Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

troglodyte

Hello everybody!

'Life' got in the way and have been away from MSE for a while but now I'm back, there's no chance of being able to catch up with everything so I'll just jump back in again here and say hello, hope everyone is well, glad you are still on terra firma Pippi and sorry I didn't reply to your PM (only just found it!)

Spent yesterday trying to tame the garden which got a bit out of control (had to crouch to get out of back door due to grape vine, and artichokes, which I thought I had got rid of last year, are in two clumps about 10 feet tall!)

Glad to be back and looking forward to reading more of what everyone is up to.

Pippilongstocking

Hey up Uni I'd think that fine too

KC the milk from the cheese (whey?) I've heard its good to use making saurkraut (sp) and read something somewhere about baking (?) but otherwise like the ultimate use of anything like that would be chookies

Red cats yeah very cute too - was horrific here, now perfectly lovely - better go and find the bird table (I took it down so it didn't crash into house) and put it up for the birdies

Today, hmm, clearly a lazy start - got a man about 26 fishboxes to see, a garden to weed and a paper to read to check something

Aside that - I'm not very sure...................

Morning all, anohter cuppa, more laziness, um I mean research into internet stuff, banking and then crack on with the day

Eggs for brekkie what else eh? Peedie sulking since the cheeries left.....................

Pippilongstocking

YAY trog - been thinking of you

Catch up um, not much, winter here and then summer intermittently

Got two new puddy cats

Hens fine, polytunnel still not up

I hope you're fine xxxx I owe you a parcel!

Pippilongstocking

Right here I am plan for the day

Banks checked, not great but not over
Paid work for one hour - gardening
Email lady about potential flower project, give her a 'back of a fag packet' quick idea of project, and if room for more paid work, do a proper project outline like the one wanted if there might be paid work in it for me (cheery I hope you're proud of me!)
Pick up or arrange to pick up fishboxes, need get money out the bank for that and be careful NOT to spend it this time
Read about making cheese and try this later
Reboil the strawberry jam and set/jar it
Hang out washing
Go chemist
Contact garden guy about a book/tree project
Bit charity work emails etc
Text chum about tea this week and dog sitting
Text anohter chum about cat sitting over weekend
Peedie and I need a walk, locally or somewhere enroute to the rest of today
Plan a 'day at home' tomorrow
Read paper on willow - might be the final one da da woo hoo
Edit and check paragraph for weather in thesis
Check rust/disease paragraph in same
Proof a bit of thesis again with listeniing software
Check garden for wind damage
Hens fed, eggs to collect later
Email chum about eggs
Money hokey cokey to do and air dry
A bit of tidying for italian exchange student due in here at weekend
dump to go to
hm food for lunch/tea - no shopping
Look at propagated plants for ebay listing
Blog later

Dunno what else - that will do for now! Have a great day everyone.

lucielle

That's a very loooonnngggg list.
L

Uniscots97

Can you post a pic of the puddy cats please?


I got my freebie, but unlike some of the others on the freebie board I didn't get £2 back (product is £5 reduced to £3 and some shops were actually paying you £2 to take it away!) but it means I've got more nappies for the nappy cake (smaller ones which was what I needed) and I'll probably keep the wipes for myself. Will start constructing the hamper tonight. Have birthday card to do and someone mentioned (although not ordered yet) 2 more.

Kittikins

Hello TROG and welcome back to MSE-land I wonder if you remember me......you very kindly helped me with my first Science GCSE homework back in September last year and guess what, I got a C (sadly I only did the lower paper - but I got 94% for one part and 67% for the other so who knows what I might have achieved had I done the higher!!)

Karmacat

lucielle wrote: »

That's a very loooonnngggg list.
L

Agreed! I am in awe, as usual :j

unixgirluk wrote: »

Can you post a pic of the puddy cats please?

Also agreed

I got my freebie, but unlike some of the others on the freebie board I didn't get £2 back (product is £5 reduced to £3 and some shops were actually paying you £2 to take it away!) but it means I've got more nappies for the nappy cake (smaller ones which was what I needed) and I'll probably keep the wipes for myself. Will start constructing the hamper tonight. Have birthday card to do and someone mentioned (although not ordered yet) 2 more.

Huh! I guess every little helps, hope its okay with you.

Pippilongstocking

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Right here I am plan for the day

[STRIKE]
Banks checked, not great but not over
Paid work for one hour - gardening
Email lady about potential flower project, give her a 'back of a fag packet' quick idea of project, and if room for more paid work, do a proper project outline like the one wanted if there might be paid work in it for me (cheery I hope you're proud of me!)
Pick up or arrange to pick up fishboxes, need get money out the bank for that and be careful NOT to spend it this time
[/STRIKE]Read about making cheese and try this later
Reboil the strawberry jam and set/jar it
[STRIKE]
Hang out washing
[/STRIKE]Go chemist
[STRIKE]
Contact garden guy about a book/tree project
Bit charity work emails etc
Text chum about tea this week and dog sitting
Text anohter chum about cat sitting over weekend
Peedie and I need a walk, locally or somewhere enroute to the rest of today
[/STRIKE]
Plan a 'day at home' tomorrow
Read paper on willow - might be the final one da da woo hoo
Edit and check paragraph for weather in thesis
Check rust/disease paragraph in same
Proof a bit of thesis again with listeniing software
[STRIKE]
Check garden for wind damage
Hens fed, eggs to collect later
Email chum about eggs
Money hokey cokey to do and a real one to air dry
[/STRIKE]A bit of tidying for italian exchange student due in here at weekend
dump to go to
[STRIKE]hm food for lunch/tea [/STRIKE]- no shopping
Look at propagated plants for ebay listing
Blog later

Dunno what else - that will do for now! Have a great day everyone.

A bit done :j


I hope you're all fine, off to do more work, go chemist and tidy up at home. Not sure what's for tea grabbed something out fo the freezer but I can't remember what!

Managed to get a photo of cats earlier, will post one up later.

L, I hope you're good, KC I hope the day's gone well, KK :j well done, Uni, oh well it sounds like you're on the case

Cheery_Daff

I'm back And have stuck to my internet rule, so not much time to chat :rotfl:

Missing you all though (and it's raining here...) xx