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

smileyt_2

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Thank you Lizzy and zippychick, I will try that. I have loads of curry powder.

lizzyb1812

Nope not mine - wish it was though :rotfl:

There was once a knitting pattern available for a knitted clanger (they were knitted figures in the series). It was the first toy I ever made myself. :T

kidcat

scottishminnie wrote: »

Kidcat - have you thought about posting this info on the "praise, vent and warnings" board. Maybe if you posted with a heading of "Customers who visited Ikea xxxx store on 30th June " it would alert some people who may have been there - then again maybe it's a nationwide problem.

I certainly wouldn't let it go either. That's Ikea down at the bottom of my list along with Boots (nothing to do with the Swiss thing, more to do with the moron in charge who quite frankly couldn't run a bath and demonstrated that very well by bankrupting a UK bank first).

Thanks for that will have a look now, hadnt even realised there was such a board!! Note to self - must venture about the forum more

7_week_wonder

lizzyb1812 wrote: »

There was once a knitting pattern available for a knitted clanger (they were knitted figures in the series). It was the first toy I ever made myself. :T

Oooh I had one of those - but I have a vague recollection my mum made it out of an old sock!

CRANKY40

The little person in my house was off school today too, so we had a day out with friends. Nothing too energetic as a visit to the emergency doctor this afternoon confirmed I was having an asthma attack. I left the chemist with a carrier bag of medication....on the plus side the "emergency" that the doctor saw before me left his surgery in an ambulance and I left by foot, so I consider myself to be the privileged one, and I should be able to breathe properly again soon.

I love the idea of making the house elf his own recipe book. I have always made food with him as I'm determined that when he's older he will be able to look after himself properly. I was worrying though that I was taking the helping around the house too seriously on Monday, when he solemnly requested that if I put things in his laundry basket, could I close the lid properly like he does. He's six!

Take care all of you

zippychick

smileyt wrote: »

Link to Lizzyb's homepage http://www.earthstar.co.uk/clangdragon.htm

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Thank you Lizzy and zippychick, I will try that. I have loads of curry powder.

Great - report back, hope it's to your taste

grandma247

cranky you may have created a monster My dil is a clean/tidy freak but after a couple of years of marriage she says ds was far worse than she is. This was a young man who's bedroom was frequently a tip.

Winchelsea

About the Clangers - I was on a climate change demo once, and knitting a sock as I marched along, and a woman started chatting to me - she was a knitter too. It turns out it was she who knitted the figures for Oliver Postgate!

ceridwen

Winchelsea wrote: »

About the Clangers - I was on a climate change demo once, and knitting a sock as I marched along, and a woman started chatting to me - she was a knitter too. It turns out it was she who knitted the figures for Oliver Postgate!

:rotfl::rotfl:Never mind "Stitch and !!!!!" groups - change that to "March and knit" groups:rotfl:.

Well - Old Stylers do like to get "double duty" out of things. Sounds good to me - protest AND exercise AND get the knitting done AND make new friends.:). Now thats what I call "getting good value out of your time".

GreyQueen

Winchelsea wrote: »

About the Clangers - I was on a climate change demo once, and knitting a sock as I marched along, and a woman started chatting to me - she was a knitter too. It turns out it was she who knitted the figures for Oliver Postgate!

That's awesome! I loved the Clangers, all those swannee-whistle voices and the dustbin lids on the moon craters. My Mum is a fab knitter and I can recall her coming in, watching the TV for a few seconds, and noting a dropped stitch on a Clanger.....fancy meeting the maker. When I was at uni in the 1980s I had a passing acquaintance with a guy whose Dad was one of the guys who put together the Magic Roundabout (and they were stoned at the time, he reckoned:rotfl:)

Sorry if I got anyone's goat by having a swipe at the student sector of the population. I was one myself for 5 years but that was a long time ago in a faraway land. Most of the witnesses have been rounded-up and are swimming with da fishes.;)

I guess I'd had very little sleep (some problems were student-related), a head-full of cold and was p*ssed off at having my workplace disrupted for over an hour by foolishness. Of course, not all students are inconsiderate or commit criminal damage and they can't help it that the law is set up to relieve them of the burden of contributing to local taxation. Heaven knows, it's taking 1/12th of my net salary, and I'd rather be spending it on other things.

I guess if you'd heard my mate who rents houses out to students rant about how they trash stuff and never ever clean even in houses she's equipped with 5 vacuum cleaners, hear the Police stand up in public meetings and talk about how much crime they're commiting, get to answer the ASB helpline as part of your job (householders complaining bitterly about student houses) plus live within a few meters of several hundred of them, you'd have a skewed and possibly-misguided view of the general levels of behaviour, too. Perhaps our uni and college students in Provincial City are a particularly inconsiderate bunch.:( I still get very nervous every time I see a double-decker when I'm out cycling because I know one of the drivers gets no sleep for nights on end due to the appalling student house next to him.:(

I still can't get over the student who trashed my mate's rental place and posted pictures and bragging comments on t'internet. His parents were telling her that their son would never do anything like that etc etc and were dumbfounded when she pulled it up to show them. Not too bright a thing to do if you're going to be looking for a job in the next couple of years IMO.

Anyway, on to less contentious subjects, ((hugs)) to Josie Jump in your trials of dog and other expenditures. It comes atcha every which way sometimes, doesn't it? The only blessing was that the HH sustained no permanant damage.

I can so well recall the anxiety of running 10 y.o. + small cars on a bare-bones budget and how I'd panic at every unexpected noise. Towards the end, it seemed that every month there was a bill for at least £80 over and above predictable things like tax, MOT, servicing, insurance and fuel. And this was a car I gave up in 1997. I do really miss the convenience of having one but I'm so glad to be free of the worry.

Haribo, I love the idea of your cookbook, sounds like something which will be great fun to do and a real "family treasure" for years to come. I still get a bit mushy if I open an old cookbook and a recipe falls out, on an old envelope in Grandma's handwriting. She passed away in 1970 but it suddenly closes the gap IYKWIM.

I shall be away from my flat this weekend, visiting parents and my Nan. Am planning to assist Nan with a few arty endeavours. I'm working my way thru the artifical flower displays in her home, cleaning and refubishing as well as polishing the brass etc. Dad does her garden and Mum and her SIL do the majority of the housework but I do some fiddly bits on my visits so we can sit and chat, too.

I'm also planning to get into Mum and Dad's loft and retrieve the Family Tent. It's an 3-person ridge model from the late 1970s and I haven't had it out for a few years. Want to see if it's still OK and will do for a trip in Sept or whether I need to get another one. It's not that tents are particularly expensive but more that I have no space to store one. Redlady knows all about the 72 tins of tomatoes under the bed. Anyway, I guess if the Tent has died-in-storage, best to find out and get shot of it.

It's the loft-from-hell and I may be eaten alive by the Yarn Monster or buried under a clutter-slide. If I'm not posting for some time, will some kind person please send a St Bernard with a flask of tea and a packet of biscuits as I may be in need of rescue.

((Hugs)) to anyone who's feeling a bit...y'know....and I hope everyone has a good day and a great weekend.