Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2015

Hard_Up_Hester

This is the recipe I'm using Camelot, there are lots out there all very similar.
http://www.italyum.com/specials/195-lemon-liqueur-limoncello16.html#.VkiepvnhCM8
Hester

Lynplatinum

Evening all

Well, my TV isnt working so am re watching my box set of Bleak House - the excellent BBC production of a couple of years ago. Am thoroughly enjoying it again!! So Making Do!

Am determined not to go shopping for as long as possible but I eat oatcakes every morning for breakfast. I remembered a Hugh FW recipe that i had which i had been meaning to try. So i did do a half batch this evening to see if they were any good and they are very very yum! :j So another NSD by Making Do and Minimising my oats and oil supply!

Reviewing supplies - I made tuna and pasta bake today which will also do for tomorrow. Then there are some parsnips which will make a luscious parsnip curry. Also am out for a meal on Tuesday as it is the New Members social for CAMRA and it is not worth my while driving home and back out again after work. Am thinking of getting food from Morrisions cafe - what does anyone know of it?? (ones in Milton Keynes). So what with my newly discovered oatcake making skills I think I can delay shopping until Thurs or possibly Friday. Thanks, dear friends for your inspiration to achieve this :A

Mending today was sanding down plaster and paintwork so that I can get painting this week!! :T

Silva - I havent seen or heard from Valhalla for ages - know she was busy with DiL, kids and her DB. Do wonder if shes OK too!
nite all (goodness me is that the time :eek: )

candygirl

Lyn have you got the parsnip curry recipe please, as I got tons from ALD1 last week

Rainy-Days

Got three pairs of boots polished this morning - thankfully not re-heeling necessary this year and they will last well into Spring next year before they go off to the cobblers!

De-boddled a couple of my jumpers yesterday - came up looking like new!

camelot1001

Thanks Hester, I think I'll give that a try as I am rather partial!

Changed a large pine mirror this weekend, it is now black and looks really good. I'll get the builder to put it up at the top of the stairs so I can frighten myself regularly!

Minimised a lot of christmas gift bags last night in making up DDs advent calendar.

Not mending but going to knit another pair of slippers as a christmas gift - DS2 informed me last night that he was bringing his girlfriend home for new year!

Rainy-Days

camelot1001 wrote: »

I've minimised 2 bras today, I still have 23 in the drawer! At least if the house blows down I will have something to camp in.

Not sure if it might help you but Nowzad Dogs Rescue will take your used bras! I wait until I have a few then post them off.

Really good cause and helps the rescue Woofs!

http://www.nowzad.com/help-us/bras-for-nowzad/

Thank you to the original psoter on here (sorry I cannot recall who it was) who drew my attention to this charity!

vhalla1478

Hello there, folks, sorry I haven't been around for ages, but life has been pretty hectic. It was very sweet of people to remember me, so I will start posting again.

Just to say I had a great time in London with my Ddil and we managed to find a lot of free/reasonably priced things to do. The main museums and art galleries are free of course, we waited for the day we were going to the theatre before we booked and actually went there for the tickets, paying £12.50 each instead of around £39 - always the best way to do it and they weren't rubbish seats either, the middle of the fourth row of the circle. We also had a free trip on the Thames (Superbreak.com is the best for freebies) included in our hotel/rail travel package, and the hotel was good and very central (Russell Square). We also visited Denis Severs house in Spitalfields, something I've been wanting to do for years and I can't recommend it highly enough for a magical, very different experience, equivalent to me to going to the Opera in terms of enjoyment; I told the guy on the door that if the Sistine Chapel is half as good (going next April - have been invited to Italy to stay with an old school friend who I re-met at the school reunion last month), I'll be more than content!

I wish my DB had been able to whisk me away, Silva, but unfortunately he has only had 10 days work in the last four months, such is the state of the oil and gas industry at the moment. The upside is that I have seen a lot more of him and this weekend we took advantage of the mild weather and went to Cleethorpes, had a brisk walk to work off the fish,chips and mushy peas we had consumed earlier! My DB had never been to Cleethorpes before and thoroughly enjoyed it - there's no accounting for taste!

I've been making some different recipes recently, so will post the yummy ones soon. Off on the school run first thing tomorrow morning to go antique hunting!

Now to read all the posts I've missed.

Lynn, will answer your pm later tomorrow - hope that's ok.

Love to you all,

Viv xx

GreyQueen

Oh but a devious bit of make-do has been done chez moi this evening.

My computer is a very old one running XP, an operating system which hasn't been supported by Microsarft for some time. Because they want you to buy a new operating system. Which I can't run on this pooter because the chip cannae take it, Jim.

My Computer Wizard knows a sneaky trick. XP was installed in a lot of things which aren't actually computers, such as ATM machines and tills etc. It was a stripped down version which is being given support by Miscrosarft until 2019 whereas XP support proper stopped 08/04/14.

Only, if you know what you're doing, you can go into the registry and change one digit and magically your computer becomes a till and starts downloading the updates it hasn't been getting for the past 19 months - 36 of them as it happens.

I'm PMSL at this. And using a till, apparently.......:rotfl:

Ellidee

Hope it gives you some change GQ !

GreyQueen

Ellidee wrote: »

Hope it gives you some change GQ !

I wish!

I've been tapping my PIN in frantically hoping it'll start spitting used twenties out of the DVD drive or summat but no luck so far.

Brilliant wheeze, tho, isn't it?:rotfl: