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

redlady_1

HariboJunkie wrote: »

Before I get the blame for bringing down the aquaculture industry in Vietnam, the WWf lists the following as ways to ensure you are eating pangasius that is safe and sustainable;

"Purchase pangasius traceable to the pond they were grown in.
• Choose fish tested to be free of potentially harmful chemical and drug
residues.
• Buy from farms that
- employ water treatment methods and avoid direct discharge of
effluents into the surrounding environment
- grow in areas where pangasius is indigenous (e.g., the Mekong delta)
- adhere, at minimum, to legal requirements for where and how to site
farms" (taken from Fact sheet about what to look for when buying farmed pangasius)

I suppose we just have to check with the retailer.

Needle and haystack spring to mind. I am more concerned about the chemicals that the poo to be honest. I just dont think I have much of a chance to find "proper" basa to be honest.

westcoastscot

Haribo - yes it is a pretty part of the world. Youngest said they had a school of dolphins alongside the boat today of Craobh Haven - lots of young ones too trying to keep up with the creels.

Larumbelle I sell on etsy and have a store on folksy but haven't used it. Would be interested to hear what opinions you drum up - congrats on being featured in a treasury, its a thrill isn't it???

Chocclare thank for the linky about window quilts - I'm thinking about making them pretty on both sides so I can turn them daily, as I expect they'd get damp against the window in winter with condensation?

14 degrees again here, and drizzling.

WCS

chirpychick

we used to eat quorn a lot too and hubby swears he prefers it to real mince in things like spag bol (we arent veggie) im trying to convinve him to try lentils, neither of us have had them before and everyone keeps talking about them and chickpeas too. I will definately give them a go after reading this.

ChocClare

re window quilts - yes, the post I was replying to was about whether they'd get damp with condensation, but I'm not sure why they should - curtains don't, do they? I don't think you have the quilts bang up against the window - I think the reason they're warm is that they're quilted (some of you may well have inferred this from the fact that they are called window QUILTS ) and that they're fixed top and bottom - though not all are actually fixed at the bottom, for that matter.

It's probably the quilting which is the big plus point, tbh. In which case, if you interline your curtains, you have the same effect. At my old house, the curtains for the bay window in the sitting room were interlined with quite heavy bump, and I could hardly lift them when they were made. We had Victorian plate glass - very pretty, with all waves and ripples in it, but not exactly draught-proof - and the difference it made to the temperature if you drew the curtains had to be felt to be believed.

Mind you, the window took 16 METRES OF MATERIAL :eek::eek: And it wasn't that huge (square bay on the right in this photo). The benefit of doing a quilt rather than curtains would be that you wouldn't need so much material - only half of what you'd need for curtains, so it would be much cheaper.

My old house had 27 windows. I know, because my DD had to count them for a school project when she was little. And because I had to make curtains for all of them - this is why the idea of window quilts appeals :rotfl::rotfl:

annie123

ChocClare wrote: »

re window quilts - yes, the post I was replying to was about whether they'd get damp with condensation, but I'm not sure why they should - curtains don't, do they? I don't think you have the quilts bang up against the window -

Too many post to find original window quilt talk, sorry.
I made them last year for DD's bedroom, and it was soooo good I'm making 14 before winter :eek: Including some for my sons flat.

yes they do get damp if you don't have a vapour barrier as they are placed as close as possible to the glass, unlike curtains.
They are normally attached all around the window but still roll up to let in light.
I have some good links and will post them tomorrow, off for a cold bath now to cool down.
It's 26c in here (sorry Mardatha:o) and no sign of the promised thunder storms:mad:

Larumbelle

I have added extra 'glazing' to my windows with bubble wrap. It really does keep things warmer in winter and cooler in summer. Unfortunately it is blooming ugly, but that doesn't really bother me as I only have one window facing streetwards and that's frosted anyway.

westcoastscot wrote: »

Larumbelle I sell on etsy and have a store on folksy but haven't used it. Would be interested to hear what opinions you drum up - congrats on being featured in a treasury, its a thrill isn't it???

It is I have been included in quite a few treasuries, and I get quite a few hearts, but I have only sold one item so far Possibly because it's so expensive to post my journals to the USA, but I don't know. I've put a few bits on Dawanda and had four sales there (only started a few weeks ago on both sites). I've done some networking and the like on Etsy but nothing other than listing the items themselves on Dawanda. I can't really work it out, but as Dawanda is free to list I guess I'll list absolutely everything there and maybe be more selective with Etsy.

So far all I can work out is that these sites are like football teams - everyone has a strong opinion but preference seems dyed in the wool rather than based on anything in particular! I think I might just experiment with Folksy - maybe just list half a dozen and see what happens. I meant to ask if anyone has used Artfire too... but at least that one's completely free! What is your Etsy shop's name? I'll add you to my circle!


I am really lucky regards fish, I hardly ever buy it as OH's hobby is sea fishing. It's about as sustainable as it gets because he never actually catches anything :rotfl:

Okay, I'm just being mean He does catch quite often, but anything small goes back. After that we're usually down to a flounder or two, occasionally a mackerel and just once, a cod. Oh, and a big brown crab once too. It's not exactly ideal for everybody's circumstances, but it works for us!

mardatha

It was the best its been all day at 10.30 when I shut the hens in. Mist had lifted and it wasnt so raw feeling. And it was much brighter and lighter than its been all day. Very weird.
I never eat fish, it makes me feel actually sick. And all my dads family hundred of years back were trawlermen too. LOL I am a disgrace.

sharnad

ChocClare wrote: »

Not that I am condoning this because I'm not, and the man is a complete nutter; but a friend's neighbour who was having trouble with another neighbour allowing their dog to foul his garden went out, grabbed the dog, went round to his neighbour's and held a shotgun to the dog, asking if he needed to make it any clearer what would happen if the dog was allowed to foul again.

Like I say, not that I'm condoning it AT ALL but it did have the desired effect. I think a local reputation as a headcase probably also helps...

Was the guy then arrested

ceridwen

redlady_1 wrote: »

I have just read that Kittie and found another one too which I have just read out to the OH over the phone. He just couldnt believe what he was hearing. I am really funny about fish and like this because it doesnt have bones and isnt too "fishy". I loved the basa we buy from Morrisons and OH bought me a bag from Aldi. At this point I am too concerned to see where it comes from!http://talk.onevietnam.org/cause-of-death-consumption-of-basa-fish/ Linky for you

In case you're still too scared to read the article Redlady - I did.

You do NOT want to eat it :eek:- there ya' go ..take my word for it from what that article said.

Me - I'll stick to reluctantly vegetarian (rather than the pescatarian I would be by choice) as I'd read more than enough anyways about farmed fish....:(. My personal view is that I could only feel happy about eating farmed fish if its "grown" very locally and I can cross-question the producer. I work on a sorta "If they know you can get hold of them personally - then they'll watch the quality of what they produce" basis...

GreyQueen

Good morning campers! Isn't it extra-ordinary that a relatively small geographical area like the UK was experiencing such fluctuations in temperature yesterday?

Memory Girl, I lived in Scotland for 5 years and went thru 5 winters inc the one in which I developed hypothermia in bedsit with no heating other than an old-fashioned electric bar fire attached to a coin meter (50p = 30 mins of not-much-warmth and I couldn't afford to use it anyway ) It was grim but I am thinking fondly of summer coolth.

Will be staying down south as the kinfolk left Scotland generations ago and the living rellies are down here. I blended in well in Scotland with my colouring, at least until I opened my sassenach gob! Got a mouthful of abuse for being English from some rancid old geezer in Glasgow last time I was up there and thought to myself; "Hmmm, does that count as racial abuse?" Of course, it doesn't, but it did get my goat. Still, rancid rude geezers are everywhere, just something one needs to rise above, like a colourful balloon wafting over a dung-pile.

Yesterday evening I was out in the sticks on a riverbank in a friend's garden being eaten alive by mozzies. It was very warm until well after 10 pm but the clouds started to brew up and we had one or two drops of heavy rain as we were coming home.

Today has started with a very muggy overcast but it clearing slowly. I was woken up about an hour ago and decided to get up and am now debating a pre-work allotment trip or going back to bed for a while as I have had very little sleep and will suffer for it later today. Bed might be the winner, actually, after my daily treat of MSE-ing.

Re sowing the Kestrels later in the year, I feel a bit stuck as they appear in the shops as seed spuds from January onwards, when I buy mine in mid-Feb they are already sprouting and the shoots are starting to come thru the nets. I chit them for several weeks and then plant them deeply. Can't see how I can stop them doing what they're doing, but would not-chitting and planting them when they appear in the shops slow them down enough, in terms of them being about a foot tall in mid-May which is when we have the late frosts? If I delay the purchase they'll be none left.

Advice from any and all parties very welcome, please. I do use fleece but even cheap fleece works out an expensive faff for a whole tattie patch.

Interesting about the cobbler; I got a twin-pack of this as a whoopsie the other month, never heard of it before. It was OK in my opinion but nothing to write home about. Be giving it a body-swerve from now on.

I, too, am blessed with a stomach which could be described as "cast-iron" and Quorn doesn't bother me digestive-wise but I have several friends and a few relations who will get very sick, very quickly, if they eat it, even if they don't know they're eating it. That alone gives me pause for thought. My brother has to be very careful about processed food in general as we worked out that something in shop-bought meat pies (good quality ones) was triggering his epilepsy. Never worked out what but with a fit being so unpleasant, it didn't seem worth the risk.

Right, the plan for today is to sow carrots in the ground I prepped yesteday morning and start prepping another bit of ground. Oh, and go to blinking w*rk, of course.

Ideas sought, please, for what to sow on the tattie patch when I lift the spuds in the course of the next few weeks. About 25 % of the lottie is down to tatties and they'll be a humungous quantity of weeds is I don't do something. Is it too late to get another crop of something else? Cabbages etc are a waste of time as the pigeons eat them down to nubbins.

Nurse, more tea, she's looking peely-wally!