*The Holly and the Ivy* and the You Know What 2013 Chatter Thread.

mrs-moneypenny

come on then its almost time to step away from your tasks and take a well deserved 30 mins off.

:santa2::snow_gringet the kettle on everyone:snow_grin:xmassign:

nic2075

Hello, I've been reading and lurking. I finally got my last orders posted yesterday, I was the me cartwheeling out the PO, I just hope they arrive safely.

I am almost finished my shopping, just a little extra for my sisters and my dad to get. I plan to go to B&M for the kids Xmas eve jammies, and Asda for new socks for their stockings, then they are done too. My littlest is 2 and a half, she has shown no interest in potty training, so hoping to get her nice pants for Xmas and start in the new year.

We are down to 11 for Christmas Day dinner. We were going to have it at my Dads, but I asked to change it back to here. I had been so stressed with orders that I couldn't face it. But once they were finished I felt all festive again.

I mentioned before our new Tesco doing £1 scan vouchers every week in Dec. some scanned at £5 so we have £72 from this week plus the £5 off the turkey voucher to use. So the food will be a lot cheaper than planned, just means I need to get it all in my smaller Tesco, but it's well stocked. But I had hoped to get a lot in Aldi. We had over £50 in the vouchers each week in Dec, so we filled the freezer with meat, buffet nibbles and filled the store cupboard and loo roll stocks. Plus some wine :-)
I may be on here on Xmas eve in a panic in all the prep. We are havnt a turkey breast joint that serves 6-8 and a huge gammon, would you cook the gammon in Xmas eve and the turkey on Christmas morning? I would have cooked a whole bird the day before, but the breast doesn't take too long.


I sat yesterday afternoon with a cup of gingerbread latte and watched the sewing bee Christmas special. The kids were playing nicely upstairs. It was the first time I felt truly relaxed, happy and festive.

Off to read back a bit xx

quidsy

So tonight, for the first time this year, I will actually go to the shops to buy a christmas present.

Late night shopping to pick up a last gift & a voucher for my neice from boots (painless) & have a mooch around the M&S sale.

I expect it to be mentals but as I don't actually have to buy anything anywhere can anjoy browsong rather than panic buying

pixtotts

Arthien - it is a beautiful church isn't it it's in Great Witley, people come from literally all over the world to see it I was reading the vistors book, china, spain, italy, and I was Christened there! lol.

Ruth_honey - Worcester is lovely for a spot of Christmas shopping anyway, and there are usually a couple extra stalls up the high street in the lead up to Christmas, hot pork rolls, and someone selling wreaths and that sort of thing. There is also a Christmas tree festival thing on at the Cathedral I've not been before but I'm hoping to pop in on Friday have a look it's free to get in but they ask for donations which go to Riverside Children's Ward at Worcester Royal Hospital, the Teenage Cancer Trust and Worcester Cathedral this year. They have trees decorated by schools and groups, they pick a winner at the end but it just looks so Christmassy! http://www.daisychainbenevolentfund.co.uk/Pages/ChristmasTreeFestival2012.aspx


pigpen tonsillitis is the most horrible of illnesses. As the owner of inhumanely giant tonsils when healthy and recurrent tonsillitis I used to find toast (well toasted) cleared the blocked feeling..also what they give you after having them removed apparently so must be something to it..., and remember lots of fluids!
Also the spray throat stuff you can get from pharmacy works wonders! I used to be given it on prescription but you can buy it without now... that stuff >>> Ultra Chloraseptic Anaesthetic Throat Spray
junior_j - Sorry to of been the barer of bad news , but hopefully the antibiotics do their job ^^ that spray stuff might help you too

Hope all not feeling great are feeling better soon, and that the Christmassy feeling works its way into everyone.
I'm feeling a bit meh today, date last night which didn't quite go the best so I'm treating myself to an indulgent day today, pizza for lunch and dinner (same pizza... half for each not 2 I don't think I could eat 2 pizzas in one day lol) , lighting a fire and getting my decopatch out while burning my Christmas tree candle again

x

mrs-moneypenny

the wrapping is finished!!!! just a couple of bits in the post still to wrap when they come but apart from that im done.
do need to buy DS1 a toothbrush for his stocking - its become something they expect. they used to spend christmas morning feeling all the pressies to try and guess which was a toothbrush and open that first. LOL small things amuse small minds and all that.
just got a phone call to make then got to get ready for work
'see' you this afternoon

freespirit66

Baby_boo wrote: »

Hi everybody, it's been too long since I last posted though I have been reading every day.
Own My Own I hope your feeling better and have got rid of your headache.
Happy belated birthday to BunBun and Rosygirl.
Nanamia I'm glad you enjoyed the panto and I love the hot chocolate tray.
Freespirit66 your break sounds lovely I always think it's nice to be in a different environment and how thoughtful of your DD.
JJ I love your festive spirit and I know it's hard work with ill health,your a star oh and your hair is super.
Feisty fidget not long to go now with the shop, sometimes we find the
Strength to keep going I'm sure in the future you will look back and
wonder how you kept going with all the curve balls that life has delt you.
His Missus the hampers look fab and I'm sure they will be appreciated.
I'm sorry about your dad I hope that you are able to have your family
around you,supporting you through this difficult time.
Well am I going to be tired tomorrow I'm still awake because I haven't had
all my meds which I should of had hours ago,I'm so looking forward to tomorrow.my baby girl(22) is coming home for two weeks.I haven't seen her since august as she is at Barcelona university, skype is a wonderful thing,however you can't hug and cuddle them.Thank you to everybody that posts on this lovely forum it's a pleasure to read.Hugs to those that need them.
Baby Boo x

BABYBOO its lovely to see you posting, hope you got some sleep, oh that will be lovely having DD home for 2 weeks, enjoy!! x

Arthien

pixtotts, that church is beautiful! I'll definitely have to pay it a visit sometime. My DH and I were looking at buying a house on that side of the river, but since his work moved from Hallow and I work in Redditch, it's just not practical. But hopefully one day

Did anyone else have any better luck than me with the Seek Santa comp? I found a couple of them but I was definitely not the first to find them. Lots of people are complaining that they couldn't see the images even though they'd been on the pages before the winners posted. Ah well, it was a bit of festive fun I suppose! Even if I was supposed to be working at the time...

his_missus

Hi all,

Babyboo, that's for the thoughts - yes, I do have my small family and some very close friends supoorting me though it all and Hubby is being a star esp as a taxi driver for mum. Today they should decide what kind of drip they're going to attach to dad. If it's a "portable" one, hopefully he can home at the weekend.

Went out with one of my best friend's last night for our xmas get together whilst Hubby wrapped up his pressies to me.

Tonight he's out so I'm going to have a right good clean up so I don't have to do it at the weekend.

pigpen

pixtotts wrote: »

pigpen tonsillitis is the most horrible of illnesses. As the owner of inhumanely giant tonsils when healthy and recurrent tonsillitis I used to find toast (well toasted) cleared the blocked feeling..also what they give you after having them removed apparently so must be something to it..., and remember lots of fluids!
Also the spray throat stuff you can get from pharmacy works wonders! I used to be given it on prescription but you can buy it without now... that stuff >>> Ultra Chloraseptic Anaesthetic Throat Spray

I've been using that on my tongue as well as my throat lol.. washed down with strepsils because I am too lazy to do the walk to Boots to get their own brand tyrozet type things which are fantastic.

I can't eat toast at all.. I'm eating rice or pasta or nothing at all.. though I have had a couple of ice lollies late on a night more for the fluid than anything else.

My sister just brought round a bunch of presents and my daughter took a couple of cards home with her.


She is just taking the application in for the house which will secure it .. apparently the agents only take 1 application per house at a time so as soon as theirs is in it is closed to further applications until theirs is processed.. They take 10 days to process but closed for a week so will take nearer 3 weeks unfortunately but their fees are half price for December which is good and they get a hamper when they move in which is really nice too.

It needs a bits of decorating doing which might end up as my job and a good clean including carpets so I might hire a rug doctor thing for a weekend and do all mine and theirs in one go. Apparently it has a big range cooker and the washing machine staying and needs a bit of fence at the end of the back garden where it backs on to the railway lines which is no issue at all. Everything crossed the credit check comes back ok!

mrs-moneypenny

sounds good news pigpen, will keep everything crossed for her/you it goes through smoothly