MSE Parents Club Part 14

SugarSpun

weezl74 wrote: »

Sugar I knew hubby had an excellent camera. Be sure not to let him look at my snaps again now I know what it is :rotfl:

He was wittering about your photos for so long I got bored and tuned him out

I had a thought: what if Shirl's Christmas list included whatever you planned but also a couple of upgrade type things - for £this much extra per person you could include this stuff. I don't mean to interfere but I know I'd be a bit miffed if Shirl's Christmas didn't include the things I want it to, and it could put people off the whole plan because they'll get all lower-lippy and decide to do it *their* way

Susan I'll talk to my doctor about a pen, but it's an uncommon enough ingredient to randomly come across that I'm not sure about spending €110ish on a pen, and they're so short dated that I begrudge replacing it once or twice a year.

KOAG we sing songs, do dances and the babies play with instruments.

Tia, if he fakes sleep drop something heavy so he has to fake waking up then apologise and say you could have done with the help but didn't want to wake him. But now he's awake...

weezl74

kindofagilr wrote: »

Can I change some of the ingrediants? for example on the spanish omlette you use oil to cook stuff, can I use fry light instead?

of course, but a much cheaper idea is to get a misting sprayer (reusable) from wilkos (99p) and pop a veg oil and water emulsion (give a good shake) keep in fridge, shake before use.

Administers same amount of oil, but costs 12p to fill the thing rather than £2.65


I can work out the squirts and the ratio for you if you like too.

weezl74

SugarSpun wrote: »

He was wittering about your photos for so long I got bored and tuned him out

I had a thought: what if Shirl's Christmas list included whatever you planned but also a couple of upgrade type things - for £this much extra per person you could include this stuff. I don't mean to interfere but I know I'd be a bit miffed if Shirl's Christmas didn't include the things I want it to, and it could put people off the whole plan because they'll get all lower-lippy and decide to do it *their* way

yup. Grand. Examples of upgrades being?

(sorry I must multiquote I am being an oinky page hog.)

kindofagilr

weezl74 wrote: »

of course, but a much cheaper idea is to get a misting sprayer (reusable) from wilkos (99p) and pop a veg oil and water emulsion (give a good shake) keep in fridge, shake before use.

Administers same amount of oil, but costs 12p to fill the thing rather than £2.65


I can work out the squirts and the ratio for you if you like too.

Ah cool thats a great idea, we have 3 fry lights in cupboard atm so I will use them till they are gone then do that

SusanC_2

SugarSpun wrote: »

Susan I'll talk to my doctor about a pen, but it's an uncommon enough ingredient to randomly come across that I'm not sure about spending €110ish on a pen, and they're so short dated that I begrudge replacing it once or twice a year.

You could always ask at different pharmacies to see what expiry date they have in. When OH used to have an Epipen (he stopped getting it because he'd never had to use it as he always realises soon enough to spit the food out and even if he didn't realise, it would only make him sick - not be life threatening) they could range from three months to over a year.

SugarSpun wrote: »

Tia, if he fakes sleep drop something heavy so he has to fake waking up then apologise and say you could have done with the help but didn't want to wake him. But now he's awake...

I meant that if you pretend to be asleep then your husband will then do things without having to be asked. Not that I've ever done that or anything.

fattybooboo

Hiya! Just a quickie as Im gonna have a super early night as first day back at work tomorrow!! I've been meaning to ask u weezl what camera it is that takes the lovely pix u post on here, if u don't mind me asking.

weezl74

fattybooboo wrote: »

Hiya! Just a quickie as Im gonna have a super early night as first day back at work tomorrow!! I've been meaning to ask u weezl what camera it is that takes the lovely pix u post on here, if u don't mind me asking.

a nikon DSLR, a D70 specifically.

And then in photoshop I magic away bits of snot, cradle cap and weetabix

SugarSpun

weezl74 wrote: »

yup. Grand. Examples of upgrades being?

Massive cheeseboard, wine for with dinner, goose instead of turkey or chicken, add gammon for £x.xx, do you see what I mean? Everyone has different ideas of what should be on the table on Christmas Day. Smoked salmon appears to be a big one for breakfast time, maybe that could be one too.

SusanC wrote: »

You could always ask at different pharmacies to see what expiry date they have in. When OH used to have an Epipen (he stopped getting it because he'd never had to use it as he always realises soon enough to spit the food out and even if he didn't realise, it would only make him sick - not be life threatening) they could range from three months to over a year.


I meant that if you pretend to be asleep then your husband will then do things without having to be asked. Not that I've ever done that or anything.

I didn't know that, the ones I've had in the past have been generally 6-7 months.

And it didn't even occur to me to pretend to be asleep. Husband would just go sit at the computer and play games till he was tired enough to join me. He did do all the dishes today, but then I did three loads last night and put them away/cleaned the surfaces this morning.

Hope the back at work goes well FBB and Weezl was talking about her camera up above.

Edit: I think Photoshop's amazing. I watched Husband vanish a person the other night. Completely gone, and no sign that she'd ever been in the way of a lovely shot.

SusanC_2

SugarSpun wrote: »

And it didn't even occur to me to pretend to be asleep. Husband would just go sit at the computer and play games till he was tired enough to join me. He did do all the dishes today, but then I did three loads last night and put them away/cleaned the surfaces this morning.

I actually had been asleep and had only woken up just before he got home but I was angry with him so I pretended to be asleep and he went and made the dinner.

SugarSpun

SusanC wrote: »

I actually had been asleep and had only woken up just before he got home but I was angry with him so I pretended to be asleep and he went and made the dinner.

That's lovely. Husband does all the cooking but hasn't a clue about cleaning. It's astounding really, it's like he just doesn't see dirt. He claimed to have cleaned a sticky patch on the kitchen floor but left the bit where it was a bit under the fridge rather than bending down and getting a cloth in there. It would probably still be there if Molly hadn't knocked over a bottle of no-alcohol beer and the stuff had scoured all the gunge up.