It's STILL tough and not getting better - so how are we coping?

northwest1965

Just got in from work,1st thing I seem to be doing with this weather is getting changed into my comfy tracky bottoms and thermal socks.
The B/H weekend looks to be brighter, OH and I are actually having a day out for the 1st time in ages. We're off to Manchester Pride, what are you girls all up to?

Primrose

spendless - might be worth suggesting when your contract ends if you talk to your company and if you want to carry out with your part time job, suggest you continue working for them at your current rate as a freelancer. That would cut out the agency cost but you might then have to cope with paying your own NI & tax instead of the agency deducting it, if that's how they work.

Primrose

Have just been looking through a Lakeland Autumn catalogue to see if there were any useful (as opposed to gimicky gadgets) in it which might aid my autumn food preserving efforts. Who, I ask myself, would pay around £39 for a Tarte Tatin dish to cook their apples in??? The same people, presumably, who throw away several hundred poundsworth of perfectly good food every year.

mardatha

HippyC, I had a Very Exciting Moment yesterday. I found a bit of Galaxy stuffed away at the back of the fridge ! :j:j:j:j:j

Lindy_-_Loo

I too am feeling pretty worn out, the school holidays are catching up on me and the boys. This week we have had two days at home - play dates and they are the only two days where we havent done anything. The boys are very tired and getting a little naughty esp at bed time. Our sunday and monday will be spent at home doing nothing I think! Whether it turns out to be a break who knows...

Have spent most of afternoon looking at the shopping list, were trying a month shop online and I just can not get motivated. I'll be in bed at 9pm after private practice my eyes are stinging

lauren_1

Had dinner from my garden today! :T

Courgette and cheese fritatta with new potato's with rhubarb and custard for afters (eggs came from my mums chickens, custard was a 7p packet mix)

I couldn't be bothered to venture to the shops....its wet...and cold.

My turtles appear to like bits of crab sticks and the odd moth :eek: one was attracted to their UV light and got stuck in the water, one less moth flying around.

RAS

mardatha wrote: »

HippyC, I had a Very Exciting Moment yesterday. I found a bit of Galaxy stuffed away at the back of the fridge ! :j:j:j:j:j

:rotfl:one track mind:rotfl:

Hippeechiq

mardatha wrote: »

HippyC, I had a Very Exciting Moment yesterday. I found a bit of Galaxy stuffed away at the back of the fridge ! :j:j:j:j:j

Oh yes! :T Now that's exciting!!

I had a last-minute-feeling-guilty-that-I'd-not-done-owt-all-day-moment just before tea time, and decided to make a pudding for our dessert - my OH does love a pudding - but, it was not meant to be......what was supposed to be Magic Lemon Pudding, turned out to be Tragic Lemon Pudding :rotfl:

I dunno what went wrong. It was the first recipe I've ever tried using Cup measurements.......is it just me? or do recipes using cup measurements make no sense at all :huh:

Anyway, despite using a cooking utensil specifically designed for recipes using cup measurements, it was,an unmitiaged failure........a bit like the heaviest suet pudding you could imagine.....although on a positive note, the lemon sauce created at the bottom of the pudding tasted divine ..............we've just got no pudding to eat it with :rotfl:

parsonswife8

:rotfl::rotfl:Tragic Lemon Pudding:rotfl::rotfl:

Nice one!

Primrose

It's dark already, barely past 8.30 pm and still pouring with rain. OH is watching football on TV (again !!!) and there's nothing else I want to watch on the small bedroom TV. I'm going to crawl into bed, pull the duvet over me and have an early night. I must be the world's worst party pooper !