'supporting each other through really tough times'

jem132

Hi all the snow is falling hear and has been all day. It's wet and horrible and very windy. Dh and small boy have gone on emergency call out to Blackpool. I've sent them with flasks of hot soup and a picnic allso blankets I hope they are ok. I have got sausages in the oven cooking so we can have sausages and mash when they get home. And some mulled wine on the cooker top mmmmmm it smells delish. I went to asda this morning I didn't need much so how the bloody hell I spent £90 I just don't know :mad: Anyway I am off to make some rice pudding. Can I just use boil in the bag rice I have tuns of the stuff???
Keep warm every one xxx

JellyBox

We get one nuisance call a day, always between 2pm and 5pm, so we just don't answer the phone then! Tbh, our landline barley works anyway, usually a really loud buzzing sound (never got around to checking if the phone or the line is useless!). I've no idea what they think they'll get from us, I have the rage, only unleashed on cold callers, and no pennies!

Today I managed to lock OH in our flat, for some reason our front door can be locked from the outside and then can't be undone from the inside, so he was late to work. Anyone ever replaced their own locks (yale and the proper one)? If so, is it easy enough for a novice, or am I likely to render my front door unlockable?

Hope everyone is warm and safe today

kate1974

Just want to share with someone to would appreciate OS style-very productive afternoon for me-and results are:
nearly 1 kg on freshly made butter
about 400 mls of buttermilk for making pancakes,dough etc
very impressed DD8 who was helping me
total cost 50 p
Thank you Waitrose for reductions!

Nargleblast

kate - well done! Very OS indeed - and teaching your DD early about being economical as well!

kate1974

Nargleblast wrote: »

kate - well done! Very OS indeed - and teaching your DD early about being economical as well!

Yes and it's not only about economical(but talking about being economical-I'm still below my personal Grocery Challenge this month-£100.00 for family of four as spent £85.00 so far)-I do bake a lot and as we're not big buttter eaters all this butter will be divided into portions tomorrow and frozen for baking-I love to know what is inside my food.

Rowan9

Mardatha I expect you are thinking about using skis by now.
bbbrrr cold here tonight.
Have been reading my library book and was also keeping an eye on Alba - it was a Gaelic programme about baking - how fab!
Early night here with a hot water bottle as well as DH ha ha
Keep warm all

Peanut2013

Help rotten rotten ear ache

Spoke to doctor who said I'm probably just congested (ear is blocked too) and has given me a nasal spray (which the pharmacy has had to ruddy order in so won't get til tomorrow).

He warned me it could take 2-3 weeks to clear tho!!

I have constant ringing and can hear the blood rushing around my body. It aches, chewing is agony, swallowing crippling. Paracetamol not touching it. What on earth do I do?

BitterAndTwisted

Ibuprofen and paracetamol in rotation every two hours. Or try the paracetamol/ibuprofen "extra" tabs with codeine in them. Not recommended for more than a couple of days at a time, though. You don't want to swap pain for a dependence

missrlr

Try ear muffs to keep them warm, or hot bottle n side of head, but that looks a bit weird .... Can help with ear ache just being a bit warmer, we forget the chill factor our ears get exposed to at times

mardatha

Lie with the sore ear on a hot water bottle peanut.
WMF this weather is driving me mad. The wind is shrieking and whistling through the house and outside looks like a bottle of milk - no visibility. It's blowing off the hills and fields like sand. I feel like Captain Oates.