Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

Pippilongstocking

Kc I'm keeping self busy to avoid the glums.

Recycling is great isn't it? Greyi g you are a star, various other chums now keep all their loo roll and kitchen roll tubes for me to send my plants off in the post which is very kind indeed

redsquirrel80

:rotfl: Brilliant (although I think there should be some random dancing in the day anyway!)

Karmacat

I know what you mean about avoiding the glums, Pippi - its easy to fall into that. And doing a private little hokey cokey is a great way to avoid them temporarily - if you *can* jolly yourself out of them, while dealing with the underlying cause, then thats brilliant.

gilligansyle

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Random question - I normally freeze my pasta sauces in 1-2 portion sizes - its a faff in plastic tubs, as mostly the little ones don't have lids etc, can you freeze jars? Ie sauce in jars put into the freezer, I've a year and a bits worth of jars (with lids) I wonder if I can freeze the sauce into them, be much handier............If they are just defrosted normally would they be OK?

Bit late posting on this, but I use freezer bags, but inside a plastic tub. Then when they are frozen, take the bag out and you have a tub shaped bag that is easy to freeze. And you can re-use the tub.

Jars will freeze - well bottles do! DS frequently puts beer in the freezer to chill it!

Hope hokey cokey went OK

Cheery_Daff

What a fab idea!! :T :T :T

()(((((((pippi)))))))))))) don't be glum! Hope you can stave off glum-ness Think of us lugging a bag full of holey socks and bits of wool and toilet roll tubes for 500 miles

Lemon_Tree

i'd also love a Highland Cooo but i'm not sure what OH would say though he's told me i can have a heffalump and a giraffe in the garden at our new place (when we get it).

Hope you're feeling a little cheerier, sounds like you're busy as usual.

I'll ask the Italian fella about Gnocci but don't think that just cos it's in a language i don't speak that i don't know what it contains lol shame on you!

Keiss_21

Hya all.. how is everyone today?

Busy today:
bread on the go;
Mr T has delivered and everything has been put away;
the dog has been brushed,
and I have turned the heel in a sock I am knitting for DH

...quite a productive morning...for a change! :rotfl:

Having a bit of a rest before getting more done this afternoon.

As for hokey-cokey...that was me and DH on Sunday, dodging (or rather getting soaked in) the numerous showers. I think the washing was hung up outside 3 or 4 times in the end before we gave up and put them on the airer in the conservatory and many other places about the house. We even used the tumbler briefly :eek:, there was just too much washing and no room for it to dry.

Typically the weather was much better yesterday and again today..but I have no more washing to do - infuriating !!

Off to catch up on a couple of threads, then off the computer to start my crafting list....going to be a long one!! :eek:

Marru

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Ah you see the hockeycokey is your washing.

It started on the small things thread, I do beleive there was even a little song

you put the washing in
you take the washing out
to save ironing it, you shake it all about
then you hang it up, drying for free in the air
and, that's what it's all about!

Repeat for several verses

got a bit boring writing, washing, air dry, smooth out to avoid ironing.. Z



well it amused me, eventually I think it got shortened to HC

I thought it was:

You put the washing in, washing out, in out in out, hang it all about...

Cheery_Daff

or in my case

you put the washing in the basket
and leave it for a month
more goes in
some comes out
and has to be shaken about

(do the hokey cokey etc)

then
you put the washing in
you leave the washing in
wash again
leave again
wash again

(hokey cokey etc)

then
you put the washing in
you hang the washing up
some of it falls off the airer
some of it doesn't dry quickly enough
and goes back in the basket

(hokey cokey etc)

then
you think the basket's empty
(apart from those white things and the duvet cover that you never get round to washing)
then you realise OH has stuck in
a big pile of CLEAN clothes that you FOLDED the other still in the pile
and now they need washing too

(hokey cokey etc)

you give OH a slap
and take the folded clothes out
they smell a bit
and are a bit rumbled
but they're all his so you don't care

(hokey cokey etc)

then
you put the washing in
or at least you think about putting the washing in
then you realise you can't be ar*ed
and your clothes don't smell that bad anyway
and go and do something more interesting instead

(hokey cokey etc)

Or is that just me??

:rotfl:

Keiss_21

:rotfl:Love it cheery!!! :rotfl:

Managed to find some washing to do, so this sunny day doesn't go to waste!

We have a chair where the ironing sits..its a rocking chair...and the pile is up to the top to the chair-back! :eek: DS1 is actually doing some ironing atm, as he is off to GF's later, and needs a few shirts for the next few days. He will iron some of our stuff too..he's good that way. Cxan you tell I don't like ironing? I still haven't manage to perfect the washing/hanging-up, folding technique that avoids the need for ironing - my MIL is a past master at this! One day I will clear the pile!!!

Right, off to get the bread into tins...rising nicely, despite the cooler temps ..actually it's not that cold out ...just feels it inside .