Hushistas shiver in their summer clothes.

[ilovecherries]

Old thread : www.mumsnet.com/Talk/style_and_beauty/3561412-Hushistas-getting-themselves-summer-ready?watched=1&msgid=86904123#86904123

Oh @cherries the trip to Ely! Nightmare. It’s the fens I tell you there’s something weird in the air around here

I agree @soups and @ella it’s a bit of a chore being in charge of weekly dinners (I keep complaining and all my boys can cook but conveniently forget to...)

I’ve joined the fast 800 thread and that moves faster than this thread! Had a look a low carb boot camp thread too but too many “forbidden things” so I think I’ll stick with MM method and hope I shred fast so I can go to maintenance ASAP.
Tonight I’ve adapted this recipe to feed us and the vegan DC. I added chick peas to the basic tomato sauce for protein for the veggies.
They can have the sauce with pasta.
DH will get the best of both by having a bit of pasta with the chicken which will be my only treat, mozzarella cheese will help though!
thefast800.com/low-carb-mediterranean-mozzarella-chicken/

Anyway I will not become a diet bore, there’s a thread for that!

Good luck to all DC’s with exams coming up! Such a stressful time. I’m glad it’s over with in this household.

Thanks @len for the Homebase tip for sun umbrella. I shall investigate!

Tomorrow DS2 therapist is coming to my house. DS2 is up and down. The reason is her consulting room at surgery wasn’t available so they’ll have his weekly session here instead. Apparently she suggested meeting in a cafe in town but DS2 said Home is best for privacy. That made me happy as he knows I’m homeworking but obviously very comfortable with it.

Soy that’s so good that Ds is comfortable enough with therapist coming to the house, it’s good that he is still engaging with support sure it will help him navigate through these tough times.
I hate cooking, especially the dinner on table every night I would quite happily live on sandwiches & cheese, Dh & Ds however always seem to want cooked food.

Hi there, Husistas, just a quick pop in again, I'm not long back home , but just popping in so I dont fall off the thread!

I need to read back .

but

soy you'll find me just joined up the other thread also!

Thank you all lovely Hush friends for letting me moan about making dinner day in day out. I don't know what was wrong with me tonight - the kitchen was a mess, I was trying to make too many things at once and got in a right old strop with it all. Have used up the excess pastry making a salmon and red onion tart that came out quite well. The dds won't eat it though. Dh has a selection of dishes to work through when he gets home

@cherries how scary for you. Did you find out what caused the allergic reaction? Also, how is your dd doing with the dissertation?

@Soy sounds like the therapy is having a good effect on ds? Hope the session goes well tomorrow.

I've now had a run-in with dd3. This curly girl routine does not work well with autism. She asks me for precise instructions as if I am the expert! Doing my head in.

Just adding to my fantasy home, a veranda/porch with rocking chairs like in the American films, a balcony & French doors in my bedroom for morning coffee.

Crikey soups I would take myself off somewhere quiet (ifs that possible in house full of dc’s) with a good book & 🍷

soups, no idea what caused it. It’s over 20 years ago so I’m being a drama llama 😂. The doctor thought given where I was that it might have been crop spraying, which is a tad worrying! DD is completely finished now - just waiting for results.

melen that’s exactly what I’m going to do. Just waiting for dd to come out the shower then I’m going to have a bath.

Yeay @laska!

Love your lottery house @len. The dressing room and verandas are my favourite, you can always outsource the laundry and cooking

@soups you need to direct her to YouTube for Curly Girl videos. Some of them are just sooo obsessed with the method and give very precise instructions on how to wash, apply product, dry (yawn are you bored yet? ) If you pm me your email address I’ll email you back some pdfs I can download from the FB curly girl page with step by step instructions and some links (as this thread is a non CG thread). And yes go and disappear with a nice somewhere quiet(er) tonight.
Thanks for asking after DS. He’s definitely better. But he has a way to go yet...just when I think we’ve turned a corner he’ll have a very bad day. It’s hard but I think of where he was at last Feb and overall I’m encouraged he’s moving in a positive direction

Soy ooh yes hadn’t thought about outsourcing the cooking, if I can’t sleep I mentally refurbish a house, always helps me relax😂 currently in my head I own an Edwardian double fronted villa, with original panelling & stained glass windows with a massive reception hall that has a working coal fire, I think I may need help.
Ds will get better & the encouraging part is that he is improving, albeit slowing but it is a good sign for continued recovery💐

Ohhhh I hate routine cooking!!! Its tedious. No-one cooks except for me and it is such a chore. I remember when growing up we had to eat what we were given. None of this making a meal for every child. I must say i am guilty of having to cook a different thing for my ds who really doesnt like meat but i tend to just do a substitute thing on his plate to keep it manageable.
My gorgeous other kimono came today and it is very beautiful.
@Ella, sounds like your kitchen/hall will look amazing.
As for a dream house, not sure tbh. Most likely a large victorian stone house with bay windows and high ceiling and wooden floors and a real fire.

Or something quirky with lots of space and airy and slightly modern on the inside but by no means a new build house.

Filled with light and ikea/habitat swedish type furniture with lots of bookcases and quirky lights.

Hi @never I was wondering where you were
Show us the kimono tomorrow! Is it the Moroccan one that @huff got or a different one?

Yes I’m like you re lottery house. Can’t decide if I want the large Victorian dream (quite like the idea of Georgian or even better American plantation style like in Gone with the Wind) or Uber modern, uninterrupted views through amazing windows that totally open up in the summer and a vaulted ceiling/still lots of warm wood though to cozy up the modern space.
I visited my uncle in Argentina when I went for that work trip to BA last summer and he’s had a dream modern glass box built just like that. His and Hers dressing rooms. Pool. Gardens. Next to the river. It was Heaven.

Glass walls I meant, not windows.
I think like @len I’ll be dreaming up my lottery house when I go to bed tonight

Its the same time. I will try and take a picture tomorrow but I am working boo!
Your uncles house sounds amazing. Ah..we can dream!

Well you know that beautiful day we had yesterday, I was sat in all day doing reports :( Its a busy time in schools atm.

Oh and I ordered the seattle jacket shirt thing just to see. It is ££ though so may be returned if not perfect.

Don’t get me started on cooking! If one more person says “Can we have burritos?” I will hit the roof!!! I am so over making the same thing every week, I feel like a bloody robot. What’s more, I keep looking on Pinterest and seeing lovely recipes for things like slow-roasted chicken with olives, but I’m the only one who likes olives. (I LOVE them, but no one else would touch them with a barge pole). We keep subjugating our own tastes for everyone else’s! (And cooking boring bastard meals we don’t even eat because we’re low-carbing.....)

Incredible @SoyYo ! Well done. 4 kg is brilliant, you must feel so motivated. And good luck to all of you who are low carbing. I'm staying away from the wine and having a 12 hr fast between dinner and breakfast to see if that helps 🤞also trying to be mindful of what I'm eating in between but not restricting calories particularly. Have just booked a beach holiday (Mallorca) in September which is motivating me to shift a few pounds. I have no idea where to start with swimwear post baby 😱

So today's Wren update 🚨I finally returned the 10 at the weekend, along with the striped dress. For £79 I had to really be happy with the fit. But I've been checking the returns each day and have just bagged an 8 and was pleased to use the grazia code - yay!
Also ordered the Miriam Dress, just to see... and the other day I ordered the denim shorts and the Tatiana Swing Dress. Making use of the discount while it lasts...

Loving the garden pictures, it's so lovely to potter in our green spaces at the weekends. My DS is at his happiest crawling round the garden and picking daisies. Sunday was just perfect 🌞

Huff look forward to seeing pics of the Miriam dress, I’m quite tempted by it, but not sure if it will be too voluminous, can just picture baby huff crawling around picking daisies😍

I've loved reading back over the chat - sorry, I seem to disappear over weekends... (only post when sat at the computer trying to pretend to myself that i'm working...and yesterday was so manic I was actually working). I have to say, i did snort out my coffee at the talk of cherries' incontinence trousers and the bon marche top. Also the talk of Australian camper van trips . BIL lives in NZ with his (kiwi) wife and we keep thinking we should go over to see them - but the travel is putting us off... We will one of these days - as DS (7) would love it I think.

Also loving all the photos and talk of gardens...you are all much more green-fingered than me. Our garden is a jungle at the moment (and for the past few years TBH - neither DH nor me really know what to to and really don't have the time to do anything. Also, it doesn't help that it seems to be being used as a fox nursery at the moment, so we're too scared to mow the lawn in case the mother fox decides we are threatening the cubs (sooooo cute and fluffy) and goes for our knees. I think I'd trade in all this talk of dream houses for someone to totally remodel our garden and then come and maintain it... It makes me quite anxious going out there at the moment to be honest, so I can't even enjoy it. Bah.

Also I'm hearing you all on the cooking woes. DH does most of the cooking for us - but he's given up on DS who hardly seems to eat anything apart from pasta and peas (and chocolate). So I sort his meal out, but it is mind numbing - and I'm sure he's getting a hundred sorts of vitamin deficiency. And I'm really impressed with the dieters - the fast800 thing (and low carbing in general) sounds hardcore - but soy - it sounds like you have lost loads just in a week! Must be very motivating. I'm just plodding along with "normal" eating - but more mindfully, and I'm not putting weight on, which is something (but then I haven't been too strict with the wine/ gin/ cider/ mojitos). I'm not really in a dieting mindset tbh. Seem to have gone full-hormone over the past few months with disturbed sleep/ nightsweats/ foggy brain and lack of motivation for anything. Not much fun.

soups - I'm glad your DD managed her exam without too much pain - and soy glad your DS is still engaging with his therapist. Also, its really nice she's able to come to your house!

Anyway, on clothes, the purchases sound great. I'd love to see the Miriam when it arrives huff. I love the style of it on the model - though wonder if it would veer into full tent territory with me. Also, glad soy's star shorts and laska's chino shorts are a success. nink - your outfit (from yesterday!) is brill - I love the fun t shirt and the jacket. never - the seattle jacket looks great. The tassels on that are much more sensible than on the bolero huff and I bought!

I caved and tried the striped marina and (surprise surprise) a blue wren. The marina was nice, but I returned it as a) it wasn't especially flattering b) I thought it was too "formal" to get too much wear for me, and also a bit too distinctive to wear too much and c) I have about a zillion summery skirts. But the wren I do like! It is big and floppy - but I like that. And the material is so lovely and soft. I may have got away with a size down, but I like the drapeyness. So I'm keeping that. Also the moorish kimono is staying - it is lovely. Even if i only wear it as a dressing gown, it is still lovely.

Goodness - I go on a bit...

Love this thread so much Thank you for sharing my cooking woes. I had a lovely long bath and dd2 gave me a bath bomb she had been given (she hates baths!). She's so lovely and kind especially in the midst of GCSEs.

@Soy well done on the weight loss, sounds great. I would love to be so disciplined but I can hear the chocolate calling me every day! I will PM you about CG stuff, thank you. So glad to hear your DS in generally improving but I totally know what you mean about not getting too complacent. Just when I thought my dd was on the up, she had a meltdown last week over essays and exams looming, and an email from the school nurse who was concerned again about dd's eating. Although I do think she was over-reacting this time, just being over cautious I suppose.

I am mega stressed today ( all about the rubbish relative situation and ££.. think I need to go back to solicitor, but although I'd love to go on about it here , it's not the place I know, ) anyway at work so just placemarking again..I'll try and post something sensible later.. am weari g what's fast becoming a bit of a uniform former..Yes Moritz again! But this time withnavy vest top and the Hush blue jersey shirt .. blue Brakeburn trainers today, and green wren jacket for when I go out later