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short_bird

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

The trolley (Chubby because he's checkered!.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
(And for those that didn't understand, google Chubby Checker)

kidcat

Mardatha - its blazing hot here - always the same when the kids go back to school.

kidcat

katie - good news, its always such a relief when these things are over, I always love having everywhere so tidy and organised, of course it doesnt last though

greent

mardatha wrote: »

I dono how hubby can sunbathe today unless you're a hell of a lot warmer than we are here. Its baltic and blowing a gale here!

20 degrees, cloudless blue sky and no breeze here

fuddle

Blowing a hooligan here too but it's sunny as well.

Thank you for the birthday wishes

I have a onesie Looking forward to bath, onesie on, kids in bed, cuppa and wartime farm.

I realise that birthday tea as a takeaway is not OS but you know the metal cartons it comes in? Would that be a good container to use for my makeshift outdoor Roses tin stove? Going to give it a whirl tomorrow. I want to dig out the camping kettle and try boiling water and heat beans in the container while re-heating an already baked potato. I hope it's not a tall order. If I can suss this I will feel very prepared for if the electric goes off.

SpikyHedgehog

VJsmum wrote: »

Happy Birthday Fuddle :T:beer:

If you think your house is a mess, you should see mine! :eek:

I have set myself the task of having it clean and tidy (ish) by Monday - and that is a fairly tall order. Got a full day at work today, followed by teenager ferrying tonight. Might be finished by 8, more likely later and i'll have to catch up with the farm another time.

DD had to be at school at 7.45 today :eek: so i was in work at 8.15, which is virtually unheard of. Various people fainted in shock This new school business is strange for all concerned, getting used to different ways, different timings, different holidays and the increased distance and difficulty in getting there. Hopefully we will all adjust soon - though the different holidays is already causing problems - they have totally different half term weeks and the start and finish days over xmas and new year differ too.

Ah well, better look busy

Oh, that could be awkward when trying to work out holidays...

Happy birthday, Fuddle!

Put on my new work trousers this morning & realised I needed to turn them up, so got that done while DS2 was in the bath. After a wet start, he'd done really well, & we've only been having wet bed once a week. Tuesday, he said he was nervous about back to school, then he wet his bed; last night he wet my bed.

lilmisskitkat

Coming out of lurkdom again to wish Fuddle a very Happy Birthday :j Enjoy your day

I did post on some of the old 'tougher' threads but on a very ad hoc basis so i hope no one minds if i do the same here. Some days i can spend quite a bit of time reading and replying to threads and some days i don't manage to get online at all. Real life making demands on me and all that jazz

We've recently moved house, into our 'forever' home (i hope!) and really happy here but it has meant tightening the purse strings considerably as outgoings are bigger and work needs doing. I'm a SAHM to 3, DS will start school in a few weeks and i'll just have DD2 (Minnie the Minx) at home during the day.

I went round to a friends house for a brew and a natter today and we were talking about what we were having for tea, i said i'd got a gammon joint in the slow cooker and we'd have it for tea with potatoes and veg, tomorrow with egg and chips and i'd use the ends chopped up along with the cooking liquid and peas to make a pea and ham soup for the freezer. They fell about laughing :rotfl: Couldn't believe i did all that with one gammon joint. I asked them what they did and they said they'd have it for the meal and chuck the rest :eek: Oh i do wish for OS friends sometimes!

K xx

shegar

fuddle wrote: »

I took everything to heart definitely. I took it as being aimed at me because I had a PM directing me to there. I commented loads on that blog but stopped checking in when it happened.

A thick black line for sure.

DH is having Sainsbury's basic tea and is not at all commenting - slipped under the radar there.

Hey dont worry now, you wre one of the only few that really had time for him, I got so fed up with every post doom and gloom, and really speaking for what..??
He is in a better position than most of us........

You gave him good advise and your time, but I aint got time for people who dont look after themselves and are quite able bodied, it was only common sense really...............

Thats a lot of the problem when one member in the family do everything for you and I mean everything for you, you get kinda selfish and lazy with it, and you never have to use your own brain , he will now have to get off his butt and get on with it.............

So many times when members on here would try to help him and repeat the same things over and over again, but he was either winding people up ,or it wasnt going in what he was told, or didnt want to hear it...........So then he would repeat it in the next thread..........God alive I dont have patients for ignorant people, and so many times I wanted to yell !!!!!! go...................I will put my hard hat on in case I get the odd one or two that dont agree , but im pretty thick skinned and normally tell it like it is.......:eek:.......

Beautiful again here today, only just come in from doing various jobs in the garden , but hey you cant beat a bit of sunshine, good forcast all week.............

SpikyHedgehog

lilmisskitkat wrote: »

Coming out of lurkdom again to wish Fuddle a very Happy Birthday :j Enjoy your day

I did post on some of the old 'tougher' threads but on a very ad hoc basis so i hope no one minds if i do the same here. Some days i can spend quite a bit of time reading and replying to threads and some days i don't manage to get online at all. Real life making demands on me and all that jazz

We've recently moved house, into our 'forever' home (i hope!) and really happy here but it has meant tightening the purse strings considerably as outgoings are bigger and work needs doing. I'm a SAHM to 3, DS will start school in a few weeks and i'll just have DD2 (Minnie the Minx) at home during the day.

I went round to a friends house for a brew and a natter today and we were talking about what we were having for tea, i said i'd got a gammon joint in the slow cooker and we'd have it for tea with potatoes and veg, tomorrow with egg and chips and i'd use the ends chopped up along with the cooking liquid and peas to make a pea and ham soup for the freezer. They fell about laughing :rotfl: Couldn't believe i did all that with one gammon joint. I asked them what they did and they said they'd have it for the meal and chuck the rest :eek: Oh i do wish for OS friends sometimes!

K xx

Errant husband was gipping bewailing about his food budget, so I asked him what happens to the leftovers from their sunday chicken?
Oh, he says, we only get a little 1 so we eat it all.
Even the bones!? I asked, you can make good stock from them.
Oh, we throw the bones away, he said.
I suggested they google rubber chicken.

Serious tightening of the budget needs to happen here, my hours at work are going to be cut.

DS1's last day off before 6th form, I'm so glad he's going to be doing something, he's really annoying me at the moment with doing nothing all day. I need to go & do dinner & make bread, & the kitchens a tip still. Not in the mood for stroppy children!

Possession

Sorry your hours are going to be cut Spiky......times are really getting tough aren't they?
DH's interview didn't go that well today he thinks - that's the first time he's said that. Still waiting on the dates of the two 2nd interviews he's supposed to be having.