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

Kimitatsu

JOsie Jump - here you go

http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/breakfast-bars-55

I use whatever I have in the cupboard, cherry and coconut is a favorite as is apricot and almond. Personally I am pretty flexible with the ingrediants as long as they add up to the right weight of dry goods to fluid ratio and they always turn out well.

They are REALLY filling so cut them into small portions and take a couple rather than one big one, and they last for ages (well a week in this house which is amazing and then they are gone!)

This lady is very good with energy shifts which are currently buffeting all of us

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Elizabeth-Peru/132841136749020

I like her because she is down to earth with her comments not all space agey, but frames some of the shifts in a context we can all relate to. Some of the people out there are waaaaaaay off this planet to begin with! But I will rummage and see who else I have lurking in my friends

The good news is that this will continue on for another few months and then we will all feel much better.....just to add as well that all the nonsense about 2012 is just that nonsense. There will NOT be cataclysmic earthquakes, tornadoes, ice ages etc etc but that doesnt make a very good film now does it. What the Mayans actually said was that we would enter a "golden age" where we would be concious of the world we live in, look after our resources and care for one another and that the old ways would be torn down in making way for this.

Emptynester

Hello everyone, still here and trying to be OS, I have been hampered lately by feeling sooo tired. I can't seem to accomplish half of what I set out to do. I am 50 and in good health, so feeling like this has worried me this week. I am NOT asking for health/medical advice but can somone please explain to me what is happening with the "solar flares and polar magnetisation?" I thought I had caught a bug but other folks in RL seem alright and my battery runs out VERY quickly. Thank you, I know it has already been mentioned but it went over my musy head so an idot (unwell) guide would be greatly appreciated.

I need to go to A*da and want (as well as need) to do some gardening but will log on later as I know I will need a sit down and more than one:(.

Thanks
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kidcat

Sending hugs to IOITWE

Well I had a massive tantrum yesterday - I suppose it was only a matter of time, am really fed up of living in a mess with boxes everywhere and being the only one bothered by it. As a consequence we almost missed our day out - which would have been a shame because DS7 really enjoyed it. For anyone likely to be near Liverpool this summer - I can recommend the Liverpool Duck - DS7 sat enthralled for the full hour tour (unheard of) and was so excited when it hit the water and became a boat.
But when we got home I had managed to get OH attention to how bad I was feeling and he set to work tidying the garden slightly and doing other bits whilst DD16 and I set to work unpacking DD5 bedroom and putting her shelves up etc. Her room is now almost finished thankfully and is just waiting on my dad to do a few little jobs for her then we can unpack her last two boxes:j:j:j

DS13 room is pretty much done and he is really loving the whole going out on his bike and meeting his friends, or bringing them here (to think he couldnt ride the bike this time last year!!) and is reaping the rewards.
DD16 is going to finish her room as much as possible today (again waiting for dad to put her wall cabinet up) as her exams are now finished she can set to and begin to enjoy being close to her friends.
Unfortunately my room is like hell, its still crammed with boxes that have no homes and I cant find anything - which is driving me mad.
So todays plan (OH at work) is to clear the washing and get my room more under control (goodness knows how) before tackling the ironing mountain.

Have done an energy check on our usage since we have moved and our electric is currently half our previous use and the gas is less than half:j and the houe is considerably warmer - with no heating being used at all the house is a constant 23c - which is a shock to the system coming fom a house that was never above 15c previously.

Redlady - your electric usage - you say you use immersion for one hour? Do you really need it for a whole hour? The last house had an immersion and that needed 20mins to heat water for the day - anything more just cost a huge amount, maybe you could try decreasing it to 45 mins and see if it makes a difference if not try taking it down another five mins - its amazing teh difference it will make to your bill.

Emptynester

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Elizabeth-Peru/132841136749020

I like her because she is down to earth with her comments not all space agey, but frames some of the shifts in a context we can all relate to. Some of the people out there are waaaaaaay off this planet to begin with! But I will rummage and see who else I have lurking in my friends

The good news is that this will continue on for another few months and then we will all feel much better.....[/QUOTE]

Kimitatsu Thank you very much for that I have saved the link and will have a proper look later. Right now I must make a start. Today I am trying the do a bit, sit down a while, do some more, sit down again. Makes me feel 80 not 50.

Thanks again

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redlady, multiply 211.6 by the cost per unit and that will give you the cost over a 30 day month

emptynester, sorry can only stay a minute but some people are very susceptible to magnetic and electromagnetic radiation. The sun sends a tremendous amount of radiation out when it has a solar flare but just now it is having mighty big and continuous flares and also with my geophysicist hat on, the earth`s magnetic field changes polarity every so often ie S becomes N and vice versa and we are thought to be in that process so everything is topsy turvy and our bodies cannot cope with the instability

It may help to wear a magnetic bracelet

I feel the need today to do not much at all, ok washing is on and meals will be prepared but I have brought my book down called `scarlett` and a good nothing read ie non thinking. I also have sweet music playing. Not being lazy just going with the flow lol that is why we are programmed to have children much younger and they have flown our nest so I am doing what my 63 year old body is telling me, as younger people can adapt better, it is nature pure and simple

I am back: edit, I just found a link that may help to explain better why many of us are feeling different to normal

http://sunlightenment.com/solar-activity-affects-humans-physical-and-mental-state-2/

LittleBrownFrog

Thanks for the links re. solar activity - very interesting. Need to turn the computer off now, but bookmarking those for a proper read later.

GreyQueen

Gordon Bennett, it's already 25 degrees and predicted to hit 30. I went to the lottie for a couple of hours but the heat started to get too much for me, so abandoned digging and decided to come home and hang out indoors and go back after tea to do another hour in the cool of the evening.

I am pleased to report that the 2 water butts (mega sized) which drain the gutters on my 6 x 8 foot lottie shed have been recharged by the recent downpours, so much so that the rear one was over-topping, so have bailed a little into the other one to leave room for the next lot of rainwater.

mardatha thanks for the info about the ME; I know that sometimes I don't feel like eating but I take medication thrice daily which HAS to be be taken with food, so I have to eat whether I feel like it or not. It is a good discipline. Like you, I like plainish food, simply feel lurgy on processed carp.

I once was talking to a consultant endocrinologist at a famous teaching hospital down here in England, and she told me that, in her opinion, ME is not a single illness but a variety of conditions which are not yet understood, and may not be understood for decades. It might explain the different experiences which some of us have and that the techniques/ homeopathics/ herbal remedies etc which work for one person are ineffective for another.

Not giving or seeking medical advice, btw, just a passing remark. If I'm whacked, I go to bed for a while.:rotfl:

kittie and kimitatsu, thanks for that info, going to look into it shortly as lots of things interest me. This weather is downright peculiar. I've always been able to tell when thunder is around, even if there's a clear sky and nothing forecast, it's a very particular kind of headache which seems to originate in the sinuses. Think that perhaps the baraometric pressure may effect the internal pressure inside my skull. When the storm happens, it eases.

What was happening Thurs, Fri and into Saturday evening was a whole other ball game, nothing I've encountered in nearly 50 years on the planet. I felt dreadful, completely lacking in oomph, slightly sick but not in the sense of having eaten something which disagreed with me, and with this spinny head which made me feel as if I'd fall over if I moved too quickly.

I was getting more than a bit worried until I had a lightbulb moment when reading up here and thought "Yes! It's not just me, I am under the weather." Thanks for sharing that.

Anyway, in my personal part of the forest, the weather started to freshen with a breeze in the late afternoon/ early evening and I was able to climb on the pushbike and go to the lottie for a wee while.

Went to bed at dusk, which seems to suit me, and got up rested at Silly O'clock as forces beyond my control were racketing fit to wake the dead, but as I had enough hours sleep, it's no biggie today.

I agree the seasons seem haywire. I was chewing the fat with J, who helps his daughter out on a neighbouring allotment. J was a farmer in his working life and he's never seen anything like it. I was looking and these skinny mushroom coloured cumulous clouds on the horizon this morning in an otherwise clear blue sky and thinking about my country weather lore.

My considered opinion as a displaced peasant is that there's some weird sh*t incoming.

Hope everyone has a good day.

EDIT; Thanks kittie, for the report on the tatties. I have 2nd early Kestrels in, most of them have perfect green haulms, one of two starting to die back naturally. Will keep a close eye on them. Have tipped the neighbour the nod about blight-risk as he has tommies in a greenhouse right beside his tatties. I'm going to keep a beady on the haulms and will cut them off at the first sign of blight and get them off-site, but want to leave them on as long as possible as we had such a terrible drought for so long that they've only recently had enough rain and I want them to bulk up as much as possible underground. Had a bad go-round with blight in 2007 on another part of the site but took advice from an old hand; behead them and get the tops away, dug them up and racked them on the greenhouse staging under newspapers for 24 hours then sacked them after brushing off loose earth. Policed them 2-3 times a week for a couple of weeks, then once a week for the next few, removing any which looked a bit dodgy. Lost some but not many, but time and vigilance are of the essence. Anyone tried growing these new Sarpo varieties which are supposed to be blight-proof?

silvermaid

Sun shining brightly here atm, but thunder and cloud bursts forcast for tomorrow. Interesting thoughts about the solar storms and the way we're feeling, had not thought of that before.

Been working full time at present so have had loads of NSDs. However, the house is going to rack and ruin.

Garden is doing well. Hg cucumbers every day for lunch Mmmmm:)
The strawberries are trying to take over the world! Courgettes are coming along and the tomatoes are still green but swelling. Small beanlets are forming and the aubergines and melons have flowers that we are tickling.

ioiwe hugs and prayers

ifonlyitwaseasier

[STRIKE]morning[/STRIKE] afternoon

well waiting on update, got to bed about 4.30 in the end so i feel an EARLY night coming on.

not sure yet state of rellie today, waiting to hear so should hopefully know more later,

thank you all, i really do appreciate the sense of community here and whilst i've been lurking a bit more than ususal i still feel included.

x

ceridwen

Kimitatsu wrote: »

This lady is very good with energy shifts which are currently buffeting all of us

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Elizabeth-Peru/132841136749020

I like her because she is down to earth with her comments not all space agey, but frames some of the shifts in a context we can all relate to. Some of the people out there are waaaaaaay off this planet to begin with! But I will rummage and see who else I have lurking in my friends

The good news is that this will continue on for another few months and then we will all feel much better.....just to add as well that all the nonsense about 2012 is just that nonsense. There will NOT be cataclysmic earthquakes, tornadoes, ice ages etc etc but that doesnt make a very good film now does it. What the Mayans actually said was that we would enter a "golden age" where we would be concious of the world we live in, look after our resources and care for one another and that the old ways would be torn down in making way for this.

Thanks.

Have duly bookmarked the links for a peruse later...I SHALL be off out in a minute for a walk I've been promising myself - sun activity or no sun activity. Usual ceridwen approach - "Blow that - now what was I going to do?":rotfl:

Did give up yesterday when that "bottom of the Pit" mood hit again out of the blue some time early evening, as I couldnt make myself do owt for love nor money:mad:.

"Down to earth" sounds about right to me - having picked up a copy of Nexus magazine in the week to see whats what in it (as an article headlined resonated with summat I am a bit "suspicious" about...) and came across one re the Planet shifting to do a bit of "mix and match" with another dimension (ie record of supposed conversation with someone/something from there) and thought "Wierd city...:eek:".

Just call me Dr Spock - I do like good, sound, articulate, researched stuff...:rotfl:I cannae be assed with "the outer fringes..."