OS Daily Thread - Thursday 4th March

Julie67

Good Morning All,

Nice and bright today so going to have a walk with DD and DGS as they have come to stay 'for a few days'.

Tea tonight will be chicken wrapped in bacon with veg and potatoes.

DS3 is getting excited about his trip to Snowdonia this wk end but our romantic weekend has been postponed as we have visitors Grr:mad: first time in about 20 yrs there was no children around LOL:rotfl: oh well it will have to wait:rotfl:

Off to the library later but will pop back in later.

Hugs to those who need them

J x

taplady

morning!

2 days off:j - the calm before the storm as I have to work Sat, Sun and Mon very long hours so shall make the most of the next couple of days. I've already cleaned through the house and done a load of washing, just had some beans on toast for brekkie. Havent read the thread since Tuesday morning so hope everyone's well.
Later I need to call in on Mums elderly friend(she's 93) who is housebound, virtually deaf and blind as Mums on the Scilly Isles - had a txt at 7.30am to say she was out walking by the sea(lucky thing)
Tonight its my Tap Class.
Other plans for today

do online shop - am trying Sainsburys for the first time
paperwork
finish sewing my dress
put BM on

we've got quorn cottage pie for tea(HM from freezer)

sunnygirl - hope you're not disappointed with your firemen:D we have fire-training every year and usually get a retired fireman - not the type of hunk that Nelski usually posts a piccie of unfortunately:D

JackieO - hope you've recovered from your fall x

PP - hope you're ok x

off for a quick browse now, take care all x

lowesy

taplady wrote: »

Tonight its my Tap Class.

Oooo taplady didn't know you were a tap dancer (although perhaps it's a little obvious from looking at your name )! I used to do tap as part of the syllabus at ballet school, and am looking for an adult class to take it up again. Such good fun isn't it? xx

donny-gal

Hola! Everyone
Sorry I have been MIA, I have been reading, but not felt I had much to say so didn't post.
to all those birthdays and anniversaries I missed.

I have my so will try to catch up. One of the reasons for not posting is I sometimes feels awful when many of your are really struggling with finances, health, kids, weather. etc., and we are going through a really nice time of our lives atm, while still being OS in many ways.

to our new posters, welcome.
to Elona's DD, anyone else having exams, trying for jobs, etc.

Our DS changed positions for the better in his new company he joined in September, and now he has to bring is Excel knowledge up to speed PDQ, so I got an email SOS yesterday as he couldn't quite get a formula to do what it needed to so, so yes guess who was on the PC dragging her Excel knowledge up to speed.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:, that is the only thing I miss since taking early retirement the challenge of Excel and Access so I enjoyed it, but didn't tell him that.;)

We have mixed weather out here (Spain, Costa Blanca) we have some really nice hot days, some cloudy days, and an odd rainy day, really weird absolutely threw it down on Tuesday night all night, but woke up to a lovely day yesterday. Today is due to be good too, so will be trying to get a little more colour before we come home, but then cloud tomorrow, a little rain Saturday and sun, cloud and rain on Sunday, but they due to come nice for Monday/Tuesday, we leave to come home early Wedneday morning. Staying in France Wed/Thurs. Kent Fri/Sat, seeing DS for lunch on Mother's Day, then home afterwards. Caravan out on the Thursday:D for a long weekend in Ripon. Easter, the 'van is out again, and we are going near the National Forest Centre in Derbyshire.

OS has been keeping the place clean and cooking from scratch, will be glad to get back to my Panny though, do have a SC out here, and found some S&K which went down really well, DH having to go for bread to mop the gravy;), even though he only has the Stewing Steak, luckily I adore kidney. We are now on a use up fridge/freezer routine, and have agreed to go out for a meal tonight to our usual music bar with some neighbours.

Jayward - you rung the Drs. re your back yet
Hope the new tablets are not having an adverse effect.

Right, coffee provided by DH, sun is out, outside calls.

to those in need, take care - DG

MancMillyMolly

Morning!

What a beautiful day - waking up to a blue sky and sunshine does wonders for the mood! :j

Hope everybody is doing well, Diva great news about your seedlings.
JackieO hope your arm is feeling better ((hugs))
Lowesy hope the little nasties leave your niece alone - I know how you feel as DD was bullied at school last year and it was just horrible children can be so nasty sometimes. Still she moved out of the bullies class over the summer and is like a different child now.
redruby I remember having the same thing with my Mum when I got caught up in the middle of (:cool:) a Solero (ice lolly) fight on the bus home one summer :D she went mad at me! And to this day I still can remember the smell that was in my hair - put me off them for life!

Busy day at work today, but need to try and pop out at lunch to get some fish for HM fish and chips tomorrow! WM needs to go on tonight, and the rubbish and recycling needs to go out for bin day tomorrow. Corned beef hash for tea - haven't had that for years so am really looking forward to it

Hope everybody has a good day.

MMM.

tired_mum

Morning all
DS has cycled to school and DD2 has been dropped off as hers is too far to cycle but to be fair i want DS to have some independance
hoovered round and got the sausages out for tea
Donny dont not post its good to hear good news and we are all pleased that we can see OS paying off
Jackie O hope the arm is recovering
PP hope you are ok and the stairlift has been mended
DD2s birthday is next week so i will be asking you for ideas next week as she has invited 8 of her girlie mates for a pamper sleepover:eek: DS is off to my mums n DD1 off to her bf for the night DH has said he will go to work on fri night wether he has to work or not:o
Hope you all have a good day

csarina

Morning all..................((((((((((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))))))) if you need one.........

Its not such a nice morning although they tell us it will fine up later.

No idea what I am going to do this morning, OH is talking about doing more in the garden, but not until the mist has burnt off.

We still have no telephone or broadband more than 4 weeks after we moved. I got a message from Sky yesterday, but no real news and they took £78 from my account yesterday, I can do nothing until we get the phone in, I refuse to call them on theor 0844 number, last time it cost me £10 for just over 5 minutes, I am not into masochism.......I cannot afford to call at that rate to speak to someone abroad who does not speak or understand English, all they seem able to do is say I am so sorry, and thats it!!

I must admit I am very tempted to get a freestat box and go to another provider for my telephone and broadband. I have given them 10 working days, which equates to a week to sort it out, otherwise I am off........ Never had this problem with virgin, but sky is the only option up here, no fibre optics here.

Scotch pies and onion gravy for supper tonight, OG can finish off the beans from last night, think I might make a bread and butter pudding foe a change....it ages since we had one.

taplady

lowesy wrote: »

Oooo taplady didn't know you were a tap dancer (although perhaps it's a little obvious from looking at your name )! I used to do tap as part of the syllabus at ballet school, and am looking for an adult class to take it up again. Such good fun isn't it? xx

and my avatar!

I've been tapping for about 15 years on and off, am still not that good though but as you say its great fun. I'm in a group and we used to do big shows at a local theatre in lots of fancy costumes but we're all a bit long in the tooth now so just tend to do it for the exercise and fun. We have a new teacher now who is a brilliant dancer and works us ever so hard!

RosyRed

Hi all,gorgeous but frosty here this morning.I like everyones mini weather reports too Sunnygirl, my DH thinks I am a weather oracle Quicker than the news too.:rotfl:
I was going to do some food shopping,but its so nice I might do something in the garden.I have opened all the upstairs windows for a spell,but they don't half look mucky now the sun is shining,so will do those as well.

Tonight we are off into Manchester, so something easy for tea.We are going to see Mumford & Sons (up and coming band for anyone who doesnt know.)We are all going-so it will be a mixed age group,as some friends of ours,and their sons ,who are friends of our DSons IYSWIM are going too.
One of the dads has a people carrier and is giving us a lift,which is very good of him,as we were going to book a minibus.
We got the tickets ages ago,and they now seem to be selling for silly money on Ebay.

Yesterday I cut up some old T shirts of DH into spiral strips,then pulled it to make
a kind of yarn,got my biggest crochet hook(10mm) and I am making a huge granny square into a bathmat-its nearly done as it grows so quick :rotfl:When dh saw what I was doing,he said 'WHAT are you up to now?'- I said it was a modern equivalent of rag rugs,and he said 'oh yes,spose so'.Very Os if it works.

Right better get on-hope you all have a good day,welcome newbies

celyn90

Morning all Hope you are all well

Diva - well done with your seeds
hart44 - firemen?? where?? :rotfl: :rotfl:
lowsey - it's really hard to keep that sort of behaviour down. My sister is bearing the brunt of bullying from her estranged spouses friends, but still doesn't seem to understand that the best thing she can do is remove herself from that circle of people. I think it's harder with younger kids as the the victim often can't understand that the bully is not a friend. I don't think you can - or should - do anything with regards to the perpetrators (other than report their behaviour if it is in your remit to do so) but focussing your energy on your niece maybe the best plan. Make her feel good about herself, do things to boast her confidence and teach her self worth so the teasing bouces off her. Your mum is trying to protect you; and to be fair, if you get a rap for threatening them then they may well use it against your niece even more. I was bullied at school, and now I look back on a bunch of sad little people with pity more than anger.
Donnygal - Even if everything is bearing down on me, I still love to hear that others are happy; for me it's like a glimmer of sunshine and a reminder that good things do happen Please do keep us updated of your adventures!
Floss2 - thankyou for the links to the cakeshops (my lakeland tins worked out at £27 delivered after the 3for2 discount and the repeat customer token - I had £20 worth of gift vouchers, so it only left £7 cash to pay). They arrived yesterday and they are really nice heavy tins)

It's going to be a slower day here - my sponsors have gone home, so the pressure is off a bit. I have so number crunching to do. Had a tour of OH's new shiny lab yesterday so may well be sneaking into the corner to do some work in a few weeks. I some research to do as I've had a synthesis challenge from a group upstairs. I need to make some resin cabachons when I get home and I have to go to the post office again *sigh*

Must go, have a meeting at 10 am *blergh* (although we do just normally sit round and eat cake!) have a good day all, cel x