Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

troglodyte

Morning! Hope you are all still firmly on the Earth!

Unix I really hope your OH sees sense soon - although if he's often like this, is he really 'the one' to start a family with?

Congrats Dr Cheery! :jSo pleased that all the hard work was worth it! :j:j:beer:

I have to tell you guys a funny thing (well I hope you think it's funny, and not just disgusting; I couldn't tell this to many people).
A few months ago I bought a pot of double cream to go into a recipe, but then changed plans meant the recipe was never made, time passed, and the cream got forgotten at the back of the fridge. Then it was rediscovered but was past it's 'best before' date, which was Sept 9th. Well I couldn't bring myself to throw it away as it wasn't long past, but then no occasion came up to eat it, so it got left there longer again, then I thought I really ought to throw it away, but didn't want to put the unopened pot in the bin as the council have started a special food waste collection and for that you have to remove containers etc so I would have to open it, but I couldn't quite bring myself to do it in case I found something really horrible, so more time passed... :eek:
Anyway yesterday I finally decided I had to do something as this was getting silly, so I peeled back the lid and found.... clotted cream!! I expected the worst but it wasn't sour or nasty at all, I've been eating it with wedges of gooseberry upside-down cake and it's lovely, just like the real thing! :T Maybe I've accidentally discovered a no-effort DIY clotted cream method - just buy regular double cream and leave it in the fridge for 5 months! :rotfl:

Kittikins

Buongiorno chums, blimey it's quite windy down here, not quite 82mph Pippi, that sounds amazing! Yes please to the sheet on how to get to your lovely place, I'm in a real pondering mood, wondering whether I can afford to get through this month and save a bit towards a lovely trip up to meet you, Peedie, the chickens and if they're around, everyone else in Stripeyland in the summer. Feeling pants because I am struggling and have been told repeatedly that I will be getting a good annual review but that won't equate to much, if anything, in my pay packet and the cost of everything is going up by the second

But, on the positive side, I have a wonderful DD who is the light of my life, a house that is messy, disorganised but warm and solid and my parents wouldn't let us live in a cardboard box if I run out of money totally, lovely friends who are rallying around both here and in RL, helping me get better and now MrA who is just fabulicious and quite frankly bonkers to put up with my recent mood swings!

Having moaned about being skint, it's a bit foolish to confess that I'm going out to dinner tonight with a bunch of girlies and it's probably going to be shockingly expensive.....but it should be a lovely evening and the food is guaranteed to be awesome

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: :rotfl: troglodyte :rotfl: :rotfl:

Ellidee

Hope trog posts tomorrow so we know she's still alive ! :eek:

Phew Pippi that wind sounds horrendous - talk about batten down the hatches. xx

lotti379

Hee hee - the thought of a Peedie with ballast hanging off him made me giggle! :rotfl:

Getting blown about enough round our way (Newcastle-ish) so can't imagine how bad it is on the isles! :eek:

Pippilongstocking

Trog you do make me giggle x I thought only I did bonkers stuff like that

Kk I hope that it all works out

So quiet here tonight without the wind! On the hills it got to 122 mph :eek:

And the tv broken cos of the wind

Off to catch up

Lemon_Tree

hope the wind settles down soon Pippi, not nice if you have to be tied down when you go outside.

Thanks for all the advice on how to get to stripey land, one day we will make it, i just love the idea of going via the sleeper train, though i'd already started panicking that i wouldn't sleep, the bed would break, do i put night clothes on etc so i'm sure it wouldn't be a good idea for my sanity.

Pippilongstocking

Lt one day I hope you enjoy it too

It would be very exciting

Lemon_Tree

t'would be very exciting and one day it will happen.

all i can say this evening is thank goodness its the weekend, after the past week i'm more than ready for it. Shame is that OH swapped a shift so is working tomorrow when it should be our entire weekend together. Think i my end up doing some exciting like take the car to get the breaks checked.

Cheery_Daff

Make sure you do something cheery for yourself too LT x

Glad the wind's died down a little :eek: still very windy here so can't imagine what it's like there.

Supervisor sneakily printed out my thesis for me and gave me a bottle of champagne :j :j :j :j :j