The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

D&DD

Princess ring your local council..ours takes away our garden waste and makes it into soil conditioner which we can have for free if we shovel it from the depot.If yours takes your garden waste there may be a similar scheme in process where you are. Try Desiree or Maris pipers as your maincrop not bad yields usually.


Fuddle...jealous..Swanage is where I want to live,many happy hols spent there

monnagran

This is not me, just a figment of your imagination.

Fuddle. It could well be our island you saw - the other side to the one where we live. Probably the Needles side.

Back to work.

x

Mrs_Chip

I finally got round to trying the white vinegar/bicarbonate of soda paste for black mold yesterday. No idea if it kills it, too soon, but it certainly gets it off a lot better than the sprays you buy, and a lot less messy and smelly. I applied with a green sponge scourer and wiped off after with a bath sponge. I have nice clean squares to show OH it works so he can get on and do the rest! Well I am way too short...:D

Floss

fuddle wrote: »

When you fry eggy bread do you add cheese the mix?

No, but then again I usually put jam on eggy bread so cheese might make it a bit yucky!

Knit_Witch

fuddle wrote: »

When you fry eggy bread do you add cheese the mix?

Cheese Dreams, grated cheese between two slices of white bread, dunked in egg and fried in butter and oil (om nom nom!!)

nuttyp

Hi all, had a bit of a bust weekend even tho I am under strict orders to rest, or at least take it a bit easier. Feeling quite uncomfortable at the moment, as I have what I think is definatley a cyst on my breast. OH says I look like a wonky donkey for obvious reasons. Had a cry Saturday night, I think the reality has hit home. Anyway I ended up finding the tin of paint and I painted the walls in the hallway, and the understairs cupboard. I then painted the shoe rack too , to match the walls. I felt better afterwards withmy handywork.


Yesterday I went to see someone who is a manager at a rival shop, they may be looking for staff and they pay over a pound an hour more than I get. Fingers crossed folks. Rang mum in the afternoon and ended up driving her to a&e as she was having an astmah attack. All ok, and the nurses were lovely. We left them some sweeties x


Today me and DD did another car boot, I know Monday as well. Well the pitch was £5 and after taking that out, we made 47 and 57 pounds each respectively. For selling grown out of clothes and other odds and sods for around 50p or £1 each we did well. Going to start another good declutter, and another week are doing another one. It all helps.


Going to catch up now with you all, take care x

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Hello Toughies, lovely weekend with DD1 and amazing concert on Saturday and now back home again. Train journeys these days never seem to be without some sort of problem and I was extremely late back, the whole network was running late and on catch up, never mind all better now. I love the pictures of the new pets, MRS C and MAR beautiful beasties also KIDCAT yours too, give 'em all a squish from me. I am pleased to report that the Olaf Piglet is thriving and Oh so healthy, eating his little head off and generally full of PING!!! I'm astounded that a little scrap like him who was so very poorly earlier on in the year has just bounced back to health so very well, tough little critters are Pinny Pigs!!!

FUDDLE I always use just egg and a splash of milk for my Eggy Breads and then you can have them sweet or savoury to your taste. The girls always liked them for breakfast with a smiley face drawn on in ketchup, still do if I'm honest! Lyn xxx.

mcculloch29

I have collected all your messages to CC and her DH and sent them.* He has made his peace and hopefully will not have to struggle much longer. Please wish him a quick release.
I got this message from CC re The Joy of Living: Strangely, MIL started to tell me about a song she would like to play at DH's funeral and it was this song.
x no coincidences in life. x
No, there are no coincidences, only 'meants'.

* Thanks SQ, great minds etc - I came across your post as I was doing exactly that.

shegar

Hi all , Ive reading on and off , had loads of problems so didnt want to bring the thread down............
If most of you remember , I had a pre assessment done feb 27 th , well I was told id be in within the next 10 days , well nobody got in contact with me , so I phoned ENT dept and just asked them what date please, she said it wouldnt be until late May , so I just accepted that .........

Last week I phoned the drs private secretary to ask what would it cost me to go private and how quick would I get it done........

She said she would contact the his NHS secretary to see excactly what the op entailed to give me a price............She rang me back 3 days later to say the op could be done on April 30 private @ £4028.00...:eek::eek::eek:.....So I said thanks for that and id give it a thought , oh I said and by the way " do I have to have another pre assessment in May as ive had one, she couldnt make out why id had a pre, any case I said thanks for your help and goodbye...........
The very next day in the post was a letter to say please phone the above number to get your date for surgery ,:mad: so I phoned and theyve given me a date for next Monday 31 march , NHS not private , so ive accepted that .......We reckon that by me phoning the private secretary the NHS secretary must have confered and realised it should have been done 2 weeks ago.........The admissions co ordinator told me that as im having surgery in 7 days that I now have to start on my steroids, so I started them at tea time today .......

On to another topic, hubby his still here and we are still waiting for a date and to which care home he will be going permamently 16 weeks now and still waiting ....:mad::mad:
Well someone will have to get their ar*e into gear now, ive been trying to get hold of our case worker for 2 days without luck, as hospital said I wont be able to work for 2 wks after surgery .......Im so frustrated with things this past 4 wks its doing me in.......

But then I looked at Sky News tonight and see the poor malaysian people , and I feel very guilty for moaning about my " very small problems" to what the poor people over there have been going through, its so sad its a terrible conclusion...........And I expect now it will be ages getting the plane on dry ground , more heart aches for them...RIP..xxxx..........Sheila...

ginnyknit

Sheila, please dont feel bad, its all relative and your circumstances are a drain on you not helped by 'systems' in general. You need your health to cope with hubby and thats not helped by the inadequacies of social services. You must feel like you are on a bloomin merry go round. Hope they all get things sorted soon for you xx

McCulloch thank you for sending our love to Cc. I have a candle lit for them all. I do hope her hubby is blessed with a peaceful time.