Saturday 13th July

Butterfly_Brain

This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come in, put your feet up (although check the fence hasn’t just been painted first!) and join us for an Old Style natter. The more the merrier!

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Butterfly_Brain

Morning All
It looks set to be a scorcher today and it is the weekend Yeah!
I have an MRI scan today at 10am so I hope that it is not too hot before noon.

Didn't sleep much because it was too hot and then at 4.30am DD's BF passed out in the bathroom, so everyone was woken up. he is ok, thankfully, I think that he just got up too quickly.

Just finished my breakfast and am off for a shower.
Enjoy the lovely weather while we have it.
BFN x

nmlc

Morning everyone

Hugs to all those that are feeling sad/poorly x

Sunny, bright and very warm here. Washing on the line. Plants watered.

DH and DS1 up and off to work stupid early.

Dinner for the menfolk last night was breaded chicken steaks in fresh bread rolls with salad and chips - I was a lazy wife and mum as the menfolk had chips 2 nights in a row! I had mushroom omlette and salad. Tonight will be some sort of chinese chicken/prawns in sauce with stir fry, noodles and rice.

I'm taking DS2 to his last karting lesson this morning as dad is not available to take him as normal. When we get back and the menfolk have finished work we will be going to the caravan to empty it out - we have already brought some stuff back but there's still lots more, will give it a clean down too. Anything we don't get done today will have to be done tomorrow.

We have a joint of pork for tomorrow's lunch, will do all the trimmings with it. The joint is quite big so I'm going to save some to have for dinner on Tuesday. Have been researching some different recipes and have done a menu plan for this week which features a couple of new dinners - have already told the menfolk they will be having a couple of different new meals and that they are to be tried and we will see if we like/don't like or want to change the recipe etc.

Yesterday managed to have a while outside in the sunshine with my book - was very nice.

Have a good day - remember the suncream if you're out in the sun!

Keep safe and well x

nmlc x

Molly41

Good Morning Butterfly and All Who follow xx

Ive not been posting for a while but reading as always. I have the date for my admission for the 1st of September and am now officially pooing myself. Im not very brave and know too much having worked for the NHS all my life:eek: I will be away from home too as the hospital is in London so feeling quite low atm.

Anyhooooooo........onwards and upwards (or downwards as need to lose a few pounds before September!!!!)

Hester - hope you ok? I seem to have lost your blog and wondered if it was a generic problem or just me??

Hugs for a good OS Day xx

tru

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Morning :hello:[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]I've lost Hester's blog too [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]I was going to watch a couple of programs on catch-up, can't remember what they're called – the foody one and the benefits one. These sort of programs appear sometimes and they turn out to be rubbish, I was hoping for balanced views and no benefit bashing, etc. But after reading people's opinions on here, they seem to be more of the same so I'm not going to bother. I'm trying to be relaxed and laid-back, I don't need blood-boiling patronising put-downs from 'experts' who haven't got a clue [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]We drove past a country church yesterday, just as a wedding was finishing. Groom was walking a dog, bride was on a horse. It looked fab and a bit odd at the same time [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]There are suddenly loads of ripe raspberries in the garden, I'll be feasting on them later We've pulled up a few turnips, they've been chopped and frozen.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]I went through my wardrobe, tops and shirts that were too small last year now fit :j[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]I'm going to give the garden a good soaking before it gets too hot.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]I have to sort out my email, it's not working properly. It's especially annoying as a couple of weeks ago I set up a new one for job applications and I can't apply online atm.[/FONT]

helen_jelly

Morning everyone

Lovely day here so far, will get very hot later

We have Sky man coming to install a new box today, I phoned them on Monday to say we couldnt afford the payments anymore so they dropped them from £45 to £18 a month, they also said we could have a new bow installed for free [hoping its a sky+ box as we dont have sky+] so I need to unplug the phone cable from the modem and put it in the sky box as its supposed to be connected but never is ;]

I cant get Hesters blog either :[[


Hope everyone has a nice day

BB - hope DD BF is ok this morning

Helen :]]

halight

Morning all:j:j

Sunny here and warm here this morning,

Its set to be another Hot day here again this morning,

Hope that everyone's well and not had too much sun.

My wife is singing with her chair In a consent tonight,

Iv got out of going and I'm looking after the twins,:j:j
What they are doing is not my cup of tea at all,

She also has to sing this afternoon. Just a run though all the stuff that they are doing tonight.
So Iv got the kids this aftrenoon too,
She will be back to have dinner tonight, Not sure what we are going to have, I will ask the twins later,
Got no real plans for today, Might just dose around the the house and garden.

There is the summer fair at there school late morning early afternoon. So I think we may have a walk up there if we can get ourself's sorted.

Well I hope that you are all enjoying the sun.
Make the most of it as I can not see it lasting much longer! It never dose in this country

Enjoy yourself's

:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

sistercas

Morning everyone

What a beautiful day

molly glad you have got your date to go in , keep strong xx

tru. I don't have any raspberries yet, I have a few strawberries coming and I've not had a single flower on my blueberry bush

Off to move all dd1 s stuff out of the uni halls and into a house her and 3 others are sharing, trust us to pick the hottest day of the year :cool: DH's car broke down on Thursday while we were in Nottingham and we had to be towed back , the RAC chap thinks is terminal but we will have to wait and see what the mechanic says. The problem we have today is my car is so small it means we will have to do more trips to take DDs stuff

I've packed a picnic for us to have to try and avoid the usual ' can we have a mcd0nalds '. Lol

Have a good day everyone xx

tru

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tru. I don't have any raspberries yet, I have a few strawberries coming and I've not had a single flower on my blueberry bush

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I have a total of nine blueberries - two are changing colour and the other seven appear to have given up

lushlifesaver

Morning all,

spent some time typing out my nice post on my tablet and then the browser crashed and lost it all! So I have resorted to my netbook!

Last night I got home later than planned from my time with my friend (9.15pm!) and as I had skipped lunch and only had a Mc D's ice cream whilst out I knew if I didn't eat a proper meal I'd feel rotten. So I knocked up a quick chile and rice pita with a little salad.

Breakfast has been natural yogurt with some oats and a little jam, don't think I'll be too fussed for lunch and for dinner...I'm not sure. Something with pasta maybe and plenty of fresh veggies!

Plans today:
Adventure on the buses (everyone is either away or at work so no lifts!) to the big ASDA for an opticians appointment, home to fuss pup, off in to our little town centre for the gala then home to relax and potter in the garden.

I need some shopping but its so warm already and most is fridge stuff and it's an hour on the buses to asda (each way) so don't think I'll keep it cool enough. I think I am going to get the bits in Iceland just before I leave town after I've been to the gala and also I want to check out lidl as I haven't been in there for a while. I don't think prices will be that different either

Plenty to be doing, some honeysuckle is getting wild so want to get a little more of that cut back. But as I'm missing the dragon boats at a local country park I am making a point of going to the gala I'm sure I'll get plenty and more done

Will pop in later to catch up with everyone!

Essex-girl_2

Good Morning Everyone

Been MIA again, hope its ok to dip in and out everynow and then.

Busy busy week, had a few day off of 2nd job but was DD's 18th on Wednesday so haven't stopped all week, has been good though.

Today is the last treat for her Birthday - we are off to see Charlie & The Chocolate Factory in the West End. Will be eating somewhere in Covent Garden before.

Plan to get as much done as possible this morning before we head off - am absolutely behind on everything :eek: Need to get my head down and organised next week, is so hard when the sun is shining though :rotfl:

Hope you all have a wonderful Saturday.x