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

oldtractor

My winter gloves and scarves and boots have arrived. I am very pleased.

meg72

Hardup_Hester wrote: »

Redlady, I think it was you who asked for pics? there are some on my blog.
Hester

Would love to see the pics too.How do I find your blog please

meg72

claudiac wrote: »

I remember my dad loved those Vesta curries - thought he was so exotic eating curry! I thought they were disgusting, especially the bits of 'meat' YUK!
Does anyone have an idiot proof recipe for scones please? As the weather is so bad, and I have a two year old to entertain, I have decided to attempt making home made butter with him and I thought some nice fruit scones would be a good idea, but my previous attempt was not very successful.
Thank you

Cant beleive I ever thought these were good, but I did.

I had many a disaster before getting a scone to look like a scone. Told the kids they were biscuits and they polished them off.

7_week_wonder

Hello all, a day working at home has finally given me chance to catch up.

Hardup Hester your photos are great - and the whole celebration sounds wonderfully OS.

Larumbelle your employers sound like they need a lesson in modern working practice. I hope you manage to get something sorted out either with them or somewhere else. In the mean time, take care and keep posting, the people here will certainly help with good suggestions. Apologies if you've been down this route already - but do you have a union rep you could consult?

Meg72 if you go to a post by HardupHester and click on her name then one of the options that comes up is "Go to HardupHester's homepage" click on that and you'll find the blog.

It's *finally* stopped raining here, but I must admit I'm feeling fed up. This was going to be the year of the veg garden, but what with one thing and another it's run away from us *again*. We've got a bit of produce, but we've also got an equal quantity of weeds and we're nowhere near as productive as I was hoping.

Right, back to work. Take care all.

ginnyknit

Larumbelle am so sorry to hear your problems. Employers seem to do what the heck they want nowadays don't they. I was made redundant at one point 4 years ago and when I ran myself into the ground to improve sales I was told it wasn't happening. All that worry for nothing - soon after I left to look after hubby and despite the hell we go through with his illness etc its nothing to the stress i had every day at work.

7WW I too have little to show for all my hard work this year in the garden, it upsetting when I was depending on my veg but I wil not be beaten and keep trying. The weather is the cause of it all - we need to re-think our growing regimes for next year. I have found onions, shallots, peas and spuds grow in the allotment half of my garden, then courgettes, beets, spinach, strawberries and various other veg grow on the patio away from the slugs.

Bm kneading away, love the simpler loaf you all posted about and much better without sugar. I am making half brown and half white mix which OH loves despite a life long aversion to brown bread. HM celery soup cooking, Dd got 2 for 1 celery and gave me one. Stock from yesterdays chicken came in handy.

OH is not doing well, he says he is weary. Last night he had some kind of bug and was freezing and in a lot of pain - hips and back. Don't know if this is a natural progression of his condition as the doctors cannot predict what his future is. Just have to keep on finding bits for him to do and keeping positive.

VJsmum

Having not needed to especially be on a budget before, we are now entering into a situation which will require us to find rather a lot of additional money per month. Luckily i am very OS anyway - although haven't always been very MSE :money:

I am planning to open an emergency account without telling the OH. If I do he will factor it into things and it will get spent (the last one i had he transferred some money into so now my "rainy day" account is just "an account" and my little stash - for the benefit of the family rather than just me - has been absorbed). Should i keep it from him?

I am planning to put in money i earn from ebay - which i am going to have to be more dedicated to, any savings from things like kids dinner money or even me not buying a coffee on arrival at work, some money from additional work i sometimes do, quidco savings, penny jar savings etc. Obviously if the rainy day arrives I will 'fess up but until then I plan to keep Schtum - so don't tell!! :rotfl:

laineyc_2

Larumbelle, what a rotten way for your employer to behave. I hope you can get the matter resolved. It is a lot of unnecessary stress for you.

What a strange day. Downpours then sunshine, but I suppose it is Wimbledon time.

I have been really busy today. Just taking time out before I bake some scones. I am trying a new recipe in my SC called Spanish potatoes. It smells good, let's hope it tastes good. I am enjoying trying lots of new vegetarian recipes. I can honestly say I am not missing meat.

Frugalista

laineyc wrote: »

I am trying a new recipe in my SC called Spanish potatoes. It smells good, let's hope it tastes good. I am enjoying trying lots of new vegetarian recipes. I can honestly say I am not missing meat.

Would you care to share the recipe? Pretty please .

Kittikins

Yes laineyc, please do post the Spanish potato recipe - I wonder if it's like a gratin dauphinois but with stock and Spanish goodies instead of cream, nomnomnom, bit like pommes de terre boulangere........

mardatha

Am away behind reading posts - you talk too much. Why dont you all go away and do some housework so I can sit on my bum and catch up with the posts !
Larumbelle thats awful. Fight the sods every inch of the way and make it very plain you aren't going to go away quietly and die in a corner. This is why I get so mad at the smug sneery attitudes in other forums like Discussion and the benefits ones .... People who have never had this happen to them find it so easy to ignore the fact that some bosses are BAD :mad:
Re fancy foods, I have still never tasted curry and I'm not goin to either. The stuff smells hellish :eek:
Nor have I ever had a takeaway or Chinese food or Indian food
Agree with the posters who are sick of the gardening.... mine is all green and jungly and wet, and the back garden looks like the Somme, with chickens.