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Skint_yet_Again

bobobski wrote: »

Better that your voice sounds like Bonnie Tyler than Batman

:rotfl:


Good tip about rubber gloves too bobobski


Furniture sounds lovely SW

savingwannabe

I like the rubber glove idea. I sound better but my voice is higher than usual it hurts as I am breathing wrong and the speech therapy should help with that. I managed today but it hurts. Still I can talk.

Yesterday we went to the New Forest and had a lovely time. Today we went to the Ideal Home Show which was ok. I was up at 5.30 cooking bacon sarnies this morning and we left at 7.30. Less home things than usual but nice for a look around. We spent most of our time in the food areas trying new foods and also watching Ken Hom who was great. He was doing a demonstration on how to cook fried rice. So apt for me. I have been doing it all wrong. He was so nice. I learnt loads.

You can use already cooked rice but the wok must be boiling hot. Heat it at full power for 5 mins before you put the oil in and it must be spitting hot. Add already cooked rice long grained. Don't add soy sauce as that makes it soggy. Season like crazy. Add in all the spare food from fridge and squish so it tastes barbequed. Really good.

We have been watching Top of the Pops programmes from the 1970s and reminiscing. The boys and crafty Hants have just left and it's just Susan and myself now. We are watching a programme about benefits. OMG How do people survive on twenty pounds a week?

bobobski

Good tip on fried rice SW, I've always wondered how they do it. Maybe you can go again next year and report back how to make sticky rice properly?? I honestly have no idea.

Sounds like you've had a good weekend which is ace and I'm glad your voice just about held up but it sounds like you need to rest for a couple of days now.

savingwannabe

I paid my dad £40 I owed him and made a v small contribution to susan for her lovely furniture of £20 and now I have £60 plus £15 in purse for rest of the month. But I do have £60 in xmas fund I could use.

I will just chill and not do much going out. If the weather stays like this I shant mind at all.

Today I am just doing a bit of washing up, clothes wash, vacuum and then going to speech therapy appointment. I might mow grass if weather is nice whne we come back.

Skint_yet_Again

Sounds like a great weekend with friends. I am envious of you seeing Ken Hom he is one of the few tv chefs I really like. You will be making great fried rice now


Hope your speech therapy appointment goes well. I'm going to chase mine up when I visit GP tomorrow afternoon.


I've lost the plot a bit will money this month as so many things are being paid for at the moment, line-rental saver, dentist, fence, birthdays, I need to sit down and sort out the money from each account and transfer to my credit card. I was thinking of putting all my spending on my credit card for the rest of the month then just sort it out when payday arrives !

savingwannabe

I think that will make things easier for you Skint Yet Again. I have done most of housework and will do mopping in a few mins. It is glorious here but it is meant to be cloudy. I hope gorgeous weather lasts as the BBC local weather was wrong last week too.

I have just replanted lobelia as my mum accidentally planted compost over where the seeds were about to come up!!!! lol.

I might plant my lavender or mow grass this afternoon as I am a bit tired. I will wake Susan up at one after all the driving yesterday she deserves a big lie in.

I spoke all day yesterday my throat hurts but its copeable. It is GORGEOUS outside.

savingwannabe

I have been given some exercises. I did them in the clinic and then I spoke all afternoon. Now it's hurting so I have stopped speaking to lessen the pain.

I have mowed the grass with help from Susan and we had mushroom soup and a soya cheese thing too with some veg.

My freesat box has gone funny and wont come on. Steve fixed it over the phone. He does have his uses. lol.

savingwannabe

It has been a great day. I planted the lavender plants in new pots at the front of the house. I didn't bother to grow it inside first I just put it straight outside - survival of the fittest and all that.

The weather was sunny again the weather forecast was wrong, hurrah. I also helped the builder to put up the swing seat in the garden and did some washing which has dried nicely outside.

Tomorrow he will tighten the bolts and then he will arrange for the plasterer to come after some last minute finishing off.

Throat was sore so I didn't go to the boys house with Susan and stayed at home but I achieved quite a bit so v happy with myself.

Skint_yet_Again

Well done on enjoying the weather SW. It sounds like the renovations are going well. I hope your throat feels better soon, maybe the exercises will make it feel worse before it gets better ?

savingwannabe

Maybe, I was so excited the exercises opened me up I got a bit carried away with chatting. lol. :rotfl:

It is bright and breezy outside. I have just watered the new plants. I paid the builder £20 cash to put up the swing. I am so chuffed with it and spent much of this afternoon outside on it am tired from just sitting outside but it is so relaxing. I have been thinking of what I can plant over time to make garden prettier. Bought some paint for bedroom nearly £50 on cc for ceiling and wall paint. The builder did some work on the bedroom walls and we are waiting for plasterer to give a quote but no contact from him as yet.