Not mentioning the T word at all

lizzyb1812

tashmartin wrote: »

Hi everyone just delurking to say thanks for the many helpful tips on this thread am really enjoying reading it!
LIZZIEB1812- is the book you mentioned by Rumer Godden- The Dolls House? ( Main characters include Tottie, Marchpane,Birdie and Darner the dog.)I've just bought this to put in my dds stocking at christmas, I loved it as a child and am hoping she will too.

Ooh! Not sure that was the one but will definitely be trying to find it to see if it is - thanks ever so :T

EstherH

Regarding Costco: we were in not long ago at customer services and he handed us an executive membership leaflet. I said "oh no we don't spend that much" and he said he would check what we had spent over the last year. I was shocked and it was more than enough to cover the exec membership.
We live less than a mile away and tend to pop in and buy a few things regularly so it had all added up.

I take photos of items and prices with my phone and then check online to see if it is a bargain. Im waiting for them to come and tap me on the shoulder....
Esther x

tashmartin

hi FTM, my dd is 7 and i'm hoping she'll enjoy it, she loves to read and i remember reading it at her age so it should be ok for your dd. You can always use it as one of those books where you both snuggle down and read it together ( my favourite type of book!).

scottishminnie

maryb wrote: »

thinly sliced potatoes layered in a baking dish with chopped bacon and onion. Pour over a cheese sauce and bake in medium oven for about 40 minutes until brown and bubbling and the potatoes feel done when you test them with the point of a knife. Serve with cabbage or other green veg. Cheap and delicious

oops cross posted with rachbc.

Thanks for this - sounds fab.

I don't have any bacon right now but this will be my Saturday night comfort food I think. Along with a hm seeded loaf. I'll be looking forward to it all week:)

SDG31000

Evening everyone

Thank you tashmartin for the information on the book. I remember the story from the tv programme by Oliver Postgate, but hadn't thought about it in years. The story is darker than I recalled, so it might be worth reading first to those you you thinking about giving it to small children.

I will be making the cheesy bacon potato bake and ty for the recipe maryb and rachbc.

I'm watching The Hippo on channel 4 and finding it fascinating. DS1, who plays computer games that involve massive carnage, has gone to bed as he was finding it too graphic lol. I'm just glad I have a strong stomach about things like that and that dinner was a while ago.

Dinner was meant to be savoury mince with baked potatoes and cabbage, but unfortunately the mince was smelling a little dodgy. So we had chicken curry, homemade naans spread with garlic butter, basmati rice and roasted butternut squash, sweet potatoes and peppers.
Hopefully DH is going to be home soon. The part he was waiting for got stuck in a traffic jam on the M6, so he has to go back at 7am tomorrow. It does mean that he is earning lots of overtime at time and a half, but is going to be shattered for the rest of the week and spend the weekend recovering. At least his job is relatively secure and we don't have that worry hanging over our heads, for which I am hugely grateful. My heart goes out to those that are worrying about their/their partners jobs.

Ohhhh pretty lions and not so pretty bits of dead Wilderbeast. And now pots full of bugs and creepy crawlies.

Night everyone.........don't let the bed bugs bite

D&DD

I've been rushed off my feet with hospitals,dentists and doctors this week and got more next week and the week after..they all seem to come together for some reason!

Trying to figure out how to make some room in the freezer as I've been cooking some batches of dinners and freezing them so at least we come home to a nice meal but running out of space due to my blackberry and raspberry bushes being so productive this year!!

I can make some more jam tomorrow but need to use up around 20 bags of each :eek: any suggestions???

I'll do some leathers but I only have 5 trays for the dehydrator.

That should only leave me around 25 bags of each for the winter then :rotfl:

witchwoopiggy

delerking just say hi and im enjoying reading everyones ideas and i like the dont mention the t word lol makes it a bit easier somehow to know we are all in the same boat. hoping the rain stops tomorrow so i can get up the allotment

GreyQueen

Okay, okay, this is getting beyond a joke. Is the whole country blanketed in grey cloud or does someone have the Yellow Ball? I think I haven't actually seen clear sky and sunshine in a week +.

Nothing exciting has happened here at Shoebox Towers for ages.....hours even. No one has been raided for drugs although there are quite a few of the usual suspects dealing weed. For some reason probably related to police rotas, they normally do drugs raids at 2 pm on Thursday afternoons, which is a source of slight disappointment to yours truly as I'm always at work. :(:p Well, you have to take your entertainment where you can, don't you?

I was very slack yesterday and bought a fish supper on a whim. Do you know how many tins of tomatoes I could have bought with the same amount of money? Lots. It was very naughty of me but it was nomnomnom.:rotfl:

I'm still considering the remodelling job on a checked linen shirt which was a cast-off from kid brother. I have taken the collar off which gives it a much fresher and less masculine look and am now considering the sleeves. They are vastly too long for me. I'm long-limbed but blokes' sleeves always hang down over my knuckles. This shirt will need to have the option of being worn sleeves-down at times (or I'll get sunburned) or sleeves-up to keep them out of the muck when doing certain gardening chores. They don't stay rolled up, that's for sure.

I was contemplating unpicking the cuffs and making a channel to thread thru elastic; has anyone got any better ideas? It's purely for gardening so I don't have to be a fashionista but I don't want to look any more stupid than strictly necessary......;).

Today's cunning plan unfortunately involves attending a place of employment yet again....if only I had a private income (sigh). I love to be outside and once the clocks go back and there's no way of pottering on the lottie after work, I feel a bit blue and p'd off. Roll on Spring!

((Hugs to those in and out of dentists and doctors)). Gonna be up the hospital tomorrow myself for my regular MOT with the consultant. The worst bit is......I get weighed.:eek: Oh horrors. And I weigh too blinking much and will probably be told off (deservedly) and will have to give up my newfound love of home-baking and live on gruel......sob sob.

Mardatha, be a love and chuck some sweeties across the interweb; it's not til tomorrow and I might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

Mrs Chip; any news on the oil tank?

I need to refuel on the old tea, so bye for now and don't do anything I wouldn't do.............*:rotfl:

* That's a fairly broad remit btw.;) Hope all of us have a good day.

HELLO, Witchwoopiggy!

Softstuff

GQ, regarding that shirt, oddly enough I purchased one second hand from a market similar to what you described (with the grandad collar too) but with the sleeves already taken care of... they have a button at the elbow, and on the inside where the button is sewn they've got a strip of fabric about 3 inches long with a button hole on. You pull this out the bottom of the sleeve and fasten it to the button on the outside, thus hoiking up the sleeve to almost elbow height. Hope that makes sense, if not I'll attempt to have hubby take a photo, but that wouldn't be until tomorrow.

SDG31000

Morning Everyone

GQ I can't sew for toffee and I apologise if this makes no sense, but how about a strip of fabric sewn on the inside of the top of the sleeve and a button on the inside to pull up the cuff and one on the outside so that when you roll up the sleeves the strip of fabric folds over the roll and then fastens. I'm not sure if it would work, but I've seen shirts with the fabric that folds over and fastens.