OS Daily Saturday 9th June

Hardup_Hester

Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 9th June. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come in, put your feet up (although check the fence hasn’t just been painted first!) and join us for an Old Style natter. The more the merrier!

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Morning all
Went to Tesco yesterday, managed to only spend £20ish, didn't buy any meat as we'd stocked up at the butchers earlier in the week. We did buy a pack of smoked haddock, 4 fillets for £4 so we had 2 for tea with HG new potatoes & hubby had a poached egg on his & there are 2 fillets left for another day.
Hubby had to go in to work yesterday as there was a mix up with the shifts & no one knew who was doing what, he was only there for about an hour, thankfully I had my kindle with me.
When we got home we needed a cuppa, but the electricity was off so we had to wait another hour before it came back on.
The rain & wind have flattened one patch of potatoes so hubby will dig those out later.
By lunchtime today I shall be rich, well £25 richer at least, I have some items finishing on Ebay. I shall be glued to the pc hoping they do well as a couple of the items have quite a few bidders.
I'm making a batch of Curry in a Hurry paste from Memorygirls blog, I shall be freezing it down in small portions so I can make myself a veggie curry some days. I shall also make a cake of some sort to take to work on Monday, it will be the last one for a while.
Have a good day everyone.
Hugs Hester

hilstep2000

Morning Hester and all who follow.
Went to sleep at 10.30 woke at 12.30 stayed up with a cuppa till 3:eek: Watched Gok cooks chinese on the sky box with cat by my side:rotfl:
DD has finally gone on holiday:T Passports turned up on Thursday after a nightmare day of DD having hysterics!:o She is on the anti-depressants now, so hopefully she will feel better when she comes back.

I am going to Sissinghurst today with a friend, been before, but we love it:T Was going to have faggots and peas for dinner yesterday, then a friend texted me and brought round fish and chips:rotfl: Bang went the diet
Lunch out today, so will have to choose carefully.;)

Have a lovely weekend, whatever you are doing.

flutterbyuk25

Morning all

The sun is shining :j makes a change after the torrential winds and rain of last few days here.

I've been MIA most of the week. My friend from Camp America was staying with me . On Tuesday I had my Jubilee tea party which was a great success and I had lots of leftovers which was either taken for lunch this week or frozen. On Weds night we went to the cinema, and on Thurs night we met another Camp America friend for dinner. We went to a lovely Japanese restaurant and for a few drinks. Been a nice week. My friend came to work with me as she wanted youth work experience for her degree. Then last night another friend came over for a catch up and we made a bottle of wine disappear :rotfl:.

No plans for today yet. My friend who lives in Canada (the one who got married in the Bahamas) is back in the UK for 10 days :j so may possibly see her, but I know she has family stuff planned for weekend and we have made plans with her for Tues and Weds. So I'll probably just potter around the house today.

OS wise - WM on with the first of 4 loads of washing that need to be done, hoping the sunshine lasts all day!! Lunch/dinner will be from freezer. House mostly tidy, just need to put spare room in order. Dishes to wash, recycling to sort. BM to go on.

Have a fab weekend all

x

Cheapskate

Morning everyone

Weather still fierce her, so washing will have to go in TD as there's so much of it!

After a lazy day yesterday (baking, washing up, visiting sister, SM shop and nowt else) I'm working all afternoon, got to nip into town first to collect some trousers for DH. Making soup in SC for tea, HM bread (trying out dad's old bread maker), ice cream in the freezer.

Have a lovely Saturday, hope some of you have some sun!

A xo

Islandmaid

Hi all

Sun appears to be out, so I will catch up on washing whilst I can, will attempt a beef stifado in the SC, only OH and myself tonight, so may make a desert and buy a bottle of plonk, as we,ve both been running round like headless chickens lately.

Hope your all well, thoughts are with those in Wales having to deal with the flooding x

bargainbird

Morning

HH - Fingers crossed for the auctions x
Hilly - Enjoy your day out x
IM - Glad DD got home ok

Well we have no rain ATM so washing will be going out after i've finished this, followed by another 4/5 loads :eek:. Today I have 4 PF ironing to do (really need to get focused on doing those as have been quite slcak lately ). House is a disgrace too, so shan't be going far today....and my reward tonight will be a !!!!!!

Have super days peeps x

redruby

Morning all,

Islandmaid so glad your dd got home ok, I had formulated a plan , I live about 20 mins 1/2 hr from Portsmouth, so was going to collect her and her boyf, she could have had the spare room, and boyf on the sofa, I know you would probably not want her to go to some mad woman on the internet , but I know how I would feel if it was my dd

Beautiful day here, got the first of three loads in the wm, and I have the t-towels soaking in bleach, tomorrow is meant to be raining again, so need to make the most of the drying weather.

I need to visit the butchers today, and stock up, getting through more meat on my lc diet, but it seems to be working.

Not sure whats for dinner, will go and check my list. Need to hoover top to bottom, OH and DD can do half each, and I must tie my broad beans up again, they are shooting up so quickly :T

Have good days all xx

DundeeDoll

Morning all. Back from work trip to manchester. Shattered. Stayed in conference centre which abutts student accommodation. At 4:28am the fire alarm went off and we all had to pile out :mad: Took me a couple of hours to get back to sleep. Caught up with friend from glasgow who just happened to be in manchester so got later train home and had to stand all the way to lancaster.
Got home to full house -girls back from uni :T so stayed up till midnight. Dd2's birthday. She's gone to bf's (cos that's where her pressies are lol) we need to go to lidl to buy christmas dinner (her choice for her bday and fortunately she told me way back when still xmassynthings in shops). We have crackers, chocolate coins, chocloate santas, xmas pud so need turkey chipolatas and veg. Also need to check if we've got any cranberry. Weather still dismal. Friend's husband is coming to rescue the garden :beer: we shall try to rescue the house :rotfl:

de1amo

Hi All,

İts a working Saturday but hardly any of the students have arrived. İ am sitting praying to the god of teachers that none of mine come!

Not much going on otherwise--i would go out celebrating the end of the year if i could drink but it looks like a night at home! DH is in fine form gossiping with all the parents but it all goes over my head as i cant follow a word!

We are off to a VW meet tomorrow which is one bright spot. İts a form of carboot for VW spares so i will be rummaging for my car(Larry)--its a 1973 1303s GSR of which there are only 90 examples in the world so i feel privilaged and take good care of 'him'.--its the original yellow and black beetle.

Right its my turn to make the tea! Take care and wishes for everyone's health and safety!

Islandmaid

RR - what a sweetie - thank you x

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi Guys!

Hope everyone is well.

Its supposed to be dry here today, so OH will hopefully get the rest of the garden cemented as he's having to pay £7 from today each 24hrs:eek::eek::eek:The weather has been so bad that nothing really has been done. He is still going ahead with the pond???....anyway, as long as it looks ok and is low maintenance, then thats fine with me:D

Nurses were here at 7.30 this morning. Why do they come early at the weekends? At least Im done and dusted now till tea time.

WM and DW have been on and need to be emptied, also the floors downstairs need sweeping and mopping. Managed to buy some Astonish floor disinfectant last week from Amazon for £10 for 12 bottles including delivery.

All the kids are still in bed asleep and its very quiet here, but that'll all change once they're up:eek::eek::eek::eek: They can have breakfast that give me 15 minutes to do the chores, then I'll be happy;) Ex BIL is coming to collect niece later, so be nice to catch up with him and new partner.

Anyway, hope everyone has a nice day.

PP
xx

B-Cottage cheese on cracker breads with OJ and cup of tea
L-Beans on toast with cheddar and chillies
D-Chicken & rice with salad