Old Style Daily Thread; Sunday 25 April

Lindy_-_Loo

Afternoon everyone, weather miserable here today so washing sat on the maiden and will no doubt spend a couple of hours in the very old tumble dryer

Chicken out the oven and all veg cut up and ready to cook when OH finishes work at 4pm.

boys full of colds and cofs so had a very long night and early morning, why are kids so much hard work when they poorly?

Neice came home from hospital 7pm last night, she finally started eating properly which allowed her to go the toilet and let the doctors see that her intenstine held in place :j Apparently the hospital dont normally discharge in the evening but as my neice has sch a phobia they let her go - I dont think they could cope any longer with her 'fear'!

Have a four year old pestering me to go on Cbeebies so I'm going to leave him to it and have a cuppa.

Have a lovely day everyone xx

celyn90

Afternoon all

Ladygrim - thinking of you ((hug))
N9eav - I always add water to sponge cakes - enough so that when I pull the spon through the mixture the trail closes slowly behind it ( the exact amount depends on the flour). It really does make them really really soft.

Been MIA again, sorry all I have had a crazy week again

My brother left the UK to travel for a year yesterday afternoon. On friday, I got an e-mail (at 4pm!) saying he'd forgotten to arrange a goodbye dinner and could we make it to Kent for 8 pm. Cue us ringing round car rental places, skipping work early to go home. Dinner was lovely and it was so nice to see everyone again.

STB ex-BiL got 8.5 years, despite the time spent on remand. I know I shouldn't be glad as justice is meant to be restorative not punishment, but I am. My little sister and her wonderful son now can build a new life free of violence and to me, that is all that matters. When I saw her at the weekend, she looked happy, for the first time in years. There was a horrific article in the local press, which she very stoically didn't respond to - on the basis that she didn't want to be explaining herself to her son in ten years time. I'm proud of her diginity - as she really could have gone to town on him (drugs, gambling, domestic violence, abuse...) but chose not to on the basis that "todays news will be wrapping fish and chips tomorrow" (her words). I am a little appauled at the gutter journalism glamourising knife-crime though - but it was undoubtably egged on by his rather scary family. The courts do not give 8.5 years to promising young men who act on the spur of the moment; they reserve this for vile abusive thugs who carry out pre-meditated stabbings. I hope that most of people that read it will see through the garbage, and to be honest, all those that don't aren't worth her time.

When we got home, we had a suprise - OH's decree absolute was sitting on the doormat. A lot of you have been so tolerant of my random upsets with this over the past few years and I just wanted to say thank you for all your support. I really do appreciate it. So he is now, officially free - three years to the day after the original petition was filed with the court And I am not named and she had to pay her own costs because she chose to make it difficult. For the second time this week, I have had my faith renewed in the court system - the pen is indeed mighter than the sword (or indeed the 3 inch vegetable paring knife).

OS wise, we have been to Aldi this morning (on account of still having the hire car) and I have done two loads of laundry, cleared the flat a little bit and put the clean clothes away. Dinner will be brocolli and chese bake for me - the same with ham for OH. I made another lemon cake too.

Have a good day all, cel x

jackieglasgow

Glad to hear you've had some good news Celyn. New beginnings for your parent's children this week, you must all be :j:j

jc2703

Glad to hear the justice system is working in you life too celyn

flutterbyuk25

flutterbyuk25 wrote: »

Today's plans include[STRIKE] dry laundry indoors (WM is on now), go to gym, hoover, put yesterday's laundry away[/STRIKE], buy some proper running shoes and update my Ipod.

x

Well I've done the most important jobs! The running shop doesn't open Sundays so I couldn't go there, and my Ipod hates me so I decided not to fight it today.

I'm absolutely starving today, I've eaten loads and loads but still my tummy rumbles weird.

x

jackieglasgow

That'll be your metabolism improving because of the exercise!

camelot1001

Glad the courts have been good to you Celyn. Hope you and your family can move on.

Jackieglasgow I live on the west side of Loch Lomond where we are currently having some awful April showers!! Nice rainbows though.

Been to Glasgow to look at a few shops, tried on a few pairs of walking shoes so that I can check the price on line! Think the chap in the shop was getting a bit fed up with me.

Made a fabulous discovery today THERE IS A CATH KIDSTON SHOP IN GLASGOW! Went for a look and DD (who is 17) thought it was fantastic and wants a purse, bag, apron(?), in fact one of just about everything. Is this normal? Think she was more impressed than me!

Anyway, not a very OS meal out (the first for 4 weeks) in a very nice Indian Restaurant called the Karma Sutra!

Hope you all had a good Sunday and enjoy the week ahead.

HariboJunkie

camelot1001 wrote: »

Made a fabulous discovery today THERE IS A CATH KIDSTON SHOP IN GLASGOW! .

Oooh where, where, where?????? :j:j:j

I'm happy that there has been some justice for your sister Celyn. xxx

Busy day at work so OS was all done by proxy (OH)

Need to get uniforms ironed, packed lunches made, greenhouse watered and clean bedding on beds after tea,, then a quiet night in front of the telly.

Hope all is well.

Still thinking of you Ladygrim.

Haribo x

flutterbyuk25

jackieglasgow wrote: »

That'll be your metabolism improving because of the exercise!

I hope I'm not this hungry all the time, I'm exercising and dieting to lose weight!!! It's almost my time of the month so I do tend to get hungrier at this time. But I've only been eating Slimming World friendly food so it's all ok :j

x

camelot1001

Cath Kidston in Princes Square, Buchanan Street. It's like a step back in time. They have parts of it with wallpaper like my brother had (he's now 49)!