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

mardatha

So where's the best place to get glass jars?

freudianslip

redlady_1 wrote: »

Hi FS - how did the exam go? Can I sit on your couch yet?

I have some of the jars from Ikea and I also have some of the glass bottles as I want to make elderflower fizz.

Am feeling a bit flat today and not really sure why. My sense of drive seems to have driven away at the moment. I am hoping it is just a blip.

Oh big news! OH and I love camping and we have a lovely tent but it doesnt have a fixed groundsheet for the living area so can be a bit wet sometimes. Last time we were away in Lyme Regis we suffered from "tent envy" from next door. We have done a bit of research and have just purchased an Outwell Oakland XL, the side porch, carpet (yes I now but this is the OH) and table and chairs. I used my John Lewis card and went through Quidco so will get £63 back from that plus another £10 min from the JL vouchers and the card has 6 months interest free on purchases (although it will be repaid pretty much straight away) Then I will sell the other tent on ebay too. I cant wait to use it.

:rotfl: you can sit on my couch anyday redlady but unless you want to talk about memory processes, cognitive learning or developing a sense of our sexed and gendered self I'd be pretty darn useless another 4 years to go and then a couple post grad...... come back then hinny and i'll make you a cushion to get comfy

ooooo tent envy, it's a killer :rotfl: we have the Outwell Minnesota and the ground sheet sown in is a godsend. Well made and designed tents are the Outwells IMO. And I know just which tent the Oakwell is.. XL? They'll be some tent envy heading your way now

exam went ok I think, What I was hoping for came up so I was lucky there it's just whether I have digressed too much and waffled for three hours instead of keeping to the question focus. I do strange things under stress.

Can't believe you had horrid neighbours before yours, hope you did ok too.

Something OS now so I don't get into trouble ;):D. Er, a link to the efsa document on bacteriophages and containing a section on light do?

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/scdocs/doc/1076.pdf thank you google :rotfl:

ETA: that link has nothing to do with what we're talking about

HariboJunkie

mardatha wrote: »

So where's the best place to get glass jars?

I get the clip ones with the rubber seal from Tesco. The smaller size are under a £1. I've never had any trouble with them and use them for my fruit gins or pickles so they hold liquid well too. Kilner jars I get in factory shops or outlets whenever I see them.

kidcat

I buy all my glass jars from Ikea - but Asda, Tesco and wilklinsons all seem to sell similar, but Ikea are cheaper.

scottishminnie

I also like things lined up in jars. It just looks so much better. I've been on the hunt for big jars for flour and sugar as I keep having to refill the sealable ones often. If you ever watch Ina Garten, The Barefoot Contessa, she has exactly what I'm after - she also has the kitchen of my dreams -I'd love it.

Increasing my tins to a stockpile presents a challenge for me. I keep them in alphabetical order so the colours are inclined to clash. I know they are in a cupboard and nobody sees them but me however I know they aren't quite they way I would like. The differing sizes also irritate me a litle - I never thouht it was odd till I wrote it down though - now I'm beginning to sound like I have a touch of OCD:eek:

If I'm not careful I'll be sent off to a self help thread!

Not sure how MS today will be - I've been bad already and bought a buttered cherry scone to eat at some point today. Shop bought scones - and buttered at that - I'm on the road to ruin. Help me girls...................

mardatha

TY everybody. Now feel guilty cos this is going to COST ME MONEY!!
Freudianslip - I feel for you, pet !! - " memory processes, cognitive learning or developing a sense of our sexed and gendered self " sounds like the biggest plate of baloney I ever heard in all my life. Why dont they jsut use ordinary words ?? dear god, no wonder the country is in an utter mess :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
If a person lives their life until they go to uni as a female or a male, and then need taught to think as a female/male, then it's not a degree they need, its a bloody psychiatrist.

VJsmum

Glass jars - last year, needing some in a hurry i bought economy marmalade, threw it all in a big plastic container and used the jars for the jam i was making - can be cheaper than buying glass jars. And we ate the marmalade - eventually.

We don't camp but have a touring caravan and we too have had lots of cheap holidays. People at work take the mickey out of the number of hols we have but many of them are cheap as chips. We have the camp site fees and food can be a little dearer, but many of our activities are things like walking and cycling so they are free, we are NT members so that is free (at the time), we also volunteer (well i don't) on a little steam railway so the kids are often working on that in the summer so that is free. a couple of year ago, in Northumberland, I think our whole week cost about £200! That was fees, food, petrol and activities for 4 of us.

rachbc

I used to have rows of glass jars and loved the sight of them - I used douwe egberts coffee jars, value syrup jars and large ikea clip storage jars.

However when we redid the kitchen I went for cupboards - still not sure it was the best decision but I do like not having to be quite so tidy!

However I do still keep things in storage jars rather than garish packaging in my tall pull out larder unit - I use the ikea 365 jars that all fit the cupboards perfectly - they are are oval with a flip top lid so can be held comfotably in one hand and poured. I have rice, pasta and flours in 4 huge glass jars that I cna scoop out of - just need to get some scoops!

bellaquidsin

Glass jars. I have a range of squared off jars with round lids from the early 70's. They sit so well on my shelf in the pantry. They used to come with fruit juice in them, a bit of a luxury for us in those days but I bought it just to get the jars and they have proved a very worthwhile investment.

However, this information is of no use to anyone today, but I have been saving coffee jars and have just restocked with pulses. I have lined them up on my worktop at the 'dark' end of my kitchen. There's little light to affect them so I'm hoping they will be OK as they'll be used up quickly. They look very decorative.

Mardartha, maybe you know someone who has a stash of such jars going begging, or do you live in 'freecycle' country?

GreyQueen

Well, not me personally, but my lovely broad beans, by far the best things on the lottie at the moment. Sure it wasn't there on Monday evening when I made my flying visit. It's on a clump of them in the centre, and goes about 10 inches down the stems, so pinching out the tops isn't going to be a solution. I have put aside my Ecover washing up liquid and will go up after work and make a solution of soapy water in the spritzer bottle which lives in the shed and give them a good quirt.

If nothing else, they'll be very clean aphids. I shall also squeeze them where possible. Drat and blast, had zero black fly last year and hope for a repeat performance in 2011.

Good news is that I wandered up the lottie path yesterday afternoon and suddenly do a waft of ripe strawberries. Oh happiness, there were a few stray plants left over around the outer edge of the "old" strawb bed, buried in clumps of grass, and they'd yielded. Not an enormous amound but I spent a happy few mins hunting and scoffing them......nomnomnom.

jediteacher belated happy birthday for yesterday.

And I agree with ChocClare, if you're working, try to book your birthday as leave, makes a big difference if you don't have to experience unpleasantness on "your" day.

Well, must hurtle off and get ready for work as I have my annual appraisal later this morning and need to download my last years doc to see if I've achieved my targets etc etc. Yawn. That buffing noise you can all hear in the background will be me polishing my b*lls*it.........:rotfl:

Catch up with you later.