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

shegar

mardatha wrote: »

That last supermarket petrol thing bu**gered up the twin cats on our Ford Scorpio which would've cost £700 to replace !! We sold it instead.
Shegar pet you're a good strong amazing lady - some people have such hard lives and you're always so calm and dignified and lovely xxx
I'm speechless today (RV loving it!) as I had the endoscopy yesterday and it hurt my throat - but found I have a haitus hernia and they've decided, a very moody gallbladder which tends to throw hysterics if I eat too much fat :rotfl:drama queen !
I've swapped over to Aldis for the weekly food and last week it cost me £20!
It's cold here and the forecast is sleet or snow showers from Mon night on. Back to normal - and what a shock that will be for the wee lambs.
I still haven't used my Kenwood nukey choppy thing - I'm scared of it. I dono where to start and I'm dying for a nice pot of soup

Thanks so much for your sweet post and all the others lovely posters on here....This dam tonsilitus as affected my ears,nose,headaches,pains in my back, ive got swollen neck inside and out, I look a bit like a turkey today,apart from that I woke up alive this morning so I always think thats a good start to the day.!!....

Mardy im sure your physic,;) you seem to know what im like ,im getting through some pretty hard times this lately, and as always THERE is folks out there worse than me and hubby,its really no good hanging your head low and sayin "why me", cos why not me,thats how things go in life, im sure we will find a way to come through all this we always do dont we.?....

At least the weather is getting better and loads of things in the garden is budding, birds nesting,nights lighter, my pond is full of newt spawn and frog spawn, I get so much pleasure out of my garden and its so nice to have a walk around with a cup of tea and listen to the birds singing their hearts out.......Ive got 2 wrens nests, 1 great tit nesting, and a blue tit nesting in a camera box,:D so my garden is my pleasure...........Oh and a pair of green finches looking in a arch loads of times a day so hoping they soon start building too......:T Hope your all getting along okay,.............

ginnyknit

Mardatha is most definately psychic, she always knows when people she is fond of need a virtual hug I love how positive you are Shergar, I try my best to be the same, sometimes I need a bit of a kick up the bum tho. DS was looking for me before and I was hiding in the shed trying to take a photo of my robin - I am trying to tame him, so far 4 years on he is just using me! - the robin not DS. Have been up all night with OH after he had a nasty turn(for want of a better description). I ended up lying in bed fully dressed listening out in case he shouted me so I could get an ambulance but he seemed to get over it. Will ring his nurse on Monday for advice.

Still managed to pull myself together and go to a charity event some friends had organised but we didnt stay long, seeing DGS cheered us up no end.

OOh found out where Oh had hidden my midget gems :T:T See lifes not all downhill!

kidcat

Shegar and ginny sending hugs

Petrol crisis definitely seems to have missed our town, I drove straight in and filled up little car for work today, whilst I normally would have waited another week I decided that if everyone gets panicky again it would be a long queue. Also makes it easier for me as OH at work from now on and kids are off, this way I wont be having to go out and buy petrol in the evening when I am likely to be less even tempered

A friends daughter had major surgery yesterday and is in intensive care, my friend looks like hell, and whilst the op went really well the after effects are awful to see. Her DD is only 6 and autistic so its all incredibly difficult for her to understand, bright lights, loud machines, pain etc is a nightmare for her. She is refusing all offers of food - so am trying to think of something I can take in that may tempt her to nibble.

Mrs_Chip

Hi All

Not posted for a while, I seem to have lost my posting mojo. Have been reading though, and condolences and hugs to Shegar and PIC. Hugs for everyone who needs them, and welcome to the newbies. Mard - glad you have a diagnosis, wll the tabs help with the metamorphosis into a helpless female ?

We spent most of last week in the garden, the weather being so fabulous there was no other option. We even had a BBQ with Mr & Mrs OG on Thursday, never been known in March! We certainly topped up our vit D, and got a lot done in the process.

By Friday the weather had changed and we spent the day cleaning out the fryers in the van. Terribly mucky job but very satisfying - we went from nasty pans of brown gunk to pristine fryers. As we still have not started trading this was their first clean since we got the van. A very steep learning curve, but we learned a lot. I also seasoned the new griddle and produced a couple of tasty bacon and egg sarnies for lunch - perks of the job! With luck (and an element of giving ourselves a stern talking too, there is a deal of heel-dragging going on) we will start trading in April.

One great pleasure we have is the birds in the garden - today I was joined (I might even say dogged) by a robin who had no fear and was hopping about a my feet picking up the bugs uncovered by my digging. We have set up a feeding station and are lucky enough to have a cctv camera so we can watch it down in the living room.

I dont' know if any of you were following 'Lady' the Osprey at the Loch of Lowes last year - well she is back for a record-breaking 23rd year, and you can watch her at the nest here. She currently has a toy-boy bringing her fish and sticks - she's no bird-brain!

kidcat

Mrs Chip - am so excited for you.

GreyQueen

Evening all (clasps hands behind back and bends at knees with a lugubrious expression). Well, can't bend at the back at the moment, thanks to the gardening. Me and a pal screamed with laughter, tinged somewhat with hysteria, when I found a magazine article describing gardening as gentle exercise. Obviously the lackwit who wrote that had never kept an allotment.........:rotfl:

Living proof blinking bad luck about getting some rubbishy petrol into your tank. Hope it gets resolved soon; I'd be spitting tacks if it was my car.

Mardatha, glad that your problem is nothing worse than a HH; my Mum has one of these and had the same procedure. Not pleasant but a lot better diagnosis that some. Hope you soon feel better soon. I always have a mental image of you as like a small feisty Glaswegian woman of about 60-odd of my acquaintance, who has a totally-wicked sense of humour and takes no prisoners......hope you don't mind.:p:o

meme30 I have often been described as strapping myself and have pondered on the difficulty of playing the little woman card when you are at, or above, the median height for most of the male population. Wasn't there a famous quote about anatomy being destiny, somewhere? Mind you, all the truly small women I know, like friend and neighbour SuperGran, have enormous personalities and wills of pure steel whereas I'm so laidback most of the time I'm almost horizontal.

I've spent the best part of my day digging on the lottie and have commenced the annual ritual which is the Planting of the Potatoes, or the Spud-a-thon* , as I like to think of it. As I won't have help from the aged parents until Good Friday, weather permitting, I feel I must soldier on. Bitterly cold up there today; I'm gutted as I spent the week in the salt-mine with lovely weather and now I am a free woman for a couple of days and we get the shivers. And I'd been wild and foolish and taken my fleece hat home to launder and put away, as I'd progressed into my sunhat, and discovered I could have really done with it today.

Whatever was I thinking? I, a native-born Brit, assuming that it would stay warm just because it was Spring. Good job I wasn't foolish enough to pack away my vests and bloomers, that's all I can say.

(((((((((((((Shegar and ginnyknit)))))))))))))

Mrs Chip nice to see you posting again and all the best with your launch. When's the Big Day (so I can cheer from hundreds of miles away)?

The reason for the post heading is that my kitchen if full of the lovely aroma of stewing pears, as I had a happy visit with the Magic Greengrocer on my way back from the lottie and got 2 carrier bags of fruit and veg for £1. I have 16 large pears which won't keep so I am stewing them down and batch freezing them. I fancy some pear crumbles in the future.

:question: There is no reason why you can't make crumbles out of pears, is there? My culinary ignorance is comprehensive in some areas.........

* The Spud-a-thon has almost nothing in common with the Marathon, btw; there are neither peanuts nor chocolate involved. And you can stop Snickering at the back, hun.:p

OMG, am so tired I'm gibbering........g'night all. GQ x

maryb

GreyQueen, pear makes a gorgeous crumble with just a few raspberries added (not too many otherwise they'll be too juicy). If you have frozen fruits of the forest which is pretty cheap, that's good too.

We also did the spuds today. We are making a big effort to keep on top of the allotment this year as there is so much demand it doesn't seem fair if we are not taking advantage of it. We were not able to keep on top of it last year as my hand was still recovering from surgery (Dupuytren's contracture - don't let anyone tell you it's a small op. It may be a small scar but it goes deep into your palm)

Anyway the people on the allotment nearby whom we have never seen as they have simply never been there at the same time as us, arrived to survey the damage of the winter and commented on how well we were doing. She obviously assumed we had only just taken it on as she then said how it had been in a terrible state last year covered in weeds and totally neglected:rotfl::rotfl:

Actually it wasn't that bad last year - we had plenty of potatoes and runner beans. But it was a funny year. The plot I planted courgettes in did absolutely nothing!! I had one courgette off three plants. Not even the weeds grew that much in that particular plot. Very odd. That bit is destined for beans this year and we were going to dig a trench and put manure in before putting up the bean poles but there is no manure left (we get free stable manure as we are close to several riding stables which are quite glad to have somewhere to dump it. Well rotted it is not, but it's fine if you bury it)
Here in the London bit of Kent we still get the occasional frost in early May so I am only growing a few beans in pots to try and get some early beans. I won't cry too much if I lose them and the bulk of the beans will go straight in the ground so we've got some time before we have to get the bean poles up. But I feel the urge to get on and try and get things done at the moment

mardatha

My kenwood nukey choppy thing isnt like either of those, it has a see-through bowl with attachments that you fit on, plus a separate blender thing. Is on Amazon for £55 ish. It sounds like a jumbo jet revving for take off when you switch it on!!
GQ, I am wee (5ft) and I am weird, but not Glasgow and not feisty :D
I stuck 4 bean seeds in 4 separate pots on 2 windowsills and nothing has happened in any of them:(

Byatt

Hi Mrs C, :wave: good to see you, although I understand about losing the posting mojo. Good luck with your new venture, it sounds all very exciting.

I've been cuddling a 6 month old baby today.

greenbee

mardatha wrote: »

My kenwood nukey choppy thing isnt like either of those, it has a see-through bowl with attachments that you fit on, plus a separate blender thing. Is on Amazon for £55 ish. It sounds like a jumbo jet revving for take off when you switch it on!!
GQ, I am wee (5ft) and I am weird, but not Glasgow and not feisty :D
I stuck 4 bean seeds in 4 separate pots on 2 windowsills and nothing has happened in any of them:(

Is it one like this Mar? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kenwood-FP580-2-Speed-Processor-White/dp/B0000C6Y85

Maybe your beans are lonely. Have you tried talking to them?