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

shelley_crow

heads up ladies, approved foods have 3 x 1.5kg bags of self raising flour for 99p, "Great Scot" brand. Best before 31st March but it should be ok shouldn't it?x

sammy_kaye18

Hi all

Just my usual check in

and Im sorry to say I have not been very money saving at all and most of you will be :eek::eek::eek: at my latest splurge!

I have so far this week spent £18 on kitchen things - tea/coffee/sugar set and a biscuit tin that I liked that all matched and is very Sammy Kaye stylee.

A lampshade which I didnt really need but wanted to complete the living room. :mad: which was £8! :eek:

Today Owen took me to focus with the intent of buying compost and pots to plant on my wee spider plants that are running a mock in my bathroom - 18 babies and counting - and I came home...........£103 lighter :eek::eek::eek: and with no compost or pots

I did however buy
* 3 x 34ltr boxes with lids
* 1 x 5 tier shelving unit for boys room
* Proper shovel for Owen
* Evergreen Complete Lawn Feed Stuff
* Wrench for Owen
* 6pc building tool set
* 2 x Kiln dried Sand
* 2 x IAMS Senior dog food 3kg bag
* 2 x dragon trees
* Rhubarb plant (somewhat dead looking I might add)
* Blueberry Plant

Looks and sounds a lot worse than it is I think as I'll use all of it and most of it was 50% off

hoping I will be able to save my rhubarb and the blueberries look like they need a bit of TLC but hoping I can bring them round with a bit of love and some fresh compost and new pot etc.

Do still however need to get pots and compost especially now as I have some new babies to replant and grow on. Still a slight step to being self sufficient at least and Owen has told me he will build me a lean to type cold frame near my back door which gets some nice early morning sun until about lunch time and then is slightly more shaded in the afternoon evening then to start growing my veggies. Am going to make more of a game plan for growing next year as this year our garden is so up in the air with the shed going up, moving, dog settling etc that I think growing veg next year once we are settled will make things easier - although I am now on the promise of an apple tree too now he has cut down my tree!

Also have investigated loft - one bag of unknown which is staying put as I don't want to touch it but did find a good 6-8 inches of insulation up there but do need to try and find a water tank jacket as we currently don't have one but I'm thinking if I heat the water and the tank lets heat out - the tank is in bens bedroom so will it not effectively heat his room?

Have decided too that the alcoves in kitchen are mine once I regain my kitchen and will subsequently be turned into extra pantry space as my cupboards are just too small!!!!!

Right better go and tackle the shelving unit so I can actually start making Bens room a bedroom!

talk to you all soon

Sammy x x x x x x x

mama67

redlady_1 wrote: »

Mrs Ramsay taught latin if I remember. Cant remember the needlework but she taught cookery too. Smith rings a bell. Packet blancmange eh? That sounds right good! :rotfl:I remember Mrs Smith who taught me German. Her mother used to baby sit me (yes, she was still alive! ) She was barking. And I think Mrs Brie or something who taught French! I was deemed so bad at French I was only allowed to sit a CSE in it....oh the shame!! :rotfl::rotfl:

Mrs Ramsey, and Mr Churchill taught Latin, Frau Smit was lovely for German, but then in 3rd year I had Mr Turvey; Mrs Ramsey also taught French and RE I know who you mean for the other French lady with the blonde hair Mrs Brede, I did GCE and CSE as they weren't sure if I'd pass and I got C at GCE and 1 at CSE so 2 French quals.

betony

JillS wrote: »

Actually, it's dock not plantain or, possibly, dock as well as plantain, as long as we're talking about broadleafed dock. Speaking as someone who was always getting nettle stings as a child and used dock leaves as the cure. (And I've tried what I'm fairly sure was plantain and it didn't work at all.)

I looked this up in Wikipedia (for a picture) thinking that I might have just got the wrong name for the plant I used to use and the one pictured under broad leaved dock, Rumex obtusifolius, is definitely the plant I knew as dock.

If you look up plantain in wiki look for plantago otherwise you'll be trying to rub bananas on your stings. :rotfl:

Peppermint leaves are much better for this. Crush a leaf to extract the juice and oils and rub onto the area. Probably acts as a local anaesthetic. Though, if you're out and about, dock is much easier to find

ChocClare

All this talk of language teachers fills me with nostalgia. We had Miss George for Latin - loved her, met her a few years ago and she looked EXACTLY THE SAME except with white hair. I swear she was wearing the same patterned skirt suit she wore when I was at school. I think there must have been a shop for lady teachers in the seventies where they found their ghastly ensembles.

Mr Bennett taught me German - he was brilliant and was already retired when he taught me, so long since dead now. He had been a spy in the war, sent to infiltrate prisoner of war camps and capture the German commanders. He posed as a prison guard - can you imagine how good his German must have been? Anyway, he told us he accompanied a German officer to Berlin when the Germans surrendered, and the chap went to the lavatory on the train and Mr Bennett suddenly thought, "cyanide capsules!" and kicked in the door of the loo, only to find the poor officer with his trousers round his ankles, minding his own business :rotfl:

The one thing that has stayed with me was that we sang "Stille Nacht" (Silent Night) in German one Christmas and he couldn't stay and listen to it - he had told us before we started that it always made him cry because it brought back too many memories

My German master in the Sixth Form by contrast was a bit of a disaster, sadly :rotfl:

My French master in the Sixth Form used to describe people as blighters and oafs - and he was only 28, though he looked far older. In fact, he'd only barely be sixty-odd now.

Do you think there is a certain gene which makes you become a language teacher? If so, does it mean that all us linguists are destined to be weird(er) as we get older????? :eek:

mardatha

If so, does it mean that all us linguists are destined to be weird(er) as we get older?????
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Hmm. Saying nothing here, apart from the fact that I love learning languages and wish I could learn 100 of them...
:rotfl::rotfl:
Oh and I'm older !

lizzyb1812

Yep I'm a fully-fledged linguist and I'm definitely weird - but harmless :rotfl:

Mrs_Veg_Plot

Have just come back from grocery shopping. Aldi were selling 10lb frozen turkeys for £5.99. They are the same type that they have in at christmas (we really enjoy them). Have popped them all in the freezer for now but I do feel a week of rubber turkey comming on.

This means there is no hope of me defrosting the freezer for ages yet.

Home and Bargin are still doing tinned toms at 25p a tin and 3 tins of tuna flakes for 99p.

OH is currently in the garage sorting out the storage space as I have topped up on store cupboard stuff today.

Also got woopsie plaice fillets in Tesco which will make a nice change for tea one night in the week.

trifles

MAMA67 and REDLADY- yes,I had those Latin books as well! Caecilius was the father,Domitella was the mother,Quintus was their son and Grumio was one of the slaves.Can't remember any more:D.I used to get the characters mixed up with Up Pompeii much to the great disgust of the Latin teacher:D I used to watchthis before I went to bed after my homework.Hated Maths-got the belt once for being caught reading a Georgette Heyer Regency romance at the back of the extra Maths class I was forced to take as I was such a dunce:o hee hee!
Latin still useful for deciphering some of the nasty stuff in cosmetics or to work out if the ingredients used in toners etc. would be cheaper to make yourself;)

freudianslip

DH is craving meat, it's so funny. Shepherds pie tomorrow. We've just had thai butternut squash a pineapple curry. Not too nice to be honest butter the butternut squash needed using up and we have had 3 meals out of it.

Disaster with my bread. It wasn't cooked in the middle. Really upset and annoyed at myself. So turning the heat down slightly and leaving in slighty longer. There's another loaf rising as I type

Anyone able to tell me what fruit stops jelly from setting. I know somethings do I just can't remember.

The wormery has been emptied into the potato bags. A home made experiment that didn't work is at least going to be some use.

Had a fledging crow land in our garden. The poor little thing wasn't strong enough to fly. On it's second attempt couldn't clear the washing line, hit it and then went into the fence. On third attempt it flew straight into 'sunburst design' on the decking fence. It got it's head stuck DH removed it and popped it onto the fence (with crows squaking and circling above!) It flew off down onto the ground outside. I hope it was ok