OS Daily Tues 18th Aug 09

Hardup_Hester

Hi Sistercas
Here is the info.
After watching 'The future of food' last night, where they showed a family of 5 eating 2 family sized Lasagne's from Iceland, I decided to see how big a lasagne I could make for the same price. The lasagne's were £2 pounds each & they were served with potato waffles £1 a box of 12, & baked beans 37p a tin. I'm assuming they used half a box of waffles, in total that comes to £4.87. I usually serve my lasagne with garlic bread & salad


Mince 2.00p
Tinned tom's 32p
Lasagne sheets 16p
Carrot 16p
Milk 15p half & half water
Cheese 50p
Oats 06p
Onion 16p
flour/seasoning/herbs/oil 30p
garlic bread 45p

So mine comes in at £4.70, I only made one lasagne, but I know from experience it will serve 6 people. I wouldn't normally serve mine with baked beans either, but with a salad.

hilstep2000

Good Afternoon!
Went to the docs this morning, he's put me on anti-viral drugs and calamine cream. Told me to look after the pills they cost £120:eek:
Three times a day for five days. Hope they work.
To top it all, I got a letter from the DWP. I went for an ESA mdical last month. Went in my wheelchair as I could hardly walk. Showed him letters from my neuro, and the occ health doctor making me medically retired, and showed pics of my stairlifts and adaptions. Apparantly I have been classed as "having a limited capacity for work":eek::mad:
Now I know that there are people swinging the lead, but I've been at work since I was 16. I didn't ask to get MS, and I have enough problems just getting through the day sometimes. I've now got to go for an appeal. What is it with these jobsworths? Why do some people seem to get away with everything, and others are squashed all the time? As if I didn't have enough to put up with.:o

That's got it off me chest.....:rotfl:

Anyway, thanks to you all for your good wishes hope you get over the flu Pen-Pin

thriftlady_2

Oh Penny Pincher on top of everything else, poor you. I do hope you feel better soon.

Helyg and Floss, nice to meet other rugby fans. I have some relatives from Llanelli who are Scarlets fans. Floss is right I am a Worcester Warriors fan:j The club had a special on Mothering Sunday -mums go free and I was permitted to go:p. My OH has been regretting it ever since, 'cos I really got the bug. One good thing is that there are no travel costs involved as we are a 10 minute walk away from the ground.

If anyone is in the Worcester area I can thoroughly recommend the Starstruck exhibition I mentioned in my earlier post. I managed to blag a family ticket despite not having a second adult with me, it was still £20 mind.

They had costumes from Pirates of the Caribbean, yep, one worn by Johnny himself, costumes from Elizabeth (gorgeous), Shakespeare In Love, Pride and Prejudice (Mr Darcy's shirt-not wet), Sense and Sensibility, Emma and the TV series Robin Hood plus many more. There were some costumes from RSC productions too one of which I recognised from a 1981 production of A Midsummer's Night's Dream that I saw with my family! Can't believe it was 28 years ago, and I remembered it. It was really worth seeing.

OK, OS matters -I've made a jar of bread and butter pickles, cooked 1 kg of chickpeas for the freezer and made Welsh Rarebits for lunch which were voted not as good as plain cheese on toast -more washing up too.

I failed yet again to get hold of damsons, but have left my number with the farmshop so that they can phone me and put some aside as soon as they're ready. Want to get chutneying:D

Pippa.S

Afternoon all :hello:

Just back from visiting and phew!!! its soo hot and muggy, feels like we are in for a storm,

DGD's are having a great time so are we , its wearing me out though but I love every minute of it

Not much OS'ing being done, but took them shopping today for a few bits and pieces, got quite a lot of YS stuff, mushrooms, apples, sliced meats (half price) so a full fridge again for a bit :rolleyes:

Not had chance to have a proper read through for a few days so hope all the poorlys are feeling better:D congrats to anyone celebrating :beer: and welcome to any newbies :wave:

off for a read while I have a few mins quiet
Anne
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FairyElephant_2

Hilstep that is so maddening - no wonder you are so cross!

I just logged back in for a moan too - I am so angry and upset I'm sitting here crying with frustration. Sorry - this might be a long moan!!!!!!

You might remember that my Dad has dementia and was sectioned almost a month ago (having attempted to hit my Mum). Well he was assessed last week and rated as not 'bad enough' to need a mental-health bed as it was felt he would be well enough to cope in a 'normal' OAP home.
Well he needs to move out of the secure unit by the end of this week as his 28 days covered by the mental health act will be over.
Mum & I did lots of groundwork and visited homes he could go to. Eventually on Saturday we found a really good one.
We got the lady from this home we thought best (and one which mum can get to on a bus, as she doesn't drive and I work) to come see him yesterday.
Having explained to him on Sunday that he can't go back to living with Mum at the moment - apart from in the middle of having the house rewired (it was unsafe, but we couldn't get it done when dad was home as he wouldn't be safe in a house with work going on), she is ill herself (has become really depressed trying to look after him), and is waiting for both cataract and knee ops. We told him that we'd found this place he could go 'to recuperate' when they discharged him from 'the hospital' where he is now.
The manager from the home assessed him and decided that they would offer him a place, initially for 4 weeks, to see how he gets on.
He was supposed to go today, with mum and his Case-Worker, to have lunch and view the place this afternoon....but the case-worker called mum to say that he's refused to go! He's insisting that the only place he will go is back home!
Mum rang me, really upset and angry. She has just started to make progress and feel better in herself, and now she feels really down again.
He was apparantly doing his favourite 'I can't hear you - there's something wrong with my hearing aid' act with the Case-Worker - which he does when he doesn't want to listen to what you are saying to him!
Any progress he has made over the last 25 days seems to have gone out of the window.
We have long suspected that although he is genuinely ill - he is also rather cantankerous, and we know he is very good actor and plays up to manipulate people and get his own way (he was like this before he got dementia, and his mother was exactly the same!). The people in the Mental Health unit where he is have recognised this in him as well!

I really am at the end of my tether with him now. The Case Worker says that the only step left for her to take is to try and get him taken to the next stage of the mental health act, where she & 2 psychiatrists will have to declare that he is incapable of making rational decisions regarding his own welfare and future.
If they do this, they will then have to get him into a mental health bed in a secure unit somewhere else.
The bedroom which was free which they assessed him for before (and found he didn't need!) is now not available, so the only options are way over the other side of town on a mental health ward rather than in his own room, and Mum wouldn't be able to get there to visit him.
If they don't agree to take it to the next stage, then he will be free to leave on Friday, and we can't 'make' him go anywhere as he'll be deemed to be capable of making his own decisions!!!

I could just scream.

Molly41

Hi Hilstep,
i hope you dont mind me butting in but i have just dealt with a similar situation to you. I was also found to have limited capacity to work despite being very unwell at the moment and unable to walk 50 metres. I appealed it on a GL24 and had it reconsidered and am now in the Support Group. The Decision Makers dont seem to make the right decisions and a lot of people are appealing. As you know ESA is very new. In the mean time you will be asked to attend Work Focussed interviews but these can be deferred until a decision is made.

Im currently being made retired on ill health grounds but this makes no diference to ESA as its any type of work not just your old job. i have read on Benefit and Work forum that many people in a similar situation are wrongly put in Work Focussed or failed.

Good luck

donny-gal

FE - (hugs) - it is terribly frustrating, and yes the social workers know they pay up, but that does not make them "better". I have my fingers crossed they will take it to the next stage, but they will resist as if they do they have financial responsibility for him for the rest of his live care wise. You and your Mum will have to brave it out, the house and your Mum are not fit for him to return, so do not make any arrangements for him to return. Is he able to find his way home if they did (though unlikely they will) just release him?
DG

dizzybuff

awww fairy elephant hope it all works out

im here for a moan as well well more of a self telling off.

just managed to trap my poo ds lilfinger in my car door handle ... poor lilman awas trying to help and i did that.. so now watching roaryy for the millionth time for him to be happy....

FairyElephant_2

Hi DG - thanks.

If he's having a 'good' day then he could find his way home. He would get them to ring a taxi for him (even though he has no money on him, he'd just expect mum to pay for it when he arrived at the door!) and he knows his address (having lived there 40+ years that bit of info has stuck in his brain!).

He won't come to my house, as he is a heavy smoker and he knows that I don't allow it in the house - he wouldn't visit me for that reason even when he was well! The only option I can see at the moment is to have Mum come to me so there's no-one at home on Friday and he can't get in (OMG that sounds so cruel!) but he'd probably bug the life out of the neighbour, which wouldn't be fair on her. I am supposed to be going to London to stay the weekend with my friend on Friday too.

jayward

good evening,

PenPin hope you feel better soon
hillstep i hope things improve soon hugs
and hugs to fairyelephant too

made left over veg cakes at lunch for oh
found a new blog today which is worth a look called the english kitchen the food looks great
hester had a look at the blog you talked about too there are some great blogs out there you need never buy a cook book very MS