'supporting each other through really tough times'

elisamoose

fuddle wrote: »

sq sounds like a lovely rewarding opportunity for you

Woohoo Lyn Yes all sorted Docky needs a bow tie for wedding day So very exciting for you all. Any idea of your outfit yet?

It's good to be back! I've made a cheeky apple flapjack crumble for this very cold night http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1774/apple-flapjack-crumble

You know this tin in the picture

can you buy them? They remind me of war time images. They'd be fabulous for my crumbles and pasta bakes.

Youngest has been licking her mouth and 'Jack Frost has gotten it'. It's red an sore. I was thinking applying vasaline when she goes outside. Would that work or make it worse. She developed a habit of licking her lips and is having difficulty stopping.

Got my tins from Lakeland - where else!

fuddle

That would work, a lip balm of her own. All grown up and all that. Thank you

Some nice floaty trousers Lyn? Enamel. Righto, I know what to search for now, thank you

The cake I should appreciate Timothy really. At least I could access you all in a way, however faffy.

Pops all that walking I was doing last week, through the snowy icy conditions I can tell you that I was toasty. Today however, stood in that yard waiting for kiddies it was baltic. The coldest I've been even with big fleecy jumper beneath a knee length quilted coat (oh I look a nice picture at the moment ) Wrap up warm. Think it's that wind.

aha! Elisa off I go to play on the website and order myself a Lakeland Brochure. I like a peruse in that

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I'm not too sure about floaty enamel trousers, wouldn't I clank a bit?

fuddle

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I'm not too sure about floaty enamel trousers, wouldn't I clank a bit?

:rotfl: it's good to be back!

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Yep, is GOOD innit?

ginnyknit

Oh Fuddly one we will miss Timothy Honking but we are glad you are back with us. I now have to go and make the apple thingy cos I has apples and the oven is on!

Kaite sorry I couldnt help but its baffling me which you should tick.

thank you all for the advice re- DgS and the car seat. seem to have solved the problem with me sitting next to him instead of leaving a little person sized gap in between us and lots of praise coupled with me chunnering on about buses, blowing the traffic lights so they change and having my arm across his legs to make him feel safe - bl**dy exhausting and killing my arms but well worth it.

We now have an open plan back garden as the LL has ripped out the :mad: hedges :mad: which I hated and have been paying someone to cut them as we cannot do them ourselves. By tuesday at the latest we will have nice new 6 foot fences and much neater and user friendly garden plus the dumping ground between our fence (council originally too lazy to put it in the right place 20 years ago) and the one on the property at the back has gone so I will have a couple of yards of extra ground to use :j:j The beautiful little robin came for lunch today and I had proper robin food for him (£ land) he seemed very impressed, now just have to tame him like the ones on Gardeners world so he will sit and help me dig

maryb

Yay Fuddle's back properly - you'll be able to write War and Paracetamol whenever you want now

2tonsils

Had a really miserable day of non stop torrential rain and dropping temperatures. We left to go to the gym where I was helping out and the roads were well flooded , the rain was washing the top soil off the vineyards and fields and the sheep field was just a lake. I couldn't see the sheep anywhere so I hope someone moved them somewhere safe.

It has got colder and colder and snow is forecast which I hope will not hit our mountain! I have found it hard to stay warm tonight despite the fire blazing and fingerless gloves and thermals. I now have a fleece on my knee and I have warmed up a bit lol

Stocked up yesterday as we have a weekend of bad weather forecast and the shops are usually a rugby scrum on Saturdays. I intend to have a nice lie in tomorrow morning and I don't care what its doing outside..I have been awake at 4.30 each morning with the noise from the storms and wind.

Going to make another pan of soup tomorrow, might just be my favourite corned beef and veggies. Soup is a must in this weather, my OH loves it.
Hope you all have a great weekend, stay warm and safe. My weather updates are on the SHTF thread if you want to have a look.

katieowl_2

Evening...

Blooming freezing here now, raining very heavily. Went trawling around town this afternoon with DD as I needed to pick some stuff up. All jolly exciting, coal, dog food, prescriptions...bought some YS fish in crumbs for tea...but chips are in freezer, so will need to go round the back in the rain

Picked up a rather lovely latch hook rug kit for a nursery rug in a charity shop, which DD made off with, she says the background colour (beige) is missing, but we can get that online. It's got owls on I got a couple of books, but nothing else of interest. I'll post my enquiry over on the benefits board...I'm a bit scared of over there...but I'll risk it!

Kate

mama67

modern_millie wrote: »

Hi all, just de lurking to say we're using £80 pm oil and £58 elec, OK some business use and house is quite big, but still... sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Not wearing a hat but have 3 layers on and still not that warm! No snow either. Thanks for the link looks a really interesting blog.

we use £60 oil, £90 elec and then from Nov - Mar burn £260 coal on top, this is a 3 bed semi