The jobless are no shirking scroungers – you try living on £65.45 a week

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

I can't talk...we're playing with the new wii fit today: I'm very conscious there is practical stuff we could be doing outside instead....but the weather is grim.

OMG I've just been playing boxing for the first time since I knocked the block off my BIL last christmas.
I think my arms are falling off

Lotus-eater

moggylover wrote: »

Not sure what "upper levels" you are referring to, but I know several people with a lot more money than class who drink vast quantities and could make absolutely no claim to fitness, and several with more class than money who are the same and about the same percentage in the "class and money" category:D.

You don't need to have money to have class.

You don't need class to have money, either.

newlywed

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't walk because it's pretty pointless alone. And as for it being 'free', it sort of is.... if you have good footwear and a good overcoat and protective clothes. I don't. You can't just go down a charity shop and magically buy that stuff cheap either, if you're living in a poor area and are of a petite stature. I'd end up looking like a Michelin-man bag lady if I did that.... thus removing any enjoyment from it at all.

Walking's pretty dull.... you walk, you get there, you come back. Kind of loses its appeal by the end of the road.

I walk in jeans and trainers, preferably on dry days. I walk on my own mostly - but keep to busy routes and daytime.

As for dull - I got a book on local history from the library and seeing how buildings and things have changed through the years makes even a much traveled road increase in interest.

jennihen

lostinrates wrote: »

I have wellies, but usually wear muckers (about £15). Not brilliantly supportive I grant you. I wear either jeans or whatever I have on. Have been known to be seen doing horses in evening wear if thats what I have on. Nuts? I like to phrase it ''eccentric''. My blue shorts with gold footless tights of I feel a certain amount of disapproval, but it makes me happy.

TBH I look like a bag lady much of the time I'm walking,....personally I couldn't really care less ATM....just nice to get out.

Personnally I favour brush cotton jammies with oversized fleece and oversized wellies for doing the 'orses! Not done them in evening wear but might give it a try!!

carolt

PasturesNew wrote: »

Do you know where it is? I don't. I've always thought carolt was "just outside London".

It is, but in a village. silvercar lives fairly close so knows my village.

Looking at this thread, I'm clearly spoiled for choice compared to some parts of the UK - I have 2 buses an hour in each direction (except on Sundays). That said, I'm not surprised that silvercar drew the conclusions expressed above - I am notorious (and regarded generally as a bit of a weirdo, I think ) for not driving, at my kids' school; in a world where the school drive is blocked with 4X4's every morning and afternoon. I am the only mum I know who doesn't drive - makes it harder to do after-school activities, and means kids playdates have to be arranged with care...

But probably because I grew up in a no-car family (admittedly in London, where public transport is far better) I don't see us being a 1 car family as a problem. At weekends, my OH can drive us to places esp to see family; during the week, when he's at work and the car's parked at the station, we get around by walking/public transport.

The only times I really hate it is when it's really bloody freezing; then I do envy the warm cars.

In this weather, I pity the poor kids cooped up in cars; we walk home picking daisies, watching worms, catching ladybirds and in summer, even picking blackberries.

It's not so bad.

PhylPho

All the above tends to argue that naturism has much to commend it.

Naturists tend not to care how other people look and they're all very nice people, anyway.

carolt

Lotus-eater wrote: »

You don't need to have money to have class.

You don't need class to have money, either.

Very true.

I'd like to think that most of us on this thread, indeed site, are poor but classy.

Except lir, who's not as poor but possibly classier.

Lotus-eater

carolt wrote: »

Very true.

I'd like to think that most of us on this thread, indeed site, are poor but classy.

Except lir, who's not as poor but possibly classier.

I think we are agreed about LIR.

I'm not poor though, not as I class it anyway, I have a house, a healthy family, a garden, lots of "things", I can afford to buy whatever food I want.
No, I'm well off, maybe not as fabulously well off as many people who live round me, but stick me in most other countries and they would think I was a prince.

I am not though and probably have never been called, classy, although I like to think I am, in more lucid moments

ceridwen

lostinrates wrote: »

I have wellies, but usually wear muckers (about £15). Not brilliantly supportive I grant you. I wear either jeans or whatever I have on. Have been known to be seen doing horses in evening wear if thats what I have on. Nuts? I like to phrase it ''eccentric''. My blue shorts with gold footless tights of I feel a certain amount of disapproval, but it makes me happy.

TBH I look like a bag lady much of the time I'm walking,....personally I couldn't really care less ATM....just nice to get out.

...and I want to know what muckers are please?:D
(only time I've come across the word so far has been in the context "me old mucker" - ie "my mate").

lostinrates

ceridwen wrote: »

...and I want to know what muckers are please?:D
(only time I've come across the word so far has been in the context "me old mucker" - ie "my mate").

muckers are hideous foot wear:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/REQUISITE-MUCKERS-SIZE-8-/170479817383?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Sporting_Goods_Athletic_Shoes_ET&hash=item27b16392a7

I hate the feeling of wellies up my legs though....

also I have knee length muckers with sort of soft thermal leg bits. Equally hideous, but softer than wellies.