O/S Daily Tuesday 12th May 2015

nmlc

O/S Daily Tuesday 12th May 2015


This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come in, put your feet up (although check the fence hasn’t just been painted first!) and join us for an Old Style natter. The more the merrier!

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Some people who chat here like to try to answer everyone. Don’t feel you have to though, a general “hi everyone, hope everyone’s well” is fine

nmlc

Morning everyone

Birthday wishes to those celebrating a birthday, hope you have a great day x

Hugs and get well wishes to those that want/need them.

Now light, cloudy and a bit overcast but hopefully it’ll warm up – yesterday started the same and then was glorious. WM has something wrong with it – it’s become really really noisy when spinning and I’m getting what looks like rust marks on some clothes, have an engineer coming out tomorrow as have an extended warranty on it.

DH up and gone to work stupid early. DS1 now getting ready for work. Will wake DS2 shortly, so he can get ready for school.

Dinner last night was egg, bacon, sausage, mushrooms and beans, ice cream or yogurt for dessert. Tonight we’ll be having roasted veg tart, jacket potatoes, HM coleslaw, cous cous and chicken dippers for the menfolk.

Work was as expected, but then did have a while in the afternoon where we managed to catch up but we turned several people away and also some didn’t want to wait when told how many people were in the queue in front of them. Expecting it to be busy today as loads are coming back, deep joy!

Keep safe and well x

nmlc x

Gers

Good morning everyone.

Raining here but it's brightening up already. Yesterday the weather was just weird, bright and very windy with two very sudden and very hard rain bursts. From sunshine to torrential rain in five seconds.

In the afternoon there were two huge Hercules planes in the sky. They trundled past very slowly and then one suddenly had about seven blokes parachuted out of it! No idea who or why.

My online course started well yesterday and I zoomed through one of the seven modules. I know more than I thought I did. Always good. Will do more today.

There are a bunch of swallows sitting on the BT wire attached to the house which is just outside the bedroom window. If I lie flat I can see them.

Right, will start my dat soon. Roofer spent a long time in the attached steading doing pointing, if the weather stays clear he'll start on the front roof were it joins the main house.

Hope everyone has a good day.

camelot1001

Morning All

Quite bright here but very windy, yesterday turned out to be ok after a damp start, let's see how many seasons we can have today!

Had to go shopping last night for things I can't get at Ald!, went to Asd@ and it was fairly quiet at 8pm, must remember that. A friend's Dad died on Friday so got her some flowers from a few of us and dropped them off, didn't get home till about 9pm, had only been home to cook DD some tea. It seemed like a very long day.

Anyway, I slept quite well and my legs aren't as sore this morning, must go for a good walk this evening to loosen them off.

Not sure what's for tea today, will look in the freezer. I have salad for lunch and DD has a training day so gets fed - always a bonus!

Hope you all have a good day, take care. XX

redruby

Morning all,


Bright beautiful day here same as yesterday was really warm only needed a t-shirt all day twas lovely !


Off to work for me at the nicer site today so will enjoy that a bit more, need to do an online shop tonight as still not done it.


Salmon for dinner with salad and new potatoes so a nice quick meal, and I need to have a hoover round downstairs.


Mum is starting to move a few bits in this week to her new house, hopefully by next weekend she will be mainly in there, she is so excited bless her, 5 months is a long time without a home of your own !


Right better get on, have good days all xx

dumpling

Good morning everyone :hello:

It's a bit rainy this morning but it's supposed to brighten up later which will be nice for me as I am supposed to go out with my support worker this afternoon. Don't know where we will end up today as I don't really want to go out after a stressy day yesterday.

I've taken out some fish to make a fish pie for tea, I expect there will be some moaning but we haven't had it for absolutely ages and I really like it. I will probably do some green beans to go with it too.

The fridge freezer has gone hooray! The delivery guys were a bit grumpy as it was very difficult to get it out of the house but once it had left the building, I heaved a sigh of relief and made a medicinal cup of tea .

I sorted out my notebooks this morning, I have a slight obsession with collecting beautiful books but I never know what to write in them. I have a daily book in which I put meal plans and a recipe book in which I write recipes from this website that catch my eye but I don't really know what else to do with them.

Well, that's all my waffle for now, hope you all have a great day whatever you are up to, take care xx

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Good Morning chums ,beautiful day at the moment in the Garden of Kent, how long it lasts who knows But dry and bright at least .I have a chair chap coming to see if he can repair my recliner chair as thespring 'pinged' the other night so the footrest is just floppy and won't stay down.Got to be cheaper than buying a new recliner(hopefully)
DGS Jack is doing his GCSE in science this morning so I am going to make him a victoria sponge cake ,it apparently has extremely recouperative powers when you are doing exams :):) (according to jack anyway ) plus Mikey is doing his SATS this week at school.
In my capacity of Grandma I am there to soothe fevered brows and give lots of There, There's out :):)to stressed little boys .
Quiz night tonight so I don't have to cook for myself,lunch will be salad and cold cooked cumberland sausage that is in the fridge and needs using up today.
I have to phone EDF as well today to ask for some of the £265 overpayment that's on my account for the end of the year.I see no reason why they should hang onto so much of my cash for another year just in case I may use it !!! I wouldn't overpay sainsburys by that amount just in case the price of food went up in the coming year :0
Have a good day everyone what ever you are doing
JackieO xxx

carolbee

Morning all

Quick cuppa and a catch up on here after swimming this morning.

DH at allotment playing with bean sticks, I'm making cake for our trip to an English Heritage house tomorrow.

But grey and windy down here now after calm and blue sky start.

Have a good day all and hugs to those that want and need them

elona

Seem to have hurt my back moving mattress topper and legs are really stiff so walking rather like a crab!!!:eek:

Trying to take things easy but had to drag bin out for collection this morning ( must remember gravel surface is not ideal).

Phone lawyer to ask for certified copy of will to send with other docs to DH's company pension people. Waiting in for someone who was supposed to arrive at ten this morning to do the garden but no sign so far.

Washing machine has just finished and dishwasher is loaded and had a quick shower and shampoo early this morning. Scrambled egg and toast for breakfast and need to clear out the fridge as much as possible to make room for buffet food on Saturday after the service.

Hugs to all

LameWolf

Just having a motivating cup of coffee before putting all the recipe books back on the kitchen shelf; it was a two-person task putting the shelf back up, so I got Mr LW to help me do that last night, but the rest, including putting the meds cupboard back up, I can do myself.

The meds cupboard is the old bathroom cupboard (replaced with a larger one when I moved in here) but instead of ditching the old one, I use it to keep our prescription meds, separate from everything else. I have 6 items on prescription, and Mr LW now has 3, so they need a cupboard of their own.

So that's the two big walls in the kitchen all nicely repainted; we still have the rest to do, which is going to be fiddly, time-consuming and tiring, but we're getting there.

System

Afternoon all,

a later post from me today. Ive been to see Mom. She's unwell with another UTI and although she's on antibiotics she's sleepy.

My brothers fianc! has been making waves. They have provided a chair for Mom to sit in. One look at it and I knew it wouldn't be suitable. Its too big and Mom is a small woman. The arms are too wide, the seat is too deep. Not surprising, Mom doesn't like it. She needs something around her to comfort her.

The girls are doing well with the fund raising. They raised £3000 yesterday and have more contacts for similar events. Pictures are here:

https://www.facebook.com/houseofloveandhope

Popped into the library on the way back. Last time I used the library was 10 years ago so ive had to rejoin. Disgusted to see the non fiction section has shrunk to make way for books written in other languages.

Took me ages to walk back from Moms..... Need to give myself a kick up the backside. Back to healthy, calorie controlled meals and get my stamina back to what it was at least.

Onwards and forwards,

have a great day all.