No T Words mentioned at all - a fresh start

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FTM - even less would I like Tornados - we occasionally have the military helicopters en masse chinooks, sometimes apaches and the world shakes like a jelly. Just hate it as it sounds so ominous. Glad your males are feeling better today, well done on your eureka moment over the shelves, could you repaint them to match the kitchen walls then they would look like a fixture. Brill idea re the tomato juice, if you didn't want to use it just for goulasch you could add some fresh herbs and use it in pasta sauces, or chillis and use for mexican. Clever old you. We have just given the lurcher a bath as its such a lovely day and he is now fluffy awwwww!!! Cheers Lyn x.

scottishminnie

Evening ladies. I really shouldn't skim read - I noticed FTM's typhoons and was horrified, then I saw Mrs LW's tornado and thought "what on earth". Then I read everything properly:o

We used to get RAF jets whizzing by overhead but we haven't had any for a while. They used to spook the cattle if they were really low so we don't miss them. There have been a lot of huge helicopters around recently. I think it may be training for search and rescue as we have some hills around where lots of people tend to go walking.

It's been very nice here yesterday and today. Sadly I've been at work and not seen any of the good weather but I'm glad it has arrived anyway. I'm heading south later in the week for work so it will be even hotter I guess. I get really flustered when I've had to travel in a suit, carrying a laptop, power cables and all the gear. I always feel I look dishevelled when I arrive and everyone else looks sleek and groomed. They must think I'm a real country bumpkin:)

I got a Lakeland catalogue in the post yesterday so I lay in bed last night looking at all the things I don't need. I find it's one of my weaknesses that place so I tend to put the catalogue in the recycling straight away to avoid temptation.

I treated myself at a nice garden centre at the weekend. I bought a vivid blue meconopsis for the "woodland" part of my garden. It was £9 :eek: but so beautiful. It looks great amongst the chipped bark and I just hope the little rabbits stay away from it.I also got some seed potatoes half price (as they should have been in weeks ago) and a pack of romaine lettuce seeds to put in the grow bag which is in the cold frame. I'll get the lettuce in at the weekend. I did ask hubby to do it but he won't touch the seeds after last year's fiasco - I gave him a pack of lettuce seeds and asked him to slit open the grow bag and sow them. When he handed back the empty packet and I asked where the rest were he told me he had planted them all in the one grow bag (all 1000 seeds) - my fault for not being specific but I had a lot of thinning out to do!

I saw some bees in my garden earlier tonight - they were small bees so I hope they belong to my neighbour who is a bee keeper. She lives about half a mile away so I'm guessing they could be hers? I also saw a ladybug in my garden on Sunday which I was really thrilled about. I bought a stone brick thing a few years back from Wiggly Wigglers which was supposed to be a home for ladybugs and we bought some bugs too. They came in a petri dish with some sugar puffs in which were presumably for them to feed on in transit. When we put them out I stupidly put the open dish on the ground thinking they would fly off at their leisure. I was distraught when I looked out some time later and saw 3 starlings eating the sugar puffs. I don't know if any of them had already flown away.

Anyway, off to sew a button on hubby's working trousers before the morning. He's lost it so it's a rummage though the button tin first:)

mardatha

Hallo, can I come in and play? I forgot all about you lot in this thread -
I dont come into the forums as such, just click on emails and lost you :eek:

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Hello,hello, hello Mar nice to see you over here, love you to come and play. SM - there is nothing derogatory about being a country bumpkin - I've made it a lifetimes work and feel that I've finally arrived. I can outscruffy (is that a word?) anyone you can think of and seem to have disheveled cracked too. He he he!!!!! Sorry to scare you with all this typhoon and tornado business. My best 'plane' story was when I was staying in North Devon on holiday with my Pa and we decided to go Wort picking on Exmoor. We were there back in the late 1970s, picking away when over the hill at about 25 feet came a delta wing plane (I know not which type), poor old Pa threw himseld flat and berries went everywhere needless to say I coundn't do anything for laughing. We still got enough for a good crumble though and I've always wondered what the pilot thought of two people rolling about, one crying with laughter . I think it's going to be another beautiful day and I hope you all enjoy it to the full Cheers Lyn x.

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We saw a bee in two separate places yesterday, in holes in wood. I think they are solitary maison bees, there are no other bees apart from the occasional bumble bee. and there are several hives in the villiage. It is that darn rapeseed, easy pickings for honey bees but what about the pesticides that I see them spraying using those massive sprayers. Rapeseed doesn`t need bees to set

I made batch baked wholemeal bread yesterday and added quite a few seeds ie linseeds, sunflower, chia and caraway. All in the freezer now. AF had stoneground wholemeal flour very cheap the other day, I got 20 kg and it cost under £3

Today it is granola:
mix, 3c oats, 1/2c sunflower seeds, 1/2c pumpkin seeds, (I added some chia seeds and linseeds) 1c almonds (no almonds in so I used cashews), salt, 1/2 tbs cinnemon, 1/2 tbs wheatgerm, 1/2c maple syrup (costco is cheapest) 2tbs oil (I used pumpkin this time rapeseed is good)
spread on tray, bake in 165 oven for 30-45 min, stir from time to time. Cool add dried fruit (costco blueberries or cherries) store in fridge

I am having an uncomfortable bra day. Had to change once already as I get a side ache from bones. Heck the days of two hills in front are well over and doreen boneless has ripples in front so no good with a tea shirt

prepareathome

Well this sun seems to be doing the plants good - I actually had to water them for first time this year as past two days have been hot enough to dry out the top 3- 4 ins of ground anyway ( as far as I felt down) and of course the pots, so little hosy did it stuff - well not that little its 70m ( I think, I know I had fun finding one bigger than 50m) long to reach to end of side garden - I have wound it round the water barrel I have on patio with one end going along patio right by wall to tap so rather than have a monster hose on the loose I just unwind it form round the water barrel till its the length I need, just have to make sure water barrel filled with water so doesn't get pulled over, but with all the rain no problem there. Not been out to water the veg plots in the side garden yet as that involves getting dressed and not got that far yet. Back garden can merrily swan around in PJs but side until the bushes grow ( about another 4 -5 years) is open to the world and on a busy main road so don't want to give drivers heart attacks seeming me in pjs as they drive past. So need to get washed then dressed and then go and water them as poor things root will not go far enough down to find water yet. So as soon as pain meds kick in will shower and go and water the poor babies.......

maryb

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Kittie this is the most comfortable and supportive non wired bra I have ever had and it looks great under a T shirt even when you are well endowed. I had myself fitted at Rigby & Peller and they do sell nice non wired smooth cup bras but they are expensive. These M&S bras are even better than R&P but I did have to go up a band size compared with R&P

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flowertotmum

Hi all...hello mar nice to see you again...

Well i am literally run off my feet..hubby still as weak as a kitten..now fern has got swollen glands and all bunged up..just me and iris left to fight the good fight against the dreaded germs...

I went to town and got fresh bits from l*dl's..got home and the gas man turned up as i got in..had to put all my washing out as hubby couldn't manage it..made lunch then realized i had forgot the milk..so popped to local co-op that happens to be near our local CS..just had to pop in and have a look...glad i did too...i bought fern some new pj's,2 lovely summer tops and some lovely pink gingham shorts...had to delve to get iris some 3 quarter length trouserswhich are totally fab,bright red with polka dot outline on the pockets and hems..2 books and a cd of jungle stories and songs..all for and amazing £4...they are currently in washing machine..bargains galore..
I treated me and hubby to a choclate bar each for later on..i am doing chicken salad for tea..followed by fruit and ice cream..simple but good.
Going to have a baking day tomorrow..have a lot of eggs that need using up so i will make lots of sponges and some fruit cakes..
My plane story is this..we are totally surrounded by RAF bases in lincolnshire..lots of them...anyway one afternoon a few years back they were dog fighting way up high..then all of a sudden one of them launches something..holy cow!!!!!!!!! i almost sh*t myself tbh..they then flew off at speed and shaking windows and doors...turns out one of them accidentally fired his chaff..apparently a american student got carried away and fired it...harmless but when your watching it and it looks like its going to hit something its pretty scary...
Kittie..have you tried a sports bra..no bones in them at all
take care all
ftm

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Oh FTM - will the bugs never leave you alone? I suppose that if they have had a string of things in quick succession they are a bit defficient in immunity and prone to pick up anything going. Lets hope this nice weather sees it off soon - poor Fern, poor you. Well done on the CS bargains, they sound fab. Currently too hot here to walk the houndicus but the tortoise and the guinea pig are both basking on the lawn soaking up the rays. I'm glad my plane story wasn't scary like yours - Oh my goodness what a fright that must have given you. Enjoy your chocolate bar when you get round to it, take care, Cheers Lyn x.

VJsmum

Evening all - and what a glorious one it is. My good news is that work have said I don't need to travel in over the next 2 weeks - unless something is desperate. So I have a pile of marking to do but can do it at a time to suit me :j

My plane story is that a couple of years ago the kids were at an "event" in Lincolnshire. OH and i took them but went somewhere else for the day - we went to a national Trust. It was Tattershall Castle near RAF coningsby. We were just looking round and then heard the most terrific noise. We galloped up to the roof just in time to see a Lancaster bomber (I think) soar right over our heads. It was the most amazing sight!

I have now planted shed loads of runner beans, some baby corn (aren't baby corn just corn that hasn't grown?), borlotti beans some peppers, tomatoes and an aubergine. I have also started to dig out a raised bed. I do have to do some marking, but may finish doing that tomorrow.

Am getting very carrried away by a "do you remember" facebook group - but have found out that there is going to be a reunion of my old school - including a tour of the building before it gets knocked down next year. I am very excited about it.