really old style living?

NualaBuala

Belated Happy Birthday Dreaming! :bdaycake:
Sounds like you had a good one!:beer:

Primrose

Dreaming - I only discovered recently that my rotary drier fitted into a sun umbrella base. This has been very useful as we've had a gazebo up in our garden since June (hoping for another barbeque summer !) and I've been able just to pick up rotary drier full of washing and pop it in the umbrella base under gazebo on showery days to save my washing from getting wet.

parsonswife8

Belated Happy birthday to you Dreaming..

Annie123, I am 56 and every morning is the same ritual..rollover in bed, trying not to moan out loud, sit up slowly, with a lot of "Oh my God, my back" and then, make my way to the loo, looking like Quasimodo, with a distinct limp.:eek:

It's the same if I wake up in the night and have to go to the loo.:o

I would love to spring out of bed, but only do that, if I have a bout of sciatica.
:mad:

Got a bag of red eating apples off of my MIL this afternoon. Wasps have gotten to them, so only a few are perfect for eating, will cook the rest up for apple sauce, once the manky bits have been removed.

dreaming

Thanks NualaBuala - had very good one indeed. Am currently eating some lovely chocolate covered fudge (thanks DD), and contemplating whether it is too early/late to finish off the jug of Pimms we made yesterday.
I love reading all the ideas on these threads to save money/make life better. Although I have a good, (relatively) secure job, am very aware that a) it might not always be so, and I have to plan for my retirment; and b) I actually get more pleasure/satisfaction out of saving money and finding short-cuts than the short-lived "buzz" I used to get when I spent money like it was going out of fashion

JenniO

ginnyknit wrote: »

Thanks, I intend to have a rest and see some beautiful places - oh and hopefully find some seaweed for my garden!

I feel like the 'Gardening Girl' on this forum, but felt compelled to tell you that your seaweed may contain salt and if it does, it will kill your plants. You would need to wash it several times first. To be honest, I wouldn't do it, but I do buy seaweed concentrated liquid and dilute it for good plant food. HTH.

katholicos

Belated Birthday Greetings, Dreaming!

Today, for our evening meal I baked 3 large patty pan squash from the garden and made a cheese and chive sauce, using chives from the garden. I also steamed some lovely fresh french beans form the garden. Delicious!

This afternoon i made some staffs oatcakes which we will have with cheese for our main meal tomorrow, we like them served with baked beans. Healthy and filling and tasty :-)

zarazara

Should be ok for brassicas. I read on old gardening book where its reccommended to give each plant a teaspoon of saly,scattered around the roots,helps prevent them freezing in winter.

Gigervamp

Hi everyone, been MIA as mum was visiting last week. Typically, the weather was mostly wet until today. Mum went home yesterday. But, we did manage to do a bit of blackberrying like old times so that was nice. I made mum the lemon drizzle cake that she requested (she's been buying one from Asda) and sent her home with a jar of jam and another of chutney. She couldn't take anything else as she was going back by coach, otherwise she'd have also gone back with eggs from my girls and cake!

My efforts at growing stuff has pretty much come to nowt, again. Tomatoes have got blight. Peas have been sparse and even when the pods looked fat, had teeny tiny peas in, bar one or two. Beans have been a bit more productive, but not enough at any one time to pick for one meal.
I have however got a squash! :j One squash survived the onslaught of chickens and weather. Yay! It's now residing safely in the fridge until such time as I find a recipe that will do it justice! :rotfl:

With regards getting up in the morning, I'm almost 47 and have got up early since having kids, but for the last couple of weeks I've found that even though I wake before 6am and feel pretty much wide awake, after laying there in bed for a few minutes deciding what I'm going to do that day, I fall asleep again for another hour or more! I hate that! I like being up early and when I lose an hour or two sleeping at the beginning of the day, I feel groggy and also peed off that I've lost those precious hours.

Hippeechiq

:wave: Belated Happy Birthday Dreaming

annie123 wrote: »

Very autumnal here, cold, chilly and damp so my washing isn't drying:mad: and my gardens been flattened by yesterdays massive heavy downpour..again:mad:

I've come to the conclusion that as much as I would like to be really oldstyle...thinking chickens, orchard, massive allotment, walk in pantry etc the fact that I have not got out of bed before 8.15 am over the weekend means I'm not really suited to it
Or it could be after 20 plus years of getting up at 6am, doing housework, going to work for 10 hours back at 8pm, cooking dinner, falling asleep whilst watching news at 10, oh and [STRIKE]talk[/STRIKE] grunt at kids/hubby at some point, then repeat again the next day! that I just lie in at weekend because I can now, don't during the week, but up until I left work even on my days off I still got up between 6-7am.
Maybe my body is just getting older than my age (still 47, just).
So those of you older than me, do you still jump up out of bed nice and early every day?

Errrr - no

Like you, most of my working life I had to get up at 6:20am, and in my last job 7am. The days were long and hard, with a lot of travelling, and in my last job, I was on my feet all day, and I mean all day. And then I used to have to come home and stand for another hour(ish) to cook tea. In between those years when raising my girls I was never up later than 7am. Now I think sod it! lol

When my daughters health improves, I will look for work again, and the treadmill will start all over again. It wasn't until being made redundant in January, that I realised how totally shattered I was a lot of the time.

So, for the time being, I get up at 8.30 most days, and on a weekend when I often stay up until 2am, it will be 10.30

But what I'd really like to know is, although I think sod it and have the lie-in, why do I still feel guilty about it? or is that just me?

annie123

Hippeechiq wrote: »

Now I think sod it! lol

When my daughters health improves, I will look for work again, and the treadmill will start all over again. It wasn't until being made redundant in January, that I realised how totally shattered I was a lot of the time.

So, for the time being, I get up at 8.30 most days, and on a weekend when I often stay up until 2am, it will be 10.30

But what I'd really like to know is, although I think sod it and have the lie-in, why do I still feel guilty about it? or is that just me?

thank you , you've made me feel better, I was feeling guilty now I don't:)