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As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way
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Good afternoon, everyone.
Safe journey, Softstuff.
We had a hail storm earlier but the sun is shining now. It's half term and the boys they are a bickering! I am looking forward to work on Thursday.
I have some chocolate chip cookies in the oven. I am looking forward to one with a cup of tea. Still doing well on the vegetarian diet. I made an aubergine curry last night. My vegetable pakora was more popular than the chicken pakora. The boys seem to find my veggie meals quite appealing which is a surprising bonus. I may get the household meat consumption down. I am making a mushroom burger this evening.
Have taken your advice Kittie and have ordered surplus pasta, lentils and oats in my online shop. My store cupboard needs a top up anyway.
I did my banking and checked my budget this morning. Things are going well this month, if there are no surprise expenses. It makes a difference for me when I keep a tighter control of expenditure.
I had to buy lettuce which was annoying, I have got used to having lettuce in the garden. I need to be more methodical sowing the seeds.GC 2011 Feb £626.89/£450 NSD3/7 March £531.26/£450 April £495.99/£500 NSD 0/7 May £502.79/£500
June £511.99/£480 July £311.56/£4800 -
yum to eating my own salad leaves for lunch. perfect and satisfying in everyway!
I'm having a little mental battle with myself..... would I be better off buying cheap cheap soap for my family or making my own . I mean store soap can be very cheap but hate using it especiallly on the children. Wondering whether to make my own and whether it would be cost effective or not.
I have ordered a book via the library anyway, no harm in doing a spot of reading.
Also on my list is soapy detergent, I have heard of making this for the washing machine so will hunt out the info to try.
I just want to feel like I am supporting myself as best as we can. I worry a lot so with costs spirralling yet again, to claw back some control will help me cope, if not financially then mentally!0 -
bargainhunterss wrote: »mardatha! we've got that strange yellow thing hovering in the sky over work.....wait.... no.....there it goes.....
Hey, the blessings are being spread....we had a rainshower about midday and one yesterday evening, whoo whoo.
mardatha your yellow ball had rolled down this way, I shall try and kick it back again, don't need the rainwater evaporating.
:mad: Will have to take some time out of my life to go and kick the Bank (who shall be nameless to save their embarrassment but is one of those whose name is also that of a city).
How hard is this; take 2 cash Isas from A and B and open a new Isa C with your institution and put both into it. Rocket science it ain't. I've had 2 letters and seem to be the proud possessor of 2 ISAs with the Bank. Reason I wanted 1 not 2 was to make my life simpler.
Well, whining about it won't get it sorted so must go and deal, then up to the lottie and water the greenhouse and transfer some stuff from the cold frame into the open ground.
Catch up with y'all later.Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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Well, I set off towards you guys first thing in the morning. So this evening is goodbye from me to you guys for a month! :wave:
My friend is in the hospice now, and though unresponsive, still alive. Which is apparently shocking the heck out of the nursing staff there. I get the feeling she's making sure I definitely make it in time to help arrange the funeral.
I'm about to have a very non-mse takeaway dinner because I'm pooped and a bit tense. Don't like leaving hubby for this long, but always try and prepare well for him before I go.
So take care all. I hope I bring you rain GQ, which should take some of it away from Mardatha!
I pray your friend has a peaceful passing, when it is her time to bid farewell to the world. I think you are an amazing friend to her and i'm sure on some level, she will feel the love you have for her and hopefully be comforted by that.Grocery Challenge for October: £135/£200
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Just popping in to let you know I'm now a grandma to a gorgeous little girl called Matilda Rose! She weighed in at 7lb12oz on Sunday (8 days overdue) :j:j:j Now I really must start on that blanket!!!
What joy babies bring into the world! Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful grandaughter, her name is absolutely lovelyGrocery Challenge for October: £135/£200
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I agree with Katholicos on both points, and couldn't have said either one any better myself.It's what is inside your head that matters in life - not what's outside your windowEvery worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory. - Ghandi0
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Hello everyone Thankyou for being so kind when I made my first post. Hippechiq I am not shure if anyone mentioned it,sorry to repeat if they have. If you use veg.cooking water I think it must not be salted. I'd hate you to kill all you plants .0
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Mardartha - if you dont stop boasting about those tomatoes, even if I do live in the South basking in glorious sun, I am going to drive up there and force feed you KALE!!!!!0
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congrats catznine on becomming a grandma :j.
Put the washing out on the line n brilliant sunshine only to be followed by rain 10min later. Saying that it has turned into a lovely afternoon. Mardatha's sun rolled down to Cheshire and is drying my washing beautifully
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Have pulled the red onions that have gone to seed. Theyare more like giant spring onions that proper onions. Will make onion soup tomorrow for the girls and me. Unfortunately after posting yesterday that OH's collitis seems to be getting better have just had a text from him letting me know he is back on a bland diet. Looks like there will be more spag bol for us girls tonight, white fish and mash for him.
Have had a very lazy day today (have 4 days leave). Have done very little apart from some on line surveys, the dishes and laundry. Not often I do this and have really enjoyed it. I will do some ironing later when OH takds DD to athletics as I kow the guilt will kick in by then.
Plan on getting the housework done tomorrow and then on Thur will plant up the flowering hanging baskets and the tomtoe hanging basket.I am playing all of the right notes just not necessarily in the right order.
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I've just dusted off my breadmaker - I'm going to give a few last goes before it goes on Ebay.
I've got a Breadman Classic by russell hobbs, bought........6-7 yrs ago?:eek::eek::eek: and the only 2 loaves I made in it were rock hard and so yeasty we all got indigestion. The cupboard its stored in still reeks of yeast despite not being used in all that time.:eek::eek::eek:
So I have used this recipe http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/994/best-bread-machine-loaf.aspx as I have lost the instructions:o and set it for a medium coloured basic 500g loaf. I used 1 tspn out of a easy bake sachet of yeast.
For hand-baking I prefer to use the active dried yeast that you have to get foaming before you start and I do 2 provings - but then again my hand-baked loaves are pants too....... Mind you I have acquired 4 shower caps from a recent hotel stay (and yes that did involve raiding the chambermaids trolley:cool::cool::cool: - how sad am I that I only had breadmaking on my mind.....)
What recipe do you use in your BMs for a fool-proof loaf???0
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