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A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues
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Hi everyone! not been posting but have been reading all your posts with great interest and much laughter!
All I seem to do at the moment is work and sleep so not much of interest happening in my life at the moment.
I have a big! birthday coming up in July and have decided to have a little "do". I was hoping my dd who lives in Canada would be able to come over for it but sadly don't think that will happen. Although for my birthday present she and her husband are paying for me to go over there for Christmas. So that will be fantastic, she has been in Canada for 4 years now and whilst I have been over several times have never been able to afford to go over at Christmas.
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GreyQueen I've just bought a good luck card with one of those 'vintage' photos which shows an old biddy drinking tea and the caption is "With a cup of tea in hand you can do anything"
I can see it taking over from all the Keep calm... slogansIt doesn't matter if you are a glass half full or half empty sort of person. Keep it topped up! Cheers!0 -
I can also vouch for Mardatha's soaps, have received some lovely olive oil based mens soap.
Will be wanting some Freasia next time I think as the smell reminds me of my mum.
Know what you all means about making the pennies squeak, it gets harder and harder and with 2 teenage sons who have hollow legs permanently it's a never ending battle. DS2 is having a growth spurt as he has grown 2cm in as many months and is still growing.
I seem to be making lots of bread to use as fillers with meals, even roast dinners.
Tonight though I did a slow cooked beef casserole with bottom of fridge veggies thrown in , added a scone cobbler topping and did mash and cauliflower, thats filled them up for now.
Time for a cuppa I do believeMy self & hubby; 2 sons (30 & 26). Hubby also a found daughter (37).
Eldest son has his own house with partner & her 2 children (11 & 10)
Youngest son & fiancé now have own house.
So we’re empty nesters.
Daughter married with 3 boys (12, 9 & 5).
My mother always served up leftovers we never knew what the original meal was. - Tracey Ulman0 -
GreyQueen I've just bought a good luck card with one of those 'vintage' photos which shows an old biddy drinking tea and the caption is "With a cup of tea in hand you can do anything"
I can see it taking over from all the Keep calm... slogansI love those cards. They have a lot of them in Oxfam, re-coloured old photies with funny captions.
There's one of a cliche 1950s glamour-housewife staring wistfully off into the distance and the caption is along the lines of how she's tried gardening, meditation and yoga and still wants to kill someone.........:rotfl:I'm near enough to the menopause to grimace with recognition.............
I'm going to attempt to turn my new mattress. It has to be turned once a week for the first 3 months. And yes, I did blench when I read that, too. There's 1600 springs in the thing, that's a fair weight on it's ownsome. Not to mention the padding etc.
:j I did it!! Was dreading that as it's a double. Applied the squat-and-exhale technique of power-lifters and it worked a treat. By golly, but that mattress is lush. If I didn't have to earn a crust I think I'd stay in there 20 hours a day.:)
Guess what? I just found a website full of quotes about tea. Here is your Quote of the Day (ain't it poetical? Now, if only the late-unlamented British Rail had understood).
Lu Yu (733-804) was respected as the Sage of Tea for his contributions to Chinese culture.
The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain. ~Lu YuEvery increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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It was Oxfam where I got it. They have a really nice selection and I always look there - everywhere else seems to specialise in the frankly crude. Now I like a good double entendre as well as the next woman but most cards you see these days are just vulgar to my mind.
They had another really good one which I sent to my niece when she got the A level grades she needed for her first choice university. It was a picture of 1950s students in a lecture hall and the caption was " Four hours of lectures a day is better than getting no sleep at all". That went down well - or maybe it was the money I enclosed LOLIt doesn't matter if you are a glass half full or half empty sort of person. Keep it topped up! Cheers!0 -
Love those cards, the uni one reminds me of a friend who used to go to lectures in jimjams with a jumper over the top!.....outrageous!0
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Tonight OH went to Mr S and managed to get a TTD fish pie reduced from £3.49 to 69p and a Chicken Quesada (sp) from £3.89 to 59p and both have and can be frozen. He also got some parsnips to 10p, carrots to 9p and half a swede for 9p.....so I think a veggie soup will be done over the weekend as we have a little smoky streaky left too that needs to be used and some lentils.To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,requires brains!FEB GC/DIESEL £200/4 WEEKS0
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PP, can I borrow your OH for a short while?
He's very good at YS shopping. :T
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Evenin' all...
Thanks to all who post, I love reading. x
Mrs C lovely birdie pics, wish I was technically minded & could post pics (on second thoughts would you all REALLY want to see pics of Daniel Craig's pants hanging on my clothes horse - answers on a postcard please..!).
Sad to say I have come home several times to a grisly find of a dead pigeon in my front garden & detailed imprint of poor, unfortunate creature on my bedroom window. I get the sun on the front of the house on an afternoon & wonder if they area either blinded by the reflection from the glass or think they have a "clear run" through the window. Not sure but it's very sad. I acquired a seed feeder which attaches by a sucker & put it on my kitchen window on Tuesday. The spuggie colony which inhabit the Beech hedge between my neighbour & I have already found it & have almost emptied it. They sit in the hedge & watch me going about my exciting life so I thought they deserved snacks whilst enduring the torture. Mr & Mrs Blackbird have been enjoying some very ripe pears I put under the bird feeder. I also "treated" myself to some Niger seeds & required specialist container on Tuesday, hoping to attract some Goldfinches but no luck so far, just the usual spuggies, blackbirds, collared Doves & FAT pigeons as usual.
Nothing much to report, bit of a miserable day weatherwise, heavy drizzle on & off most of the day which curtailed anything more exciting than inspecting one's belly button for fluff for the most part. Dropped off some donations at local Hospice CS & had a good laugh with the volunteers there.
Greyqueen RESPECT & Well done with the mattress turning! No mean feat! I can empathise with you there although I count myself lucky that mine doesn't need turning as such as it's designed for a slatted base which it lives on nicely but I do "top & tail" it occasionally & that's bad enough.
WCS Sorry you've had rubbishy time, at least when things are really bad they can only get better.
Katieowl Ooo do try with the camera thingy & report back. I must get a grip & learn to use technology.
PP Well done on your food bargains! Enjoy! I have a Co*Op VERY near to me & the reductions are sometimes only a few pence now & hardly worth the walk over the road so I rarely bother now & the local Mr T is about the same so not worth the petrol cost driving to have a look but I may start investigating Mr S on your recommendations.
Well, I think I've rambled on enough now. Weather man has just finished rambling too... more of the same blah, blah, blah, Will we get a summer this year - oh the anticipation! Let's just hope we don't suffer the embarrassment of having to cancel the WHOLE of the Olympic period due to "waterlogged" pitches/venues. I still can't believe it's going to happen here... in this little damp Isle.. instead of some scorching hot place. I'll shut up now!
Off up the wooden hill we all go, to the Land of Nod...x0 -
GQ, well done with the powerlift. I'm determined the next mattress we get is going to be pillow topped and non-turning. The issue I have here isn't so much flipping it, which I can do, but avoiding the ceiling fan whilst doing it....
Lovely piccies Mrs C. We're invaded by birds of all shapes and sizes here, most of them are pretty cheeky and quite tame. We have a large bush turkey who is determined to get in here and every time a door is opened pokes a cheeky foot over the threshold. He's only scared off by mention of paxo.
I like the sound of those cards Maryb and may have to pick some up when I'm over.
I plan more cooking today followed by freezer-tetris to fit it in. Hubby can eat so much that trying to leave 3 weeks of food is like trying to stock up for siege. I have to buy some things like tinned "big soup", ravioli and whatnot too, because there simply isn't the space in the freezer for 3 weeks of home cooking. And that's counting the time he'll spend with MIL and takeout.Softstuff- Officially better than 0070
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