Weekly Flylady Thread 15th October 2018

wishingthemortgaheaway

Will read along the start of the week (I also cheer you on even if I don't comment much) the. There will have to be a flurry of activity when I return home at the end of the week before the next trip away.

dancemum

Eek where does the time go. I will try to be in in my own fashion.
Dancegran’s foot is broken in 3 places.
DS2 has been on the attack again. SS have closed case from his made up story as no safeguarding issues.
Ds1 is happy in his new uni city.

Thank you for the lists x

We have a oak tree branch hanging off behind out gate so I need to try to contact the owner of the wood.

Master bed stripped. Will remake later as I have to take dancepops to his falls exercise class soon.

Hope everyone is well as I’m a lot behind with the thread

pigpen

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek:

In his head, I hope?

oh yes.. definitely in his head.. along with all the nuts!

kazwookie

I'm in, thank you for all the lists.

It is still raining here.
Kitchen is done
Lunch made for work

Laters x

ionafan

Morning all.

Great to see you, dancemum. It's good to know that your DS1 is happy, but I'm sending you more coping vibes re dancegran and DS2.

Pigpen :eek::eek::eek: That man is crazy. How you stay sane is beyond me.

Felicitations, Mademoiselle :beer:

Hope your head's better now, Jojo.

My achievements this weekend: the first of my 5 Christmas puds is cooked (most to be stored for future years, unless my children decide to claim one each ), and I have sorted out the plan for my birthday celebration to everyone's satisfaction

I have got another busy week ahead of me. I'm away at a conference on Wednesday and Thursday (but it should give me a lot of useful ideas for my work) so Rosie will be off to kennels for 48 hours and DH will be left on his own and reliant on taxis.

To do today:
- fly a bit from the list (thank you Valli)
- strip our bed, wash bedding, re-make bed
- WMx3
- cook at least 2 more puds (I use my SC)
- cut back overgrown shrub by front door before new window cleaner arrives
- make a big batch of veg soup for lunches from some of our purchases at the harvest auction: I've got enough F&V in the house to open my own shop Definitely cutting back on meat this week: fortunately I also have plenty of lentils, pearl barley, rice and pasta
- prepare a course unit that I'm leading tomorrow afternoon
- do prep for the course I'm attending tomorrow evening
- sort out packing for 2 days away for me and Rosie
- sort out a list of meals for DH.

I need to make an enormous effort on slinkiness, as the cakes and puds production line going full pelt over the past couple of weeks has meant lots of tasting, and it shows! I must remember that conference coffee and cakes won't help

(((Hugs))) spoons and sticks all round, as needed xx

wishingthemortgaheaway

Ionafan: please share you slow cooker Christmas pud skills. Sounds far less risky than the usual method.

Thank you.
Wish.

ionafan

wishingthemortgaheaway wrote: »

Ionafan: please share you slow cooker Christmas pud skills. Sounds far less risky than the usual method.

This works for any kind of steamed pud. Make pud to your usual recipe. Transfer mix to old-fashioned white pudding bowls (throw out any with obvious cracks!) or small pyrex bowls that will fit in your SC. I butter/oil the bowl lightly and also place a small circle (or, rather, a square because I'm [STRIKE]lazy[/STRIKE] economic with time) of non-stick baking parchment in the bottom before adding the pudding mix, to ensure that the pud comes out whole. Cover the bowl with a large piece of non-stick parchment, with a pleat across the centre to allow for the pudding swelling - no need to grease this - and tie with ordinary parcel string. If you've made several Christmas puds from one batch, keep them in the fridge until ready to cook. (You can't keep multiple sponge puds like this because the raising agent loses its oomph after a while.)

Place bowl in SC, add boiling water to about 1 inch below the rim of the bowl. High heat until the water is simmering nicely and steam is rising (about half an hour), then reduce heat. Go away and do something else for at least 4 hours, or even overnight, depending on the size of the pud. Turn SC off and leave until water is cool before removing the pud.

Please remember not to tip the water down the drain without straining it, as a lot of fat leaches out of Christmas puds, and you don't want to create a fatberg :cool:

I wrap the cold puds in thick freezer bags - you can remove them from the bowl first if you wish - and store in the freezer for anything up to 3 years. I would keep them even longer if they didn't get eaten so quickly!

Progress so far:
- pud no.2 cooking
- kitchen S&S'd
- bed stripped
- washing sorted, WMx1 on the go
- shrub pruned
- kitchen compost bin emptied
- lift arranged for tomorrow night

Off to deal with bathroom Levels 1 and 2, then make soup and work while it's cooking.

LameWolf

Ye gods and little fishes Piggers that [STRIKE]man[/STRIKE] douche-bag is 100% certifiable. What does Moomin herself think of his latest offering?

Luckily, I blitzed the bathroom yesterday. Not so luckily, I got rather too enthusiastic whilst blitzing the bathroom yesterday, and am no use to man nor beast today.

wishingthemortgaheaway

ionafan wrote: »

This works for any kind of steamed pud. Make pud to your usual recipe. Transfer mix to old-fashioned white pudding bowls (throw out any with obvious cracks!) or small pyrex bowls that will fit in your SC. I butter/oil the bowl lightly and also place a small circle (or, rather, a square because I'm [STRIKE]lazy[/STRIKE] economic with time) of non-stick baking parchment in the bottom before adding the pudding mix, to ensure that the pud comes out whole. Cover the bowl with a large piece of non-stick parchment, with a pleat across the centre to allow for the pudding swelling - no need to grease this - and tie with ordinary parcel string. If you've made several Christmas puds from one batch, keep them in the fridge until ready to cook. (You can't keep multiple sponge puds like this because the raising agent loses its oomph after a while.)

Place bowl in SC, add boiling water to about 1 inch below the rim of the bowl. High heat until the water is simmering nicely and steam is rising (about half an hour), then reduce heat. Go away and do something else for at least 4 hours, or even overnight, depending on the size of the pud. Turn SC off and leave until water is cool before removing the pud.

Please remember not to tip the water down the drain without straining it, as a lot of fat leaches out of Christmas puds, and you don't want to create a fatberg :cool:

I wrap the cold puds in thick freezer bags - you can remove them from the bowl first if you wish - and store in the freezer for anything up to 3 years. I would keep them even longer if they didn't get eaten so quickly!

Progress so far:
- pud no.2 cooking
- kitchen S&S'd
- bed stripped
- washing sorted, WMx1 on the go
- shrub pruned
- kitchen compost bin emptied
- lift arranged for tomorrow night

Off to deal with bathroom Levels 1 and 2, then make soup and work while it's cooking.

That's amazing. Thank you.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Ergh. Busy, busy, busy (as always) on very little sleep, then a Fire Alarm malfunctioned, then a busy afternoon - and then an hour enduring a low quality, fairly graphic lecture upon the subject of Domestic Violence, mumbled and simultaneously garbled through at warp speed. Classy bit of audience questioning 'How do you tell if somebody in this room has been a victim of Domestic Abuse?'. Lots of comments about bruises and crying. And some looking around to see if they could tell. And one 'person' at the back, twitching and feeling immensely uncomfortable, muttering to nobody else but themselves 'they don't want to be in this s*dding training session' :cool:


Followed by an online training session on terrorism, which consisted of a very grumpy person putting the subtitles on for the videos and rapidly clicking through everything as soon as was possible, just to get to the end, print out the completion certificate and get the hell out of the building. And leaving like a rat out a drainpipe whilst the others were still staring blankly at their videos on the screens.



Himself is making some sort of bitzer meal with homemade wedges. It's close enough to chips to be good. Assuming there is salt, vinegar and more than five of the things.


I am not a contented and happy person this evening.