Old Style Diary Archive - AUG 05

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi

Thanks for the recipe Sounds scrummy!

Penny-Pincher!!
xxx

nicki_2

I have so many good intentions then I think "I'll just pop on OS while I have this cup of tea..." tea goes cold and jobs don't get done! :rotfl:

I've just made up a chicken and veg soup - stock cubes (end of some value ones from Tesco), cooked chicken (frozen but defrosted two days ago in the fridge in a sealed bag), lettuce (gone all wilted and not very appetizing), carrots (starting to get slimy), frozen peas, frozen sweetcorn, cucumber which was starting to go, and some pearly barley thats best before October :drool: It smells loooovvvvveeeeelllllyyyy and I'm hoping it will last a meal or two (Saturday after nans is always a quick meal and one night next week after work). I'm going to make some cakes and flapjacks later. Must get on with things....:doh:

margaretclare

Penny-Pincher!! wrote:

Have had about 80 calls and about 7 have been able to speak english :eek: I'm not racist but many could only say...hello...job..please. Hubby has just started saying-sorry job gone !

It is NOT racist to expect someone applying for a job with you to be able to speak English. After all, you're going to have to be able to communicate with the person! Basic, I would have thought, and don't feel you have to apologise.

If you applied for a similar job in e.g. France your use of their language would have to be not basic, but excellent. About time we starter taking a harder line. It's not as if they were going to be working in a group where there might be someone to interpret.

Aunty Margaret

elona

Just had to share my excitement - went down the road and picked 2 cartons of brambles - which i hope to make into jam.

DH pointed out elderberries but I do not know what I would do with them.

Stuffed mushrooms for tea - soup in slow cooker smells great- but loaf has sunk a bit in the heat.

Lidl do a two litre carton of lemon tea for about 70 pence - which DD likes even better than Liptons at twice the price.:j

culpepper

Today as it is POURING I am indoors. Yesterday I spent my birthday money on John Seymours'Complete self sufficiency' which is very interesting.I already had his 'Self sufficient Gardening'.When we were in the Lake district last month,I picked loads of bits of sheeps wool off the fences etc when we were out walking,so today I made a HM Spindle using a kitchen roll inner and 2 chop sticks and spun some of it into yarn.Its quite tricky but does work.I'll probably have enough to knit a very small pot holder when its all spun.
We really needed the rain.I have been saving water from the kitchen when rinsing out the milk cartons or running the tap till its hot.I stuck some buckets out under the shed roof overhang to collect the dripping water as we have no gutter there and we installed our water butt using one of those pipe diverters.At least I wont have to water tonight!
We watched 'No waste like home' yesterday evening and were shocked at the amount one family could waste.TBH it didnt look as though they were that green by the time the prog finished but I suppose anything was going to be an improvement.
I wonder if their gas supplier was watching(they hadnt had a bill in 3 years) as im sure they can be billed for fuel used in previous years.I noticed DS swithced the stair light off later on

omega_2

culpepper - wasn't difficult to get an improvement from the "No Waste Like Home" family, was it?!!!
elona - hehe - I'm hoping to go foraging for blackberries this w/e! Apple and blackberry crumble - yum, yum!

Generally, we're Devon-bound; visiting rellies (2 sets in fact - one on route!) (Note to self - need to make up a new baby card tonight). Might even see about borrowing some knitting needles from Mum, so I can reteach myself! (last time tried aged about 12 - now 30+).

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi

Sorry to be a pain, but the banana teabread-does it rise alot?

Thanks

Penny-Pincher!!
xxx

squeaky

If it's anything like the erm, raisin and walnut (I think) tea loaf that I made some time back it probably won't rise a great deal.

tootles_2

I had a load of washing in the machine overnight which was on the line by 9.30. Very bad night here last night, thunder and lightening till 1.30, then I could not get back to sleep, so slow getting up.

We were off by 10am to a friends to help her with some gardening and filling out some forms, home for lunch and then off to the next village to the bank and to Tesco to do the shopping for our holiday next week.

Quiche for supper with salad and banana and ice cream..... now watching coast as well as a quilting programme on QNN at the same time......

Not a really OS day and quite tiring too, hope to sleep better tonight, this time next week we will be in Kent for a few days before we go over to France for our holiday.... can't wait, have had a very busy year so looking forward to a rest.

nicki_2

I've been baking this afternoon :drool: Didn't manage much - 12 cornflake cakes (already gone!), a tray of flapjacks (as per a recipe I found in the mega thread) and DD and I have baked 2 dozen chocolate fairy cakes (although some have gone already - may have to blame the fairies who come in the night to keep the bad dreams away :shhh: ).

We had some of the chicken & Veg soup for dinner with some reduced to clear balmcakes from the freezer :drool: very filling! I've even got enough for 2 more meals AND a single portion left as well which will do for lunch one day when everyone is back at work/school

I've been out and watered the garden this evening - 7 trips with a 7 litre watering can! You'd think we had a huge garden but we haven't it just doesn't hold much water until you hit the clay veins. I've had to chop the top of a couple of tomato plants again to try and encourage fruiting. Last count we had 23 tomatoes developing but that was earlier in the week and I'm sure we'll have more by now.

I've also sat and watched that Green Valley programme on BBC2. OH even half-watched it while downloading another game :rolleyes: infact he sat and watched "No waste like home" as well, maybe this moneysaving is starting to rub off more than I realised! I was very impressed and I'm hoping that I'll get to watch next weeks but if I'm away I have no chance!

OH noticed a BIG smear on the TV before and asked where the polish was. He was most taken aback when I said there wasn't any "So why didn't you buy any when you went to the shops yesterday?" "We don't need it when we use a microfibre cloth" "But that coffee table AND TV need polish to make them clean" So I went and got my spray bottle of soapy water and a microfibre cloth. Both the TV and coffee table are now gleaming and free of sticky finger marks :T Now if I could just find the inspiration to go and clear up in the kitchen ... :rotfl: