The revenge of the stripey socks - a DFW adventure

makeup

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

hi fay hope all is well with you

makeup it's not london per se, or the cost is more the reason we're going - visiting the outlaws.

Ah hah! Well that explains it! Sadly I have no good ideas on dealing with that problem!

Hopefully a visit soon means you won't be seeing them at Xmas?? That might be good?

Lemon_Tree

oh it definitely means i won't be going back before christmas. told OH if we don't take pressy's with us he's going back on his own because my manager won't let me off during december (sssshhhh but i'm the one who agrees the holiday in my office)

Pippilongstocking

LT my lips are sealed -

Pipsmum ta for the ELF info
Lucielle hope the chauffering went well - any chance of a 'rest' for you today?

Morning all - made some kind of lentil concoction in the slow cooker which is smelling good and bubbling away.

Still full to bursting from curry last night landlord coming soon to collect guns (from a locked cupboard in a locked room) and I think then he's off again til xmas.

I always get nervous when he's around dunno why.

Lovely walks yesterday - thank goodness cos today its hosing down and horrible.

Funny only having one dog in the house but will see how we all get along, house is a lot more peaceful and calm (Peedie likes to sleep late).

Karmacat

Sounds a good day, Fay. Re the slow cooker, one thing I found worked well recently was barley, believe it or not - I buy barley from Tesco, of all places - the OS board on here worked out that it was ridiculously cheap, something like 3p per portion, and it cooks well in the slow cooker for about an hour.

Pippilongstocking

Ah OK do you stew it with stock or just on its own?

I get my soya mince and cous cous from tescos - again ridiculusly cheap.

Yawns a sleepy hello to KC must find some coffee

jo1972

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

because my manager won't let me off during december (sssshhhh but i'm the one who agrees the holiday in my office)

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You sound like me! What he doesn't know won't hurt him

Morning Fay :wave:

honeybear_2

fayjmck wrote: »

Outlaws should be put in prison or in the TOWER.......

:rotfl:

I work near there so could go passed & throw things at them if you like?

jo1972

Can mine be put there too, I hate my outlaws, they are like the !!!!! but without the crime!

I can arrange boat trips up and down the Thames so we can go past and wave at them

edited to add: the '!!!!!' word is supposed to say 'm.a.f.i.a' - why can't I put that

Karmacat

fayjmck wrote: »

Ah OK do you stew it with stock or just on its own?

I get my soya mince and cous cous from tescos - again ridiculusly cheap.

The barley - I just did it on its own. It was a storecupboard thing - I've been eating it with a few spoonsfuls of tinned sweetcorn, crumbled feta cheese, value olives and homegrown fresh basil (plus a tomato one day). I usually have more of the carbohydrate on my plate than anything else these days, but I lower the % for the barley - on its own, it has a bit of a weird texture :p

Yawns a sleepy hello to KC must find some coffee

:hello: I just zipped off to do the dishes, which are another "must do" on my list, actually, and feel v tired again, so I'm sat down now at the lappie again. Round Two of my coffee coming up shortly....

maman

Hi Jo

Was thinking of you while I did a few jobs myself (window cleaner came earlier in week so I was determined to do the inside!).

You always seem to have so much to do at weekends, do you not get any help? I know you have 2 LOs but surely they are expected to tidy up after themselves at school/nursery (I found that rousing 'tidying up music' helped). And what about DD1 and OH? I can understand why you need to 'escape' with so much to do.

Off now for an 'urban walk', weather glorious here, hope houses I pass have cleaned their windows too:D