Old Style Diary Archive - JUN 05

Curry_Queen

Sounds like we got a bunch of old washer women in here

Not been awake long and only on my first :coffee: of the morning so no idea yet how the day will transpire. Same old, same old no doubt

nicki_2

Up and did normal morning routine with DD which isn't very oldstyle at all unless you count letting the kids sort themselves out as much as possible as old style :rotfl:

Made a shopping list and went straight to Asda/Aldi when I had put DD in nursery. Only spent £9.62 in total, which includes putting £1 of PIN money on my Xmas clubcard, saving 40p using vouchers and finding 3p on the floor. I've managed to put another 77p into PIN money as well.

Just been out in the alleyway at the back of the house to find out what has been thrown over the wall last night apart from the clump of dried muck that nearly hit DD as it came into our garden :mad: Found nothing but decided to be cheeky and took a cutting from a climber that it over the wall from an overgrown garden. Just put it in some water in the hopes it might grow some roots.

Will be putting some washing in as soon as I get back from picking DD up. Arrrgggghhhhh have to leave now *rushes off*

MATH

7:00am Contacts IN
8:30am Kidz OUT
9:15am Washing IN
9:40am Washing OUT

Off down the shops now to SHAKE IT ALL ABOUT........BBBBBYYYYYEEEEE:D

rchddap1

Went to get my eyes checked out at the opticians and ended up spending £15...and not at the opticians either. Planning on making a fruit cake later for my grandad for father's day, so I needed some bits, and I was tempted by an offer in boots on some sun cream (seemed sensible looking at the weather). So it not money completely gone to waste.

As for my garden...OH ripped up my sick rosemary plant last night. It still wasn't happy and all the leaves were dying. Turned out the main stem of the plant was easy to break...so me thinks that it was dead anyway. But of course now I have an excuse to go shopping for a plant. Should get another rosemary really...

lou_martin

hi all

i'm stuck in the dreary office unlike you lucky lot going into your gardens on this lovely day.

Then it's home to a HUGE pile of ironing - anyone got any tips on how to make that dissappear??!!!

Y'all have a nice day now!

chrisico

I have just come back from having my hair cut at the local college,only £10 for a qualified hair dresser and all the 'condiments',conditioner,wax cup of tea included.
Second load of washing on the line,bread's made, thinking of putting breadmaker on again to make some tea cakes for afternoon tea. I shall also try out a new chutney recipe.
I'm about to go to Asda to see if Mr Walmart will take a whole load more coupons off me. I go most days for a few things and get rid of about £1.50 each day. These are newspaper coupons for Telegraph and Guardian.
I don't think I have time for a 'proper' job!!

catznine

lou_martin wrote:

hi all

i'm stuck in the dreary office unlike you lucky lot going into your gardens on this lovely day.

Then it's home to a HUGE pile of ironing - anyone got any tips on how to make that dissappear??!!!

Y'all have a nice day now!

I have been known to cover my ironing pile with a tablecloth and stick a potted plant on top!

LearningToSave.

currently listening to martin on talksport and putting my feet up

needmoney

catznine wrote:

I have been known to cover my ironing pile with a tablecloth and stick a potted plant on top!

That's really creative, kind of thing I would do:D

Queenie

nicki wrote:

Up and did normal morning routine with DD which isn't very oldstyle at all unless you count letting the kids sort themselves out as much as possible as old style :rotfl:

:think: ..... :think: Yup, that statement definately gets the "OS" tag in my book ... it's called: teaching them to be independant As for your *cutting* my mother used to that; nip the tips of shrubs etc., whenever she walked passed a garden with something she fancied poking out/over the fence and even at garden centre's!! LOL :think: she must have been very successful because in her retirement years, her garden was lush!!!

:hello: lou_martin ... hmmm, ironing pile - can't make it disappear for you but you could make the experience more tolerable by:-
~ delegating it to OH
~ putting your headphones on, taking it outside and doing it in the garden
~ shaking the creases out as soon as it comes out of the washing machine and folding it before it hits the ironing pile (I know, sounds obvious, hope I'm not teaching you to suck eggs, but even my own dd wasn't, until I pointed it out )
~ only ironing what is absolutely necessary!!

I've managed to get one more loaf baked (straight for the freezer) and two more wash loads out - even managed to bath the cat!! :rotfl: He is now sulking and sunning himself in the front porch
I've sorted out 2 drawers in the bedroom but got sidetracked by the phone Lost motivation now!
I've *withdrawn* :shhh: some of the unwatched video's to a deep recess in the understairs cupboard ready to add to my charity shop stash ... I'll give it another 4 weeks to see if anyone notices they've been moved first

I've still got to tackle a net curtain for one of my doors, but it may have to wait until another day ... do-I-don't-I LOL