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The revenge of the stripey socks - a DFW adventure

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  • Pippilongstocking
    Pippilongstocking Posts: 16,336 Forumite
    edited 6 May 2009 at 9:32PM
    I could be nigella - except a smaller red headed version

    Does that mean I have to be very silly with food

    Willow baking away at 100 degrees - leave for 4 days then remove from oven allow to cool and then use on an open fire.
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
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  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    It means you have to put on a red dressing gown and eat sensually out of the fridge at all hours :rotfl:

    For the rest of the time, Gold Lam! bikini & stripey socks is SUCH a now look :T
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  • EssexHebridean
    EssexHebridean Posts: 24,424 Forumite
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    I can;t imagine Nigella in stripey socks can you?!

    Well done on Hairy loan BTW Fay - You definitely need to pay at least another £4 off though to get it below the £800 barrier....7 is a much nicer number! :D
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  • makeup
    makeup Posts: 1,633 Forumite
    Hey Fay

    Just catching up on your diary.

    Lovely story about your friend, she was a true friend indeed. There are some friends who know just the right thing to do in your hour of need and they are priceless.

    I am a big stripes fan although don't own any stripy socks - (well some grey and white ones but that doesn't seem colourful enough!!) I must invest in some asap.

    I am somewhat confused about the cooking of the willow. If you have to cook it in order to make firewood it seems a bit like you are expending more heating fuel than actually gaining if you see what I mean? However I've probably got confused as am definitely as far from a horticulturist as you could probably get!!!
    I've got my own flat :j:j

    Now I have to pay the bills :eek:

    And feed my interiors addiction ;)
  • Pippilongstocking
    Pippilongstocking Posts: 16,336 Forumite
    edited 6 May 2009 at 11:07PM
    Hi Make up - sorry I was being ironic by saying cook it then burn it. (athough alot of the samples once finihsed with DO seem to end up in my firebasket - dunno how that happens!)

    Dont worry you aren't going insane. I only cook the willow I am sampling to get more data about how much water is in it etc. so when its dry and its weighed we can work out the energy in it for burning. This isn't done in real life when you do use the crop - just in science - and it would be much easier to just wring it out - but somehow or other - that doesnt work.
    Nor does hanging it on the washing line - can't seem to get the pegs to hold it up for too long. :)

    Willow is supposed to have an energy ratio of 20:1 - ie for every 20 parts of energy you get - you only put in (by means of fertilisers, machinery etc 1 part) so its pretty impressive and its almost carbon neutral as a fuel

    Unless of course some numpty like me flicks a switch and dries it using electricity first :)
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • EssexHebridean
    EssexHebridean Posts: 24,424 Forumite
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    Hairy loan has gone down again!!

    Woo-hoo - well done you - cheeky monkey sliding that one in to see if we'd notice eh?!!
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    Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
    Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
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  • makeup
    makeup Posts: 1,633 Forumite
    Aaah, all clear now.

    Sorry for not getting irony...honest guv in real life I am a genuine sarcastic / ironical type person.....(was going to type something both ironic and clever to prove this but sadly have come up with nothing!)

    (does this mean we can burn cricket bats now as source of valuable energy???)
    I've got my own flat :j:j

    Now I have to pay the bills :eek:

    And feed my interiors addiction ;)
  • Pippilongstocking
    Pippilongstocking Posts: 16,336 Forumite
    EssexHebridean wrote: »
    Hairy loan has gone down again!!

    Woo-hoo - well done you - cheeky monkey sliding that one in to see if we'd notice eh?!!

    Waves to EH from the bed which is covered in papers and a small mutt somewhere under them all. Hope you are fine tonight :) Chinks cup herbal frothy :beer:tea with you

    Yeah - sold a few dozen plants (!?) to a pal only by mentioning in passing about putting some on ebay and they gave the money today - nice surprise to get a wee bit extra when not expecting it :)

    The power of the flowers :) also paid 400 from money lent to brother into CC today but its not cleared yet (and it went in as cash......) although that was the power of the lodger not flowers - ho hum.
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • Pippilongstocking
    Pippilongstocking Posts: 16,336 Forumite
    OMG - have paid 75% off Hairy Mclairy since Feb 9th - thanks guys I wouldn't have thought I could pay something off quick without someone mentioning it!! passes cups of teas all round :)

    Hes more of a 'Ha' now than even a Hairy......
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • Pippilongstocking
    Pippilongstocking Posts: 16,336 Forumite
    makeup - um dunno about cricket bats isnt that terribly unenglish? to burn them?
    I was about to say about the fact its a different type of willow etc ..........then firmly clamped hand over mouth.

    Away to raid fridge in the manner of Nigella :) just hope the lodger doesnt see me gorgeously scoffing sumptious delights from the fridge in my pj's in a seductive manner- she might thing I am making advances .................(not!)
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
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