'supporting each other through really tough times'

PRINCESSX87

Carrot cake goes down a treat here, Anything else though sounds a little :undecided

OH loves chilli's & choc so might try those together see what the outcome is!!

I had an hours worth of chat with step change yesterday & I have to say its was deffo an eye opener! The advisor has assisted me in everything debt related so we can finally get ALL our affairs in order. Once I have printed everything off & get them posted - Maybe, Just maybe we'll sleep well.

Thanks again for all the support & kind words! Have a great day all x

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Well done PX87, the first step is the hardest, but usually the most effective, welcome to the first day of a much better life, well done, it takes courage to change things round, you're a good'un. Cheers Lyn xxx.

FairyPrincessk

SQ--the oven would be my first choice, but I've also had some success heating pizza up in a frying pan. No oil or perhaps just a bit of olive oil already hot, then just put it down, crust side down. My OH's crust is still a bit hit or miss in the crunch department. I would suggest the hot pan trick to him, but we all know how he feels about "suggestions":rotfl: This is why he is often referred to as a grumpy old toad.

I I love courgette cake. The first time I made it, I peeled the courgette for maximum camouflage effect...but now I don't. I just shred it and I quite like the flecks of dark green. Beetroot cake, on the other hand:( A good friend of mine made beetroot brownies and sent one home with my OH for me to taste and told him not to tell me it had beetroot in it. I sussed that out immediately. Awful stuff.

nuttyp

good morning, wow you all seem like established gardeners. I love the idea of a growing wall with the milk containers.

Please can everyone keep there fingers and toes crossed for my DD. Yesterday they got a viewing on a house in the next village and they love it. So today ive had get up early, scrape together the fee for a credit search and then I have to get the forms to them on opening. There is another couple interested, but with a bit of luck from everyone maybe they will try my two first, iygwim.

The weather is definatley taking a turn for the cooler side, its suppose to be raining later on. Please can we have some more sun shine.... pretty please.....

Well must dash, need to be in town by 9

take care everyone x

FairyPrincessk

Princess--that sounds so positive! I hope you can plan a small celebration of this first step! Maybe a courgette cake?!

Expecting to see some salad seedlings any day now. This bit is always the worst for me. I can't SEE them doing anything and start to think nothing will happen. Must also go and check on the actual plants today. Last year the slugs ate everything I attempted in pots all in ONE NIGHT. I was not impressed. My youngest plants this year are surrounded in egg shells and I've put those awful, poisonous slug pellets around the perimeter. Don't really want to use them, but I found slugs actually sitting on my lavender, just having brunch last year! The cheeky things will stop at nothing to wind me up.

Our current house is owned by a couple. We've met the man several times, and he is lovely. Today his wife is coming by to do the inventory. OH isn't in work today, so he will sort most of it out. I'm one of those people who is better in writing than in person

This evening is a very good friend's birthday celebration. He's organized drinks, a meal, and then a little bit of jazz. We'll probably miss the drinks, A) because I can never get to the pub on time and because drinks, and dinner, and the £1 entry fee probably plus another drink for the jazz all adds up. Fortunately, the dinner should be takeaway prices, but not takeaway food! Unfortunately, it is in one of the few parts of the city that is difficult for us to get to via public transit. However, I think there may be a public footpath that goes there so I'm looking into that for us to get there. We'll have to get a minicab back, it will be too late to walk, and even if we did stand around for the once an hour bus it would cost us more in bus fare than sharing the minicab. They change bus companies after a certain hour and won't accept our passes. That really winds me up---I always just imagine someone getting somewhere and then not being able to get home because their day pass turned into a pumpkin.

So, this afternoon it looks like I'll be making a batch of peanut butter swirl brownies as this friend really likes choc peanut butter. Make that a double batch, as the toad will complain if he doesn't get any.

In between all of that, I shall endeavour to get a bit of writing done!

mardatha

Those milk cartons would all blow away here unless they were nailed to the wall. And maybe even then lol. It's the kind of thing that would be lovely in a wee sheltered enclosed garden.

FairyPrincessk

Looks like I'll be legs up into the plastic recycling bin rescuing our milk cartons.

Mrs_Chip

mardatha wrote: »

Those milk cartons would all blow away here unless they were nailed to the wall. And maybe even then lol. It's the kind of thing that would be lovely in a wee sheltered enclosed garden.

Same here Mar, but you hang them from a cane through the handle, I think they would be quite secure. I just need to find a way to fix them up - I'm thinking of using a wooden pallet, standing on it's side with some brackets for the canes.

PRINCESSX87

Rather jealous that everyone seems to be well established gardeners.I struggle to just grow a basic plant & keep it alive. Last year we didgrow strawberries which were tasty.

And we’re also really lucky that we have a cherry tree thatgrows outside our door. Last year no one within our families brought cherriesas we had a full supply and loads going to waste. The tree is a full bloomerand it’s impossible to keep up. This year we haven’t managed to grow anything whichwe’re both disappointed as this was a MS way of cutting back for us. There’salways next year.



Does anyone grow potatoes? We have a small amount of gardenspace which is normally riddled with snails – Any advice would be fab!

fuddle

Not everyone is an established gardener princessx but its great being in the company of many

I've been trying to fathom how to get those pots on a ladder-esk type of set up but needs more thought. I'm not allowed anywhere near DHs shes with a drill

I'm baking today. I am feeling quite low and need a distraction.