A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

optimistic

Anyway...onwards and upwards, today I have mainly been doing washing as the mancub decided everything on the floor in his room must be dirty again :mad: Mind you it all smells like and old pub carpet so needs washing regardless...Grrrr.

Kate[/QUOTE]

I love your term 'mancub' lol; we have a manchild that lives with us! :rotfl:

LavenderBees

3v3 wrote: »

On my drive home from Uni today, I plucked up the courage to go to the house with the skip to ask if I could "recycle" the ladder I'd spied yesterday.

I think the young woman was a little bit taken aback, but was more than happy for me to have it - even to the point she suggested her husband dig it out and to call back tomorrow. I did say that if it was ok, I could take it there and then and she was fine with that. As I pulled it out, I realised it wasn't really a ladder-ladder, but a ladder shaped thingy which I think came from a built in wardrobe.

Still looking bemused, I explained to the woman that I kept chickens and I was going to use it in the coop. Well, well, well, what do you know? Her previous neighbour used to keep chickens, moved out 6 weeks ago and she believes the coop remained behind and suggested I speak to the new neighbour. Having braved "skip-scrounging " mode, I decided that was enough for one day, but will pop back and knock on the neighbours door at the weekend

With a bit of remedial work, that "ladder" is just what I was looking for for my chooks :j Frrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :T

:think: With a bit more practice, I think I could get in the habit of "skip shopping" :rotfl:

Proud of you, well done :T

Welcome to all the newbies, lovely to read all your posts tonight

Really enjoying reading everyone's posts tonight after a tough work day (a 7hr appraisal as haven't had one for years...exhausting work talking about yourself, I find :rotfl:) and also have had confirmation that my friend and neighbour has lost her job to redundancy. This is the 2nd friend this month to lose their job...:(. Really feel that 2012 is going to be even tougher than the last couple of years, but trying very hard not to get too anxious. I can't help taking on friend's problems, though.

Thanks for cheering me up, folks. :A

LavenderBees

gardenia101 wrote: »

Catbells - I quite often have a panic every now & then. Often when friends talk about the OHs/family who help them out quite often - I get reminded that I'm the only grown up making decisions about very important stuff like mortgages & I feel a bit :eek:. But it does mean I don't have to consider anyone elses silly opinions about such stuff either when they disagree with me (& are therefore wrong :rotfl:). Swings & roundabouts...
...

Yes, so do I have a bit panic (sometimes a big panic) when I remember there is only me to rely on and keep a roof over my head (and the pusses, too of course! :eek:) Just sometimes, it would be nice to have someone to help take the strain...I get so tired of coping all the time. I want to have the luxury of the odd day of not coping :rotfl:Must be worse when chldren could be affected by decision making though.

Having said that these forums are great for talking with like-minded people, and the advice on so many subjects is excellent and well-intentioned.... I think. I feel very lucky to have stumbled across you all last year. Thank you!

Scuttles back to reading the latest updates with red cheeks...

xx

hornetgirl

Eeek, you ladies do talk fast. It's all I can do to keep up with reading the thread at the moment, let alone recall who said what.
Yesterday was definitely my blue Monday, regardless of when the official one may be. I didn't go out all day (except to the dustbin) and didn't talk to anyone other than DH. The lovely family who live across the road moved out on Sunday, will really miss them. They have two little girls and a baby boy, so always put me in mind of Gailey
Plenty to do today and was out and about for several hours, which made me feel much more human. I went mad and bought a little bunch of daffodils for £1 in M&S. Frivolous spending maybe, but they do make the place look cheerful. Oh and we started eating the Christmas cake today. At this rate we might have it finished by Easter lol.
Funny you should mention instant win competitions Byatt - I did one this afternoon and will apparently be getting a voucher for a litre of orange juice in the post :T

Byatt

Well done on the win Hornetgirl! I've been trying each day but no luck yet. Daffodils are always such happy flowers. I saw some bulbs in Morries for 50p I think but forgot to go and get them after my wander around. There are already daffs on the grass verges of the road! So early.

Shegar my page is smaller too; it seems to be since Martin's change to the page. I hate change so don't like it right now!

Forgot to say I bought my first red lentils today.

LB's a 7 hour appraisal?! :eek: I would have lay down and died. Hated the things when I worked, or should I say was employed. Never got the hang of saying what I was good at! Or where I could improve.

So glad we haven't got snow. After last year I never want to see the stuff again. I always loved snow, but just had enough of it. Treacherous to drive in.

Gailey I think you should treat yourself more often. I remember the sheer bliss of having a coffee made by someone else and just feeling normal. It's easy to forget that those moments are precious too just like the memories you are making for your children.

I need to get my hair cut, I look somewhat witchy right now.:rotfl: I thought I might try and use the college hairdresser as I have to go into the Big City for a course every week for the next 5 weeks and seeing as it's such a long way and expensive petrol/parking wise I need/want to justify the travelling.

lizzyb1812

The narrow page is due to the masthead change but we have the option to change back to wide:

Go to UserCP

Go to Edit Options

Go to Miscellaneous Options

Look at Forum Skin and select New Masthead, stretchy from the drop down menu

HTH

lizzyb1812

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

At the moment, nothing. I've got to claw back the initial £15 investment first. If I was a sensible housekeeper I'd keep a price-book but unfortunately I don't so I can't even calculate the cost of the ingredients. My own feeling is that it's not much.

3 1/3 cups of plain flour
1 tablespoon of veg oil
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of sugar
2 teaspoons of dried yeast.
Plus the leccy

I absolutely refuse to believe that the cost would come anywhere near what the baker or supermarket charges. It comes out about half the size of a large sandwich loaf. I got totally fed up of either a 25 minute walk each way or £2.60 there and back on the bus to buy some, so did without. And now I don't have to. Hooray!

I know I did a calculation ages ago and it came to well under 40p for a basic white loaf using 500g white bread flour which costs about 70p a bag. Leccy in my Panny and on my tariff came to about 3p - I used a monitor to check. Adding milk powder as some recipes suggest adds about 5-10p but can be left out of all the recipes I've tried so far.

Florenceem

gailey wrote: »

I know coffee and toast sainsburys bit frivilous but

walked 15mins dropped eldest off at school left house mad rush so no drink before.
walked toddler and pushed baby in buggy to retail park to save bus money and spent 25mins in park was flipping freezing.

went to retail park specifically get their feet measured.

baby needed a breast feed, toddler hungry and tired and we were all bit cold so spent £2.89 on large cappacuino and 2slices of toast.

I must admit pre kids/mse days cafes my weakness as love a nice cappacuino, cake and read the paper or meet up with freinds which happens so infrequently these days.

Today

went to sw lost 1lb.
hubby took toddler to church hall messyplay where she painted and glued until hearts content. she loves it and no mess at home and needs more interaction now but cant satrt preschool until september still need to find new toddler group.

having quick drink bite to eat..

hubbys taking baby/toddler round his mums give me chance to do the housework, hes apicking up parcel from sorting office and eldest from school.

He dident get any reductions in morrisons last night last mon was so good. But he did get few bargains in co-op chicken for £1, fish for £1 so quite pleased.Feel as if hes embracing it more and listening.

soo cold here but no snow, noticed in sainsburys big box of red snow shovels £7.49.

going to do some chicken soup from leftover chicken carcass
do mini quiches and fairy cakes as dident get chance last night.

popped in spar see whats reduced so send hubby in this evening and hope prices knocked down further.

Hope everyones ok

I wasn't getting at you. I have been a busy Mum - getting 6 children out of the door in the morning.

meme30

lizzyb1812 wrote: »

The narrow page is due to the masthead change but we have the option to change back to wide:

Go to UserCP

Go to Edit Options

Go to Miscellaneous Options

Look at Forum Skin and select New Masthead, stretchy from the drop down menu

HTH

That's worked great :j Thanks for that! I was feeling a bit squashed, am now my usual XL self. :T

mardatha

I wondered what you were all talking about re narrow pages and new mastheads, went to CP edit options etc and found I'm set on the old look that explains it then eh!