"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

Tum ti tum .... morning all! :j

What on earth did I do yesterday? Well, I vacuumed about 4 dozen baby spiders off my hall ceiling .... had to keep going outside to empty the bagless bit and let them crawl out. That took a while.

I scooted off to Crawley too - looked at genealogical resources available in West Sussex, and annoyingly to get access to ancestry.com through the library, I have to have a library sub - £20 (I know its not bad for a year, but its free in East Sussex, grr.) But I did check out some free online sources I can use at home - all on Irish families, as I have 5 threads that go back to Ireland and I know *very* little about researching there. That was good :j

I meant to go clothes shopping a bit, but I was dozy getting out, and then couldn't be bothered, so thats a no show - but having seen what M&S are doing in the sale, and the voucher thats on today, I might just get some stuff there - chinos for £15 can't be bad.

Did manage to pop to Asda - and :eek: I couldn't find my reasonaby-priced pesto - there are new own brands in there :eek: this is a disaster :rotfl:I've bought one to try (its cheaper!) but I'm very suspicious

Today .... sigh ... still lots of admin I need to catch up on before my holiday ends, and I need to start digging in the garden to give things a chance to grow roots before winter _pale_ I've also sussed that keeping the grass at a normal length (max three inches?) would help cut down the slug population :o:o I pretty much qualify as a slug myself ....

Right, taking myself off to justify my existence :D:D

redsquirrel80

Sounds like a good day but to the lack of pesto.. (I had to think really hard there about why I hadn't bought pesto for ages then remembered the 73 tons of wild garlic we picked, that doesn't really help though... )

Happy M&S shopping and digging

gilligansyle

Morning KC

which pesto was it? I've noticed that lots of things are changing in Asda lately, I can never find anything.

I'm fighting a battle with slugs at the moment, part of my lettuce crop was completely decimated. Have now put some lettuce seeds next to the peas, followed by a row of crushed egg shells (not very attractive) in the hope they will either get diverted by the lettuce, or not be able to make it across the shells. I've been looking at M&S sale too.

I'll post this on my diary - but my new soap cutter has just arrived and I'm so happy. So I'll be playing with soap some time this week.

MrsMoo2U

I love pesto but a particular brand and if I cant get that brand I never enjoy another as much. I am rambling, sorry

rtandon27

Karma - if I remember correctly you bought a food processer recently? - how about making a huge batch of fresh pesto and popping into the freezer in individual batches? - can e-mail over a fabulous low fat, but very tasty, version from my moosewood book if you'd like?

- back across the pond there was a lovely farmer's wife who came into the city market every Saturday and sold HUGE bunches of herbs - got into the habit then of making pasta sauces & thai curry pastes with them - the taste of summer well into the cold dark winters was well worth the effort!

water butts - you are much more practical than I am - :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:- pretty unfortunately gets me every time - practical is always a second thought! - even when it's a practical item iyswim - thank goodness our limited budget puts the brakes on the lusting! - (most of the time)

...OH could tell you about the numerous pairs of too high shoes that sit in my cupboard, whilst the practical walking shoesand hiking boots get worn day in and day out...
:eek:

XOXOX
RT

Karmacat

gilligansyle wrote: »

which pesto was it? I've noticed that lots of things are changing in Asda lately, I can never find anything.

It was the smartprice one, at 88p - my tastebuds like that second only to Waitrose's own at £1.99, so its excellent for me. The replacement I bought yesterday was 84p, so we'll see **still suspicious**

I'm fighting a battle with slugs at the moment, part of my lettuce crop was completely decimated. Have now put some lettuce seeds next to the peas, followed by a row of crushed egg shells (not very attractive) in the hope they will either get diverted by the lettuce, or not be able to make it across the shells. I've been looking at M&S sale too.

I'll post this on my diary - but my new soap cutter has just arrived and I'm so happy. So I'll be playing with soap some time this week.

Those are my thoughts too, about crushed egg shells! I've had loads stashed in various places, and actually used some for the comfrey rootlets, but last evening I could see slug trails on one of the leaves again _pale_ it needs to be solid, and pretty thick, I think. And I need to cut the grass.

cherisong wrote: »

I love pesto but a particular brand and if I cant get that brand I never enjoy another as much. I am rambling, sorry

Thats not a ramble **indignant** - thats support :rotfl: its exactly how I feel!

rtandon27 wrote: »

Karma - if I remember correctly you bought a food processer recently? - how about making a huge batch of fresh pesto and popping into the freezer in individual batches? - can e-mail over a fabulous low fat, but very tasty, version from my moosewood book if you'd like?

Yes please! I've realised that basil can be a summer outdoors plant down here, which would help enormously, and if I plant out one of the supermarket bought ones, I can get tons of leaves off it, then make the stuff straight away. Thanks RT!

water butts - you are much more practical than I am - :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:- pretty unfortunately gets me every time - practical is always a second thought! - even when it's a practical item iyswim - thank goodness our limited budget puts the brakes on the lusting! - (most of the time)

...OH could tell you about the numerous pairs of too high shoes that sit in my cupboard, whilst the practical walking shoesand hiking boots get worn day in and day out...
:eek:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I'm an odd mix of not caring and wanting it *exactly* how I want it. Tho shoes, nowadays - comfort wins out every time, with no car, the very least I walk to get anywhere is 20 mins each way, and thats agony in anything very high. I wish.... I was ogling shoes briefly in Debenhams yesterday... I love the phrase "running in high heels", but its very far from my reality :cool:

Ellidee

Saw this and thought of you ! http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/train-from-london-victoria-gatwick-3-70/985270

Karmacat

Thanks for that Ellidee! I have used the cheapo tickets from southern railway, they're *incredibly* bargainous - I have found you have to book more than a week ahead tho. Brilliant for holidays, and when I worked in London, but you have to be careful about timings for social stuff - I couldn't use those tickets when I went to O2 to see the ballet recently, for instance, because I didn't know what time the performance would finish, and I wanted to leave the option open to have a snack or something with my sister.

But please keep on thinking of me, thats lovely :kisses3:

I *did* get some bargainous railway tickets yesterday - London-Liverpool and back for £23! And I *will* use the cheapie trip up and down to London for linking to that Thats my autumn visit to my mum, and it take in the Liverpool marathon too erm, I hope I have the guts to actually *go* to that - I got a very snooty reception from my mum in April when I took a little time out for myself on the Spring visit...

Anyway, today, I'm waiting in for my water butts! How often do you get to say that :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I'm also cleaning the bathroom in preparation for getting the builder in, so he won't see how disgusting I've let it become _pale_ I'm such a bad person :j if I get bored cleaning (and I'm bored just writing about it) there's always gardening, which will have to be in the front of the house today, so the courier lorry doesn't have a chance to say I wasn't in

gilligansyle

Karmacat wrote: »

TThats my autumn visit to my mum, and it take in the Liverpool marathon too erm, I hope I have the guts to actually *go* to that - I got a very snooty reception from my mum in April when I took a little time out for myself on the Spring visit...

:rotfl::rotfl:Was that the childhood visit one? Oops!

Marathon's not too far away now. And there a few people running it - definitely FW, and I think NortherLas is too.
It goes from one side of the river to the other and I think it ends at the Pier Head, so you could always just 'pop' into town.

P.S due to changed work circumsances I am now looking at going to CR early next year, rather than late this year, and can go by train as far as Granada now. So will be doing some checking up on that too.

Double_Trouble

Karmacat wrote: »

I *did* get some bargainous railway tickets yesterday - London-Liverpool and back for £23! And I *will* use the cheapie trip up and down to London for linking to that Thats my autumn visit to my mum, and it take in the Liverpool marathon too erm, I hope I have the guts to actually *go* to that - I got a very snooty reception from my mum in April when I took a little time out for myself on the Spring visit...

But if you don't come certain friends will send you to Coventry :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

seriously I know it is difficult trying to manage everyone's expectations just remember you can't please everyone all the time so you might as well please yourself I would just tell her your plans in advance so she has time to get used to it

DTxx