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

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jediteacher wrote: »

Hello all,

Just quickly popping on to say that baby Daniel arrived on Monday evening weighing 9lbs 15. It was a very, very fast delivery. Didn't get any contractions until about 8pm and he was born at 11:32pm the same night. We only just made it to hospital on time as I had to have special medication to stop me bleeding. No time for any pain relief what-so-ever as there was no time. I do remember crying out at one point and saying 'I never wanted a natural birth - I wanted drugs!' The midwife found this quite funny. Anyway we're home now and settling in to life as a family of four. Thank you to everyone for their support through the difficult months of my pregnancy. :A

Huge CONGRATULATIONS to you all. x x

TudorRose

Congratulations Jediteacher on the safe arrival of baby Daniel. Babies are a true blessing but take it easy & accept any help that is offered:j
Grey Queen -With regards to rice puddings, my Mum always used long grain rice to make them. She never saw the need to buy two types of rice when one would do & they were absolutely delicious. So was most of what she cooked so no wonder I was a chubby child! Mind you I weighed 9lbs at birth which was very heavy for the mid 1950s.

Kittie - My Mum never used anything other than malt vinegar when she made chutney etc. Don't think I had seen or heard of white vinegar until I was in my 20s any was watching TV cooking programmes & reading cookbooks.

Have sold 4 out of the 5 items I listed on my private ebay account last weekend & have a bid on something that I have been relisting for a few months on a 99p start so that will be a few things out of the house this week. Unfortunately I'm sure the items left behind breed to replace their lost friends as I keep finding endless useless to me (usefull to others) items to list. All that money spent but at least I am recouping a little bit.

Have a good Sunday eveybody.

mancbird

Morning everyone,

I'm still lurking on this thread, find it hard to keep up with but there is so much fantastic information on here

hex2 - I think I must be quite near you as we have just had a lakeland open in a garden centre near me too! Not had chance to go and look at it yet though bit think I might pay it a visit soon

Anyway, just wanted to say thank you to you all for posting!

Mancbird xxx

bertiebots

Congratulations Jedi!!!!
Sorry to Esther that I didnt get back to you yesterday. I think everyone has explained what I was talking about for me . Hope you manage to get everything sorted.

culpepper

Oh my goodness raisins are 99p in asda from 65p last week!
I left them on the shelf.
We usually have then with oats at breakfast.
Instead I bought a tub of yog to make some at home and went down to the fruit plot (quite weedy this year,it is a struggle to wade through LOL)at the bottom of the garden to dig out any that were ripe.
We will probably end up having fruity yog and oats for brek which will be quite luxurious compared to the usual raisins.
The fruit was popped into the freezer as it is all berries and we can just take them as needed without them going mouldy.

Congrats on the safe arrival of the new bub Jediteacher Almost a 10lb baby!

hex2

Mancbird - I think Lakeland have opened a few recently but this is Woodlands at Stapleton (Leics). If you are Manchester then do you mean Bridgemere? I love Bridgemere, they have a Hobbycraft which Woodlands doesn't, and a miniature ride on train which makes a small boy very happy.

The poach pods have mixed reviews but worked well for us.

GreyQueen

Do I live high or do I live high?!:rotfl:Had a lovely mooch around a carboot sale and bought a nice silky stripy scarf and Brother whose car we were using got lots of books which he is listing on his online bookseller accounts (this is his livelihood so mooching around bootfairs is a legitimate business activity). Then we put petrol in the Astra and it was forty quid for less than half a tank.....arrrghhhh!

Decided the greens on offer at the b.s were both tired and overpriced so swung by an Aldi on the way home of some of those pointy summer cabbages at 69p and cucumbers which are 39p. Didin't involve us going out of our way and saved a few quid. Greens are a shocking price right now.

Honeybee83 I think we've cracked the runner bean problem between us. I remember looking at my Veg Expert book last year, the one I keep in the lottie shed as a sort of Idiot's Guide, and the yellowing of the leaves, particularly between the veins, is a symptom of nitrogen deficiency. They got over it and yielded well but it was disappointing to plant out lovely-looking plants and have them turn sad and not grow for a while. When I take down both runners and broad beans, I cut off their stems at ground level and leave the roots (plus nitrogen nodules) in the soil to rot down. You can catch up with any leftover woody bits later in the season. It's part of my long-term plan to have the best possible soil I can get, although I'm starting from a very low point in 2008, but it gets a little better each year.

hippeechiq re recycled bathwater, it is mostly that, which has had me and a plain soap in it and doesn't seem to do any harm. The trick is to not put it into sealed containers until I take it up as if it's sealed, it gets rank very quickly. I occasionally have some waste water from the kitchen but often it's pretty clarty so I let that go down the sink. I try really hard not to waste water by only putting into the kettle exactly what I need for my little teapot etc. We always saved washing up water at my parents' home to water the runners as they are thirsty bunnies; water would be poured into buckets which stood by the back door and the plants watered in the late evening. I reason that a mild detergent such wouldn't harm the plants but I wouldn't use stuff that had heavy-duty cleaning stuff in it.

:mad: Passed a field of potatoes under irrigation at 10 am this morning. The irrigator was so poorly-positioned that the road was being soaked from left to right and, with strong sunlight and a rollicking wind, very little of that water is going to be benefitting the tatties, IMO. Such carelessness with resources maddens me.

Well, did some OS mending on some stuff I found getting hole-y when I did Mum's ironing yesterday and will do some stitiching on a bag which is coming apart at the seams. My (w)hole world needs mending.:rotfl:

I have heard that you can buy NEW things in these places called SHOPS but I can't say that I hold with it myself.

Hope everyone is having a great Sunday.

flowertotmum

Morning all...hope your all ok today...well yesterday my 4 chickens arrived they are so full of life and very nosey..had some fun last night..i went to check on them and saw 1 and thought how pretty she is..then my mind clicked in and i realized she was on the wrong side of the gate:eek:..so shouted hubby and we went down the garden to find all 4 of them out the pen..2 were on the shed roof,1 was stuck on the trellis and the other was running around the garden:rotfl:..so there we were in pj's chasing them to put them back and get them to bed:D..life is full of fun and if you don't laugh at it you'll cry...so now we have had to put netting up and over the entire coop for now til they have their wings clipped..
On a different note..the farmer we bought them off told us both yesterday to get ready for a real tough time ahead..when we asked why he told us that his wheat crop is only half the size it should be and that unless we get significant rain then the crop might fail..also his rapeseed crop should by now have 12 heads on it...his only has 6..so he reckons the prices of just about everything we buy will probably quadruple by the end of the year and to stock up now whilst its available and cheap enough to buy...that did it for hubby..he made s list last night of foodsftuff's and is going to use every spare penny to get them and put them away...after months of me telling him and showing him this thread he has finally got it:D..things are'nt going to get better for a while they are going to get tougher..
Had a great day yesterday at my dd's..we made lots of progress with winter proofing her house..between us we put up roller blinds in tots bedrooms..moved furniture so heat from the radiator can be used properly,i lined 3 pairs of curtains for her,made 3 big sausage dogs for her doors,put up a piece of fabric to cover her open cupboard/shelf unit in the kitchen..so we were busy busy busy..still it was fun..she text me last night to thank me..that means the most to me:)..
Spending the day today doing nothing but playing with tots...hubby doing lunch..we got chicken o the irony:rotfl:.
Hubby been to allotment and put our cougettes and sweetcorn in,did leeks yesterday also cabbage and sprouts...
Got to go and get meat for freezer next week..not sure what to do though..butcher has put his prices up that much it hurts to walk past the shop..think lidl's will get my custom..the last lot i had from there was lovely especially the beef..now that was good..wish waitrose was closer to me i would go there but its a long bus trip or go with my mum and dad and tbh i would probably get road rage sat in the car for an hour or more with them:D..my mum goes all around the houses to get to a point..must take her 30 minutes to tell you one simple thing:Dthen she moans i snap at her...!!!!!! mum stop flapping and tell me what your trying to say..i hate that she can't tell me straight and to the point:mad:drives me potty...hubby does it too:mad:..i have rolled my eyes at him as soon as he says "to cut it short" meaning it won't be:D..sorry but he doing at i type:rotfl:..
nevermind..best go and see what he is trying to tell me...
take care
ftm

littlecal

Thanks for the info on food prices FTM. I really need to get my act together!!!! I was hoping that by the end of the year I would have a permanent place to live but now that seems to be a bit optimistic - oh well onwards and upwards,lol. I'm going to try and stock up, if possible,in both homes so it might take a bit more shifting-ever tried moving house by bus??:rotfl:-but at least I'll have a good basic store cupboard.:D

Just throw me some of your energy please 'cos mine's gone walkabout :rotfl::o

jamanda

So what do we think will go up (more than usual) then? I assume all flours, pasta, cooking oils - what am I missing. Have good store cupboard (still living down the embarrassment of DH finding my "emergency" stocks). Growing fruit and veg as far as possible.

Duh - all meat and poultry too because of the feed. (Am thick this morning).