How to Get Through The Tough Times The Old Style Way.

flowertotmum

Hi all..
Mardatha..will airlift sweeties asap...:rotfl:
Kitschy..good luck..IOW is gorgeous..and your so lucky ..i like the quote..teenage tummy butterflies..thats soo cute..enjoy it babe..;)
Well had a good OS day..not spent 1p..went to my girls for lunch..bacon butties yummy..and choclate cake for afters even better..and then the 2 mile walk home burnt it all off:D..
Got all my washing dry on the line..hoping to get the same tomorrow..hubby had brought it in and folded all before i got home..lovely man..
Had an idea..don't get many:D..i have a stair carpet that seems to attract fluff and it only goes up the middle of the stairs..so instead of hoovering it everyday..i found my old stiff brush and a dustpan and have brushed the carpet...seems to have worked the pile is refreshed and looks lovely..hard work though but totally satisfying to look back and see it...can remember my gran doing it that way..and washed down the steps with sugar soap and wow it looks so good...
We used to have rabbit pie..when i was little, but it kinda went out of favour with folks..seems its coming back..a chap who lives near me goes shooting now and again..he offered us a couple last time..they are in the freezer..might dig them out and have a bash at getting kiddies to eat it...everything is worth a go...
Right i'm off ..got homemade meatballs tonight..with jam tarts and custard for pudding...not very original but the tots love them..
take care all
ftm

born_blonde

I always think of it as who would you choose to sit next to in the Beer Tent ( misspent youth). Even with a group of people with an interest in common some will just not get on, so pick who you are going to sit next to and if that's not possible be polite and move as soon as you can. I suppose in this instance I mean either skim the post or ignore.
Saying that I'd never use an ignore button I'd be worried about missing something!

mardatha

The day ever dawns when I have an intact sweetie stash you'll know I'm ill. I would burrow through bare rock for a bag of sherbet fruits right now....:( Not going out until Fri night now. I might end meself before then !!!

born_blonde

Just in case Mardatha gets desperate

http://www.greenchronicle.com/confectionery_recipes.htm

littlecal

Mardatha - you can have my sweeties,I've just broken a tooth eating a crispbread:doh: So much for losing weight:rotfl::rotfl:

de1amo

i have always wanted to retire to the İOW but it seems to be a fading possibility from living so far away!-i had a gf on the island once and it felt such a lovely safe environment compared to the bustle of my home town of bournemouth--the island is visible from bournemouth beach but light years away!
--i am increasingly puzzling about where i will spend my retirement. i seem to be destined to living in turkey and finding a retirement town that is liveable year round is quite a task --places die a death generally in winter and are bitterly cold due to no gas and poor construction--they are built just for summer habitation with little or no insulation.--the stone village houses are the ones to get but cost a fortune.-what i need is bournemouth in turkey!

lostinrates

I'm ashamed to say I've never been to the IoW but always wanted too. I don't even live impossibly far away. My favourite ever horse, an incredibly special person, came from the IoW.

jumblejack

Had another very thrifty day today!

I made yoghurt cheese (google it, it's VERY easy!).
With the whey, I made a BM loaf (just used in place of water).
With the rest, it went towards the stock in my potato n leek soup.
The potatoes n leek were both whoopsied.
I made a huge batch of shortcrust pastry again (assisted by my youngest!).
We made treacle tart with part of the pastry (I wanted to use up my whoopsied baguette breadcrumbs from the freezer!).
With some of the remaining pastry I made a cheesy potatoe pie (whoopsied potato again and the cheap grated cheese from lidl that actually works out cheaper than a block!). On the top of this were sliced tomatoes (need I say, whoopsied!), more cheese and a mix of breadcrumbs, cayenne and value mixed herbs drizzled with oil, mmm!!
They both went in the oven together and the house smells fab!!!

I have a third of the pastry left in a bag in the fridge. This will make a left over pie no doubt in a few days.....

Thanks for all the inspiration!

maryb

brandeberryj wrote: »

Venison is so so good.
Don't worry about the price of oil long term it could be a good thing. The OPEC countries are increasing output constantly Last week by 400,000 barrels a day and there is more than the loss of Libyan oil in reserve more than a years Libyan output. The last thing they (OPEC) want is the price to get out of hand as that will cost them a fortune. When they forced it above $100 a barrel in the 1980s there was a collapse all the way down to $10 a barrel.
Because
1st people use less. Car sharing, going shopping less often buying less goods which are derived from oil. A lot of clothes are derived from oil.
2nd Increased production (as OPEC is doing) & old wells being re exploited as they become cost effective again.
3rd recession. There is no difference between raising tax or interest rates to high or in raising oil prices to high it results in a recession (decreased demand in the world economy) and therefore a huge reduction in demand for oil.
4th this is just related to the 80s some of the countries in OPEC started cheating i.e. selling more than there quota.

The only real problem would be loss of certain types of oil as refinery are not built to do any oil but certain ones IE Libya is "Sweet crude oil"
The reality is that if it keeps going up the fall will be big very big. Can't remember what the Maximum it went to in the 80s but it was over $100 and that Brent went down to $10 a barrel. Of course $100 a barrel would have had a bigger impact then?

Interesting article by Ambrose Evans Pritchard about oil
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/8369427/Oil-markets-brace-for-Saudi-rage-as-global-spare-capacity-wears-thin.html#dsq-content

I'm not quite as sanguine as you - the collapse in the price of oil down to $10 was driven by the huge new finds coming onstream from the North Sea and Alaska. There are some substantial new finds that have been made but it's not pure extra capacity as a good bit of it is offset by depletion in the older fields. Google Peak Oil if you really want to scare yourself - a lot of it is conspiracy theory but there was a well respected oil sector banker who reckoned that the Saudi oilfields had already peaked

I was searching for an earlier post and saw that about a month ago peeps were posting links which suggested that petrol could go to £1.80 per litre by the summer. That already looks out of date - one government minister was talking recently about the possibility of £2 per litre. At least this latest instability comes at the end of the winter and we can all hope it will settle down a bit by the start of next winter.

For myself, I'm going to try and up the investment in energy saving as much as I can. Not easy with an old Victorian house in a conservation area but we need to gut one of the largest rooms to deal with damp and before replastering I'd like to put some insulation backed plasterboard on the walls. It made a huge difference when we redid our 1960s gerry built extension of a kitchen. Before that the condensation was running down the windows, now it's lovely and dry and warm. Plus we put in about 6 inches of underfloor insulation and underfloor heating together with a new 'warm roof' (the extension had a flat roof which would have showed up as a warm spot from space!!)

I need to do some research about how to avoid a 'cold bridge' since we can't do the whole house so I'll have a look on one of the 'in my home' threads and hope there's someone there who can advise

de1amo

shouldnt that be 2 quid a litre --4,57ltrs to one imperial gallon so about 9 quid a gallon