My home is a mess

helen_jelly

MM - congratulations hun, very pleased for you x

JPS - hope you are starting to feel better

Hugs to everyone - sorry but got a sieve for a head!! so can't remember jack!!

DH is off this weekend so we've been doing nice stuff [no, not that!!] lol. Its half term week too so the house that looks disgusting cos I've done nowt for days will look even more disgusting by this time in a week. I also want to get Ebay stuff listed so thats sitting around amongst all the other tat, I don't know where to start its got so bad!!

Off to bed now - I'll be lying there forming plans of how to attack the house lol

Helen x

jpscloud

After yesterday's activity I'm feeling a bit low again but I think that's more to do with the time of the month than the bug. I'm going to have a lazy day today and see how it goes.

I started posting a list of to-dos but it made me feel a bit faint, so I'm just going to plan to be lazy all week and count anything I get done as a bonus! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

bearcub

Too much too soon, maybe, jps. Carefully does it, huh?

Laurel, try looking at it from the view that you did get some cooking done, and some that can be stored for later, by the sound of it. That's always good.

Helen, I'm obviously being very thick, but why should your house be more messy at the end of half-term? Do you have young children?

Someone asked me a couple of weeks ago, if I could make an A4 sized retirement card for the end of March and, only last week, called me with ideas for the card. I've now got together the design idea, and some bits for it, but still need to order online. Today, I was told the lady wants it by next weekend. Hmm! :eek:

jpscloud

Oh dear... my appetite has started to return and with it being that time of the month I'm craving weird and wonderful things. I've just made treacle flapjacks with pumpkin seeds and cranberries (the cranberries really needed using up). They're really nice - not actually set yet, but I can't keep my hands off them.

Now I'm thinking of making fish cakes, but I made a massive slow cooker (five or six meals) pot up yesterday and there's very little room in the freezer! Maybe if I defrost it...

rosalie-lavender

Perhaps the cold weather is encouraging the cooking. It is a good excuse to put the oven on anyway. I have made cheese scones to use up some out of date Dairylea. I replaced the butter with Dairylea instead and it has worked really well. The question is what to do with the other three tubs?:rotfl:

I have also made some muffins to use up some left over bananas. There is another batch of muffins in the pipeline to use up some peaches.

In the meantime the kitchen is a tip.:eek:

bearcub

That's an awful lot of Dairylea, rosalie! :eek:

purple1972

Afternoon messies its been a busy week so havent hada chance to catchup on here got a new work placement on days so ajusting to getting up in the morning instead of going to bed last weekend went to dulmen milltp get thermal linning for curtains got one set up in the lounge but too thin however after a week of searching in the flat i havefound the pair of heavy curtains that are too short for window but wide enough these are now up and been used as linnings the other linnings are on the other window my oh bless him has finished putting up the roller blind in the kitchen though with lots of swearing good job i tiyed dishes away as nowhave foot prints on the work surfaces hes just started to put up the curtain pole so my door curtain in kitchen can be hung that i got weeks ago lol oh and apparlty we own a sprirt level ..... news to me plus came home on friday to find he started cleaning up the lounge he found five dead socks four lighters near where i sit on the sofa opps and the lil mountain of shoes onthe bed had to be chucked in the wardorb so not to upset him plus he did a load of filing mmmm so now i cant find anything and we dont need a writing bureau been searching on ebay as now we dont have a mountain of paper

rosalie-lavender

bearcub wrote: »

That's an awful lot of Dairylea, rosalie! :eek:

Well I used to buy it in bulk when it was on offer. My daughter has now started having school dinners so I haven't been making packed lunches and it hasn't been used. It actually looks and smells fine so is probably perfectly ok to eat as it is but I thought I'd cook with it to be on the safe side.

We are having beef stew tonight so I am thinking dumplings with dairylea instead of suet. and pastry and more cheese scones. I will let you know how I get on.

jpscloud

rosalie, I just did a quick search and the first thing that came up for me was pasta sauce to use up triangles... sounds good! I guess you could also freeze them, and use them up another time? Although if you're like me, there's no room in the freezer...

bearcub

I love Dairylea, but must confess to using for nothing else except on toast (yum), and in sandwiches with tomato. Never thought of using it in cooking (since I rarely do any), but ti's a great idea. And in pasta sauces, jps, sounds excellent!

Purple, sounds as if you have your man well-trained. :T And I think Dulmen Mills is a much better name for the place than the proper one. A branch recently opened here, and I couldn't wait to visit. Sadly, I found it a real disappointment. The prices mostly aren't bad, but it's so claustrophobic, I think they must be really pushing H & S regs. :eek: