Old Style 24 May

Penelope_Penguin

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Good Morning everyone :beer: We had a busy day, yesterday, so I went ot bed early, slept really well, and here I am :j We started our sausage-making yesterday, which was fab. I did the mixing and DH twisted the sausages as they came out of the machine.




We spent the afternoon in the garden - it's growing beautifully, and I managed to mow the lawn , plant out beans and sweetcorn, and do loads of weeding


Old Style jobs for today:

• Flylady list
• More gardening
• barbeque HM sausages

Have a great day, Penny. x

halight

Morning all:j:j
I hope that evryones well today,
THe sun is put here and its feeling warm already.
I got my dads birthday present yesterday so im pleased about that. We then afdter we had been shopping got a train down to my moms and dads carvan and we left the card and gife there its his birthday on tuesday and we are going down the carvan to see them there for the day.
In a couple of weeeks we are off down the carvan ourslefs for a week as a bit of a break so looking forward to this.

My wife has brourt a book of ebay secondhand called Good eating suggestions for wartime dishes
Its a selection of daily telegraph reads tested recipes, And its a great book. Its a reprint of an older book. she only paid 15p pluss £1 postage for it. some good old thrifty stuff in it

Well for sunday lunch today were having rooled breast of lamb, A lovley cheeep cut of meat a bit fatty but lovley tasting anyone who has not tryed this should:T we shall be having it with roast spuds and veg.
For supper we will just be haveing cheese and crackers.

I got a few jobs today in the garden today to get done just a bit of tidying up around the veg and thats it.

Anyway i hope ebryone has a great day and makes the most of the sun today as iv heard that its got to rain tomorrow.

enjoy yourselfs everone:j:j



P.S. that look lovley penny, Bet there very tastey
job well done there

N9eav

Morning.

Nice sausages Penelope. I used to be a butcher and they look very presentable. Hope they ate as well as they look.

Warm and dry here. Cornwall is full of tourists and hopefully our economy will be taking in the money...

Church today and then laze about in the garden. Will probably BBQ something later, not sure what yet as had no inspiration in Morrisons yesterday. Dropped in on the way home, but nothin jumped out at me....

There was one thing though. They were reducing all their in store roasted chickens and stuff. One customer bought everything. A trolley full of reductions. Do you think that was greedy? I do. :mad:

Got more baby chickens here. They are everywhere now... 33 in total all different ages... I will sell them on later and hopefully add to the holiday fund.. Lots of work feeding them though....

Cheers

Pippa.S

Morning Penny, Halight, N9eav and all who follow :wave:
Looking good so far this AM, suns up and shining away lovely,:D

A day in the garden planned here today, trim hedges, mow grass, Fir trees need tidying up and the tops could do with about a foot off, we have a eucalyptus tree half way down and it is shooting for the stars this year dont know whats got into it.

Penny - I am sooo impressed clever you they look very professional, better not let OH see them or he will want sausages for brekkie, and he is on a diet so sausages are a real no no :rotfl:

Halight - O I love caravans have done since I was a kid, we bit the bullet this year and bought a second hand touring one, and are having it sited a couple of miles from Paignton, we are off to get it set up on Wednesday. I am so excited I want to go now :j

N9eav - Yes I agree very greedy

Beef for Lunch today so I better go get started
Have good days all
Anne

sistercas

morning all :wave:

penny the sausages look lovely - very professional well done - are you taking orders? :whistle:

Halight its so lovely to see on here again, the book sounds very interesting you will have to let us know about some of the meals when you have tried them

spent the whole day in the garden yesterday and its starting to look nice, but my muscles in my legs and back are complaining today, I shall probably cut the grass and trim the edges and leave it at that today.
DH is finishing the decking at the bottom of the garden today and its looking good so far, it wil be lovely to sit out there this summer.

breakfast today will be fruit and yoghurt
lunch roast chicken and all the trimmings
tea not sure yet maybe chicken sandwiches

jobs for today
cut the grass
strip teens beds ( if they ever emerge lol) wash bedding
catch up with ironing

hope you all have a lovely day

nic1lou2

Morning all

Glorious morning here - I have been up since 4 this morning and have been listening to the birds and watching the sun rise - lovely and peaceful.........till the Police helicopter started circling nearby for some reason - seemed to be in the direction of the motorway so I hope there was nothing serious happened. Seems to be gone now so hopefully everything ok

Just seen a weather forecast and it is supposed to be the hottest day of the year so far so I def think BBQ is the order of the day:beer:, it is my DSiL's birthday so might see if they fancy joining us. Love days like this - makes you feel so much better.:T:T:T

Hairdresser is coming at 12.00 so I hope she is not too long sorting me out so I can get organised - need to nip to Asda before she gets here to pick up some meat and more wine and soft drinks just in case. Happy Days!!!!:D:D:D

Hope you all have a lovely sunny day - enjoy whatever you are getting up to!

xxx

nic1lou2

Ooooooh just got another star!:D

HariboJunkie

Good Lord Penny, what a fright you gave me. I thought for a minute that N9Eav had started the thread with another gratuitous tackle shot. _pale_. ;) Seriously, they look amazing. :T

Cloudy here today but hopefully no rain as i forgot to put the wasahing on the pulley last night on my way to bed so it's lying in a sodden heap on the draining board.
Then it's more gardening on the cards. We bought 2 small cherry trees yesterday so they need to find homes today and i have things to pot on in the greenhouse. if it stays dry we will hopefully manage a walk in the woods with the dog.

No idea what's for tea. I bought loads of lovely veg yesterday to have with a roast but i forgot to buy the roast and the butcher is closed.

Off to the garden with my coffee and see if any of my slug murdering tactics have worked.

Haribo x

Rowan9

Morning everyone.
Lovely sausages Penny - clever you!
Halight - hope you enjoyed your day without the twins but I bet it felt very quiet!!
Caravans - oooh I love them but DH doesn't. Realistically, with his snoring, I'd have nowhere to escape to though :rolleyes:
Bright and sunny here. Have a load of dark things to put into WM.
Need to sort out my clothes and begin packing as |I'm off on Tues to Scotland to stay with DD in Edinburgh and also see DS in Glasgow. Need to get stuff ironed today.
Garden needs a tidy - grass to cut and borders to tidy up + heather to plant (haven't got round to it yet).
We had half the butcher's steak pie yesterday so Sunday lunch it going to be easy today - the other half + the left over potatoes (made a lot deliberately) mashed + some veg.
Might give my aunty a ring. My uncle is 91 and has dementia so it's not easy for her to cope. She is one of life's copers though and does extremely well. I'm looking forward to moving back to Scotland so we can see them more often.
Ok folks, off to get washing on. Am on 2nd cup of tea and I've had a slice of toast. Has everyone else's Bakers Oven become Greggs? The seedy bread is fantastic. £1.55 though:eek:. I have plans to get a breadmaker but realistically not for a while
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stressedoutmumof1

Good morning everyone - what a beautiful morning it is :j

Penny - your bangers look great

N9eav - you sound like you've got your hands full with all those chicks

Need to stick the BM on in a mo, followed by the WM. Lots of inside jobs to do, but I'm thinking of saving them till tomorrow as the weather's supposed to be shocking then. Oh also need to finish dying my hair :rolleyes: Did the base colour last night, need to do the highlights today - at least the greys are covered now

B: Coffee
L: Scrambled eggs on toast
HM curry or lasagne :think:

Baking wise - bread as mentioned earlier, flapjacks and cherry bakewell cake

Have a great day everyone

betheebee

Morning all,

I bought 2 YS ducks and a free range chiken y/day at Sainsbugs for £8.20. I cut the breasts off the ducks & chicken and vacume sealed them. Pot roasted the ducks & chicken stripped the meat off to make 2 loaf tins of meat loaf. I'll line with streaky bacon and layer duck, spinach, sage&onion stuffing then chicken. Still have enough chick left to make a cobbler. Boiled gibblets for stock.
So that's 6 meals with the breasts and 4 meals of chick cobbler and 8 meals of meatloaf. 18 meals for £8.20.
I did some gardening y/day DH mowed the lawn and washed the car.
I'm sat on the patio looking at clear blue skies with DH reading the papers and our resident robins for company, they are so tame the have been hoping in and out of the kitchen.
Just emailed a freecycler who has 2 potted bay trees for offer and wants some wood primer & undercoat, both of which I have so hoping to do a swop. Always wanted bay trees either side of the front door. Fingers crossed.
Today we will meet up with DFriends for a lunch time pint at our local, She has finished the first course of Chemo so it's a waiting game to see if it's worked. I'm going to help her paint their bedroom on Tuesday as she gets quite tired and can't do it herself. I'm sort of retired painter & decorator so shouldn't take long.
Phone just rang, a woman was sobbing and pleading for help. She has water cascading through her ceiling into the bedroom, I told her to turn the stopcock off. Relayed the plea to DH (retired plumber) so he's going out on a mission of mercy. Poor woman sounded distraught, I'll go with DH now and see if I can help clear up.
Catch yah later.