'supporting each other through really tough times'

Pooky

Stilt walker - gorgeous photos, you have a wonderful looking family. Those dresses are fab too, how clever are you?!!

SDG - amazing cakes! So talented.

PIC - hope moggy returns soon, the waiting is hellish isn't it x

I've spent the day playing the washing hokey cokey and doing bits of housework intersperesed with a Christmas film and snuggle with DD2 (she might be 14 but a duvet, a film, a box of chocs and a cuddle with her Mum is always welcomed) I finished a crochet snood thing for her too, I took inspiration from a pattern on line and then just made it up as I went along (photos in the normal place in a mo when I've uploaded them).

Forgot to get a joint out for dinner so made a curry instead, plates were scraped clean so it went down well for a change.

DH is having a bad day and managed to fall spectacularly into the dining table, the bruises will be good. I shall suggest an early night with a film in a bit to get him to relax.

shegar

stiltwalker wrote: »

Ok - here goes, hoping I've got this right:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89551838@N04/8175622345/in/photostream/

With any luck this should be a few photos ofthe big day.

Arhh those pics are so very nice of you all, beautiful colour, lovely children....sheila

VJsmum

paidinchickens wrote: »

Dishwasher died today and DH is going for tests for bowel cancer. I don't think he has I think it is all stress but it has put the wind up him and has made him stress even more.

Oh for a quiet life.

PiC x

Nah - a quiet life'd be boring :rotfl: My OH had tests for bowel cancer too a few years ago. It turned out to be polyps and now he has to go for an examination every few years which means they also check for cancer so that is quite a positive from it. I hope you find your kitty soon.

Stiltwalker - amazing frocks!! You clever old thing. How lovely you all looked and what a cutie your DD is. That's why I got married before the kids as they always get the attention My DD did at BIL and SIL's wedding. DD was 3 and was leading the dancing in the barn dance! :rotfl: It is really no surprise that she is after a career in the limelight!

SDG - I wish I had the patience to do such amazing cakes.

Right, half an hours ironing and the rest of the evening is mine!

Edit - Pooky just seen your wreath, it's gorgeous. Would love to know how you did that.

Cheapskate

katieowl - the magazine's called Homemaker and is £4.99! :eek: but I did buy it in the SM where DS works and was extra discount at the time, so was a bit less. There's an extra leaflet with it, has some pages you can use for various things, cards, tags, etc. Think I'll colour copy them so I don't have to cut up the mag.

stiltwalker/SGD - fantastic pics of both your creations, what a talented pair! stiltwalker, I bet your daughter stole the show!

A xo

ginnyknit

PIC good luck for your OH's tests, my OH had them done 2 years ago and it was polyps too, had them removed at one of those mobile clinics - poshest hospital we have ever been too - really smart. Hope the puddy tat appears soon.

Stiltwalker, what beautiful photo's. your children are as cute as buttons too. thats how to do a wedding true O/S style :T:T:T

SDG fab cakes - really good.

I have been crafting all day apart from an hours sleep, not bad seeing as I have been up since 5 :eek: Threw together a chicken chow mein with a sachet of sauce and rubber chicken and have minestrone soup in the SC for tomorrow. Not a bad day considering Im on automatic pilot. :rotfl:

GreyQueen

Evening all, been off the web for 24 hours (probably a personal best) as the weather was superb and I didn't want to get lured into MSE-ing when I should be gardening.

Gardened my little socks off for about 2 and a bit hours, came home and rested, bathed and have been pajamed for hours. In a pair of c.s. jammies (seemed to have never been worn) which I bought months ago, laundered and put away and plain forgot about.

They're midnight blue brushed cotton with stars and moons on them.

Stiltwalker, those pictures are lovely, you all beam with joy and that red is stunning. Your DD is a scene-stealer, isn't she?

PiC sorry to hear that the cat is still missing and good on ya for giving maximum publicity. I was hoping to good news in that respect when I logged on tonight. Fingers crossed that it will be on its way home soon.

Re bowel cancer; Mum was checked out for this a few years ago after some worrying symptoms and it was polyps. She has regular check ups and nothing untoward has come of it. Fingers crossed that it will be similar for your OH.

Gobsmacked by SDG's cakes esp the tank one, it looks so metallic...... Can see boys of all aged thinking - want one.

Today I unearthed a cache of slug eggs. About 20. And it must be heading towards winter as I acquired the company of a wee gardening helper, a cheeky robin. It's so cute how they like to help you with your work...or let you do the grunt work of turning over the soil for them.

Commensual feeding, I think it's called, when animals allow another animal (or a tractor) to reveal the grub for them.

I have re-discovered my bounce; I'd come off the prescribed iron tablets for a week. Energy plummetted and bounced back within hours of restarting them. Ferrous fumarate rocks.

Well, regarding people keeping their heating very low, I think they're a trifle crazy, unless they have absolutely no choice. I've lived in some absolutely perishing places with no heating/ inadequate heating or a combination of grossy-expensive and inadequate heating, and I don't want to do it again.

I pay £40 a month as a service charge on top of my rent for my heating and I pay this winter and summer, whether I use it or not. So it's on and I'm toasty and intend to stay that way.

Hope everyone has a good night's rest and that the weather won't be too bad over the next few days. GQ xx

Rowan9

Stiltwalker - fab photos - gorgeous family!! Thanks for sharing.
SDG - such fab cakes
Paid in Chickens - big (((hug)))
When I lit my candles tonight, I put some of my stones in a circle round one to represent our hand holding. Thanks for asking us to hold hands Mar.
Off to bed early with my book and a lovely hot water bottle. Think we're in for a milder rainy week up here though.
Take care all
W

ps GreyQueen - the iron tabs make a huge difference. please keep taking them! Glad your energy levels are back up

GreyQueen

wmf I've been on them since January and was bloodtested after 3 months and the GP showed me my level on a chart on his pooter.

It was a blue column-style chart which is supposed the represent the normal range and there was a wee red line right at the base, which was my reading.

So we agreed I'd take them for 6 more months before testing again, which I'll have done next week and then we're meeting at the end of the month to discuss the result. I'm going to ask to be kept on them and if he won't, I shall bliddy well buy them myself.

Can hardly believe that I dipped so quickly and bounced back so fast, each time within about 3 hours. Just goes to show how much good they're doing.

That's one experiment I shan't be in a hurry to repeat.

greenbee

GQ - I think you've identified where my bounce has gone. I've been off the iron for a year, and although I'm not anaemic and my ferritin is 'within normal limits' it has dropped by over 50% from where it was when I stopped the pills. Unfortunately they won't let me take any supplements until it stabilises/they find out why it's dropping/it goes under 22...

If you stopped the pills due to their digestive effect, I thoroughly recommended adding a desert spoonful of ground linseeds to your morning porridge

ETA - I found ferrous fumarate was cheapest in boots at 98p a pack. T*sc* charged twice as much. But usually cheaper to buy than the prescription fee for those who have to pay each time.

debtmess

Evening all

Lovely pictures Stiltwalker and love the calendar pictures SDG

pic hope your cat turns up soon x I go crazy if mine do not come in for the night, hopefully your cat has found somewhere so warm and is just having a good sleep.


Ended up having a mega busy day but having got everything done I need to, ds2 has packed lunch's in freezer for next 2 weeks half Tomorrows dinner is cooked and all being well everything we need is in the house for the next 2 weeks.

My brother has kindly given me a new duvet, my old one is feather planning on using it for either a sofa snuggle with a cover over the top or under my sheet for a cosy bed cannot think of any other uses, it's coming up for having had it 6 years and its not feeling as warm as it once did:o

On the heating subject we scraped on it last winter, damp started appearing in corners and washing took forever to dry, this year were cutting back on other things, not had a nasty cold etc as I did last year, it's off school days as house is empty,but on evenings and at weekends I'm on card/key so thankfully no big bills just the cold weekly walk to the shop.

Still not fully decided what to do about Xmas and food had it confirmed today it's just the 4 of us things like a turkey would be wasted (or we would be eating it for days afterwards)

Pinkieminkie I know the feeling well, I do not get paid for just over 2 weeks at this rate I'm going to be walking home from work with ds3 in just over a weeks time unless I simply do not shop for next 2 weeks but we should have enough in to stretch it up until end of month, it's just gone over the last 2 weeks with cubs and beavers camp (ds2 had not been before so needed everything)

Looks like rain here tomorrow, hoping it will not be too bad Monday always seems a long day without coming home in bad weather;)

Bath and bedtime here, have a good evening all x