It was getting tough in 2006 and the workhouse still threatens us in 2011

Mrs_Chip

That is a shame TR - did they ever explain what the issue was or if it is going to be fixed? I am surprised BT are putting out a device that is not able to allow connection by some other devices that use wireless (all manner of stuff these days can connect, the BT box designers should be building in the compatability).

mardatha

I dont like reading off a screen, prefer to sit with a real paper books on the couch on the floor. I buy them off Amazon for 1p a time.

westlothianlass

Hi al,
Ceridwen i have that version of the kindle, my hubby bought me it for my birthday after i had hummed and hawed for ages. I must say i've found it a doddle to use and like others have found loads of free or very cheap books that are worth a look. The memory is vast but even if you delete a book from the kindle it is kept for you in your online account incase you wish it back. I love having books around and still buy paper copies but must say I am using it more and more.

Well a very eventful and stressful night for us. I had gone to bed around 11 to be woken at midnight by hubby as someone had smashed in our living room window while he was watching TV. Turns out some drunken youths had been chucked out the pub across the road and decided they weren't happy:mad:. Biggest thing for me was persuading my hubby not to go outside to "get them" as he was furious. Police arrived knew exactly who they were and told us they had wondered where they had gone as the local town had been very quiet:eek:.
So i am sitting here with a boarded up window, but on a positive note we had a very productive day yesterday with lots of ratatouille in the freezer (glut of courgettes) and some of last years hedgerow wine bottled and ready for guzzling.
Apologies for the long post but felt you lovely peeps wouldn't mind letting me have a wee rant:o.
Think some more coffee is neaded.
Hugs x

ceridwen

Thanks for that comment WL. Lass - its beginning to sound simple enough for techno-idiots like me to be able to use.

I dont blame you for having a rant re the window - at two levels:
- your window needing fixing

and

- the relief it didnt hit any of you as it went through the window :eek:

I've been sitting there innocently minding my own business before now when I was out and a brick came smashing through the window within inches of my head:eek:. I just sat there too shocked to run out and scream at the idiot that had done that - as I was so aware that a few inches to the right and I'd have been killed or - even worse - severely injured. My "guardian angel" was "earning their salary" again that day...

So - thank goodness you're all okay.

smileyt_2

Oh my goodness, Westlothianlass! I suppose it is of some relief that you know it wasn't personally aimed at you and yours, so there shouldn't be a repeat, but what a horrible thing to happen.:(

Here's something to make you giggle. I got chatted up in the park this morning. The guy tried really hard but was starting to annoy me by the time he said, "I could take you out, we could have a drink, a meal, sleep together and have a good sex life." :eek::eek: He also said that if I turned him down I would be turning my luck down! I found it hard not to gasp at his arrogance because he had no idea what that sounded like. It does sound funny now, but at the time I just wanted to run away. I managed to persuade him that no, I really, really wasn't interested and he should go and find himself a nice lady who would appreciate him, but I am definitely not that woman. He was from a notoriously homophobic country so there was no way I was going to tell him I'm gay. If I see him again I'm going to tell him I'm waiting to enter a nunnery :rotfl:

I wouldn't care, but I was dressed like I'd been rummaging in a rag bag, with a not very flattering cap, and I ain't what you'd call a stunner by any long stretch of the imagination! I always seem to attract men who would go for anything as long as it's got a pulse, though :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Although the state I was in this morning, even that would be debatable!

Well, I'm going to spend the rest of the day meal planning, tidying up and making sure I have enough clean underwear for my first week back at work. Unlike the common stereotype promoted by certain sections of the media, I am quite excited and really happy to be going back to work tomorrow, even if it does mean I have to get up at 6am. Have a good Sunday, folks.

parsonswife8

The b%$&!* thermostat in our boiler is broken. Lucky we can boost the boiler with the other one and we have a seperate hot shower thingie.

Hubby will have to sort it.

In winter 2009, the whole boiler was replaced.:mad:

Kimsmum

smileyt You had quite a morning then,
my OH amd son are watchig the F1 and they wanted to know what was so funny they could here me laughing from the next room.
Hope everything goes well at work and take care of yourself.:)

culpepper

Afternoon!
My lovely son took the old shed apart for me:)
Only been waiting for OH to do it for 5 years.
Once we have burned all the rotten wood,DS is going to make me a compost bin out of the good bits.
He also got the gate that he made out of a huge pallet ,painted yesterday and it really helps smarten up the front of the house.

Our electric kettle needs replacing. The plastic is starting to perish and where it has cracked,the water trickles out.
After looking on here at the threads about eco kettles, I think we will just get a bog standard cheepo replacement and continuing to utilise the thermos for any excess boiled water.

GreyQueen

Good afternoon, one and all.

I spent yesterday afternoon on the lottie until the point where I packed up and went across the city boundary to the Really Big Supermarket. Gals, it was AWFUL.

I normally shop in smallish supermarkets inside the city and at random times but this visit managed to co-incide with Big Weekly Family Shop. Never again. There were children screaming and children driving their own trollies without due care and attention. There were women and OHs squabbling over what to buy, or tiny differences within brands. Everyone seemed over-wrought and ratty and I was getting that way, too, by osmosis.

It's all Mr Pumpkin's fault. I went to those linkies HJ posted backon 2747 (page 138) and copied them to my pooter and printed them nicely to my recipe folder and made my shopping list. So far, so good. Nomnomnom.

The risotto recipe needs sage. Fresh sage. I went to several stores and the market. Sold out everywhere. How can a city be totally devoid of a common culinary herb?!

The Pumpkin Curry with Chickpeas requires yellow Thai curry paste. I went to several stores. You can get it in red or green, here in the provinces. I got it in red as red is more like yellow than green is IYSWIM (was going a bit doolally at this point btw).

OK, thought I, enough shopping. Have been at it for 2 hours + and am getting ratty. I shall cook what I have and if there's pumpkin left over, I shall scour the shops on Monday for sage. Now I've come home from the lottie with intent to cook pumpkin curry and left the fresh mint leaves growing in the pot.....aaarrgh, I could scream.

But I won't because I have gone on that Ecocucina website and found something to do with the pumpkin rind, and I shall do that, and roast the seeds, and make pumpkin soup as I seem to have all the fixings for that, and that should be enough cooking for one day.

I've had my nose in a new library book since yesterday which I though might be of interest to the OS crowd "Sucking Eggs; what your wartime granny could teach you about diet, thrift and going green." by Patricia Nicol ISBN 978 0 099 52112 9.

It's not one of those reproductions of wartime publications but a combined history and tips book. It references Nella Last and quite a few others and had lots of stuff I didn't know.

Well, the 3 hours on the lottie saw the shed treatment finished and the pea-sticks down and put away. I have an apex-roofed shed and have a cunning way of storing these so they aren't in my way for the several months of the year when they aren't in use.

What I did was this; Get 4 large cuphooks from the hardware store and screw them at a 45 degree angle into the roof trusses. These are used to support a sling made from a double-up length of old bicycle inner tube. The sticks are bundled and rest in the sling and use the otherwise wasted bit of space. Simples!

My shed is only 6 feet long so this sling can only accomodate the peasticks and not the 8 foot long beanpoles, but it is handy. I've also taken the broadbeans down by cutting them off at ground level (leave the roots in the ground to rot and give up their goodness to the soil) and have bundled the beans together and will keep them dry to use as kindling for the bonfire I will have next month.

Thinking ahead, thinking ahead...........

Hope everyone is having a great Sunday.

greent

GreyQueen wrote: »

It's all Mr Pumpkin's fault. I went to those linkies HJ posted backon 2747 (page 138) and copied them to my pooter and printed them nicely to my recipe folder and made my shopping list. So far, so good. Nomnomnom.

The risotto recipe needs sage. Fresh sage. I went to several stores and the market. Sold out everywhere. How can a city be totally devoid of a common culinary herb?!

Maybe there's an MSE recipe effect, like the Delia effect when she features something in here recipes and it sells out everywhere within a couple of days?!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Has been tipping it down with rain here all morning - sun has now come out, so I'm off to hang the washing out and make the most of it