OS daily threads October 2006

Penelope_Penguin

Morning, all!

Thanks for your good wishes! Having a great birthday so far. Lie in and tea brought by DH. Presents of a lovely brooch, some books, chocolate, cake made and decorated by small penguins, very interesting beer, theatre tickets, and

a griddle/llechwen.

Made drop scones and maple syrup for breakfast. Only had 2 as small people demolished them!! Thanks Churchmouse and Kaz for the recommendation!

Off for a pub lunch and walk, then theatre this evening.

See you all later

Penny. x

csarina

:hello:everyone :hello:


happy birthday:bdaycake: Pen Pen

Funny sort of morning, it poured with rain in the night and was raining when I woke up, now the sun keeps flitting in and out..... no washing to hang out, but will be tomorrow have a load of coloured to go in tonight.

Visiting my friend this afternoon, have not seen her for over a week.......she seems to be going ok with her knee.

Took the car yesterday to get the wheels changed round and to put the spare back in the boot. Chap informed us that the tyre they had put on in the summer was the wrong size, so they did not charge us for changing all four tyres round.

Nothing much planned for today, need to bake a batch of scones and some sort of cake. I have run out of the loaf tin liners I use...... the last lot I got from Lakelend, but it makes them very expensive to get them posted. Have never found any locally. Looks like I might have to resort to the old method of lining the tin.

off for a coffee, make that tea fix..................

Pink.

:j :j :j Happy Birthday Pen Pen!:j :j :j
:bdaycake:

It sounds like you're having a great day!

Pink

MimiF

Morning All,


Happy Birthday Pen Pen!!!! Have a lovely day!!!

Welcome Jellycat!! Wheres your name from? We have friends who's DD is inseparable from a cuddly toy called Jellycat.

Snowy Owl, I'm looking for a link to a site which gives good prices, ino etc on natural flooring. I'll pm it to you if I find it.

Researcher and Queenie - we love Octopus too. In Spain this year we ate so much of it, cuttlefish too. It's delicious. The Spanish do gorgeous things with them as tapas, kids enjoyed too.

Rushed in this morning for a 10am meeting to find out it was cancelled. :mad: Wouldn't mind but I actually rang yesterday to check it was on as it is always cancelled when a particular person chairs it.

Never mind, it's a rather boring meeting anyway.

DH had to pop into town this morning to pay money into my bank account. A standing order I thought i had cancelled clearly wasn't, it went out yesterday and left me with not very much money!!! Meanwhile rather a lot of my money is floating in banking cyberspace and i can't get my hands on it until it clears into the other account. Am quite chilled though as was initially panicking that my card had been cloned!!!

OS wise - house is spick and span, need to sweep floors and hoover upstairs. Will make mushroom risotto tonight and maybe transport to brother and SIL as DH is working and I miss him. Problem is transporting risotto as it needs to be eaten immediately really, will need to think about that one.

Have a lovely day one and all, hugs to all in need especially those not happy at work.

MimiF

Queenie

Pink-winged wrote:

... and make lots of steak and kidney pie filling to use up the reduced price steak I got in tesco today. There should be enough filling for at least four pies...

Was he out of sausages? :whistle:

GR - good luck with the scan Oh and regarding those pants? Hope your l'il un enjoys his grown up pants without any fuss I know all children are different, but with all 4 of my son's, they didn't seem to like their first pants Having their 'tackle' roam free was :j having it swathed in a terry nappy like an Egyptian mummy was acceptable too - but somehow, having a light fabric covering caused them all to pull at the front of their pants and often times catching their tackle in the same fistful. :rolleyes:

Nix143

Good morning everyone *waving*

Last day in the office today - as it's halfterm next week my boss is letting me work from home - the joys of working for an IT company and then I have Friday off as well :j am feeling incredibly run down and tired so am looking forward to this weekend a lot.

Got a lot planned though - am painting my kitchen walls white, I bought tiles for it about 6 months ago (ah, how much did I spend on my credit cards pre my lightbulb moment!) but can't afford to have them fitted as walls need skimming and new sockets need fitting so I'm just gonna freshen up the room with some white paint and give it a good clean and hope no one notices the two walls covered in craters

Then DS room is gonna be blitzed, he had a humungous nose bleed one niht and didnt tell me so one wall looks like a scene from a driller killer movie - how he managed to get blood so spread out I have no idea! So i'll be painting in there and then giving it a good muck out.

Struggling a bit with my desire to OS everything while working fulltime - and after last night's disaster with Curry Queen's curry sauce (still hanging my head in shame about my inability to follow a recipe successfully!) I think I need a night off - people are starting to comment now that everytime they ring me I am frantically batch cooking something else!

Hope everyone has a lovely Friday, Happy Birthday Penelope Penguin and mucho hugs to everyone who needs one xxx

tired_mum

morning all not too much going on today as kids all need picking up early today as they break up day off today will be in work on sun instead
meeting my mum for lunch at the local garden centre have advertised the freecycle travelling box and had a quick tidy up
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PEN-PEN:bdaycake:
hugs to all who need them and hope those with aches and pains feel better

frugalfairy_3

Morning all! Happy Birthday to PenPen, hope you continue to have a lovely day.

I've been up half the night like many others, the rain woke the cat who woke me for breakfast at 4.00 :mad: and then I heard something fall down outside and lay awake worrying until it was light enough to see. Thought it might have been a roof tile or something but it was my hanging basket which had become so waterlogged it pulled the rawlplug out of the wall. Phew. Lucky I hadn't quite got round to replanting it with winter pansies yet

So far I've made another loaf in the BM and two loads of washing in the machine which will have to go in the TD because it's still raining here The yogurt I put on overnight has curdled :mad: so will have to go out and get another starter yogurt now - this has happened twice in the past few weeks so am not sure what I'm doing wrong. The mincemeat for Christmas is gently cooking in the oven so will be potting that up later, yay, I LOVE mince pies!

My steam generator iron went bang yesterday afternoon :mad: so now I'm going to have to try and find an alternative, there's a mountain of ironing sitting laughing at me. Just what I didn't need at the moment :mad:

DD is coming home for 'reading week' (half term to most of the rest of the world I think!) so I will be panicking here until she gets home safely especially as the roads will be so wet.

Queenie, I've been making quillows for Christmas presents out of polar fleece, good for messy (and cold) students to have to cuddle in the winter. Lots of colours and designs available to choose from. HTH.

Breakfast: poached eggs on toast
Lunch: ? probably HM soup and roll
Dinner: Salmon fillet with roast veggies.

Have a good day everyone! FF xx

MushyPeas

Morning all

After my travels this week in Northern Ireland, Wales and Tiverton finally back in wet Plymouth

Attended my new Uni group last night, seemed like nice people but was exhausted by the time I got home at 2330 last night!

Working from home today, then catching up with friends over a Chinese. Tomorrow I had planned to spend all day doing paperwork but so far 5 friends all want to meet for coffee...oh well! Gives me a chance to visit the new shopping centre that has opened in town.

Been catching up with threads this morning, congratulations to Michelle :j and her DH.

Of course, I couldn't end without saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY PEN PEN :bdaycake: Hope you have a trully wonderful day.

And keeping my fingers crossed for BargainRzl with house purchase .

Off for a cuppa

MPx

Bargain_Rzl

Morning,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PENELOPE PENGUIN!

Feeling a bit rough today, sort of hungover but without having had any alcohol last night :rolleyes:

Things did seem to shift forward a bit with my flat purchase yesterday - I need to call my solicitor's office in the next hour or so to see if they've now received what they were waiting for (which the HA's solicitor had sent to somebody for action, who was on leave, and never bothered chasing it :rolleyes: ).

I did so much cooking earlier in the week that I don't need to cook until tomorrow or maybe even Sunday evening :j :j which means I can concentrate tonight and tomorrow on packing boxes and getting stuff ready for Freecycle.

The house is FULL of empty flatpacked boxes :rotfl: Housemate casually said to me a few days ago - oh I've got a few boxes in the shed which you can have - and the other day I got home to find he'd put them all in the living room for me, and the pile nearly reached the ceiling Most of them are ones which *I* gave *him*, for his record shop (he had a regular customer for a while who would buy up all his old LPs and ship them to Korea, so he used to need lots of packing materials).

I'm not going to achieve my goal of saving £20 off this week's "groceries and miscellaneous spending" budget but that's cos I picked up some bargain kitchen utensils which I genuinely needed and which would otherwise have had to come out of my "moving house" budget

Right, better go, very busy at work.

Love Rzl xx :wave: