make do and mend for tougher times

7_week_wonder

Good evening,

What a lovely lot of good news, especially for a Monday.

Congratulations to nuttyp and Mr Possession on new jobs, and three cheers to Fuddle for her holiday.

Good luck PAH I hope reason prevails and your council sees sense over your garden, but if not I'm sure the best woman will win;)

I'm just waiting for my cake to cool so I can ice it. Possession - I was also thinking of getting/making some gingerbread men to convert into gingerbread mummies (just by putting white icing "bandages" all over the gingerbread), but I've timed out so they will have to make do with a cake.

Mardatha, and others near Edinburgh, have you spotted that we have a new B&M store at the end of the by-pass next to the Gyle? Has anyone tried it out yet? I feel a trip coming on fairly soon.

Right - the buttercream is calling. Have a good evening everyone.

Mrs_Veg_Plot

preparedathome - great job, love the poppy wallpaper

nuttp - congtats in the job news

posession- Mr P is on a roll

Have got everything done that I planned to do apart from the ironing. I picked up some really nice material for bag making at college tomorrow from the end of roll section at a third of teh original price.

Have made a gluten and dairy free ginger cake and jam crubmblies for work tomorrow. Will have to do a bit of QC on them before I go to bed .

I'm back to work tomorrow so will be back to lurking astime will be very short again.

Keep well

Mrs VP

Popperwell

If anyone is reading and likes Fray Bentos pies(GQ comes to mind;))On offer at present at Tesco's and dated until May 2014, Chicken Pies for £1. Well they are available at my branch!

As said in another thread I managed to get(yellow stickered)£30 worth of meat for £10...(16 cooked drumsticks, 4 stuffed chicken thighs, 2 chicken breasts in a special sauce/coating, a turkey joint and 4 slices of pork pie with egg in it)

smileyt_2

Ooh, lots of lovely news, Fuddle, Nuttyp and Possession! :T
PAH sorry to hear about your argument with the surveyors, blinking twits. I hope it all comes to nothing. Fools!

I think Hurricane Sandy is hitting New York City about now. I've been watching here http://www.nyharborwebcam.com/ for a couple of hours on and off and the sea definitely looks to be getting rougher. As long as the webcams are up you know the power is still on and people will be more-or-less ok.

Well, Lodger Boy did not speak to me all day. He only wiped the top of the cooker and there is a pool of chicken fat on the oven floor so I am not pleased. He has gone to another carer for two weeks and I have emailed the social worker to say I'm not sure I want him to return. He is 22 but behaved like a 12 year old today. I can't get over his arrogance.

Tomorrow I have not one, but two 'new' sofas arriving . From the charity shop - £31 in total, including delivery. They are both in very good condition and appear hardly used, so I am very pleased. Now all I have to do is stop Bruno from digging them .....

Off to bed as I have a massive headache, and looking in the mirror I am horrified to see I have bags under the bags under my eyes ... :eek:.

Sweet dreams xxx.

Possession

Well Mr P has been MiA since he put the children to bed so I think I can safely assume he fell asleep. No doubt he'll be awake most of the rest of the night worrying and dithering, aaaargh.
Friend in NY said it is really beginning to hit, but they are holed up together in a safe place, friend in Penn said it was getting windy a few hrs ago but haven't heard from them since. Friend in east virginia said it's windy but nothing else happening and she thinks schools will be open tomorrow. However in west Virginia it's snowing.
7WW DH found gingerbread men in Mr T so DD's Ginger Dead Men will be making an appearance tomorrow. Pumpkins carved tonight with less angst than usual, although DS did pick all the seeds out of the bin so that he could roast them.

savingqueen

Lots of congrats in order! To Nutty, Mr Possession and Fuddle. Pleased for you all.

PAH - sorry you are having a very trying and upsetting time with family and HA. Glad you were able to get to beach and are decorating - fireplace looks lovely and warm. Good to do positive things to balance out the other carp. Thinking of you lots and sending hugs and warmest wishes.

Mrs LW - glad your daughter is safe and sound. I know you'll worry as us mums do but try not to worry too much - we will only let you worry a little!

DH has just been roaring with laughter at me trying to find a smilie to add to post (couldn't find the "right one" so didn't.) He said "your 44 not 4!" I don't care, we need little things to cheer us up. He who is currently reading manga comics or whatever they are called on his oojmaflip :rotfl:

VJs mum - glad the reunion was fun if not sentimental

Pops - did you enjoy your show?

just had a feeling I might loose my post so will send now
sq:)

savingqueen

Smiley - you have every right to feel mad with Lodger Boy. I once rented a room off a pal and her house cleaning standards left a lot to be desired. I spent a whole day scrubbing grease off her kitchen walls etc while she was out as they were minging (always wanted to use that word) and then panicked that she would think I had a cheek doing it and was judging her. What could I do - couldn't put the grease back! Neither of us said anything and it was left at that - she didn't change her ways though. We are still friends but I didn't last long in her flat!!

It was me with the condensation - thanks for tip but our window sills are non-existant in some rooms or too narrow for those thingymebobs (sorry brain tired now)

ok DH wants the light off so night night all, sleep well

sq:)

Popperwell

It's scary whether you rent priavetely or from a HA, they have you over a barrel and there are good and bad points against either...

The show was superb and like so many of these groups they now having got past the stage of playing to screaming teenagers in the 60's they have expnaded their acts so they can play their hits, do some comic banter and also sing other artists songs.

Also, many really give you your money's worth usually 2 hours and more. Yet you pay less for your ticket. Yet many new artists perform on stage for less but charge more. Also many of today's acts would not think of performing in a theatre considered intimate and would only play in a stadum.

Groups like the Searchers play in all venues large and small and adapt their act accordingly. And even though many are in their late 60's and into their 70's they can still deliver.

And they are still going abroad to places like the States, Australia and N.Zealand. In fact many of these groups and singers are still able to get a reasonably sized audience.

There are a few great shows I'd love to see whilst I can but public transport makes it difficult to connect with other buses where you need to change and adding the cost of hotel is too much! I am too far away from the great venue of the North East The Sage, great setting, great sound, good ticket prices but lousy to reach and a taxi would cost around £50!

But this show was great. Thank you for asking SQ!

I did see my first homeless person as I went to the bus station...there were loads of boxes outside the shops to be collected and there was a bit of a breeze...so when I heard a piece of cardboard move initially I thought that was what it was causing it, then I realised someone had arranged the cardboard at the doorway of M&S and he/she was under it:(and I assume was about to spend the night there unless moved on...

I just hope the homeless figures don't increase in the coming months...

Sleep well SQ
Pops x

Popperwell

Having a lodger may be my way of surviving the future changes and they say I can from all I read but seeing SmileyT's problems it does cause concern and worry about going down that route...and yet there are many good stories about doing this...

We'll just have to see if it is a goer at some point in the future...

mcculloch29

I'm so glad you enjoyed the Searchers, Pops.
Fuddle, that's great news about the holiday and especially that it's somewhere where you wanted to go.
Also pleased about you winning on your bus route - I've lost the 7a bus to the city from my end of town, but still have the 21 and a re-routed 8 to go down the A167.

PAH Words fail me... how petty, mean and shortsighted of the HA.

Smileyt - enjoy your new sofas and may they stay intact. You are remarkable, having put up with an odious Lodger Boy and a super, but mega-destructive dog. I'd hang on to Bruno though.

I'm not from Kent, VJ'smum but I know what Gypsy Tart is - and I can't make it either.

Lyn thoughts, what a worry. I have a friend in Maryland (I went to her wedding over there some years ago) who is in the storm path, and an online friend in NY. NY friend is in an apartment block, so floods not so much of an issue, though being without electricity will be.

On the phone to HMRC today who couldn't explain where my overpayment rebate had got to, but actioned another one.

I also reported a projected drop in income to the tax credits dept, so more money will eventually come my way than I'm presently getting. Eventually...