Elite Thread XIV

Morning Lovelies,

Thanks for the tea and toast Sue 🙂

Magda, sorry to hear your sad news, I hope you can get the arrangements sorted.

Resident Teen update.......(feel free to skip)............ We finally had the rumour confirmed. The gf is pregnant 🙄😱😢. It has also been decided that he will be moving into supported living. ......can I just say I will not miss his Social Worker 🙄

TM, I shall try your Conker Laundry Liquid method on the next batch of conkers. Just don't want to have to give up freezer space 🤣 ......I have dried this batch to keep in a tin.

Back to the old routine of visiting MiL and a trip to the posh garden centre 🙂

Have a lovely day 🙂

Ps...I have never been to Yarm ☹️

oh that is not good news.  

Good morning all, lovely blue skies here If we were still in Cyprus it would be toasty out there

Thank you for the tea and toast Sue

How's he going to cope in supported living Houseelf? It means he has to get up and do things! And what on earth are they going to do about the baby??? Sounds like life will start to get interesting, I am sure you will at least want updates on him.

Normal Saturday here, lots to do, but still taking some me time.

Hugs to everyone xx

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Checked my app library online and it looks like I used "MIUI downloader" and it's "hidden features" options.  www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/v15ly0/dual_apps_not_showing_up/

I saw this on my travels.  Perhaps it does the same : play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netvor.hiddensettings&hl=en-GB

I also read that Xiaomi decided to hide the feature on "lower specced" phones.  I was useful for ATR.  Recycling week I see.... I think I will start with a cull of phones.  CEX here I come.

That sounds great Lalli, but way too much effort for me lol.


I have found the trick to really soft rolls in the breadmaker. 315 ml water, 1lb 2oz white extra strong flour, 1 instant yeast, 1.5 oz sugar, 1.5 oz butter, use the pizza setting for 45 mins, leave in breadmaker for 30-60 mins more, divide up into 16 and leave in oven for half an hour before cooking for 20 minutes on 210 or so. Come out lovely.

It was funny, ran out of milk powder when it was really difficult to get so just did it with water, it was the best thing I ever did with the bread!

Thanks very much. I'll have a look when I have time.

Sunshine at the minute but been heavy rain all morning Think we will give the washing a miss Oh and it bitterly cold

Sue thanks for the tea and toast Such a disappointment when workmen let you down Hope you get it resolved

Magda Sending hugs and hope you get it sorted soon Its such a difficult time

Dh has another boys day out I will drop him at the bus station after lunch The bus drops him right outside the pub Saves me driving back and forth

Couple of bits of shopping then going to start on the accounts which have been promised to accountant for next Tuesday

Enjoy your day

That looks a bit like my garage, I have just been in there hunting for some Heinz tomato Ketchup and surprisingly enough found it.
Can't remember what glitch it was from, but years old and tastes fine.

I have spent the day chopping and peeling. I put the bread in, went shopping, came back and divided the bread up for buns. We then took a quick walk out to look at a road with a bungalow on it that is going up for sale, came back, cooked the rolls, cleaned out the birds, had a ten minute break for lunch, chopped a pepper, a couple of carrots, some tomatoes and broccoli and froze those down for Castor and Pollux's lunches Then I made soup for tonight and then we peeled a pound and a half of chestnuts.

Decided I deserve to sit down for a while now. We do have about another pound and a half of chestnuts to do, possibly tomorrow, with a couple of pounds in the freezer from a couple of days ago. Might have to nip out and get some more as they are very good this year.

For anyone passing Asda Checked the childrens pencils and crayons etc, Crayola and BIC.

SEL on mine was reduced but still incorrect, prices ranged from 18-24p Pencils are for PC colouring in of people of different shades Crayons and highlighters normal

There was a better selection of items yesterday but my app would not work Uninstalled then re installed today

Some to a friend today, most to the local nursery MY GC are too old for most of them

HTH

Oh houseelf  what a worry.


I think that's how supported living exists in utopia- and places will exist that offer all these things but I think they are rare now😕

In reality they will want to make sure that his housing benefit is in place and that he doesn't upset other residents, but over and above that it will be the luck of the draw. He will have to engage to make the most of it and from what you have said he may find that difficult. 

 Can we help sleazy?❤️

Having done the supported living/homeless thing as a pregnant 17 year old I can confirm that success was measured by being up to date with rent and otherwise causing no trouble.

The other contributing partner in the pregnancy has just recently reached a stage in life where they have a stable job and are of an age where a place of their own is appealing at 41. Prior to this they were couch surfing, car living, sleeping rough etc.

The pregnancy itself is now 20.5 years post incubation and in breathable air.

I feel like resident teen would only benefit from having a sensible fall back adult and that teen mum could probably do with a supportive grownup too. And by supportive I mean telling them when they’re being idiots and not holding it against them.

Children don’t know what’s best for them, I tried to run away in year 6, I finally left home in year 11, I thought I was a grownup who could look after myself. I ended up in sheltered housing at 17, pregnant with a full time job and just enough money to pay my bills, train ticket to work and buy a bag of carrots and a head of celery each week.

I was a child. I can see that now. I learned to manage with what I had available and made sure at least one of my jobs always provided food. But I look back and I see how much I thought I was a grownup and how much I could have used an actual adult who was present in my life.