OS Wednesday 9th January 2008

mary43

Morning all.................bit of retail therapy.......you can't beat it.........but I was very good.........none of it for me. All christmas or birthday pressies and all from charity shops.
Spent total of £13.90

Photo album (blue with little jewels on it).....................80p
Bath salts gift wrapped with ribbon.............................50p
Pr. Suede cushion covers.(brn & beige).................. £1.50
Check placemats (brn & beige) .............................. ,...95p
Candle in glass vase.............................................£1.00
Novelty small bean bag frog (Liberty brand)...................50p
Decorative candle (two tone blue) in wine glass.........£1.00
Teddy Bear candle....................................................50p
Bath Crystals..gift wrapped.........................................40p
2 necklaces metal disc on shoe lace -pink & purple.....£2.00
Lip gloss, 3 nail varnishes all unopened..........................80p
Teddy bear coathanger..............................................50p
Boxed china mug, rose pattern................................£1.00
Novelty frog plants sticks...........................................60p
Large voile with rose pattern (for wrapping baskets)....£1.95

So, bit more for my birthday and christmas hampers/boxes........at this rate I'll be done for the year by Easter......................lol

Think I've added that up right..............the receipts are somewhere in my shopping bag but I noted it down as I went along.

So, thats my day so far..........started off not so good with one of the boys we foster going to his dads last night and refusing to come back..........his dad brought him back this morning -he had a face that hit the floor so we'll see what mood -foul or fair - he's in after school...........got a few hours 'me' time before then..................lol:T

Hope you're having a good day.
Hugs to those who are poorly ((((((( ))))))))))))

chocolate.orange_2

Morning/ Afternoon to everyone

Hugs to those who are poorly, have poorly littlies or just want/need a hug.

I have only just turned my computer on this morning after deciding i should clean before starting to read MSE Well i seen to be more addicted to OS than any other forum. I just find it so friendly and full of so much useful infomation
Right off to catch up with this thread

tru

Just got in from the garden and made myself a hot choccy

I've been out there for an hour and half. I've weeded, raked, sieved (I haven't got a garden sieve so I had to use my collonder. Is that how you spell it? It doesn't look right to me, lol) and swept. That's just the greenhouse and veg patch - and they're no way near finished. The strawberries are confused - they have fruit :eek: I picked just under 5LB of sprouts :T

I've got 3 compost bins and it's not enough :rolleyes: Mind you, I left 2 big bags of veg peelings etc. next to the bins, ready to go in when there's room and they're rotting away nicely so I might just leave them like that :think:

DLB, I already knew what happened on CSI, I googled it months ago - I couldn't help myself, I HAD to know :rotfl:

Off for a toastie now, then I have to sort the washing.

dlb

Afternoon everyone.
Tea is prepared, downstairs tidy,last washer load on and my big news of the day that iv gotto share with someone is....
Iv enrolled on a stop smoking course, i start next tuesday, iv missed the first week of the course as it started yesterday but i mean i will have 6 weeks of support hopefully to make me finally quit!
Iv decided not to tell dh (i dont think anyway) not yet anyway, as iv tried so many times in the past and failed and really want to show the kids and him i can do this!
So you lot will be my secert support group!! Really want this for mine and kids health and to boost the time before im debt free.
Wish me luck!!
Donna
xx

Shez

back again....

Made Broccolli/stilton soup this morning.....What a load of YUK!:rotfl:
(wont be making that again then!)

PenPen - Ive done falafels before but only me ate them - and to be honest there's only so much chickpea taste you can hack in one go isnt there!:o
I hope you had Darcy's eyes/ears shut to last nites "Chicken Out" prog!

Been to the gym and done my bit! came home and DH has washed the living room carpet and done the ironing!:A (hence why i'm on here this time of day with my cuppa and HM mince pie;) )

catz - I shall force a glass of red down - just for you;)
dlb - good luck - my MIL found the patches very good.

Blairweech

Oh wow! I just got the most amazing customer service from Lakeland ever!!! I don't think I have ever come across such a great company - I wanted to return 4 items - 2 because they were damaged and 2 because I just didn't like them. They are replacing 1 one of the damaged items, the other is not in stock, so that is being refunded as are the other 2 - and they don't even want me to send the stuff back! Completely no hassles, no problems or anything

Tru - Our garden is full of stones...so were using an old shopping trolley as our garden sieve

DLB - GOOD LUCK with giving up smoking. I will nag you every day! My mum has tried so many times to give up smoking and she just can't do it OHs Dad has just given up after many many failed attempts, and they have put him on 'Champix' tablets (Not Tampax as I first heard!) - it is working well so far, although they do give him bad panic attacks. They will only give you these if you have tried every other method under the sun though.

Rowan9

Afternoon everyone :wave:
hhhmmmm...whay am i on here when i should be doing 'jobs'? OH is off into town so should be away for a couple of hours and i am to be dog walking. But...the lure of this wonderful friendly meeting place is toooo strong!!

Donna - good luck with stopping smoking. My son stopped 2nd Jan and is trying to keep busy to keep mind off it (he should find things to do - he's at uni and bhad an exam yesterday and one next week!!). but I know it's hard.

Sorry to hear some of you are still unwell and also have sick kids. Difficult to keep them amused sometimes. i know I was a real misery guts for the few days when i had that flu cold.

Making a big pot of veg soup today and putting in turkey steaks in it for a while which will add flavour to the soup and then using the turkey in caesar salad. I did a chicken cookery course at college last winter and whatever we made, we poached the chicken pieces first as it makes them more succulent. So...into the soup pot with the turkey.

Went to Tesco in the end yesterday after saying I'd stay out of the shops all day. Did get some more reduced turkey steaks, which are handy with OH's diet, and got 3 small Argentinian organic steaks which I've put in the freezer.

Other plans for today - clean the fridge

oh - thanks to MSE I used a cloth soaked in vinegar to wrap round the taps in the downstairs loo. result= NO limescale and immaculate shiny taps. I am amazed. Planning to do the bathroom today. Wow - this was Tesco saver brown vinegar at about 19p for 500ml! It's what i use for fabric softener.

Hope everyone has a good day
W

patentgirl

Afternoon evryone

only skimmed through thread so far, not got long of my lunchbreak left spent over half of it on boots they have their online 75% sale and just managed to spend £70 on birthday and xmas presents should have been £280 worth of stuff so feeling pleased with myself for once cant believe got hampers and got in on boots as well within a week it is definately this site that lets me know when offers are coming up

Out tonight with girls so probably only an omlettte or beans on toast as DD is having tea out tonight
just got a couple of loads of Washing to do try and find time to make some banana bread as have 3 brown soft bananas in fruit bowl
hugs to anyone that needs onexx

mioliere

Hi - just got back from the shops and enjoying a coffee.

MARY - that was a successful shop today! I went into my local and bought 4 books, one was a Jamie Oliver booklet of recipes he created for Comic Relief, another one was called 101 Things To Do Before You're Old and Boring! I also bought a beautiful enamel brooch which I shall give to my Mum. It's a black bow with white polka dots on it and it's truly stunning and I only paid £1.25 for it. I also bought a brand new, still in the sealed packet pair of Disney tights for DGD. I spent just £3.50 all that so I was very pleased. I did not intend going in there but my legs just walked in automatically!

POOKY - your poor children. There are so many bugs doing the rounds that I don't think anyone is avoiding them all. I hope they get better soon.

DLB - good luck with the no smoking!

BLAIRWEECH - my DH has been self-employed for years and HMRC are a pain in the a**s. I have just registered as self-employed also but have yet to hear from them. We also registered DH on the CIS (Construction Industry Scheme) and HMRC have sent me a whole forest worth of paper for that as well, so I have had to study it all. At the moment he has two sub-contractors working for him and we have to complete two forms every month recording their wages and tax. You have to send the forms in even if they haven't done any work; we didn't realise the first month and they slapped us with £100 automatic fine. I'm determined that we won't pay it because there was so much bumpf to read in just a couple of days that I feel they didn't give us enough time to get to grips with the system. I have also questioned why the fine is £100. I know the Government is desperate for money but how can they charge so much? Anyway, rant over. Good luck with yours!

CATOWEN - I must have missed your post about your blood results but, if they were good, congratulations!

Well, I'd better go and have some lunch. Will call in later.

KathyXX

AMIE399

Hi.. Just Come In From Work.. Just To Let You All Know The Boots 75% Online Sale Is On X X X