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

kezlou

Hippeechiqi just bulk everything out with veg, veg and more veg. My latest meal of meat balls and spaghetti, about four carrots and four courgettes grated in with two tins of chopped tomatoes, water, herbs, pepper. Bunged in oven with cooked spaghetti, cheese on top. Voila made two meals out if for four people. In my case its putting loads of carrots into everything. I swear i never knew a veg could be so versatile!

Thanks for the info kezlou and for pointing out you meant bud and not bed :rotfl: I thought perhaps it was some technical gardening term I had yet to learn! lol :rotfl::rotfl:you've really cheered me up tonight!

You can grow tumbling tomatoes in hanging baskets, they work out really well. Only problem i had with them was that they needed watering twice a day. So yes it was a funny sight, me in a pair of wellies, umberella, watering the toms in torrential rain.I always why the neighbours thought i was mad?! :rotfl:

I sow seeds in bog standard ordinary compost, no special bits in this house. Its boggy all the way.
catznine's "I am no longer afraid of what the next year brings!" I so much want to be in that position, just can't wait till it happens!

frugal, hang in there my darling, (((hugs))), it will get better soon xxx

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:nuala
thanks for the recipe kittie!

sounds like a great wedding choclare!

Well just put the boys to bed and the last of the bottle of wine is calling me. I'm the only drinking it, been really good for me . I started it on Friday and i'm only finishing it today. Or maybe i'll leave it tomorrow hmmm, need tea now though its blumming freezing.

Thanks for cheering me up everyone, don't think i could have handled life without coming on here and having a laugh!

katholicos

NualaBuala wrote: »

Are they hard to do katholicos? I haven't got my head around crochet but I love those rugs made of the squares.

It's like everything else Nuala, when you learn how to do a thing you realise that it really wasn't so difficult after all. I watched a lot of Youtube tutorials and found them no use whatsoever. Everyone seemed to go too fast for me to see what was going on and even the slo motion vids confused me :rotfl:

But then something just clicked when i was messing around with my wool yesterday...and voila!

Also, as wierd as it looks, i discovered THIS image online and it really helped things fall into place.

stiltwalker

Hi, will someone having a nice glass of wine have a sip for me please, sitting here with my decaf tea. Had a hard day at work then came home and cooked proper Sunday dinner and made quince jam and would love one to wind down with but preggers and had my small glass already this week.

bellaquidsin

katholicos - brilliant, what you have found online is actually international crochet charting which can be understood in any language. For more crochet information I cannot recommend too highly enough Lucy's blog (google Attic 24) where she gives very clear instructions which take the mystery out of crochet patterns.

We would love to see piccies of your work over on the Crochet Anyone thread.

Keep going and you'll be 'hooked'

Bella.

Kitcaboodle

Charlies-aunt - I'm a DWP JCP girl as well (and also on a Contract). They've just extended all of ours for six months (though it may be because of demand & lack of permanent staff locally) so, there is a vague possibility that they might do it where you are as well. Fingers crossed for you!

I also agree that Temping is not healthy these days. I have 85wpm, advanced Office skills & nearly twenty years of experience but I couldn't get a job or temp job for a YEAR! Our local temp agency has gone from 19 members of staff to 4. Hard times for temping!

Tried DS on his first solid food today. Think he's a bit young for it at just over 5 months still, so will probably wait another few days or another week or so and then try him again. He wanted to eat it, he cried when it was taken away! However, he gagged back up the bits of banana that he managed to gum chew and swallow. Possibly as he's not used to anything solid.

I'm trying baby led weaning so I mean to search for some more info & see if I can find some forums relating to it.

Fruball

stiltwalker wrote: »

Hi, will someone having a nice glass of wine have a sip for me please, sitting here with my decaf tea. Had a hard day at work then came home and cooked proper Sunday dinner and made quince jam and would love one to wind down with but preggers and had my small glass already this week.

No sooner said than done :beer:

seasalt_2

Four pages since this morning, no wonder I can't keep up! Going away for two days next week so may never catch up again! Hospital appts, car service, mainland shop and two family visits. How on earth we are going to fit it all in, I don't know, or how I'm going to be ready to go in time!

Thank you all for so many inspirational posts and stories and ()s to everyone who is struggling or feeling down. I too would like to see Ceridwen again.

DS has just told me the most appallingly bad joke. He said, "My best friend drowned in a bowl of muesli - a strong currant pulled him under!" So don't let the currants get you! Keep swimming!

lilac_lady

Red Doe;37363790]Thanks for this, yes, I`m just a bit south of Cape Wrath and Durness. Anyone who knows this area might know it`s like Watership Down up here.


You live there and you have trees still standing? I've visited the area and can only admire your courage in trying to grow anything up there! :T

greent

gailey - as well as plum jam, if you've masses of plums you could make plum chutney - plum and date is nice (you can get away with just a few dates, so you can sometimes find small packets for about 60p - and nibble on the rest - I liked them in pregnancy if I was feeling nauseous or just a bit 'wobbly'), or there's HFW glutney chutney (I'd halve the recipe and that'll still give you a good amount) - you can use pretty much anything in chutney. PLum and apple is also good, plum, courgette and tomato also works....

Sammy - lots of boys Ben's age are skinny things with stick legs - it seems to be quite usual - they can bulk up more when they hit secondary school age (although feeding a teenage boy is a full time job - they are just empty buckets!) As others have said, don't just look at meat - stews and casseroles bulked out with lentils, pearl barley, chickpeas. And think old-style rib-sticking school puddings - rice pudding, milk macaroni, jam/ syrup/ choc sponge and custard (make in the micro in 3 mins), crumbles, apple charlotte to use up breadcrumbs

still mild here, thankfully. DH's contract has been extended - yeay! But that means he's working away from home until 17th Dec - boo! It's his birthday this week - midweek, so he'll be away - first birthday that we won't have spent at least some of it together since we were 16 (he'll be 41) Will be hard on the children, too - we make a fuss of birthdays with banners/ streamers/ balloons etc Ah well - it's money coming in.....

Red_Doe

lilac_lady wrote: »

Red Doe;37363790]Thanks for this, yes, I`m just a bit south of Cape Wrath and Durness. Anyone who knows this area might know it`s like Watership Down up here.


You live there and you have trees still standing? I've visited the area and can only admire your courage in trying to grow anything up there! :T

Mine are the only trees for miles around :rotfl:
they were planted in an effort to soak up some water on the ground...the house lies between two hills, the ground is very peaty (good for us though as we have peat cutting rights ) but it means the ground acts like a sponge, and with the amount of rain we get here....