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

Softstuff

ChocClare wrote: »

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...

I'm very sorry if anyone suffered tea related damage thanks to my rice milk description

I've had the packet stuff, remember it well as a watery but ok tasting sort of greyish liquid, which is why it's so strange that this is like a gel. I think the taste is fine, but it's not a texture that would pour or soak into anything.

Ceridwen, it's fine in soup too. A bit like I've added single cream to it texture wise with not much identifiable taste. So I might make it again for use in cooking or hot choccy if I'm running short of the real stuff.

Just about to plan the meal plans and shopping budget for next month, which is starting to look a bit like this one food budget wise thanks to a few other expenses. At least I'm getting practised at it :rotfl:

katholicos

Jackie, thanks for the new thread (on an old and yet, still pertinent theme). I shall endeavour to contribute to this thread more frequently :-)

ChocClare

Hi Katholicos, nice to see you about again: you were part of my general candle-lighting for OSers on Sunday, so hope all's getting gradually better for you.

Rowan9

JackieG - thanks from me too for the new thread. Great name too! Lots of interesting reading here.
Big welcome to newbies on here - you won't feel new for long. Looking forward to reading your posts.
W

Charis

jackieglasgow wrote: »

I work in a call centre too. A very charming man once told me I was "the most disgusting human being he had ever had the misfortune to come across" Charming indeed.

That just begs the retort 'Have you looked in the mirror lately?' See, I could never work in a call centre. But I've sometimes been grateful for those who do

Butterfly_Brain

EstherH wrote: »

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.

Sorry to tell you but ammonium sulphate has been banned by the EU dictat :mad:

ChocClare

Not to change the subject entirely, but was it on here that there was a recipe for lavender furniture polish or was it on the really old style thread?

I have just rendered a load of beeswax from the general carp left by the bees and am so proud of myself I feel that I ought to combine it with the sheaves of lavender which need to be brought in from their drying location in my greenhouse so I can get my tomatoes in.

Anyone remember? Or know??

DH has just presented me with a load of plastic moulds marked "cire d'abeille" (trust him to have Froggy ones) so I can make little beeswax ingots if not while I'm waiting

Charis

lostinrates wrote: »

People who are trained respondants to some sorts of emergencies have been ''ordinary'' for a long time...always maybe...sometimes professionals working out of hours sometimes skilled amateurs.

Where I live they have shut the main ambulance headquarters (money saving exercise) and relocated to a city where the operators are unfamiliar with our area, being 45 miles or more away. While they attempt to find rural properties in the dark on unfamiliar territory, they send out 'trained' community first responders, one of whom was quoted recently in the local paper as being really keen and eager but 'terrified of her first call out'. That hardly instils confidence when you realise she is in control of a defibrillator.:eek:

I'd rather services were balanced, but that we all realised we were part of a solution, and that when things go wrong its our problem. IMO there is a lot of disconnect and a lot of people willing to get but not give.

I still don't agree that when things go wrong it's our problem. It's a social problem with which we may or may not be able to help, according to our individual situation and finances. Anyone who pays taxes is already giving. If you count VAT too, that's nearly everyone. We can only do what we can do and no one should be made to feel guilty for the government's lack of provision. You only have to look at how they provide for the relatives who become full time carers to see how much they really value the 'Big Society'.

Pink.

ChocClare wrote: »

Not to change the subject entirely, but was it on here that there was a recipe for lavender furniture polish or was it on the really old style thread?

I have just rendered a load of beeswax from the general carp left by the bees and am so proud of myself I feel that I ought to combine it with the sheaves of lavender which need to be brought in from their drying location in my greenhouse so I can get my tomatoes in.

Anyone remember? Or know??

Hi ChocClare,

This post by anguk has a good link for lavender furniture polish...is that the one you were thinking of?

Pink

Charis

ChocClare wrote: »

Not to change the subject entirely, but was it on here that there was a recipe for lavender furniture polish or was it on the really old style thread?

I have just rendered a load of beeswax from the general carp left by the bees and am so proud of myself I feel that I ought to combine it with the sheaves of lavender which need to be brought in from their drying location in my greenhouse so I can get my tomatoes in.

I've just done a fairly extensive Google and the link from Pink is the best. They all seem to use Lavender essential oil, and a hundred and fifty pounds of lavender only yields one pound of essential oil.