Its tough, it will get better and guess what its freezing brrrrr!

kezlou

pink_numbers you know i think i might do! Thanks for that pink

Thats what worrying about me about it too skyelark, think were going to see how it goes till after xmas and see about moving to Scotland. After all life's too short and i hate living in an urban area.

*oh no i missed the tea and cake darn it!*
Hope you all saved me a crumb!

:rotfl::rotfl:sorry cranky but couldn't help laugh at your father for making her take the dog.
sorry to hear about your husband hun ((hugs))). hmm well i started giving my 6 yr old hot milk and honey so far so good, he got up at 7am instead of 5am:mad:. i'm still shattered now.
Could also be the fact that i threatened to tie him to his bed, if he got up that early again .

hi rachel6188

oi jackie i've told ya already! you'll be sent to bed with no supper!!!;)

annie g aw brilliant news :j:T:j

well said bb!!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:sounds like my cats, in two days the little gets have had the pork chops and a big tub of cooked chicken. :mad::mad::mad: Ah well at least i saved on cat food.


Just got back form the halloween family fun night at the school. The boys loved it, especially snips, he was a zombie tiger wizard. Coddy (ds1) just swanned off with £2.50 and didn't see him till it was time to leave.
The community centre have decided all the proceeds are going towards school trips, pantomimes, and keeping extra staff at the school. This is because of the government cuts, so the extra £1000 will pay towards for four school trips.
Every little helps and its fun too.

Had a lovely seafood and chickpea tandoori curry with rice, snips wolfed it down and kept going back for more. He's love seafood.
Still got a half curry and rice left, so going to do egg fried rice,curry and maybe some dhal to go with it.

ginnyknit

Nice to hear from you Monty, brave man meeting sooo many of Annie56's friends at once :rotfl:

Welcome Rachel, hope you find our community what you need to help you through.
And a job for Annie G - wow, well done and good luck.

Glad we can all agree to disagree on here, everyone has their own opinions and we are a community, being different is what brings so much to this forum.

Im pinching and pinching every penny here and cannot find any cheaper bread flour, none in Aldi, or Lidl so will have to suck it up and go to Mr T. Even had a look on a health food stall on Bolton Market - buts not much dearer than Mr T!! stocking up going well and lifes a bit cheaper without so many animals but I do miss my chickens!

MummyOfTwo

Oh that name has really stuck now! he is Monty!!!

flowertotmum

Congratulations to annie..well done..
Well i have to say my dd fern was well impressed with HFW banana smoothie and porridge..has given her dad a list of what fruit she wants for her smoothies..had to laugh at her..must say the sausage and mushrooms look scrummy...will try that...all that food making me hungry now....
Ginnyknit i agree its nice to have diversity..
kezlou..we thinking the same things here..we would love to move out of town and go country....
Had a chat earlier with hubby and it looks like i'k going to have my tubes tied...can't afford anymore accidents..so i think its the only way...maybe tmi but had to get it off my chest....
take care all...

JoJoB

Well done annie! What a lovely time you are having lately! :j

Took DD to play with a friend at a soft play centre today (entrance free!) and friend cooked us lunch. There were yummy lefotvers whcih she said her family wouldn't eat so I took them home for mine and OH's dinner. It helps to have no shame when economising.

Everyone on this thread is helping me feel a bit more positive. Payday tomorrow thank goodness - DD is on her last nappy tonight!

seasalt_2

Hippeechiq (love your name!) I don't think you get a black star for posting your heartfelt response to something someone else has said. We are all coming from different places and situations and it is good to be reminded that something which seems so obvious to one person might look/feel very differently to someone else. I have no idea how to square the housing need circle in a way that's fair to everyone - incentives to downsize are are one thing - compulsion is a whole different thing and distressing to lose your home on someone else's say so for whatever reason - can't see that yesterdays announcements will help much but don't want to stir up that debate again or it will be me getting a black star so will stop there.

Congrats on the job, annieG.

Feeling rather down myself these last few days - just cannot get up and going - need some of gailey's spirit, I think.

kezlou

flowertotmum wrote: »

Had a chat earlier with hubby and it looks like i'k going to have my tubes tied...can't afford anymore accidents..so i think its the only way...maybe tmi but had to get it off my chest....take care all...

We has the same conversation earlier on this year. GP wouldn't let me get sterilised, as i'm too young. so my OH had a vasectomy instead. Were determined no more little accidents are going to turn up. WE BOTH decided it was best and to be honest since he had the operation 70% of shared stress has suddenly disappeared.No more running to the shop or clinics for contraceptive, i know it doesn't feel good right now. But it does get better over time.


The boys are in bed coddy's reading his book and snips totally flat out.
Just checking if there's anything on over half term where i am. Seems to a few free and or reasonably cheap things on for the kids. so planning next week out already.

katholicos

Hippeechiq i echo Seasalt's comment. No black star is warranted. Diversity of opinion is not a bad thing. Gosh, if we only associated with like minded people then our lives would be very boring and we would never learn open mindedness or tolerance of others opinions. In my own view we are each entitled to express our feelings/concerns and opinions providing that we do not intentionally cause pain or distress to any one else. I happen to agree with the comment you made so passionatley, but even if i didn't i would tolerate your right to express yourself in such a way.

There are various opinions, both on this forum and others i frequent in cyberspace, that i sometimes disagree with, but i tend to think that silence can give the impression of agreement of the opinions being aired, and while I dislike being confrontational, sometimes it is necessary to confront an alternate opinion to our own, and in doing so I believe that we can in some way contribute to a more comprehensive and representational gathering of people (on the forum, just as in real life/society) and also I believe that in doing so we can perhaps broaden and inform the minds of others by sharing with them our differing opinions.

ChocClare

Another marathon catch-up session tonight - as soon as I get off this thread you're all on here gassing away! :rotfl:

Welcome to rachel6188 and to monty (please don't come up with a wittier username - we'll all be so disappointed; congrats to annieg and BIG HUGS to hippeechiq - sorry you're feeling so emotional, but can well understand why! You might be interested in this article from the Grauniad - which would seem to imply that people like, for example, your DD, don't have anything to fear. Let's hope so and hope she's one of the 290,000 they're talking about...

I am very pleased with myself as I made a totally from scratch dinner with bits sculling around the place today: made a batch of pancakes using some Asda smartprice flour (still available at 42p!!), a couple of thin-shelled eggs one of my elderly hens keeps trying to fob off on me AND - super result - some past-its-sell-by-date dried milk. Then fried off some Aldi cheapo leeks whose outsides were looking decidedly mank; chopped up and added 2 chicken thighs left over from a previous meal and the end of a packet of ham which clearly wasn't going to be eaten; sprinkled some more of that asda flour over the top and stirred in some of that made-up dried milk; a bit of value mozzarella (best ingredient in the world for less than 50p) and some bogof cheddar grated. Rolled up filling b) in pancakes a), more bogof cheddar and bunged under grill. SCRUMOLA, plus there were leftover pancakes which kids had for pudding and will have again for breakfast (so sue me - they love pancakes!). Very very cheap and very filling comfort food for such a cold day - it was MINUS 4 in my drive this morning, MINUS 4 - and I live in the SOUTH, mark you, before all you Jocky-types start chuntering on about how you'd all be out in nothing but your underwear in such balmy weather. When I went to feed the hens this morning they were one giant ball of hens and it took me 10 minutes to defrost the car. And it's still only October and the clocks haven't even gone back yet. :mad:

bluebag

So glad this place can accomodate a difference of opinion, so many places sound like an echo chamber or the houses of parliament where it's either all nodding dogs and 'ayes' or complete uproar.

People can sharpen each others chins, it's a good thing as long as it remains civil.