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O/S Daily Tuesday 9 February 2021
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Good Morning everyone. Nice dusting of snow here yesterday and doggo had a great play in it last night with the kids and me catching snowballs! Lunch is using up one of the many packs of instant noodles with added extra chilli sauce and an egg - just the thing to keep warm in front of the Aga!
Had a good chat with mum and dad yesterday but not much work done apart from the essentials!
A few admin things to take care of by phone this morning but no luck at all in getting any money back for DS on his halls accommodation - its such a shame as its a lot of money for him to have a room there that he cannot use (and why would he when they have no face to face learning planned) anyhoo....
Dinner was carbonara using up the cream and bacon from the freezer and put a steak and kidney casserole in this morning which we will have with dumplings tomorrow, tonight will be sweet potato katsu curry with whatever random veg I can use up.
I have a few zoom meetings later today - oh joy!
Hope everyone has a good day....
SamGrocery Spend 2021 - £386 (Jan), £248 so far (Feb)
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Morning all, sunny and freezing today, literally. Oh had a phone call, second interview successful so he starts a job in March which gives him the rest of February to play with his XBox...Today is more of the same for me, crochet, think of something to chuck together for food. Yesterdays offering was a pasta in sausge and cream sauce [ the cream expiry was Janary1st but in the stasis of our fridge, it was still fine- that means the buttermilk is also probably fine so can look for some recipes for that after] with enough garlic in it [ the garlic was also present already in the sausages] to make ourselves unlikely to be bitten by vampires. I've just had four phone calls from the doc. She kept ringing back to ask more questions about stuff [new tablets need prescribing and blood test results, all normal, she was just double triple quadruple checking] by the third time, I was ready for the next one....tru, when my friend finished paying her mortgage she kept the money that would have amounted to the mortage payment the next month and bought champagne and had a garden party to celbrate. Not possible just yet but in the future..?.And me and the OH are tyring to surpise each other just so we can say the cung cung, which just makes us really childish....Scarlet, I love the light at the end of the tunnel explanation, made me laugh, I've never heard that before..Ruby, that's a good idea re the testing. Marie hasn't been on since Jan 11th...Gers, you have fallen down the rabbit hole.Step away from the ktichen
Hope you're all doing OK,or at least not not OK, hugs if you need them, or even if you don't need them because hugs are cool. Stay safe....
I edited it because parts of it made no sense at all.....
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Hi everyone, thank you nmlc for the new thread. Thinking of Ruby and Marie and all that are struggling with health, worry and weariness.
Not long back from having my Astra-Zenneca vaccination, top marks to my GP surgery for the organisation of it, especially as it only opened this morning. Injection done by one of the doctors and back outside in the car park in 15 minutes, lots of lovely smiling volunteers from a local charity doing the marshalling.
Still at sixes and sevens here, wall and floor drying out nicely (2 large dehumidifiers going 24 hours a day - not thinking about the leccy bill), builders due back tomorrow to fix things back up.
Sunny and bright and lots of big flakes to snow intermittently again today, but not laid on the ground, should be OK for a walk with OH and Ddog after lunch, must fit in some more sorting of "stuff" too.
Take care all.The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. (Abraham Lincoln)12 -
Hi everyone,Now I def do not recommend it as a cure for insomnia
, but since having C19 I have been sleeping really well, most unlike me, even after having a nod during the day. Obviously not much news, DH has popped out to pay one of his work accounts, and drop this quarters VAT off at the accountants. We may pop to the shops this afternoon to get a few bits, the excitement may get too much as I've not been anywhere since before Xmas
Scarlett I've got a couple of new dies that I want to play with tooDGD is coming tomorrow for a bit of moral support with her home schooling, we've not seen her for 3 weeks so I'm looking forward to that, just hope I have the stamina!Right bye for now and keep well everyone xx:heartsmil 'A woman is like a teabag: You never know her strength until you drop her in hot water'. (Eleanor Roosevelt)13 -
Taff - congratulations to your OH, thats such good news.My foray into the kitchen was not to empty the pantry, though I know the need to do that is still looming large in my mind. I spotted a jar of red lentils (amongst the many other jars of 'things' on the top shelf so have made a pot of lentil and pancetta soup. The pancetta was a little over it's BB date but it's smoked. It all tastes lovely, the only downside is when I came to blitz it a bit (not all of it) I found that DM's stick blender is all in one so can only rinse it / wipe it being careful to not wet the plug bit. How I miss my own things.My new mini chopper is on its way, scheduled for delivery today though I suspect it may not come. Having said that my new pillow has just been delivered, I'm finding it difficult to get comfortable with the pillows I have here. My old favourite, which had a firmer inner core with a down surround, has given up the ghost so I've plumped for a cool-gel one. Fingers crossed it helps as it was half an arm and leg to buy.After I've fed DM I'm going to make some no-knead-no-yeast bread to go with the soup tonight, then I may make a yeasted bread dough to leave overnight. Maybe!I hope that everyone is safe from the weather and safe from the virus. I off to read about the new fines and threats of imprisonment just been announced.12
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Afternoon everyone
Little one stayed here last night and was very excited to see a covering of snow this morning - we had to check it was outside every window! I took her out in it and she had a lovely play for almost an hour - there were some older kids playing so she joined in with them and 'helped' to build a snowman and had a turn on their sledge. 'Faster boy faster' she shouted....sitting like a little princess!
She's asleep now - we might go back out later if she wants to.
No other news - it's a good job I've got a 2 year old to keep me company!
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Here in Kent - the sky has changed from white to blue with clouds and some sunshine but bitterly cold so snow is lingering. Staying in as very slippery out. Finished the ordered poncho and started another. I crochet while watching You Tube and old films - we gave up TV when our area went digital years ago. We live in a dip so Free view wasn't going to be workable and didn't want to pay for S.. We didn't watch much TV anyway. Feel like doing some sewing so need to crack on and clear the yarn off my craft table to give myself somewhere to work. I got some lovely fabric from a shop that is closing down - £3 metre - plan to make children's aprons to raise funds for Salvation Army. Hope everyone has the best day that they are able to have.Decluttering Achieved - 2023 - 10,364 Decluttering - 2024 - 8,365 August - 0/45
GC NSD 2023 - 242/365
2023 Craft Makes - 245 Craft Spends 2023 - £676.03/£400
Books read - 2023 - 37
GC - 2024 4 Week Period £57.82/£100 NSD - 138
2024 Craft Makes - 240 Craft Spends 2024 £426.80/£50013 -
Gers, I know what you mean about lacking the final kick up the backside, I'm the same.7
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ScarletRibbons said:Gers, I know what you mean about lacking the final kick up the backside, I'm the same.
It's sheer boredom which has motivated me today, as a natural sloth this overload of slothness is too much. The no-knead-no-yeast bread isn't much cop. Its be good if I were stuck in a little bothy up a hill in a snowstorm and would starve to death unless I ate this damper kind of bread. I've now got a Paul Hollywood recipe loaf in the oven, it needs a little water bath underneath so create steam so I'll be interested in how it turns out. The Dutch whisk was wonderful to use, so much easier than using a wooden spoon or spatula.
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