Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

redsquirrel80

*Chases off the non-existent cold with a big anti-bug, er, wand or something*

Ooh I love potato-bakey cheesy sort of things

Pippilongstocking

Hey up lasses - I've not managed to move yet - Peedie and I have been chatting over the delights of this years veggies. We're also wonderign if we'd be better to take out leeks in now as they appear to being getting shredded out there to smitherines.

We're also debating the great - do I move the big table into the uber large utility room and feed visitors in there when they are here and move the spare spare bed into the sunny room to give me a 'decandent hideaway/bedsit' for when they are visiting.

Love anything with tatties in it too Red
Cheery - cameras on planes how exciting - I'm bummed I'm not going but having seen the forecast I'm not sure we'd like being in a teeny plane in gales..........eek.

All pesky cold battering rams glady accepted - its mroe like tonsilitis (but I don't have any tonsils) a really glass yukky throat etc but whlist I've no tonsil, I've had that twice since I got them out - I thnk they just call it 'itus' or bloody unfair or someat.

*kettles on*

Keiss_21

Hello all, back from our quick overnight trip to Bucks.:hello:

Great to see my sis and family, and a very informative meeting with the diabetes sports specialist and then a dietician. DS2 was not sure if it was going to be worth the trip, but is really pleased we went. Looks like we will be back again once he starts back playing rugby as they want to monitor him.

Oh you poor thing Pippi, have you tried a hot toddy (lots of honey, lemon and of-course whisky - HP if poss!)? My dad's favourite to send a cold packing (and mine too ) is dark rum and green ginger...you can feel it reaching all over your body, and by the time it reaches your toes, you are already feeling a bit better!!

I am sure your talk was wonderful, the more you do, the more conficence you will get..honest! Think this has already been said here previously!

Starting to flag now, been up since 6am, and with all the hospital visiting and driving, feeling a bit kn*****ed atm. So much for getting some gardening done today...that can be done over the weekend, assuming the weather is OK

Shame you and DD missed out on visiting N-R...another day perhaps. Would love to do this next time we are up!!

Off to peruse The Garden mag which came this morning...that's as active as I feel atm!

starnac

unixgirluk wrote: »

I'm hamper making and deliberating whether to hand in my old clothes to the charity shop or take it to the place that gives you 50p per kilo.

I've been doing that too. Got 2 bags and a phone number for a place that will pick it up and pay you for it. Do I go with them or do a good deed and donate them to charity??

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Ps starnac when I was little jam and bread for tea was considered a treat................................I love ketchup sandwiches, guess cos I don't like sweet stuff

occasionally when we were little my mum would make a sausage dinner (sunday dinner with sausages instead of meat). My sister and I both used to love this "treat" and really looked forward to it if we knew we were having it. A few years ago we were talking about it and my mum admitted that she would only make a sausage dinner when money was so tight she couldn't afford to buy meat but she would have sausages in the freezer!

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Hey up lasses - I've not managed to move yet - Peedie and I have been chatting over the delights of this years veggies. We're also wonderign if we'd be better to take out leeks in now as they appear to being getting shredded out there to smitherines.

leek and potato soup yum

We're also debating the great - do I move the big table into the uber large utility room and feed visitors in there when they are here and move the spare spare bed into the sunny room to give me a 'decandent hideaway/bedsit' for when they are visiting.

Is Peedie going to help with the moving too? Or will he just supervise?

All pesky cold battering rams glady accepted - its mroe like tonsilitis (but I don't have any tonsils) a really glass yukky throat etc but whlist I've no tonsil, I've had that twice since I got them out - I thnk they just call it 'itus' or bloody unfair or someat.

I've had tonsilitis despite not having tonsils since I was about 5. Apparently they can leave a tiny bit so that can get infected :cool:

Cheery_Daff

Poor thing Pippi. I too have had tonsilitis and had tonsils out when I was 7. They called it 'farengitis' or some such made up word :rotfl:

Of course, my tonsils then actually *GREW BACK* :eek: :eek: :eek: and I then got tonsilitis in them Complete freak Not sure I approve of the idea of body parts growing back in alien-like manner! :eek: :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

starnac

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Poor thing Pippi. I too have had tonsilitis and had tonsils out when I was 7. They called it 'farengitis' or some such made up word :rotfl:

Of course, my tonsils then actually *GREW BACK* :eek: :eek: :eek: and I then got tonsilitis in them Complete freak Not sure I approve of the idea of body parts growing back in alien-like manner! :eek: :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

:eek::eek::eek: You now have me worrying about mine. I know the doctor said there was a little bit left but I'm imagining them growing into proper tonsils now. :eek::eek:

Pippilongstocking

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Poor thing Pippi. I too have had tonsilitis and had tonsils out when I was 7. They called it 'farengitis' or some such made up word :rotfl:

Of course, my tonsils then actually *GREW BACK* :eek: :eek: :eek: and I then got tonsilitis in them Complete freak Not sure I approve of the idea of body parts growing back in alien-like manner! :eek: :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

OMG you're really a starfish!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

and starnac - go for the paid charity shop collection thing - they'll make money and you won't have to move a muscle.



When we were really broke my mum made pancakes for tea and told us it was a real treat - we all ate them up and had nothing else.

Funny how mums cope with things when not alot of money about - we've got 'pizza rice' (everything you'd expect from a pizza but its rice)
Basically - rice, stock cube, onoin (if you've any) a tin of tomatoes italian value herbs and cook the lot until rice done, sprinkle with grated cheese - think it costs about 15p (ish) to make - extra if you have cheese.

thank goodness for cheap lovely home made meals eh?

Cheery_Daff

Indeed!

One of our treats used to be pulling the sofa right up to the gas fire (we didn't have central heating so the rest of the house was always freezing) and having mugs of tea and jammy toast for tea. Never occurred to us there wasn't anything else...

starnac

just goes to show how kids just accept things and rarely question.

mmm pizza rice sounds nice pippi might have to try that one

Karmacat

Wow, these are amazing memories here! Loving reading them - embarrassingly, we had plenty of money (for a working class family) after my mum went back to work, but I know that before then, my mum used to give my dad two ha'pennies to rub together in his pocket, to make it seem like he had money. Food .... never had much, but actually I think the real problem was my mum's crazy sense of portion control - she ate so little herself, she didn't really give us enough, and I remember being hungry all the time, even tho the food was there, sadly.

Pippi, you really sound quite ill (not ill, no, just deciding not to cooperate with the work ethic today - let yourself have a break, and indeed a hot toddy if you have any whisky.