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Cheery_Daff

Mmmmm - scones :T :T How lovely :T :T We're well endowed with treats here after yesterday's vistors - home made cake and some (shop bought) shortbread - must try not to eat all at once

Keiss_21

Mmm, scones, yummy!!

Spending day today, so been on Ama$on already, ordering pressie for DH's nephew's birthday (tomorrow, he was supposed to organize something much earlier...men!!). Also ordered a case for new phone (holster, which automatically switches off phone when installed)..reduced ofcourse! I was very good and only got what was needed, rather getting a couple of other nice books...have put them onto my wish list for another time...Xmas 2012?!

Also had to order a knee support for DS2..he has been having a few problems and the physio recommended this (expensive!) one. Hopefully it will help him to get fit again and perhaps allow him to get back into rubgy.

Right, need to finish off writing the shopping list. DS2 and I are off to Mr M, while DH takes DS1 up to Uni (and do his mega food shop), quite a spendy day for us all!! :eek:

Have a lovely Sunday everyone xxx.

Karmacat

Pippi, I absolutely get the two day weekend being necessary. When I first started this job, the four of us in the practice all worked six days, and I just *knew* I'd go bananas - so I arranged that I personally would never work on a Monday. Not only do I want two days off a week, I want them sequentially. Hope today is a nice one for you.
xx

Pippilongstocking

Hey up all they went in less than an hour!

Cheery I'm glad you've got treats!
Keiss poor ds I hope he mends himself soon - Peedie is very taken with his yappy's I hope the day wasn't too spendy. I've just finished the first bag of the 5kg rice you left - made me smile that its lasted so long!

KC - you're right - I do need to get in the habit of it. I really do. Mondays I need to just blank out - and keep for me, I said I would and theres always an excuse. for me anyway.

OK - not much done today aside cooking, freezer surfing and degunking/and double boiling a chicken carcass. The double boiling bit I read somewhere that you do it once - drain, demeat/save stock - (if a dog in the house you can do a demeat of human and doggy stuff) - then you boil the bones again - makes more of the meaty/gunk fit for the dog come off and then the stock can be really well strained and saved/used. Well thats worked - bones now as clean as bony clean things - more (about a cup more) meat/ergh for the dog to be mixed in with food etc.

Thats one clean set of bones - I'm sure the chicken who we ate would respect the fact we've used all of it we can.

Roasted garlic wtih xmas dinner tatties - so I've retrieved them from freezer with a large bag of HG tomatoes/HG leeks and am merrily boiling away HM roast garlic and tomato pasta sauce - which will get a whizzing.

Retreived all the silicone trays with HM soup portions in them and bagged them up - took one out for work. I'll use the trays to do individual portions of HM pasta sauce and freeze them - find it easier to have a portions worth then I can lob the amount I need into a pan when I'm home after work and have a nice tea quickly.

Aside that lot - nothing much acheived - surfed the freezer so I've a good idea what we've got in there - and the cupboards.

I did start the bolognese with meat - but I've no soya mince, I always put at least a cup of soya in with 250g meat - didn't want a trip into town for a bag of soy mince - and its rank if you put it in after the sauce is made - appears to be nicer if you put it in just after you've browned the mince - so I've left the browned mince to cool and its in the fridge now - I'll get soy mince on Monday. I was tempted to make it anyway without - but I know two things - it won't be as nice and the soy mince bulks it up by over a third and right now I need to keep an eye on our spends so I can wait for the soy. Happy enough there.

Roast dinner leftover pie for tea - (the leftovers of a roast dinner, cunningly wrapped in a pie) its traditional here ot have a roast dinner pie with some of the leftovers. and the kids enjoy it - always different and everything gets lobbed in.

PAD to captain £50
PAD to Lucifer £60

First Nsd of the year.

Lula-Hula

Hey Pippi,

nice work on the PADs

We recycle all cards here too, have a huge stash of various ones & now just need to restock on plain card & envelopes. I also keep any pretty buttons, bits of ribbon or anything shiny or sparkly to stick on cards.

Much sympathy on the lost weekend day, ensure you make it up somehow.

Best of luck with the 'repairs to Darwin chat' & best wishes for a cheap & easy regular service & mot
xx

Lemon_Tree

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

(LT your lovely craft bag to her is really in use almost everyday!)

it's a shame that you were flying otherwise she could have had an entire holdall full of the stuff. I'm going to donate that to my friend who runs some brownie and guide troops.

Lemon_Tree

you put me to shame with your card recycling i sometimes cut them up for tags but never reuse them otherwise, i do nick bits from them though, and always filch ribbons and buttons.

i am doing my bit for recycling at the moment as i'm using boxes from Mr LT's works to pack our house into. Who else moves with copious amounts of tena lady pad boxes lol

starnac

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Roast dinner leftover pie for tea - (the leftovers of a roast dinner, cunningly wrapped in a pie) its traditional here ot have a roast dinner pie with some of the leftovers. and the kids enjoy it - always different and everything gets lobbed in.

monday night tea is always fry up for us. not fry up as in full english brekkie fry up but all the sunday dinner leftovers mashed and fried served usually with baked beans or a dollop of tomato sauce yum

and thanks for the advice re double boiling chicken. i've got the bones boiling as we speak

Lemon_Tree

i think they use double boiled chicken bones for chinese style soups

Pippilongstocking

LT what a grand idea - they'll make great use of it - must pop over and find out how your arrangements are going!

Lula - thank you for the thought re the vehicles and oh to sparkly things and buttons I'll keep them too in jars for inspriation. PAD's are high cos of new job and lack of job existing on cards for about a year - so I'm trying to reduce spends and up the PAD's as I'm not use to having a regular wage

I need to be brutal with my time keeping but that may been reduced dwadling - I dinnae ken which balance I'd prefer!

Full of pie yum an evening of movie and bed calling I think - forecast for the week looks pants. Ergh.