ARMY GARRISON GATE NOW OPEN...week beginning 12th October 2015

[JackieClaire]

Coq au Vin in the oven..........me face down on the settee in a mist of air freshener.

[JackieClaire]

Not I.

[JackieClaire]

Coq au Vin cos you could blame the smell on the dinner yeah?

More than likely. Also I was such a wine snob I could get a good hearty red..............or 3.

[JackieClaire]

shhhhhhhhh..........cake day for Mrs Yam tomorrow. 90 days.

[JackieClaire]

No problem.

[roxane]

i'll get the candles.

[IamMary]

oooooohhhh -- just as well I checked back there ---- you do the baking - I'll do the eating --

No problem.

i'll get the candles.

I can SEE YOU

ha - thats a relief to hear, that you didnt all turn tidy and organised! My memories are not that old, but I had forgotten some of them already, they do go back a long time . I was functioning ok before, but I was cranky, guilty and starting to get overwhelmed. Things are way way better in my head, but life is just as busy.:congratulatory:

So Im grand Molly thanks, as I gloss over it all! There's a lot unsaid between MrM and I, but that will come eventually. So really Im doing good and pincing myself that Im this far.

Slow cooker, yep, I have a roast in there now. I use it a few times a week. Anything I can automate, I will. (I am The Gaget Girl!). Its a fantastic simple device that I wouldnt be without.

[IamMary]

Actually I did think I would be superwomen by now - more ambitious in my job and terribly skinny.
Hmm.. think I got all the wrong genes!

[IamMary]

Breast fed and dressed children in the town.

haha.. thats how I read your post, weird mental image of your grown up kids!

[sunbird2]

anyways -- on a lighter note --- anyone got a slow cooker? I used to have one eons ago -- and it was shite -- but the modern ones sound sort of good --- anyone know?

Hello all the Army Ladies,

Back from Lusikisiki!:yay:

Yes, Molly, I have a newish slow cooker...very useful, especially in winter. Why do you ask?

[JackieClaire]

Question numero 1 for Sunny.

What is Netflix?

[JackieClaire]

Mary, love. In my very humble opinion there's a very definite switch in dynamics when one partner gives up drinking...........its like all of a sudden we find a voice. It may mean you might have to have 'the talk' but you'll both be clear headed if and when it happens.

[satz123]

I agree 100% -- and I remember the hour before Joe was due in from work --- often in a somewhat blurry way I would flee round the house make sure everything was in order -- wonderful dinner on the cooker and everything in place -- in case he smelled the wine off of me -- I didn't 'act' drunk -- I gather I appeared sober almost all the time -- except for my eyes according to Adam -- but if I was rumbled I couldn't risk having messy house etc thrown in my face

nowadays -- it's just ALL so different --- hence the lazy cow :-))))

Yep that's EXACTLY it !!!
Also all the calories in the grog fueling the energy
Now I sit on my arse a lot knowing the stuff will get done eventually.

[IamMary]

Mary, love. In my very humble opinion there's a very definite switch in dynamics when one partner gives up drinking...........its like all of a sudden we find a voice. It may mean you might have to have 'the talk' but you'll both be clear headed if and when it happens.

You are right there JC, definitely a shift. Our first few years were one big party! Of course that couldn't last but still, I tried..

Yep that's EXACTLY it !!!
Also all the calories in the grog fueling the energy
Now I sit on my arse a lot knowing the stuff will get done eventually.

when I know someone is coming, I get my superhero cleaning powers, but they don't work for the rest of the time.

[satz123]

Mary- is MrM like Mr S?
A bit bewildered by it all. Happy I've done it - kinda - but still not sure WHY I had to go the full hog and AF.

Wants me to be able to drink in pubs ................ but afraid he can't have it both ways.

He is acting like a 20 year old.
Just went into a 'gig' in Whelans pub - on his own.
Wanted me to go to packed pub & sit sober- but he wouldn't go sober.
He got the bus .... FFS !!