It isn`t tough for us. We are OS and we COPE

bellaquidsin

Yes, I've been keeping myself to myself for fear of going OT with my calendar of OS doings.

Had a good week, sewn a tape loop on an oldish towel to make it into a kitchen towel. Mended a piece of 'vital' underwear.

Going great guns with the stockpiling while sugar is cheap/available in FFoods. I've also laid aside washing up liquid, washing powder, tea, coffee, flour and some tinned goods. It seems that with the pending price rises this will give me the best 'return' on my money at the moment.

Restocked the freezer with reasonably priced meat sourced from here and there and also baking.

Had visitors today, not the most MS day for us but certaily OS with homemade Yorkies, homemade apple and blackberrry pie with foraged blackberries of course, and for tea homemade chocolate cake and scones. They loved it all. And a special bonus for me was that I got a bulk order for my handcrafted cards, so I'm going to be really busy as now I have three orders on the go.

The really MSE/OS aspect of today will happen tomorrow when I get creative with all the leftovers.

Bella.

kitschy

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

What???? Nobody told you guys??????

Everyone has obviously gone to Dalemain Mansion and Gardens in Cumbria for the 'World's Original Marmalade Awards'. Obviously they KNEW how good you all were with the jam pan and couldn't risk the competition!!! lol

I'm too new to do a linkie, but if you look up 'marmalade awards' it should come up. I promise you it is not a wind up, I heard about it on the news - some blinking MP (or Lord or something) won - but it WAS his mother's recipe (and therefore officially OS!).

Greying (online at this unknown time 'coz I've had to invest in b'band at home due to impending 'book repository' closure - won't mention 'L' word).

Welcome Greying Pilgrim!

I haven't heard of the marmalade awards :rotfl:Mind you, I'm only an apprentice OSer and have yet to venture into preserves

I have, with all this talk of Tupperware, however, just been on eBay and had a cheeky purchase of a fetching orange container so now I have three Harvest roundies. Honestly, I'm only 30, and I have been a Tupper (as named by my bemused bestie) for like 3 years. Seems like only yesterday I was a podium-dancing hedonist! :rotfl::o

kezlou

I must admit, i've hardly posted on the thread, shamefully i might add.:o

Welcome eeny meeny and greying pilgrim!

I failed miserably to fixmy skirt, the cats kept on torturing me whenever i tried to turn the sew machine on:mad:. Don't know whats got into them tonight.

Anyways i bought some really shocking 60's sugar and tea cannister for 50p off the local market. I love them to bots, other people think they hideous.

Were a total mishmash, from homemade benches, cushions, to total kitsch else where. I really feel for my OH.

I really want some le crusent (sp?!) type dishes, no way am i paying a fortune for them. So thats my hunt this year, along with a cheap dinner set. I'm completely un-cordinated, and thats the way i like it!

Eenymeeny

Hi All and thanks for the welcome:)
Le Creuset type dishes are often featured at Aldi and Lidls' I can't vouch for them but I have bought pans there previously and been very happy with the quality of them.
I feel very old when the things I use everyday are labelled retro and vintage but nice to know that someone lusts after them! Like tupperware that I must have had for 30 years and Pyrex dishes the same. I read that people are scouring charity shops for them. They don't make them like they used to...:)
Proud with myself today for stopping OH from taking our old washbasin to landfill. Broken up it'll make brilliant ballast for planters and the polystyrene the new one was packed in will help as a filler, saving on compost. Come to think of it, saved on fuel as he decided not to go as there didn't seem much to take!

BitterAndTwisted

JenniO wrote: »

Is it possible to have storage/pantry/larder-envy? I think I have it right now.

bluebag

kezlou wrote: »

Anyways i bought some really shocking 60's sugar and tea cannister for 50p off the local market. I love them to bots, other people think they hideous.

Were a total mishmash, from homemade benches, cushions, to total kitsch else where. I really feel for my OH.

I really want some le crusent (sp?!) type dishes, no way am i paying a fortune for them. So thats my hunt this year, along with a cheap dinner set. I'm completely un-cordinated, and thats the way i like it!

Oh you made me giggle with the kitch thing, everyone at my house has their own individual dinner plate... no asking who's dinner is who's, none of them match needless to say and they all love their own.

I keep a few matching lovely blue willow ones I got at a jumble sale for guests.

I have a few 'vintage' items that make my OH shudder too!

bluebag

Bitter And Twisted,

When I first saw that larder I thought it was yours and I let out a massive 'OHHHHHHHHHH'

That is very nice and yes I have envy too, big time.

When I was a newly wed, we had a walk in pantry that would have been big enough for a small shop. I thought it was hatefully old fashioned when I was young and wished for a snazzy fitted kitchen. I would give my right arm for that pantry now.

BitterAndTwisted

Yep, every house we lived in when I was a kid (Army married quarters) had a proper walk-in pantry. Was cool in there too but it had to be, that was back in the day before our family had a fridge. Glass milk-bottles in buckets of water in the height of summer etcetera. The funny thing is, I know my Mum didn't shop every day so there must have been meat in there, too. 'Twould probably bring the young 'uns out in hives just thinking about it.

ceridwen

maryb wrote: »

jackieglasgow wrote: »

I can't believe the whole topic of "on topic/off topic" is still being dragged up!


It's only being dragged up because we are all a bit paranoid about what we can and can't post. I certainly feel I have to preface anything I post with a quick explanation of why I consider it is on topic.

And I apologise to her now for buying a house with acres of cellars - we can never move from this house because I can never face clearing out the cellars

Ooh..you lucky thing...a cellar is on my wishlist for my "proper home" if I ever get it:(. Could you maybe use them for "larder" purposes - I think thats the type of space often used by Mormons with their really "heavy" level stocking-up with food? I'd also have a go at growing my own mushrooms. I feel so frustrated every time I read about preserving fruit/veg by putting in the "cold store" and decide to do so and then remember "Whoops - cant - no cellar".

GreyQueen

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Is it possible to have storage/pantry/larder-envy? I think I have it right now.

I, too, have been sighing over that photo and am utterly consumed with envy..........

I have long been afflicted with Larder Envy, something which I attribute to early exposure to these wonders in cottages rented by the older generation of my relatives. Young and impressionable (well, not now, of course). I have only one person in RL whom I'm prepared to admit Larder Envy to, and she is a fellow sufferer!

Can anyone tell me the difference between larder and pantry? They often seem to be used interchagably but I guess they once meant different kinds of storage or why bother having two words?