'supporting each other through really tough times'

mcculloch29

A friend brought yet another bag of unloved toiletries for me. My bathroom had started to look reasonably spartan following 3 years on the No Buying Unnecessary Toiletries thread. It's regained some of its old style thanks to her donations!
Also ten samples of Persil Small and Mighty Bio liquid. Plus a gorgeously expensive lippy.
I only wear lippy as make up, as my eyes are too deep-set for eyeshadow and mascara bats off as I have v. high cheekbones.

People always asked me about my lovely foundation when I wasn't wearing any, so I long ago concluded that my skin was best left as Ma Nature designed it. It isn't as flawless as it once was by any means, but I'm not going to break a habit and mess with stuff on it now.
I do like my lippy tho - I go through phases of not bothering much, but I really should, some of the colours I have are lovely.

GreyQueen

I once had lavender in scones, Pops; the National Trust tea room at York. Weird but palatable.

McCulloch, I don't wear make up at all these but when it did, it was just lippy as my eyes are deepset with almost an epitcanthic folds and eyemakeup swamps them. Back when we were foolin' with black and white photography at college, mugshots of me without the windows on reveal an almost asiatic eyelid. Kinda weird with red hair, pale skin and green eyes..........:rotfl:I have ancestors from Dorset, Scotland and various points in between......as far as I know.

I read somewhere that most British women went thru the entirity of WW2 with only two tubes of lippy. And when you consider how lip-heavy the style was then, it must have been saved for high days and holidays.

ginnyknit

Welcome Bexim, ooh love the hobby, shooting things must help the stress levels, do you imagine the rubber animals are your bosses? I would love to shoot things but the !!!!! refused me membership ' Huh what do they know about menopausal women'

Ok GQ I will see your tp and raise you 2 years supply of washing machine liquid and 30 bottles of baby bath (8p a bottle variety which should last me many years) plus 40 korma oxo cubes (who knew they existed!). Tbh Ds bought the washing machine stuff as it was on offer and its technically his but we dont really bother whose is what.

Pops the toothpaste thing was really funny my kinda humour.

Popperwell

I'm sure I've had Lavender in fancy chocolates(the kind you get in a box)in the past and you can get rose flavoured items too. Its a bit different and it was different but who can forget the sweets of our youth "Parma violets":p

This head cold is still hanging on:mad:a neighbour out walking his dogs says he's had his for six weeks:eek:Only ten days here...oh dear. Hugs to anyone feeling under the weather...

Going to try a Nigel Slater recipe later...

A kind of mackerel salad but where he used bacon too, I'm going to cheat and used some YS ham from the other day and throw in some some salad potatoes so a bit of an effort on my part.

The mackerel already has a dressing of parsley and lemon so I can avoid adding a dressing as such.

Popperwell

Hi Ginny

You may have seen I am thinking of getting a small chest freezer(possibly second hand charity or Freecycle)but if I have to spring for a new one and it costs £100 so be it!

If I can stay put and I "Don't" have to get a lodger(even if I do)I am thinking for my use and a possible lodger of turning one bedroom into the food store, putting the microwave/combi in the same room, tea making facilities then there is even less need to keep going downstairs to do meals...that will free up room in the dining room for a small chest freezer. I have an inbuilt empty wardrobe where I could hide the food store and it doesn't get hot.

The CF would allow me to store more meals I have batch cooked and possibly be 3-4 weeks ahead and just use the freezer on the fridge for things like frozen veg etc...

JellyBox

ginnyknit wrote: »

Welcome Bexim, ooh love the hobby, shooting things must help the stress levels, do you imagine the rubber animals are your bosses? I would love to shoot things but the !!!!! refused me membership ' Huh what do they know about menopausal women'

It's amazing, and tbh, I don't need to imagine the rubber animals are anyone, because if I am properly paying attention, there's no space in my head for any of the rubbish around! Plus I get to be outdoors, in woodland, all good! I am sure there must be a club local to you that would let you join in? Ours is mostly middle aged men, my friend and I are oddities, but there are a couple of older women involved too.

VJsmum

it is strange that the objection is the lavender and not the mouse heads :cool:

I had lavender ice cream in Provence a couple of years ago as they grow loads of it down there. If fact some town gift shops were pretty much lavender everything!

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Mmmmmmmmmm Mouse Heads, nom nom nom !!!!!!! Lyn xxx.

greenbee

Thanks Mrs LW. I'll be in touch :-) Sadly none of the house-type websites have a 'no ugly houses' button on them, and I'm sure this would help cut down the choice!

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If you want a pretty house I'll do my best to find you one pet, Cheers Lyn xxx.

Have a look at Titchfield, it's still mostly got the Medieval look, it was the support village for Titchfield Abbey, now long gone, but we still have the tithe barn,and it is a lovely little place, expensive though, Lyn x.