OS Daily Monday 11th Feb 09

AussieLass

Good morning everyone,

I've been in the kitchen. It's been one of those day's that it feels like I've been in there all day. I cooked a few pumpkins, mashed and froze portions. Made an avocado & walnut cake which is nice. Breadcrumb mixture for the freezer for eggplant. Zucchini slice for tea.

Visited DGS after arv tea as I had to give him a bag of Poppa's carrots. He loves carrots. I then went out and did some work in the garden. My knee's are about shot. I suppose I can always say I've been praying too much. I don't think anybody will believe me though. :rolleyes: Showers forecast for most of this week.

Vicky Your London jaunt sounds lovely.
Welcome to all the new posters. :wave:
Mrs Mix :wave:
N9eav Count me in too. Someone will have to control Ruby. :rolleyes:

Does anybody have a good recipe for Elderflower Jam? I've googled and all that comes is combination jam like Elderflower & Rhurbarb etc.

Off to have a sticky beak and then watch CSI. Miss Marple was good last night. I had to pull out my knitting as I dropped a stitch :rolleyes: and then made a bigger mess trying to fix it up. Back to square one tonight. Have a great day and hope you keep warm. Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Pooky

Morning all

Congrats on another win Cat - good luck with the pasta too - we watched that and really fancy getting a pasta machine now - argos have one reduced to £7.50 but there's none in stock near me and I refuse to pay £4.95 for delivery (cos I'm tight! )


The rest of yesterdays ebay sales finished and we ended up with £167 - got another 8 items finishing next weekend that are already at £7 with loads of watchers :j . All but 3 have paid now too so will get them all packed up today - our local postoffice has closed so DH has taken 20 items with him to work this morning, that's his dinner hour sorted .

Woken with a sore throat and itchy ears this morning - looks like I've caught DD's colds - share and share alike eh. It's not half term here until next week so I've still got to do the getting up lark.

Going to do a tray bake today inspired by PP's yummy pic over the weekend - I've got a silicoln baking tray and DH converted the reciepe to fit it - he has some uses bless him. Will do some banana muffins too as they all seemed to have turned at the same time. Need to finish painting my dresser today and try and get some more work done on my mothers day pressies, need to make their cards too....eeekkk so much to do.

Tuna fish cakes for DD's and I tonight, DH can have a portion of sausage plait left from last week, wedges and corn cobs to go with it.

Hope you all have a great day.

stefejb

Morning everyone

go easy on yourselves those recovering from illness, those in grief or those just feeling the blues

N9eav - bit far for me to come for a party but you can raise a glass instead.

today will be spent waiting for the boiler man who was suposed to come the week before last and attempting to cook all the meals for this week in one hit - the freezer is looking a bit shocked as it had a major clear out in readiness. I need to sort out the proper order for preparing everything but it will be nice coming home to something I just need to heat up. Other things to look forward to are cleaning out the hamster and doing a water change for the fish - I know how to live!

exoh coming over tonight - he badly let dd11 dwon yesterday as we were supposed to be celebrating her maths sats results and he pulled out. She doesn't want to see him next weekend so he promised to take her swiming. She said that he won't and he has promised her a tenner if he doesn't - the sad thing is that she will probably come back a richer but sadder little girl.

quit burbling - get cooking - byeeee

katiesmummy

did anyone watch wife swap last night with the freegans? i had never heard the term before last night and i was thinking to myself when i was watching it that they are definately old style!
have to admit i was really shocked to see the amount of food that is thrown away by supermarkets
not sure if i would ever have the guts to go bin raiding though!

mrs_mix

Morning everyone
:hello: Aussie
:hello: Catowen
:hello: Shez
(((((((hugs)))))) hillstep
AB hope you get an appointment for your ds and that he feels better soon
Kathy hope your ds get's an appointment too
not much happening here today a couple of loads of washing
bm on for roll's and a loaf
and ds2 has asked for chicken curry for dinner so I have to find something else for ds1 and dd as they won't eat that
hope everyone has a good day
:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:
pam xx

mioliere

Hi - just popped back on with a coffee while my kitchen floor is drying and before I go to the gym.

HILSTEP - (((((((((Hugs))))))))) to you. It will be a very emotional day for you; I'll be thinking of you and your family. (((Hugs))) to your Dad, too. I'm so glad the weather is being kind to you for today.

NOVICE - You won't need any more cookery magazines now; most of my recipes come from the indexed collections on here and all the tips and advice have given me loads more confidence for experimenting with food. I'm a better cook than I thought I was and my DH tells me I'm brilliant so, thank you MSE and all the OSers on here!

ANNIEB- I hope DS gets better soon.

Well, my DS1 has managed to get an appointment with the doctor tomorrow and thinks he'll be able to drive himself there. I've made him promise to ask me for a lift if he needs one and not to be too brave about it. He said he's got a low pain threshold, anyway, to which I replied 'yes, I think men have; women can take more pain because they have to', to which he replied 'yes, but men have to live with women, don't they?'! He hasn't lost his sense of humour anyway!

Well, floor is dry now so a quick whiz around downstairs with the hoover and I'm off.

See you all later.

KathyXX

danz0l

I had mixed feelings on this.

One i found it shocking the amount of perfectly good food that goes to waste and that would be perfectly edible and two, it turned my stomach to think of eating anything out of a bin, wrapped or otherwise

Also, regardless of what they say, its paramount to stealing as they don't own the produce they are removing from the bins. They know it too with there "we grab what we can and run" raids which makes it even worse. Great example they are setting their children.

It made me laugh that he said he would never beg and yet was asking people for donations they were spending on themselves. He preached that god provides whatever they need and yet failed to read in the bible that "Thou shall not steal". I love how they can read what they like into things and ignore others

I also noticed they never ever answered the questions asked about using society for what they need but not contributing from the millionaire family.

Its the poor child i felt sorry for. He was embarrassed and ashamed enough to be dropped 1/4 mile away from his school and longed for a house or flat

squeaky

Hiya

I'm going to add your post onto our Daily Thread shortly as a good place to start, and you might like to browse here too:-

Wife Swap

wife swap channel 4 Freagans

Crazychik

Good Morning All

Another Frosty morning here. OH has scraped the w/screen for me!
No half term here for us, not until next week!

Ebay items ended yesterday, all but 1 person has paid. Those who have paid, their items have been wrapped & ready to post later.
OH did the 1st car boot of the year y-day, making a profit of £65!

n9eav - that is a good a deal you got for loaning your car! I'll be round later!
(((hugs))) hillstep - time is a great healer!
catowen - well done on another win!
Pooky - well done on your ebay sales!

Only 3 of us in the office today! Should be a good day.
Anyway, best be off, got to ring the council this morning and sort out this huge over payment housing benefit bill which they've landed me with! £400.80 :eek:

Take care
Love Emma xxx

purpleivy

What horrified me wasn't the removing food from bins.... I wouldn't regard that as theft... whoever had thrown it away obviously didn't want it! Regard it as 'reusing, recycling'.

What did p me off was the fact that he had obviously removed himself from the 'system' and therefore not working or paying taxes, NI etc, BUT happy enough to avail himself of the facilities that the rest of the hard-working, taxpaying citizens have to pay for. I expect the bins were emptied on their caravan site, sewage from the toilet disposal etc etc, dentist, doctors etc etc. WE are all supporting him dossing around!