really old style living?

mardatha

..If only bad temper burned calories and weight dropped off !!!

parsonswife8

mardatha wrote: »

..If only bad temper burned calories and weight dropped off !!!

Sadly, I think it has the adverse effect and weight piles up.:eek:

I really don't want to go up London to the hospital tomorrow.:mad: But needs must.

annie123

Hubby was just reading over my shoulder and said
"really old style, does that mean you will be walking 6 paces behind me and doing what I say without question?"

He got 'one of those looks' and backed out of the living room, subserviently as he should

babychick

annie123 wrote: »

Hubby was just reading over my shoulder and said
"really old style, does that mean you will be walking 6 paces behind me and doing what I say without question?"

He got 'one of those looks' and backed out of the living room, subserviently as he should

:rotfl:wish my OH would do as HE is told!!!

parsonswife8

annie123 wrote: »

Hubby was just reading over my shoulder and said
"really old style, does that mean you will be walking 6 paces behind me and doing what I say without question?"

He got 'one of those looks' and backed out of the living room, subserviently as he should

:DProbably trying to be safer then sorry.

Welsh_Poppy

Just catching up lots going on, I would love a huge garden and chickens you lucky thing.

Still awaiting an allotment...so I plod on..

planted all my Aldi fruit bushes and picked 10lb courgettes so going to make piccallili and freeze the rest for the winter. made rhubarb crumble from the garden and picked 10lb potatioes it was a lovely feeling.
Anyone made a cassis? going to give a go made blackbcurrant vodka last year and it is delic:-)

Talking grown up kids I have a 25 year old who was a lovely boy know is extremly selfish and still lives at home I cant get rid of him so any ideas....hehehe

ceridwen

mardatha wrote: »

..If only bad temper burned calories and weight dropped off !!!

<cough> eerrrrr....sweeties of course contain no calories and Mardatha will be eating them until the cows come home (well...that darn great one she has for a neighbour.....);):rotfl:

zarazara

(((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))) Mardatha and anyone else who needs them.

Hippeechiq

missychrissy wrote: »

Alys Fowler (Gardener's World) did a series recently on 'Edible Gardening' in which she grew veg etc in with her flowers and shrubs. She also kept 3 chickens in a quite small Victorian terraced town garden.

It might be worth trying to find it on BBC2

Thanks for that missychrissy As I said, I'm not sure I'd be allowed by the council, but I'll still see if I can find it thanks

kippers wrote: »

I love this thread.

I have had an allotment for over 5 years now and at the beginning of this year i got both the allotments next to mine, so i now have 3 altogether.

I gave up work 2 years ago as my part time job was so stressful it was making me ill. I took a year long horticulture course which i loved and now I drop my DD off at school at 8.50 and go to my allotment until I pick her up at 3.30 during term time. I find it harder during the summer holidays as i visit my allotment from 6.30 to 8.15 so i can back home ready for my DH to go to work. My DD1 is 12 and my DD2 is 10.

I have loads of fruit and veg and have 2 apple trees at the moment. I have a lovely bramley apple tree and on my new plot is a beautiful tree but i don't know the variety. I do know the tree is an early variety and the apples don not store so i have just bought a fruit press so i can freeze the juice in plastic bottles and pop a bottle in DD's lunch box each day as she loves apple juice.

The two plots i have just taken over need alot of work but i have already had a wonderful harvest from both. I want to be as self sufficient as possible, though i do live in a town. I do intend to keep chickens oneday at home and i am still talking my DH round at the moment. I would love to keep bees (which my DH really can't understand) but at the moment i can't afford the set up costs or the price of a course to learn about it, so this will have to wait.

My life is really hard work and very frustrating as people think i just 'sponge' off my DH and watch daytime telly all day...this is so far from the truth as i spend loads of time pickling, preserving, freezing etc for the winter. It's so nice being close to nature and i think myself very lucky. I cook from scratch and make my own bread and try not to use chemical cleaners etc.

My family love the food i grow and can't get enough of my jams and pickled onions. My close friends say i should sell my produce but i have enough supplying my family of 4.

Anyway, enough about me

Well done you kippers :T and who cares what other people think!

smileyt_2

:j I made my first jam this weekend, with the help of a friend. I now have two jars of plum jam, 3 jars of blackberry jam and a jar of gooseberry jam. All free, foraged fruit. Plus I have found another wild plum tree and some damsons nearby. Damsons not quite ripe but I will go and check again in a few days' time.

I also used my wheat grinder for the first time this weekend and ground some wheat to make into bread. It's quite hard work but the results were very tasty and in fact are disappearing quickly :rotfl:

I'm off to put my chickens to bed and then try to finish my cross-stitch that I'm doing for a friend. It's a birthday present. Her birthday was in March ... ahem ....