Memorygirls - Make Do and Mend

ClootiesMum

oh my goodness i'm a Fifer too! small world xxx

Seems there are a few of us here.......

I'm in a wee cottagy hovel near the Palace - are you anywhere near?

Sent you a PM

Memory_Girl

troglodyte wrote: »

Hi MG,


Did you get my PM by the way? Or should I send my email address?

Trog

Got it trog - i am at a friends house frantically trying to catch up. going to price the postage up on the way home - and then spend the evening wrapping up little gifts for those that have requested them:D

mg

Memory_Girl

ClootiesMum wrote: »

Good God wummin - I disappear for a couple of days & look what happens !!!!!


howzitgauen quine?? translation is "are how are you this fine day my young lady" yeah!!! Sorry!!!! things got a bit crazy there:p

Hope you met nattypants today & had a good day out.

DS1 thinks nattypants is very pretty:D but she did bribe him with a Mario game so i expect she will be his favourite for quite a while to come:rotfl:. i got a fab stash:

Natural history museum rocket kit - £1 for ds1's best friends birthday
Beaded wire basket and candles - for his best friends mum b-day (same day and i figure if you gave birth on your b-day you deserve a little something to open)
A video player (DS has great collection of inherited videos) £2.00
A easi-yo yogurt maker for mum's xmas (£1 but no instructions)

............... and 4 empire biscuits, which were voted ok, but not as good as twinks hobnobs:T


Will catch up later - & are eggs of any use to you again? The ladies have been busy..

eggs would be great - boys think its a real special treat to have a eggy tea fro hens you've met personally:D

How are you doing back at work clootiesmum?? hope you are treating yourself well.

mg

Memory_Girl

nattypants wrote: »

Hi MG and friends:)

Well the car-boot sale was windy-city.....however managed to return with £30 profit, one large jar of piccalilli, one large jar of dill pickles, one mahoosive cucumber which is obviously a marrow masquerading as cucumber! oh...and for those of you who have expressed interest in a nifty wee study resource number....one FABULOUS book:D:D:D

MG - this book is GENIUS, I tried the link memory system with my DD who "cannot remember the period table elements, I don't need to know these...blah blah blah" oh, guess what? she could easily recall the first ten elements after reading your periodic table story:T Oh and by the way......despite being shocking at Chemistry all those years ago at school I now know the first ten elements also:p

***UNASHAMED SALES PITCH***For everyone who buys a copy, I pinkie-promise you that your money will be well, well spent:D:D:D

Finally to MG - your sons are an absolute credit to you - wee charmers, and I can see that when the time is right FOR YOU, you will be snapped up by Mr. Soul-Mate Extraordinaire (that sounds like a pimp's name...but I'm sure you know what I mean;)).

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the book, chat, pickles, piccalilli, mahoosive cucumber and coming to see me on a proper windy (and chilly!) day:)

ps. Clootiesmum, I was thinking of you today and wondered if I might have bumped into you also...alas not to be;)
NPX

AW natty!!! make me blush!!! and I'm not exactly the shy and retiring type.

glad you're having fun playing with your brain:D

See you soon

MG

Memory_Girl

ILGPink wrote: »

Hi MG and everyone not been around for a while but have now caught up. I would be interested in buying a book from you MG.

Not sure if you are aware but under the circs of whats happend 2u with TC u may qualify for a crisis loan thru the job centre. I know this would mean having 2apply and would need 2b paid back but it is your entitlement to do so espec under the circs.

i could - but it means travelling 10 mile to the place that issues the giro - then you have to limp on for ages paying it back. The last time i had to go there i was made to feel like scum, and my kids were treated to the sight of the Buckfast drinkers hanging around the door and the junkie being carted off in the ambulance after kicking off inside.

I need to keep myself in a positive frame of mind and deal with this proactively (it took me about two weeks the last time to begin to feel normal again)

So if possible i am going to soldier on and try to make it until payments star again (where I think I will then have a whole £2 extra per week to play with in my budget;))

thanks though

MG

Memory_Girl

gettingsorted wrote: »

Hi mg and all others.
I have read this thread from start to finish and absolutely love it.:j
MG you are such an inspiration and I so wish I could be like you. I would love one of your books as I am also a trainee teacher. I only have one final SE placement to do:eek:, which I had to defer due to illness. So with any luck I should be qualified by christmas. (I obviously need to read the secret so that I can say I will be qualified.):)
I have began to change my ways beginning with a slow cooker and a bread maker (from a charity shop.) I have a dairy intolerance so I cook everything from scratch anyway, but i can now also cook bread.
I love your recipes and will be cooking stovies on tuesday for dinner mmm cant wait.
Anyway thanks for listening and keep up the inspirational diary:T
xx

thanks for delurking gettingsorted - and let us know how you get on during your last push to be qualified.

let us know how your stovies get on - my boys are waiting for the tattie harvest up here so we can start having potato based dinners again. ds1 loves stovies, and gnochhi, and gratins, and tattie topped pies and of course his grannies world famous tattie soup

stay around, grab a pot of tea and chip in - ooo!!!!!! and he loves chips (sw of course)

memorygirl

Memory_Girl

Kittikins wrote: »

Hi MG and everyone, I'm back in the "real world" after 2 weeks holiday and catching up on all the good things that have been going on, lots of positivity on this thread

Random ramblings for MG:

[STRIKE]
1. Pickled cucumber recipe please - I lurve pickled anything
[/STRIKE] recipe noted, thanks so much!!
2. Not sure if this would be helpful to you and your budgeting, but us single parents are entitled to get tax credit payments weekly, I find it ultra helpful. Hope the tax credit situation has been sorted for you now.......


I already get these paid weekly - which is such a help. now i just need to keep on with them to get them to start paying me weekly again instead. this pants situation has got me off my bahookie and busy again though - so every cloud etc...........

3. Can you do any training for people who "need" to do a qualification to get them to a position where they can hopefully get to start chasing their dreams?? I have been putting off doing something for years and it's stupid, I just have a mental block in the subject...

what i haven't got is magic wand to motivate people (now theres a buisness with potential). What i do have is a way of helping people who have decided to learn to do it the most effective way.

for instance a pal is doing an ou course. 15 hours per week is what she was told to allocate - in reality she found it was taking about 22 hours per week- and frantic all-nighters if she fell behind if the kids were ill etc. she is now using the system and working for about 7 hours per week instead - and completely aceing her essays btw. she can't wait till her kids are old enough to take her new habits on board too.

so either way you look at it, she is either twice or three times faster at learning stuff - and about 30% better on her scores too!!

ANyway, will carry on catching up, I know I should be sleeping as I want us to make the most of my last day before going back to work/getting DD ready for school at the end of the week etc etc, but this is more interesting to me


ds has been back a week - but even so the usual monday morning mahem ensued:D but we are getting better every day.

Aaaaaargh, after being on the St Malo ferry all day today, I'm still swaying inside and can't sleep Thank goodness we had a cabin, bless DD for stroking my hair and cuddling me when I felt ropey on and off and darn her for being constantly hungry for 9 hours!

Yuck!!! mind you I am one of thoe that gets hungry rather than sea-sick and want to nibble the entire time. bless DD for taking care of you though.

Going to re-read The Secret and PM you MG for the book. Loving your positivity during the benefit stress and wow to the new opportunity that's opening up for you!

onwards and upwards!!!!!!!!! although today i am more in a "to infinity and beyond" kind of mood. very upbeat and productive (for a monday that is :rotfl::rotfl:)

mg

Memory_Girl

lillyandlolas wrote: »

oh my goodness i'm a Fifer too! small world xxx :T

Wooohooo!!!!!!!! i sense a christmas get-together looming :D

Muffins are on me:rotfl:

mg

Memory_Girl

ClootiesMum wrote: »

Seems there are a few of us here.......

I'm in a wee cottagy hovel near the Palace - are you anywhere near?

Sent you a PM

Not exactly a hovel - an OS mansion:D:D with a hubby, two dogs, three chooks - and a partridge in a pear tree!!!!!

MG

PS thanks for the visit and the red cross food parcel:D. real friends are those who share fruit, milk and eggs with you:T

xX

ClootiesMum

an OS mansion:D:D

PS thanks for the visit and the red cross food parcel:D. real friends are those who share fruit, milk and eggs with you:T

Shucks - I'm blushing now:o

Anyway - I was passing & we never use up the BOGOFs but I'm damned sure I'm taking them....