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SL don't wash curtains! just hoover them
I'll also happily eat all the carbs right now- Mortgage: 1st one down, 2nd also busted
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@LadyGnome I love the sound of that. I just googled and found this recipe - I even have some (Dutch supermarket purchased) Sambal Oelek - I think I would make it with a few more vegetables - what did you do?
@trix-a-belle - I will try but I think they will need more than that. The linings are already longer then the curtains so it will be cold water with only the merest suggestion of detergent and lots of flapping and stretching of the curtain material afterwardsSave £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
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That’s very similar to the one I use. I add peppers too. You sort of forget that the cauliflower is a vegetable when you eat it.MortgageStart Nov 2012 £310,000
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I should add that I am quite happy to use curry powder and lime juice in place of sambal oelek. It's a slightly different flavour but lets face it curry and cauliflower is a very happy combination.MortgageStart Nov 2012 £310,000
Oct 2022 £143,277.74
Reduction £166,722.26
OriginalEnd Sept 2034 / Current official end Apr 2032 (but I have a cunning plan...)
2022 MFW #78 £10200/£12000
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Thanks for the tip @LadyGnomeFashion on a ration 2025 0/66 coupons spent
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trix-a-belle said:SL don't wash curtains! just hoover them
I'll also happily eat all the carbs right now
Enjoy all your bee meetings!2023: the year I get to buy a car4 -
I am too ashamed of the curtains to post a picture but definitely beyond just vacuuming!
I posted on Cheery's diary that we have a low water pressure issue and I reported it. The kitchen tap no longer fires the boiler, so to get hot water you have to turn on the tap in the loo adjacent to the boiler and then that fires it, wait for it to get hot then turn off the toilet tap with the kitchen tap running so it picks up then.
Anyway they came and tested it and were appalled how low it is. So yesterday out came a crew (much sitting in van for an hour, trying to locate the main on their tablets) they eventually dug a big hole around our meter (removed, as the tester could not get it back in), and elected to follow the blue main pipe back to their main (all in their space) which is in the middle of the road. The road is still traffic light controlled today and the text this morning suggests it is going to be 22nd before it is resolved.
In the meantime the banjo (seal or fastener?) above the ferrule has been replaced and things have been flushed. The pressure is much better - we can even run hot and cold taps at the same time upstairs! - I had almost forgotten the tap in the kitchen has a spray setting as it has been little more than a trickle for so long. Unfortunately the toilet tap has some sort of restrictor that makes the spray fast and fine, is so fast and fine that it makes the floor wet now. Ho hum!
I will have to get my car out (very narrow gap) before this evening, when traffic increases, if the hole gang don't come back.
Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
My new diary is here6 -
It all sounds very interesting and clearly quite complicated. It's great that you've get improved water pressure (hopefully!), but not so great about the traffic lights and hole!Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway5 -
Wow - definitely ongoing, and definitely going to be a big improvement for you if they sort it all.
As far as the curtains are concerned, mine are back up now, having been shaken a bit plus daubed with water (they ended up on the mud that is my grass!).
Good luck with your water saga2023: the year I get to buy a car4 -
Well we got all excited when a traffic management flatbed truck turned up and sat within the zone outside the house that is between the traffic lights - but he just used it as a place to sleep and when we left for our bee meeting at about 6.15pm he was stretched out across the front seats (asleep). He obviously woke up and left at some point as he had gone when we got back at about 9.45pm. The hole, railings and traffic controls are all still in place though.
We also had a call about our van which has been in the garage since the tax expired at the end of November (they were treating it as an in-between job) but there was no quiet month in January (no doubt because of the six month extension to MOT deadlines in lockdown). So it is in the workshop now.
Well, it turns out the tunnels that the front suspension springs sit in needed to be replaced on at least one side (turns out it is both) and when they removed them, the wheel arches were so rusty they are basically unusable, so more new parts and welding to do. DH took the call and agreed the work. It is looking like £2.5k instead of £1.7k now, but basically it has to be done or the van is an ex van. We are expecting to have to replace the vehicle and both leisure batteries too! I hope we get lots of use out of it...Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
My new diary is here7
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