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

wrinkled_english_rose

Just wanted to say Thank you GreyQueen re the moles and brambles. I hope to go and see my friend next week and will pass on your old time solution. I'm sorry I didn't aknowledge your reply before but my got up and go seems to have got up and went and I haven't been near the computer for the last fews days.
I do love reading about you all even though I don't post often.
WER

the_cat

Kleopatra wrote: »

I have started to dilute wine and am now at the same ratio as you use with milk or maybe slightly less. I don't seem to miss the alcohol so it may be just having a wine glass full of coloured liquid that is the habit.

Never thought to dilute wine, thanks will start having a spritzer!
I drink all sorts in a wine glass to trick myself into believing it is a treat.... fruit juice, value lemonade etc all seem to taste better when sipped from the right shaped glass!

flowertotmum

Morning ladies..its a lovely day...hope your all ok and not stressed..if you are come down to mine and i'll de-stress ya lol..you can sit in my garden and listen to the birdies sing...watch the fish swimming the tadpoles squiggling..and enjoy my cakes..fat-free of course...i deal with stress by disappearing with a cuppa in my garden..give me half hour and i'm ok..i think the things through and decide is it worth the stress or not...9x out of 10..a brew and the view work...
Well i paid my last payment to barclays yesterday..so thats 1 down 1 to go..feel so happy about it..it has taken blumming ages..other 1 won't take long..2-3 payments and i am debt free..yay go me..
Watched SS last night and was impressed with the paint brush thingy..will defo try that..seems to me we do most of the SS things anyway...
I agree with whoever it was that said we need to dig in and keep our heads down..we have got lots planted and its all growing lovely..got jam to make and going to have a go at relishes and bottling my fruits this yr..thats providing the doves that have made a nest in my cherry tree are all gone by then...
Finally got my son to sort his wardrobe..2 huge bags for the CS..some of them never been worn..plus shoes,boots,trainers and footy boots...looks much nicer in there now..
Right ladies off to bake and be an OS mum..catch you all later..
love
ftm

DebtFree2012

Comgratulations on paying your last payment - not long now. I can't wait until I am but I am just starting my journey

Well done! x

PepPop

Morning everyone :wave:

GreyQueen wrote: »

I used to have a recipe I called Hard Times Soup, which was everything which needed eating up, basically, and varied day on day. One thing I did learn was that although you can cook broccoli stalks, if you add too much, it gives the soup a strange gelatinous texture and doesn't taste very good. Someone in RL told me that they cut the stalks into bits and stir fry them, but then, they stir fry every blessed thing. Anyone else use the stalks and how?

GreyQueen Could you maybe thinly slice them and make a gratin with them

Ginny I've got a box in my freezer for bones too (like pork chop ones etc) and when it's full I use it to make stock

mama67

scottishminnie wrote: »

I know breakfast is long past now but just saw the thread - when I was a kid my mother used to give me weetabix for breakfast and it was buttered. No milk so no spoon or bowl required just a nice layer of butter on top and I could eat it like a biscuit.

The subject came up in the office one day and my colleagues were disgusted at the thought but I liked it.

I know this is a while back but I used eat mine like this aswell or matbe with a smidge of hm strawb jam on top as well

PepPop

mama67 wrote: »

I know this is a while back but I used eat mine like this aswell or matbe with a smidge of hm strawb jam on top as well

Never thought of that one - I don't eat weetabix cos I don't like it when it goes mushy with the milk. Maybe this is the answer

Don't know if this is any use to you but I thought I'd post it

mardatha

Just back fr library and got a load of good books, esp this one -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Home-Front-Pocket-Book-Brian-Lavery/dp/1844861228/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304591072&sr=1-1

Just had a quick flick but it's looking good, inc a great section on meals for the family of 4, and the same recipe but for the canteen of 100

suzid

I've been interested reading about the allotment debate. We've recently had allotments put on a large field backing onto a Nature Reserve. It's caused quite alot of conflicting views as the field had been left to the community with a covenant saying for recreational use. Personally I have no problem with it except I think it's in the wrong place and too expensive. Half the plots are in almost permanent shade and haven't been taken up. A friend of ours isn't happy with his as he doesn't get much light. Also it's very stony as around here we're on underlying shale (digging out the pond was interesting). The reason for the new allotments is that the council had sold off all the original ones for housing. So it seems to me that they can sell off all the good sites and stick allotments on worse ones claiming that they've provided all these new ones.

What sort of rent are you all being charged? It's over £50 per year on ours which to me as a real skinflint sounds very high especially as you can't have a shed and the plots are quite small, only about the size of our old veg plot which we converted to a pond.

Our blackbirds have successfully hatched their 3 chicks which have just fledged. I spotted a ball of feathers with a beak being fed by Mum in the apple tree yesterday morning. In the afternoon both parents were giving the alarm call so junior and I went out to investigate. There was a large Carrion Crow on the tree but no sign that it had the chick so I managed to scare it off. No idea where the other two are, hopefully safe. Note to self - stop trying to protect everything that flutters, swims, squeaks or hops. You'll be a nervous wreck woman!

GreyQueen

Suzid in my area we pay £40 a year but with a half-price concession for pensions or low incomes. A full size plot is 250 sq m; obviously half plots are pro-rata.

Re providing replacements for plots lost to redeveopment, they have to do that but the problem is that they are not usually swopping like for like and even if the light etc is comparable they are likely to be further away from people's homes which impacts on the ability of people esp people like me who are car-less, to visit their plots. My home is in a city centre and my lottie is in suburbia right up by the city limit so they can't move it any further out unless they move the city boundary (which in that direction has been the same since the fifteenth century......HTH