Carrot cake in the oven

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Well it's incredible how you don't realise how poorly you were until you start to get better. I'm nearly almost fully mended, and my spring 'boing' came back yesterday when it lifted off my chest. Still got a little cough and slightly stuffed nose, but feels like the dark cloud has lifted, hoorah!!! Next time I feel like that I am staying home in bed (yer right!).

Thanks for popping by GP and Little Lilt x

Yes, I'm starting to see where this may go, thank you for your encouragement. What a difference a year makes. I am about £50 a week worse off than carp job. But: Am working about 10 hours less a week. Have virtually no stress. Am able to walk out the office at night without a worry, get TOIL without fuss and have very flexible hours and lovely colleagues.

My aim is to declutter the house whilst doing my course and trying to conjour up ideas for self employment or home working. Then hopefully I'll be able to say 'I love it when a plan comes together'.

Just off to look up scone recipes as I fancy a scone fest tonight. I've just seen a lovely idea on houzz where they took a pvc table cloth and tacked it down (underneath) onto a painted white table. I've seen one in doon elm for £4.99 and am thinking that it could sit on top of my table until I get around to chalkpainting it and then tacking it. Will be a lot easier than sanding for now and will brighten it up meantime

If I finish my homework today I will allow myself the treat of purchasing said tablecloth. But can only buy it (£4.99) when I'm caught up with all the coursework.

Right also off for a little run round the threads before getting on with coursework.

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Purplepenguin88 wrote: »

Bbc good food is tried and tested by me, never tried it in a slow cooker, but in any kind of openable dish you have delicious potatoes in 90mins.

Their quantities are:
2 onions, thinly sliced
few thyme sprigs
2 tbsp olive oil
1½ kg floury potatoes, such as Maris Piper or Desir!e, peeled and sliced thinly, by hand or using a food processor
425ml vegetable stock

You basically chop and fry the onions and then layer onions and potatoes in a dish and pour over the stock and bake for an hour til it's gone all yummy and the potatoes are cooked.

Very easy and very impressive (trust me). I believe it originated from France when people would cook their roast meat over these potatoes in the baker's oven in the afternoon and the fat from the meat dripped down to the potatoes as it cooked to cook them too!? (Or my DM was fibbing)

Finally got around to trying potatoes boulangere but had forgotten where the recipe was and I think we used too much stock. Just found this again so will probably later today. Than you PP. Ss1k

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ps I also want a cute little doggy. :j

But that's a pipe dream at the moment. Right off to make some scones.

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Does the tablecloth shop do click and collect. If so, try tcb. Every little helps.

killerpeaty

supersaver1000 wrote: »

ps I also want a cute little doggy. :j

Oooh if you get one, please share pictures!

So glad to hear you are feeling better and your DD sounds like such a sweetie.

Ali-OK

Ooh I got my pvc table cloth by the metre off a 1.5m widith roll at our local market (mainly a net curtain stall) as our table fully opened is 2.8 metres :eek: But buying it like that it costs £1.95 a metre - might be cheaper than the shops if you've got a local market to check out?

Cute little doggies are lovely once you've dog proofed the house, garden and car :rotfl: :eek: and trained them to get the post and slippers

Great to read you're so much better and if OH goes the SE route, a tip I was given (as a Sole Trader not a Ltd Co) is to open and use a standard personal current account - saves on banking charges in the long run. Keeps it separate from personal money and doesn't breach any HMRC rules, just stops the bank getting more of your hard earned.

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Brilliant thanks Ali. We won't rush into that then. Although we may want to look at taking smart phone payments which I think is only possible via a business account. Still good to know we can take our time.

Thanks KillerPeaty. Cute doggies won't be for ages . Thank you DD is a sweetie, she is our little star. Xx

Thanks for the tablecloth advice INOD and Ali. As usual my homework has taken a back seat and I am just about to start. Going to be a late one tonight :rotfl: hence no tablecloth treat.

Meanwhile, we are investigating selling things rather than getting a loan. DH is listening this time. As I've said to him, if we don't have a loan to repay then everything made is profit. It's hard for him to change his ways, but I need to stay strong and be victorious. I want elastic money that stretches everywhere. I don't want to buy stuff that I don't want, to impress people I don't even know and probably wouldn't like if I did. :rotfl: read those on people's sigs somewhere. So true.

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chalkysoil wrote: »

a corner of my kitchen , but the statice has moved on now, I often hang laundry from that beam

Love this from the shabby chic thread

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:rotfl: (chuckling to self). Bought my fave magazine this weekend £3.99. But I really love it, it cheers me up and is just my secret pleasure. It came with an offer for 12 months subscription for £18 which is excellent so mentioned to DH that it would be a great birthday pressie for me. I then went on Teeco site and found me cloobcard points would get it for £15.50. Only another £2.50 saved! and it works out at less than £1.30 an issue :rotfl: a whole year of pleasure ordered. Then DD used her leftover voucher to buy me a set of pastry cutters recommended by GP. I had to put £1.59 towards it but the rest is gifted. Next weekend I should be making normal sized scones. :T. Looking forward to receiving a set of cutters in a box and may donate my miscellaneous ones to the CS.

Didn't buy the table cloth yet, but I think it's a goer. Will brighten up my cottage kitchen with roses . Although I'll try to find something cheaper if I can. Then DH had a £10 flEaBAY.voucher to use on a £20 purchase so I stocked up on printer cartridges - always handy and got 3 sets for just over a tenner. Result.

Finally, looked online and it looks like DH has a tax rebate to come, which means he could have enough to pay his public liability up front. How cool is that. He has his trade membership to pay but can do that in instalments, then we've got to find the money for a vehicle. Don't really want to use up the safety fund so looking at selling a couple of valuables. Would be fab to start off his business without a loan.

Really feel positive about this. Glad to see DH looking happier than he has for a long time. He's worked so hard at difficult stressy jobs, it will be good for him and for us as a family

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Oh goodness, I'd totally forgotten id ordered some walking boots from amazeon on Saturday. £22.50 delivered, reduced from£75. Been a bit spendy, but all good. X