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Pippilongstocking

ZTD wrote: »

I'm fine - wondering where the sun has gone...

How are you?

Its here way up north here

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Only cos it knows I'm trying to tidy up - pesky sun!

Morning all - excellent news on the refund

Karmacat

Morning! Just sneaked back in before midday. I'm good, Z - I relay my situation in minutest detail on here all the time, you know :rotfl::o

At the moment, I'm starting to feel a bit restless because I've been sitting here for *ages* - I may have to go off and do something productive :eek::eek::eek:

Pippi - I'm glad you have the sun, for a change!

cheri - erm, I don't quite know how to say this, so I'll just come out with it - I only just found the diary you started on 5th January _pale__pale__pale_ I am *so* bad at checking the board itself, rather than my user list, still havne't learned the lesson, and it really depends what diaries have been recently posted on as to what I see. Okay, I'll check at least on the first of the month, and I'll go through a couple of pages ..... sorry! I'll catch up later tho, I really am rest less by now

rtandon27

Morning all!

No sun here either - and patches of rain keeping the laundry from being hung outside! - think it's an indoor lazical day...

Back to the topic of fritters - just got a cauliflower delivered with the groceries which is all healthy leaves and the tiniest & slightly browning flower - have applied for a refund, but then not wanting to waste it, googled to see if the leaves were edible - lo and behold - cauliflower leaf fritters!!! - think we may give it a go, but the chinese style recipe with soy and ginger looks quite yum as well!

Off to use the bits and pieces from the fridge - bread pudding for OH & lentils into the slowcooker for lunch this week - this cooking on a tight budget thing is work!

XO
RT

Karmacat

Good for you, RT! Its great to use the leaves - that huge stem is quite tough, so I think I'd be up for the stir fry, actually - would the fritters be v chewy? - but you paid for a cauli, a proper white cauli. Take a pic

I'm doing the bulk thing right now a little bit myself, its why I'm back here - soya beans are having their ten minute boil before the slow cooker gets going, three portions (I can hope its 3, not 2) of quorn sausages are a-frying, and a single portion of g/f pasta is on the hob too.

I've just been making the flyscreen for the counselling room! It works, at the moment - I suspect I might have to sew the velcro to the screen at some stage, I've just googled it, and it is sewable. But it seems to be working fine right now! Started on the one for my bedroom, which has something of the same problem, but I've run out of velcro, *and* there's a problem with getting the velcro up to the top of the frame, its hidden by the (wide-slatted) venetian blind. Said blind is lovely, but inconvenient for attaching velcro :rotfl:

When I'm rich, all of this will be purpose made, of course



EDIT - I've just seen *your* edit :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I wasn't going to comment, but thats priceless:)

gilligansyle

You've been a busy bee! And you may think that this isn't much, but just think were you where this time last year. Bit by bit you've done so much in this house to make it right for you.

Have you got sew on Velcro or sticky back?

P.S I found something when tidying that I intended to give you when you were up here. I'll try and remember and send it to you.

Karmacat

Oh my word! This time last year, the offers on the houses were made and accepted, but I was still waiting for an exchange date, let alone completion. I had tons of stuff - including in the loft, which I didn't dare get down in case the sale fell through. I was still clipping the undergrowth around the path, so people could at least get to the end of the path in the back garden. It was horrendous!

On that level, of course, the change is fantastic - thank you reminding me! It'd be awful not to acknowledge that. I think what I keep seeing is that a lot of people work a lot of hours - Pippi, for instance, you do too, several relatives. And I keep thinking, if I want my level of riches to go up to where I'm aiming, I really need to stop faffing around. I don't do too badly, but I could do so much better. And I also need to do more on a social level. It looks really difficult to me to go out in the evening. There was a group on in a neighbouring town that I'd *really* like to have gone to - travel time each way would've been maybe an hour, but it would've connected me with people who love an interest I'm completely passionate about - astronomy. And I didn't go. So its not just about work that I tell myself I've got to get my act together - its interaction, as a whole.

Coo! I didn't mean to write all that

Well, anyway, I stayed being a busy bee for a little while didn't want to go to Sainsbo in the pouring rain - its *still* raining! - so I scanned some magazine covers and put them up on ebay, as its a free listing weekend. Plus an autograph for a British TV actor that I'm not bothered to keep. So now, I can tick off another of my June to-do items! There's lots more listing to be done, but this is an honourable inroad so now I might just walk round the block (taking my umbrella :rotfl:) and leap into the bath when I get back - doesn't matter if I'm wet then :rotfl:

Hope everyone is okay.



ETA - dear me, I'm self obsessed, sorry - the velcro is sticky back at the mo - I can envisage leaving the stuff on the window as sticky, and sewing the screen itself.

And ooh, a goody! I *am* coming up there next weekend, but meeting isn't on - but I was rambling on FW's thread about coming up the weekend of October or something, when the marathon is on (she's running in it) - do you want to wait till then to save the postage?

gilligansyle

Hi KC - I meant last time you were up, and I forgot to bring it, have only just found it again.

I didn't know they were doing a Liverpool marathon again. Its years since they had one. Its really bad that someone else has to let me know, but then again I don't get the local paper ( the name of which I will not sully your diary with!)

Greying_Pilgrim

Karmacat - thanks so much for your response to my waffle on Pippi's thread. I've past caring about the state of this house - it's definitley a 'bodgeit & scarper' early edition, and whilst it probably never will fall down, it'd be the best thing for it - knock it down and start again! I'll certainly never rush to buy a 'period' house again - anything which is constructed from bricks, on which their maker has put his equivalent of 'kelvin woz 'ere' with an imprint of his hobnail boot will get a wide berth from me!

The rafter, although original, and certainly not of load bearing capacity - you should of seen the ceiling 'flex' when DP was moving around :eek: - is 'mendable' and can be made 'strong' again, according to a very knowledgeable, highly qualified pal of ours who has had the same C*ck-ups to remedy at his (same vintage) property.

Mmm, I think the salesperson was just being obstructive tbh. The number of rolls of insulation has gone down accordingly (with what we purchased) on the computer and he didn't deny that there weren't sufficient on the premises to fulfil our requirements, he just wasn't going to move them to where i could purchase them. Faced with such intransigence I tend to walk away - after all, other DIY places sell insulation....... DP was niggled, as it has left something else 'incomplete' as it were. It might well be worth firing off an e-mail to their customer services dept, especially as they should be a little more customer orientated if they are interested in retailing stuff! I think his colleague realised that he was in the wrong, as she apologised as we walked out past the tills. Ah well.

Hope your walk went well and you have a good evening.

Off to pod some more broad beans, just picked them, so better eat them!

Kind regards, Greying

Karmacat

gilligansyle wrote: »

Hi KC - I meant last time you were up, and I forgot to bring it, have only just found it again.

I didn't know they were doing a Liverpool marathon again. Its years since they had one. Its really bad that someone else has to let me know, but then again I don't get the local paper ( the name of which I will not sully your diary with!)

There's a huge festival quite near me, that I didn't even try to go to this year - very odd. As for the local paper, well - I remember all the complaints about having news from North Wales in one of them .... I wonder if that shows how long ago it was :rotfl:

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Karmacat - thanks so much for your response to my waffle on Pippi's thread. I've past caring about the state of this house - it's definitley a 'bodgeit & scarper' early edition, and whilst it probably never will fall down, it'd be the best thing for it - knock it down and start again! I'll certainly never rush to buy a 'period' house again - anything which is constructed from bricks, on which their maker has put his equivalent of 'kelvin woz 'ere' with an imprint of his hobnail boot will get a wide berth from me!
I never thought of personalisation in that way before :rotfl:

The rafter, although original, and certainly not of load bearing capacity - you should of seen the ceiling 'flex' when DP was moving around :eek: - is 'mendable' and can be made 'strong' again, according to a very knowledgeable, highly qualified pal of ours who has had the same C*ck-ups to remedy at his (same vintage) property.
Thats brilliant that you've got someone you trust who knows about this stuff :j

Mmm, I think the salesperson was just being obstructive tbh. The number of rolls of insulation has gone down accordingly (with what we purchased) on the computer and he didn't deny that there weren't sufficient on the premises to fulfil our requirements, he just wasn't going to move them to where i could purchase them. Faced with such intransigence I tend to walk away - after all, other DIY places sell insulation....... DP was niggled, as it has left something else 'incomplete' as it were. It might well be worth firing off an e-mail to their customer services dept, especially as they should be a little more customer orientated if they are interested in retailing stuff! I think his colleague realised that he was in the wrong, as she apologised as we walked out past the tills. Ah well.
Good grief.

Hope your walk went well and you have a good evening.
Yes thanks! Just been watching the engineering connections programme on the space shuttle, and finally off to get my bath now - still tipping it down, but I did manage to get a 20 walk outside.

Off to pod some more broad beans, just picked them, so better eat them!

Kind regards, Greying

Podding broad beans! Wow! I love the furry insides but I'm not growing any veg at all yet - thats all for next year... my grass/dandelion crop is a wonderful thing

Karmacat

Morning all! Another week ... a short one for me, as I'm off to see my mum on Thursday, but an intense one, as I have more work than usual crammed into the days I *am* here. Good for business ...

My month-list is A Good Thing, as it gives a shape to any time I have that I *want* to work in - I've finished a couple of the shorter things, and I'm keeping going on the regular or longer term stuff. May separate them out in future lists, actually, to give a better idea of progress.

For now - brekkie, and cleaning the hall ready for 11am...

Hope everyone has a good day.