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

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Morning Bruno, us hopes your stapleses is still behavin an not poppin off all over the place an makin your bed uncomforetable.. I has tried so hard to train my peoples proply but vey still keep draggin me out for oh so cold walkies wen I wud much raver stay in my armchair. An worstest still van vat vey wont let me munch all ver nummy fings I finds under hedges or onna beach - I dont understand it at all. Mind you Mumi is really good at Necky Scritches so I sposes it culd be worse. Try an stay in one piece today - Frum Doc xx

Oooh, necky scritches - fab. Bruno has a hard time deciding whether necky scritches or bum scritches are the best!

He is a cheeky dog - last night when we went to bed I went to use the bathroom and when I came back to my bedroom, there he was on my bed, with his head on my pillow!

Spent two hours on the allotment today. I shall be creaking in the morning - my legs and back are already aching. I shall feel like the tin man from the Wizard of Oz :rotfl:

Thank you for all your tips on oven cleaning; it looks like the bicarb/soda crystals have won. Unfortunately me laddo had a friend round today so I refrained from my screeching banshee act until another day.

I'm going to do a bit of cross-stitch and then some ironing before bed. I'm attempting this http://www.cross-stitch-corner.co.uk/christmas-moonlight---maia---thomas-kinkade-124-p.asp it's the biggest stitch I've ever tried. I've already done the sky wrong but I'm not unpicking it, it will have to stay wrong! It was supposed to be a Christmas present for my sister last year, ahem! If I start now, perhaps she'll get it this year..... Ooh, did anyone see that pig fly past? :rotfl:

kidcat

Big Thelma - weaning and feeding my four when they were babies was a nightmare - ironically the one that ate the best and most varied diet was Ds7 and he now eats a very rigid diet and wont accept change due to his autism - I found varying the recipe slightly over a few days was fairly good at getting a bit more variety in, chicken and rice with tomato sauce base, then adding different veg each day.

Byatt

Is anyone else having trouble getting on to the forums on FF? I have been trying for ages, so using IE now. Very odd.

Yes, rubgy was good. I'm going to Cardif in June for a couple of days so will get my Welsh fix. Already very excited. Thought the Scots team looked quite lush...:o;)

Gailey are you doing the 2 year or 3 year uni course in social work? I did Health & Social Care Management, which meant our tutor group worked with the social work students on some modules. I should have done SW, as my degree is OK but not a lot of use without relevant experience. I would think with you being a mum should go a long way towards experience. How many hours do Bristol want you to do before starting (experience wise). I wanted to do the MA course in Plymouth but they want a longer period of experience and now, well, I have lost impetus. What are the provisions on campus for child care? You will have placements too, what area do you want to work in? Children?

Bigjenny

Hi Kidcat

I don't think stacking one pan on top the other would work, a basin over a pan of boiling water might work.

Or just cook as per recipe stir for a few mins on stove and serve, don't bother to put in oven, is the only other suggestion I can think of.

Have a fancy some some semolina now, will buy some tomorrow.

HTH

gailey_2

Byatt wrote: »

Is anyone else having trouble getting on to the forums on FF? I have been trying for ages, so using IE now. Very odd.

Yes, rubgy was good. I'm going to Cardif in June for a couple of days so will get my Welsh fix. Already very excited. Thought the Scots team looked quite lush...:o;)

Gailey are you doing the 2 year or 3 year uni course in social work? I did Health & Social Care Management, which meant our tutor group worked with the social work students on some modules. I should have done SW, as my degree is OK but not a lot of use without relevant experience. I would think with you being a mum should go a long way towards experience. How many hours do Bristol want you to do before starting (experience wise). I wanted to do the MA course in Plymouth but they want a longer period of experience and now, well, I have lost impetus. What are the provisions on campus for child care? You will have placements too, what area do you want to work in? Children?

3yr at uwe. they havent asked much about experience but im

on primary school pta-so work with kids then
volunteer at rainbows.
volunteer as peer supporter at breastfeeding group a clinic.
Also I have kids.

want to work in child protection.

hoping to gain some experience within social services department.

I also have 2years experience working with elderly in old peoples home so hoping all this and my grand old age of 32 this year goes in my favour. I have the ducational requirements to get in but its competative.

The cheche is at different site and site health and social care on is relativly close to my house so would choose local nursery or childminder.

i can get a bursery and i can get a living cost loan whuch covers the 9grand a year fees but cant get grant or tuition fees loan as would be my 2nd degree as 1st degree is business and legal studies. Its childcare that worries me as in term time its 2days aweek doiable with brekkie and after school club and hubby doing one set day but placemnt is fulltime 37.5hours over few months as 30days year 1 80 days year 2 and 85 year 3.

its bit scary and unsure if will get in will wait and see.

Big thelma you have my sympathy my 3rd 10month old very fussy eater.

Im taking it easy eldest goes to nanny for few days tommorow and stepson goes back and no school runs so should be quite quiet and calm in gailey household.

decided to take pressure off myself this week doing 1st online shop done in ages as hubbys not off until fri eldest birthday and have to go party shop and marks to get cake as well as lunch out and drop eldest off at freinds party then sat its her party.


got all 3kids asleep aprt from stepson hes being very cheeky this evening.

stew was ok but lacking spice could have done with red wine.

hubby washed up.
just got to put load washing on and pack eldests bag to go then early night for me.

if me and baby no better by wed will book gps appointment.

dont think i do much more than other mums with lots of kids.
Think housework and washing neverending with kids.
cooking from scratch, shopping around and being os genrally takes time.

hubby works long hours and no family local to help son it just falls on me so somedays overachive and regret it when feeling good its doable just bit run down everyones been ill latly think lot of it going round cant wait for summer now.

main mission this year is to spend more time with family and enjoy the kids.

elizabunny

Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend. We've been pottering around inside just doing all those small jobs that seem to have mounted up and I did a bit of baking. So annoyed because I had just squeezed the juice of 3 limes for a dessert I was making and then I knocked the whole lot over and it ran into the sink:mad:

Also I think my slo-cooker is on the blink as I had some brisket in it and usually it is practically falling apart when I take it out, but today, although it was done, it wasn't as 'melting' as it normally is.

Very HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY wishes Gardenia. I hope you were still able to enjoy it. DH and our 2DSs and GDS, are the only one's that acknowledge my birthday now. Other family members and friends usually let it go by and my own DM & DD have passed away and they always made a thing of it. For me it is the loss of members of my close family that has thrown a cloud over birthdays now.....well that and the fact that I wish I was counting backwards.

Most of the snow has melted now except for that which is in our back garden and that is still quite thick. I hope it stays away next weekend because DS2 and his girlfriend are comng up to spend the weekend with us and we are really looking forward to it.

Monday again tomorrow...that weekend went so quickly...

greenbee

Elizabunny - I find that when it is very cold things take longer in the SC. As mine is in the utility room which is unheated (except by the SC ) it can have a major impact in the kind of temperatures we have at the moment.

EstherH

Esther, I've heard the coop is good for reductions but I've never been able to find any there. All my SM's are spread around, so it's not worth the petrol to go to them all, so I just take a chance when I'm passing. Still no luck with the reduced cream! :cool:[/QUOTE]


Thanks BYATT. We don't have a co-op that close to us. The one that I sometimes pass when I am out has never had any bargains when I have popped in to look. But that is always on my way past so could be tea time or about 9.00 and may be too early or late for bargains.

We have MR A, Mr T and Mr M. Mr M use to have some good bargains ut don't seem to these days. Mr T never reduces by much and they all go by tea time. I won't pay only a few pence less on principal. Not unless it is something that I would be buying anyway.
I have had some good bread buys in Mr A and occasionally fruit but not the 10p type reductions that there used to be in Mr Ms.

Esther x

Byatt

[/QUOTE=EstherH;50998661]Thanks BYATT. We don't have a co-op that close to us. The one that I sometimes pass when I am out has never had any bargains when I have popped in to look. But that is always on my way past so could be tea time or about 9.00 and may be too early or late for bargains.

We have MR A, Mr T and Mr M. Mr M use to have some good bargains ut don't seem to these days. Mr T never reduces by much and they all go by tea time. I won't pay only a few pence less on principal. Not unless it is something that I would be buying anyway.
I have had some good bread buys in Mr A and occasionally fruit but not the 10p type reductions that there used to be in Mr Ms.

Esther x[/QUOTE]

Esther, I popped into Mr T's today and after a lot of hovering, :rotfl:the reduced bread/cakes were put out. I really must stop buying reduced bread because I have a small freezer and no room! Got some reduced veg, salad onions for 22p, and what turned out to be free avocados, as they came up full price when scanned. There were 45p otherwise, reduced from 1.50. Also, 2 steaks in pepper sauce for £1,20 reduced from £4 and sausages 66p, finest mushroom risotto 79p. Then went to the coop as I had to put electric on my key meter and got a few bargains there too, most unusual. What I found there was that a lot of the reductions were mixed in with the normal. Very tempted but as I knew I had no room had to leave a few things.

There were some scallops in the reduced but I am wary of fish as you can't see it in the packs, and wonder how long they may have been hanging about outside the fridge. Still, a man bought the lot, because I went back to see if anything else added. I was in both stores between 2-3pm.

I think I'm waffling. :rotfl:

don't know why the quotes aren't working.

savingqueen

kidcat wrote: »

Thank you. Sounds exactly right, not sure about the double boiler business though - can I stack two pans on top of each other?

Had disaster this morning took kids to local cinema for kids movie £1 each - but go there to find all four movies full already! Was very difficult explaining to Ds but have paid for tickets for tomorrow instead so will try again - trouble is Oh is at work tomorrow so will be solo with two kids:eek:

Pleased that I bought some broccoli earlier this week for 3p and was huge bag, have used some through the week, but rest was looking tired today so whilst making the roast I threw a broccoli soup together too.

Sorry to hear the cinema was full. Our local does £1.50 seats for kids movies Sat & Sun morns. We always pre-book, worth the extra couple of pounds (4 tickets for £8.80, works out about a third of full price tickets) Can you do the same either on-line or popping into the cinema during the week?