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

cornishchick

SQ I can hear a rousing chorus of onward OS solders to send you on your way to do battle.

Well. I have been wearing the elbow band thing and wrist brace my physo gave me. And it actually is helping. Not as much pain as there was. So something is improving . Work is still hectic and I did an exter 7 hours yesterday on top of my morning shift because we were let down. By angency. And more of the same tomorow. Today was my one day of this week and I have done...... Nothing. . I've cooked for my self. But the dishes are still there, I've not got dressed.. So zilch . Nada nothing has been done, I just couldn't find the motivation to do a thing. I feel a bit guilty but ... Well no one here to complain, so I'll let it slide.
I'm glad to hear of your meet up Fuddle and Mrs L . I've only visited ikia the once and apart from the fire alarm it was a great experience.
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carolbee

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Glad you had fun Mrs LW and Fudds - sounds like you've put the world to rights

Shanks - I'm envious too - I don't think there's anyone this far down in Kent to meet up with.


Pooky, I'm in thanet, I'll pm you about meeting up, even if it's not in Ikea.

Pooky

Morning all

Carolbee - Will have to take you up on that and sort something after Christmas when I don't have so much work on

SQ - Whilst I appreciate that the harvest festival collections don't want 300 tins of beans I think it's a bit much asking for a cheque!!!! Blimey. Hope the boiler is fixed soon....send DH swimming with the boys today - at least he can have a hot shower before he gets in the pool.

Temperature has dropped dramatically here since yesterday morning, it's lovely and fresh this morning. Not sure I'll get any washing dry but it can go out for a blow.

Roast chicken and all the trimmings for lunch, then an afternoon of working, ironing, kitten hugging and maybe a walk along the cliffs if the weather holds.

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Morning all, nice and sunny here this morning but only 2 degrees out there so very chilly letting the hound out first thing Brrrrrrrr!!! Someone in the road had a wood burner going in the late afternoon, smelt gorgeous when I came back from walking the boy, it's getting to be that time of year isn't it?

FUDDLE promised you a chutney recipe and this one is the least complicated I can find in my book collection.

Ripe Tomato Chutney

1 lb ripe tomatoes
4 oz apples (any)
8 oz onions
1 lb stone less raisins/sultanas
4 oz soft brown sugar
1/4 oz (8 grams) ground ginger
good pinch of cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 pint of malt vinegar

skin the tomatoes (Put them in a bowl and pour on boiling water from the kettle to cover them and leave them for 15 or so minutes then the skins will just slip off) peel and core the apples, skin the onion. Chop tomatoes, apples and onions fairly finely and chop the raisins. Put all the ingredients into a heavy based pan, bring to the simmer and cook for an hour or more, stirring often, until the chutney is thick and brown. Pour into small sterile jars (clean dry jars into a very low oven for half an hour) and pot up the chutney while it is still very hot. Put the lids tightly on the jars and stand on newspaper to cool down.

This makes a nice but not too spicy chutney that is lovely with cheese and keeps well too.

I am lucky that I have Ikea so close and the bus through the village drops me at the back entrance to the city shopping mall so I can walk through to the Ikea store very easily in the dry. It's nice to be able to pop in just to buy the Swedish food that they sell and not to have to walk right through the store.

FUDDLE so sorry you missed Primark, hope your poor OH is OK after the nosebleed and that after he'd been so good and looked after the family while we were in Ikea, poor boy. I hope you got what you needed though so it wasn't a wasted trip. Next time you're up we'll walk out into the city and I'll show you where everything is, makes life so much easier if you know a place doesn't it. Love the idea for the twig wreath using the red string, that sounds very pretty, should look lovely as part of the Christmas decorations this year. Hope the raspberry canes take well in the garden and give you a nice crop next year, if you want any planting/pruning/maintenance advice just ask and I'll get He Who Knows to tell you what you need to know.

You Kentish ladies might like to have your meet up in Canterbury I always loved going there when we lived in Kent, mind that was many years ago when the Ricemans department store was still there. It's a lovely place to visit and there are still nice tearooms where you can get a nice cuppa and cake and have a good chat. Nice to wander round the older part of the city too round the cathedral square and down the older streets around it, oh nostalgia, I miss Kent for how it looks with all the sheep and the orchards (probably long gone now).

Have a good day everyone, Lyn xxx.

FairyPrincessk

Morning all,

Fuddle and Lyn sounds like a lovely day out! I haven't had a reason to go to Ikea lately, but I would love one of their cinnamon buns--they are lovely!

Pooky we've had very chilly mornings here for the past week and it is gradually cooling off during the day as well. I still put the wash out to blow--or as I put it getting the worse of the wet off.

We had a lovely evening friday night round a friend's house for dinner with another couple. Theyre all about the same age but doing different things--one couple has just bought a house and the other is looking to buy a house soon and keep the flat they own. We're still far away from that, but we all have similar interests anyway. I've promised to help one with doing up furniture after our dresser is finished and the other couple are Ald! fiends like we are. While there is part of me that wishes we were ready to buy a house, I'm also keen to watch and learn from all of my peers!

Nurse Maggie--not sure if you actually want a trip to Ikea, but it is now a bit easier to get to the one in Ashton from Manchester as the tram goes there. Still not ideal for getting stuff home and a long journey....When I first moved to Manchester I bought a wicker chair and brought it home on the bus which required a couple of changes. The drivers were all lovely about it as I was careful not to go at a busy time. Although, one did feel the need to tell me that seats were usually included in the cost of the ticket so I need not have brought my own.:rotfl:

Whoever asked about Mr M--we had one open up near us recently. We've started popping in to check the yellow stickers on Sundays. I find there are always good yellow stickers the first few weeks a supermarket opens. It takes them awhile to get their stock ordering worked out. I'm skeptical about the loyalty card. Although it will price match Aldi, I suspect it will only price match like brands. Since most of what Aldi sells will be a different brand it probably won't fall into the price match. I will be keeping my eye on it though!

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It was National Cinnamon Bun Day yesterday in Sweden!!! DD1 texted me at 7.15 in the morning to tell me this as she was tucking into one for breakfast. Then the lady on the checkout in the Ikea food store told us too and aroused my envy by telling us that in Gothenburg where she came from they made special ones the size of dinner plates for this special day, Oh droolie droolie!!!

fuddle

The girls have polished the last of the buns off for their breakfast. I must fathom off how to make cinnamon buns because they were beautiful!

You're on Lyn. So many shops (and people!) in Southampton. Lyn we stumbled across White Stuff in the shopping centre. OMG I had never heard of that store before. I loved everything in there. Very me but quite pricey.

I did awake this morning hoping you would remember the tom chutney recipe because I plan on making it this afternoon, thank you! DH will get those canes in too Lyn . We think they're going by the trellis we erected to hide the bins. That area gets the most amount of sun. Sensible place?

We're also off to the garden centre as we have heard the christmas store is open. Not to buy to to be inspired of what I can put my collection of nature stuff to good use decoration wise.

I also would like to get a national trust walk in today and the obligatory gift shop blanket ooogle. Spent up though so no, no, no purchasing. I do not need any more blankets so s*d off want.

Have a lovely Sunday everyone

Nellie_the_Viking

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

It was National Cinnamon Bun Day yesterday in Sweden!!! DD1 texted me at 7.15 in the morning to tell me this as she was tucking into one for breakfast. Then the lady on the checkout in the Ikea food store told us too and aroused my envy by telling us that in Gothenburg where she came from they made special ones the size of dinner plates for this special day, Oh droolie droolie!!!

I Want, no, NEED, a cinnamon bun that sized!

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Super place for them love, they'll give you a good crop next year. White Stuff is as you say very expensive but don't they sell beautiful things? It might be worth coming up for a look when they have a sale on though, I'll let you know if and when I spot the sale signs in the window. Have a lovely look round the christmas stuff at the garden centre, lots of ideas to poach and just the right time of year to be collecting pine cones and seed heads to make your own with isn't it?


OH YES NELLIE THE VIKING so do FUDDLE and I, can you imagine the bliss of that first bite??? Mmmmmmmmmmmm Mmmmmmmm Mmmmmmmmmm!!!

FairyPrincessk

Ohh. I'm drooling now!