Old Style Diary Archive - JUL 05

apprentice_tycoon

spendaholic wrote:

Today I got my computer back ...

Nice to see you back...(I thought you'd gone walkabout) your savings are racking up nicely, you must feel great!
Until our sprogs both leave Uni and are fully independant we are going to just have to buckle our safety belts for a bumpy ride...

margaret_3

Rage_in_Eden wrote:

(never, ever, ever put the oven on for one item - OH and I run them under a hot tap whilst filling the washing up bowl. I digress).




Thanks for digressing! I am SO ashamed to say that I never thought of running the plates under the hot tap.:o


I'm not watchin Live8 as I am very annoyed with Bob and Midge (which I have told him by e-mail - some of us just have these things !) for picking the same day as the Make Poverty History march in Edinburgh - which i would have been on. Besides I am fed up of people just talking about the concert and how it's free and a great line up - that is NOT the point!!!! :mad:

How I agree with you. I actually feel that this is a stage for the participants. What great publicity for them!
Will it make poverty history? I think not!
Thanks for a great post.
Margaret

Chipps

penrith wrote:

I'm thinking of Home Educating my children. They're not quite school age yet so we've got time to fully consider it. Just worried about taking the plunge....
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Hi penrith,
If you want any advice about this, you could look at Education Otherwise at www.education-otherwise.org
Also there is an email chat group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eo
It is a bit daunting taking the plunge, but we have never looked back! Please feel free to pm me if you want to know anything else.

Pooky

Had a nice OS free lie in this morning......hubby had to go to work for a few hours and the kids amused themselves for an hour......feel a bit behind now tho!

DD1 asked during the week if she could cook for us all tonight, so I'm going to lend a hand with the "in and out the oven" stuff, she's done her menu and wants the best china and table cloth out (don't think it's seen the light of day since xmas).

She's planned Celery Soup after I'd read about it on here somewhere, she loves celery so that's a nice easy one, for main course she wants to do a beef goulash ...will be lovely I hope.....for pud she's doing the split bananas with choccy and mashmellows and some apple and pear individual pies....looks like i'm in for a busy afternoon!

Aim to pop out for a bike ride to the beach too, feel the need for some nice fresh breezy sea air today.

Have a good one all.

Chipps

I am wondering where all the time has gone this morning. I have done next to nothing! Got up late (although did get up to make sure ds had breakfast before his saturday job - he leaves at 7am), have not even put the washing machine on.
DH is starting the tiling of conservatory, so have helped him sort out where to start - cos the plans we drew bear very little resemblance to the actual floor once we started putting tiles on it. I think we didn't factor in all the little gaps between tiles....
Now I have to go to town, to the library and also the market for fruit & veg.
Wondering whether to walk....which I should... but it's overcast... and dh will be too busy to come and get me if it rains.... but can I justify trawling round trying to park at this late hour in the day ... and I know what some people think about Discoverys at the best of times with just one person in them...... oh, well, I will just have to dig out the trolley & hope I don't get rained on....???

Rage_in_Eden

Pooky wrote:

Had a nice OS free lie in this morning......hubby had to go to work for a few hours and the kids amused themselves for an hour......feel a bit behind now tho!

DD1 asked during the week if she could cook for us all tonight, so I'm going to lend a hand with the "in and out the oven" stuff, she's done her menu and wants the best china and table cloth out (don't think it's seen the light of day since xmas).

She's planned Celery Soup after I'd read about it on here somewhere, she loves celery so that's a nice easy one, for main course she wants to do a beef goulash ...will be lovely I hope.....for pud she's doing the split bananas with choccy and mashmellows and some apple and pear individual pies....looks like i'm in for a busy afternoon!

Aim to pop out for a bike ride to the beach too, feel the need for some nice fresh breezy sea air today.

Have a good one all.

Oooooh when' you've finished with her can I borrow her???

Just been out this morning and done the weeks shopping for £13.97 - gosh I'm getting good :cool: Even spent a fiver on three trays of bedding plants (6 plants per tray so that's....mmmmm.... 27p per plant and they are huge plants - like the ones you get for a few £s at B&Q!) two trays of verbenas and one of some sort of daisy......... the verbenas can augment the baskets at the back where there's gaps. Oh oh oh forgot to say sunflowers up :j I think I've already said that sunflowers are OHs fave...... he's gone out to his driving job now and will be back c.5pm so that gives me 4 hours to start on his birthday present - a x-stitched sunflower - i am SOOOOOO predictable . :rotfl:

catznine

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

Until our sprogs both leave Uni and are fully independant we are going to just have to buckle our safety belts for a bumpy ride...

Yep we are still getting over the shock of putting our two though! Never a spare penny! :eek: it's not just the tutorial fees is it! If only we had got moneywise years ago :wall: Oh well better late than never!

spendaholic

squeaky wrote:

Well for goodness sake and about time too!!!

REALLY!!

I tried to find a way to email you to ask how you were getting along and why you hadn't posted recently...

..I couldn't PM you because you weren't on line...

..I couldn't email you from your MSE profile because you have that option switched off...

..then I found your website (via MSE TYVM) but I'm blowed if I could find a way to "contact me" from there either.

So I thought... well blow ya!... talk ta me when yer ready, ya tart!

Or words to that effect

But really, it's good to see you back with us

:snog:

Blimey ... gee, it's good to be missed. Thanks, Squeaks. And I'm so sorry I wasn't around to give you a hug when you were feeling really fed up. Have one now ... ((((Squeaky)))) (EDIT: Didn't know it didn't like curly brackets ...)

If you go via my website, you have to go to the links page, and there's a link there to follow ...

apprentice_tycoon

catznine wrote:

Yep we are still getting over the shock of putting our two though! Never a spare penny! :eek: it's not just the tutorial fees is it! If only we had got moneywise years ago :wall: Oh well better late than never!

The real scary bit is every newspaper you read seems to be talking about the boomerang generation that go away for uni and then come back for years and years...I get images of 2 big cuckoo chicks eating their parents out of house and home

BWZN93

Im having a good day so far, on the doormat this morning was vouchers and free bread flour and yeast vouchers, totalling about £7.50 this morning (ive been on the vouchers by mail hunt.....).

As the agencies have been appallingly bad at getting me work so far, I have been applying left right and centre for anything and everything I can do, I need to get the £££ in urgently to move, and Ive figured I dont care what job I have, (so long as its not the last one I had) as i can always find one more suitable later on in the summer, when the pressure is off.

I had an email from uni yesterday too, mine is quite heavy in research and ive been offered a place on a study for next week, which will be paid at £60, plus travel expenses, all for two days of 6 hours each, and I dont have do anything - except fill in a few questionnaires, have a drink of something, and see if it works. Its to do with quitting smoking, they have a theory that its not just addiction to nicotine that prevents people from quitting, and this drink thing (amino acid thing) helps to stop the brain from registering something to do with dopamine. Sounds interesting, and If I can help the world find more stuff to help people quit smoking (me included!) and get paid - then its all good! I get to sit around too, watch TV, read etc, which is probably what Id be doing anyway - searching the job and property papers!!

Today is going to be more job applications - I did so many yesterday, but ive still got quite a few more to go, and ive been through the property paper, so I need to list them all, look at them all,and get rid of the ones that wont be suitable, or are too far away. We looked at a place a couple of months ago too, which I have noticed again in the paper, with the rent being reduced quite a bit - simply because it is quite far out of town for those who dont drive, and has very limited bus routes, so for a lot of people it simply isnt practical (lots of younger renters in Bath dont drive, simply as parking is really expensive, and not many businesses have their own free parking, most people live in town and walk). However, for us, it is workable, as boyf only needs to work p/t in the evenings (parent subsidy & gigging money as he is a musician.... its lucky for some huh!!), and its workable wherever I end up getting work.

Anyway, already found a job to apply for - gotta go!

Jo xx