O/S Daily Sunday 18th August 2019

Morning everyone

SO - thanks for starting us off, sounds like a more positive result to your enquiry x

Hugs to those that want/need one, those who are poorly and those who are looking after a poorly person x

Happy birthday to those with a birthday x

DH and myself up enjoying first cuppas, he's watching catchup tv, and I'm on here whilst enjoying my porridge. DS1 still in his pit, and DS2 settled and ok.

Bright clear sunny start to the day, but damp underfoot so we've had rain during the night at some point, but forecast going forward looks better than this past week.

Dinner last night ended up being takeaway pizza and chips - DS2 picked it up on his way home from being out and it was delicious as always - little independent shop been there for a good while now and quality and prices are very good value. Late lunch/early dinner today will be what we should have had yesterday - menfolk will be having steak and ale pies, chips, peas and gravy. I'll be having fishcakes and caponata/stir fry type dish that I'll throw together as I feel whilst I'm cooking.

Yesterday I got done what I wanted in the morning, then DH and myself went to look at cars and it ended up being a spendy one as we've found a new to us car that we're going to part-ex our existing one for - very well looked after, clean and tidy, low mileage and slightly bigger than what we have, and when I rang the insurance company to organise the change after doing a price comparison on one of the sites, what should have been a quick change of vehicle (as nothing else has changed) became an hour long phone call being shoved from one dept to another - in summary the price comparison site gave me an excellent price from the same insurer - cutting the monthly cost in half from what we are currently paying - we're going from a more expensive make of car to a cheaper but still very good make, but the cost difference is a lot. Apparently "they" couldn't find the quote and couldn't match it ..... until I gave them the quote reference from the comparison site .... then realised that they really needed to honour it .... but then all the faff started having to cancel the old policy, but incur a cancellation charge, but as taking another policy with them, they waiver that, transferred to a dept to then set up the new policy .... hence the hour long phone call, advisor was just doing his job and was good but what a faff! we got there in the end, I await the documentation hopefully that is all correct! Car is to be collected next weekend. So spendy but insurance is less than half of what we were paying.

Today we're going to visit my parents who are having a few days away in there caravan - hope dad is managing with mum ok, she's difficult and hard work all the time now - this past 6 weeks or so she's getting worse. We'll visit DH's grandad at the same time as he's in the same area.

Keep safe and well x

nmlc x

Good morning, and thanks SO for starting, and welcome to the new posters, we need you!!

Glad you got sorted out with your car insurance NMLC , it was worth the long phone call

It seems fine here, yesterday was windy and sunny, I got a lot of washing dry.

Sounds as if you had a good day yesterday TA.

Don't know what delights today will bring, same old same old I expect.

Anyway, hope you all have a good day
Take care folks xx

Hiya,
Thank you all for the warm welcomes :j

I am doing C25K so just heading out on Week 5, Day 3 which is 20 mins solid running ... bit apprehensive as only done 2 lots of 8 mins before but going to give it a whirl. OH is treating me and his Mum to breakfast at the local cafe after. Might go for a ride if horses aren't too soggy and then home to do a roast. I picked up 3 cooked chickens in Morrison's on Fri night for 50p each. I have stripped them off and had some yesterday but will do roast with them today and then make soup with the rest (and maybe a pie?!) along with some left over veggies. HM yorkies and a HM lemon sponge for pud. What containers do people use to freeze stuff in when they batch cook?

Need to give the house a good clean this afternoon as letting agent is coming over in the morning to take some pics and get this house on the market. Exciting times!

Luv SH77 x

Good morning everyone :hello:

Yay, my smilies are back :j:j. Welcome to Smallholding and DIMW, hope you will stick around, it's lovely to meet new people.

It's a bright and sunny morning here. Phoebe left for work at 6am and we have the grandchildren staying as their mum and stepdad were celebrating their third anniversary. I can't believe it's been 3 years since they got married. It seems to have flown by.

Steve had some brilliant news yesterday. He got a letter about his PPI claim and they have offered him £6500. We are over the moon as he will be able to buy a much better car now.

nmlc, great news about your car. I hope the paperwork comes through with no problems xx
I love comps, glad to hear you had a lovely holiday in Cornwall. It's certainly a beautiful part of the country and good to hear your mum is a bit better too xx
smallholding, I use the silver takeaway style dishes when I am cooking for the freezer as I can just write on the cardboard lids what the contents are and the date of freezing xx

Steve will be cooking a lovely roast pork dinner in a bit and the kids will load the dishwasher afterwards. I have bought him a rhubarb pie as a treat for his pudding as it is his favourite.

Hope you all have a great day whatever you are up to, take care xx

Welcome to new folk! You’re not new now!
Great PPI news dumpling. Lovely to get a new car.
nmlc- well done with the insurance phone call. So worth it. Enjoy your new car when you get it.
TA - love hearing about your shopping bargains.
Small holding - I use a mix of marg tubs and those click lock boxes. I like batch cooking and freezing. Means easy teas when I get in from work which is good as it can be busy.
Sunny and windy here today. Day of pottering I think. I need to defrost the freezer but I’ve been saying that for months now so it’s unlikely to be done today.
Hope you have as good a day as possible folks