I have lost my OS ways, help!

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ANTARCTICA Mar, but it's an awfully cold place to go to for avoiding the greens!!!

fairy3

Hi all had a lovely day on Saturday foraging around the village and came home with lots of blackberries, plums and free windfall apples from a kind person who was in her garden and we got chatting.....good job talking is free otherwise I would be in real debt!Home to a cup of tea and toasted teacake from the bakery with real butter for princely sum of 35p bargain.
Two jars of jam made and rest frozen for crumbles and pies, one will be used for Christmas dessert as it amazes my dad everytime technology eh?
Caught up on TV planner yesterday although my sister 'lured' me to Mr T's so bagged just a few YS veggies and chicken along with 1kg black peas for 99p so remained under budget.
Very rainy and cold here today so have been sorting out the 'xmas cupboard' and making a new list for an OS celebration and might have time to work on a crochet blanket that I plan to send to the Sudan appeal this evening.
Hope everyone is warm enough
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Have a great day all

fuddle

Home made cheese and onion quiche has been a meat free staple here over the summer. Come the next few weeks I won't do them as often but it's worth saying how utterly delicious they are - shop bought pale in comparison

chirpycheap

Well it's not been a particularly OS weekend as we've been away on a short break. We haven't had a proper holiday this year so whilst I feel as though we have spent a lot more than usual I know it's not our normal spending.

Back home and straight back to OS ways. Cooked a one pan Spicy Rice dish for lunch and enjoyed some fruit that was reduced yesterday In M&S.
The Bank Holiday weather has been so rotten today that we decided to visit a local second hand book barn. They were having a sale of books at 50p so we stocked up on some fiction and cookery books. A coffee and a cake and some books came to under a tenner. Probably not entirely necessary but a fairly reasonable Bank Holiday treat.

Caterina

Hello,

Welcome Shovel Lad and thriftmonster!

mardatha wrote: »

Ok - so what country does not eat GREEN STUFF ??
:rotfl::rotfl:

Greenland! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

A bit of a carp day today. All day at home and not even a NSD as I bought a lightshade online for the kitchen and ordered tickets to go to Scotland with DH (who incidentally does not deserve the D at the moment - am furious for some really horrible thing he said to me).

Living as I am, without kitchen and having to do the washing up in the toilet has really taken its toll. I am too old for this nonsense.

Ah, well, rant over. I hope to be able to sleep tonight, with this anger exploding inside!

Good night.

greenbee

I hope DH has apologised Caterina, and you can resolve things before bedtime.

As for the no kitchen thing, feel free to come and visit. I have no idea when the budget will stretch to a kitchen, but I'm hoping I'll have one sometime around 2020...

At least I now have windows that aren't disintegrating I'm quite keen on the idea of non-overflowing toilets and maybe having a shower put in sometime too!

I've been for a walk, eaten supper (I still have several meals-worth of beef & barley casserole that I defrosted rather a long time ago as my dad was here, and then we didn't eat at home as much as I'd expected), put the soup (made in the thermal bag) into boxes ready to freeze and am trying to summon up the energy to peel, core and slice some more apples to stew in the thermal bag tonight. Only two buckets left... then I can start on those of the plums that aren't rotting on the tree.

Caterina

Thanks greenbee, he has apologised but what he said was really offensive and inflammatory, so I can't bring myself to speak to him, am so upset.

I hope you get a kitchen as soon as possible. I used to HAVE a kitchen and all I wanted was a lick of paint, not the blimmin' upheaval that was forced upon me. Long story.

greenbee

Sorry to hear that Caterina.

I didn't speak to my mum for about 6 months after she said something to me that upset me so much I couldn't even bring myself to tell anyone what she said. And she couldn't bring herself to tell my dad what it was either...

It sounds as if your DH has a lot of work to do to repair the damage. I'm guessing the kitchen story is something to do with him too...

Hopefully things will be better tomorrow.

amber03

We started on our kitchen this weekend. Hopefully by xmas it will be done. The problem with my OH is that he is great at starting a project but hopeless at finishing it. Lets have a competition to see whose kitchen is finished first.x

Pooky

I did the kitchen last year so you have my sympathies - there was one time when I had been on my knees for about 4 hours laying the parquet flooring and could barely stand up and I was asked for the 6th time what time I thought dinner might be ready......lets just say it's a good job I didn't have any spare wooden blocks or they might have been lodged in places where the sun doesn't shine. Relentless and thankless task but chuffed to bits with how it turned out.

It's rained....lots....so I've been working on stuff and managed to spend zero, ziltch, nil, nada! DH on the other hand was taken to the cinema by DD1 and her friend who's just passed his driving test...DH offered to pay and buy them dinner....I had jammy toast....ah well. At least I know I earned more than I spent