make do and mend for tougher times

fuddle

I know the one you mean And, great museum that too

http://dogstrustblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/bonfire-night-blues-how-to-help-your.html advice for helping dogs cope with firework night.

I heard bangers going off here last night. Oh joy. Alfie didn't seem to bat an eyelid last year. He was only 4 months old then though and now much more in tune with what noises are normal.

I'm off to see nephew in about 20 mins.

So sorry to hear about your car. I haven't seen any headlines today so didn't know about all the overly awful wet stuff some of you have been having.

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McCULLOCH and VASSILY - Please to be calling me Lyn, in home town in deepest Hampshire I also known as Lyn, is pleasureness for all to call me Lyn, also answer to many other things but pleasureness is to be called Lyn which is not rude!!!!! (many other things sometimes are !!!) (But not minding really as others are my friends and I call them many things too!!!),

I still don't think you should have to give anything up to be free from pain, for me that should be a human right, not a sacrifice. Just my thoughts though and you are so right that we are very lucky to have the NHS in any form especially if you need it for an emergency. Nice that you will have a little easing in the system though, enjoy. Have a lovely coffee with your friend - Hope you also have a leetle vodka for Vassily!!!!!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

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Have nice cuddles Fuddle. (ooh I'm a poet!)
Sorry about your car Mrs C, that's awful. : (

Three christmas cakes cooked and now 2 gigantic cherry pound cakes seem to be taking almost as long. I want to get the dinner on!
Not very happy with the school's response to the bullying. They have a 'no blame' policy which hasn't much impressed me after googling it. The boy is statemented so the new Head hasn't mentioned it to him, she wants to get feedback from higher powers. In the meantime he has hit DS twice again today. At least it's in the open now I guess.

ETA: One cherry cake is in my silicone bundt mould which I'm using the first time, and it turned out beautifully! I was having visions of cherries stuck all over the place.
Dinner tonight is Freezer Delight - BBQ ribs, kebabs and croquette potatoes. I dread to think how long they've been in the freezer!

Byatt

What is it with lunatic drivers and flooded roads? Someone went through the flood without slowing down, and my car was covered, for about 2-3 seconds I couldn't see a thing :eek:. I shouted bastwerd, but I don't think he heard! :cool:

Then I come home and nearly set fire to it. Put a saucepan of soup on the hob (I haven't had hobs for a while, so not used to them yet), sat down, and some time later thought, that doesn't smell like soup heating up :eek::eek:...no, I'd put on the wrong hob and the wok which contained my oven gloves was smoking and on the point of lighting up! Worryingly the smoke alarm which goes off with the slightest thing, didn't murmur. I can see how smoke can kill, it was awful. Oven gloves completely ruined and in the sink soaking in cold water.

I hope there's not a third thing, I might not survive.:p

2tonsils

Okay folks , dear friends of mine , I have a dilemma I would like to hear your opinions on. I have discovered that it is possible for me to order food from Mr T online, get the goods brought over by a courier who travels to Corfu and delivered to my door and save money on what I would pay for things here (but not all are available here anyway.) It's ironic, but its cheaper to order from Mr T and have them brought 2000 miles to my door than it is to buy them in Greek supermarkets.

The problem is that there is a campaign going on to get you to support Greek business and products and I feel guilty about bringing food from the UK, even if its not available here.

I have mentioned this on the Preparing for when SHTF thread but it might be more suited to this one really, so I am putting it in more detail on here.

I now have chance to order things for Christmas and the New year and I am trying to decide whether to go for it or not. What do you think? If you were me and in the same position, would you support the Greek supermarkets and pay much more or would you save money and get exactly what you want brought over from the UK? Thanks in advance for your opinions. xxx

VJsmum

Tricky one 2T - if money were no object I would say support the local businesses. But things being as they are - I can't say what I would do. Maybe for the treat -y things?

DS does food tech - one or two terms a year. To be honest, I wish he could do it instead of art in which he has no interest and less talent. It is the one thing we help him out with - CONSIDERABLY. We don't quite do it for him but often do the research - leaving him to do final arrangements. But cooking he really likes and is half decent at and, for him, will be of far more value. It doesn't all make it home though - if he makes cake then we are lucky to get a piece. If it's got onion in then we get it all :rotfl: Sausage pasta pot tomorrow, so that's tea sorted.

Four different freezer meals tonight - lasagne (DS), mac and cheese (DD), nut roast (OH), salmon (moi) - there is definitely more wriggle room in the freezers now, but still a way to go before the great defrost.

Now I really must go and clean the bathroom before being "Mum's taxi". An empty house and all I get to do is clean the bathroom

born_blonde

Just a quick post to say while I will keep up with reading, I won't be posting for a while.
You might have noticed my comment that it was all quiet on the campsite.
So I popped into the next village on a yellow sticker hunt at the Co-op.
I tripped, fell and broke my right arm in 3 places.......
So as I'm right handed and as it hurts quite a lot I may be quiet for a while!

mardatha

For xmas/new year I would get food from home - it's only once a year

katieowl_2

2tonsils wrote: »

I now have chance to order things for Christmas and the New year and I am trying to decide whether to go for it or not. What do you think? If you were me and in the same position, would you support the Greek supermarkets and pay much more or would you save money and get exactly what you want brought over from the UK? Thanks in advance for your opinions. xxx

Needs must and all that. I'd go for it. It would be lovely to save the Greek economy, but your survival is also very important, cos' I don't think all this is going to be over soon!!! Aren't you ordering GF stuff for you or OH? That's pricey enough here, so I shudder to think how dear it is in Greece.

Kate

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2tonsils, it's a special xmas order, and you buy Greek all the rest of the year, don't worry about it.
Byatt maybe just don't touch anything for the rest of the night!
Born Blonde, sorry about your arm, hope it isn't too painful.