OS Daily Monday 12th November

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Julie67 wrote: »

...Butterfly the garden centre is my favourite place in the world. We go to Brent's in Leigh lovely for a day out...

RosyRed wrote: »

...Julie-I like going to bents garden centre too,its fab....

I used to live about 500 yards down the road from Bents garden centre before I split from the ex-h...it was a great place to escape to on Saturday & Sunday afternoons and their Christmas displays are always really fabulous!

LameWolf

Hi all

Bit later than planned posting; Dylan's just been collected, so I had to get all his belongings packed up ready, and his harness on.:o Good news is Jessie (black lab) will be coming on Friday, for the weekend.:T

Moorhen posi-vibes for you, my dear; I hope whatever it is gets resolved satisfactorily.​

Hester sorry to hear about the buffet; again, I hope all gets resolved OK.

Nmlc Oh dear, bad things happening where you were, too. How awful.

Shepherds Wife I had to laugh at your nan's “Book of Faces” page:D – if she does mean FB make sure she has all the privacy settings she can in place, won't you;) (I don't know a thing about FB, as I refuse to join it, but privacy is a “must” as far as I can see)

TTFTM Mr LW always cuts my hair for me; he colours it, too.:A I used to do it myself, but the ol' paws won't co-operate these days. The last time I saw a hairdresser was about 30 years ago, and I had a major panic attack:eek: due to a stranger touching my hair, so never went back!

Right, I'm now dogless til Friday:( so I'd better see what I can do about cleaning this hovel.

Mr LW is wfh tomorrow, and I have a hossy appointment tomorrow afternoon,:eek::eek::eek: so if I'm not around, don't worry about me, OK?:o

Cait

Hello all, quick one from me, as I am in the office and taking a sneaky peek at MSE. So tired today, did not sleep at all last night and felt as though I was just going to nod off when the alarm went, I can see myself in bed VERY early tonight. Have taken cooked chicken out of freezer for today, going to add some to HM pizza, make pack ups for tomorrow and serve the rest of it tomorrow evneing with some roasties, stuffing and veg. If I do enough veg, I may even have enough for lunches on Weds. Need to have a hoover round when I get home this evening, one of the dogs is moulting very badly and the hoover needs to come out every day now. Texted my hairdresser and she is going to come to the house on Thursday evening to do my colour, I have tried numerous times to do my own but only make a hash of it, she is cheap, about 75% less than the hairdressers I used to go to and does a good job, I always feel better when my hair looks good..Will catch up on the rest of the thread later on...bye for now

Tiglath

Time_to_face_the_music wrote: »

Now why didn't I think of getting DH to cut mine :huh:

Tiglath, I love your decluttering signature. Do you set yourself a target every month?

My hair's easy now I've grown out the layers - it was below shoulder-length so I just got DH to chop it straight and take off a couple of inches to even it up. That'll do me for a few months. I'm not necessarily trying to grow it - I just don't bother much with it because it's so fine, and my default position was some dreadful 80s mullet until I grew out the fringe and sides. It looks a bit thicker with blunt ends. My hair's always been a community project - anyone visiting might be asked to cut it or dye the bits I can't reach!

Yes I got the decluttering bug after looking around me at 12 years of dusty rubbish and decided to get it sorted because it was making me so depressed. Getting DH to agree was hard (we had 7 year old paperwork stuffed up the chimney!), but my sister helped me a lot after my op in August. We charity-shopped what we could and took the real rubbish stuff to the local dump. Some of it we simply put out on the pavement and it was gone by the morning - office chairs, sets of weights, a duplicate shredder. We've mostly done the big stuff apart from a sofa, confined DH's stuff to his study, and now I'm culling the books. Not there yet by a long shot, it all depends what I can manage to wheel to the charity shop in any given week, but already it's easier to keep clean. I pay my sister to come once a month and deepclean for me. Shredding 4 black bags of old paperwork was so satisfying So yes I'm setting a minimum target every month until I've got it sorted.

Hardup_Hester

Afternoon all
Still no news on the FC arrest but we are all fairly laid back as the child lurches from crisis to crisis, DD picks up the pieces & the rest of us pick up DD & the littlies, lol.
NMLC, how terrible for such a thing to happen.
BB, thank you so much, everything is lovely, DD will be delighted.
I'm supposed to be going to a Jamie Oliver cookware party tonight, but I think I'll be asleep before it starts.
Have a good evening all.
Hugs Hester

Islandmaid

Hi all

Sorry to hear about the stressful meals and hope your all okay now.

I would never be brave enough to cut my own hair - did cut my best friends when we were about 5, with mums pinking shears, we thought it looked good, the mum,s wern,t of the same opinion

Have had a day off work today and made -

2 x Sheperds pies out of LO roast from yesterday for the freezer
1 x steak pie out of some weird stewed steak in a vacum pack from AF - enough left over for a curry tomorrow night
1 x Chicken and leek pie for the freezer, same weird pack from AF, the rest frozen for fajitas somewhen
12 x chocolate chip muffins
12 x Cinnimon buns both for OH and kids lunchboxes

Was going to do the ironing, but ran out of time, so will do tomorrow night.

Been tipping down all day, but at least its better than Rome had it....:eek:

2 stocking presents bought this morning for kids - need to buy 4 'big' gifts then its all done

Decided to buy beef for Christmas day, kids will be at their dads from boxing day for a week, so won,t need to buy too much food - famous last words

Have a fab evening all xx

camNolliesMUMMY

Hi people!!

Had a bad weekend, we live in a flat and currently saving to buy a house, our upstairs neighbour knows we have 2 kids and she has a son too but she loves slamming doors, it was. Gone half past 1 on Saturday morning when I finally got some sleep.
Spoke to dh and we agreed to keep a log starting next week and ontact the council as we won't go down to her and her bf level and retaliate.
As well as having a 7 month old who still has me up I'm pretty tired
I lay in bed thinking we will have enough for a deposit around feb?
So an early night is on the cards and ds2 has had 2 and a half hour nap today so hopefully he will sleep well tonight?
Just finished dinner we've had bangers nd mash- the sausages I griddles on my foreman then cut into 4 pieces from 6 sausages I fed me dh and ds1, I had one leftover stuffing and Yorkshire puds from yesterday so they got used
I've done all the cleaning and washing today nd I'm currently sat with deep conditioner on my hair before I have my relaxing bath but the kids are going in first.
Feeling pretty low but trying to think feb s not too far away.

Sorry for depressing you all.

System

camNolliesMUMMY wrote: »

Hi people!!

Had a bad weekend, we live in a flat and currently saving to buy a house, our upstairs neighbour knows we have 2 kids and she has a son too but she loves slamming doors, it was. Gone half past 1 on Saturday morning when I finally got some sleep.
Spoke to dh and we agreed to keep a log starting next week and ontact the council as we won't go down to her and her bf level and retaliate.
As well as having a 7 month old who still has me up I'm pretty tired
I lay in bed thinking we will have enough for a deposit around feb?
So an early night is on the cards and ds2 has had 2 and a half hour nap today so hopefully he will sleep well tonight?
Just finished dinner we've had bangers nd mash- the sausages I griddles on my foreman then cut into 4 pieces from 6 sausages I fed me dh and ds1, I had one leftover stuffing and Yorkshire puds from yesterday so they got used
I've done all the cleaning and washing today nd I'm currently sat with deep conditioner on my hair before I have my relaxing bath but the kids are going in first.
Feeling pretty low but trying to think feb s not too far away.

Sorry for depressing you all.

Big hugs

Time_to_face_the_music

Tiglath wrote: »

My hair's easy now I've grown out the layers - it was below shoulder-length so I just got DH to chop it straight and take off a couple of inches to even it up. That'll do me for a few months. I'm not necessarily trying to grow it - I just don't bother much with it because it's so fine, and my default position was some dreadful 80s mullet until I grew out the fringe and sides. It looks a bit thicker with blunt ends. My hair's always been a community project - anyone visiting might be asked to cut it or dye the bits I can't reach!

Yes I got the decluttering bug after looking around me at 12 years of dusty rubbish and decided to get it sorted because it was making me so depressed. Getting DH to agree was hard (we had 7 year old paperwork stuffed up the chimney!), but my sister helped me a lot after my op in August. We charity-shopped what we could and took the real rubbish stuff to the local dump. Some of it we simply put out on the pavement and it was gone by the morning - office chairs, sets of weights, a duplicate shredder. We've mostly done the big stuff apart from a sofa, confined DH's stuff to his study, and now I'm culling the books. Not there yet by a long shot, it all depends what I can manage to wheel to the charity shop in any given week, but already it's easier to keep clean. I pay my sister to come once a month and deepclean for me. Shredding 4 black bags of old paperwork was so satisfying So yes I'm setting a minimum target every month until I've got it sorted.

My problem was I cut layers into mine and forgot how curly it is when it's less heavy, so the layers are too short because of the "bounced up" curls!

I love your declutter challenge. Our house is bedlam but my DH is a hoarder and hates to be parted from anything so it's a huge struggle to get rid of any of his stuff. I managed 9 big bags to Oxfam yesterday of a mix of books, games and jigsaw puzzles. I would like to repeat that every week until Christmas so I am going to set myself a challenge of a minimum of 5 bags per week for the next 6 weeks. Am also trying to sell anything decent on ebay and books on Amazon and that has been doing ok.

Thanks very much for the inspiration

taplady

evening!

been busy at work all weekend so not read or postd here - hope everyone's ok.

Made a sausage casserole in the SC for tea using a packet mix - didn't go down well at all - unlike the usual one I dowhich is also a packet but a different make. Won't make that mistake again.

Am in full decluttering mode at the moment - looks much better for it I must say. I do like everything to have its own place - its just keeping up with putting it all back that I slip on:cool:

Not a lot else to report really - just thought I'd show my face

(((hugs))) to those in need

Take care all x