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

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GreyQueen wrote: »

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.
Nurse, more tea, she's looking peely-wally![/QUOTE

I just had a flash of a thought re your kestrels, what about seeing if you can slow them down by putting a few into a lakeland green bag?

I am putting leeks on after my first earlies next year and have already put squashes close to the second earlies that I am currently digging, so they can wander over the patch. My mains will be too late but I`ll be putting phacelia down after. I suppose you could put overwintering alliums on a mains patch though as they go in oct onwards

mardatha

Peely wally is how you look when you've
a) got a stomach bug
b) got a hangover
c) just thought about kale
I've had racist abuse in Glasgow as well GQ, and I'm born and bred pure Scot -just not from Glasgow !

ceridwen

mardatha wrote: »

Peely wally is how you look when you've
a) got a stomach bug
b) got a hangover
c) just thought about kale
I've had racist abuse in Glasgow as well GQ, and I'm born and bred pure Scot -just not from Glasgow !

Thanks for that Mardatha ...and like the personal addition:rotfl:

Gave me summat to laugh about to counter an accusation on a post I just read on another Board - I have just been accused of being a racist by this person:eek:. Well - theres always a first for everything - I've got well into middle age and never had that accusation levelled at me before now:rotfl:. Well you gotta laugh - after putting up a post demanding an apology for that:cool:. Thinks....must ask various foreign friends (including the one who lived with me for a while) if they would agree....hmmmm.....

So - on that thought I'd better hie me hence and get ready for work for the day...

Reverbe

ceridwen wrote: »

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.

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I hit the link to it and tho I havent read it to me the following says it all. It was written by a Grad student in ENGLISH.. not a scientific expert etc..:rotfl:

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Peely wally is how you look when you've
a) got a stomach bug
b) got a hangover
c) just thought about kale
I've had racist abuse in Glasgow as well GQ, and I'm born and bred pure Scot -just not from Glasgow !

LOL:rotfl:I thought of you yesterday afternoon when I was whoopsie-hunting in Little Mr T and saw bags of k*le reduced to 75p. I wasn't tempted at ALL; that stuff looks like you should feed it to CATTLE........:rotfl:

This old dear always used to say to me when I lived in Scotland; "You're looking awffy peely-wally, hen."

EDIT Kittie, sorry to be a pest but what is a Lakeland green bag and what might result from using one? I've just had a memory flash that I did order some green manure seeds last winter and will have to check and see if there's anything which will do for the spud-patch. Trouble is, when I last did this after cutting down the 2010 broadbean patch, the area was intensively invaded by couch grass and creeping thistles and bindweed which meant that digging in the green manure wasn't really viable. I love the idea of green manure crops but as I'm still dragging the plot back from years of dereliction under the previous incumbent, I'm wondering if I can realistically use them (the 2011 tattie patch incorporates the 2010 bean patch). What do people suggest?

Reverbe

GreyQueen wrote: »

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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. .

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This is odd because I have to wonder what is in Tesco filled pasta as whenever I have some of my flatmates leftovers which usually are the pesto filled ones I end up with a massive stomachache.. Now I can eat pasta -no problem and pesto - no problem - so I have to wonder what on earth Tescos puts in it. Particularly as Sainsburys filled pasta has no such effect..

As for fishI find Sainburys surprising. They bang on about Marine Stewardshop Council and sustainable fish and yet whever i go in our local store all that is available are they types of fish we are meant to be NOT eating - cod etc..Mind you they recently have been caught by myself going back on their packaging promise- putting unnecessary packaging on fruit and veg and changing from easily recyclable packaging of things to tetrapacks and other non recyclable items.

Rowan9

just a ps from me as about to head out - came across as grumpy bug&er re teaching - LOVE teaching, it's the time wasting by those who don't want to be there that was exhausting.
Anyone got the Mennonite cookbook - is it more with less? Any good?
Ta
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meg72

kittie wrote: »

[QUOTE=scottishminnie;44819612I like to think my fish have lived in clean water, ate proper fish food and lived happy lives before they end up on my plate.
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I have never eaten prawns after seeing a programme on tv, the prawns were kept in holding tanks in bangladesh with sewage flowing in and they were pulled out and injected (live) with water until they got fat, so the producer got more money. That was happening all over the area. None of these prawns were labelled :eek:

OMG I have just taken Prawns out of the freezer for lunch, think I am going to pass these on to nextdoors cat and have beans on toast instead,

kezlou

ceridwen wrote: »

I know what you mean - I have read variously that dole should be £110 in one place and £130 in another to match what it used to be. I cant seriously believe the powers-that-be expect peeps to live on that low a level of money

were currently on benefits and we get £205 every two weeks. Its hard but doable. we still have home insurance,broadband etc

But you don't have to eat the cheapest, just more about planning.
Must admit i do buy the basics teabags from s*bugs simply because 1)i drink a lot tea and 2) its fairtrade. We only buy fairtrade coffee and the cheapest i've found is £1.75 for 100g. Hot chocolate i think is £1 for £100g If we can't find faitrade we tend to leave it till we do.

but the "white things" are also essential, especially if a person can't eat wholemeal but can tolerate white plain / bread flour. I get really bad cramps after eating wholemeal products. Another thing also is that some of the basic brands actually have less sugar / salt in them than branded products. Its just a matter of reading and comparing the ingredients.

IOIWE (( your in my thoguhts hun))

Well the suns gone, but at least we had some hurrah!

Its hard trying to be ethical when on a low income, so i have to admit i can only afford battery eggs form my local corner shop, non-organic veg (if not homegrown, or whoopsied), but were healthy (i think). The one thing i do try and keep on top of is buying fairtrade products.
I used to get a box of organic fruit / veg delivered which was good. But the majority of the food was off i.e fungus ridden, on the day it was delivered. so it was a waste of money for us.

Just sowed loads more salad leaves, beetroot, swiss chard, draf beas and peas out so fingers crossed they will come through. Just slowly working my through the tons of seeds i've got.

We don't really eat much fish, as my partner hates the stuff with a passion. He tolerates tuna, and maybe some fish if its taste of something else. So we mainly eat chicken and red meat.

going to go and do some more weeding, sowing, chucking out,

Larumbelle

GreyQueen wrote: »

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.

Well, what I do is buy them when I see them, rub off those anaemic-looking white shoots that are on them when you buy them, they won't do so great anyway, then chit them properly. I plant them out late April / early May and leave them to it. They don't suffer so badly from the frost, occasionally when we've had a really bad ground frost some of the shoots have died off, but they just grow back again. Then again, I'm of the bodge-it school of gardening so if you want to do it properly best not listen to me!

Reverbe wrote: »

As for fishI find Sainburys surprising. They bang on about Marine Stewardshop Council and sustainable fish and yet whever i go in our local store all that is available are they types of fish we are meant to be NOT eating - cod etc.

Some cod is okay, I have seen MSC-approved cod in there, though as someone mentioned, even the approval schemes are controversial. I think *some* cod is okay, but obviously there's not enough of the okay stuff to go around, which is why we have to reduce our reliance on it and start eating other fish. Mind you, OH remarked the other day on tiny dab and flounder on their counter. Now, dab and flounder are both ridiculously easy to catch, they're abundant and quite tasty too. BUT if places like Sainsbugs sell tiny baby ones, the supply of these fish will collapse as well. They never blooming well learn, do they?

kittie wrote: »

OMG I have just taken Prawns out of the freezer for lunch, think I am going to pass these on to nextdoors cat and have beans on toast instead,

It depends what type of prawns, it's only the big tiger prawns where pollution is a factor, if you have the little 'Atlantic' prawns the ickiness isn't a problem. I saw that programme too and I haven't eaten a tiger prawn since *shudders*

kezlou wrote: »

Must admit i do buy the basics teabags from s*bugs simply because 1)i drink a lot tea and 2) its fairtrade.

I buy them too! Someone here (may have been yourself) recommended them to me. I wouldn't buy them if they weren't fairtrade. I don't drink tea myself, OH used to be a tea snob but he had to admit these were okay! That saves us loads of money, I can tell you, so thanks whoever told me to try it!