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

bertiebots

shegar wrote: »

Oh cmon you lot get outside and have a look monday and see if you have buds on some shrubs, I know im not the only one, its usually warmer and drier on the East Coast than a lot of places,my neighbours lilac bushes and budleia has green buds on too.............so to all you people out there in different parts of the country let us know whats budding in your garden..........

Am with mardatha on this one..we had four inches of snow yesterday:eek:...even my snowdrops are looking a bit pathetic:rotfl:The snow has now melted but my garden is more mush and mud than anything else.


Thanks for the welcome everyone!

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ZZ I am glad the colts are about to be gelded, you`ll notice a big difference soon afterwards. Maybe its the food making them so much of a handful, I took my youngster`s food down a notch when she was feeling her feet and it helped a lot and her behaviour improved dramatically as she was no longer popping out of her skin

I spent 5 hours on the allotment today, 4 this morning and one this afternoon with dh. It was so lovely, not freezing and anyway I had 3 good layers on. Several people came down to work on their patches, it is like one person sees another doing well so it`s a great incentive. Makes me feel good anyway and not achy today because I am doing lots of weeding on my knees, its digging that is killing but I think it won`t need much of that in future. We are getting linkabord raised beds in as I won`t be getting any younger and it`ll be easier to cope with 4 x 8 sections at a time. 6 in so far and another ordered and that`ll be it for this year. Gardening is great for the figure because I cannot be bothered nibbling or even eating when I am pottering to birdsong

I did a food order last night and am quite shocked at the increase in prices, its like you take a step forward and then get smacked by the sheer cost of living as it goes up and up relentlessly. You just have to get more inventive almost on a daily basis

shegar

bertiebots wrote: »

Am with mardatha on this one..we had four inches of snow yesterday:eek:...even my snowdrops are looking a bit pathetic:rotfl:The snow has now melted but my garden is more mush and mud than anything else.


Thanks for the welcome everyone!

WOW 4 inches of snow , you must also live in Scotland.....How do you lot cope with all that cold,drab,foggy,wet weather, it would make me have SAD 52 wks of the year instead of 3 months.....:eek:........What the devil are your heating bills like with so much cold weather and so prolonged..?..I bet you feel like having a lot of duvet days?......:D

maryb

MrsWive
The pension thing is really irritating isn't it? I am in that ggroup of women who will have to wait 2 extra years for their pension - I would have got it at 64 now it will be 66 - because I was born 3 weeks too late. No other group will have to wait more than 1 extra year including younger women who have more time to make up the difference

I wrote to my MP about it back in October (although it only seems to have registered with the papers and television journalists this weekend) and all I got back was a rehash of the Treasury press releases, no indication that he had understood the point I was making. I felt like saying yes thank you I am as capable as you of reading a press release. You are left thinking either they don't know what they are doing or they just don't care. I am sure that the Treasury is as full of highly able civil servants as it ever was, so they must know - and don't care.

What was really galling was that the same time as they announced the pension changes there was a piece in the paper about civil servants being able to retire at 50 without a reduction in the pension they had accrued up to date to reflect the fact it is being paid early. Ok I accept that is a cheap way of buying out expensive redundancy contractual entitlements. But what infuriated me was a Treasury spokesman said that "it was right that older workers were protected as they would not have so much time left to make good the loss" -that is, unless you are a woman of 56/57 when it doesn't matter if you lose an extra year's worth of state pension (ie over and above the loss of one year that everyone is facing) - money you had been basing plans on!!

candygirl

anguk wrote: »

I've seen quite a few men who are already house-trained, who have lived and coped quite well on their own, quickly revert to type once they get into a settled relationship.

I think quite often the problem is us women , it's as if we're programmed to think we have to do everything and some men see this, take advantage of this weakness and take the opportunity to do as little as possible.

I'd bet that in at least 80% of households where both the man & woman have full-time jobs it's still the woman who does the majority of household duties and childcare.

mmmmmm exactly:mad::mad::mad::mad:

bertiebots

:rotfl: I live in Yorkshire and woke up to snow like feathers yesterday! I am lucky that my house is really well insulated and my boiler is very efficient so my heating bills have actually come down in the past 2 years despite the horrible winters! We also have thermals:D:D:D. Luckily I dont suffer from SAD otherwise I may have to move..its rather a grey northen town!

Austin_Allegro

Fully 'house trained' man here...though I prefer 'self reliant' as I'm not a household pet!

Just had a great O/S day at my mother's. She's frugal with heating, so I've been wearing long undies, wool shirt, two jumpers, two pairs of socks and a scarf. I needed to mend my jumper (£3 charity shop) and mother let me go through her old patching material bag - I found exactly the right shade of material to mend the jumper AND a vintage Jane Shilton silk scarf that mother has given me to pass on to my g/f (don't worry I checked first to see if it was worth selling on ebay!:rotfl:)
Just shows you can't ever throw anything away if you are O/s....

Rowan9

Shegar - I lived in Suffolk for 18 yrs and moved back to Scotland just over a year ago. Before this we were in Aberdeen area, bit further south. The difference in gardens etc between Suffolk and Edinburgh is :eek:.I never used to be bothered by long winters before we moved south but this year I've used a light lamp for the first time. I just love living back in Scotland so am prepared to put up with darker days during the winter - ah but the long summer days are so fab! It doesn't rain all the time - honest :cool:. But it is certainly damper than Suffolk! But then again I'm the one who went out and sat in my back garden in the rain in Suffolk after week after week of relentless sun a couple of summers back!!
W

jinky67

wmf wrote: »

Shegar - I lived in Suffolk for 18 yrs and moved back to Scotland just over a year ago. Before this we were in Aberdeen area, bit further south. The difference in gardens etc between Suffolk and Edinburgh is :eek:.I never used to be bothered by long winters before we moved south but this year I've used a light lamp for the first time. I just love living back in Scotland so am prepared to put up with darker days during the winter - ah but the long summer days are so fab! It doesn't rain all the time - honest :cool:. But it is certainly damper than Suffolk! But then again I'm the one who went out and sat in my back garden in the rain in Suffolk after week after week of relentless sun a couple of summers back!!
W

what you really mean is Southern Softies:p:p:p

us Scots dont like hot weather generally, I wouldnt thank you for it:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

redlady_1

So, are we back in from the Arms now?? I seem to have missed what has been going on.

I have also been feeling very flat today and very restless. Need to address a few issues me thinks - not least a new job if I can find one!