Lesley Posted March 5, 2005 Author Share Posted March 5, 2005 That's cheered up my morning - I have to go to work this morning - think I'll leave the handbag behind! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 Pockets are certainly a safer option Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 5, 2005 Author Share Posted March 5, 2005 Husbands pockets - even better! In fact he'll carry my handbag and not care Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 Aren't modern men wonderful !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 I'll let you know about Aren't modern men wonderful !! after tomorrow. Graham is cooking roast beef lunch for 8 of us, will my kitchen survive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 Good luck!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola H Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 Sarah you lucky thing I wish my other half could cook. The other day when I was working late I asked him to feed the kids he took them to Macdonalds Yukkk !!!! Glad I didn't have to eat it I cooked my own. You seem to have mastered quotes I shall confess now that I still can't use the quote function maybe you could give me a master class........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 Grahams just told me off .... I prepared the veg earlier for tomorrow, and laid the dining room table(not often we get to eat there with a 3 and 5yr old) . The problem is I am a bit of a control freak when it comes to cooking and entertaining, its something I like to think I do well . So poor Graham with all the best intentions tends to get more help than he actually needs ... but I feel a bit guilty after being poorly, and then he did the ironing this morning too . I have been promised brekky in bed .. so will leave that well alone . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 5, 2005 Author Share Posted March 5, 2005 My OH and my SIL cook all the time, so daughter and I are very lucky. Only problem is they have similar tendencies to Keith Floyd and the food gets later and later......... SIL, Andrew, will start cooking here while the rest of us go to Church. I'm also a control freak so I will do a timetable (and check on progress) otherwise we won't get lunch until 3pm tomorrow! Carl and I don't mind, we're used to it, but the children get hungry, get silly, wreck the place, eat the furniture.......... (they just get really grumpy really ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 Lesley wrote I'm also a control freak so I will do a timetable (and check on progress) otherwise we won't get lunch until 3pm tomorrow! Carl and I don't mind, we're used to it, but the children get hungry, get silly, wreck the place, eat the furniture.......... (they just get really grumpy really I offered to do Graham a "timing" sheet .. can't repeat what he said And true what you say about the kids .... you then relent and give a few grapes to shut them up, and then they don't eat the dinner . We are aiming for starters at 12.45pm, while the beef rests and the Yorkshires rise. Then the mains and desert ... if theres any left after tonight ... Graham taped ER and we are going to watch it later . ( Marks' cheesecake selection is yummy, and the Brownie desert ..... ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 5, 2005 Author Share Posted March 5, 2005 (edited) We've got two roasting chickens again and no doubt Carl will tell Jake(4) that they are Millie and Tallulah again - and no doubt Jake will fall for it again- and no doubt Mummy and Grandma will be left to pick up the pieces again - while Daddy and Carl drink in the kitchen - again Lauren (7) will be doing this Edited March 6, 2005 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 Oh dear! What a fun time you're going to have, Lesley ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 6, 2005 Author Share Posted March 6, 2005 Carl did - Jake did.........did he care? well he sat at the end of the table singing a little song called 'Millie and Tallulah'! (but he didn't eat any chicken - just veg - as usual) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 22, 2005 Author Share Posted March 22, 2005 This is to go with Sheila's topics on Reminiscences and reliving the 70's. Time for another quote from my book! "It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola H Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 I remember alright it is just I had very diverse tastes in music, and don't think anybody will recognise the names... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trish Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Try us Nicola, my tastes are a little off the beaten track too sometimes. I just don't say much as I've gotten too used to the blank stares Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola H Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Trish sorry we have moved to the right topic now over in sheila's Reliving the 70's.............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sheilaz Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 "It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything!" I borrowed a book from the library called "How to Improve Your Memory" It really works! But, I forgot to take it back to the library.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Thought you were going to say you forgot where you'd left it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Murdo Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 I borrowed a book from the library called "How to Improve Your Memory" It really works! But, I forgot to take it back to the library.... I have a colleague who decided to go on a self assertiveness course, as she felt she needed it (speech impediment didn't help), so she booked it at her local adult education centre. Unfortunately she got there a bit late, and they'd already closed the door. She was too timid to go in late, so she went away again.... True story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 (edited) Brilliant, didn't know whether to laugh or cry about that...poor thing. I used to be so shy & self conscious.....I'm not now (don't know what happened).......& would have felt like that. Arrived at a tutorial once, nodded to the people already seated, went to sit down and couldn't work out how to sit down; The chair & desk was an all in one piece of furniture. For what seemed an eternity, I looked at it (with all eyes on me in complete silence) trying to work out how to climb into something that looked like a baby's highchair. Eventually realized that the desk was a hinged flap that lifted up on one side....I was so near leaving the room Edited March 22, 2005 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola H Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Can just see you in a baby's high chair Sheila Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
