If things get tougher?

sammy_kaye18

on the note of calming music i have rainfall, the native american raindance and thunderstorms over here if they are any use ceridwen!

cooltrikerchick - my bf works in bridgend so our council wont make much different - where in npt are you then?? havent met anotehr local moneysaver yet

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

Primrose wrote: »

Re Ceridwen's comment about black humour, I certainly agree that in the difficult times we often find a way of resorting to darker humour as a way keeping our spirits up. For anybody who wants to delve further on this particular topic, I've just finished reading "Hammer & Tickle - the History of Communism told through Communist Jokes" by Ben Lewis." I borrowed it from our library and if anybody wants an example of how the Russians survived the worst Stalinist purges and other difficult times, they will find this a fascinating read.
And for all those who are staring redundancy in the face, my thoughts are with you. We've lived through this situation more than once in our family. It is stressful and worrying but pulling together and keeping your sense your humour is important. You can't fight external and internal wars at the same time.

I could'nt agree more about keeping your sense of humour.I feel when you lose that you may as well give up hope.Me and MrT have lived through 2 recessions and the troubles of the early 70s( when to be honest we had 3 small children all under 4 and were so poor we had nothing to lose anyway)and the only thing that kept us going was our sense of humour.
Nowadays life is a doddle for us realy,no matter how hard things get I know our sense of humour will get us through it.If we have no extra money to spend on luxuries we'll do what we always do and make do.
I've lived long enough to realise that nothing stays the same,nothing is constant and to expect anything to be so is dangerous realy.
I'm starting to get into my fighting spirit mode like I had to when in the past life hit me in the face.For example I don't have a problem wearing extra clothes and sitting with a fleece over me on the sofa of an evening because it's cold and I'm afraid to put the heating on.I'm now in the frame of mind that the so and so's are certainly not going to make their profits out of me.
They can throw what they like at me and I'll manage because I can and I will as I did in the past.I'm sure I'll look back when it's all over and remember it all as fondly as I do now those other times even the dire ones and feel proud of ourselves that we did and learned a lot in the process.
As the saying goes life goes on.

Jacks_xxx

:wave: Morning lovelies!

I just saw this - and old cynic that I am, an offiicial denial always makes me thing we were right to worry!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7638564.stm

Love Jacks xxx

mardatha

I'm starting to get into my fighting spirit mode
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mrs LM, I am permanently in fighting mode. Its the only way I can be, but yes I do have a really weird sense of humour and can laugh at myself, but more at them !
If you curl up in a ball and cry, or panic, then your making yourself a victim... We are each & every one of us just as good if not MUCH BETTER, than all the politicians ever invented (because I refuse to believe that lot are human so therefore not born!) Maybe its an "old" thing and its because we've lived through this before ? I dont know.
But the one thing that upsets me is how, given the teeniest little chance, people turn on each other. That stops change and I hate it. If we all voted with our feet and stopped buying/using/spending then thigns change. But you always get the ones who buy/spend just to show that they can !! Awful.
And the other thing that keeps me going, though some of you will think I'm mad -is my family gone before. They were seamen, trawlermen, and miners. However hard my life is, theirs was much harder- and yet they coped. So what they were, I am, and I let them down if I dont cope.
LOL I never said I was sane did I ?

Caterina

Jacks_xxx wrote: »

:wave: Morning lovelies!

I just saw this - and old cynic that I am, an offiicial denial always makes me thing we were right to worry!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7638564.stm

Love Jacks xxx

Thank you Jacks! That sort of nonsense is not going to stop me from stockpiling wood to burn in the stove, and you know what, now that you reminded me, I shall get a couple of packs of candles while I am out shopping! :rotfl:

Caterina

elona

Just thinking how lovely it would be to have a woodburning stove!!!!

Still if the worst comes to the worst, to have a wind up torch or candles lit, be wrapped up curled on the sofa in a duvet as a family with a hot water bottle each and a hot drink from a Thermos, while I read "Harry Potter" aloud or we use a wind up radio for entertainment should be easily bearable.

I have to hide any winter preps so DH will not tease me but if they are needed they will be there.

Have just found Morrisons do 500 gram packs of red lentils for 84 pence (cheaper than Mr S or Mr T.) so bought a few bags of them. Great for lentil soup or lentil pate.

On the same principle as knitting faster if you think you are running out of wool, I have just got my eyes retested and ordered new glasses, got the dodgy electric socket in the kitchen fixed, the roof fixed where a tile fell off and have just ordered a Remoska to save on fuel costs.

Quite shocked how fast money has gone but it was all needed and worthwhile.

I usually start off feeling a bit panicky and down then lose my temper with the situation and decide I will at least do everything that I can think of that might help.

Still need to buy an extra couple of hot water bottles but need to wait till DH is out of the way so I can smuggle them home!!!;)

L and L and dodgy looking hug :grouphug:

mardatha

I hope you get a chance to show the OH up ! and me too !

elona

mardatha

Even if I was proved right and we needed torches, hot water bottles etc - he would convince himself it had been his idea all along and probably reproach mefor not having enough in!!!!;)

A nasty and devious woman would pretend she did not have stuff in and let him rush around looking for things himself- but then DDs would suffer, so not doing that!

welshnoonoo

elona wrote: »

L and L and dodgy looking hug :grouphug:

:rotfl: Yep - that is an extremely dodgy looking hug!!!!!

Charis

Jacks_xxx wrote: »

:wave: Morning lovelies!

I just saw this - and old cynic that I am, an offiicial denial always makes me thing we were right to worry!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7638564.stm

Love Jacks xxx

The caption on the picture in that denial says:

"Blackouts could hit hard by time of London 2012, said Inenco"

Am I the only one who finds it incredible that the Olympics are still going ahead? Current estimate officially £8billion but I heard long ago that the estimate was already over £9b. The Bejing Olympics are reputed to have cost almost £24 billion, and they have all that cheap labour out there. Can't see ours being any less expensive.

The pre-Olympic development of Beijing cost over 40 billion dollars. The total cost of the Beijing Olympics may exceed $44 billion, an official spokesman for the city authorities said, RIA Novosti reports.

I have it on good authority that the funding pot being raided for the ten day carnival is the one from which the govt. usually fund charities. As a result some of the smaller ones are having to make drastic cutbacks or fold up altogether. A fair few will not be able to afford to heat their offices this winter. The govt's response is that the Lottery will fund charities. The reality is much more complex. This govt. needs a lesson on stretching the housekeeping from us lot :mad: