OS Daily Thread - Saturday 14th March

bargainbird

Hi all,

Hope everyone's ok, been lurking but not upto much, i've got my misearable head on :rolleyes:. You know when you have to force yourself to smile :rolleyes:. Might have to visit the quacks next week.

On a lighter note which should make you all chuckle, We all nipped out today to a book shop so DD1 could spend her world book day token.... Anyway picture the scene. Me stood puroosing (sp?) JO ministry cookbook, buggy in hand DD's running amok. DH browsing, when i heard 'Oh i'm really sorry i thought you were my wife'. Looked over to see DH walking rather quickly in my direction very red faced, 'Quick in the lift' he said. Whisked kids to lift. Me ' Whats up?' DH 'I justed grabbed that womens @rse and said alright chubbs':eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:. Still makes me chuckle thinking about it.

HM Chicken biriyani for Tea, poppadoms, chapati's.

Hope you all having good day x

Chrisca50

Oh Bargainbird you HAVE cheered me up with that story after watching the footie and being down in the dumps - would loved to have seen both their faces :rotfl::rotfl:

morwenna

Hi all :hello:

A very lazy day chez Morwenna today. I had some vouchers for my birthday so I went to Waterstones for books. I got "How to feed your whole family a healthy, balanced diet with very little money and hardly any time, even if you have a tiny kitchen, only three saucepans (one with an ill fitting lid) and no fancy gadgets unless you count the garlic crusher..." by Gill Holcombe. I love this book! (Although it was the snappy, succint title that made me buy it,) The Chicken Nugget recipe alone is worth the price of the book - Nuggets that contain carrots and apples - genius! Somehow, when I got to the till I found I also had "Cherry Cake And Ginger Beer" by Jane Brocket in my hand too.. not entirely sure how THAT happened...

Tea tonight is good old bangers & mash, not sure if I'll do swede and carrot mash or green beans and carrot batons alongside yet though. I always cook sausages in the oven as I can't fry them properly - not enough patience to stand at the stove I suspect, so I will throw a batch of cupcakes in the oven too I think.

Hugs for all, have lovely Saturdays everyone

EDIT: "Cherry Cake And Ginger Beer" has a recipe for Paddington Bear's Marmalade Buns - and I have oranges to be used up so I think I will make these instead of cupcakes

taplady

Chrisca50 wrote: »

Oh Bargainbird you HAVE cheered me up with that story after watching the footie and being down in the dumps - would loved to have seen both their faces :rotfl::rotfl:

me too! thanks bargainbird!:D :rotfl:

bargainbird

morwenna wrote: »

Hi all :hello:

A very lazy day chez Morwenna today. I had some vouchers for my birthday so I went to Waterstones for books. I got "How to feed your whole family a healthy, balanced diet with very little money and hardly any time, even if you have a tiny kitchen, only three saucepans (one with an ill fitting lid) and no fancy gadgets unless you count the garlic crusher..." by Gill Holcombe. I love this book! (Although it was the snappy, succint title that made me buy it,) The Chicken Nugget recipe alone is worth the price of the book - Nuggets that contain carrots and apples - genius! Somehow, when I got to the till I found I also had "Cherry Cake And Ginger Beer" by Jane Brocket in my hand too.. not entirely sure how THAT happened...

Tea tonight is good old bangers & mash, not sure if I'll do swede and carrot mash or green beans and carrot batons alongside yet though. I always cook sausages in the oven as I can't fry them properly - not enough patience to stand at the stove I suspect, so I will throw a batch of cupcakes in the oven too I think.

Hugs for all, have lovely Saturdays everyone

EDIT: "Cherry Cake And Ginger Beer" has a recipe for Paddington Bear's Marmalade Buns - and I have oranges to be used up so I think I will make these instead of cupcakes

Marmalade buns yes pls

Katie1980_2

I have had a productive day of cleaning out the guinea pig and sorting out the laundry, I am in some pain after I had some things done on Monday, but I am good otherwise not sure what to do for tea, suggestions welcome have the usual staples bread, potatoes, tuna, beans cheese, and other stuff no meat as I have not taken any out of the freezer

csarina

Very frustrating day. We were ready for the transport to the hospital, waited and waited....eventually turned up at 1.35pm 5 minutes after OH's appointment time....on his list it said 2pm, so we were late before we started.

Could not find the damn clinic......so signs, went halfway round the hospital and back to where we started from!!!

By 3pm OH had been seen and discharged.....we have spent 2 years trailing to this blasted clinic for nothing, there is nothing wrong with OH's eyes......we then had to sit and wait for transport home........3.45 when someone finally arrived..........they had a wheel chair for OH which I made him have.....when we got outside could not believe the racket that was going on outside, 6 policemen and a couple of security guards, plus ambulance men trying to get a 'woman' in a chair, the language would have made a stone blush, people stadning round gawping......they could not get OH through to the transport.........right mess......eventually we made it to the vehicle and were transported home........so almost the whole day wasted on something for which he could have been discharged last year and to top it off they have lost his notes!!!

I just hope that the appointment on Friday goes a bit better..........I hate hanging around, but I refuse to pay £1 an hour to park a car, when its obvious that the millions they are making from car parking is not being ploughed back into the car parks. The one at LRI is pathetic, there are often 2 hour queues to get in.

Its been a nice sunny day, but cold..... the wind is quite strong....a good day to have washing out!!!

Sunnyday

Afternoon peeps :wave:

Nic1lou2 - ((((HUGS)))) for you, i hope that you are feeling much better this afternoon. Please keep posting and let everyone support you, i didn`t, i ran away for a while and i think that it made things worse . Fingers crossed for a good nights sleep for you.

Mummysaver - parsnip crisps and garlic mayo mmmmmmm yum, i`ve had these but from m&s, do i just slice the parsnips and throw them in the remoska?

KE7285 - How did the twinks turn out?

Loopylinz - Hope that you feel better soon ((((HUGS)))

Bargainbird - your post had me in bits :rotfl:

Katie1980 - Hope that you are painfree quickly ((((HUGS)))) for you

I`ve spent most of the day in the garden and boy is my back sore.
In the greenhouse i now have golden chard, beetroot chillies, bell peppers, peas and broad beans. I`ve sown some more chillies and pointy peppers and brought them into the house on the windowsill along with amaranth, 2 different types of tomatoes and courgettes. I know it`s a bit early for some of these but most are last years seeds and i thought if they don`t grow then i`ll just sow some more.
I`ve done more digging and weeding but haven`t moved the shrubs yet as i kinda changed my mind about where i was moving them to, i need to have a good think about where they will end up.

EEk i`ve just seen the time, Mr Sunny will be home in half an hour and we are taking Dad on the supermarket run, i`d best hop in the shower.

Catch up later peeps.

SD

redruby

Katie1980 wrote: »

I have had a productive day of cleaning out the guinea pig and sorting out the laundry, I am in some pain after I had some things done on Monday, but I am good otherwise not sure what to do for tea, suggestions welcome have the usual staples bread, potatoes, tuna, beans cheese, and other stuff no meat as I have not taken any out of the freezer

How about a tuna pasta bake, nice and easy and quick xx

Just got back from our walk, noahsmum, it was lovely you should try it, we sat in a woodland and ate our houmous and ham sandwiches and a coffee, while watching 3 red kites looking for prey, they really are the most beautiful birds. We walked 5.5 miles today, so will not need to go on the wii fit, will give it a rest today.

Hester, thought you might find this interesting, we walked past a pub where in 1915 the inaugural meeting of the WI was held, it was The Fox Inn, in East Dean.

Oh has offered to cook tonight, so a nice relaxing evening for me, going to have a big glass of wine later

Have fun all x

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: at Mr bargainbird

ivyleaf

Aw csarina, what a frustrating day! (((HUGS))) Hope the next appt goes better!

morwenna - Mmmm, marmalade buns.......We bought a cherry cake at the baker's today as I'm not up to cakemaking atm, but theirs are very nice.

bargainbird - :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: at your poor embarrassed DH! I hope you feel better soon, you have had a lot of running around to do since Spike arrived so be kind to yourself.

Loopylinz - So glad the doctor's visit went all right! Very well done for the tidying. It's so nice to look around you and see it looking tidy - I have to say it doesn't happen to me very often

Katie - How about something like jacket potatoes with cheese, nice and easy to do when you're in pain. i hope you feel better quickly (((HUGS)))

((((HUGS)))) to everyone, sorry I haven't mentioned everyone by name but i do think of you all!

My DH has been busy in the living room; we bought a couple of bookcases at Ikea the other day, so he's been putting them together and looking at what can be chucked or recycled before putting them in place and moving the CDs and DVDs into them. We had a big (and hideous) footstool/pouffe with storage space inside, and most of the stuff in there was very out of date (mostly old maps and guides from past holidays), and if we get rid of the pouffe it'll clear space in a crowded corner :T And he's put the loose cookbooks I had knocking around into the bottom shelf so they have a proper home at last!

Lunch today was an omelette for me and a peanut butter sandwich for DH!

Tonight's dinner will be chicken stirfry with black bean sauce. We bought the wok from Ikea a few years ago on the spur of the moment; it was only £15 and I use it loads, for things like curries and pasta sauces as well as stirfries, so it was certainly money well spent! If anything happened to it I'd definitely have to rush out and get another one!