OS daily thread Thursday 8th May

kazwookie

At work goodness knows what they are up to outside, but there is this bang bang bang sounds and it goes on and on, sounds like they are power driving something into the ground on a new building. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Any way lovely weather again, sausages out of freezer for bbq tonight (yum yum)

mrs_mix

hi everyone
trying to keep up with you all but never enough time
dad had a bad day then a good day yesterday hopefully he will be moved to a hospice soon going to see him later
pam xx

mioliere

Hi all - sat here with a coffee so thought I'd check in and see how everyone is. I have stripped the bed and the line is full of washing with another load waiting to go out. Dinner is prepped - I decided on Tarragon Chicken which has just been cooked, new potatoes, which have also been just been boiled for making potato salad, a Portuguese salad of sliced tomatoes and sliced onions layered and covered with rock salt and balsamic vinegar (yummy!) and a green salad, so, at least dinner tonight will be easy to do now that it's all 'to go'!

I have hoovered and dusted upstairs and down, done some of my office work, chatted to my Mum when she phoned just now and I'm just wondering what to have for lunch. I shall sit and watch Martin's show while I have that.

We have some chaps (bare-chested, actually, and rather tasty) resurfacing the pavement opposite but I am trying to ignore them while I sit at my desk - which just happens to overlook them! Calm down, dear!

Anyway, I'd better stop ogling and get on.


PenPen - they look gorgeous, your chicks!

R.Mac - hope the news is good!

Crazychik - commiserations about the car. It's such an expense these days.

Anyway, see ya!

KathyXX

Fi27

Just popping in to say 'hi'

At home today, weather great again. Must make a plan for the garden, it's all weeds and not very nice. And i so want it to be nice just dont know where to start.

Tea tonight is tuna pasta bake, got to finish my online shop order. For some reason i cant make up my mind what to have to eat next week and have changed my mind a million times. I think its the weather, must get into salad mode.

Take care everyone

Fi x

Squiggly_Diddly

purpleivy wrote: »

Report on the news this morning is about how much food is thrown away. Family looks like mr and mrs perfect and a kitchen even bigger and better than mine! LOL! Children sitting neatly at the table doing homework. Alarming how much is wasted.

She has just mentioned the word 'old style'

PurpleIvy, I saw that - the one on GMTV? And the woman talking about moneysaving in relation to it (where was Martin????). I didn't have much time to watch it all properly, but heard her saying something about going back to the days of meal planning,etc... She should get herself over here

PenPen, thank you for the pic They are sooooooo cute....

Anyhow, home from the office, decided to come and work at home as I can concentrate better (it's quiet while DD's are at school). Very difficult to work in an office base where you don't have your own desk, and have to hotdesk, with a tiddly little 18" square locker (at ground level) to keep all your stuff in. However, it was decided by people who don't actually have to work like that it was "efficient". The unsettling effect obviously doesn't matter....

Must get on for a bit, drop back later.

catznine

:hello: Hello!

Thank goodness for that! Yesterday we woke up to no broadband, tv or phones, someone managed to damage a fibre optic cable belonging to virgin media and the whole lot went down for the day!:mad:

We also had a huge power failure later in the day, ours is back on but for many people it has yet to be restored, and school has been cancelled for the day! I would be quite joyful about that as the atmosphere at work is pretty bad at the mo but this is all tempered with sadness as a man was killed when our main sub station exploded, I feel so sad for his family.

In this hot weather I have been cooking in the mornings only so had plenty of food in when the power went but oh boy did I hanker for a cuppa!:rolleyes: I should go back to my old style ways of keeping a full thermos by the kettle to avoid that ever happening to us again.

I did manage to get a large cupboard sorted out (4 bags for the bin and 1 large sack for the charity shop) so feel I have achieved.

Need to walk [strike]shrunk/bald[/strike]/groomed puppy later when it has cooled down a bit!

Off to catch up with the thread

(((hugs))) to JackieO, PP, Smoky, Mrs Mix and anyone else who could use one.

Catz x

Shez

hi everyone!

Sorry not been around much this week, so I am not up to full speed with whats been happening!

Apart from I see Churchmouse and pink having a meet [strike]booze [/strike]up:rotfl: - Hope you enjoyed London, hope to see you next time you visit the Big smoke!

For the first time in ages I forced myself to make some banana muffins and PPinchers Fat Free banana loaf - to use up a bunch of narnas my neighbour gave me! TBH I havent felt like doing much baking lately (not in the mood) - plus I think my waistline has thanked me for it!;) :rotfl:

My neighbour is babysitting two little yorkshire terriers - which DD absolutely adores! (she is dog/animal mad!!:rolleyes: ) So I havent seen her much since she came home from nursery!:rotfl: Have to drag her out soon to go swimming lessons!

DS2 got his first badge at Beavers for his sleepover! he looked dead chuffed!

DS1 has gone of to Bratislava for a [strike]booze[/strike] siteseeing weekend! Apparently its the new "Prague" - but as usual he forgot to organise his currency - so cue mum spent all day yesterday at Lakeside trying to get Slovakian Koruna:rolleyes: No luck, so hope he got it at the airport!

PenPenguin - Cant wait for the eggs to hatch!!!
Mrsmix/catowen - Hi!
catznine - what an awful thing to happen to that man!
chalky - welcome back!

Shez xx

catznine

My food dehydrator has just turned up!:j I have unwrapped it, wiped it and it is now going through it's 30mins to get rid of the plastic smell! Must go sort out those apples now!

shez - well done to your ds2 on getting his first badge!

betheebee

What a day !! deceided to finish gardening after I cut my hand on the seceturs , went shopping and dropped a box of 10 eggs in Morries, my hands just went numb. Felt the whole world was tut tutting. The staff just looked exhasperated.
I had 6 bananas going soft so shopped for ingrediants to make a cheesecake, did the crumb mix in a sandwich tin but when I saw the amount of fromage frais, quark, bananas, 3 eggs, caster sugar and lemon juice that I mixed I realised that it would spill over :idea: , so I dug the crumble mix out and put it in a cake tin, poared the topping in and then realised that I hadn't used the tin with the loose bottom. I've thrown it in the oven, it takes 1 hr to cook ( 15mns to go ) and then recipe said turn off oven and leave for another hour then cool for 30 mns. Jeez what a palaver :eek: Still, it will take me that long to clean the kitchen. First and proberbly the last time I make it. So much for my latest attempt at OS. Now I'm wondering how to get it out of the tin.

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi Guys!

I havent read all the thread, so hoping you are all ok.

Have had another rough day today, so have been quiet at home. No washing today but the beds are stripped tomorrow, so theres 2 loads to get through then and hopefully the weather will still be fine. DW will go on after dinner and DD will be emptying it as thats her chore tonight.

OH has done some gardening (with SPF15 on:rolleyes: ) and his rowing machine turned up, so he put that together. He is in the process of painting the decking a lovely dark green colour as we are having a BBQ on sunday if weather permits. He is also doing a veggie patch and has planted a few things so far.

We freecycled our BM today as we decided it takes too much space in our kitchen and we rarely use it except for pizza dough. I have a lovely big food mixer with a dough attachment, so the dough should be no problem. We dont like the bread that the BM turns out and have tried numerous variations.

Anyway, Id better go. I have some boiled eggs on the go and am making some pasta/mayo/sweetcorn to go with salad for dinner.

Hugs to all.

PP
xx