debtors going without food.

nearlynew

PasturesNew wrote: »

The thing is, in years gone past, we just got on with our lives, unaware of what's right and wrong. We just accepted things.

Now we have places like this where we can post questions and get all the leads, links and advice we need in about 2 hours flat.
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Bl00dy hell.

You'll be wanting to vote next.

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

I love the Internet, wish it had been round when I was young.

Me too......
In fact anything computery is amazing..............esp digital cameras and being able to take loads of pics and then choose the good ones...all for free before you print out.

I would have loved facebook too....all that World Of Me stuff that is so 20 something.

PasturesNew

nearlynew wrote: »

Bl00dy hell.

You'll be wanting to vote next.

Not me, that'd involve going out, in a public place, that is confusing... and not knowing what's going on.

nearlynew

fc123 wrote: »

Me too......
In fact anything computery is amazing..............esp digital cameras and being able to take loads of pics and then choose the good ones...all for free before you print out.

I would have loved facebook too....all that World Of Me stuff that is so 20 something.

Brilliant..............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaZlhSSg38Q&feature=related

Pobby

Really2 wrote: »

Well depends if the wife cooks one out of five days.:)

Well in fact I am sort of semi retired but my wife works a split shift. ( Dunno how she does that). So I have time to do the little added extras to meals but her cooking is pretty good. I try to keep food waste to below 5%. Do a fair bit of batch cooking. Handy if I don`t want to cook or do much washingup. What a modern man I am. Lol.

fc123

nearlynew wrote: »

Brilliant..............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaZlhSSg38Q&feature=related

I hope you are being nice NN? I am running the youtube now and it is (embarrassingly) how I feel sometimes....double esp Google....how did I ever manage without google????

wageslave

fc123 wrote: »

Me too......
In fact anything computery is amazing..............esp digital cameras and being able to take loads of pics and then choose the good ones...all for free before you print out.

I would have loved facebook too....all that World Of Me stuff that is so 20 something.

I am going to sound like PN now but I have been on the internet since the days when it cost tuppence a minute and there was only about half a dozen other computer geeks online.

When the rest of my generation were fiddling with their Commodore 64s I was online downloading DOS emulators so I could play Zork.

I still need to get out more

brightonman123

i have cut right back, on all fronts.

I can only afford 4 cans of stella a day now.. though I do recycle! hic.

ninky_2

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't see how you can make it illegal. People are entitle to make very long term high risk ''investments'' or spend money foolishly. However I agree its a stupid thing to buy and potentially damaging to the economy at large and most certanly damaging to the rural enconmy, and indeed, normal land for development sales.

you might not be able to stop people buying it but you could legislate against the parcelling up of land in this way. there are plenty of other rules about land use. once all these little postage stamps of land are sold off it will make it very difficult (without some sort of compulsory purchase) to ever make it more useful in terms of food production or wildlife use. combine that with an absence of right to roam and it's all a bit depressing. i don't even have kids and i wonder what we are leaving for the next generation. where do the children, let alone the adults, play? the wii fit generation (they are even getting them in schools now).

ninky_2

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Have you read Weezl74's 'Eat Healthily on 50p per day'? She calculated the cheapest way to get five-a-day. :money: Bear in mind beans and lentils count and a lot of frozen veg is very reasonable. We grew almost all our own fruit and veg when I was a child in our back garden plus an allotment, and both my parents worked.

A lot of meat is expensive - tho cheaper if adults adhere to government recommended portion sizes - but plenty of protein foods are cheap. Virtually all dried beans and lentils are dirt cheap, Smartprice eggs, Value whole chickens, pork and turkey mince, offal, plain yoghurt, cream cheese, powdered milk, fresh sprats, fresh mackerel, tinned pink salmon.

not everyone, including myself, has the 'luxury' of a garden. and allotment waiting lists can be prohibitive especially in places like london. i've been on mine for five years. it's now closed and i haven't moved up it at all since feb this year! unfortunately the options open to our parents and grandparents are not always open to us.

smartprice eggs and value meats have severe animal welfare issues attached to them. just because you are poor you shouldn't have to sanction cruelty.