Its tough, it will get better and guess what its freezing brrrrr!

mardatha

My neighbour was the same. I once went into the bathroom and came face to face with a dead sheep in the bath ! :eek:
and there was the time he "got" a goose for the xmas dinner....there was the polis at the front door "making enquiries" and him at the back door with a hairdrier trying to get rid of a whole cloud of white feathers..

Red_Doe

mardatha wrote: »

My neighbour was the same. I once went into the bathroom and came face to face with a dead sheep in the bath ! :eek:
and there was the time he "got" a goose for the xmas dinner....there was the polis at the front door "making enquiries" and him at the back door with a hairdrier trying to get rid of a whole cloud of white feathers..

:rotfl: gods that sounds sooo familiar! Dad had a similar experience, having two dead stags bleeding into buckets hanging in the doorway of an outbuilding whilst two polis stopped by for a..um...chat...
it was only blind luck they didn`t turn round, and dad, who`d been in the middle of processing them, spent all his time talking with his hands behind his back. Because they were bloody up the the elbows
We ate well though. :cool:

HariboJunkie

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:@ Pink-winged. You mad bat.
Happy Birthay Pagan Girl. :beer:

Have been sanding and stripping furniture all day and OH has nearly exposed the old fire in the kitchen. We thought we were in for a present early on as we thought there might be an old range behind the bricks. Unfortunately it turned out to be an old copper boiler but at least we can sell it for a good scrap price. :money:
House is in utter upheaval but we've had a lovely beef stew and are halfway through a bottle of red.

TudorRose

No poaching stories I am afraid but have enjoyed reading them.
Did see a very intact dead pheasant at side of the road last weekend but couldn't bring myself to stop & pick it up. Will stick with the frozen one in the freezer that I got reduced in Lidl the other month.
Was in Asda this afternoon & got a pack of 4 tins of 'Don Mario' brand chopped tomatoes for £1.00. It was a special offer & not a stickered reduction.
Hope this might be of use to anybody going to Asda tomorrow.

cherie1122

I've just been reading through this thread - not seen it before

I wanted to thank you for some great ideas. I just went to the fridge and cut our Sunday leg of pork joint (boneless) in half. We'll have one half tomorrow and the other another week. It weighed 2 kilos so I'm not sure why I thought we would have it for one meal (there are only two of us)

I need to pay more attention to cutting my spending because my other half has been made redundant so we've only got one income now.

I read an advert by British Gas that offered free cavity wall insulation to customers who are over 60 so I'm currently in the process of getting that organised. I hope it will make the house warmer and cut the heating costs.

I love this thread .........

ceridwen

kittie wrote: »

I also have an uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach re the future. I heard the other day that 1 million is like the seconds in 11 days and a billion is like the seconds in 32 YEARS. That is when my stomach churned and the size of the debt hit home. Until then a billion wasn`t that far from a million. We moved house not long ago and am just about coming to the end of the big spends and just in time too, before the vat increases. I think we have one more biggie to get and then we will hunker down.

I was starting to run my cupboards down but they are built up again after reading bits and pieces about the rising cost of things and about winter going to be bad. The flour shortage is terrible, I think the big boys are stockpiling because of the rising wheat prices, like they did with oil and which appears to be happening again too. I have my flour in as I order in bulk online and it keeps well in lock and lock in a cool place. I am really quite scared about next week, not about whether I will manage because I can manage on whatever but the potential breakdown in society is scary

There seems to be no end to the financial gloom

I think its the not knowing that is wearing. We have all been waiting now for what feels like ages to know how low down the axe will swing - so it will be a relief in some ways once we know what it is exactly that we have to cope with.

The last Government DID waste huge amounts of money in various different ways I would say - looking at some of it with an objective eye - so maybe there wont be much cutting of "stuff that matters" - maybe more like removing all the "throwing money wildly around" that the last Government did do a lot of it has to be said......

I admit to having gone into the first Labour Government of recent times a socialist and come out the other end this year RATHER a lot more cynical about it than I was.....

Personally I believe in helping people with their needs, not their greeds. So - I will wait and see just how much balance will be struck between throwing money at their greeds (as the last Government did do a lot of...) on the one hand and whether money will be removed from what people require for their "needs" on the other hand. On the "needs" side - then I wonder how the ordinary householder in the street is expected to manage if they find the money they need for their accommodation if they are on benefit has a shortfall (talking about ordinary householders here - not career claimants - but ordinary people with no or standard size families) and that would worry me if they dont get enough to cover the cost of ordinary housing because of having lost a job through no fault of their own.

I do wonder what will happen to incapacity benefit claimants too - hopefully those who are genuinely ill (and I would argue those genuinely unable to find a job as well)wont have any cuts on the one hand - but those swinging the lead on the other hand will be correctly identified.

It is sometimes very difficult to differentiate between those genuinely needing help on the one hand and the ones who are greedy and "trying it on" just because they can (whether in or out of work). I think any Government needs the wisdom of Solomon to differentiate between the two groups of people and I would promptly develop a migraine if I had to try to work out who was who in that context myself....

Anyway...we will all find out soon now..

Red_Doe

Well said Ceridwen.

Mrs_Veg_Plot

parsonswife8
Are you an "Innocent" veg pot, like the smoothies?

:rotfl::rotfl:[/QUOTE]

I'm as innocent as death by chocolate :whistle::whistle:

NualaBuala

In my more cynical moments I think that cultivating fear and anxiety might be a deliberate ploy by governments. Over here we get regular doom and gloom updates leading up to our December Budget. And when they do announce their cuts, if they are not quite as bad as people had feared, then there isn't as much outcry.

Happy Birthday Pagangirl! :bdaycake:Well I know it hasn't been a good one but I really hope the next year (and ever after) brings you happiness. xxx

mardatha wrote: »

Yes Elf, I'm up in the border hills. Is bloody baltic here tonight in my kitchen nevermind ootside ! RD, I can still mind one year we ran out of coal and money. I had to round the kids up and take them up on the hill to collect wood. The youngest was so cold and whiney we stuck him inside a black binbag and tied it round his neck :rotfl:
Then we found a neighbour who had a freezer full of (poached) salmon but nothing else, and he swapped me a pail of coal for some ice cream and pavlova for his kids Poor but happy days !

OS parenting, don't you just love it! :rotfl:
Edit: every time I read it again I laugh some more! Erm, is this the one who doesn't want to come and do your garden for you? Can't think why! :rotfl:

jamanda

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAGANGIRL. Hope things pick up for you soon.