Holy cow! I can see you won't be feeling any pain. Just be sure you don't get so well-medicated you don't feel anything at all. Ever...............<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

t&l

I am the snickering, groaning princess.

All I am doing this weekend is watching tv, knitting, and icing down everything on my backside from my axis to my sacro-illiac.

According to your mother, the two of you have generated sufficient heat already, without the necessity of going for any silly old hikes in the hills. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />, indeed. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> If this keeps up, Neak's going to have to give you a complimentary sink. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

lol sink !!! hahahaha

I had to rush out & help Aussie, he 'decided' to cut down the branches from a lilac tree.. ABOUT 40 FT ABOVE THE GROUND ... I was the 'weight' on the fall guide rope !!!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

I'm thinking of making him a nice cup of tea .. and using salt, lots & lots of salt !!!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

We haven't received it in writing yet, but the seller is making a countercountercounter offer that agrees we may have the 90 days asked for, but the house stays on the market in the meantime so that if another buyer comes along they have the option to sell it to them. It doesn't really matter to me - if we're supposed to get that house then we will, and if not there are other options.

Notice I say nothing about sinks.

I dont need a sink or even two ,, YET .. a spa bath would be nice, with a massage and a iced chocolate drink is EXACTLY what I need!

Well if the house in the shed does not come through perhaps that old court house & county jail would work? Ready made child care unit hehehehe or husband stay at home unit ..oops lost the keys .. or reconcilaition rooms, no one leaves unitl you make up or have throttled the other <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

or rent them out as 'Honeymoon suites' <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

well no matter whatever happens is in God's hands <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Don't accept unless they promise to give your $500 back if they sell to somebody else.


I sink that's a good idea. At least you're exercising restraint somewhere. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Ice time....retrieving this thread from deep on the second page.

Just chekcing in to see if all are ok today?

Are you all having a nice Sunday?

Mum myself & DD went to church and gently invited Aussie to come along <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
he said to remind 'Bazza' - the Arch Bishop - to ring him to have a beer or two and play some chess.

Okaaaaaaay chess, mmmmm well I suppose he could have invited him to a topless bar I guess <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Only Aussie!

Did you have a nice time at church?

Well we enjoyed the sermon on sharing your life with others. And the choir was nice.

Said a lot of prayers for Travelling Soldier .. and few very private ones for my son .. to break a leg ,, now I am feeling soooo guilty but I think God wont mind really, he understands what I mean .

and few for all my MB family and a special one for Aussie. Also a big thankyou for guarding him and keepng him safe through the deployment.

Sounds really nice, AW. Glad you were blessed.

I am operating at unusual efficiency (for me), and have gotten the houseinabarn pictures all done. I really can't wait to see it in the spring; everything is so dead and frozen right now. The day we were out there, it was about 17 or 18 degrees.

Houseinabarn Now Added

This morning, my family and I attended 'Our Lady of the Icepacks'.

My daughter and I engaged in an act of service for others during fellowship at 'Our Ladies of the Knitting Needles' when we worked on our current knitting projects - she is making a scarf for her best friend whose greatgrandmother did a week ago and whose teenaged cousin was out canoeing over a week ago with a friend and who has not yet returned or been found. I am knitting a blanket for a couple who is trying to adopt a baby following quite a while of infertility treatment.

I didn't think I could sit still for a couple of hours at church. One for class and one for worship.

I see mum has been making pikelets for Aussie ...where are mine?? hands on hip ..waiting

"I'm just thinking about your figure dear" is not an excuse!!!

muttering darkly about interferring mothers and hormonal cravings

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At least I know when I advise and assist my kids its for their own good <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

What are pikelets....sounds like they must be fattening....tell her you are getting lots more exercise than you are used to and you need extra energy....after all, she can hear the bed squeeking. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Sh-h-h-h-h-h. I think AW is in the awkward position of trying to maintain the fiction that the bed is NOT squeaking, and those frequent sounds are all a figment of her mother's particularly-vivid imagination. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> Don't make it harder for her than you have to! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

t&l

I was trying to create a viable explanation of why she might NEED pikelets.

Ah-h-h-h-h-h. Stamina builders, huh? I guess my pt. wants to push. Maybe I need a pikelet or two myself--vegetarian, of course! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060305/FEATURES03/603050330/1004

That is for the decorators among us.

TNL - how do you know you want a vegetarian pikelet....she hasn't told us what they are.....and if they are already vegetarian and you get a vegetarian one, then it might have meat in it...in a twisted way that makes sense.

ok

now my darling daughter has told me people want to know what a pikelet is.

So while she is busy with my grandson I will give you the recipe

What you need
1 cup milk
1½ cups water
1 teaspoon dried yeast
3½ cups (a little under 1 lb) flour - I have no idea what the metric is I just use 2 lots of measuring cups & spoons depending on what the measures are in.
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar


Special equipment
a jaguar would be nice but a new planc would be ok
(The planc is a basic Welsh iron rimless cooking pan, for cooking oatcakes and other griddle breads. I got mine from my grandmother)

What you do
Warm the milk and water in a broad shallow bowl. Dissolve in the yeast. Stir together the flour, salt and sugar. Make a well in the center and pour in the yeast mixture.
Beat briskly with a whisk until smooth. Leave it in a warm place for an hour, or a cool place for a few hours if you want to delay the cooking until later.

Whisk down the batter. Lightly oil and heat your planc, griddle, or large frying pan. Pour half ladlefuls (about 1/4 cup of batter) onto the surface and cook at a moderate heat. Flip when holes form and the surface loses its glaze. Serve stacked with fresh butter, jam & cream. Makes about 30 three inch pancakes.

For those of Gaelic origins these are 'crempog' or in other words, flat crumpets.
A nice fresh pot of char and you are set for a lovely afternoon 'tea'.

See easy peasy.

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