Memorygirls - The Matrix Re-inspired

Alisonpennypincher

Fab Article MG and one that has really got me thinking. I really want enough food to see us through a "cold snap" this winter if we get one. It is not normally too bad here in the Midlands but if it means i do not have to battle through the snow and ice that lays dormant on the paths here for weeks at a time then it is all good, and of course the money saving is a bonus!

I am going to ponder what my family likes to eat and the sort of foods i can bulk buy and store to help keep in plentiful and varied healthy food for a couple of weeks if required........*wanders off to look for paper and pen muttering about pasta etc*

Memory_Girl wrote: »

................. and here it is - a wee linkie to an article on building a storecupboard

http://www.themoneyprinciple.co.uk/

MG

Bitsy_Beans

LHG - saw smiley when browsing this link and I thought it apt. Why do the strings have to be red??

MG - enjoy the NASA guys tonight, if DS was a wee bit older he'd be foaming at the teeth to go. Although I think maybe he'll become a Red Arrows pilot in the meantime having seen them perform the weekend LOL

Willow92

I've just ate the last of a frog that took two years to eat...College! xD

Alisonpennypincher

Thanks FW - i never knew building a storecupboard could make me so happy!:o

Firewalker

Alisonpennypincher wrote: »

Thanks FW - i never knew building a storecupboard could make me so happy!:o

Ha-ha! Think how happy the other tricks will make you as well - I never imagined I'll be a blogger and one that writes about this kind of stuff either.

Have fun APP and stay with us - it is not the store cupboard; it is the power of about 100 powerful, positive (in the sense of positive outlook not chirpiness), focused women.

Firewalker

Marru

I will be back later to catch up but just wanted to tell this story.

During last week I have heard myself not once but twice telling people that I would like to have a cat but not my own cat but a foster cat. Reason being that 1) that way I can help more cats and 2) I might go and work abroad in three years time for 6 months to a year (if the court allows me to take DD out of the country for more than a month like the case is now) and don't really want to leave a cat behind.

And what did I do today? I had a just quick look at my local rescue's website and there were these eyes that have been haunting me ever since. While DD was in the beavers I went to do our weekly shop and what did I came out with? Cat food!!!

I guess this Sunday we shall venture to the rescue to see this cat and find out if she will be coming to live with us.

Bitsy_Beans

Marru wrote: »

I will be back later to catch up but just wanted to tell this story.

During last week I have heard myself not once but twice telling people that I would like to have a cat but not my own cat but a foster cat. Reason being that 1) that way I can help more cats and 2) I might go and work abroad in three years time for 6 months to a year (if the court allows me to take DD out of the country for more than a month like the case is now) and don't really want to leave a cat behind.

And what did I do today? I had a just quick look at my local rescue's website and there were these eyes that have been haunting me ever since. While DD was in the beavers I went to do our weekly shop and what did I came out with? Cat food!!!

I guess this Sunday we shall venture to the rescue to see this cat and find out if she will be coming to live with us.

:rotfl::rotfl: way to go Marru, I shall definately have to come round and see the new addition


I am just perusing the Approved Food website as mentioned on FW blog. Is it just me or is that site slower than a slow thing?!!! Driving me nuts

Dorastar

thriftyscotslass wrote: »

I thought that as kids get older they are supposed to take up less of your time, not more. 4 hour round trip to take dd to physiotherapist - she has clicky, grindy, poppy, painful knees that apparently are the result of uneven muscle development around her knees. She now has a set of exercises to be done 3x a day for a month, to start with.

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Eek my dd has had similar with her heels - apparently bones grow first then muscles and tendons and dd's bones were measured 3cm longer than her muscles so the poor thing couldn't point her toes at all:eek: She does daily exercises and enjoys a foot massage as well.

Been on a course to help me teach swimming - not my fave thing at all - but the lady running it was mega enthusiastic and I feel I can now teach (a small group). I have a serious averison to swimming and she also said she can fix up free adult learner lessons for me and free swim camp for dd who hates deep end! So hopefully answered some of my health needs as we could both go swimming together in the future.

Have read through and hugs to Crickett, still fingers crossed for 40something, and to anyone who needs.

crickett1234

Evening Matrix. Had a really hard time getting through the working day. I am shattered. Hubby made dinner (bless him) and I have spent an hour or so reading my programming book. I think I read the same paragraph forty times, but the good news is that I wrote my first app. And it worked. I made the computer say "I rule the world". And it did! Well, it printed it on the screen anyway. That's good enough for me!!

Tomorrow, I have no meetings or anything at work. So I am going to plod through everything I need to do on my to do list. Then at 4pm I am going to go to the Homeopath and then I need to hot foot it from there to the Cathedral for the ordination of a friend of ours and then I get to go home. Bearing in mind that I am knackered with what I have done today, I am not entirely sure how I am going to cope with it all. I guess I just will. Positive thinking and all that. Maybe going out on a school night will be good for me?

Night night. I am too tired to watch my fave NCIS. I need sleep. See you all tomorrow.

Memory_Girl

WE are home, DS1 has been popped into jammies, made a hot drink and I have now scraped him off the ceiling and sent him to bed. Don't know if he will sleep tonight he is so excited.

He so enjoyed the "Evening with NASA" - he sat attentive throughout the whole seminar (FW you would be so proud). He didn't slurp coke all the way through, blow bubble gum, eat sweeties or play on his mobile phone (and that was the grown-ups). I was so proud of his attitude.

He even put his hand up and asked a question - about the Aurora Borealis. So did I "all these guys on your flight team, who got out there and discovered they had forgotten to pack something?" ........ and someone had :rotfl:

I got home and dug out an old NASA badge I have had for years and it is now on his rucksack ............... he deserves a little momento. He has just come down to give me anther cuddle as told me "I got to shake the hand of a real American Hero Mum" - I love my wee lad!!!

................. and so to bed

Night night ladies - go dream of overflowing storecupboards.

MG