So close, we can smell mortgage freedom!

themadvix

No, they did an x-ray - one of the bones in the top of the hand relating to the little finger.

Suffolk_lass

When my former partner broke his, he started with a traditional cast and then had a fibre-glass cast for 12 weeks. He broke his scaphoid (snuff bone), which often does not heal as we get older, apparently. IT was very nasty and stinky after 12 weeks and a huge relief for all when it was removed

themadvix

That sounds grim SL. I hope they can make her more comfortable than she is (she wakes up panicking in the night at the moment), but not at the cost of her getting it healed properly. We did have a fairly frank conversation about this this morning when I spoke to her and she says she's not going to be silly but the way she is talking is worrying. (Also worried she's setting herself up for disappointment when they do have to put it in a proper cast.)

themadvix

Morning all,

Had a lovely hm (and largely hg) pizza for dinner last night - with spinach and the last of the sweet peppers. Then we moved onto prepping the curry sauce base for dinner on Saturday - caramelising the onions took a lot longer than the book said, but we do now have a lovely smelling sauce - some of which will go into the dishes for tomorrow night, but quite a bit of which will go into the freezer, which is good. I'm just trying to work out what's best to freeze it in. A large silicone ice cube tray would be good, but I don't have anything like that. I may check the hardware store shortly (they sell everything), but if not, I'll either find something tomorrow if we go to the nearby market town (Mr MV wants to look at a suit shop there) or maybe order some online.

It's been murky here this morning, but is beginning to brighten up. Washing from yesterday is still on the line - I'd like it to at least get back to where it was when it came out of the machine before I give up and bring it in for the airer! I am continuing with the latest piece of work for my main client. It should be easy but it is anything but and very frustrating. Will also try to do more than the minimum in terms of Cambridge work today - but I also need to clean bathrooms. Have had a good scrub of the draining board this morning and it is looking much less limescaley, which is nice. Not sure about pub tonight - I'm not particularly feeling it. Dinner will either be a risotto (if the oven goes on for some biscuits - I'll roast a BNS at the same time) or stir fry. I've got kidney beans soaking and need to make some naans for tomorrow too (when the yoghurt in the airing cupboard bucks up its ideas and thickens). We don't normally take this long to cook for friends coming over, but Mr MV bought the Dishoom recipe book a while ago and wanted to try some bits from it. I was just going to cook something we have regularly that doesn't involve three days' work, but why make life easy?! We'll have lots of leftovers in any case. (Whether we have room in the freezer for them is another matter - that's another thing I need to sort as Mr MV just shoved the bits from our supermarket delivery in the other day and there's no rhyme or reason!)

In rather frustrating news, we've heard that we didn't get the garage. Which is annoying as of course we'd imagined we would and had filled it several times over with projects, stuff and plans. 

MS things:
* 1P surveys
* Clicks and HW - a couple of wins this morning and one tipped me over the withdrawal minimum, so I may take that
* Very low cost pizza night
* Lots of extra curry sauce and we've not spent much at all on ingredients for dinner tomorrow (which is a nice change - usually having people over seems to be expensive)

Gratitudes:
* Consistent quantities of work (and I have meeting next week with the other person at Cambridge that I do work for about new projects)
* A shiny draining board
* Most of the work for the dinner is done now - the curries (from the book) themselves will only take half an hour or so.

Have a good day all!

TallGirl

Sorry to hear about the garage how disappointing you will now wonder who got it and why (or I would). Good luck with the cooking I am exactly the same I never do simple things. Currently working out what snacks to serve for a Halloween Party for the neighbours and I have not got a clue. So irritating I used to be so good at that kind of things but not anymore. 

Cheery_Daff

Oh that's annoying about the garage! 

themadvix

Thanks both. It is and I was pretty miserable about it last night, but hey ho - we'll work something else out. And also keep an eye on the garages available. And I've still applied for that second allotment plot. 

Karmacat

That's good to hear about the second allotment, though pooh to the garage With a second lottie, you're definitely on the way to being a smallholding  

themadvix

I could be waiting a while for the second plot - there's apparently 600 on the waiting list (although this begs the question why the plot adjacent to mine is currently empty! Wouldn't it be nice if I was offered that plot....) Technically I only have 'half' a traditional allotment at the moment - they split them years ago when people were struggling to manage. It's plenty in some respects but not for growing sufficient potatoes, onions or garlic. And I can only have one structure on my plot, which is a lovely and very useful shed. If I had another one, I'd be aiming to have one with a greenhouse or that I could add a greenhouse to. I decided I might as well apply as not - similar to my original application! - and if when I'm offered it I've changed my mind, then there's no loss on either side.

Suffolk_lass

I've got a mini-muffin silicon mould that I use when I make soap but would work well for open freezing before tipping the cubes into either a takeaway box of a large ziplock bag you can use and reuse. Like this one.

Bummer re the garage