Not mentioning the T word at all

paidinchickens

Morning (feels like the middle of the night though )

I also put a lot in the dishwasher including all my dishcloths, brush and scourers.

My little old man (my old next door neighbour) rang to check it is still ok for him to come to us at crimbo :j looks like he really means to come so that has made me happy.

DS did not even moan when he found out he would have to give his bed up and sleep on a blow up bed in the other kids room :eek: How sweet is that :T

PIC x

Edinburghlass_2

If anyone wants to look out the door or window to the south at 7.16 the International Space Station should be crossing our skies.

I've been up since 3.00 am being sick so waiting until the ISS passes then I'll have a bath and clear it up

ETA, too cloudy!

Valwoire

Morning all!

Hope there's room for a noobie here? I've been trying to read the whole thread, but had to skip a few pages as it was just taking too long!

Can someone please tell me what this AF place is that some of you use for shopping? Apologies if it's explained elsewhere, I've tried looking and can't find the answer anywhere!

I'm looking forward to getting to know you all better!

V

Red_Doe

Approved Foods, I use it often and it's very good. Hope this helps.


http://www.approvedfood.co.uk/

Valwoire

Thank you Red Doe - I can't believe I haven't known about this before! I'm going to have a sort out of my freezers and pantry as I can feel an order coming on!

D&DD

Thanks so much re the cheerios Kitti will nip in there on the way back from DS2's appointment theres one just over the road from there.


Any idea how many vouchers I can use in MrT's ?? Aesop thanks for that link I always forget to check the voucher thread *naughty DD *

rachbc

all this talk of nana's - has anyone made 1 ingredient icecream?? Its fab. bananas slicesd fozen then whizzed in the blender/ food processor still forzen forthick creamy icecream I also whizz with milk for super healthy thick shakes for the kids

can add pnb or cocoa for falvour too

Igamogam

Why do my employers think that paying me 2 weeks early in December - 'for Christmas' is helpful? It only benefits the payrol dept as far as I can see, who all get paid in the middle of the month anyway. Its all flippin computerised - well they blame the IT set up when anything goes wrong - so why cant they set it to pay on normal day............ AAARGGH! It will be nearly 7 weeks before I get paid again. I know its the same amout of money over the same period but its sooo easy to dip inot next months budget without realising. Yet again I will move a fair chunck out of current account into deposit just to amke it a little harder to get to

CCP

Morning all.

Valwoire - I feel I should warn you that, once you start with Approved Food, it's very hard to stop! I'm currently having to force myself to delete their emails unread as I really don't have any more room in my cupboards, even for absolute bargains.

rachbc - I did try the banana ice cream last year and it wasn't bad at all - I added some vanilla essence and it tasted very ice cream-like. I'll have to remember that next summer.

I dropped my banana cake off to the cake stall this morning and it got lots of admiring looks - it did look pretty impressive if I do say so myself. I must go and get something off the stall in a minute: I was so busy fighting to ice the cake (I'm not particularly good with icing) that I ran out of time to eat breakfast. Never mind - that means more room for cake.

GreyQueen

Morning all! And an especial good morning to Valwoire and a hello again to joeck68.

I'm such a tired bunny that I am contemplating licking my fingers and sticking them in a leccy socket, just to kickstart this sorry carcase into action. Couldn't keep my eyes open last night so went to bed at 9 pm and resurfaced just before 8 am. Urrrggghhhhhhh.

Can homo sapiens hibernate? I certainly have enough body fat to last for several weeks without eating........:rotfl:I, too, will be attempting to diet in the New Year - and failing- as per my personal tradition.

:jToday I got my refund cheque from the company that owns Dylon dyes after I'd had a grump last month via email with their customer services department that they shouldn't call a dye Burlesque Red when it's a pure purple. I'm rich, I'm rich!:j

Went to the Magic Greengrocer after w*rk yesterday and emerged with quite a haul for £1; 15 bananas and 16 satsumas. Nomnomnom.

Also, last weekend, I was shopping at a Big Mr T with Mum and we were buying bananas which they had packaged at a flat-rate price of 99p a packet. She thought I was a nutter to be rummaging to choose between the packs until I bunged them on the scales and demonstrated that the lighter packs were 1.3 kg and the heavier ones were over 3 kg!!!!!!!!! She now has learned a new trick, which goes some way towards the overdraft of tips which I've learned from her over the years.

Mum is a pretty savvy shopper but used to do most of it at Sainsbugs because that is her nearest store. Parents have a car but prefer to make trips inside their town on foot to keep active - they are both just shy of 70. However, the silly prices fluctuations have caused them to go to less-convenient stores like Aldi and Iceland and Big Mr T, which is on the opposite side of town, can be accessed via a very small detour on the route back from Nan's where they go every Saturday anyway. Using no more fuel, too.

Mum's never done MSE but she is happily experimenting with unknown brands and all sorts. I sometimes know ahead of time and some times she surprises me with consumer reports after the event. She was very taken with the L!dl Formil washing powder and I have a standing instruction to get that for her.

Mum has a dishwasher too; called Dad. We kinda have a house-rule at the parents' that whomever cooks doesn't do dishes. If there's a really big wash-up such as Sunday roast, several bods with work together and we have some good laughs and even soap-fights. You can catch someone a lovely ding with a wet teatowel and this is a useful skill to carry thru this life.

I was visibly-astonished when I was doing my own washing up in a communal kitchen at a YHA hostel and the 3 mid-teen children beside me were struggling to wash a few dishes; 5 mugs, 5 plates which had held toast and 5 buttery-crumby knives. I have never seen near-adults so hamfisted with water and crocks and my expression must have over-ridden the internal editor because the oldest girl wryly remarked that they had a dishwasher at home. I'd guessed. Goodness, I hope she always has access to a DW because I shudder to think how she'd cope with anything really messy.

Well, I was freaked out last night when I opened the cupboard where I keep my potatoes-for-immediate-use in a wicker basket and found that the beggars had sprouted again. Gordon Bennett, it's only 8 days since I thoroughly de-sprouted them all. Even Dad, a veteran of overwintering h.g tatties, was astonished when I told him. We came to the conclusion that it is the unseasonably warm weather - they think its spring. Have de-shooted the tatties-in-the-storage-stool sack and will have to do the ones which live in the bikeshed. Life was more straightforward when I kept them all in the lottie shed but they got frosted last year and I lost over 50% and I'm damned if I'll let that happen again.

Okay, need more tea before getting ready to face the day. Had some right nutters on the jellybone yesterday so goodness knows what today will bring. Never a dull moment in my working life.;)

Hope everyone has a good day and that people who are poorly are slowly on the mend. Hugs to ((kidkat)) if you're reading, hun.

Laters, GQ x