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

smileyt_2

Happy Birthday saveabobortwo, make sure you have a shower at the pool afterwards too to save on your gas/electricity bills

I'll be 42 next birthday too so we're of an age (do you remember boob tubes, deely boppers and ra-ra skirts :rotfl::rotfl:?)

smileyt_2

Another post from me .... I've recently been elected to my Housing Association's tenants' panel so I'm off to my first meeting today. I'm going to see how the land lies and then start asking if they can apply for funding for solar panels, compost bins etc, and look at the possiblilty of starting a food co-operative. And instead of doing hanging baskets full of flowers at Fun Days, maybe they can do hanging baskets full of strawberries or tomatoes.

I'm also wondering if they could do a 'preparing for winter' article in their newsletter - tips which I would of course borrow from here!

If anyone else has any ideas or examples of things Housing Associations have done to help their tenants, especially on the money-saving front, I would be grateful to hear them. I think they already work with Warm Front and try to identify eligible tenants.

Would it be worth starting this as another topic somewhere else on the forum? If so, where, please (I only really come on this thread and occasionally the freebies and cross stitch cafe as I lurve you ladies so much you little :A:A!)

flowertotmum

smileyt wrote: »

Happy Birthday saveabobortwo, make sure you have a shower at the pool afterwards too to save on your gas/electricity bills

I'll be 42 next birthday too so we're of an age (do you remember boob tubes, deely boppers and ra-ra skirts :rotfl::rotfl:?)

Smileyt..i'm 43 in 2 weeks so i also remember ra-ra skirts..had a lovely pink one myself:D..hated deely boppers though:mad:..
ftm

maryb

The trouble with all the coal we have is that our CO2 emissions would go through the roof. I'm not wholly convinced that scientists have fully bottomed out what is going on with climate change let alone whether it is man made or mostly natural causes, but it does seem to be the case that temperatures are rising, and even if a lot of it is natural rather than man made I can see there are reasons to be cautious about adding to that process. Even if a mini ice age comes along that would probably only be fairly local in its effects - the mini ice age that occurred in Europe during the Maunder minimum doesn't seem to have happened outside Europe from what I have read.

So for coal to really enjoy a renaissance I think they would have to crack carbon capture. But I'm sure after Fukushima there will be no shortage of funds going into research on that - or there shouldn't be. Long term, I could see an investment in British Coal (or whatever it is now called - is it RJB?) really coming good. Flooded mines are not an insuperable obstacle - after all, the invention of the steam engine was originally driven by the need to pump water out of mines so it's nothing new

flowertotmum

:bdaycake:..for you saveabobortwo..have a great day
ftm

chrisico

freudianslip wrote: »

Is there anywhere online that sells pulses, grains, nuts, seeds and beans?

I'm fining I'm using these kind of things more and more at the minute.

I buy all my pulses, nuts seeds and oats as well as other veggie stuff at 'cost price' from http://www.lembas.co.uk/.

The staff are really lovely and delivery is free if you spend over about £150 and very cheap if you spend less.

I buy enough to last about 6 months and include washing up liquid, herbs, spices, tea, bread flour and spreads in the order.

Hope this helps.

Chris

valentina

freudianslip wrote: »

Is there anywhere online that sells pulses, grains, nuts, seeds and beans?

I'm fining I'm using these kind of things more and more at the minute.

These people do but delivery costs are additional - unless you live nearby of course!
http://www.dailybread.co.uk/

Kimitatsu

smileyt wrote: »

You sound perfectly sane and reasonably grumpy (as opposed to unreasonably grumpy!) to me!

Do you think we should start a Grumpy but sane old women's club?

I do! I am going to put that quote about reasonably grumpy on my fridge for my boys to read :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

freudianslip

chrisico wrote: »

I buy all my pulses, nuts seeds and oats as well as other veggie stuff at 'cost price' from http://www.lembas.co.uk/.

The staff are really lovely and delivery is free if you spend over about £150 and very cheap if you spend less.

I buy enough to last about 6 months and include washing up liquid, herbs, spices, tea, bread flour and spreads in the order.

Hope this helps.

Chris

valentina wrote: »

These people do but delivery costs are additional - unless you live nearby of course!
http://www.dailybread.co.uk/

Thank you so much for these. Going to look now. Very much appreciated

westcoastscot

Hi everyone,
Well here on the west coast it hasn't stopped raining for about 6 weeks now - my veggie garden is a washout - apart from broad beans which were bigger when the rains came. I'm going to do a second sowing, but it reduces the amount I have to store at the end of the summer. This has been a pattern for us the past few years - shall have to think of a different way of growing I think - maybe doing more undercover if possible.

I was over on Mardartha's side of the country over the weekend - staying in Perth but visited St Abbs - I waved on the way past, figuring I must have passed you somewhere en-route!!! Shopped in Asda on the way home, and even prices there have risen drastically, although I still got twice as much for my money as over here.

I'd love to bulk buy - used to use Bookers when we had the croft, but don't qualify anymore, and we don't have a costco or such. If anyone comes across anywhere in Scotland that delivers I'd love to know - outwith the area they always slap on a huge extra delivery charge for us - not sure why as the mail is the mail?? same price all over the country. It isnt just for really weighty things either.

I was in Orkney last year and came home with bere flour but i've almost used it all - shall have to find a source of something somewhere!!!

Anyway off to dodge the midgies and plant out my runner beans

WCS