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

monnagran

Well done Miss Pooky. Just think - no more calls at 1.00am to go and pick her up, just sitting up half the night chewing your fingernails and waiting for her to get back home safely. Both my sons passed first time but I thought it was something to do with the Y chromosome. Obviously not.

Fuddle: I think we should somehow try to merge into one being. My laid back, let it happen, tomorrow will do, it'll all be the same in a hundred years sort of attitude, joined to your must get it done, let's get organised, oh dear me what'll happen if..., musn't be late personality should make one highly successful person. Personally, I imbibe copious amounts of industrial strength coffee all day and it doesn't do a single thing towards getting my butt into gear. If I stopped I'd probably never get out of bed.

Funeral this morning of one of our church members, a feisty lady just three weeks short oh her 100th birthday. Straight on into yet another meeting of the agitation committee for the "Keep the Rev" campaign. Oh, my goodness. I think it is all about to hit the fan. My job at these meetings is to try to keep things calm and reasonable. Fat chance when the public in general would be happy to see certain people hanging from the nearest tree, or at least sitting in the stocks in the High Street. The number of letters that have been sent to those in charge should keep the Post Office out of the red for several months.

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Mrs_Veg_Plot

Mardatha I can not help with the liver/broc but I am impressed you have green veg

fuddle I like to bake whole mackerel in a foil parcel with a knob of butter.

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Well done Little Miss Pooky on passing your driving test.

AOT I've done that, usually overbalance backwards when I've shopped with the rucksack and end up splatted on the step up to the back of the bus. Thankfully I'm well padded so no damage !!!

FUDDLE love your new avatar, so cute.

MAR I like Liver and Bacon in a casserole, chop an onion or a leek and soften it in oil/butter in a casserole dish. Add the bacon cut in pieces and fry it off a little then the liver in bite sized pieces andf fry until it's not raw any more. Add in some oxo beef stock and seasoning and pop into the oven for about 1/2 to 3/4 of an hour. Thicken it up with gravy granules and I serve it with mash or a jacket potato and carrots, Mmmmmmm yummy! You can add mushrooms too if you like them!

Cheers Lyn xxx.

VJsmum

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

OK Pet Hate of the day......... Behaviour of people in the queue (or not as it happens!) at the bus depot. I try to make sure I don't queue jump, I always go to the back and wait my turn, it is something that I feel is only fair. Today, I was waiting at the back and three hefty teenagers came and pushed in front of me and stood in the line. Then three ladies round my age also came and stood in front of the teenagers, nattering away, totally oblivious, totally away with the fairies. In came the bus, so I deliberately picked up my bag and walked round them to the place in the queue I'd been in before they arrived. The reason was that there were a couple of people with many bags who had been there waiting when I arrived that had been pushed to the now, back of the queue. So I stood, as a barrier and said in a fairly loud voice oh, you were here long before me, please do go ahead, the kids were fine, not a peep, just waited good naturedly, the 3 natterers, totally oblivious, just pushed on to the bus!!!!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! People criticise youth for not having manners, in my experience it's more likely to be folks my age and older who seem to expect people to give precedence to them, youth is in the main very well disposed, so let's hear it for the youth of 2013, Hoorah!!!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

oooh I detest this :mad: what makes people think they have a God-given right to go before others. When I came back from working in Sri Lanka in January, I was in a queue to go through to departures at the airport. It was 2 in the morning and I was well fed-up and tired and a whole group (must have been a dozen) tried to push to the front of the queue. Well!!! I turned into "one of those women" and, in my best teacher's voice said "the back of the queue is THERE - join it!" and to my utter surprise they did! :T:o

Well done Miss Pooky - I must get my DD to send off for her licence.

fuddle

Knit_Witch wrote: »

Fuddle how do T-shirts hold up upholstery wise? I have a couple of t-shirts where I want to keep the front and use them as cushion backs, would that work?

Not too sure as it's only been on a day but it's stretched perfectly over the seat pad. I will say that I struggled keeping it straight while machining the hems though. With it stretching it was difficult to keep the seams lined up. It's a bit wonky but we're happy with it Very comfy.

I forgot to PM you my facebook details. Will do it now. Anyone else want to hook up with me on facebook, feel free to PM me.

Alfsmum thank you for the coffee and anxiety post. It's helped a great deal.

How rude Lyn :mad:

Molly41

Pooky wrote: »

Thanks all, DD1 is buzzing, she went out with DH for a test drive of our car (automatic as apposed to the manual she's just learnt in) and sussed it straight away, she drove round the village for a bit then on to a friends house. When they got back I told her to take it out alone and I saw that slight split second of hesitation before she was out there, music on and away she went. She then drove us to the Inlaws and back. She's so confident and very in control. So pleased for her.

We're off to look at a new car on Monday as DHs motorbility lease runs out soon, she's had a say in which car we're looking at as she will be driving it too (she's DHs named driver for when hes having bad days).

Well done. Without wanting to dampen your news - I thought that you had to be over 26 to drive on RAS - Motability Insurance? I might be wrong but we had this issue with our car and kids x

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HI MOLLY how's it all going? Hope you're going from strength to strength and making substantial progress after the op. Hope the skype to the puppies was happiness for you and both of them. How long until you are able to go home? Very soon I hope, Look after yourself, so lovely that you are posting again, makes me happy anyway, look after yourself, Love Lyn xxx.

Pooky

Molly - no, she's added to the insurance. DH phoned RSA with her they asked for all her details and spoke to her in person. She's fully legal. They insure from 16 as long as they've passed their test. (whilst 17 is the legal age for driving, if you are 16 and have a disability you can learn to drive in order to have increased mobility and freedom)

We looked into it before she started driving as otherwise there was no point, we couldn't afford to buy her a car, let alone the £3k for insurance for a 17 year old.

It will be great for DH to know she can drive if he's to tired/ having a bad day (I don't drive). Obviously she doesn't have use of the car unless she's using it to aid DH but It's all experience,

Thanks for the concern

fuddle

Pooky she will become such a help to you and DH. Will she get no claims in readiness for her own car in years to come?

Monnagran the lady who died isn't the lady beginning with T who has been ill for a while is it? Ive been following her progress and willing her to get better. How do you cope with funerals, do they get you down. Monnagran if I had dropped the contents out of sorted box of paperwork into a box of random papers it would break me! Your lovely self and I are poles apart but I so wish for a bit of your what will be. I read today that anxiety and stress actually destroys cells and leaves you susceptible to illness. I don't want that. Mental health is what gives us a ripe old age and I want to be feisty in my early 70's like you!

monnagran

Fuddle: Don't EVER want to be like me. You are a very special and unique person and I have no worries about your mental health, you are too honest and self aware to go too far down that road.

As to funerals - if the person is a good age and has been ill for some time I can rejoice that their suffering is at an end. So many of them end their days in homes or hospitals and aren't happy to be there. What I find really difficult is when the person is young and still could have had a good life in front of them. My best friend's son - who was also my DS2's best friend - died of cancer aged 30. It was so, so hard, but someone said to my friend, "Try not to look at it as a life interrupted, try to look at it as a life completed." I thought that was lovely and it has helped me many times.

The T lady is a tough old bird. You have to sharpen your wits before visit her. But no, she is not going to get better. She had several strokes and is bedridden and 90 years old. Her husband is devoted to her and looks after her at home.
My goodness! You have been reading those magazines! There is another one on the way.

See you all tomorrow.

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