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Pippilongstocking

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Glad you're back Pippi - your epic lists make mine seem tiny and achievable :j :j :rotfl: :rotfl:

I shall experiment with your root-veg-in-water tip, although they are destined for soup pretty shortly anyway. And I fear it won't get rid of the mould :rotfl: :rotfl:

Pah to pesky paperwork. HOw vexing. Sounds like you need some kind of admin assistant, not a dog walker! :rotfl:

Post us a pancake if nobody gets up to eat them

Hows yiu both!/lobs a pancake.

Well i went to the charity shop and out fir lunch.

Ha ha most productive!!!

rtandon27

Happy Welcome back from the land across the pond! Glad to hear you had a fabby time!

We kept the virtual kitchen warm & ready for you

Still working on our use it up from the stores challenge! - not food hoarders by nature but have been blessed with lots of gifted items for the stores that needs to be incorporated into our meal plans! (some of it is a bit unusual for us so takes thought to use up!)

Cheery_Daff

Well I WAS working on my use-it-up challenge until I found WEEVILS in the dried soup mix stuff this morning :eek: Not had them before :eek: No idea whether they were in there when I made soup with it last weekend :rotfl:

I've chucked that (felt guilty but it's been in there over five years (!) and even I didn't fancy eating it with things crawling in it - although I guess I could have rinsed them off :rotfl: ) Fortunately (fingers crossed) they don't seem to be in anything else... but it's as good an excuse as any to clean the cupboards and pack more stuff I suppose. A job for tomorrow!

rtandon27

Cheery - :eek::eek::eek: to Weevils! - chucking it out is the best decision!

BTW - don't worry overly about last week - if you must think about it just be grateful for a bit of extra protein!

Pippilongstocking

rtandon27 wrote: »

Happy Welcome back from the land across the pond! Glad to hear you had a fabby time!

We kept the virtual kitchen warm & ready for you

Still working on our use it up from the stores challenge! - not food hoarders by nature but have been blessed with lots of gifted items for the stores that needs to be incorporated into our meal plans! (some of it is a bit unusual for us so takes thought to use up!)

Thank you and the country of which I saw a very limited amount was amazing.

We've got similar things here chum arrived with a couple of crates of near end date storecupboard stuff for us - mostly 'ingredients' so we'll see what we can make up lot of head scratching here.

Goodluck to you too!

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Well I WAS working on my use-it-up challenge until I found WEEVILS in the dried soup mix stuff this morning :eek: Not had them before :eek: No idea whether they were in there when I made soup with it last weekend :rotfl:

I've chucked that (felt guilty but it's been in there over five years (!) and even I didn't fancy eating it with things crawling in it - although I guess I could have rinsed them off :rotfl: ) Fortunately (fingers crossed) they don't seem to be in anything else... but it's as good an excuse as any to clean the cupboards and pack more stuff I suppose. A job for tomorrow!

I think we can all agree food with bugs in is no longer really fit to eat and considering we'd like you healthy I think that's perfectly OK. The chicken however I will not tell, she loves a bit of bugs in her grub.

I'm sure if they were there last week in your soup, you might have seen them swimming.:rotfl:

rtandon27 wrote: »

Cheery - :eek::eek::eek: to Weevils! - chucking it out is the best decision!

BTW - don't worry overly about last week - if you must think about it just be grateful for a bit of extra protein!

thats the spirit.

Pippilongstocking

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

That is some list! Best of luck with it!

Reviewing now, and thanks I think I'll need it. Jet lag means up earlier so here's hoping today I can do more than dig a few tatties up and lollop.

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

List for contemplation and potentially some moderate action.

Food related
Meal plan done one day
Sort out fridge and cupboard
Portion up soup brewing
Freeze sour milk:T froze this and chum asked me to show her how to make 12 minute scones today so its now 'unfrozen' ready and waiting. :rotfl:
Check on on bread purchases and freeze anything looking pathetic. Nothing pathetic in there
Something yummy for tea tonight potentially premature roast dinner - ended up late afternoon lunch out so sandwiches for tea :T I know how to treat my visitors. :rotfl:
Veg from garden (tatties and J artichokes, the odd stray shallot) dug and ready for action

Hoose related
Hoover
Logs to top up
Kindles to do same
Wash floor
Quick swipe bathrooms
Washing fold and away one more load to get rid of holiday clobber we have caught up.:T
Skis, boots, gubbins and bags away in attic under review himself thinks as we are away in April this is pointless, I shall remind him of this when I stub my toes.
Gear in storage box (attic was making it mouldy) and away :T
Start researching cleaners as I fear they are not telepathic (texted pal who uses a local service)
Check dug food and any non-food essentials (we need brillo pads for sure) we need both. Will either do a HB run or an online order.
DH put up new knife rack
Order extractor for kitchen
Contact painter
Find out about the 4m tall whizzy ladders, if too expensive keep borrowing from work
See what other decluttering I can do two bags clothes, a duvet cover, a duvet and a wee hob and DD's wee jellycat dolls all going oop north with pal. passing on the love to her GD
Freezer to reuse place, fridge (friend taken) too and old chair
Think about looking for a table soon for kitchen which isnt size of a small continent
Repair curtain hook in lounge which appears to have been wrenched from wall again (pesky visitors and they're superhuman muscles)


Finances
Update spreadsheet with work spends/expenses
Timesheets to wages on Monday [updated will take in on Mon]
Contact NCIS re payments required - there is a chance I can appeal, but do I want to find out more (£208.96 bill) !!!!!!?!
Same re second letter from SE 2010-2015 all are submitted and thought were OK (£730.80 bill) second WTFlyingF?!?!
Email DWP about different bill for £119 (? again has someone gone crazy with my paperwork? letter in post this am says to do nothing as this was a mistake. :eek: gotta love those in charge of our pensions. :eek: I may send them a calculator and some instructions:D
Check DD/DS re money this month, all should be OK but touch base both fab clever kidlets.
Pay £100 to DH for holibub contribution, he's very good and gives me 0% interest, for washing his socks.
Cost dog walkers/cleaners and do budget perhaps think about contacting them, again both are not telepathic
Check at work if its possible to make a 'dug bedroom' in one of the buildings we use, save dog walker expense?
Same for roofer
Mortgage is 15 years 9 months can we overpay something this month
Sort paperwork id required for joint account in town ON IT
Refund $CAD40 I found in my sallies pocket or research how to do this where gives best rate, how did I miss that? (I took it to town and then took it home unactioned does that count?):rotfl:

Family and fun
Touch base with DD re a visit/meal catch up not seen her since NZ
Skype DS in France, sort him a wee parcel with few treats (he's ace and thinking up treats.)
Pancakes for post holiday disorder DH for brekkie + maple syrup although this may make things worse. (ready but no one is up)
Garden with a chum and dig her up loads herbs/plants to help her with a sale in April whilst she is here with a car
Natter to hen whilst cleaning her out ask if she's like to start laying more than one egg a week
Dig up some tatties
Look at bulbs emerging from earth
Charity shops with pal?:j three tops one pair jeans, large white porcelin bowl and a lovely double duvet set for under £20 (I have a strict one in one out policy so two duvets same amount of clothes and a dish are bagged for recycling to charity shop or pal if she wishes.)
Make a nice tea for us all I buttered bread and adorned a plate with crisps /hostess of the year 2017 :rotfl:
Walk hounds
Move free wood up the garden to chopping stack. TONIGHT
Date night with chum on wed, find cc card see what vouchers we have and take it from there.
Organise meet up with pal with babbies
Organise date night with OH to see T2
Organise date night with SIL soon
Book flights for April trip and check out cheap accommodation post snowdrop madness recuperation
Find mutt/house sitter for said escape start putting feelers out (Emailed round some chums)
feed birds and then watch them with a cup of something


Yuk stuff
De poop garden
Pull up some nettles
Get rid of carp in wheel barrow
Declutter greenhouse
Sort car for work

There will likely be more but tis a fine list.

So not much progress but a bit.



Lots of nattering and slobbing did occur though.

:T

Cheery_Daff

Excellent progress, well done! :j :j

Was less concerned about eating weevils and more concerned about having unnecessarily killed them all :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: big softy

cazmanian_minx

Cheery, I'm like that when I'm moving rotted manure from the muck heap to the vegetable patch - all the worms have to be carefully scooped out of the wheelbarrow and put into their new home rather than accidentally leaving any in the barrow where they'll dry out!

Off to make a rather smaller list than Pippi's for today...

rtandon27

quote thingy not working!:mad:

...you said something about pancakes & maple syrup?!?

...I'M UP! Fork & knife in hand! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

troglodyte

Pancakes consumed here too, yum!


Soup mix with added grubs our chooks would have loved that!


Pippi I can't believe that epic list - it would take me all day to even write a list that long never mind do the things on it!