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

bertiebots

Sorry to hear the bad news welshcamper ((()))

Talking of cars..that scary noise I heard the other day tonight developed into a flippin terrifying grinding scraping one on my way home and now needs to be booked into the garage in the morning:eek:..I really hope they can fit me in.
But I have the carpet fitters coming in the morning at 9am -the estate agent at 10am -and need to be at work by 11am.....not to mention the little problem of getting the kids the 3.5 miles to school at 8am:eek:. I then need to be able to pick the kids up after work at 3pm -make tea and be back to work for 5.30pm .
I wish I had someone to phone and help me out but I dont and I am fed up!:mad: I am going to have to pay for a taxi for the kids as there are no buses and hope that the car is sorted by 3pm.

Its a nightmare....have just ordered a new carpet for hall,stairs,landing thinking I should pay a bit more (than buying the usual cheap stuff I buy) because it gets loads of wear . So I have obviously not accounted for extra expenses in the next few weeks and planned to save for the car. Dread to think how much the car is going to cost and thats not including the mot/service/insurance due. It may just clear me out and I am really scared of not having a little safety net of money in the bank, being on my own.

And what on earth is this about having to pay tax/ni on second jobs? I didnt see that anywhere:( I work 17/18 hours a week so it wont affect me will it?

Sorry to be a grumpy bean folks but its been one of those days.....

Rowan9

Wesh camper- thinking of you. Thanks for letting us know JackieG.

babychick

(((welshcamper))) sorry to hear your news.x

I currently drive a ford focus 1.8 diesel, it cost me £61 to fill the tank at the weekend :eek: I'm definitely more cautious about using the car these days, its an increasing expense we can all do without! When we move to the new house, it will cut down on the drive to the childminders on the days i'm working as we'll be just around the corner it's the so called short journeys that seem to add up!

mrswive

Our only car is a Ford Ka, our second. The last one we had for 8 years and, apart from services & MOTs, we spent the grand sum of £34 on repairs - not bad we thought, so we got another, (cheap of course; it's an old shape one which we bought when the new shape was introduced. Luckily neither of us care what it looks like as long as it's reliable and as cheap as possible to run).
Last time I filled it up it was over £44, which was a real shock, still, no need to worry now that it's 1p cheaper! What will we do with all that spare cash?!

Sorry to hear your sad news Welsh Camper.

Mrs_Veg_Plot

Condolances to Welsh Camper.

Bertiebots hope you feel better soon. I swear by honey and lemon in hot water when I have a sore throat.

Good luck with the job hunting dollydaydream

Welcome to Babychick. I'm sure they will help to keep you on the straight and narrow.

I too have spotted flipflops. I was in A&E with DD2 last night and there was a woman in there in coat gloves and scalf next to a young man with flip flops t shirt and long shorts.

The weather has been great here. I am making a point of having my lunch break at work (not something I usually do) and I am sitting outside with my lunch and a book. I'm really enjoying it. The washing went on the line before work this morning. and I have just finished ironing it. Just need to finish last weeks ironing now, but not tonight

Keep well

Mrs VP

mardatha

A Volvo C30. Don't get one - the seats are instruments of torture!

Beccah_3

mardatha wrote: »

A Volvo C30. Don't get one - the seats are instruments of torture!

Can I change that to Volvo....Don't get one unless you want to be penniless for the next 50 years!!!
After saving like mad and a lifetime of never buying anything for himself...my dad treated himself to a used Volvo XC90. He had hoped for a couple of years of fun before trading it in for somthing small and economical.
BUT after a couple of niggly little things which were fixed fairly cheaply, its currently at an Independent ( I dread to think how much more the main dealer would be charging) Volvo specialist....and so far we're £850 down and still investigating.
I know there are far more important things going on in the world at the moment, but I feel like crying at the unfairness of it.
My dad has worked so hard over the years to counter-balance my late mother's secretive shopping habits, clawing them out of the red, paying off the mortgage and building some small savings. For the last 5 years he has been a widower, rasing my younger sister as a single parent and has undergone heart-bypass surgery.
Throughout tall this, he put himself last and never spent anything on himself. Now the first time that he does, it seems to backfire massively and it looks like all our savings will be wiped out. To top it off...this weekend would have been my parent's 40th wedding anniversay.

Sorry to take this off topic with my rambling. Despite being 30 years old, I'm still somewhat of a Daddy's girl and its heartbreaking to see him so guilt-ridden ( he's blaming himself for choosing the car) and sad.

jumblejack

marmiterulesok wrote: »

Any chaace of sharing the specifics of making this?It sounds good.Thanks.

I hope this link works. It's the site I found the method on:

https://www.instructables.com/id/HOWTO-make-GBR-germinated-or-sprouted-brown-rice/

If not, just google germinated brown rice and voila!

I have made twinks hobnobs this morning ready for the bunch of home edders coming back to ours after our field trip! They are amazing-proper biscuits!! Usually my biscuits taste cakey but not these! Proper impressed. Gotta put the next batch in after I've finished my porridge.

I've also made gluten/lactose free choccy cupcakes and put rice in my thermal cooker to go with yet another batch of chilli (perfect for those with food intolerances!

Busy busy busy.

Well gotta go. (I will let you know how the slow thermal cooked rice goes. Bit nervous as there is no water loss so I am hoping I've judged it right?

alec_eiffel

mardatha wrote: »

A Volvo C30. Don't get one - the seats are instruments of torture!

We have a Volvo c30 too and I love the seats. We do loads of long journeys and there's soooo much support and they kind of hug you into the seat, it's like being coddled. I love it! :j

GreyQueen

Well, an excellent start to the day; knocked a jam jar off the counter and onto my tiny kitchen floor with me standing there barefoot as usual...think I got all the bits with the brush and pan but carefully vacuumed anyway. Only good thing was that it was an empty jamjar I was storing on the counter top and not loaded with jam!:rotfl:

Idiot Boy was scratching around upstairs early yesterday evening and then went out, came back and woke me not long after I went to sleep (11.30 pm-ish) then woke me again at 4.20 am. I wouldn't normally have got to sleep again after that but am so shattered went off again and the alarm woke me at 7 am. Get truly ragged by the end of the week and this is one where I had the Monday off as flex. Grrrr.

Grandma, you didn't scare me, bless your heart, you were on track with my own thoughts. I take calls at work every week which involve leaks downwards from one flat into another and it has always been a back-of-the-mind concern. When I took on this flat I had to do remedial decorating over one side of it, across the bathroom, hall and kitchen, where the ceilings were stained and peeling from a previous water leak. Shoebox Towers has its own heating and hot water system, powered by a dozen giganormous gas boilers just down the row from me. It's a highly-pressurised system and I'm only 8 metres from the boiler house. It's so sensitive that the engineers know that somewhere, in one of the bought leaseholder flats, some numptie has replaced a bathroom radiator with a towel radiator, and this has upset part of the system for the rest of us. There are only about 3 gas engineers in the city with the experience to handle the S.T. system; I think an ordinary Gas Safe Register engineer would throw up his hands in horror before he meddled with the contents of our boiler house.

We do have outgoing tenants who see fit to vandalise their properties before they leave and it is a real headache and cause of unnecessary delay in getting the next person into the home. One charmer wrote eff off in human excrement over the walls for the housing department to find.....eww. They'll get chased all over by debt collectors working for the council to recover the costs of the vandalism but its a thankless task trying to get money from these wasters. Then, months or years later, they tip up on our doorstep bleating about how they need housing and are astonished that we won't have them back!

I used to run 1 litre Metros or Fiestas with tanks which took 6 gallons. Can remember that I could nearly fill the tank with £10 worth of unleaded (gave up the car in 1997). Can remember when the parents first got a car in the late 1970s and petrol was 70p a gallon and we were all so shocked when it went past £1/ gallon. I really miss the freedom of a car; not having one makes a lot of things which would be simple errands into major logistical nightmares. However, I don't make very much money and, although I could raid the savings and buy a banger, I can't afford all the running costs. Never mind. In my circumstances, it'd be a WANT not a NEED but my heart goes out to people who have to have one and are being bled white. I agree that it is something which people will be very loathe to give up but there will come a point when some will have to face surrendering the car or paying the mortgage/ rent/ eating. Here's hoping things ease up for us all in that respect soon.

Hope this fine weather holds for the weekend as I must get my onion sets in and as much other stuff as I can find the energy to do, not to mention some h*use*ork (sorry!)

Hey, Frugal in Cornwall is blogging....not sure if it is permanent but I really really hope so.


(((Welsh camper)))