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

paidinchickens

Monna welcome back you made me smile.

Mardatha I have plenty of motivation but not strength to do anything I'll send you some up first class x

Ginny I'm glad you had a nice Nurse, they get harder to come across nowadays.

Not much going on her unless you count the fake chimneys going on the Big houses being built across the road.

PiC x

paidinchickens

Fingers crossed for you Pooky x

monnagran

Thanks for the welcome. I see that we have some newcomers but can't remember their names. Welcome anyway. I suppose you know what you have let yourselves in for. There are some very bossy people on here who are not slow to reorganise your lives for you. Not to mention those who will deliver a sermon at the drop of a hat. A-hem!

Forgive me if I don't appear every day. I have made some new resolutions in the vague hope that some of them will stick. One of them is to spend less time trawling through here and catching up with the latest gossip and more time doing something useful. If you see me here too often feel at liberty to tick me off.

We had a day off today. Yes, we did. Just turned our backs on the chaotic bedrooms and went out for the day. We went to Clark's Village and joined the hundreds of Mums and children who were getting stuff together for next term. The mass of families in the shoe dept. was astonishing. The queue of children waiting to try on school shoes snaked halfway round the store.
I was soooo restrained. I bought some tea in W*tt*rds, drooled over a couple of tops in Marks Expensive and the Rev bought us each a Toblerone - so much for the new diet - and that was it.

Very proud of my eldest DGD who got all her "A" levels and is off to Uni in Sept. She managed to get the grades for the promised scholarship too. Have posted her a card and two student cookbooks that I picked up in the CS. She is a sensible girl and very thrifty so I know she will be OK. When she was a tiny girl we went on holiday with her and the rest of the family and she wouldn't spend any of her holiday money. When we discussed buying icecream she was very keen until she discovered we were all buying our own. Then she decided that she wasn't THAT keen and stood and watched while we all ate ours. I did want to get her one but her father said No. She had more than enough money and musn't be allowed to think that she didn't have to pay her way. Very sensible but hard for a soft, adoring Granny.

Tomorrow is bedroom day. UGH!

x

Possession

mardatha wrote: »

I really really need some motivation. Dying slug doesn't even come close.

Imagine there's a dying slug underneath you Mar. That'll get you up.

Monna that sounds eventful, perhaps you and the Rev and Mar and Ginny should all have a rest together. Without slugs.

mardatha

Lol Possession, I'd proby just lie there and think ah nevermind I'll have a bath when i get up!

ivyleaf

Poor Mar - I hope today will be better for you. I'm relieved to say that I did manage to do the washing up yesterday in the end!

monnagran - My aunt and uncle and cousins used to live in Street (some cousins still do) and most of them worked for Clarks at one time or another. One cousin still lives in a Clarks house and has a discount card, so when my brother visits him he always uses the card to help brother get new shoes. Another cousin never ever had to buy school shoes for her daughter as she was always given the new styles to try out before they went into full production! This was in the "good old days", of course, when their shoes were made in this country.

Well done to your DGD by the way, you must be so proud.

Pooky and everyone else awaiting GCSE results, good luck to your children!

Mrs LW I'm glad DD is a little better. I hope all her students haven't come back in the same state! I'm sure you're right that she will feel better too when she knows how the GCSE results are. My best friend used to be a teacher, she retired last year but I remember her saying in a letter "They seem so grown-up, then when exam time comes round they look at you with big anxious eyes and you just want to take the exam for them!"

I have a hospital appointment today, so I expect by the time I get home I'll be too knackered to go out looking for a new cooker. There are frequent buses to the hospital, it's all the sitting around for hours when you get there that's so tiring!

nuttyp

Morning all, sorry been MIA, hence work has got in the way. Far too many hours to think about. But today I have a whole day off to do nothing, but we all know the carpets need hovering and the beds need changing. So I will try and rest inbetween tasks. Need to drop DD off to pick up her resit exam results today, and take mum shopping.


No idea if there is any vouchers this week, I managed to use 2 of the Mr M vouchers for £5 off a £10 spend on meat, lots in the freezer for another day.


Buddie the puppy is officially 6 months old today, happy half a birthday !! He is very cuddly and very funny to watch play.


Ok well must carry on, take care all x


PS. sorry forgot to read back and welcome all the new friends on here, enjoy!! Monna glad to see you back onhere.

silvasava

Good Luck & fingers crossed to everyone who has children waiting for their results.

Ivyleaf - take a good book to the hospital with you. Whenever I do that & settle down to a good read I seem to get whisked through. If I've forgotten one I always wait ages with nothing decent to read!

mardatha

MrsL, sorry I missed that your daughter was poorly xxx

Pooky

Yay!!! 11 GCSEs all passed and she has exactly what she needs to enter college.

What a relief!

Off out to celebrate this evening, I'm so proud of her.