really old style living?

stitching_witch

I've just had a successful visit to collect DGS from his dad's. We go once a month and costs us about £17 for the round trip. However, as well as getting a lovely roast dinner, we went foraging.

We came home with a hand ful of blackberries, 2.5 lbs of elderberries and 21.5 lb of the sweetest mirabelle plums I've ever found, which were growing wild at the edge of the football field. :T

That'll be enough plums for 3 gallons of wine and 15 jars of jam to add to the store cupboard. Then of course there are the blackberries and elderberries......

Welsh_Poppy

stitching_witch wrote: »

I've just had a successful visit to collect DGS from his dad's. We go once a month and costs us about £17 for the round trip. However, as well as getting a lovely roast dinner, we went foraging.

We came home with a hand ful of blackberries, 2.5 lbs of elderberries and 21.5 lb of the sweetest mirabelle plums I've ever found, which were growing wild at the edge of the football field. :T

That'll be enough plums for 3 gallons of wine and 15 jars of jam to add to the store cupboard. Then of course there are the blackberries and elderberries......

how do you make wine....would love to try making some made blackcurrant vodka last year which was scummy.

seasalt_2

I really am going doolally, muddling up this and "still tough n getting tougher" thread - sorry. Can't remember what I've read/posted where! Would also be interested in bramble wine -think I will have tons - but probably need special equipment? Remember my grandad had special bottles and airlocks and things taking over the airing cupboard.

katholicos

seasalt wrote: »

I really am going doolally, muddling up this and "still tough n getting tougher" thread - sorry. Can't remember what I've read/posted where! Would also be interested in bramble wine -think I will have tons - but probably need special equipment? Remember my grandad had special bottles and airlocks and things taking over the airing cupboard.

I'm going doolally too then SeaSalt, because i post on both threads and often can't remember what i have written on each of them

Welsh_Poppy

I think you can buy them in Wilkinsons...cant wait to try making some:-)

mardatha

This is the REALLY old style thread. For real tough hard-core old stylers! For pioneer wimmen who go to the store once a YEAR!
who build log cabins, chop trees, and kill BEARS!
:rotfl:

Hippeechiq

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

katholicos

I'm wondering if the following makes me mad rather than ultra OS....last week after pickling some home grown veg i discovered that i had some pickling vinegar left over...so i told my DD that it was really good for hair when used as a final rinse, she promptly went off and tried it and came downstairs really impressed...for the shampoo i had made her up a bicarbonate solution...then i went and washed my hair too. Waste not, want not, as the saying goes.

ginnyknit

Can you eat bear?

Just let me hitch up the wagon, get John boy and Momma and Im off to Tesco's for some vittles - oh too much tv watching whilst I knit me thinks :rotfl:

My sunflower is about 15 foot tall and my tomato plants are in the bin - looks like I had better google a recipe for spaghetti a la sunflower seeds!

ThriftyFelicity

mardatha wrote: »

I'd like to know more on running a laptop this way, anywhere I can go to find out TF ?

Don't actually know much about it myself, I'm afraid. I met someone earlier this year who was running a netbook from a battery charged by a solar panel. The solar panel was small, but the battery was BIG... I think he said it was a submarine battery.

Here is someone who put together a system capable of running a laptop:

Solar powered laptop