It isn`t tough for us. We are OS and we COPE

RAS

Depends, as some of the big bike now have engines bigger than small cars!

But I guess for some folk something under 200cc would be a really useful option.

Justamum

mardatha wrote: »

Does anybody think there will be a surge in sales of motorbikes now that petrol is so dear ? In the 50s and 60s everybody had one, because there was less money about and people couldnt afford cars. Maybe those days are coming back ?

Or a horse and cart?

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Frugal_Dreamer wrote: »

We are going off topic again....:(

no they arent`. I cannot think of anything more on topic than trying to safeguard the most os thing of all, getting information for FREE

FatVonD

I did get a bicycle when we first moved here but I was a bit of a liability on it though I might fare better on a trike.

Not sure if an Actifry is a welcome addition in an OS kitchen but one of my ex colleagues has offered me one (my last one went 'bang' and stopped working) which I have fallen on gratefully as I love Actifry chips.

On a not very related note, I have lost some weight since leaving work. I'm not sure if it's because I lost my appetite worrying they would retract me being made redundant (I'd hate to be one of those left doing twice the amount of work for the same money) or because I'm not reaching for a chocolate bar for an artificial high every time I want to kill someone. Either way it's a good thing

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RAS wrote: »

Depends, as some of the big bike now have engines bigger than small cars!

But I guess for some folk something under 200cc would be a really useful option.

I have an electric bike as in bicycle and will be whizzing about as soon as the weather improves. We have hardly used the car since the week before christmas and it hasn`t been any hardship. I go to the allotment on my normal bike and get food delivered via the local food direct co. I am so determined to start getting something into our savings account soon as it has been haemhorraging away since we moved last june. It is now down to a level where I am starting to get uncomfortable

FatVonD

GreyQueen wrote: »

Oh, the pleasures of a really good cardboard box (sigh). I have a low slung bed and got two of those underbed trolleys (Argos £25, wood and gridded metal). Except mine were £3 from a bootfair. They're fantastic and roll very smoothly on the hard floor. One if full of tinned tomatoes and the other is about to have it's cargo disbursed so that it, too, can be a larder trolley.:rotfl:

I just can't resist a good box! Farrow and Ball would always send press gifts in a box covered in beautiful paper, someone else would have the gift and I'd have the box! I have a stack of them with cards etc in them and every drawer in the house has shoebox 'organisers'.

ginnyknit

Part of the money savers arsenal is a box isnt it? We have them everywhere with essentials and stock in. I love a good strong free box. the builders gave us some archival boxes with lids to pack our stuff in and we have re-used them.

Just been in Mr T (much against my better judgement - saving petrol) and they have the 50p bread flour in again and Mr Sugar granulated at 68p. Cat food was buy 2 get 1 free, and its still cheaper to buy the loose cans than the multi packs??? Funny thing though, after a week or so of stocking the sugar there still isnt a price on the shelf?? I of course went and scanned it last week thus finding it was a bargain. Right off to revitalise Oh's coat with 40p's worth of new velcro for the cuffs.

Lavandula

kittie wrote: »

no they arent`. I cannot think of anything more on topic than trying to safeguard the most os thing of all, getting information for FREE

Not strictly an OS topic though, and I do worry that this thread will go the same way as others, because of off-topic discussions however interesting and useful they are...

Pitlanepiglet

Lavandula wrote: »

Not strictly an OS topic though, and I do worry that this thread will go the same way as others, because of off-topic discussions however interesting and useful they are...

Trouble is there are only so many domestic science topic points that can be discussed aren't there? If we can't discuss things that are public affairs related (and related to it being tough) without being deemed off topic, it's a bit like going back to the 30's where ladies weren't supposed to exercise their brains in matters outside of the home!

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I well remember the day I discovered the library, I think I was 10 and that was truly in the real old way of doing things, 52 years ago. OS wasn`t simply lip service then or a bit of fun, as it was absolutely survive or not, just like it is now for some on this thread. I got books, even at that early age, for recipes using max of one egg and how to make a skirt even better
than my mum taught me

The thought that councils may take away survival tools sends a shiver down my spine. We never had wardrobes full of clothes in those days and most of us had to learn how to sew and if we had any ambition to do better, then information was gleaned from books because mums could only pass on what they themselves knew.

As is the case now. Libraries fill a gap in os knowledge