Living on next to nought - is that the key?

Karmacat

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Well, look at all the visitors - and Upsidedown Bear, your smilies are the best...... I'm definitely loving the 'tiptoe' one

I downloaded it

Karma- I thought ST had wormholes in their galaxies - they had 'em in their ears too????? :think: DP didn't explain that episode very well......

Nah, wormholes is everyone else, not ST Stargate, Farscape, Time Tunnel, you name it Worms in the ears belongs to an episode of original Trek, and then I think the 2nd film was a follow up - poor Chekhov had a worm thing stuffed down his ear by Khan, a eugenics experiment. I'm hazy on the plot

And was I the 'sweet' or the 'sour' prompt that made you think of me over lunch??? :rotfl:

You were the sweet of course you were! Also inspirational :j

Upsidedown_Bear

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

Today was the first day I had to have the light on to eat breakfast. Winter has arrived.

Winter draws on

liltdiddylilt

Oooooooooooh GP loving the heart shaped burgers!! That is fabby. However my cutters are gingerbread man and dolphin & rabbit shaped. I don't think it would work so well!

Have this, GENUINE LIDL NEWS for anyone with a printer

Must skip off. Work drama and not loving it today.

TizerCat

hi Greying! Hope you don't mind me popping in!

Just wanted to say thank you :T for the idea of using oats in the blender instead of breadcrumbs in a recipe! I've been wondering what to use as can't eat wheat

Cheers :beer:

TC x

greenbee

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

Today was the first day I had to have the light on to eat breakfast. Winter has arrived.

I recommend getting up later :cool:

Upsidedown_Bear

For any of you with a nearby Ald*
Thanks to Butterfly Brain for posting

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Super six 9/10/14
500g chantenay carrots
600g parsnips
cauliflower
500g leeks
4 pack white onions
4 pack baking potatoes

59p each

They also have savoy cabbage for 59p
2 gammon steaks for 99p
butchers selection sausages 99p

Lots of ideas:

Jacket potatoes
Cauliflower cheese
parsnip and apple soup
leek and potato soup
cheese and leek pie
french onion soup
leek and stilton soup (any blue cheese will do)
honeyed chicken and parsnip hot pot
ham and leek soup

mothernerd

Think it's just 56- 4 years of walking and nearly all the food that comes into the house being carried on my back. When I was 4 my baby brother went in the pram, my other brother had a little seat on top of the pram, I was told to hold onto the pram handle and keep up. I have often been told about "little legs twirling like egg-beaters". As I grew so did my legs and gradually I outpaced my mother. For years I was always the fastest thing on the pavement, weaving seamlessly between slower pedestrians.

Until I was a teenager I thought 'T' (the next town up and then across) was miles away as we took a bus to get there (youngest brother was only a baby at the time) and we only ever went on a bus to get places like Blackpool and Southport. 'T' is actually about 4 miles away but cutting through the fields I used to do it in half an hour.

Once went to watch a marathon (to support a friend, as it was her first). Found it an utterly pointless exercise (never been built for running and in those days suitable sports bras were not available). The front runners made creditable times but if I had started at the same time as the rest and gone at my normal walking pace I would have beaten half the 'runners' and wouldn't even have been out of breath.

In the days when I still used a gym (up to about 8 years ago, when I was still heavier than I am now but walking about 3 hours daily and much fitter) at induction they would set the treadmill at three miles an hour, I had to tell them that I had just walked to my appointment at my normal speed which was still in excess of 4 miles an hour.

Now the same gym is only 4 bus stops away and I would have to catch the bus although at Christmas I went there to a charity "12 days of Christmas exercise session" which was being promoted through my once a week exercise class. After the warm up, the main session was like the 12 days but 12 star jumps, 11 burpees etc continuously. I had to have some exercises adapted but I got through it (fell over on the bus about an hour later but I had a full rucksack and I was still trying to get to a seat).

However despite all my attempts to get "better, fitter, lose weight" I have slowly run out of steam (and managed to wear a round bone flat and lose all the cartilage so that the bare bones are grinding together when I try to walk). Still I must be a statistical anomaly these days, never having had a car.

This operation should, provided I do all the things I should do (crutches for six weeks, being careful for 3 months and cautious for twelve) give me my mobility back and when I can walk properly again (although further than the nearest bus stop would be a bonus at the moment) I should start to lose weight again (originally lost 3 stone, then nearly another slowly and painfully but this last one has crept back on).

Must get on and stop boring all you lovely people. I have to go and paint the attic stairs. I put lining paper on yesterday. Really don't want to but need more than ever to get this house sold. DS2 was renting my old house but has moved out (well he has taken his clothes and big tv, loads of stuff still there. If I can fumigate (one rule I gave him was not to smoke in the house, grr), install the new boiler (tradesperson will do it, there is a limit to me talents) and get back there (town centre location so easy for library and town hall and shops) and hand over the keys to this to the Estate Agent I would feel so much better. Just have to keep plodding (thanks beanielou). Just think of one bit at a time, just going to do attic stairs before the light goes. Put the washing out because the rain stopped and the sun shone for about two minutes. Going now, finish off the remains of yet another paint tin - would burn those painting clothes if it weren't environmentally unsound.

Thanks for all your good wishes.

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

liltdiddylilt wrote: »

Oooooooooooh GP loving the heart shaped burgers!! That is fabby. However my cutters are gingerbread man and dolphin & rabbit shaped. I don't think it would work so well!

Have this, GENUINE LIDL NEWS for anyone with a printer

Must skip off. Work drama and not loving it today.

Thank you for linking to this

Tilly

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Lilt - thanks for the Lidl voucher link. I'm sure it will be useful to a whole army of MSE'rs who are lidl shoppers Aren't they having an Italian week this week/weekend? I always check on the grocery thread, as there are some good folk on there that always spell out each of the deals as soon as they are available. Folk are brill aren't they?

TizerCat - come on and join in glad to have you I always use jumbo oats for stuff like that, as we have them year round (DP likes porridge for brekkie), whereas we don't always have bread. I find toasting them adds a little bit of extra nuttiness.

greenbee - haven't *seen* you for yonks. Hope you are keeping well?

Upsidedown Bear - thanks for posting the Ald* list. Was that on the grocery challenge thread? I'd like to 'thank' Butterfly Brain - as I think it is great that menu suggestions have been made too - mind, BB is great like that, but still, I'd like to press the thanks button

mothernerd - I carry alot of what we eat away from the shops by foot. By no means all, but certainly a good proportion of the shopping each month. And I think that if everyone had to do the same, folk would eat a heck of a lot less! :rotfl:

I can legitimately claim a NSD today :j

I have had another one of those calls regarding 'our records show a fault with your computer'. According to the answerphone they seem to have phoned 3 times already today. Persistent aren't they? Why can't Ofcom do something about those sort of calls?

I had a bash at the biccies that Pipster linked to ^. Thank you mum2one they ARE officially YUM. Picture here;



Dinner was Butter Bean and Thyme soup with cheese scones. Picture here;



The recipe was Lyndsey Bareham's, and you can find a version of it HERE The scones were Nigella's 'Lily's Scones', although the oven isn't browning very well and so I had to turn them upside down to brown, so they flattened a bit. Tasted fine though.

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

For kind natured sharing of information and offers on MSE

For widely published information on what is a phone-scam - what about the more vulnerable in society though?

For being able to make nice biccies out of a few inexpensive ingredients - nice to have a treat

Thank you for popping in, reading, commenting and passing on information to your fellow MSE'rs. Mucho appreciated.

I'm away to shout at grown-up chaps playing footy on the telly.

See y'all later.

Greying

Upsidedown_Bear

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Upsidedown Bear - thanks for posting the Ald* list. Was that on the grocery challenge thread? I'd like to 'thank' Butterfly Brain - as I think it is great that menu suggestions have been made too - mind, BB is great like that, but still, I'd like to press the thanks button

It was on this thread:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/66694629#Comment_66694629

If you click on the arrow next to Butterfly Brain it will take you to the original post for you to thank :)
Upsidedown cheese scones - I like your thinking

Enjoy the footy