'supporting each other through really tough times'

VJsmum

Oh SQ - boredom is a good sign of recovery. Do you think that will work with the recession as we are all bored with it!

Fanfare, please

I HAVE STARTED THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

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A wall of vouchers in sainsbugs helped, spent over £100 :eek: and left with 1 small carrier bag. Our biggest problem is DS (aged 13) just don't know what to do. He wants a PSP vita - but they are really expensive and I am not sure what use he will get out of it. We do travel or visit family a lot so I guess it will be useful then. He doesn't cost us much in the scheme of things, and cannot come up with much else. Hmmmm

We are going away on Boxing day, which is quite liberating christmas wise, as there isn't a lot of point in buying a lot of foodstuff. The family wants gammon for xmas dinner, tho DD is (sort of) vegetarian and has asked for an M&S ready meal she likes and I have leftover turkey in the freezer that I will have. I am making sticky toffee pud for pud as we all like it. One small box of thorntons chocs and probably not much else. I have a bottle of champers left over from MIL birthday and some nice red wine from last christmas so that part should be cheap. I bought smoked salmon a few weeks ago for a starter when it was half price. WE are back after new year so it will all be over then!!

I need to put some hampers together - what do you peeps use for your hampers? I usually use A3 or A4 paper box lids, covered in christmas wrapping (or plain gold paper), filled with shredded paper and then cellophaned. But work now don't put the lids on the boxes when they deliver to our department and I am not sure what to substitute with?

DD forgot her purse and train passes yesterday so i had to fetch her from school - to compensate she is going to wrap all presents that are not hers :T

Off to her parents evening in a mo - this is the child that was walking out of school 6 weeks ago but is now happily settled.

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Be careful what you wish for, it might just happen!!!! Hello everyone, I've just got back from yet another visit to my DD who sings, this time they performed Handels Messiah in the Cathedral, utterly beautiful, and now it's CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!! I have been travelling most of the day thanks to yet another set of railway glitches but was met at the station by He who knows with a lovely cup of tea in his travel mug, as he thought I sounded really fed up when I texted him, Awwwwwwww, he is such a sweetie!!!. The lurcher has been pinging around like an even madder thing than usual as he's excited vat Mumi have kumd homagen!!! and I am very glad to be back, I love being with DD and I love home too. Lurcher and I have just been for walkies with his retriever friend Charlie and his Mumi and are waiting for the kettle to boil for tea. I have so much reading of posts to catch up on, I don't seem to have read for ages, but will read all over the next couple of days. I hope you are all well and getting prepared for the 25th, I need to do so much still but I'll get there in the end. I glimpsed a lovely Biscotti Recipe a page or so back so that will be on my to do list for this week - thank you.

I am going to say thank you to anyone or everyone as I think it's nice to be able to do so. I think this thread is such a warm and lovely place and I would have much less fun and much less knowledge if it didn't continue, so, THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL YOUR POSTS and thank you for sharing the big, small, fun, sad everyday and special things that happen, you are all my friends and I am so very lucky that you share with all of us. You are the good guys!!! Cheers Lyn and Docky xxxxx.

fuddle

I was very upset that day, very upset in deed. All I saw was what I saw in front of me. I felt left out, I felt like someone had gone down the page and clicked thanks on every one else's posts and left mine out. I felt hurt and I reacted, rather badly and embarrassingly. I flipped, I reacted badly and I was rude towards a fellow poster. For that I apologise and do so sincerely.

Not many of you know this but recently I have been picking my youngest up from the reception at school. For reasons I am not prepared to go into on this thread I am being intimidated. I cannot cope with it an I cannot wait to leave this life behind. Unfortunately I know all to well what can happen when you react to something in life when you should just walk away.

I don't think ill ever be brave enough to post here again knowing how the majority of you feel about my behaviour but I needed to say that this thread cannot die. I know everything I know about OS by lurking here and then posting. The tougher thread used to be crammed with practical help and advice... Even up till a few weeks ago I'd pop up with a random question amongst the angst.

The tips are what makes this thread brilliant. Who to bloomin' get through the tough times! Eeek this is happening, what can I do about it? This is in the news, damn can it get any worse!!? That sort of stuff. Let it get back to the thread it always was - a resource, a friendly resource crammed with help advice and the old shoulder to cry on.

I am one poster. Just one silly thirty something trying to muddle through everything. Someone who had a lot on and flipped, hurting a fellow poster and alienating many of you. For that I truly and very sorry. Don't let one poster knock the thread down! This thread has survived harsher stuff than a silly girl shouting 'bully' and 'thanks' 'woe me I'm hurt'

Stick around for the people coming in who needs to learn about surviving the tougher times eh?

Please don't anyone argue over me posting. The thought of the tougher threads petering out over something petulant I did isn't right eh? Come on, come back everyone. Please.

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Lo FUDDLE how ya doing petal? It's soooooo cold down here brrrrrrrrr
the lurcher has icicles poor thing!!! He who knows is out for an MOT at the GPs surgery and I am having a quick catch up on here. I hope you are mostly packed for your move, I'm so excited for you, it's blooming stressful in the last week but worth it when you get there!!!!! It's lovely to have you back again, so lovely, thank you little one, now it can be christmas!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

fuddle

I've no Internet till 15th jan and my phone connection is driving me crazy but ill try to get on when I can. If by me being here the thread grinds to halt then I won't stick around but as you know Lyn, my store cupboard is shot, I'm putting ready made food in packed lunches, ready made frozen meals in oven and put 6lbs on these last two weeks. I need a stern OS hand! Still very embarrassed so ill see how I go but I would like to join again. Good news for anyone who is interested is that I'm through the AD withdrawal and have been off AD's for 2 weeks now. a stupid time to try it but I feel good right now.

stiltwalker

Mrs Lurcherwalker and Fuddle - good to see you (and Docky of course!)

Fuddle - you're allowed to live on frozen and ready meals when you are mid packing to move, in fact it is probably almost compulsory however OS you are normally!

Right - off to feed the small ones (Shepherd's Pie from leftovers as I am not mid pack however the small ones tea on bath night is often fishfingers and potato croquettes out of the freezer!! so don't feel guilty) then I'll get to have a nice soak later while DH finishes writing his essay.

Catch you all laters. X

Molly41

It is nice to see you all posting x

The_Dragon

SDG31000 wrote: »

I don't see why you couldn't leave them out The Dragon The choc orange ones I made at the weekend had no nuts in them, just orange zest and chopped up chocolate orange. (They were B1G2F so cheap enough to do that with). You can flavour them with what you want. I made some with dried cranberries in last year and they were nice.

Hmm you now me wondering if I could make rum and raisin biscotti

Popperwell

It's a bit silly around here...I am very quiet and I think a considerate neighbour. Been in this house for over 50 years and neighbours have stayed more or less the same within that period.

New neighbours moved in next door in the last three or four years and took all the green stuff out and concreted over. So many of birds and wildlife moved out.:(

They have been quite noisey and even now as I write this there is a teenager playing thumping music(I used the term music lightly)a Rotweiller dog howling etc...In fact something on my bedroom window sill is vibrating because of it:eek:

And yet I have a small radio on very, very quietly over night. So quiet even I can hardly hear it and I keep getting notes through the door asking me to turn it down. The house was built over 50 years ago and has good solid walls.

I have always had the radio on(speech radio, not music)It never bothered anyone else. But as they have bought the house and I am easy to get on with, I just give in and turn it down further or do without.

Makes you appreciate when you have good neighbours. Its funny Mum had her radio on in the same bedroom 24/7 and probably louder and they never said anything(it is still not very loud though)but now I am alone...Oh well...

The_Dragon

Yay Mrs Lurcherwalker and Fuddle are back , anyone would think it was Christmas or sommat :rotfl: