Os Daily Tues 19th June 2007

AMIE399

ive just looked at penpens baby chick photos ... arrrhhh they are sooooo cute.. penpen if ones a boy .. perhaps you could call him Martin !!!!!!!

catowen... hope you can manage to grab 40 winks later x

dlb.. my dd sleeps in the shape of a starfish !!!!!! she can take the whole bed up !!!!!!!!

have done some ironing.. not all.. but some !!!!!
decided to have sausages, corn on the cob, mushrooms, fried onions and hm chive and onion wedges for tea.. have prepared the wedges and they are now in the fridge... i also think icecream for dessert !!!

Hardup_Hester

Good Morning All
Off to work soon, I wonder what today will bring? Oh the joys of working in a school! I just hope our medical person is back today, though I have my doubts. We are such a small team, there is no slack at all & when someone is off sick whoever covers ends up getting behind with their own work.
I think it's going to be a bit dryer today, so Thumper & Ogden will have more chance to play in the garden, I must hang some washing out before I go to work, it may dry.
I'm doing chicken breasts stuffed with cheese & wrapped in bacon for tea & must do some baking when I get home too.
Hope everyone has a good day
Hester

LowRob

Good Morning
This is my first post on this daily thread, but I thought I'd say 'hello' and introduce myself.
My name is Lowri, I'm 26 and I live on my own (will do until Christmas). I work full time, and it's a job that takes me away from home quite a lot, but not regular. I'm also setting up my own business and have a few other projects to keep me busy. The problem with this is that it's my home that suffers in terms of tidyness, cleanliness and organisation!
By nature (I'm a virgo) I LOVE to be tidy and organised, but it's soooooo easy to go the other way.
So here I am, looking forward to a new start and an organised and tidy home!
Any advice gratefully received
Lowri x

Miss_Cinnabon

Hiya

Big hello to Lowrob:T

Really sore throat this morning, had better sleep with lo though.

Got dentist today, so looking forward to that:rolleyes:

Kids sports day in afternoon, hope the weather stays dry for it though also off to tesco for a bit of shopping, heard yesterday that school lunches are going up in price yet again after the hols, our area is the highest in scotland, thinking packed lunches might be the way to go!!

Hugs
Susie

tinkerbelluk

Morning all

Penelope Penguin - Congrats on your new arrivals

scuzz - Glad to hear you feel better today as well

LowRob - Welcome

Well as for me I'm feeling like I could jump small buildings today, ok that might be because I've woken up hangover free unlike yesterday but I feel 100 times better. Why do we do it to ourselves. :rolleyes:

So considering I did nothing last night (it was enough to just get home) loads planned for this evening after w**k. I'm finally tackling the paperwork mountain and have a quick hoover through and then sit down and plan with DH where we are going on our week off. We think Devon, Cornwall and the south coast before heading to Folkestone for a quick booze cruise but not sure yet

Anyway, hope you are all keeping ok but if not please take or leave the :grouphug: as needed

Chipps

Good morning all!

Hi to Lowri!

Pen-pen - I will check later for more photos of your chicks! so exciting!

A nice day here, hope it stays that way. DS & I are off to London, for a home ed group visit to the National Maritime museum & a talk about "understanding slavery" this afternoon, so we will go early with some friends & make a day of it. Got some choc-chip cookies in the oven right now as part of our lunch. So I will be off soon to rescue them & to make the rest of the lunches.

Dinner tonight will be (not HM) pizza, as that is very quick & easy after a day out!

Have a good day, everyone!

beard0609

Morning All

Slightly less manic morning today after yested Eldest went on school trip had to al be at school for 7:45 and in the end they didn't leave til 8:30!!
Youngest was trying to smile and wave her off through floods of tears... strange that they spend most of their waking life moaning at each other... can't live with can't live without!!

Hope everyone has a lovely day it's sunny here at the mo (for how long who know!!!)



Mouse just broke trying to move around the screen with a disabled mouse is no fun!!!

Penny-Pincher!!

Morning Guys!

Evil nurse was late today:mad: ..toothache has eased up a little but face still swollen...roll on tomorrow morning:D

OH has taken DD to school as she is feeling much this morning but still has the nasty cough.

WM will go on in abit, DW on after breakfast and toilet has been scrubbed. House is generally clean and tidy. All floors done yesterday and stairs hoovered in all the hard to get areas. Also another kitchen unit was cleaned out last night;)

OH is playing golf with his mate this morning, so I am being left on my larry (as dd says )...I have some letters to write and calls to make, then I will have a snooze as Im feeling abit rough again.

Just making breakfast of bubble, vine toms (for OH), mushrooms and beans...so a veggie breakfast which all needs using up:o ...and will keep his ebergy levels up for golf.

Anyway, I have to go and have a brew.

Hugs to all.

PP
xx

thriftlady_2

:hello: Good morning everyone,
I haven't posted on this thread for ages- sometimes feel it's difficult to keep up with what everyone's doing.

I'm trying a little experiment this week which I might carry on with if it goes well -I'm feeding my family on wartime rations. I'm probably not doing it at all accurately but we're having a bash.
For 2 adults and 3 children we're allowed:
16½ pints of milk -we have whole, unhomogenised milk to be more authentic and 'cos I like my food to be as unmucked about with as possible;)
15 oz cheese -English cheese of course
30 oz butter- OK, I'm cheating here it would have actually been 10 oz butter and 20 oz marge but I don't allow marge in the house I figured that since the calories of butter and marge were the same we'd go for the more natural wholesome option.
15 oz-cooking fat -I'm using a mixture of lard/dripping and oil.
20 oz-ham or/and bacon
2½ lbs sugar -don't think we'll use all this
4 eggs + the equivalent of 12 eggs in dried egg powder-because dd is allergic to eggs we're not taking her ration;) I'm also not using dried egg as there seems little point seeing as it isn't cheaper than fresh. We won't use all of our eggs as we can't use them in dishes for all of us because of dd
approx 10 oz sweets/chocolate -this was 12 oz per person per month and is a lot more than me and OH eat and way more than the kids are allowed, but I may buy it in chocolate form.
approx 3½lbs meat-we'll manage this no problem.
I'm only buying home produced and local food as far as possible -although we are having imported apples at the moment as the kids can't manage without their apples. And we are having frozen British peas. So cheating quite a bit really:o

Yesterday we had leftover roast pork in gravy with fried mashed potatoes (to incorporate some leftovers) and veg. Raspberries and top of the milk for pud.

Today the kids are having porridge and toast (and orange juice -probably more than was available at the time)

Their lunch is cheese and carrot sandwiches, carrot cookies and strawberries.

Supper tonight will be the remains of the roast pork either as a hash with potatoes and veg or as rissoles with salad. I think I'll make a Duke Pudding for the kids (breadcrumbs and carrots with dried fruit -surprisingly good)

Obviously I'm not including alcohol in this experiment - well, that would be obsessive wouldn't it ?:rotfl: I'm also not giving up coffee or rationing the tea. I'm doing it out of fascination for the period and a hope that the reduction in fat and in the full-on flavours and sheer variety and ease of contemporary food will help me lose weight.

Anyway I'm off to check out Pen Pen's chicks -have a good day all.

scuzz

tink - I know what you mean. But it seems like a good idea at the time!!!:rotfl: