. It's tough but YOU CAN DO IT. I gave up 19 years ago & it's the best thing I ever did for my purse & my health. Keep it up & when you get a craving just focus on your treat.

Well done on your weightloss MATH.

Have a fabulous day Kiwi - you deserve it after the difficult time you've had recently. What a wonderful present from your DH.

Me & my sister started on the white wine about 4pm yesterday so things got a bit blurry about 8. :beer: We had a lovely dinner of HM pizza with HM ciabatta, salad & jacket potatoes then I rather ruined it. We were having ice cream with hot chocolate sauce for afters so I put the chocolate to melt in the microwave. A couple of minutes later the kitchen was full of smoke - I'd picked a non microwaveable plastic bowl WHOOPS! So we just had the ice cream. I deny it had anything to do with the amount of wine I'd drunk though.

There's a casserole ready in the SC for lunch & I'm making a syrup sponge pudding (with chocolate sponge) & custard for pud. I'll try not to ruin that, maybe I should stick to tea until I serve it up?

Prudent

Morning everyone.
Thank you for the cat pictures AT. I just loved ginger cats. I had one just like the pone in your photo, but he was run over in the autumn. I now have a pale ginger and white kitten (who is a loveable rogue) and a white adult cat.

Much inspired by Maths weightloss, I have just started a diet 10.7 now -need to get to 9.3. Thanks for the good example Math.

Lots of washing to do today as DD back from week away. Want to have a long walk, go to church and then do some healthy meals for the freezer, but will need to check on space first.
Off for breakfast now - scrambled egg, grilled tomato, poached mushroom and ryvitas.

manicdays

Morning all!

work today!

Not much OSing going on for me today, although I shouldn't spend much money, if any. Will go to Argos after work & try & get the 'beaters' again as my food processor has gone up in smoke! Went yesterday but the queue was massive & as they are only £4.99 I couldn't order from one of those order point things. Had the kids with me so queuing wasn't an option!!!

DH will go to the shops today for the bits of food we need.

B Museli

L ? in work

D fajhitas!

Have a good day all

Lisa xxx

Bargain_Rzl

Morning :hello:
Answering some questions from yesterday’s thread:

PP – No I don’t use Starshine dry cleaners – TBH I’ve never actually taken any notice of the name of the place I go to . It’s the one that if you’re walking past the Co-op, towards Bexleyheath, is two shops beyond the Co-op. Also a family business – run mainly by a father and daughter, and they clean 4 garments for £6 (the cheapest I’ve EVER found) plus they do all my mending for about £2.50 a garment J. Mending is a chore I loathe second only to ironing. I know it’s not very OS, but until I get to a point when I have NO spare cash at all, I’m contracting-out my mending . The woman who dropped my stuff off at my house wasn’t somebody who regularly works there. I think she was just helping out.

Posh – last night’s concert was the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Mozart Symphony No. 41 and Shostakovich Symphony No. 14. Both composers have major anniversaries of their births this year – Mozart born 250 years ago in 1756 and Shostakovich 100 years ago in 1906 – so there are loads of concerts of their music going on at the moment. Both halves of the concert were really good, though I was really there for the Shostakovich – I don’t much like most of Mozart’s music TBH, I find it pretty but not very interesting! The LPO normally perform at the Royal Festival Hall but it’s being refurbished at the moment – in the RFH the tickets start at £6 and for that price you can sit directly BEHIND the orchestra – so close that you’re right “in” the music – even if I was rich I’d rather sit there than in the £35 seats up front! But the QEH is smaller and doesn’t have seats behind the orchestra, and the tickets start at £12, so I was sitting right at the back

The next thing I’m going to is Verdi’s opera of Macbeth. I have a standing-room ticket for next Friday, cost me £9 and I should get to catch up with an opera singer friend who I haven’t seen for a couple of years, she’s singing a minor role

TM – congratulations on your 3,000th post!!!! :beer: :beer:

While I remember to ask, SnowyOwl, would you mind posting a proper recipe for the delicious healthy-sounding porridge you always seem to have for your brekkie? Just proportions of ingredients and that sort of thing. It always sounds so yummy :drool:

Off to church in a mo, back later :wave:

FunkyFairy

Morning all.

I am ment to be off to see my sister and the new baby today, but I have woken up full of cold and DD has a temprature.

Had a really productive day yesturday. I peeled and par boiled a whole sack of Organic Potatoes to put in the freezer for roast spuds.

I also Made a huge vat of vegtable soup for the freezer.

I am not doing much today just trying to decide weather to go and see the baby. I am back at work tomorrow so will be making the most of today.

Catch you all laters

Bye.

brummiebabe

Morning all!!

Funkyfairy - hope you feel able to see your nephew today!!

Apprentice Tycoon - enjoy your DD free time - she'll be back before you know it!!!

Kiwichick - Your spa day sounds wonderful (and I'm not jealous one bit!!:p ) why is it that when we're not there - most men (I know...not all!!) just can't organise things?? My DH would take my 2 for McDonalds for breakfast and dinner if he had them all day!!

PP - hope you are feeling ok today.

To everyone else - hope you have a brilliant Sunday!!

Well, DS1 slept in until 6.40am today, DS2 didn't wake until 7am!! What a luxury!!

Have emptied DW, done the ironing and put clothes away. DS1 has gone to his swimming lesson and DS2 is happily watching 'The Wiggles' - how dreadful is that programme????? He loves it though!

Lunch today will be roast chicken, mash, veg etc etc..

If the weather brightens up (it's dreary at the moment) plan to take DS1&2 to Lickey Hills - try to get them to burn off some energy!!

DS1 not back to school until Tuesday, but have ironed all uniform etc..just need to do his shoes and reading books with him.

Nothing exciting planned for today -just what Sundays should be like!!

Catch you all later!!!

kiwichick

brummiebabe wrote:

Kiwichick - Your spa day sounds wonderful (and I'm not jealous one bit!!:p ) why is it that when we're not there - most men (I know...not all!!) just can't organise things?? My DH would take my 2 for McDonalds for breakfast and dinner if he had them all day!!

LOL-I expect he will do!!

Have been a busy bee already today. Washing up done and away, dried laundry off airer and folded, new laundry in WM, all veg peeled and cut/in pans ready to do for dinner, dd2 fed-the other 2 arent yet :rolleyes: . Off now to find out how to roast a chook. Am doing roast spuds too but am good at them and will do a fruit crumble as the oven is on too-YUM YUM.

Bye,
Al.

stressedoutmumof1

Morning all :hello:

A HUGE thanks to everyone for their supportive messages re giving up the ciggies, it's really helping!! I've almost done 24 hours now - and you know what - it's not as bad as I thought it would be. DH finally noticed and treated me to 2 bottles of wine

Today will be ironing day :eek: and maybe a little gardening.

B: Bacon butties
L: ?
Paella

Take care everyone :wave:

moggins

Morning all, I have absolutely nothing planned except to get the kids bathed and uniforms ironed ready for school tomorrow. I ache all over after yesterday and it's raining and nasty out there so I can't do anymore in the garden. I will go and take a peek though as I still can't believe how much light and space there is with next doors Leylandii's chopped down to 5 foot and all the branches on our side completely removed.

I have got a new breadmaker cookery book though so I might give that a try, why did I never think of opening it after the rising was finished and slitting the top and giving a dusting of flour to make it look like a proper farmhouse loaf. I know it sounds silly but it's those little professional touches that make all the difference.

Have a good day everyone. PP I hope you feel better soon, Math don't lose too much or we'll never find you. Then again think of all the coins you could find when you can slip down those drains