Put away your purse & become debt-averse

Four_Seasons

Best of luck at dentist. Your fur babies sound as if they are settling well x

Alchemilla

Good luck with your gnashers. Keep your eyes closed!
Are Soot and Ash partners from before you got them, or from separate homes?

Honeysucklelou2

Caught up on your diary Foxgloves - great news about your new feline additions. Hope the dentist is able to sort out the tooth /nerve problem.

I did smile to read about the cookery lessons...thankfully I was blessed with 2 grandmothers who both cooked from scratch who taught me much and a mum who didn’t mind me experimenting in the kitchen when I was a child. My mum was utterly horrified by my first secondary  school cookery lesson which was how to make a packet mix Victoria Sponge!

scandimore

Just caught up with your diary, hope dentist went ok and so lovely to hear about the new furries. Hope the boys settle in soon.

Tescodealqueen

Hope the dentist can sort out tooth issues

HairyHandofDartmoor

Ash and Soot sound like they're starting to settle. Are they black cats by any chance? I love a black cat  🐱🐱.

Good luck at the dentist, thank goodness you got an appointment.

foxgloves

Lol, @Honeysucklelou2 - Packet sponge mix! Our first secondary school cookery lesson was 'Eggs mornay'. It was hardboiled eggs cut in half lengthways, arranged in one of those ubiquitous 1970s Pyrex dishes. We then made a cheese sauce which we poured over the top, sprinkled a little grated cheese over the top & put in the oven until it was bubbling. I can't recall ever cooking this again, but it did teach me how to make a decent cheese sauce from scratch, so that was useful. 
F x

foxgloves

Evening m'dears,
Thanks for all your good wishes re the evil tooth & the new furries, who are just tucking into fishy chunks atm.
@HairyHandofDartmoor - Yes, one is black, the other silver.
Emergency dentist consultation was v useful. The pain is receding & we are going with a 'watch & wait' plan atm, but with the irrefutable knowledge that this tooth will need extracting at some point. In the meantime, I am going to research my limited options for when the tooth does come out, the best of which will be an implant (or two). I haven't needed any painkillers yet today, which is positive, anyway.
On our way home, we swung by the Big Tempting Garden Centre for lunch. As Budgeter-in-Chief, I thought it was the least I could do, seeing as poor Mr F's day off had thus far involved digging a trench for burying used cat litter & taking his whimpering wife to the dentist! A thick pall of fog has hung over our part of the world all day. It was thick on the way to the city for the dentist & thicker on our way out. We actually drove straight past the garden centre, as the visibility was so poor, we didn't see it...... despite it being huge!
Am now sitting by the stove sewing up my blanket. I have 12 more squares to stitch together. That row needs attaching to the 2nd half of the blanket, then the two halves need stitching together. January does feel like a time to stop procrastinating & get projects finished, doesn't it?
Right, I'm going to see who has been good & eaten their fishy chunks.
Stay cosy & do take care if you have to drive out in this bad fog.
F xx

foxgloves

@Alchemilla - No, both new fur friends from the same Rescue, but one I think was handed in by someone who could no longer have pets & the other one was a stray. 
F

Sun_Addict

The first thing I had to make in cookery at school was a quiche and I have always detested eggs. My mum didn’t eat cheese so it went straight in the bin once I got it home. What a waste.

The kitties sound as though they’re settling in well. 

Tooth sounding positive, hopefully it will be a while before intervention is required.

Very foggy all day here too.