'supporting each other through really tough times'

fuddle

GQ have you just given me techie help?! Yey!

Byatt I'm not very good at picking my battles am I? If I could just hold back for 5 minutes and not react I would be a strong and grounded human being at the minute though I flail about like a... Finish the simile (is that the right word?)

All calm now. I must share with you that I'm the proud new owner of one of those whizzy things (sound like me grandma!) I'm very excited that I can make breadcrumbs because it means I can try those meatloaf kind of recipes but also treacle tart! it can also chop and grate and its a processor for soups and I think it'll whizz up smoothies. I feel like the culinary world is my oyster (and chuffed I don't have to make short crust pastry by hand, my pet hate)

Also you know my new friend? Her car is fixed and we're going to share the school run pick ups, week on week off. That will save me some petrol. I have to admit that I'm a bit scared at letting someone else pick up the girls, no one looks after your children like you do do they? I think though at the ages of 9 and 5 this year I need to let go, it's not like its anything out of the ordinary!

Silly me. Well, DH be in soon and after tea I'm lying in bed all night wih cup of hot orange and lemon. I didn't sleep past 2.30 this morning and so tired.

GreyQueen

fuddle wrote: »

GQ have you just given me techie help?! Yey!

Life's full of surprises. I do know one or two techie things. I am to tech mastery what babies' cloth books are to literature.:p

It's a good trick to know.

Byatt

The day I'm a grounded individual I will probably be 6ft under! :cool:

Just passing on some of my experience, because whilst principles are important, they do take up a lot of energy, thus the choosing of the battles. I'm the last one to be critical, I know I could/can go from 0-100 in 2 seconds!:eek:

Happiness is finding some hot cross buns in the freezer that I had forgotten.

mcculloch29

Print Screen has won many a battle for me. You can also normally save a screenprint as a JPEG ( a picture file) if you right click on it once you've pasted it into a document. Then if someone plays awkward sods and says they can't read the doc, ask them if they would prefer a jpeg in future. When they say yes, send the jpeg.

GOOD NEWS TO SHARE.
My DS got the new job he went for in an internal interview the other week. He starts on the 11th of next month.

In other good news I'd completely forgotten about the freebies on Amazon Vine last week - free items that I get sent to review. I logged in expecting to find I'd missed something fantastic but the two items I wanted were still available. A lovely Babyliss hot air brush - my current one is a cheapo, under a third as powerful as this one.

Also the follow up book to midwife Linda Fairley's first autobiography, which was a really good read.

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Congrats to McCULLOCHs DS on being successful and getting his new job, well done that lad!!!Cheers Lyn xxx.

Nargleblast

Hmmm - Ctrl-Alt-PrintScreen --must remember that one!

Full of toad in the hole at present - sausages from a local farm plus batter made with eggs produced by one of my chickens (two live in our garden) - very OS and no horses harmed in the making of the meal.
We eat most meals cooked from scratch, and even soup is homemade. I tried a commercial tinned soup recently and it was really bland and wishywashy. We occasionally have fish and chips from the chippy, and very very occasionally dine on pizza from the freezer - but only when they are reduced price. Easily 95% of our meals are home cooked.

fuddle

Yey! Mcculloch DS, well done that male person

Toad in the hole on our menu tomorrow nargleblast. I've always wanted a little smallhold with chickens, maybe one day.

Anyone heard if stock cubes are effected in this meat scandal malarkey? My neighbour just mentioned it. I use knorr, thinking they are mid range and 'better' but counts for nothing at the moment.

Pooky

I saw Dara a couple of years ago when we went to a recording of QI, you never know who's going to be on until they walk on set and I'd hoped it would be Dara and David Mitchell and it was......2 and a half hours of side splitting hilarity for a half hour show....loved it.

Well I went for the new kitchen, changed my mind, picked a different one, then went back to the first one and then walked away with nothing.....came home and decided on the one I love rather than the one I should have cos it's cheaper. Picked wall and floor tiles too and talked the bloke in the tile shop into a 10% discount if I purchased in store (6% cash back online so told him he needed to match it or better it).

DH has the sore throat and is losing his voice so I've just put him to bed, will go make him a hot toddy and hope he drifts off. He's on enough pain killers to sink a battle ship so if he's still feeling rough he must be very poorly.

Nargleblast

We just have 2 chickens in the back garden in an Eglu (from a firm called Omlet) but lots of people build their own chicken houses. The egg production is dropping off a bit as the girls get older but we still get about 5 or 6 a week.

You could try Kallo stock cubes - similar price to Knorr although only 6 to a box - I get them as well as the cheapo 10p packs.

Popperwell

Great news on the job front and items for reviewing mcculloch29:D
And your gadget Fuddle.

I found I had one never used the other week so when it is needed...

I spent £7.34 shopping today:mad:and cursed spending as much but...got some Flora buttery spread, smoked salmon* sausages* and potatoes*

All those marked* were yellow stickered or on offer and were worth £31.50. So I saved £24.16 and if I stretch what I have purchased I should have some nice meals.

I am thinking of having a go at making my own fish cakes(Leek, Mashed potato, flaked salmon, some cheese, coated in beaten egg and bread crumbs)

Something I don't think that I have tried before.