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

mrswive

I had my 2 yearly eye test last week (free at Specsavers with a voucher of course), and got some really good advice about how a recently diagnosed medical condition could potentially affect my eyes and what to look out for. I needed a slightly stronger prescription for my reading glasses, and got a £25 pair that look fine.
When I first needed to wear specs for reading, I used to get very frustrated at not being able to read the lists of ingredients on packaging, then realised there was a much better system - judge a product by the size of the list, not what it says! I figured that if there was a 3 or 4 inch list of ingredients in something, I probably didn't want to be eating it. Not foolproof I know, but a pretty good guide I'd say.

anna_p86

mrswive wrote: »

I figured that if there was a 3 or 4 inch list of ingredients in something, I probably didn't want to be eating it. Not foolproof I know, but a pretty good guide I'd say.

Had to reply to this because I do the same with beauty products! If there's list after list of chemicals, well I don't want it anywhere near me!

maryb

Mind you, even soap has that! even though a lot of it is only what you would expect eg sodium tallowate and aqua is what you get when you add the caustic soda to rendered fat if you are making soap at home. You practically need to be a chemist to know what's a 'normal' ingredient and what is what you or I would call a chemical

flowertotmum

VJsmum wrote: »

Casting off's easy. Knit 2 stitches then pass the back one over the front. You will have one stitch on one needle and all the rest on the other. Knit another so you once again have 2 stitches on 1 needle and then pass the back one over the front etc. Until you are left with one stitch. I then make a large loop with that stitch, cut your yarn and pass the end through the loop to make a knot

Simples!!

Thanks for this..i did it..looks good too..:D
ftm

floss2

Red_Doe wrote: »

Thanks GQ...I`ll just pencil in "May...uberBank Holiday month" in next year`s calendar!

You will need to move it - next year's Spring Bank Holiday has been moved to the first Monday in June, with the Diamond Jubilee Public Holiday on the first Tuesday in June.

ChocClare

maryb wrote: »

I think Waitrose is probably more trustworthy than others - but can you be sure they won't be selling cloned meat? I'm not sure. And there's nothing to say that just because they can trace their milk back to British producers it couldn't come from super dairies with 4000 cows kept permanently indoors - all to the highest welfare standards, of course.

If it's any consolation, mary, my "next-door neighbour" provides pigs to Waitrose - or at least, he is the farmer managing them for the estate.

They are in big fields opposite my house - previously there were wheat and potatoes grown on those fields - and Will is in charge of breeding sows. He gets a load of little piglets, who dash round the fields happily in the cutest possible way. They then grow up and the girls are taken to another field further back where they are grown on (or whatever the technical term is). The boys go to Waitrose. There are currently six enormous fields with what might be called baby pigs in of various sizes - all indulging in piggy behaviour and looking very happy - and then there are the grown-up fields further into the estate where pigs varying in size from large to ENORMOUS wallow in mud, root around happily and sunbathe.

If Waitrose's other suppliers treat their animals this well, then I am more than confident to buy meat from them. The taste and texture of their meat suggests that they do - it is vastly superior to the other supermarkets.

flowertotmum

Hi all...well i had the dreaded dentist this morning..had to have a filling...lovely man gave me gas and air..i laughed all the way through..mouth still numb but better than having toothache.Anyway about this cloned meat..i hope it doesn't happen or we will definately turn veggie..me and hubby worry what stuff is in food we buy anyway without this happening.Thats why we have started our "good life plan"..we want our family to be healthy and have good home grown food so they know what the real stuff takes like..had a weird conversation with a woman at school the other day..she actually asked why i made my tots cakes when it takes so much time up..i replied i liked doing them and i knew exactly what was in them..her answer"o i thought you were that hard up that you had to make your own...when will folks learn.Well thanks to VJ'Smum i cast off my little knitted square last night and i'm currently working on another..going to do 4 little squares and sew together to make a little dolly blanket for iris.
4 new chickens arrive tomorrow..can't wait..not nice being eggless..tots have names lined up,violet,primrose,poppy and tulip...also got the little egg baskets out..so they can collect the eggs for me once the chickens have settled in...so excited about this.
Smileyt and rainbow..you 2 are wonderful and i wish someone like you had been there when my soft as grease ginger tom simba..got hurt,instead he was left to die alone with no-one bothering to tell me where he was..(((hugs for you both)))...
Hubby went in the attic yesterday ot get a bag of 2-3 yrs clothes for iris..whilst up there he found our older girls weebles set..about 20 weebles with a little town and bus's,cars and the fairground...he wanted to sell them on fleabay..no chance lol..tots saw them and have done nothing but play with them ever since..i told them the song"weebles wobble but we don't fall down"..all i heard last night and today is that..going to split the set with my GC..
Righty o off i go..
catch you all later..
take care
ftm

oldtractor

ANYWAY I'm glad yourOH has had a bonus. I wish mine had. No increase in pay for 5 years and no overtime for over 12 months because of the recession. Our heating oil has gone up by 40% and diesel for the car to get to work has gone up to £1.45 a litre. Food price is up too. We are scraping by month by month.

lovebargainshatewaste

Due to the waitrose discussions here, I popped in to have a look today. Got a packet of pork loins. £4 for 7 loins! That's a bargain in my eyes. I'll freeze them individually and I'm already fantasising about how I'm going to cook them (drooling, lol). I'll definetly do one on the bbq when the weather allowes, with baked sweet potato + cinnamon butter and homegrown salad.

Have put a few items in for auction, the next sale is in approx 3 weeks, so fingers crossed they'll sell for an amount that's decent.

Had a bit of rain last night, and the rocket has shot up like, ehm well, a rocket I'll pick some in a bit, ready for tomorrow's salad. Also got a watering can with a rose in Aldi for £2.99. Bargain compared to the garden center. There are quite a few gardening items in aldi at the mo, in case anyone's interested. I really shouldn't encourage anyone to spend though, sorry!

Must go and fill petrol, as my car is currently running on fumes, fresh air and a prayer

Hugs to those in need, especially those who've had traumatic experiences. I like giving hugs, so you can have as many as you like

Kimitatsu

Charis wrote: »

I think the writer of the article is confusing cloning and genetic modification. I have a low opinion of the scientific worth of a lot of pieces written for the papers by journalists without any scientific knowledge of the latest hot topic. I am not a fan of cloning but this article is intended to cause a reaction, which is what sells newspapers.

What we need, instead of a knee jerk reaction by newspapers and politicians anxious to pretend they can reverse a trend, is some properly researched scientific opinion. What is the reasoning behind cloning?

We've been cloning fruit for years, by taking cuttings to grow another plant, hoping to reproduce the quality of the original. It's when they start talking about putting fish genes into tomatoes or pineapple genes into strawberries that I worry. The introduction of something other than what the thing appears to be. Not helpful if you have an anaphylactic reaction to the invisible, unexpected ingredient. At least you don't get that with a clone.

Charis

I completely agree that we need proper research funded by an independant body who has no interest either way in the results! However, I disagree on the cloning issue, I am not a geneticist or scientist by any stretch of the imagination but I have bred animals and grown my own for some time.

For me one of the reasons for not cloning is because you clone all of the same mistakes into all of the offspring. Good breeding (and yes I know for mass produced meat you cant always guarantee that either) is there to improve the animals you are breeding both for quality of meat, their lives and the levels of vitamins, protein, eseential fatty acids etc. Fruit is usually grafted onto another root stock to promote healthy growth and the resulting fruit can then be grown on, so again it has the chance to change slightly with every generation, not so with cloned meat.

My concern would be that in the extreme case of cloning where all of the stock is continuously cloned that we will start to see nutritional deficiencies passed up the food chain which will not be seen for some years but by then it is all too late to go back.

Just my pennys worth

r.a.i.n.b.o.w - hugs because that must have been horrible for you. I know its no help, but the likelihood was there was nothing you could have done however much you tried.

Eye tests - I concur that everyone should have one every year. My mum has chronic glaucoma that thankfully was picked up early because she always had an eye test. Had she waited much longer she could easily have lost sight in both eyes. So please please everyone take the time to have one