OS Daily Thread - Saturday 13th February 2010

Morning all

It's beautiful and sunny here, and I am off work until the 22nd so I'm in a rather good mood.

Happy birthday to Miss Pipkin, I remember turning 13 and thinking I was so grown up! :rotfl:

Today I am off to town to have my haircut, then to meet the girls for quick lunch and then off to my old local pub near my parents house to watch the rugby with my other friends. Then I'll call into my parents cos I didn;t get there yesterday to pick up post and my new GHD's and my cousin and his wife should be there too so it will be nice to see them for a bit.

Very little OS today - tomorrow will be a mammoth spring clean!. DW will go on overnight tonight. I'm having crumpets for breakfast, and a freezer meal for tea. Either HM curry or fahijas with a HM sauce. Both are nice and easy to do, so just depends on what takes my fancy later.

Have a fab day all

x

nmlc wrote: »

Made 2 dozen biscuits and 2 dozen cup cakes yesterday afternoon, will be making a bakewell tart and fruit tealoaf today -

Would you happen to have a tried and tested recipe for bakewell tart ?? its one of my favourites, and I have never baked one, I would love to give it a go

Morning all,

Just me up at the moment, even little dog is still in bed, will get dd up at 9, her dad comes at 11 and she has to clear her bedroom first.

First load of washing is in the machine, 2 more to go, but it looks like a good drying day, so will get it all on the line, I need to get OH to go in the loft and get a weekend bag down for dd going away, they are only going for 5 days so that should be big enough.

OH made a lovely chilli last night, with my home grown chillis, it was delish and nice and spicy hot which is just how we like it, I think he put 10 chillis in it

Tea tonight will be 'cheesy nabs' , nice bread, cheese, pickles dips etc, very easy, just bung it all on the table and help yourself.

Need to pop to the shop later and get a card for tomorrow, might see if there are any chocs at a good price too

Also might nip to B & Q to get the flooring for dd's bedroom, the electrician let us down yesterday, and we cant do anything until he has done his bit, :mad: its really frustrating.

Happy Birthday to Miss Pipkin, have a wonderful day xx :bdaycake:

Cranky, hope you and the house elf are ok xx

Tru,how lovely what sweet chicks x

OK off to get more tea and some toast.

Have good days all xx

Good morning....very tired here today, youngest was up in the night being sick, got him back off at about 2am , then my daughter decided to get up...excited i guess as its her 11th birthday today.
S o just had to ring the grandparents to tell them that son has been sick just in case its a bug and they might not want to come over, they said they'd risk it but no stay too long.
Hubby is off to work then later...he was supposed to be off today but his boss forgot to book it in the diary and booked a large cookery course in.
Daughter has requested a chinese for her birthday dinner, so hubby can pick that up on the way home

Hope everyone has as good a day as they can

oh and Happy Birthday Miss Pipkin....i too can't believe how fast time goes, this time 11 years ago we'd just got to the labour unit

Morning all

Not been on all week as it has been one of those chasing my tail weeks and lots off appointments etc.
Off to DS`s music lesson at 10. I need to pop to boots to get some more frizz ease shampoo etc for my "afro".
When we get back DS and I are going to make some red velvet cupcakes and then ice them with red icing and use white writing icing to do hearts on them....these will be for OH for valentines day.....have already got him a card:p
It is DS`s autism group swim party tonight at 6 so busy day for him .
i will give him his tea at 4 as usual and will make some HM pizza for OH and I to shove in the oven later as it is 8 30 by the time we get back from the swim.
Other news re DS......had his parents evening....apparently when he was last assessed for reading his reading age was 4yrs 5 months ( he is 6yrs 6 months)......now it is 7 years and 5 months. He has come on a lot. They are obviously still having other difficulties with his behaviour and any change at school etc but am so glad something is going the right way for him:D:T. He is flapping a lot at the mo due to half term etc:cool:
Oh and he persuaded me to let him look after the school fish ( 2 goldfish) for the hols:o so had to carry them home in the tank yesterday....Fatcat taking a very keen interest as they are in a more accessible spot than ours

Redruby wow 10 chillies:eek:...hope you have your toilet roll in the fridge in readyness;)
Bitsy up early again dear:p that will teach you for coming on and showing off about the kids sleeping later this week:rotfl::p;)
Taplady sorry you are feeling the pinch at the mo:o we are the same as OH missed a lot of work due to snow and not being able to get his van out( is self employed) and due to time off over Xmas when people do not want plumbers in their house unless an emergency. Will have the same next month as I have an unpaid week on next months wage due to DS being ill and DS`s dad has lost his job so has halved the maintenance for the time being:o:cool:.....aren`t we lucky we are OSers and will survive
DS now kicking off as he has discovered there is an all day Horrid Henry extravaganza on CITV so he doesnt want to go to music lesson.......DS has taken to saying "silence worm!" to anyone he doesnt want to listen to:o

Morning all.............((((((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))) if you need one.

It has rained overnight, OH was hoping to start digging out the beds he marked out yesterday, thinks its a bit too wet for that, doubtless he will find something to do.

I have the washing machine on as the forecast is for a fine day (fingers crossed) so even if it does not dry it will smell of fresh air.

We changed our minds about the carpet yesterday I have ordered a new one, sometime nest week we have to empty the bed room and get the 4 old carpets up and outside then arrange for a bulk pickup, the capret we have chosen has a falt back so we do not need the underlay. We also managed to pick up a bed in the sales, that will not be coming until the beginning of March........its slightly smaller than ours in that its 4' 6" rather than the 5' ours is.

Nothing really planned for today, apart from the washing.....may get an hour on my machine later, I have a couple of cushions to make up. Think I will unpack the breadmaker and get it going with a loaf, the bought bread is going down rapidly and does not fill you like the good old home bread does.