make do and mend for tougher times

Smoosh

Hi everyone. Hope it's ok if I join in here, feeling very down with how tough things are at the moment and would be nice to chat to others.

VJsmum

GreyQueen wrote: »

VJsMum, I finally got tired of looking at my work blouses and ironed. Took a whole twenty minutes. Mustn't let it pile up again like that as I don't stand too well.

Quiet or I shall bring you some of mine!! :rotfl:

VJsmum wrote: »

Oh and Korean food - delicious!!!!

Correction - Korean food is delicious, except for raw chopped up octopus that STILL KEEPS WRIGGLING _pale_ (well, it might be delicious but I wasn't getting close enough to try).

Oh and my journey home might get delayed by a typhoon!! :eek:

mardatha

GQ, in this village we have one Lord and one duke's daughter who is a lady in waiting to princess Anne. Both of them are fine and chat away at jumble sales and sports days and both send their kids to the local primary school.

Popperwell

Possession wrote: »

If you had the oven on already for something else Pops, no reason not to make a cobbler. Just halve the ingredients, and use half a tin of whichever drained fruit you're using (doesn't have to be peach, I only used that because the EV tins of peaches are cheap).
It was plum crumble today and 6p custard - given the seal of approval by DS, so 6p packs it is from now on.

I was wondering what a munter was too!

All that you mention in your post sounds lovely. Its been ages since I had a dessert(or is that a desert?)after a meal...I tend to have a main dish of some kind and then forget to have my fruit, ice cream or whatever else...I used to love having custard with something, I'll have to put that right.

Lots of meals require me to either guess the amounts or work them out by converting the weights...

Its too easy when on your own to go for simple fare(not there is anything wrong with simple)but variety makes eating a pleasure but like many on here I can happily eat the same things day after day...and if you are splitting food up to make it go further that can happen.

Popperwell

Smoosh wrote: »

Hi everyone. Hope it's ok if I join in here, feeling very down with how tough things are at the moment and would be nice to chat to others.

Hello Smoosh,
Good to have you along...just jump in.;)

You'll have some memories and stories to tell VJ...I think I have seen that dish you mention...oh dear!

Possession

mardatha wrote: »

I'm sorry but I thought everybody knew that Sainsbugs sell posher beans. Fuddle I'm ashamed of you, you should know this! :rotfl::rotfl:
And celeriac - wotever hell it is - sounds green and exotic so I ignorin it
WCS I closed my wee etsy shop too and am keeping the ebay one on until xmas , then closing that as well. It will help me to focus on the Home Front.
O gawd I need to stop reading wartime books

I believe the tins of Branston which are sold in Sainsbugs are silver-plated, and the ones in Waitrose are gold-plated.
Mar celeriac is closely-related to celery, and is therefore also satanic.

Smoosh

Thank you for the warm welcome

Mrs_Chip

Celeriac !

Popperwell

Smoosh wrote: »

Thank you for the warm welcome

Don't know how far back it is and whether you just found us but many of us have put a little description of ourselves so if you have lurked you may have seen them:p

Wish I had made notes myself as you do forget(well I do)best way though of getting to know each other is just chat...and read away.

Mrs C don't think I've seen one of them before...even at my age!

Smoosh

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Celeriac !

That looks terrifying! :rotfl: