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Old Style Daily Thursday 18 April 2024
Good morning - it's very grey outside, but sunny indoors!
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Old Style Daily Wednesday 17th April
Morning allAnother chilly morning here in Kent. Hopefully those winds will have eased today. No plans today, as yet, apart from going for a walk around the lake with a podcast for company. Hopefully might get out into the garden later if the weather keeps calm. Salmon for dinner tonight. Have a good day all x
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Embracing the old style to get through this next stage..
Hi everyone Not really sure what area of the forum this goes in but I'm into meal planning, bargains and being as thrifty as I can and life has thrown some curve balls in the last 18 months that has well and truly given need to get a handle on things... Currently separated but renting probably above what I can afford...…
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Old Style Daily Tuesday 16 April 2024
Morning. It's cold and bright so far.
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Old Style daily 15th April
Morning allThis waking up early is getting silly now. 4.30am this morning grrrrr Oh well the bonus is this thread is ready and waiting for any other early riser lolToday I'm going to a large shopping centre for a mooch round, I've a gift card to spend if anything takes my fancy. Before that I've got my breadmaker out of…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 8th April 2024
Welcome to the weekly Flylady Thread. What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US flylady idea - but we work on the principle that housework is not fun, it's boring, can be time-consuming, is often thankless but, unfortunately, necessary. It's here on Old Style to provide the support we all need and to make the whole…
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Old Style Daily 14th April
Morning all. First time for everything. Everyone must be having a lie inJust had my T***o shop delivered and sitting down with a coffee to read the daily thread so as I couldn't I thought I'd start it insteadNothing going on here today apart from cooking a yellow stickered duck for dinner to have with stir fryHope everyone…
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Old Style Daily Sunday 14 April 2024
Morning - where is everyone? x
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Preserving Jars
Haven't had to buy any in years, so wondering where the best bargains are to be had. I'm looking for smooth round twist top 260 ml approx types. It's almost the bottling season so wondering if HB or similar will generally stock them and are well priced?Thanks.
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Old Style Daily Saturday 13 April 2024
Morning all, a rather slow start here today.
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Old Style Daily Friday 12 April 2024
Good morning.
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Storing spices in bulk? I.e putting them in containers, on shelves etc?
I bulk buy spices from Asian supermarkets as they are cheaper than regular supermarkets often by a long shot but often means I may have 2/3kg bags of each item and means I have 1 cupboard in my kitchen that is purely for spices, stock cubes, and tea/coffee and I have 4 more cupboards in the kitchen but they are all…
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Making Yogurt
For months, we have been enjoying Pure Nature Organic Live Natural Belgian Whole Milk Yogurt 150g from Milk & More.There was an offer, 4 for £3 which saved 1.48. I bought the offer three times a week. We loved the yogurt which is thick and creamy. Discovered yesterday that the offer is no more. That means we would have to…
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Old Style Daily Thursday 11 April 2024
Good morning even though it's raining still. 😀
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Old Style Daily Wednesday 10 April 2024
Good morning all.
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Old Style Daily Tuesday 09 April 2024
Good morning all.
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Old Style Daily Monday 08 April 2024
Good morning. 💨💨 the wind is still blowing hard.
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Weekly Flylady Thread 1st April 2024
Welcome to the weekly
Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week when it comes to
housework, or just the motivation to do the dreaded housework tasks you have to
do, come and join us, hopefully make it a little easier. You never know, you
might start to enjoy it! What
is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US…
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Old Style Daily Sunday 7th April 2024
Good morning, it's fine at the moment here, but I think it might rain, there are clouds coming over. Going to go down to a caravan site near York today, it's nice we were there last year. We packed the van up yesterday, so there's not much to do. Hope everyone has a good day today, take care folks.
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Old Style Daily Saturday 06 April
Good morning folks. Once again the wind raged during the night, the clouds are still moving pretty fast across the sky. I’ll be back after a stretch and a coffee.