Thursday 30th April

wannabe_sybil

Just popped in.

D&DD - hope you feel better soon.

Penny Pincher - hope the hospital went well.

Christabell - I can't remember if I've posted this morning sometimes, but that is dippy, not medical and far less excuse!

Thriftlady - please let us know how the flapjacks 'eat' - I love the taste of treacle!

Little bear is having a nap. Which is perhaps just as well. I came down from the loo to find he had emptied the sliced banana from his bowl and arranged them neatly on the side, then tipped my tea into his bowl (with added distribution)l and was then drinking it! If DF has persuaded LB that tea drinking is 'good' I am going to to be furious - tea is not good for a toddler! My darling father can not say 'no' to little bear no matter what! I have to supervise them both when he stays!

About to put next lot of washing in, goodness knows where I am going to dry it, but at least it will be one stage nearer being back in the cupboard. Tea is likely to be an 'easy' meal.

I think I shall try and nap - not very OS perhaps, but very needed! The people at the back on random days play one track of a very loud heavy metal song very loud at 11.45pm. LB sleeps through it, as does dear heart, but for me it murders sleep far more effectively than Macbeth.

Hugs to all.

Edited to add - Looby, soory that your little one didn't get his treatment. Hope he can get it all sorted soon.

tired_mum

Pen Pin hope you got on ok today at hospital
Looby such a shame LO didnt have his op hopefully they will be able to fit him in soon
not much going on have just taken dogs for a good run so will have some lunch i think all this talk of cakeie is making me hungry

floss2

thriftlady wrote: »

.....Dinner tonight -I've got some frozen pollack fillets .......

I must stop speed reading - I saw this as peacock fillets! :rotfl::rotfl::

Money_saving_Diva_2

Afternoon OS chums!
to the thread miecherox
JackieO - I have a fan oven too and having bought a oven thermometer I know it runs about 20 degrees hotter once it's been on about 30 mins, so I often just put the cake in, and after about 45 mins I have a look and see how it's doing. (sliding the knife in thing usually). Then I just judge it by eye and smell really and check every 10 mins or so.
Nelski - I recently bought a James Martin hand mixer and I love it to pieces!
Floss - hate to be the bearer of bad news but apparently they have proved that snails have a kind of homing instinct and if you throw them out of the garden they will eventually return. :rotfl:(apparently some boffins painted coloured marks on the shells of some snails and just waited to see if they came back) It's something to do with their slime trails but can't remember the rest.And I know it sounds like a joke, but apparently it's true.
D&DD - Your sunflower seed bread is identical to ours.. and sometimes I roughly chop pumpkin seeds and throw them in.
Loopy - How frustrating! Sorry that your little one didn't treated.
Halight - hope you are doing Ok
Nic1 - Thinking of you today *hugs*

I was having a discussion with someone today about how for me, and for her, our OS ways are more about what we DON'T do now compared to what we did do a few months or years ago. Like only using half the washing powder or swapping to soap nuts; like planning meals and cooking from scratch as often as possible rather than depending on easy instant food that goes 'ping'; using Stardrops and vinegar and bread makers and slow cookers to take advantage of cheap cuts of meat.. It's all so basic when you list it here but it wasn't that basic to me before I discovered this forum.

We used to cook from scratch yes, but often had one or even two takeaways a week. We would buy a new loaf and use it just for two days and throw the rest away.. now any bread is either breadcrumbed or frozen to make bread pudding... It's silly little things like that I get a real glow about because there is no waste and we used to waste SO much..

I think what I am trying to say is that I know I don't put a huge amount of OS in my posts (though I try to have at least SOMETHING so I am not breaking the rules) but that all the little changes I have made mean I feel OS in my heart, even if all I am doing is the washing and writing a meal plan. Hope that doesn't sound too silly and makes some sort of sense.

Anyway, I have pontificated long enough - hope you all have a lovely day, and warm gentle for anyone who wants or needs one.

Diva.x

zippychick

LoopyLinz wrote: »

Morning all

Hopw you are all well. Wet and miserable here in newtownards this morning, going to sound like my granny now by telling you that the wet weather really does seem to play havoc with my arthritis.............ohhhh please I didnt just say that! I am only 25 honest! :rotfl:

MSD - thank you for that lovely recipe yesterday, will definately be giving it a go

OS didnt really happen as planned yesterday, well kinda skimmed the top of it and not really in much of a mood to do it today either to be honest. Am off to search in a minute for something I can do with steak pieces............no idea why I bought them!

Have been doing a lot of thinking over the past few days about how our lives have changed so dramatically in the past 6 months and shall we say re-evaluatiing some friendships. Wont bore you with all the details but since my illness has been diagnosed lets just say I have begun to realise who my true friends are. Hurts a lot a the sudden realisation that someone who I thought was a good friend really isnt. Am beginning to wonder whether a certain friendship is worth all the heartache that goes along with it.

Anyway................heres hoping I get some more OS done today than yesterday and that I fing something to do with these stupid steak pieces!

Hope you all have a nice day

Linz xoxox

Loopy , I always read the daily but don't often comment but had to on this subject. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia coming up to 3 years ago now, and i was 26-27 at the time. I know all about losing friends and how people will change. People continuously let me down over the years and fail to basically understand. I still socialise quite a lot but very much within limits and have had to adapt my life an awful lot to cope with it and live within its limits.

I just wanted to say you are not the only one who goes through this, and feel free to PM me any time you want to just moan about how unfair and hurtful people can be. I can't pretend i totally accept it , but i am a lot more at peace with it than I was 3 odd years ago. You truly will find out who your friends are , and the good ones will be with you for life. Unfortunately it's a hard hurtful lesson when people don't or can't understand but you will come out of it all a stronger far better person.

You mentioned 6 months so I am guessing you are recently diagnosed? Have a read about the grieving process if you haven't already as you will continuously go back and forward through the stages. I can send you some stuff about that if you want.

The biggest lesson I have learnt is not to mention it unless really necessary as it tends to make people very uncomfortable and at loss for what to say. Weather also affects me too. big hugs my friend xxx Zip.

stefejb

Oh Looby - what a pain - that happened to us a couple of years back and i thought it all very unnecessary.... until a couple of hours after we took dd back home and she was really quite sick with flu.

having been through two teenage girls with one to follow i have a very valuable peice of advice ..... Vodka! and lots of it generally gets you through the worst!

Teresita_2

Well hello there and thank goodness its the weekend for me....and a long one at that. Really feeling being back to work and the drs are as good as a choc fireguard saying here take another painkiller dont know what else we can do!!!

Hoping to have a really os weekend. Got the garden to catch up on and going to make home made treats fo the littlies as they love twinks hobnobs even more than me and thats saying something.

Looking forward to hearing if the treacle works too as am determined to make most of the treats from now on. Being a SAHM is my ambition but even being able to drop hours would be ideal. Really hurts sending the littlies to nursery while I hate work so much.

floss2

Money_saving_Diva wrote: »

Floss - hate to be the bearer of bad news but apparently they have proved that snails have a kind of homing instinct and if you throw them out of the garden they will eventually return. :rotfl:(apparently some boffins painted coloured marks on the shells of some snails and just waited to see if they came back) It's something to do with their slime trails but can't remember the rest.And I know it sounds like a joke, but apparently it's true..........

NOOOOOO!!!!! That makes me even more determined to either smash the little blighters against the alley wall or dunk them in salty water now!

Thanks MSD - I think!!

meanmarie

Afternoon all,

Left DGS2 to school, came home, read paper, went back to bed as I was feeling soooo tired and slept until 1.30....really need to get my arras in gear and stop all this sleeping, never in my life needed so much on a constant basis, means that I get very little done and there are so many things I want and need to do!

Raining here this morning but nice this afternoon, OH has been sowing beetroot, need to get some more stuff in, really gets cold here so don't do much before May, seems to catch up quite well.

My eldest DD and DS seemed to sail through puberty, the other five were troublesome in so many different ways....they all seem to have straightened out now though...youngest will be 28 in June, so about time I think!

Roast chicken with carrots and onions and buttered cabbage for dinner....I say cabbage but its 'stuff' that OH sowed in greenhouse, looks like cabbage but is about to go to seed as he didn't transplant it in time, going to chop and cook in butter and caraway seeds....will tell him what it is when he has eaten it!

DS1 coming to stay to-morrow night to see a rugby match on Saturday....only drawback is I have to collect him tomorrow afternoon from airport, which will be manic.

Hugs to all in need or want, welcome to newbies, congratulations to all who are celebrating
Marie

Hardup_Hester

Evening all
I've not posted for a couple of days as I've either been too tired or hubby's been on the pc.
My potatoes are chitting nicely & I have 5 very healthy looking pepper plants.
I've been asked to dogsit during the holidays, a collie cross this time.
I finally have all the machines working at work, one has been out of order for 2 months, it took 3 men, 5 toolkits & gallons of tea, what's the betting it packs in again tomorrow.
As part of my argument about the problems at work I kept a check on the amount of work going through my department, 131,000 copies done in one week!
Big hugs to Pen & Pink, hugs to PP too.
Have a good evening everyone.
Hugs Hester