Old Style Daily Thread; Wednesday 29 September

Penelope_Penguin

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Good morning :beer: It's wet here, so no running this morning Hope to get out into the garden (or polytunnel if wet ) later on. I now have a 5-day weekend :j and am home alone from Fri evening to Sun evening, so I'm going to tackle lots of the little jobs that have been hanging around Will be decluttering today, and ruthlessly chucking, reclcling, e-baying, Freecycling, and charity bagging :T

We have friends comng for tea, so I'm making an Economy Gastronomy pasta dish, with lots of garlic I also need to ice and decorate a chocolate cake I made.

Have a great Old Style day everyone :A

sistercas

morning Penny

thanks for starting the thread

off to work soon will drop DD1 at the bus stop for 6th form, bless her she was very upset yesterday as i think the amount of work shes getting was getting on top of her and she isnt sleeping well
she ended up having the morning off
i bought her some herbal stuff to help her sleep , hopefully she will feel a bit better today

was hoping for a NSD today but i think the milk is going off so will pick up some fresh on my way home

pasta and HM tomato sauce for tea , was going to have that yesterday but had burger and chips instead

have a good day everyone xx

Hardup_Hester

Morning all
Raining here this morning, not had a good start to the day, Trod in a pile of dog poo that had been deposited on my drive, I didn't notice til I walked it into the house & all over the door mat, thankfully the hall is ceramic tiles so easy enough to wipe up, changed my shoes, put the door mat in the washing machine after cleaning off the bulk of the mess, when the machine had finished I opened the door & it hadn't drained so my feet had an unexpected shower & I had to mop the kitchen floor, turned on the living room light to feed the fish & the bulb blew which in turn tripped the lighting circuit, so I had to drag a chair across the kitchen to reset the circuit box. All this before 6am, life just aint fair!! Can I go back to bed & try again tomorrow?
Have a good day everyone.
Hugs Hester

esmf73

Goodness Hester, I'd be tempted to hide under my duvet for the rest of the day! Hope your day gets better. Morning all, DS2 had two wet beds last night - so I have a duvet AND a sleeping bag to wash today and its "soft" weather outside! DS1 destroyed his bedroom last night, so is in there tidying up. Tumble dryer on (not very OS, but the only way I keep on top of all the drying in the wet weather), WM on, BM emptied, DW emptied so we're ready to go.

Will walk dogs today, after my meeting with the headmaster (OMG!!!!!!) and then have to make cakes and dinner. NO idea what we'll have yet - will see whats in the cupboard!

jaybee

Hardup_Hester wrote: »

Morning all
Raining here this morning, not had a good start to the day, Trod in a pile of dog poo that had been deposited on my drive, I didn't notice til I walked it into the house & all over the door mat, thankfully the hall is ceramic tiles so easy enough to wipe up, changed my shoes, put the door mat in the washing machine after cleaning off the bulk of the mess, when the machine had finished I opened the door & it hadn't drained so my feet had an unexpected shower & I had to mop the kitchen floor, turned on the living room light to feed the fish & the bulb blew which in turn tripped the lighting circuit, so I had to drag a chair across the kitchen to reset the circuit box. All this before 6am, life just aint fair!! Can I go back to bed & try again tomorrow?
Have a good day everyone.
Hugs Hester

Oh dear!! I suppose that the day can only improve for you now!

It's rather wet and dark here this morning so I shall be getting on with some baking and soup making for the freezer. I love doing that on these dismal days.

redruby

Morning all,

Pouring with rain here today, and its very dark, hope it clears up a bit later.

Off to work today, so will have a clean through the kitchen and put the dw on before I go. Rubbish needs to be put out too.

Dinner tonight will be carbonara, with the leftover gammon from the weekend, have frozen several other portions too.

We took little dog to the vets last night, looks like she is having to go in for the op on her bum, we have to go back in 5 weeks, and they will give us a price then, looks like it will be about £600 :eek:, which was a bit of a relief as she had originally said £1000, I have saved £300 allready, so we are getting there. Poor little thing though.


Hope everyone is well, and Hester I hope your day gets better xx

redruby

tod123 wrote: »

Dogs are f00king vile, should all be shot imo

Morning to you

Its not the dogs who are to blame, they have to 'go' somewhere, its the owners who fail to pick it up that should be blamed :mad:

nmlc

Morning all

Damp and dismal here this morning. Did read yesterday but somehow ran out of time to post.

Still trying to be OS and follow the menu plan, so Mon evening had gammon, egg etc, mash, (pressure cooker not working properly) so part of the meal was cooked and I had to keep it warm whilst the potatoes finished cooking. Had received new part for the pressure cooker so took it apart and back together (eventually!) it didn't work properly so have spent another hour trying to work out why and if any of the parts are incorrect - have now decided to try to cook with it again tonight and if it doesn't work I'll either send it back or buy another! Last night's dinner was slightly varied as DS1 had Cadets so he and DS2 had scrambled egg on toast, DH asked for egg, bacon, etc and I'd planned for us to have sausages, so made him a "fry up", I had the sausages but then some mushroom cous cous with it. Tonight we are having roast beef, will do a full roast - hopefully with some leftovers.

Organised the car tax last night on-line, how much easier is that, think that queueing in the PO is going to be a thing of the past for me!

Have a meeting at school with DS2's teacher re some one to one tuition we've been offered for him, after school for 1 hour a week for 10 weeks, he's not all that keen but he really needs it and I'm hoping he will realise how good it will be for him.

Just have to work today until 12.30pm then days off, but am on my course for all day tomorrow and half day Friday, so that should be fun.

Not much else to say really, keep safe and well everyone, hugs to those that need them.
nmlc

bargainbird

Morning

HH - Hope your day improves x
Tod - The dogs aren't vile......it's the owners :mad:
Tappers - Hope you can help DS, hope he's chirpier today x
SC - Hope DD sleeps better soon x
ESMF - Good luck with Headmaster x

Today DD1 off school coughing and spluttering everywhere, DD2 cried to go to school :eek:, HW, strip my bed.

Tea tonnight HM Meatballs and pasta

Have fun lovelies xx

Essex-girl_2

Morning Everyone

Hester - I have my fingers crossed for the rest of the day for you

Redruby - sorry about little dog. We spent £500 on our cat last year but worth every penny.

Many Thanks for DS' Birthday wishes yesterday, he had a good day, apart from going to school that is. Ended up chosing an Indian Buffet for his meal which was very nice.

Today am rushing through the banking so can get more ironing done before the course starts. Think I will have to pop into town and go to the bank after. OH is cooking dinner tonight though shepherds pie!

Not too much OS today though still havn't got myself into a great routine with the course yet - didn't help that had 1 hour powercut halfway though yesterday. Anyway I promised that I am thinking OS thoughts :rotfl:

Have a good day.x

taplady

morning!

typed a long post and managed to lose it:mad:
cant repeat it but BB thanks for mentioning DS2.

Not a good day for me. 7 years since dad died and am worried sick about DS2:(

hope everyone has a great day x