Old Style Diary Archive - SEP 05

Ticklemouse

Hello to everyone

Well, trying to get back to normal now. Funeral on Monday went well, Dad would have been pleased. 35 at the private crematorium service and 200+ and the church. Even the vicar cried whilst doing the service as he was a friend too.

Will still be spending lots more time at Mum's. She doesn't want to get rid of Dad's things yet, just stuff like his old gardening clothes and tatty jumpers etc, so I have a bag load in the car to take to the recycling bin at the tip next time I pass.

My house needs a damn good clean now - hardly been touched in 10 days, so I shall start that soon. BM is on and there's still some pork chops in a tomato and apple sauce left over from the slow cooker meal yesterday - may add some sausages to it and make a saus casserole tomorrow, tonight will be a steak casserole I think.

Waiting for my tesco delivery now. Pushed it to over £100 so could use the £15 discount voucher - well, it will all keep. Need to get some extra fresh veg from the market, but that can wait till Friday. DS2 is having a tired day - he's currently dressed but sitting in my bed watching Max and Ruby (oops, spoke too soon, he's heard me typing and come in asking to go on his websites !)

Oh well, I'd better get on. Need a cup of tea to get me going anyway, so have a good day everyone and hugs to those who need them.

Catch ya all later.

TM

bonnie_2

done 2 loads of washing and hung out, actually got to bottom of ironing pile and done dishes am on here waiting for my friend to turn up i taped angelas ashes so we are going to watch that. Dinner will be toad in the hole with mash and cauliflower.when the kids are in the bath later i will polish and hoover upstairs, after cleaning hamsters out,clean bathroom and put ironing away.

Pooky

Good morning all

Working all day today - little one currently snoring away so time for a cuppa!

One of our 0% cards runs out at the end of the month so have just applied for a new one and been accepted!! :j Huge credit limit on it too - so can transfer another card over when that runs out next month. Been very good at closing accounts behind me as I've paid them off...seems to be working well.

Had to turn away 4 new clients last week..hate turning work away but just couldn't do the hours they wanted......did take on another 2 yesterday tho - they start next week so I'll be busy.

Got given a huge carrier bag full of yellow cherry tomatos yesterday - most of them were just passing their best so chucked them all in a pan with some onions and celery and a hand full of herbs and kept them on a low heat for about 3 hours.....blitzed it all up and now have a really sweet, gorgeous flavoured sauce. There's enough there for at least 3 meals so have frozen it down in portions...I love free food!!

Tonights dinner is remainder of some chilli from last week - turned into a lasagne with the aid of a few spoonfulls of my sauce and some breadcrumbs to eek it out a bit.....topped off with some bogog cheese..yum!

Made 2 loaves yesterday - both turned out fantasticaly - both sliced and frozen in batches to use for lunch boxes.

Will hopefully get time this afternoon to make cakes with the little ones....might only be chocolate cornflake cakes but they don't mind - just a good excuse to get messy and lick the spoons.

Right off to tackle the ironing for 20 mins until nap time is over!

Have a wonderful day all..

furrypig

WOW!! You guys are all so busy with lots going on in your lives!

I have taken kids to 2 schools, onto 2nd lot of washing and have been trying to sort out understairs cupboard!! It is huge but only really used for chucking things ( in the back there is no light and difficult to get into, the front is where we hang our coats) wish I could make better use of the space for something tho' not sure what!

At 12 got to pick up youngest from school (on half days) with his friend and I have already made their lunch, a kind of shepherds pie from last nights slow cooker mince. Have to make packed lunch tea for 2 as we go to swimming lessons straight from school,must get swimming stuff organised too!

Just had call from hubby and he is coming home for lunch so I had better go and start clearing away the pile of rubbish that I have moved out of cupbord!!

Have great days and look forward to hearing more!

Furrypig x

calleyw

Ticklemouse wrote:

Hello to everyone


Will still be spending lots more time at Mum's. She doesn't want to get rid of Dad's things yet, just stuff like his old gardening clothes and tatty jumpers etc, so I have a bag load in the car to take to the recycling bin at the tip next time I pass.

I do understand that is hard we had the same problem with my MIL. She died 7 years after husband. And she still had his aftershave in the bathroom cabinet. She just would not throw it away.

Also I discovered when she went in to hospital just before she died one of his PJ tops. She slept with it ever night.

My thoughts are with you. As it is still difficult time.

Take care.

Yours

Calley

Curry_Queen

Glad to hear it all went well on Monday TM, I was thinking about you

Sounds as though you're coping remarkably well, but please make sure you look after yourself too. You were barely back on your feet from your holiday illness when all this happened, and no doubt haven't had a moment to yourself since, so try to get as much rest as you can now, the housework etc can wait a while longer if necessary. I don't mean to nag or anything, just don't want to see you run yourself into the ground and make yourself ill, but at the same time I can understand how keeping busy helps. If you need to talk at anytime you know where I am hun *hugs*

MATH

Hi TM, I've been wondering how things are, I'm pleased everything went well on Monday. It is always much nicer when the vicar knows the person and can bring some warmth and intimacy to the service.
CQ is giving some good advice - make sure you also get some R&R with Mr TM and the mini TM's as well as keeping an eye on mum. Maybe when you feel the time is right or mum shows some inclination you could start clearing out a non personal area like a spare bedroom or an understairs cupboard so that emotions are not too raw when you sart off. We got my MIL to begin clearing out by starting on the fridge and freezer when her partner died recently.
One more thing I've thought of (please don't think I'm sticking my beak in:o ) but my FIL begins to worry in July that he will be left on his own for Christmas (even though he has been invited to our house every year for the last 12 years). I know Christmas seems a long way off and probably the last thing on your mind but it may have crossed your mum's. You may be way ahead of me here and my advice may be worthless (it so often is:rolleyes: )
Delighted to hear you are now the proud owner of one pert botty BTW:p

brokenwings

well into my second week of frugaility now

- had a lovely suprise - when going through old bills in order to work out next months budget challenges and goals - i found £15.50 of testcos club card vouchers i had filed and forgotten!!

oh happy me.

madfrenchgirl

Duh this is the first time I am using this thread, so I guess everyone is talking about their lives ansd their moneysaving ways

well, I have just saved 5 pound son a pressie for my friend pete's bday gift thx to a voucher for prezzybox.

I am progressively moving in with BF, it consists more of packing dumping and unpacking every night as I work on the weekends as well, so the only time is after work. The good thing is we are only paying 350 for both of us as the landlords are BF's and they are more friends than anything else. So it is more living with friends and helping wiht their mortgage and their redecoration. and we are learning the tricks of the trade for our own house in the future.

BF is going to get 320pounds changed in euros on saturday at the post office and buy a map of barcelona at WHSmith with a 2 pound voucher that I won by completing a survey. Yep, we are going on hols, and if it is too much, we can use the rest while we are at my mom's for xmas.

I am now going to get travel insurance from travel-insurance-web, for 15 pounds.

On monday, we are getting back to our healthy ways and buying lots of food nice food for the next 2 weeks to substantiate us until we go to Spain. Yep and we are using my beloved food planner! Calculated it would cost about 65 pounds for both of us for 2 weeks... And I would like to mention that I am on a low-carb diet so no cheap processed crap and no pasta and no cheap sausies either!

apart from that I am considering getting 8k of my savings from france to here, but as the HiSave rate after tax is abut the same as the one of the french account where the money is sitting, I am still debating it.

I am using the last food in my cupboard and so is BF so we can start afresh on Monday. So hardly any food spending until Monday.

Last Monday, we went to LIDL to check out some ceiling lights that were in the specials: got a 4-spotlight halogen bulbs for 8 quid along with the bulbs so now we have a very nice lamp in our cottage room!

That is pretty much it for today.

Ticklemouse

MATH wrote:

Hi TM, I've been wondering how things are, I'm pleased everything went well on Monday. It is always much nicer when the vicar knows the person and can bring some warmth and intimacy to the service.
CQ is giving some good advice - make sure you also get some R&R with Mr TM and the mini TM's as well as keeping an eye on mum. Maybe when you feel the time is right or mum shows some inclination you could start clearing out a non personal area like a spare bedroom or an understairs cupboard so that emotions are not too raw when you sart off. We got my MIL to begin clearing out by starting on the fridge and freezer when her partner died recently.
One more thing I've thought of (please don't think I'm sticking my beak in:o ) but my FIL begins to worry in July that he will be left on his own for Christmas (even though he has been invited to our house every year for the last 12 years). I know Christmas seems a long way off and probably the last thing on your mind but it may have crossed your mum's. You may be way ahead of me here and my advice may be worthless (it so often is:rolleyes: )
Delighted to hear you are now the proud owner of one pert botty BTW:p

Thanks everyone for your concern

Everyone is coming to me for Xmas anyway, so that's sorted.

We've already started going through bits in his "studio", binning useless bits of paper and generally tidying everything. Mum found about 50 pairs of brand new socks (yes, really) so the SIL's have had them along with other items of new clothing that fit, because they weren't really Dad's. The rest can stay as long as she wants them as the house is big enough.

Have to laugh at your last comment MATH, I read it as "bert potty" and wondered what the hell you were on about However, it does bring back memories of when I won 'rear of the year' 2 years in a row at work and only lost in the 3rd year to a girl 10 years my junior This was of course very un-PC, but did make me feel good:) Oh, and there were 400+ people at work, not only a handful

Off for some R&R whilst DS2 is a pre-school....