Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

Karmacat

Yikes Cheery - hope it goes well.

Pippi, absolutely, I think the emphasis is all on university these days - he's got you as a role model to tell him that he doesn't have to do all his studying now - its easier, yes, but not necessarily better.

And happiness ... you know, people don't seem to refer to happiness at all when they talk about teenagers entering into adult life. There's a nod to "whwat are you good at", and thats it. Happiness? Its below the bottom of the pile, sadly, so the more you can chat to him, the better, I'd say. Interesting that his friend is so positive about the blacksmithing.

redsquirrel80

Good news about the job. Your to-do lists scare me a little!

'First sit only' results is quite mean.. I suppose they have to set standards but it really annoys me there aren't better ways of judging people's suitability for Uni.. for it to be down to what happens on one exam day is really tough. Hope he finds whatever's right for him though (ps thoroughly recommend Dundee - I did philosophy and psychology there, on one of my assorted forays into education, it has a really nice vibrant atmosphere, very forward looking).

ps again, hope hospital goes well Cheery x

Pippilongstocking

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Hey! I told you last time - don't be tidying up on my account!! :eek: :eek: Really! I'l feel rotten if you do, with so many other things to do! I wish you could have made it over here a few weeks back - if only to have seen the state of my house and realised there's really no need!

Its not so much tidying up as keeping the current state of semi order

My life is not tidy - entropy and all that - no point in messing with the natural order of life

Karmacat wrote: »

Yikes Cheery - hope it goes well.

Pippi, absolutely, I think the emphasis is all on university these days - he's got you as a role model to tell him that he doesn't have to do all his studying now - its easier, yes, but not necessarily better.

And happiness ... you know, people don't seem to refer to happiness at all when they talk about teenagers entering into adult life. There's a nod to "whwat are you good at", and thats it. Happiness? Its below the bottom of the pile, sadly, so the more you can chat to him, the better, I'd say. Interesting that his friend is so positive about the blacksmithing.

Lovely and well put - I want him to be happy, lifes hard enough especially as a teenager. He's seen me struggle with the 'will I or won't I return to accounting' or will I mess about with flowers - when we found our selves alone with a 2 and 3 year old - I wanted to do something that would make me happy as the rest of life was going to be challening.

He knows I'm a great 'do what makes you really happy' kinda girl and he's seen us achieve that eventually - I'll chib him along

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

Good news about the job. Your to-do lists scare me a little!

'First sit only' results is quite mean.. I suppose they have to set standards but it really annoys me there aren't better ways of judging people's suitability for Uni.. for it to be down to what happens on one exam day is really tough. Hope he finds whatever's right for him though (ps thoroughly recommend Dundee - I did philosophy and psychology there, on one of my assorted forays into education, it has a really nice vibrant atmosphere, very forward looking).

ps again, hope hospital goes well Cheery x

It is mean isn't it? I'm from Dundee - and yup as a uni its great, OH went there as well!



world gets smaller by the day

My lists are meant to scare me into action :rotfl:

Although I'm still sitting here:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

Ok

Washing done about to be hung up
Kitchen tidied
Fridge organised and anything needing frozen or re-assigned (ie into pasta sauce before it goes mouldy)
I've even put away some washing and had a bath
Plants also watered


Pot of very wierd pasta sauce bubbling, I'm either a genius or a down right clart, I can't decide - all manky (non-mouldy) bits of courgettes/tomato windfall from work etc in pan, bendy celery from fridge, a bit of cucumber etc - then looked at the ends of the rhubarb (reduced) I'd got chopped up for freezing and lobbed the ends (not very manky) into the pasta sauce - my figuring is this - rhubarb is technically a vegetable, I'm making vegetable pasta sauce, therefore this is actually OK, so then lobbed in random herbs, a bit of rocket going droopy and a small tin of tomato puree, a bit of garlic and two veggie stock cubes.

Once whizzed no one will know, I can't believe the rhubarb will do anything but enhance the vegetable content - right? And, so far it doesn't taste revolting.

Nigella, I'm not, I love that this site makes you look a a pile of *almost* revolting veg and think - hmm that will make a good pasta sauce!

Lemon_Tree

hi, for once i'm glad i'm not around to try your pasta sauce
sounds like you're rocketting through your list, you're leaving us all standing in the wake lol

Debt numbers are coming down which is always good. fingers crossed about the job

redsquirrel80

Impressive use of veggie bits - I'm sure it'll taste fine, everything goes all tomatoey anyway Hmm wonder if we've got an rhubarb chutney left from last year, that was really good!

Triciaxx

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Ok

Nigella, I'm not, I love that this site makes you look a a pile of *almost* revolting veg and think - hmm that will make a good pasta sauce!

Don't forget that is how pasta sauce came to be - a glut of tomatoes, left over onion, bottom of the veg basket and some herbs. The stock was probably a couple of chicken feet and the water from a bucket with a coating of dust on it.

Makes your recipe sound really posh. :j

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: tricia :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

Well that is all very true tricia you made me laugh - and red, chutney and me often aren't friends, they often have those evil things in them (sultanas and alike.............yuck). But, I do like chutney - does your recipe have evil dried fruit in it?

YUCK to the chicken feet though - this version is definitely veggie!

There is a ginger cat on my local freecycle - needing a home in the country, I'm needing a ratter............

List so far so good crossed off a bit more, but not much!

Got more work for next week (all week long yay!)

Pippilongstocking

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

My happy little life today


[STRIKE]
Hens to feed and eggs to collect
Got a bit of cooking to do - pasta sauce from collected manky tomatoes and courgettes (make it sound so appealing don't I?)
Eggs to sort for a chum who wants 12 (£2) will pop out with them enroute to work later
[/STRIKE]
Watering and polytunnel things to do for a small fee in town
[STRIKE]Need to dry some reduced sage I got (15p) as it doesn't freeze well[/STRIKE]
Basil to pick and freeze
[STRIKE]same for tomatoes[/STRIKE]
Cordial syrup is made, need grab last of the flowers
Take polytunnel posts, pick axe and fencing spike out of back of car
Pay web lady today
Think about how much I can pay to penguin face
Nepeta and a few other things to take photos of and put on ebay later
plants for propagation to pot up - need check if I have any compost (mainly named scented geraniums - nice house plants, I think potentially a good all year round seller) and a few herbs
[STRIKE]Water plants[/STRIKE]
Repot new basil, my own first one is beginning to slow down a bit but having picked it for ages I'm happy enough
[STRIKE]Checklist for stripeystores - keiss did a brilliant job at topping it all up - the cupboards are full to bursting![/STRIKE]
A bit of web work for me
[STRIKE]A bit of web research for local recycling charity[/STRIKE]
Perhaps a blog
A bit of corrections to keep the momentum up on that
[STRIKE]Bit of washing (boring bit)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Bit of tidying up (extremely boring bit, but trying to keep tidy til cheery gets here)[/STRIKE]
Bit of office shifting to do, I want bring my data and files home, but NO idea where to put them!
Phone landlord again, wasn't in yesterday when I bravely rang!
Pick more veg from garden at work (my own plot)

Crossed a few off, figured what I've got left to do, onwards for a couple hours now

Cheery I hope all went well