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

bluebag

saveabobortwo wrote: »

if you ve got then flaunt it :rotfl:and i still have ntstarted on my shepherds pie themince is still in the packet in the fridge i do declare that i aint going to get no job with mrs doubtfire this week .house keeping points this week craps i think im scrapping along the bottom with a big fat 0 is there any one out there with some quick motivation buzz words to help me get my back side of this couch and into spud peeling action:rotfl::rotfl:ps pleasedont be shy i am friendly maybe little stressed sometimes but definitely friendly so fire away folks:rotfl:

Ready now, peeler poised, armed for action 1....2....3...GO!!!!!

saveabobortwo

:rotfl:stuff knows what i do to mine think thin pastie looking things maybe i talked them to death:rotfl:put this way noone wants to eat it

saveabobortwo

i have2 legs on the floor now :rotfl:but on seriuos note family is giving me a frown so must get cracking:)

jediteacher

grandma247 wrote: »

Jedi it is so nice to see your post. poor baby , one of my grandsons had reflux and had to sleep propped up or else he was miserable. It does improve when the muscle gets stronger though.

Thanks Grandma. We've been through all this before with our daughter so were prepared for him to have it too as it does runn in families. We have the bed propped up, towels for feeding, pram also propped up and during the day he sleeps in one of those baby bouncy chairs (although his doesn't bounce but can be angled). We have special bottles for his milk and will wean him at four months. Unfortunately babies do not always outgrow this condition. My daughter who is four still has it but not as bad as it was when she was a baby.

My lovely in-laws have given us a large chunk of money (it would cover my wages for 2 months) to help us get through my maternity leave. I have a dilema. Do I take an extra 2 months off or do I use it to help us through the last two months of my maternity leave when I will be paid nothing. At the moment we are trying to save some money to cover these last two months rather unsuccesfully due to rising costs and could end up in bigger debt. I am tempted by the two extra months as I would love to be a stay at home mum but we just cannot afford it - my OH's wages cover the mortgage and the bills but not food, cars, clothes or any other expenses.

Best dash as Daniel is screaming the house down for his next feed and I need to get the towels out of the tumble drier.

saveabobortwo

lovely messages just working out howto do messages must definitely go now as getting the evil eye.

taurusgb

For the first time ever I have grown some seed potatoes in a green potato bag (they and the bag were a free gift). They are now towering above the bag and have just flowered - so can some kind soul tell me when I harvest them please?

When I do eat them I crtainly hope they taste better thn the ones i've been buying lately - tried 3 different shops and 2 different varieties and they were all tasteless and watery:mad:

I'm most excited about my strawberries - last year I bought one tiny, sorry looking, half dead plant in May, planted it in a pot standing on top of another larger pot and every runner it produced I pegged down in the soil of the larger bottom pot (I hope that makes sense!). In autumn, I dug out all the small plants that had rooted from the runners and planted them in my empty veg plot. I then pegged down all the runners that grew from those. This Spring I ended up with 28 plants - all from that one half dead original. I planted them in a strawberry planter and pots and they are loaded with fruit which is ripening every day - as fast as we eat them, more are ripe.......last time I felt this proud I had just had a baby! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Kimitatsu

Saveabobortwo - as Kittie says this thread is about being positive and doing what we can, rather than worrying about what we cant You can stock up your freezer and keep some of the drafts out by doing them now and that will help in the winter (which I think will be long and hard sorry to tell you all, feel it in my bones)

I am cross about SP, because I always "fix" my prices in July/August for the next year, and so far for the last three years have avoided the huge hikes in rises. Now because they have done this SOOOOOOO early this year, I cant avoid it :mad: No doubt that is why they have done it, they are losing money on people like me The problem with gas and electricity prices going up is heating oil will follow suit and no one fixes their prices for a year in advance with that, so we are all at the mercy of the companies for that one! I dread to think what my bill will be like over the winter, already we use around 4000 litres a year, spread over the year, and the heating was on loads last year just to keep the house warm and dry.

Whoever asked about solar panels - sorry its too many pages back! They can go in the garden there is nothing to stop them and in spain they have solar farms which are huge panels in fields, but people dont like them because they take up space.

Hopefully we will have rain tomorrow (never thought I would be saying that in the summer) because my pond and garden could do with it. Some of my potatoes have flowered but the rest are still thinking about it, the strawbs though are doing smashing, and we have had some lovely ones this year.

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

saveabobortwo wrote: »

there is no sun in my back garden

Front garden? Windowsills? Balconey? Side alley?

From my recent experience, not everything needs sunlight. Currently I'm growing in shade or indoors:

Beetroot (5 different varieties)
Chard
Potatoes
Herbs
French beans
Carrots
Parsnips
Tomatoes


and I don't even have a garden
(I live at the top of a tower block)

ceridwen

culpepper wrote: »

Just thought I would pop in and share a link to a site I found.http://www.mynewoldschool.com/



Interesting to read what people think about the noise and spectacle of wind turbines.
I remember thinking that, when the motor car first became popular, there must have been an awful lot of people who wished they would just go away again and stop disrupting the peace and beauty of the land.
I still do think that myself quite often .
One mans progress is another mans vandalism.:o

Yep...me for instance ....re wishing cars would stop "disrupting the peace and beauty" of the land - and adding "...and the fresh air to breathe" as well. Can I add planes to what I would like to "uninvent" too please?:)...and gen*tically modified food and factory farms....and...and....and......

Thanks for the blog link - I've sent it over to one of my private blogs to go back and have a good read later. Re the amount of land needed for foodgrowing - I still recall working out that 3 x square foot raised beds are supposed to provide a large amount of the fruit and vegetables for one person. At that point - I went off and did all sorts of calculations about whether my "matchbox" garden had at least 3 x (4' x 4') of reasonably sunny growing space and how much vertical gardening I could add into that. Of course - that doesnt include the land needed for cereal crops (eg the wheat for our bread and pasta), land for cows/goats/etc to produce our milk, land for chickens to produce our eggs, etc......:(

Never mind - just sheer "land as open space - so one feels one can BREATHE"...I so resonated with a comment in a book I'm reading at the moment by a writer who had spent a large part of her childhood abroad and was commenting about tiny little British houses (many of them attached to each other) and how depressing she found/finds this after living in a more "spacious" country....I understood perfectly where she was coming from..

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

saveabobortwo wrote: »

on your window sill im not an idiot but its not enough to feed a family of 3 self sufficient full time is it? even tom and barbara needed a big garden to feed themselves all year

But The Good Life is complete fiction.

You might not be able to be fully self-sufficient, but every step you take at doing it yourself is another step towards your own version of self-sufficiency.