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

redlady_1

I fancy the walking stick handle as I am quite tall. I have seen the loop handle but if I have to stoop down then it would defeat the object and I would be in a right heap! Perhaps I am flapping about nothing - as usual! :rotfl:

Thanks Jackie

redlady_1

hahaaaa...they are having a laugh! I could carry that!

That is just what I am after though so thanks for looking

redlady_1

That is tall enough Jack! I think I will be ordering that as its definitely the cheapest by far!!! Christ, you are good xxx :j

smileyt_2

Just popped on to see what everyone's up to. I feel really low today for some reason Oh well, maybe the day will improve as it goes along. I never seem to quite get on top of things, somehow. I read a letter in the local paper last night from a guy who claimed JSA 6 weeks ago and he still hasn't heard anything about his claim being paid. I know I will have to put in a claim half-way through June when my job finishes and I know they will take forever. Last year it took them 8 weeks to sort out my claim and it doesn't look like they're any quicker this year.

Sorry for the moan. I know a lot of you are in a worse position. I suffer from depression and I'm on my own, so I have no-one to help me when I'm feeling down and sometimes it's really, really hard. Today is one of those days.

Anyway, I'd better buck up because I have to go and see the vet and fight my dogs' corner.

Hope today is good for the rest of you. Just ignore this post, by the time I pop back on tonight I will probably be feeling better!

GreyQueen

rosie383 wrote: »

GreyQueen Have you been sneaking into my allotment????I swear mine is the same as yours at the mo. So glad that I got my digging hoe. Best tenner I have ever spent! The ground is truly like cement. I have managed to clear about half my plot now, and am determined to use maybe 3/4 of it. I need to look at my seeds now to see what else I can plant this year. So far I have tomatoes, potatoes, courgettes, beans, lettuce, raspberries, strawberries, chillis and peppers. I was just so lazy and disorganised earlier in the year and am paying for it now.

I have started to visit a fruit stall in our area. It is one of these 'every bowl for a pound' affairs and is run by a young Afghani man. He always makes sure that if you pick a bowl, he takes out any 'dodgy' looking bits of fruit and replaces it with good ones. And he always gives me extra.

Honest, wasn't me! I have parts of my own allotment I daren't sneak into, never mind looking for trouble elsewhere.:rotfl:


According to my greengrocer, this £1 a bowl style is known in the trade as "London Style" and I like it very much but they don't do it aroud here. L.S hasn't penetrated this far north, apparently; only a matter of time.

Your greengrocer sounds a wee gem; treasure him lots!

ginnyknit

Smileyt keep your chin up hunny, I know how bad the benefits are in this country. But sometimes they get their finger out, Dd just got some back pay from them and it went quite quickly. You are not on your own, we are all here for you to vent to, which certainly helps. :)

just waiting for nurses to call to see OH, he is having some problems and thankfully after speaking to them yesterday they had a free space today! Then its off to the market for some bargains after twinks hobknob and a cuppa I think. may call in Mr T and see if they have any of the fleeces. Its cold here again today so am leaving the greenhouses zipped up.

aurorahelios

Charis wrote: »

Apparently on Firefox you can teach it to only accept cookies from sites you nominate yourself, which is better still. (Firefox>Preferences>Privacy>Untick the Accept Cookies box and click on the Exceptions button to enter the sites you will accept cookies from.)

Also if you use firefox there is an add on you can download called adblock plus which filters out most ads. It is pretty effective, I've got my OHs hotmail account open in firefox and I've got no ads showing, while in my hotmail open on ie I can see a couple of ads including a really annoying in your face one from one of those companies who like to lend you a little money at a really high price.

mardatha

I sometimes wish I had fruit markets and stalls and even whoopsies.
Smiley pet, you've got US . Aren't you lucky? But none of us are ever alone x
Blowing a gale here yet again, and 9C. Much as I love my nation, if I ever win the lottery then its south of France here I come and you wont see me for dust ! :cool:

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

modern_millie wrote: »

i am finding cheap free range eggs v. difficult to source - try to buy local, but do any of the supermarkets have a good deal?

AS*DA do 15 for £2 at the mo. And Sainbugs' Basics eggs are free range (well, they were when I last bought them, check the blurb).

mamaninie

GreyQueen wrote: »

According to my greengrocer, this £1 a bowl style is known in the trade as "London Style" and I like it very much but they don't do it aroud here. L.S hasn't penetrated this far north, apparently; only a matter of time.

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there's a few of these shops up the road where I work at the childrens centre - I bought a bowl of bananas - ripe but not over - and they were virtually inedible, all woolly and bruised. I had to make 2 banana cakes just to use them up as the kids wouldn't eat them. This is the trouble with cheap fruit and veg - its not worth the money - I'd rather go to the proper greengrocers and get stuff I can eat even if I have to pay a bit more. Especially bad fruit is usually the 2 punnets for £x in the supermarkets of plums and peaches etc - they never ever ripen up and just end up in a crumble.