Soop's kitchen for friendly folk and precious pets...

Phew, long and hard on the feet day. Couldn't find one thing I went looking for. Did however find several I wasn't looking for .

Don't get too bogged down in that sort out morethan, I had the same plans, notice I said had, somehow they were taken over by other things. Hope your daughter in law is resting comfortably after her biopsy and news will be good. Grandchildren surely are a worry when on our watch. We're taking two to a cave system on Friday. Nothing can go wrong in a cave, can it? .

I hope the Soops have arrived safely in Holland.

GQ they do seem to put hearts in mouths far more than our children ever did. My two used to love climbing rocks in the Peak District and I never seemed to worry about them half as much as I do about GS doing the same thing. It's the "not on my watch" thing, isn't it? We took him canoeing yesterday. He dropped his paddle in the water and had to be physically restrained from trying to retrieve it as it floated away. He would have had us all in the lake! I don't know how I would have explained that to his mother!
I am planning a fishing day tomorrow at Ladybower. After an emotionally unsatisfactory start to the week, I need to centre myself again, and it is always a place that does it for me, whether I am fishing there, walking or whatever. It is beautiful, so big that you can always find a bit of solitude.

grannyqueenie 10 year olds can be sooo diva dahling

morethan2 when you've finished your bumph-sorting could you start on mine please? I have a couple of carrier bags with labels stating Shred but check first that I brought when I moved here 4 years ago My neighbour has recently been in hospital and I thought it an ideal time to do loads of shredding without disturbing her, but prevaricate is my middle name and it's still waiting to be done. She's been home a week now but it's half-term and I'm looking after DGS ...

Hope your family get good results from that biopsy - lots of good wishes and (((hugs))) to you all x

elegran

Good luck with taking that paper mountain
morethan2, thinking positively it may prove a useful distraction with all your coping with just now. Hoping the biopsy results give positive news and praying you'll be able keep calm in the meantime.
Love your strategy nellie I have a similar one that involves one of those playtunnels for toddlers that the big grandchildren still seem to enjoy!!
We've had a good day in the sunshine today, (sorry greyduster I don't mean to gloat and hope all's well with that eye) took the 2 girls to Brimham Rocks which they always love but I find it scary watching how high they're able to climb. My old boy is much more cavalier relaxed about it all which only adds to my anxiety! However we did all get home safely after visits to an ice cream parlour and then a playground en route. A hasty return to home was called for when the 10 year old found she'd ripped a hole in her leggings and was showing an increasingly wide expanse of knickers with every movement ...she was mortified!! It just shows how much she's grown up, a year ago she wouldn't have cared less!!

morethan2 yes you can devise the same cage. If your grand children are taller than mine you can buy the metre wide clematis netting.
I just found a length in DDs garden and decided to wrap it round him. He thought it was funny as well we must share a silly sense of humour.

I am a "Nannan" because t'other gran already had two grand children and is "Grandma". It is apparently a local term for grandmothers in south Yorkshire.

Well, that was fun. The best day of the week so far and we end up sitting in the emergency eye clinic at the hospital this afternoon. DH went to the docs this morning because his eye, which we thought was getting better, was suddenly Getting worse. She told him to go to the hospital as she wasn't happy about it and she wanted someone to have a better look at it. Anyway, there is nothing major wrong but it could be linked to some other underlying condition so they have changed his drops and done some blood tests. It's a walk in clinic and though it seemed busy we were only in there just over a hour and a half. The downside is when you add in the length of time you have to spend travelling too and from the hospital.

All the best for your Dil, morethan. I'm the paper shuffler in our house. I also try a bit of decluttering when I'm not too busy making a mess outisde gardening.

I'm the one that tames paperwork in our house morethan; I have a big sort out at the end of the year, ready for tax return day in January & have an active "rainy day" pile of stuff for filing away.
One of the little pleasures in my life is shredding - how sad am I? I do a lot all at once & find it very relaxing for some unknown reason; when the shredder gets a bit hot under the collar I love picking out the bits in its "teeth" with an old pair of tweezers. Am I odd?

Kind thoughts to you & yours.

Good luck with that, Morethan - an exercise we undertook last year, drowning in a sea of paper! Pay slips and bank statements going back to goodness knows when. We were going to scan them all . We'd still have been at it now! I will have everything crossed for your DiL.

morethan
Going through everything will take you the rest of your retirement. Other things (esp. grandchildren) will take precedence and create more chaos faster than you can sort it out.
Fingers crossed for that biopsy.

Hi Baggs. Will you be regressing back to the crust if you cock it up again get tired of the double g?

morethan prayers and positive thought are winging their way to you and all your family. It is an awful time for you and the hours will drag and drag

Nelliemoser can I borrow your idea Are you called Nan-nan? That's what we called our grandmother don't hear it often now. It's lovely.

Info: thatbags is now Baggs. It's complicated and a result of my incompetence I decided I couldn't live any longer without a double g ?

Morning all. You've been a chatty lot, hope I haven't missed anything. I've spent my time going through 20 years of bank statements and such like. It's part of my retirement strategy. First I have to gather them together, throw out the bumph. (This is were I'm upto) then put them in order, look again, decide what is absolutely necessary to keep, dispose of the rest. It should take about a month at this rate. Then there's the rest of the house. That'll take until next year and beyond Today the day of my DiL biopsy (prayers and positive thoughts welcomed) I'm having the three little ones for a few days. So deep breaths and bracing myself.

Wow! Why have I never thought of that, Nellie? It could catch on in a big way!

soop safe journeys and a wonderful wedding experience

I feel positively chastened after reading all that you lot are doing and coping with. I am looking after DGS each day this week as it's half-term (the family live less than one mile away from me so no overnights) and I am shattered after just 2 days! DS is on night duty and DDIL is extra busy in her job due to half-term, so of course I have my darling DGS with me.

We were going to Battersea Park Childrens Zoo today but thankfully I changed my mind and went to a local City Farm instead. The Zoo trip would have involved 3 or 4 changes of train/tube or 90 minutes bus and walk each way and DGS had a major meltdown when we left the farm because the shop was closed for lunch and we couldn't buy any chickens' fresh eggs!. I managed to 'keep calm and carry on' but the number of people who stopped to stare at his behaviour was alarming, in that no-one said anything, even when he was screaming that he wanted his mum. My focus was on him and I didn't feel the need to apologise to anyone that his behaviour was due to his autism. However I did wonder if someone had called the police when a siren came shrieking towards us! Part of me hoped it was for us and that a child in obvious distress would be noted but the car continued past, with DGS covering his ears and crying. Eventually he calmed enough that we made it home ok and all was well but I think it might be a lazy day at home tomorrow watching some favourite films

Nelliemoser's childminding technique for taming a 4yr old
Naughty Nannan!

Enjoy yourself soop and please protect that leg. I had forgotten that BA still do not have their act together.

"Ann" one of my neighbours has a similar dog and have had it for 18 months from an early age and he is still very excitable, jumping up on people whenever he gets close. He is gorgeous but needs to calm down which I do not think will happen.

Soop enjoy the trip, flight and all.

May i hope you are not flying BA and all the assistance is cconfirmed, at both ends of the flights.

Bon Voyage and Haste ye back to your heilan home.

Have a wonderful trip, soop and bring us back plenty of pictures of the wedding and of a glamorous soop.

P.s. he ruined one vertical blind, one coaster, one slipper and tried to
dig up the metal thingy which the washing whirly fits in.