OS Diary Archive August 2006

catznine

Kaz - Regarding the cream jug, the Ewenny pottery is fairly near to you, certainly not far from stormy down anyway. The pottery is lovely and quite collectable I believe, might be worth visiting there one day to find out it's value?

Penelope_Penguin

Hi, again!

I've been making lemon curd from 3 lovely lemons I found in a fridge clearout yesterday. It looks and smells lovely, so will make a white laof overnight in BM, and have the crust with lemon for breakfast. :T Recipe, anyone - it's ever so easy. Also doing the washing hokey-cokey in the rain (in, out, in, out..... :rotfl: )

Shez, dunno what happened with the Archers. I'm sure Brian was wingeing on to Dayveeeeed about how badly life was treating him. Must have been last week.

Lillibet, thanks for the recipe. Have benn given more brambles than I can use by a friend, so I'll be making this. :T

Welshlassie - sounds like you had a fab time in Belgium. Where are you off to tonight?

Hi, Aussie :beer: The book sounds interesting.

Hello, Churchmouse :j

Kaz and Moggins, have a fab time on Thursday :j Where this time?

Penny. x

MIRRY_2

Just wondered ?
Are there many people on here like me who just love this forum so much that they cant get themselfs away from the computor to do all the ideas that we have picked up on here ?

I need to make more bread recipes and slow cooker recipes,
line curtains, buy more energy saving light bulbs, knit everyone scarfs for christmas, make jewellery to sell, knit handbags, make homemade cards, decorate bedrooms, cut our own hair, sell lots on ebay and amazon, make our own clothes, grow our own veg..............:o

moggins

Penelope_Penguin wrote:

Hi, again!
Kaz and Moggins, have a fab time on Thursday :j Where this time?

Penny. x

We're doing Techniquest this week

Welshlassie

PP we had such a good time I've now not got a voice and sound like a croaking frog.
I w**k from home 3 days a week and then spend 2 days a week in Watford (although i'll be in London for some of that this weeK).

tim_n

It's true - I wonder sometimes how much time I'd save if I wasn't on this site at home or actually looking for bargins!

Penelope_Penguin

moggins wrote:

We're doing Techniquest this week

At Cardiff? My sister loves it there, but we've not been.

Penny. x

thriftlady_2

Me too, I'd get loads more done if I wasn't on here so much

Zed42

Howdy folks,

Well the weather here can't make up it's mind. One second rain, next - sun!

We went to the Plum festival yesterday, but ... erm ... saw very few plums! I think we were too late (midday) for them, but we did have a very scrummy sausage and onion bap!

We queued for 3 miles to get there, and whilst we were queueing we were looking in the hedgerows to see what we could see .. blackberries / apples / sloes / plums / damsons.

On the way back DH saw some damsons at a fairly safe place to park, so we turned in to this side road to turn around, which turned in to being a kind of dirt track that we couldn't easily turn around in Whilst going down there .. we spotted a glut of damsons We picked 6lbs of them DD (nearly 3) had a great time helping. Further on our journey we spotted some sloes .. unfortunately we only got 9ozs of those, so we've lobbed them in to the freezer and will go back for some more next week

Last night saw DH and I (ok, mainly DH) stoning 3lbs of damsons and converting them in to wine Today, I'm going to use the 3lbs of leftover fruit with a crumble topping methinks.

This morning DD and I have made blueberry muffins and a banana loaf. Soaking a whole load of paper (shredded / newspaper) with sawdust ready to make some bricks tonight. Now cleaning the oven door (glass). I tried Dr Beckmann's but that didn't shift the grease, so now it's bicarb and soda crystals I'm trying.

Any ideas where I can get a cheap pressurised beer barrel for DH to make beer with ? Yes, I've tried freecycle

Right, as it's not raining, going to part DD from the sofa and go for a wander round the charity shops in the vain hope of finding beer making kit I know how to live it up I do

SmashingBlouse - hope all goes well at the hospital today, and enjoy eating later

Shez

afternoon!

Just got back from unexpected phone call and then had rushing about across london on work purposes! (that i really didnt want:mad: so shall be having words with boss when he returns :rolleyes: ) no service on jubilee line between waterloo-willesden green due to someone under a train at finchley road (yuk) why cant these people go off somewhere if they must end it all without having to disrupt the train service??? (sorry sounds abit harsh doesnt it:o )
Gotta go do some more errands at post office and bank and then go home!

smashing blouse - hope all goes well at hospital
moggins - yes get hand checked out.
penpen - lemon curd yum - i wouldnt mind recipe thanks!:D
mirry - yes i feel the same - I dont seem to have enough time to keep up with all whats going on here too!:o

better get on, ttfn