OS Daily Thread 12th Feb

bargainbird

Hi there! This is the Daily Thread for Wednesday 10th Feb.It is an 'Over the garden fence' type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come in, put your feet up (although check the fence hasn’t just been painted first!) and join us for an Old Style natter. The more the merrier!
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Please do not start a new Daily Thread before you go to bed at night because this often leaves things confusing with two Dailys' live at the same time. The idea is that a member would start each new Daily Thread after they get up in the morning.
Some people who chat here like to try to answer everyone. Don’t feel you have to though, a general “Hi everyone, hope you are all well” type start is just as good.

Morning All,

Well i'm up with DS who thinks it's the start of the day :eek:. Will go off and read y'day thread.

Nic1 - Hope you got your car fixed
Anguk - Sounds like martyns coming along really well :T
Candygirl - Glad boo's bum's getting better
Lowesy - Glad work went better then expected too x
Lisa - not really an early riser more of an i don't want to sleeper :eek:

We've had snow since 9pm, hope is gone by the proper morning, i've got ironing to drop off and collect today.....

Tea tonight (yes i'm already thinking about it ) is Lamb Pilaf my favorite.

Going to make another cuppa and see what quiet toys i can find Spike

Hope you all have lovely day xx

:j he's asleep woot woot

lisa26_2

Blimey he's an early riser! I'm on ngiht shift so I'm yet to go to bed....roll on 7am!!! I'll be getting up about 12.30 as I have a man coming to look at my downstairs toilet, the water keeps running after the cistern has filled up after flushing. I'm planning to spend the afternoon baking bread, cakes and biscuits, all of which will be frozen before I eat them all and ruin the diet!!!

Have a good day everyone x

Money_saving_Diva_2

Morning OS lovelies,

Morning bargain and Lisa - I have to say I do like having company at silly O'clock when I get up, so it's nice to see you both!

Donnygal - that was very funny!
floss - you should definitely buy them. Shoes are too important not to indulge in!
Julie - thinking of you and sending positive vibes. My sister has MS and has done for 20 yrs so if it turns out to be so, feel free to pm.
Lowesy - still in my thoughts
angUk - that is fabulous news about Martyn and I hope he continues to get well so you can have him home soon.
Sunny - at 0600 yesterday morning, the Body shop hemp hand protector came back into stock so I ordered and used the code and only spent £12. Saved £17 plus the free postage. Thank you for mentioning it, I rarely check that other board.
Snoozer - I am glad the news was mainly good. A little op is nothing for the peace of mind.
Heavenleigh - I know you were only teasing and so was I.. in a previous life I was barely getting into the house at 0300 never mind having been to bed and getting back up again at that time!!
nic1 - great news about the car but so sad for your friend and her mum. Will remember her in my prayers.
Tru - Lovely to see you posting.
Candy - glad your little ones sore bits are healing up
Haribo - I hope putting whoever it was on ignore works for you as we always miss your posts!

Could I ask for some positive vibes around 1430 for our meeting with the OT/Social worker lady today please? Would be very grateful. We need the outcome to be the way we want it to be. Thank you.

Breakfast will be porridge cos I am sooo cold today. Lunch will be HM bread toasted with cheese and HM chilli oil drizzled on top. (yes, the same as yesterday as it was so delicious!) Dinner will be gammon cooked in cola. We got 3 peices of gammon each around 750g for just £10 in Tescos this week so will cook them and freeze slices of it for sandwiches which should work out a lot cheaper than buying ham which has had to come off the menu recently!

I have some darning to do today which I really enjoy. Not sure why, I just think it's very satisfying. I cannot make clothes but I am very very good at mending them! Plus we have a visit from the OT so will have to put some slap on so I don't scare the horses.
I hope everyones day is as good as it can be, and that anyone feeling poorly feels better soon. With love, light and squishy for all.

Diva.x

pipkin71

Morning all

Hope you've managed to go back to sleep bargainbird

I've had awful cramp all night, so gave up on sleeping in the end

Well, DD1 will be having friends over today, ready to celebrate her birthday tomorrow. I have a few mixed feelings about her being 13. I don't know why, I just think she is growing up so fast, it's scary :eek:

I'm going to make a chicken curry and some breaded chicken strips for tonight, plus wedges or rice, with the girls and their friends, as they all love cooking Plus, it means I'm not struggling on my own.

Later, one of her friends is coming up from Wales to stay over too, so it will be a busy house tonight.

Good luck with the OT, MSD. Hope they are able to help

Enjoy your afternoon baking, lisa

(((HUGS))) to the poorlies and those who want one

Habe a good day, all

hart44

Good Morning everyone

Cold this morning but no snow

I have been rudely awaken again by the neighbours dogs, 2 springers that always start barking and howling at 4am and dont stop for over an hr :mad:

I have a busy day today, toast club at DS school, cleaning for a nice couple, pick up DS then off to my proper cleaning job so wont stop till 9pm tonight.

One good thing is I will have my weekends back, I have a lady coming in to work tonight to have a trial and she will be takeing over the wkend cleaning (Ive now had enough of the 7 night thing, I have done it for 2 yrs & now will work Mon-Fri only).

Tea will be shepards pie (I made yesterday) and beans

My sewing books arrived yesterday so cannt wait to get started

Hope everyone has a great day and hopefully (if I can keep awake) will pop back tonight :rotfl:

Sunnyday

Morning peeps :wave:

can`t believe its almost 7am already :eek: i love the early mornings and i`ve got tons done already, other people are slowly filtering into w*rk now so its not as quiet but it feels more like lunchtime to me think thats just an excuse to have some toast really lol.

Guess what - didn`t start the painting yesterday we got all the prep done for the ceiling though which took rather longer than we thought, when i was wiping the new plaster down to fetch the dust off there were lots of tiny bits that needed scraping off so they were taken care of. I didn`t want to rush ahead and have niggly bits that annoyed me afterwards.

DH is off today so i shall ring him in a while and ask hime to empty the contents of the slow cooker, he is in charge of the kitchen until i get home and he is also the nominated shopper for the supermarket run this week so he will be going this morning rather than tomorrow evening.

Bitsy / Diva - Glad that you managed to order the hand protector, it was such a bargain and i remember when we had the handcream discussion a while back that quite a few people used it.

Anguk - Great news that Martyn is going from strength to strength :j

Nic - Sorry to hear your sad news ((((HUGS))))

Tru - We need some chicken tales to read about - i love hearing about them

I`m off in search of food methinks

Have a great day gang

SD

SunnyGirl

Good morning!

I hope that you have all managed to get back to sleep or are planning a nap this afternoon

Diva Good luck with the OT - sending vibes your way. Also thank you so much for the cd's you sent me yesterday - I love show tunes and will be singing my heart out later xxx

Anguk Brilliant news re Martyn!

Hart44 Hope you can catch your breath later on after your mega busy day.

Bargainbird Your tea sounds delish - can I come please?

Lisa The baking sounds great - I'm going to do some at the weekend ready for half term's onslaught!

Haribo Don't stop posting I love reading your posts.

Up to a nasty job this morning as Susie Labrador had had a smelly accident on the kitchen carpet runner (Sorry if TMI at this time of the morning) Why she couldn't have gone on the rest of the floor which is tiled is beyond me! All sorted now though.


Plans for today are to yesterdays Flylady list & todays too, do some ironing, dust & vac downstairs and then hopefully read my book later.

Lunch will be soup - no idea what variety I just pulled some out of the freezer Tea tonight is a take away treat courtesy of DH

Have a good day everyone OS or not and take care in the cold.

to everyone xxxxx

Essex-girl_2

Morning All

Good Luck for your meeting MSD
Glad to see hubby is going from strength to strength Anguk.

Friday again :jhave DD on inset day but need to ring her orthodontist as she has lost a bracket on her brace again :mad: I absolutely hate going there, its 45 minutes each way, we often have to wait a long time and she moans all the way back So will be very glad when that is over and done with.

Need to pay some money in the bank so will be going to little town at somepoint.

Have to start looking at some cheap or ideally free things to do next week. February half term is my least favourite. The cinema will feature at some point as I have vouchers or we can visit our little local one which is only £2. Also aim to get to see the Ministry of Food Exhibition.

Anyway today will be fitting in office work and housework around the ortho visit, hopefully DD will keep herself in her bedroom as she does drive me mad - always moaning about something :rotfl:teenagers you gotta love them.

Have a great Friday.

redruby

Morning all,

Cold here but no snow, its raining, I still have a raging sore throat and headache, will take some more pills in a while and see how it goes.

Need to put a wash on tonight, will get dd's uniform done i think, then I can put it away till after half term.

Chilli and rice for dinner, will make up a large veggie one too, and put the extra in the freezer, need to build up my stock of hm veggie meals.

We are supposed to be having the electrician turning up this morning, he is a friend so can let himself into the house, but he has been off sick all week, so its not looking good.

Porridge and a banana for breakfast for me, dd had toast, banana, grapes and juice. Lunch for me will be a tuna salad sandwich with grapes to follow, dd had a cheese sandwich, yogurt grapes and apple.

Nic, big hugs to your friend and her mum xx

Snoozer, Good luck for the op, hope all goes well xx

Julie, hope you get the outcome you want xx

Have good days all xx

taplady

morning!

off to work later and sleeping in then have got 3 days off.
just checked the online banking:eek: not good - dont know how we'll struggle through till my payday on the 25th as DH only got the very basic SSP. Thats the trouble with living hand to mouth as such - it only takes one disaster and you're in the sh*t.
DH worried enough as it is about his health without the worry of money!
sorry to keep moaning about it but its on my mind a lot obviously.

(((hugs))) to those in need.

Diva - good luck for the meeting

have a lovely weekend all x

SunnyGirl

Taplady It's such a worry & a battle day after day to provide meals etc too. Massive hugs to you xxxx