Live on £4000 for a Year, 2009 Challenge, part 2

lyndasharp

Redglass, you light a fire in the bottom using whatever you can find lying around (but not laurel!!!). In our case charcoal from the BBQ, and some old bits of wood that used to be garage shelves. We didn't actually cook anything in it when we tested it, but if you put a shelf over it (for example, shelf from your oven sat on bricks) you can cook pizza, jacket potatoes, or anything else that you can normally cook in an oven or on a barbeque!

Then you put a big piece of metal across the front, if you want to seal the heat in. We have convenient bits of car laying around...

Skint_Lynne

I done a big long post and lost it.:mad:

Thanks everyone for your good wishes, I am doing fine. I've got mid degree burns and will need to go to the doctors every day for a while to get it fixed up. Never mind, it could have been worse.

Will check in later. xx

Frugaldom

:T Thanks Lynda, I'm the pest who requested the photographs but it was well worth it, don't you think? It looks great!

SFT - I don't know what to say about the survey company. You would think that in this day and age, especially considering the current economic climate, that companies would be bending over backwards to maintain clients and provide first class services. It just goes to show that the alleged credit crunch is more hyped up than ever if companies can afford to overlook new custom. Makes me so, so mad, even more so when there are so many of us losing work left, right and centre! :mad: :mad: :mad:

Howling gales here yet again, so I can now get a very good idea of what should be best avoided in the veggie garden - basically anything that needs to hold its head above ground! :rotfl: SM - are you SURE you know what you're letting yourself in for coming to live in a wind tunnel? Or is it too late to turn back, now? :eek: Found this on cartoonstock.com and I reckon it's totally representative of life in Frugaldom :rotfl:

lyndasharp

Nyk - I'm hoping the bad weather gets everything over and done with in Scotland and the sun comes out... H2B and I are off to Skye, Eigg and Isla in just over a weeks time for our holiday!

sophiesmum_2

Nyk - Thinking of keeping all my plants nice and snug inside (very)sturdy wooden high sided beds (a la liverpool lottieman) with recycled greenhouse panel roofs to keep out marauding hens, sheep, cows, and hares.
Pity we couldn't get a wind turbine for electricity now that is something that would work well in frugaldom.:D

Frugaldom

lyndasharp wrote: »

Nyk - I'm hoping the bad weather gets everything over and done with in Scotland and the sun comes out... H2B and I are off to Skye, Eigg and Isla in just over a weeks time for our holiday!

:j Hope you have a great time! If it helps, last May there was a heat wave for over half the month, would need to check back files to see when it started. Say hello to all the Highland cows on Skye from us and the trip to Dunvegan Castle is worth it, even if the road's a bit hairy in places LOL Islay, got friends there too, haven't seen them for years, though. Never been to Rhum, Eigg or Muck, got plenty of each here, though. :rotfl:

SM - like your high-sided veggie bed idea, most wise, you may continue to learn from my mistakes and I shall refrain from having such wildly unrealistic ideas as even consider erecting a gazebo for trailing/climbing/winding plants and vines. I'll stick with my common *and some less common) tatties and eggs :rotfl: Makes me wonder if the fruit trees will ever grown and could you have a rake about for my courgettes, please? They must be in your front garden 'cos they sure ain't in mine any more! :rotfl:

lyndasharp

nykmedia wrote: »

:j Hope you have a great time! If it helps, last May there was a heat wave for over half the month, would need to check back files to see when it started. Say hello to all the Highland cows on Skye from us and the trip to Dunvegan Castle is worth it, even if the road's a bit hairy in places LOL Islay, got friends there too, haven't seen them for years, though. Never been to Rhum, Eigg or Muck, got plenty of each here, though. :rotfl:

H2B's parents and his brother live in Bowmore, so we're spending a couple of days with them... I suspect given the size of Islay your friends will know them, even if you don't! Have booked into Duntulm Castle Hotel on Skye, which looks to be near a very pretty ruined castle. Thanks for the tip about Dunvegan Castle, will see if we can fit that in as we're staying at Portnalong the night before and it looks kind of on route to Duntulm

Mollymop5

Hello everyone I'm back bet you didn't even realise I'd gone lol.30 pages tocatch up on so that may take me a while.Hope everyone is good.If i've missed anything major in the last month can someone please give me a quick run down.
I now have a lovely redone house.New electrics, new boiler and radiators and best of all a new kitchen.Managed to get most of decorating done before moving back in.I've spent loads but as i get a decorating allowance from my housing association and had saved £2 coins none of this will come from my budget.It's soooo good to be back though.A month without internet access has been so difficult and lonely!

cw18

Think one of the biggest pieces of news is that SophiesMum is going to be Nyk's neighbour in real life !!!!

Brighton_belle

gosh SL:eek:Sounds bad enough, glad it wasn't worse. Good to hear DH is offering tlc.
welcome back mollymop; a nice new kitchen to do lots of frugal home baking in:D.
A message for all from bails - apologies she is not around much at the mo; she's at her parents doing a major declutter of stuff she has stored there for aeons,and no internet connection there. When home, she is busy with work related stuff. She'll be back in due course.

I am now off work for 11 days...bliss.