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

RAS

HAve a look at R V Rogers as well, although a lot of their stuff has gone. You need an M9 root stock really; I suspect that anything smaller will struggle to produce decent crops given the size of most cookers. bRAMLEY is a triploid so you need two pollinators. it is a C flowerer. Go for Clone 20 which is better at coping with restricted growth.

vesper

Sorry about the house Kitkat. We are still stuck a little in terms of our house, someone counter offered earlier today and we counter offered them, so have the highest offer again. Just waiting to hear if the vendor will take it off the market for us, if not there is not much more we can do. We can't go much higher, its already eating into the renovation monies and we have already started the surveys. Even worse the other person they accepting bids from hasn't even proved they have any the deposit never mind a mortgage, when everything is sorted our end.
Am just doing some Chicken New Yorker for tea with some woopsied chicken I got yesterday and some dried up cheese that I found at the back of the fridge.

Got some good news today, just found out that the water bill has just been paid for the next year and we are now £500 in credit!!! woohooo, had no idea we were over paying. So £500 has just been put back in the bank which is a nice bonus.

Bitsy_Beans

welshcamper wrote: »

been googling campsites for this years holiday. one site i like beginning of July (out of scool holidays) for 2 weeks £371 end of July £602!!

Is this for camping or caravaning? We borrow my mum and dad's caravan which when we stop on a basic CL site it's circa £10 a night, including electric hookup :T (you have to be a Caravan club member though).
I am not a fan of these massive campsites with Clubhouses etc the pitches are always too close together and too many people. Anti social aren't I!
Hope you can find something a bit more reasonably priced.

MaLarkin wrote: »

Morning everyone,

before i decloaked I lurked around reading loads of old threads (fascinating stuff in there) and I remember reading one that talked about stockpiling. Flour was mentioned and one contributor said that you could freeze flour and doing so would kill the weevils! You could then store the flour in an airtight container.

Nothing mentioned about how long to freeze it or how long you could then keep it airtight after. Any ideas anyone???

Might be useful to know with flour shooting up in price as it is.

I had flourweevils and they were a b*gger to get rid of :eek:
I keep all my flour in the freezer until I need it, not had any problems with clumping but then again I do a lot of baking so it's not normally hanging around for months on end.

You can get Lock 'n' Lock storage boxed from Morrisons, cheapest place I know that stocks them.

vesper

I can't believe how expensive camping sites are now!! I run a Sports Club and during the local big village show we are the camping site for it . This year we are charging £7.50 a night per unit and £20 for 3 or 4 nights. I know that's without electric hookup but now wonder why on earth they were moaning we were so expensive!

budgetboo

Awful as it sounds most weevils, cockroaches and other nasties come from the shop. :eek:

I ALWAYS pop my flour in the freezer for at least 48 hours as soon as I get it home from the shop to kill off any weevil eggs that may be lurking. I reckon by the the time they hatch it'll be too late to prevent an infestation. Flour is then stored in airtight jars. Glass is best but I use and old Ouma rusk tin and some old fashioned sweet shop jars for my commonly used flour (white bread and plain) and save my limited glass for the flours I use less often. This is because mice can't chew through glass and those jars are stored at the back of the cupboard. I don't have the freezer space to be storing all sorts of flour indefinately.

Never had an infestaton of flour weevils but had pharoah ants when I moved in and the block has mice. (I do have a mean cat).

If you have got an infestation of weevils, don't forget to go round your cupboards with a steam cleaner to get in ALL the nooks and crannies and kill anything off. Don't just chuck out/freeze the flour and container. They will crawl into hiding just to come back and haunt you when you least expect it. This is why in hot countries and places like New York with known pest problems kitchen cabinets are often metal, not wood as it's easier to disinfect without creepy crawlies getting into the cracks to sneak back later.

Oh and check other similar products in your cupboards lke cornflour,
semolina, polenta, grond rice etc.

Once you are sorted shop elsewhere for your flour!

jackieglasgow

You lot are making my skin crawl :rotfl:

fedupfreda

Hello all :wave:

Thanks to everyone who offered congrats on DH's job. :smileyhea We shall see how this goes. Thankfully it's in the same town where we live - so no more spending £200+ a month on petrol just to get to work - as he was with his previous job.:mad:

It really is a case of every cloud has a silver lining :j

Judging by events elsewhere in the world, I feel petrol prices (and incidentally everything else - because it's all interlinked :eek: ) are due to go up. Time to batten down the hatches, peeps. So much in the modern world is reliant on oil. As a nation we need to start co-operating a bit more and stop being so flipping competitive/greedy. There would still be plenty for everyone's needs if we did this - rather than concentrating on the 'wants'.:mad:

< ok I'll get off me soapbox now >

Hugs to all going through tough times.
Freda x

ChocClare

We have been talking about getting the oil tank refilled and after all the brouhaha in Libya, DH got on the blower to the oil company at last and we had 1000 litres delivered today. I feel SLIGHTLY more secure on the heating front than I did yesterday - DS chopped a load of wood today so our wood stores are also nice and full. Just waiting to install the air source heat pump and then hopefully we won't be quite so much at the mercy of oil prices. Although, as you say, it affects absolutely EVERYTHING (including our ability to chat on this forum, LOL) so we can't bury our heads in the sand too much...:(

fedupfreda

ChocClare wrote: »

DS chopped a load of wood today so our wood stores are also nice and full. Just waiting to install the air source heat pump and then hopefully we won't be quite so much at the mercy of oil prices. Although, as you say, it affects absolutely EVERYTHING (including our ability to chat on this forum, LOL) so we can't bury our heads in the sand too much...:(

Re woodburners - how much does the average woodburner cost to buy and install - fuel is something that is really occupying my mind at the moment, after the winter we have just had - so the next project is concentrating on saving to have a woodburner put in (we have a chimney, its a 1950's house - but there is a 'coal effect' gas fire, which is ruinously expensive to run so we don't have it on.)

Obviously we will need the chimney lining etc. I have a sort of figure in mind - was just wondering how close my estimate (£3k?) really is.

TIA

RAS

FuF

Are you in a smokeless zone, or not? That has major implications for what you can do.