As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

scottishminnie

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

When I was a kid I had my weetabix with hot water on it and a splash of milk (and lots of sugar). My mum couldn't afford to buy lots of milk and even now I can't stand eating it made with nothing but milk. Using hot water it goes like readybrek consistency but it's really nice I don't think the lack of milk makes it taste any worse.

I know breakfast is long past now but just saw the thread - when I was a kid my mother used to give me weetabix for breakfast and it was buttered. No milk so no spoon or bowl required just a nice layer of butter on top and I could eat it like a biscuit.

The subject came up in the office one day and my colleagues were disgusted at the thought but I liked it.

EstherH

GRANDMA247, I have just seen the link about the horsetail. Thank you, I think I will get some of that ammonium sulphamate as that seems to be the best option. It is in my garden so no rules, and I shall leave that area unplanted for this year and see what happens.

jackieglasgow

Ceridwen are you seriously telling me you would expect priority from an emergency engineer for two faulty radiators? I don't believe for a minute that you misread my post.

ChocClare

Well, here you all are, and I've had to read 5 pages to get this far!


Softstuff, I also spat tea everywhere at your description of your rice milk. DH used to drink it and his was really THIN - so watery it was almost grey - you had to put loads in your tea to make it remotely tea-coloured! I'm kind of glad you resisted using your stuff as all I could think of is when milk goes sour and lumpy :eek::eek: - ugh, makes you want to heave! I sometimes think texture can put you off more than anything else...

Kittie, thanks very much for your link to http://www.get-digging.co.uk/tools.htm - well done, that is indeed My Tool :T I didn't pay £28 for it though - it was about a tenner from DH's discount catalogue - but it is absolutely brillo. Those of you with allotments, it's definitely worth investing in, much less work than a spade or fork.

Welcome to rachel021967 and all the other newbies. We are a very supportive lot on here and, as Jojo's and others' posts show just in these first few pages, there is a mine of information to be had!

I had planned to do Great Things on the garden when I got home, but I had a cup of tea instead. Chicks now have very long legs and are eating me out of house and chick crumbs. Doubtless they will soon be nicking beer out of the fridge and playing loud music until the early hours of the morning. As long as it doesn't pour tomorrow I will be out in my garden, planting out everything which is currently clogging up my conservatory and greenhouse, so I might bring the chickies out into the fresh air for a bit.

Hope everyone who has the day off has a lovely bank holiday tomorrow and that those of you watching the Wedding or going to street parties have a jolly knees-up.

Keep on keeping out of that workhouse!

Charis

GreyQueen wrote: »

Loads to do on the lottie, so will be very busy this Bank Holiday weekend. And a blasted mole turfing everything up; better stay out of my seed beds or he'll get the benefit of an old country trick of brambles down the run.

Have a good day, everyone.

GQ, my Dad swears by putting a mothball down the molehole. They can't stand the pong.

lostinrates

Well, something we're considering atm that feels a bit workhouse is digging some trenches that the structural engineer here needs. we need 8 of them, and only three can be done by digger and it seems excessive to pay a half day rate for three holes, when 5 still have to be dug by hand.....but not sure, we like mud etc, but it seems a big undertaking t dig three trenches by hand.

ChocClare

lostinrates wrote: »

Well, something we're considering atm that feels a bit workhouse is digging some trenches that the structural engineer here needs. we need 8 of them, and only three can be done by digger and it seems excessive to pay a half day rate for three holes, when 5 still have to be dug by hand.....but not sure, we like mud etc, but it seems a big undertaking t dig three trenches by hand.

May I refer you to My Tool? :rotfl::T

lostinrates

ChocClare wrote: »

May I refer you to My Tool? :rotfl::T

I read the posts about this with great interest before. It took dh and I a day last weekend to dig a big hole in the garden. A bit randomly. This ineed looks like something we should get...but would it help a lot with a deep trench? we have to look at the sub soils and go quite deep.....trying to work out what is making our house fall down!

bertiebots

ceridwen wrote: »

..well...think of it this way...as I imagine you are buying a portion of a house that is worth less than £125k (ie the bottom level stamp duty limit) then it wouldnt be payable I would imagine - even if the whole of the house has a value of over £125k and WOULD attract stamp duty if you were buying that.

I would imagine the rationale is that "Are you buying the WHOLE of the house value or buying a smaller amount than the £125k base level from that house value?" iyswim.

An analogous situation would likely be where someone is buying one of those 50% shares of a house and paying a housing association rent for the other 50% share. That is - I would imagine it would be the case that if that house was worth £200k as a "standard buy" house and therefore stamp duty would be payable. But - the purchaser would only be buying £100k of it (and therefore underneath that £125k stamp duty limit).

Well - I know what I mean - hope I've explained it clearly...

Thanks I did see what you mean:D But got this from the hm revenue site:

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Transferring property on divorce, separation or the end of a civil partnership


SDLT isn't payable if an interest in land or property is transferred to one or other of the couple as part of an agreement or court order because they're:

• going through divorce proceedings
• taking action to dissolve a civil partnership

This also applies if the partners agree to either:

• the annulment of their marriage
• a legal separation

In these cases there's no need to notify HMRC of the transfer, even if the value is more than the SDLT threshold.
The position for SDLT is different if joint owners are unmarried and not in a civil partnership when they transfer an interest in land or property from one joint owner to another. In these cases SDLT may be payable.

:)So despite the property being above the stamp duty threshold I wont have to pay it (again:D).

rinabean

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Ceridwen are you seriously telling me you would expect priority from an emergency engineer for two faulty radiators? I don't believe for a minute that you misread my post.

I didn't understand you at first, either, but that's because I live with only two heaters so I thought the poor guy had no heat


In a month or so I'll have a garden! I'm so excited! I keep clicking on all these gardening links and umming and aahing over what I might need but the reality is that I'm a total novice and have no idea. I suppose I'll learn quickly, though (well I hope so - I'm desperate to plant some edible stuff this year )