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kate1974

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Oh that is GOOD NEWS Unixgirl, wonderful! It's so much easier to find a job when you are in a job, so hopefully you will land a further contract in the next three months.
Some good advice given on self-employment so I won't add.
Our snow is settling, but not a deep covering as yet.
I'm going to try Red Dragon Pie (I have to, I'm Welsh), thank you for the recipe, Katie.

I had pancakes for breakfast as I was ill yesterday and they didn't get made (I'm much better today). Lashings of juice from a microwaved lemon, along with proper Canadian maple syrup. Yummy. I often made pancakes for 'afters' when I was childminding, inevitably the children would say 'But it's not Pancake Day!'
No, but it's 'Dirt-cheap -dessert -that - everyone - enjoys day..'

Sorry for silly question-are pancakes for Pancake Day only here in England?As I make them every Saturday for breakfast.

2tonsils

Had horrendous storms all night and they just started again now....four hail storms in twelve hours is ridiculous and now we have storm force winds coming...the ferries are cancelled of course...again. I am not usually bothered by storms but these made me feel very uneasy.

Have to go to the hospital to get my shoulder checked out tomorrow. It's getting a lot easier to move it but still twinging with pain. Have the sling on and it does help. I have been told no gym for six weeks....oh what will I do with myself????

Going to catch up on my shopping while I am out tomorrow and before the stores run short of things with no deliveries due to the ferries. What a world we live in! Having some leftover beef stew with baby onions for tea with cauli, carrot and broccoli.

My job for the real estate agent is going well...she has rung me three times this week to say how pleased she is with something I have done for her. I will probably get more paid hours in the summer dealing with clients so have started buying some smart clothes that I can wear to meet and greet them. I need clothes that I can wear in the extreme heat that look smart but are cool to wear, not an easy thing to achieve to be honest. They need to take me from a hot walk around town showing properties to eating a meal out in the evening.

I am buying them in the sales so I can mix and match with the clothes I already have for the summer months. Once the spring is here I will layer them with a jacket/cardigan till its warm enough to wear them without.

Any tips and hints you can share with me?

Popperwell

Good news on many fronts...

On the job front for Unixgirluk:T

Kate1974 I haven't eaten many over my life but as suggested so easy and many different ways to do them, just that they get cold so quickly and if you are making them I tend to end up eating whilst doing the next one...

I don't know really if we only eat them in England only on Shrove Tuesday, it might be the way it is treated by the media but probably more people eat them regularly. Then again other countries may have them intergrated into their culenary culture...The French have their crepes which are practically the same.

This is an interesting piece to look at Shrove Tuesday

That is good news that you hopefully are feeling better mcculloch29 and you finally got your pancakes:D

Pancakes for me again today:)

We are getting the snow now alright:(about half an hour ago we had a light dusting. Now it is a steady fall and being whipped around by a fair wind.

With Valentine's Day coming here's one from me to all of you...ok it's a day early but...

Valentine's Day

juliettet

I have to look smart in my job too 2tonsils but the heat in this part of Scotland is never a problem.

I would purchase a couple of shift dresses and dress up with a Jacket and jewellery. I have a few cardigans that are smart enough to cover these too. Both fasten at the neck like a wrap. In the summer a sleeveless blouse and tailored linen trousers will be useful. Keep a nice pair of shoes and a sheer scarf in the car to dress up at night too.

ginnyknit

Just been to Mr S and the shelf for the value mince was empty???

I work out prices like most of us as I go round the SM and today I wanted washing up liquid. I prefer Fairy as it works for me and I rarely buy it as it lasts well . Today the 870 ml bottle was on offer and worked out at £1.72 per litre yet the 630 ml was only £1.59 per litre - go figure, I bet people just buy the bigger one because it looks like a bargain :mad:

To be honest the prices of the food scared me and I really only bought necessities. Then I got home and my order from AF arrived :j:j I really think thats the way I will be shopping in future getting what I can from AF and using the money off vouchers for SM. I just got £12 off a £60 shop at Mr S so am going to work out the best use of that for next month. As for whoopsies Im finding them hard to get and cannot get out much like I used to when its time for them to be reduced.

Unix girl, I am so pleased for you, your hard work finally paid off. :beer: You enjoy the time off you have left. x

katieowl_2

Ergh. Most unproductive trip into town. Forgot it was Wed afternoon and several places were shut.

I seem to have solved the card problem by default. I went into the card factory, it was heaving with people buying cards for tomorow. I tried to find a card for DS (21 on Friday) but they had nothing suitable, I picked up a belated card that I needed for someone else, but I couldn't physically bring myself to look at the Val. cards, I started to feel sick and panicky. I just about managed to queue and pay for the belated card, so I've not got one. I did look in Smiths, where I got a card for DS, but I still couldn't find an appropriate blank card either. Cried driving home.

DS tells me he is going out tonight, so I think I might just have to say in advance, that I haven't got him (OH) a card and why.... I couldn't possibly feel any worse than I do at the moment - it's not like he can throw me out!

Kate

the_cake

((((hugs))) Kate, hate to hear how these blimmin' commercial "special days" bring so many problems in their wake, things brought to the surface which rock the boat (sorry, seem to have become entangled in some sort of metaphor here), which perhaps are better left submerged. Had a bit of a "moment" re Val. Day here too, but all sorted now, hope you float through tomorrow OK. xxxx

7_week_wonder

Oh KatieOwl, I wish you were nearer - so I could give you a big hug and a big mug of tea. Just to let you know that this OS-er appreciates you hugely: I've just taken the Jamie Oliver cake out of the oven ready to finish off tomorrow night and take in to my colleagues for Cake Friday. If it wasn't for you they'd be not be getting anything anywhere near as nice. Plus you solved the GF cake problem for one of my friends over Christmas. So - stuff one silly day a year when everyone goes stupid, you make a difference to people every day:)

And as for pancakes - I don't know if it's true. But the version I heard was that the origins of pancake day (way back before Christianity) was to give us one last chance to eat eggs. Then we shouldn't eat them for 6 or so weeks (which was incorporated into Lent) to make sure enough eggs develop and hatch so we have enough chickens, ducks, etc to see us through the following winter. I quite like that version of events, even if it isn't accurate!

Time for a cup of tea.

Popperwell

7WW that sounds about right...and ties in with the link I posted earlier...;)I miss Mum and Dad and probably there are no special days any more but I guess this also means pressure is taken off me regarding the problems many seem to get with birthdays/valentine's day etc...if there are relationship or family issues.

I was spoilt/fortunate in that we did not have that to contend with. Then again perhaps that means you miss it all the more when it is no longer possible.

monnagran

WOW. What a lot has happened while I've been doing other things.

Unixgirl: Terrific news. It's what we've all been waiting for. Enjoy the rest of your time off and wallow in the feeling of relief.

kate1974: When we have pancakes on Shrove Tuesday we always say what a pity it is to only have them on one day in the year. Then we say that we will have them more often. We never do!

ginnyknit: I always check the price per unit of items (drives the Rev mad when she is in a hurry) and it's amazing how many times the 'bargain' is not a bargain at all, It's often more economical to buy 2 small items than one large one - the one that they are pushing. You're right. The price of food is getting scary. Back to the wartime cookery books for me and thank goodness for the fasting diet, it's saving me quite a bit of money as we are both doing it.

katieowl: My heart goes out to you. Been there. I finally decided that I would rather live in a bedsit if necessary than put up with the situation I was in. I will be eternally thankful to a work colleague who gave me the following little verse.

"Some women get married, it's true.
They think it's the best they can do.
But why spend your life being somebody's wife
When you could spend it just being you?"

It gave me the push I needed and I've never looked back.

Whatever you decide you know the outpouring of love and support you will get on here.

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