Sloblady thread

Fruball

Igamogam wrote: »

DD2 announced about an hour ago it was her turn to make cakes to take to school tomorrow for her friends to scoff ( teenage girls dont you just love 'em!) She wanted to make James Martin lemon drizzle muffins which requires 4 lemons..................I had 2 large ones in the fruit bowl and 2 in the compost bin..................Oh yes she got her 4 lemons. Ones in compost bin I had used last week for zest only and was intending to squeeze and freeze the juice ( sometimes my inner domestic godess can be unleashed) but didnt get round to it and they were looking a bit pathetic in fridge,zestless and unloved.......so I chucked them in the compost bin yesterday:)

Fished them out from under the grass clippings no problem - still plenty of juice in them too:rotfl:

Brilliant!!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Did DD mind that they were salvaged from the compost bin? Did she even know?!

mouche

Igamogam wrote: »

Fished them out from under the grass clippings no problem - still plenty of juice in them too:rotfl:

Very MSE! And I'm sure they'll have that impossible to reproduce a second time flavour that your DD will be remembered for all her life. Thinking of the [STRIKE]burnt[/STRIKE] biscuit cake my sister made 20 years ago and still gets asked to make again!

candygirl

Fruball wrote: »

Brilliant!!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Did DD mind that they were salvaged from the compost bin? Did she even know?!

Next time get the Aldi cakes for £1 , cut tops off slop some hm stuff on!They wont know any different x:D

Igamogam

candygirl wrote: »

Next time get the Aldi cakes for £1 , cut tops off slop some hm stuff on!They wont know any different x:D

DD2 makes them herself and a bit of a purist I'm afraid.............she didnt know about the lemons.........ssshhhh;)

orangesmartie

Tiggy10 wrote: »

Just discovered this thread!! its amazing.

I was given an iron when I moved out in april.... it has been used once - to remove candle wax from the carpet.

I always use my hair straighteners to smooth out shirt collars for work!

You are a genius and I am going to make you my goddess!

melanzana wrote: »

Hmm. I have to wear kind of suitable clothes for work. Hated ironing the work shirts that go under the jacket.

So I moved to those tops that do not require ironing. Viscose or something, can get some really nice ones now.

Trousers the same, when washed and damp, carefully line up the crease in the legs and over the radiator.

I actually scrunch everything I buy to check for its creasability. If there's a hint of a crease when I discreetly scrunch garment in the shop, it is not bought.

I do this....well maybe not discreetly

Raksha

Sloblady tip - get a few towels in royal blue or aqua, throw one in with your whites - works like an old fashioned blue wash bag....

bargainbetty

I used my repaired hoover last night, and it worked!

I only used it to get the spilled talcum powder off the bathroom floor, and I carefully ignored the living room rug as I put it away though. I had to, there were books and papers everywhere since I decided to do my filing. It's my new vacuum avoidance method.

melanzana

I just thought that my lovely slob lady friends would like this poem... I LOVE it!


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Dust If You Must
by Anonymous
!
Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better
To paint a picture, or write a letter,
Bake a cake, or plant a seed;
Ponder the difference between want and need?

Dust if you must, but there's not much time,
With rivers to swim, and mountains to climb;
Music to hear, and books to read;
Friends to cherish, and life to lead.

Dust if you must, but the world's out there
With the sun in your eyes, and the wind in your hair;
A flutter of snow, a shower of rain,
This day will not come around again.

Dust if you must, but bear in mind,
Old age will come and it's not kind.
And when you go (and go you must)
You, yourself, will make more dust.
!

Igamogam

Love the poem

sillyvixen

we have had to clean the bathroom floor this evening!! however only because the bleach bottle fell of the bathroom shelf and split - we had to clean it up as the tiled floor was like an ice rink and the slippy liquid was going to cause an acident ( and the last thing i wanted was clean footprints all over the house!!)