Live on £4,000 for a year - 2009, Part 3

savingfortravel

Hi everyone!
Andromache-Good luck with new position. Sounds like all those applications really paid off, literally and you'll have some good money behind you for your final year.
Bails-How are things today?
Grandma/Nyk-Really stupid question. We've been saving our jam jars etc..are the lids recommended what would be used for jam/pickle making too?


Plan for today is to

• visit town. Get some more dollars for trip and perhaps a pair of sandals for me (wide feet-cl*rks shoes normally fit).
• visit t*sco for a few bits/money out.
• school labels/school aprons washed and out-its a nice day here.
• Malaria tablets.

Have a good day all.

sft

bails

Morning all. Thanks again for all the responses, they do help. I was quite forlorn by the end of the evening, just decided I needed to feel like that and let it out, then get a good night's sleep and get on with it today. I woke up determined and positive, although that feeling has waned slightly just now, but I'll get back on it in a minute.

Our plan hasn't changed, in that we're still leaving on 7th August as our flights are already booked. I'll email our contact in Nepal today and see what if anything can be done. He's still invited us to visit the project so we'll arrange to do that shortly after we arrive in Kathmandu, and also says he has some contacts for other volunteering opportunities, so as it stands he still represents our best hope of finding work. I am being realistic about the prospects of this though, as in 7 months and with much effort, this was the only lead that went anywhere. In all honesty I find that perplexing, especially as all we want is to contribute without asking for anything in return and both have high-level useful skills. Perhaps I've been a little naive as teaching takes you a long way - in every country I've visited I've always been offered jobs! Depending on how things develop with our contact, we'll probably stay longer in a hostel rather than finding a flat until we're sure we have some work. Failing that, we may reduce our time in Nepal and travel for longer, though of course our budget isn't designed for that extra expense at all...
We are sad but remain committed to our goal to contribute our skills to wider society and I'm determined to do everything I can to make this happen.

Hope you all have a lovely day, have read but feel the need to get moving with things now so will reply later. First stop a long walk with my slightly-neglected-this-weekend dog x

ps we have no money left in either account so seems my Dream Pot won't reach its target either...

savingfortravel

I will be sending you positive thoughts all day Bails. I know that you will still have an amazing time! sft

grandma247

Yes if the jars are twist off ones you just need to measure across the top of the jar. I did ask if they did a sample pack so I could check on sizes but they do not.
The honey jar lids that are screw ons might be ok for jams but I would not trust them for bottling fruit.

grandma247

NYK. I wanted to save freezer space and also did not want to rely so much on the freezer especially when they started talking about strikes.
I well remember the electric cuts of the early 1970's. Dh worked as an apprentice joiner then and had to go with his boss to get a body ready for its coffin. He got home and found there was no electric so he ended up at our house asking to stay the night because he did not want to be without light.
Fortunately Mum took pity on him but he never did go into that side of the business.

cw18

nykmedia wrote: »

Lingo & CW - Train station isn't the smallest, by far, it's just a little bit remote, so can be awkward to find if you aren't familiar with the roads. It's a 45 mile round trip from us and it's a fairly busy station compared to several I have used in the past... It's on Wiki here. We just joke about it because DS' friend arrived by train and thought he could walk to the village bus stop from the station. We found him wandering along a farm lane completely bewildered. :rotfl:

:rotfl:

My old station is here, and my current one here. Reading the pieces on Wiki, it appears the old one is actually busier than my current one (which I've never actually used), though the current one is considered a 'busy' and 'main' station

lingojingo

And mine is here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honley_railway_station

looks a bit like yours cw - how do you do the link that just says 'here'?

cw18

I wrote this as a training document for another forum that runs on the same software - hence the mention of 'lessons'


Adding a link to a post

This is probably going to be the shortest of my lessons !!

When you type your text to appear in a post, you will see there are a number of little icons (symbols) above the text box.

One of these is a paperclip (), and this is the one you need to add a link.

Make sure you have the full web address of where you want people to be sent to before clicking on it though. I normally do this by having 2 separate browser sessions (or tabs in one session) open – one for adding my post to the forum, and one on the page I want to link to.

I use Internet Explorer and Firefox, so the following instructions are based on those and are the same for either.

Click in the bar of the session which shows where you want the link to go to, and make sure the entire bar turns blue. You can then right mouse click, and select copy from the menu which appears.

Now go back to your session on the forum, highlight the text you want to turn into a link (often the work ‘here’ or ‘this’, as in “mine is here” or “this thread”) and click on the paperclip. You will see a small pop-up window, which already contains some text.

Click in this box and delete the text

Now right mouse click and select Paste from the menu.

Click on OK, and the code to form a link will be transferred into your text box.

If in any doubt as to whether you’ve got this right or not, if on the Quick Reply box simply click ‘Go Advanced’. Your text will be carried over to the next screen, but you will get a preview (where you can test the link) above the white text entry box. If already in ‘Go Advanced’ (or ‘New Thread’) you have a ‘Preview Post’ option. You can then make any changes needed (or add more text to your post) and continue to ‘Preview Post’ until you’re happy with it – then click on ‘Submit’ (or ‘Post’ if you stayed in ‘Quick Reply’).

lingojingo

and mine is here


thank you cw
sorry everyone else, just needed to practise doing the link

Frugaldom

Oh WOW! NOW I see what SM means when she laughs at my understanding of the word 'busy' - my local station obviously isn't busy in the least when comparing it to any of yours CW or Lingo :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: However, my current local station is very busy when comparing it to my last local station here :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Oh my, I really should get out more, but I'd never cope in those sorts of crowds. :eek: