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Pippilongstocking

From LFHW

Top tip for tea and coffee lovers. Freeze milk into icecube trays and drop one or two in your hot drink straight from frozen. Can enjoy it quicker.

GENIUS.

troglodyte

Morning!
Glad the northern expedition went well! Shame about the germs though, hope you can shake them off.
The 'Little Ones' are so grown up, I can't believe it. I'm sure they were only children when I first 'met' you on MSE! That scary.
Our chooks have settled in happily and I'm going to potter around the garden with them shortly. They have some spiky things appearing that look as they may be new feathers!

starnac

I do remember now about TRG's tour of America. Poor thing. Bet the taxi wasn't that welcome for you either

Yay to feathers coming on chooks. Both DD and DS are completely taken with the ladies.

Sorry to hear banks are squeaky. They are here too we have completely rejigged our finances and we are suffering short term while things sort themselves out. By next month things should be a bit better (I hope)

Propagating might be a good distraction if nothing else. In a while it'll be lovely edible produce too. Could you start a project similar to Cheery and work out how much money you save by growing your own? I know cheery weighs her harvest and compares it to shop prices. Personally I haven't got the patience to weigh things but I do think its a fab experiment.

ETA cross posted I love that milk tip. I think I'll pass that on to my mum who doesn't drink milk so buys it specially when we go up there I order to offer us tea. I have told her her there's no need and we'll drink water/squash but she says she feels a bad host (they don't drink tea or milk) this would be fab for her. Thanks lovely x

ZTD

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

From LFHW

Top tip for tea and coffee lovers. Freeze milk into icecube trays and drop one or two in your hot drink straight from frozen. Can enjoy it quicker.

GENIUS.

Haven't I heard this somewhere before? (linky)

Pippilongstocking

ZTD wrote: »

Haven't I heard this somewhere before? (linky)

Ah Z haven't they been caught out copying you. Those clever Love Food Hate Waste types are clearly on their game.

Sorry I mean haven't they been INSPIRED by you and all of us at MSE.

:A:T:A

Thanks for reminding us

Pippilongstocking

starnac wrote: »

I do remember now about TRG's tour of America. Poor thing. Bet the taxi wasn't that welcome for you either

Yay to feathers coming on chooks. Both DD and DS are completely taken with the ladies.

Sorry to hear banks are squeaky. They are here too we have completely rejigged our finances and we are suffering short term while things sort themselves out. By next month things should be a bit better (I hope)

Propagating might be a good distraction if nothing else. In a while it'll be lovely edible produce too. Could you start a project similar to Cheery and work out how much money you save by growing your own? I know cheery weighs her harvest and compares it to shop prices. Personally I haven't got the patience to weigh things but I do think its a fab experiment.

ETA cross posted I love that milk tip. I think I'll pass that on to my mum who doesn't drink milk so buys it specially when we go up there I order to offer us tea. I have told her her there's no need and we'll drink water/squash but she says she feels a bad host (they don't drink tea or milk) this would be fab for her. Thanks lovely x

Fingers crossed for us both eh.

Oddly enough as I was a chopping my third box of kindling I was thinking ey up if I'd BOUGHT this it would have cost me £4/5 a bag.

So if that's the case £15/saved/made in 1/2 hour

Thats a decent rate of pay.

Thanks to Z for the linky re the milk

DD is just back and starting uni so like her brother she's nabbed this months grocery spends (well some of them anyway).

Glad DD and DS loved the chooks - they're being asked after fondly here.



Squeaky banks are indeed annoying, I dislike money profusely.

PS I've also boiled up 5ltrs apple (juice/cordial) and bagged 1kg tomatoes into the freezer.

That cheery might be up to someat grand right enough, although don't tell her but I'm with you on the weighing good for her but I'm a bit lazy.

Pippilongstocking

troglodyte wrote: »

Morning!
Glad the northern expedition went well! Shame about the germs though, hope you can shake them off.
The 'Little Ones' are so grown up, I can't believe it. I'm sure they were only children when I first 'met' you on MSE! That scary.
Our chooks have settled in happily and I'm going to potter around the garden with them shortly. They have some spiky things appearing that look as they may be new feathers!

Ah the hens are 'in pin' where the feathers come out - how wonderful. Most of ours are though that stage aside poor scarlet who is now 'mid pin'

My viking genes are seemingly sadly lacking these days.

Hmm I started here *mumbles* yonks ago, think they'd not actually started high school. :eek:

One going into third year, one in first year (freshers week as we speak :eek:) no wonder I'm grey haired.

Trog I did think you'd approve in Switzerland where the trees were often walnuts

Hope the lasses settle in fine. Sounds like they're doing fab.

More chores here. At this rate I'll have 'virtually earnt' a decent days pay.

:money:

Pippilongstocking

It suddenly struck me.

Been away - no grocery spends.
Takeaway fri - everyone pitched in TRG treated me.
DD spent all the shopping spends (£92 grub, toiletries, bits and bobs and stuff and nonsense) on Sat aunty Wik treated for tea on Sat pm (picky bits)
Sun was a lsd - reduced meat (lamb mince, turkey and sausages) only £4.07
Mon a NSD

Thus far this month grocery spends on us £4.07

Lets not think about the DD spend eh, you only go to uni once.

Well mostly.

starnac

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Oddly enough as I was a chopping my third box of kindling I was thinking ey up if I'd BOUGHT this it would have cost me £4/5 a bag.

So if that's the case £15/saved/made in 1/2 hour

Thats a decent rate of pay.

That cheery might be up to someat grand right enough, although don't tell her but I'm with you on the weighing good for her but I'm a bit lazy.

:rotfl: me too

£15for 1/2hour IS a decent rate of pay! In my last job I was paid £8 an HOUR! And that was with a supervisory bonus! :eek:

Say you went to work full time. You ended up having to buy kindling/logs or putting the heating on. That would cost quite a bit. This way you are saving the household money. It's how I see our childcare. For every day I stay at home with DS I am saving us the £21 a day in childcare. It's how I try to justify it anyway :cool:

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: :rotfl: you lot I bet I wouldn't be weighing if I grew as much as you pair grow!! :rotfl: Have you seen my list?! There's barely anything on it! :rotfl: Doesn't take long to weigh when it's only tiny

Mind you, I've started making it a bit more complicated now as I'm doing it as a project for a course I'm doing

Excited you've been getting some paid writing work pippi! :j I'm with TRG - get propagating lass! :j