The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

Softstuff

Fairyprincess, I haven't seen Nuatha since he said he was bowing out for a bit. I miss him too.

Tuna, cream tea is no different in content than cereal and milk if you think about it, so perfectly adequate for brekkie. So is tiramisu

Best advice I ever got for houseplants is not to overwater Burtha. They're quite often killed with kindness.

I picked up a replacement microwave today... at 14 months old ours had gone in for repair, come back home when they couldn't find anything, went back in when it still made arcing noises and they called me to say that they were just replacing it instead of repairing. Anyway, plugged the new one in... and this one doesn't work either. Beeps endlessly and every button is unresponsive. I'm so glad whisky exists.

FairyPrincessk

Greenbee, I'm very sorry to hear that. I hope that he is able to rescue his business and if you should speak to him again, please let him know that there are those of us hoping he feels he can lean on the boards for support as he needs it.

Well, today's plan has changed. Fortunately I managed to get some work done this morning. It has now materialised that the only day I can get a trainee haircut is today, so I'll be doing that this afternoon after meeting OH at the spectacle shop. He needs prescription sunnies and since they are buy one get one free I'll be updating mine which are now about a decade old. I don't use mine for anything important, but we may as well take advantage of the offer.

Well I must run. I'm just now scoffing leftover HM pizza for an early lunch before I head into town. Hugs to those in need.

ivyleaf

FPk I'd have thought the "buy one get one free" glasses would have to be both pairs with the same prescription (or at least both for the came customer), but fingers crossed that I'm wrong

greenbee I'm glad at least one of us is able to contact nuatha, but am sorry things aren't going well. I remember him saying the contracts he had expected to start work on had been cancelled due to the referendum result I hope the govt can start sorting the country's future out post-haste and end the uncertainty, though it's bound to take some time. I can't see why they have to wait until September to elect the new PM, for goodness' sake! Surely that could be speeded uo a bit by giving party members a shorter time limit to return their ballot papers or whatever (you can tell I'm really well up on this sort of thing )

ETA Please ignore my last few sentences, have just seen the News.

milasavesmoney

Annul visit to ENT doctor today and it's 3 hrs one way. DH loves to go because it's an actual city with loads of restaurants. He's requesting Joe's Crab Shack.

The plumber starts again today. We cleaned that bedroom of all the concrete dust for when our kids were here over the 4th weekend. But here we go again! The entire line has to be replaced so he will tear up the floor in the bedroom, laundryroom and bath room following the corroded drain pipe.

I love jelly and jam making but no one eats it anymore. I have jars of cherry, plum and peach all sitting in my pantry that are a few years old.

Thinking of you and yours, Mhags.

ivyleaf

mila Mhags?

Bigjenny

Ivyleaf mhagster is on 5 OS pleasures in your day. Her DH has just been told he has terminal cancer.

FairyPrincessk

Ivyleaf I thought the same thing just after I posted that and thought "I wonder if he read the small print" lo and behold, he hadn't. I then did a quick google and found all sorts of deals for him to trawl through. He isn't one for bargain hunting, so I should have guessed. It has still be a productive but exhausting day. Just about to make the tea so I can collapse.

Mila, I hope all was well with the ENT.

ivyleaf

Bigjenny wrote: »

Ivyleaf mhagster is on 5 OS pleasures in your day. Her DH has just been told he has terminal cancer.

Oh, thanks for explaining, but poor them

Softstuff

Mila, I hope he finds the problem with the pipe is actually caused by buried treasure.
Xx

FairyPrincessk

Morning all,

I've just finished my breakfast. I took OH a coffee in but don't hear him stirring yet. He is always knackered by the end of term. There is a new geranium open in the garden and the snapdragons are looking lovely. I have a recipe for an herb jelly made with cottage geraniums, but I'm not sure how to go about identifying which variety I have and if they're edible.

Last night's bacon and potato cakes wouldn't cake--I'm not sure why, possibly too much water from being frozen. Nevermind, I popped in an egg and a bit of flour and dropped them into the bacon fat and they were lovely. I think this might be closer to what is called a 'floddie' but I've only read about these in cookbooks, never actually seen one. I think they usually involve grating raw potatoes rather than mash. Perhaps I've invented something new (I'm guessing not--so many generations of ingenuity with potatoes). We had them with a big chopped salad--cabbage, cucumber, carrots, peppers and a squeeze of lime juice. We've enough of the salad today for lunch, but the bacon and potato cakes are all gone, so we'll have to come up with something to put with the salad. OH is cooking tonight, he has falafels, courgette lasagna and jacket spuds down on the menus. I'm guessing he'll choose the lasagna.

Today is a gym day for me, so I'll head over this afternoon when I finish with my work. It isn't supposed to rain, so I'll get started on climbing laundry mountain during my breaks. Maggie the cat will also be pleased. She loves going out in the back garden, but is only allowed out under supervision. Rainy days are the bane of her existence, and being a primarily indoor cat she never quite knows what to make of them. After a particularly damp romp yesterday she went to OH and made it clear she wanted to be toweled off :rotfl:.

I haven't seen any jam sugar locally. They tend to have it in Ald! around this time of year and sometimes our local Mr T gets it in. If I do see it soon I may have to re-direct one of my Wednesday walks towards one of the big SM. This may impact my grand jam schemes as carrying the sugar two miles rather than one is a good motivator for reducing my lines of production :rotfl::rotfl:.

Hugs to all who need them, and fingers crossed for Mila that Softstuff is right and there is buried treasure down there--enough to pay the plumber and have a holiday to recover at least!