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

lisakay_2

jumping in unannounced again SQ the good things should always be celebrated with friends.
I had a good parents evening too, both girls working and trying hard. eldest is having some trouble with her friends but we've hopefully nipped it in the bud, little girls can be so horrible to each other, but she seems a lot happier now I've spoken to teacher.
littlest is trying very hard and has settled in well but is having some problems with her literacy, have slight suspicions of dyslexia with having a family history of it, but far too early to diagnose either way yet. she started intervention classes this week to try and get her up to speed and she's enjoying it.
just got off the phone to DH, he is absolutely fuming, 3 mths ago work didn't pay him the right hol pay (16.5 hrs short) and he's still waiting for it to be sorted and this months pay is 27 hrs overtime short. he's in absolute agony with arthritis and has a hip replacement preop next week, yet he refuses to give in and go on the sick but they still treat him like a bag of *****.
mad is not even close!

harvest festival today, all donations to the greenbank project supporting young adults in difficulty.
nipped into my fave supermarket with my £5 voucher this morning and picked up a nice shiny slowcooker, also got one for a friend (she paid me for it, just as well seeing as we're shorter than we thought we would be) and just a couple of other bits to bring me up to enough for the fiver off. I already have 2 smaller SC and they get used so much since I started childminding. the bigger one will be so useful. can do a big stew/curry etc, a veg soup/chilli and a rice pud all at the same time
off to bed, been a long tiring, but fun, day.
best wishes to all x

EstherH

Well done to SAVINGQUEENS boys. You have a right to be proud.
Esther x

PRINCESSX87

Morning all.

SQ: Be proud Hun. & the same to anyone else who’schildren are doing well in school. Nowadays you only ever hear about childrendoing rubbish within education. I think a lot of it is partly down to parents andrewarding them when they do-do well.

Pops sounds lovely.

I have to say the more I hear about this appending storm themore I’m panicking I don’t think I have ever experienced anything like this. (Otherthan being born in the storms of 87) but I’m worried as we have a cherry treewhen is ignored by the council right on our door step. Last thing I want it is hitting the propertyor someone’s car.

I think I’m pretty much ready. Just need to top the foodstock up which is a tomorrow job. And move the garden bits.

Do we think that its going to be as bad as expected?

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Don't worry yourself too much PX87, we will get whatever weather we get, and can do nothing about it so worrying isn't going to change a single thing. You've made your preparations love, that is all you can do so you're ahead of the game. Keep yourselves as safe as you can and you'll be fine, take care of yourselves Lyn xxx.

Pooky

Morning all

I remember the 87 storm well, all the fences vanished and we had no phone lines for what seemed like months (I was 14 and had no way of contacting my then BF so it was pure torture. The fact that we'd only had the phone installed a few months previous was immaterial ). The village where I now live was very badly hit as its directly on the cliff edge, I'm hoping it blows out to nothing before it hits us but if it doesn't we're ready. Just a few garden bits to pop in the garage this afternoon (when it stops raining) and I'm all organised. Plenty of food and water, cat litter (they won't venture out in high winds), candles, wind up radio (all our power lines are overhead so power cuts are likely). We are supposed to making a trip to visit relatives that day but we won't be driving in high winds.

Finally got to payout level on a cople of survey sites yesterday so vouchers winging their way to me, already earmarked for a christmas present!

Popperwell

Morning all,
Those slow cookers are great. I can see me using a couple soon for meals or the microwaves(I'm quite a fan of those too)as possession has shown on her site and other websites, its better to ask what you can't do in one.

That meal is going to be cooked within an inch of its life but its not the same as doing it on a hob in a pan and the goodness will still be there in the gravy.

Now I know how quick the c. breasts and fresh veg cooks I will set it away at a more suitable time and/or use that timer. I need to find a way to use it as said before the cupboards above the sockets means there is not enough room. Even if I have to use the SC in another room.

I've arranged to see my Dr this afternoon(just routine)and see if the AD's will be allowed to continue but I may bring up how I feel I am being treated by the Housing Association(I told him of the last run in I had with them and had his support)I may mention the drain/neighbour situation too. I can do so v.quickly. I feel they talk down to me and treat me as an idiot, something must make me feel that way.

The weather is quite bad today. Constant rain. Not sure what the storm will bring that the media is going on about. Most come to nothing but they like to prepare you. I suppose after the great storm they got wrong in 1987(?)when Michael Fish said there was nothing to fear they play safe.

katieowl_2

PRINCESSX87 wrote: »

Morning all.

SQ: Be proud Hun. & the same to anyone else who’schildren are doing well in school. Nowadays you only ever hear about childrendoing rubbish within education. I think a lot of it is partly down to parents andrewarding them when they do-do well.

Pops sounds lovely.

I have to say the more I hear about this appending storm themore I’m panicking I don’t think I have ever experienced anything like this. (Otherthan being born in the storms of 87) but I’m worried as we have a cherry treewhen is ignored by the council right on our door step. Last thing I want it is hitting the propertyor someone’s car.

I think I’m pretty much ready. Just need to top the foodstock up which is a tomorrow job. And move the garden bits.

Do we think that its going to be as bad as expected?

As Mrs Lurcherwalker says, there's not much you can do. I remember the storm of 86. It was lovely and quiet afterwards and we all got a day off work

If they are predicting power outages it will be in rural places (like here probably) that they last longest. So maybe stick a packet of tealights or candles in your shopping baskets, and a packet of matches! If you have electric cooking buy a couple of things that are ready to eat too!

Apparently Wales is going to get it first :O so maybe we will park the cars the end of the house away from the trees. T'will be fun if the power goes off though, cos it's my market baking day! Deep joy!

Kate

Mrs_Chip

Morning All

Getting blustery here, but thast not unusual!

Pops It might be easier for you just to make something in the SC then portion it up for freezing/chilling then reheat - tbh I think the idea of it cooking all day really only suits those out at work, and not even then sometimes (the potential faff of preparing before leaving home). So if that is the case you dont need to set the timer if you dont want to. Also if you are cooking frsh veg etc, it may be better to leave them out of the slow cooker as they can cook to a mush. I find steaming veg much the best way, and is very heat efficient and quick. The veg can be cooled and kept in the fridge, it micros up again very well (as OH has found on my fast days, he preps his dinner from leftover veg and a pie).

I remember two storms, 86 and 87 get the two mixed up in my head, one was overnight and we awoke to radio and TV silence, which when you are in a flat 7 miles from the centre of london is a bit unnerving!. We had heard nothing in the night and awoke to a scene of devastation. There were trees down everywhere. We drove into work in the City with great difficulty as there were trees all over the roads.

The other storm was during the day, we were sent home from work, and had to walk from Tavistock Square down to Waterloo. There were four of us walking together and as we walked over the bridge we had to cling to the lamp posts to avoid being blown over the bridge:eek:. There were sheets of cladding being blown off of buildings, it was very scary indeed!

The other great weather event was about then as well, whe we had trrible snow in the sout east, so of my more rural colleagues were cut off for days, and had no electricity for weeks! So perhaps nothing changes after all!

Its my birthday today

katieowl_2

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Its my birthday today

Well happy birthday to you :beer: hope you have a lovely day!

Kate X

Popperwell

Oh Happy Birthday Mrs C...hope something nice happens(I guess the trip will be like a Birthday gift)

What a good idea you've suggested. Thank you.

The story that you mentioned about that weird day would be worse as you were in the area affected but I came down and put the TV on and it took some time to understand what was happening and they were saying it was moving North. I can't remember if it did? I know they made everyone afraid that it was going to.