Living on next to nought - is that the key?

maddiemay

little_sweetie wrote: »

Aw thanks for the (((hug))) Greying and for the sympathy supersaver , both much appreciated. I've just come back from the garage and the damage will be almost £2000 !!!:shocked::shocked::shocked: to repair. Because it has grazed and dented both the door and the sill they both need replacing at enormous cost. Of course, the insurance will pay assuming they think my car is worth more than the said £2000 and I will have to find the £300 excess myself. I have protected no claims bonus but I know my insurance will still rocket next year ( not until March 2015 luckily....) To compound the pain it could be up to 2 months before the parts arrive and first thing this morning, whilst shopping inside Mr M's, someone very kindly hit my wing mirror leaving lovely blue paint on my black mirror :cool: They drove away without telling me.....

I....give....up :wall:

So sorry to hijack your thread dear Greying, but I had to tell someone and I do feel a bit better now for having let rip

Last night's tea looks fab. I think I will have a go at Jack's burgers in the next day or two. They look scrumptious. Each day I show your tea piccies to OH and he makes such positive comments that I am amazed. He has now actually eaten homemade potato salad, coleslaw, and red kidney beans all of which he says he doesn't like :think: You are definitely having a positive influence on him. GO Greying! Thank you!

Hope you are having a super day x

Not wishing to hi-jack either, but just wanted to comiserate on the "prang", I once did something very similar whilst OH was in the passenger seat nagging me (we were not getting on particularly well at the time), thank goodness it was "my" car I was driving and not his. Good news about "converting" your OH, slowly, slowly catchee monkey perhaps. I need to try the burgers too, but have a bit of difficulty digesting beans and pulses, so although so many of Greying's recipes look yummy, I am a little nervous of making things and then not being able to use them up:(

supersaver1000

Thanks Greying. Definitely chipper :rotfl: just waiting for the chicken carcass to boil up so I can finish the veggie and chicken soup. DD has been making lots of soda bread from Jacks book virtually every day. It's yummy. We bought a reduced bag of whole meal flour from the health food shop today 75p. We are having whole meal soda bread tonight - lovely. I'm not sure whether to bother buying yeast as the soda bread is really quick.

Sweetie so annoying about the car, and the mirror now. Hope it's fixed soon.

Maddie me too about the car. With the beans, try the red kidney bean burgers - you boil and mash the canned beans and I think that makes them more digestible - just do what we do and don't try them on a school/work night just in case

Have a good evening all.

little_sweetie

Thanks Maddie and super saver :kisses3: and,yes, it is my own car, luckily, I just 'allow' OH to use it. He's a terrible passenger too. Don't they make you nervous . However, I was alone on Saturday

Maddie, I agree that maybe cooking the beans for longer might make them more digestible. It's worth a try maybe.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Phew, what a day.

Arrgghh little_sweetie - you pooor thing! You vent away love, I would be hopping if all that had happened to me too.

Anyway, don't you give up, 'coz you're needed here by us. But we do feel you pain! And if you feel better for having got it out of your system, well that is all good

Tell your DH he's doing a super job of 'big-upping' my grub and the fiver is in the post to 'im :D

Hey maddiemay - lovely to *see* you. I suppose the one advantage of Jack's burgers is that you would really only need to buy one tin of red kidney beans - currently 23p in mrA and mrM - to see if you liked them. The patties can be frozen, so you could either make them small to begin with, to see if you would be alright eating one, or you could make them conventional size and just have half - freeze the rest. Meat eaters apparently love them, so if you found that they weren't for you, then you could probably 'palm them off' on someone. I can't abide waste either, but I think that these are a cheap experiment. Mind you I can vividly recall making the transition to vegetarianism - I've not always been able to digest beans well.......

supersaver - well done your DD - she'll be starting an artisan bakery at this rate

Right, so today I spent money - and dispatched DP to get milk and bananas from mrAl too, so definitely a spends day today. I did manage to spend my money wisely today though. I needed some ant 'disposal' gel and wilk1nsons don't appear to stock it anymore. Anyway, I was the right side of town to call into a little hardware shop. Not only did they have the gel - £1.99 (as cheap as I have seen advertised on the net) but also I was able to buy 3 x 4ft canes for my tomato plants for the grand sum of 45p :jThey are really sturdy, will do several seasons and most of all, I didn't have to buy a 'pack' of more than I needed

Dinner ended up being a plate of (veggie) bobotie and rice. The only thing that I had all the ingredients for and could be bothered to make. The weather, thankfully, is a bit more 'bobotie' and a bit less 'salad' I didn't bother taking a pic, as I've bored you all with it before and we don't want Mr little_sweetie losing interest do we????

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

that I'm going to have an early night - I'm bushed

for old-style hardware shops - such a relief to only have to buy what you actually need

for the storecupboard - AGAIN

Thank you so much for popping by, reading, supporting little_sweetie and for being your usual good-egg selves I do appreciate it. Massively.

See y'all in the morning.

Greying

sunnyskies2

Hello

Have been catching up on your yoghurt posts from last year, another project I have been thinking of trying out too - seems like you've been lots of doing whilst I've been doing lots of procrastinating lol. The burger dinner looks mouthwatering and as I'm learning to budget will be a good dish worth making - although sadly rest of family not so veggie orientated:(

Just wanted to empathise with little_sweetie about OH making a normally quite capable driver a nervous wreck - and only accepting our driving skills for ferrying home ! ! Hmmm

Best wishes

Sarah

Pippilongstocking

Nips in quietly, early doors. Little Sweetie have a hug from here too.

Nips back out and goes in search of a cuppa.

Have a good un, Greying me dear and chums.

Probably catch you from 'tother' side.



Hope the sun shines for you all today.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

I'm just rushing in - in the middle of making a dish for our evening meal - tis better made in advance overnight, but a few hours of daytime will have to suffice

sunnyskies - I don't think I've been as proactive as you think, but thank you for the kind comment. I should have made yoghurt last night, but couldn't keep my eyes open any longer, so I didn't

Pippi - hope all goes well with the move today Thanks for supporting little_sweetie, everyone is so kind on here Safe Journey - to 'sunnier' climes :cool::rotfl:

Right, I will aim for a NSD today - PRIDE is at stake! :rotfl: And dinner will be curry, dhal and rice, details later

Be safe today, people

Thanks so much for popping by, reading, commenting and supporting each other. Mucho, mucho appreciated.

Oh, and little_sweetie we've not had a report on your veg growing lately - how are you spuds?

See y'all later.

Greying

little_sweetie

Just wanted to empathise with little_sweetie about OH making a normally quite capable driver a nervous wreck - and only accepting our driving skills for ferrying home ! ! Hmmm

sunnyskies, thank you, you have put it in a nutshell. Exactly!

Good luck with the move pippi, I hope everything runs smoothly. Make sure you can find the kettle at the other end. That's the main thing Oh and thanks so much for the hug. Everyone on here has made me feel much brighter about it all.

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Oh, and little_sweetie we've not had a report on your veg growing lately - how are you spuds?

Greying

Wow, Greying, the tatties are looking really healthy and lush and I'm just waiting for the little flowers to show (it's gone a bit chilly again and they're holding back) The tub of parsnips and carrots is also looking great. I can't wait to try them all :j
Yesterday, I sowed some more salad leaves; Tuscan mix and Spicy mix (oooh get me ) Thank you for asking, I need all the encouragement I can get!

OH says thank you for the fiver too! :rotfl::rotfl:He thinks you're doing marvellously in getting me to experiment more and all my cake seems to vanish almost as soon as I've baked it. On Monday our 6 yr old GS came with his dad and soon spotted my pineapple drizzle cake and millionaire shortbread. 8 pieces winged their way home with him :eek: He asked his mum if the pineapple cake counted as one of his 5 a day :rotfl::rotfl:

Have a super day, dear Greying, and curry sounds just the job for tonight...any going spare?

satchmo1

RIP Maya Angelou. "The bird doesn't sing because it has the answers. The bird sings because it has a song"

maddiemay

I have been out all day, with phone switched off, ironically attending a funeral, so only just learned of Maya Angelou's passing on Memory Girl's blog, a lovely tribute there btw.