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

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Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Warning to gardeners - there is a hard frost forecast for tonight so try to get the tender seedlings indoors, under glass or under fleece or you might have to start again

GreyQueen wrote: »

:eek: Ohmigawd, THANK YOU for the warning. My spuds are approx 1 foot tall and although I fleeced them as soon as they poked thru, they've ripped thru the fleece on some rows and are standing proud. Have spare fleece in lottie shed, guess what I'll be doing after work?!

We had a devastating frost here on 16-17 May a couple of years ago and I've been paranoid about them getting burned until that date is at least past. It's a glorious sunny day here at the mo and I guess if it doesn't cloud over we may get frost, too.

Thank you both, I was planning on shifting the seedlings out to the greenhouse tonight but they can stay in for now, and I hadn't even thought about the potatoes till you said! I had better get out and do some earthing up fairly urgently.

gailey_2

Margaret54 wrote: »

Yes Gailey love if you look back over your posts you would see all that you have done and are doing. You are such a hard worker and loving Mum to your little children. You so remind me of myself with my six children(all adults now)
Make sure you take time aside each night for Gailey, when dh is home after dinner say. Nice relaxing bubble bath for example and maybe a magazine or book, even an hour is bliss:) xo You are so important too.

You such a sweetie, hope you doing ok.
Not sure Icould cope with 6kids:eek:
The way hubby behaves at times its like having 4 kids!
back to school today and house surprisingly calm.
ps marley still adoresyour blanket its his fave,many thanks again.

Forall those in relationship breakups will get better.
Weird how life turns out ,one door shurs another opens.

Slightly different for me in last relationship as we dident own cars, property ,have pets or kids.
It was me who let him go as we were muddling along comfortably butdident feel right we wanted very differentthings icould see thathe couldent admit it.

Anyway got in touchrecently and he now

has fancy car
goes on many foreign hols
has girlfreinds
morequalifications
his own house

imnot in anyway jealous or resentful really happy for him.
Reassured me did the rightthing hes now got the life he wanted,
Iescaped his awful mother,happiliy married nearly 7years and 3kids, may not own propery or lots of money but wouldent trade it for theworld. Try think of how great future can be.

my mams happily married
heristers now happy with near enough husbandno3.

Today ihave got a stroppy 5year old to school ontime.:j
hoovered.

cleaned kitchen last night so dident wake up to a mess.

baked 2more pasties last night so my
£2.89 reduced chicken made 4plates chicken curry and 4huge pasties:D, feels good stretching meals andmaking something tasty from scratch although do loathe making pastry.

todays mission

sort laundry
do some batch cooking
shower
baththe kids
go mothercare.

Lovley sunny day here!

mardatha

Interested in the extreme couponing prog - not for coupons which we dont have anyway- but for the lady who meal-planned 60 days in advance and the ones who had the basements full of stores. What channel was that on please?

jackieglasgow

It was one of the Discovery channels I think Mardatha, possibly real time?

mardatha

Just caught up with the thread - thanks to everybody who asked after me - shocked that anybody noticed with all the recent great posts on here. I was just a wee bit down and not feeling brilliant, so stayed offline and kept busy in the garden - always helps to be outside.
The son says the pain isnt just as bad this morning, and one of his team at work came down in the car for him & took him into the control room for a visit, he had a good laugh and that cheered him up.
Hens good, egg production settled down, veggies good, weather sunny but wind bloody freezing.
Gone all misty-eyed since I read about the extreme couponing prog and the Americans with basements stuffed full of food & a 60-day menu plan !:rotfl:

wrinkled_english_rose

GreyQueen wrote: »

Loads to do on the lottie, so will be very busy this Bank Holiday weekend. And a blasted mole turfing everything up; better stay out of my seed beds or he'll get the benefit of an old country trick of brambles down the run.

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Hello GreyQueen, could you tell me more about the "brambles down the mole run"? We (touch wood) don't have a problem but I know somebody who does.
Thank you WER

GreyQueen

wrinkled_english_rose wrote: »

Hello GreyQueen, could you tell me more about the "brambles down the mole run"? We (touch wood) don't have a problem but I know somebody who does.
Thank you WER

It's an old country trick from my part of the forest. What you do it get a few lenghts of brambles (pref dead and dry for obvious reasons) and knock the top off the mole hill to expose the mole run. Stuff a bramble down each one. Not very comfy for Mr Mole when he travels the same way. Do it to every hole you find and Mole will probably beggar off to somewhere less uncomfortable. It's very OS; free, organic and effective.

Top tips courtesy of countless generations of farmboys passed straight to your PC. :rotfl:

thorsoak

Well its nearly lunchtime, and I've started off a tea loaf (thanks to another thread!), I've got the chicken carcase simmering down for stock (plan to use up the last of the frozen peas in the ready-to-defrost freezer and make pea & ham soup for tomorrow - AND I've still got my £1.42 in my hot ickle hand!!

I think I'm beginning to make some progress - with the lady last week about the garden, and now I've just managed to get myself a part-time job for 20 hours a week which will increase my income enough to give me some "wriggle room" - I hope! Its also very close to home, so no travelling costs either!

A tip for anyone wanting to make stock but maybe hasn't got the time/inclination ...put the carcase in the freezer then when you have two or three, bash 'em up a bit and cook them together! I also used to freeze the last bits of bread left in the breadbin and when I had enough, I'd made bread pudding or bread & butter pudding.

Its difficult now, for me to cook for one - so I'm starting to re-think batch cooking down to one/two portion sizes.

Lindy_-_Loo

mardatha wrote: »

Interested in the extreme couponing prog - not for coupons which we dont have anyway- but for the lady who meal-planned 60 days in advance and the ones who had the basements full of stores. What channel was that on please?

Extreme Couponing - discovery realtime - Sunday 9pm

Its also on youtube, each episode is 30 mins long.

Their stock piles and organisation of the coupons and planning is amazing!

flowertotmum

Hi all..well what a lovely day..my gorgeous GS is 1 today..yay baby sam..been to see him this morning he's a little tinker..always tries to bite my neck..vampire boy..he got lots of pressies from everyone else..felt a bit bad as i only got him one..but my dd told me he has far to many presents..and would have been happy with a little money to buy him clothes...my dd is going to put the toys away and rotate them around so he doesn't get bored with them...
Well i have had my very first wombling success..one of my posher neighbours put out some lovely garden chairs for the bin men...so i knocked and asked if i could have them if she didn't mind...she was sooo nice and lovely and told me yes...yay..for me..they are really nice and probably very expensive..they look lovely under my birch trees..somewhere nice to sit and ponder...
Thorsoak..congrats on the job hun...well done you..i did think about asking my neighbour if he would be interested in sharing his garden for a share of veggies..its huge and he never uses it..such a shame..
Mardatha..glad your son is recovering..we did miss you..nice to have you back.
Gailey..can i have some of your energy lol..
Right i'm off to have a cuppa and sit in my wombled chairs..
love
ftm