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

lizzyb1812

Hello Snowflake - I'll put the kettle on (carefully puts just 2 cups of water on to boil.....)

Picked the first blueberries of the year this morning - a whole 48g :rotfl:Just for a laugh I went on mysupermarket.com and priced them up. All of the big 3 have got them on "offer" at the equivalent of £8-89 per kg. My little crop is therefore worth 43p :eek: and it's just about the amount I'd add to yoghurt for breakfast. Can't say I've actually saved the 43p - would never have bought berries at that price!

ginnyknit

Snowflake, you have certainly been through the mill havent you? Glad you are coming out the other side through sheer hard work. I would love to go to Uni but now looking at your post the Montessori school sounds even better, do they take 50 year olds :rotfl: My dd went back to school after homeschooling and we found a fab school for her which encouraged her until she blossomed into the amazing woman she is today.

My garden is not doing well, I think a mixture of lousy weather and me not having much time with OH being so poorly is the cause. Next year will be better and I havent written off this year yet. Got a couple of bags of compost the other day (now I have an income again) so the broad beans out of the greenhouse will be going in pots away from the bugs. i think gravel paths will cut down on the weeds next year and make life easier. More planning is definately needed but most gardens area work in progress arent they?

Lets hope Mardatha is just busy doing other stuff, I havent heard from her either.

silvermaid

Originally Posted by VJsmum
I haven't read Nella Last but see that she lived in Barrow. The FIL came from Barrow and when MIL (who didn't) first visited was astounded that the first "course" of sunday lunch was Yorkshire pudding (in then Lancashire :eek: ) and gravy and the roast followed. This was to fill people up so they needed less of the main course!

I have heard this is quite common in Yorkshire (Alan Titchmarsh mentions it also in his when i was a nipper book) Of course the Lancastrian in me would take the opportunity to say this is the insidious parsimony of the Yorkshireman.. * cough tightwads cough*:p

This is what my uncle described to me from growing up in the 1900s in Carshalton, Surrey. His mother didn't have enough money to feed the family with meat and 2 veg, so she provided Yorkshire pud and gravy first. The person who ate the most Yorkshire was allowed the most meat!!

flowertotmum

Hey snowflake..wow your a true grit type of gal...chin down and sheer determination has got you through..you keep going hun..so proud of you(even though i don't know you)..nice to get a pat on the back from someone else...you deserve it...

Well had a lsd day..went to CS and got fern a lovely white cardigan for 75p..god awful buttons on it though..going to swap those from my huge stash...got iris a lovely vintage style dress for £1..pink and totally sixties style lovely...got myself a top 75p from next..lovely pale green ok for the summer and great under a jumper for winter.

Hubby got my brick and tile paint from wilkos..the tin was a bit dented so he got it half price...

Got a nice email from the b**kpeople..i have a lot of points to get a free book..so i ordered the " the complete guide to self-sufficiency for modern living"..looks good for city dwellers to those who already live in the country...will let you know how it is when i have read it...

Got a bargain from my dd she went whoopsie shopping and got me some clotted cream for 50p..thats in the freezer..got 4 loaves of hedgehog bread for £1..

Have pulled myself together and am going to do some sewing tonight..got plenty of fabric so napkins here i come.

Ginnyknit...yep our garden is always a work in progress..hubby is constantly wanting to change it..at the moment he is planning on taking out all our conifers so we can have 4 more fruit trees...if it wasn't for the fact we have a huge pond on one side of the garden he would almost certainly change that yearly...drives me potty..

right i 'm off to have a cup of coffee and slice of apple cake..
love to you all.
ftm

jackieglasgow

Just had a reply from Mardatha, she has a chest infection which has knocked the stuffing out of her, but she's OK. she has her new windows in too. x

Rowan9

Hi Snowflake. My neice goes to a Montesorri school in England and is doing well at it. She is 8 now and has been in that 'system' since nursery. I can understand you wanting your DS to be in a nurturing education system after home schooling.
Sunny weather here. Flash fry steaks out for DH's tea to have with salads. Might have a wee bit myself but still eating mostly veggie food. Time of the month though and always crave meat, preferably raw. Have a piot of brown organic rice cooking - I bought it at a food coooperative near us - and that will do as salad accompaniment for a couple of days. Trying hard to use less electricity.
Need to get some groceries in tomorrow but going with my list and menu plan so don't plan on parting with much cash. I use cash for food and it's good to actually hand over the money. When it's gone it's gone.
Younger dog has her booster next week so keeping some of the weekly grocery money to go towards that.
Hoping peeps are having a good Saturday.
W

cross posted JackieG. No wonder Mardatha has been feeling a bit low spirited lately. I had a chest infection a couple of years ago when we first moved back here and felt really unwell. It has been damp and cold for so long. Mardatha - when you are well enough, I hope you manage out for some sunshine - it really has arrived!

lizzyb1812

Thanks for that Jackie. Not surprised about the lurgy after the rotten weather she's been having.

Mardatha, if you're lurking, get well soon - we miss you :grouphug:

GreyQueen

Errgghh, have a splitting headache from the cold and keep coughing my guts out. And that's just a cold. No wonder Mardatha's MIA if she's suffering a chest infection. If you're reading this, hen, get well soon.

Visited with Nan until after lunch and stuff and chatted. We don't stay too many hours at once as she's a very old lady (88) and likes to nap in the afternoon. She also likes Formula 1 and the odd nip of brandy, but that's another story.......:rotfl:

I am very very chuffed at the moment and I'd like to share the reason. I have an extremely small flat and like sewing, so storing the kit was a problem which I'd resolved with boxes (ex-baby-change boxes from the bootsales) which was the least-worst option.

Howsomever, I was getting a little tired of looking at them in my sitting room so had a good hard think, ran some measurements and made a wants list of dimensions for a sort of v.narrow chest-of-drawers/ tallboy/ cabinet with shelves type of thingy. I also wanted it to be in pretend-mahogany to fit in with the other bits of pretend-mahogany in the same room. Sort of a case of veneerial disease.

Well, I don't live el plusho and it would have to be at charity shop prices, so I was resigned for a long search but today, in my hometown, I have found IT.

For thirty fine English pounds saved from my ex-chocolate habit, I have a DVD storage cabinet with sneaky bits which pull out at front and sides, a drawer at the plinth and lot and lots of 6.5 inch deep shelves. And the exterior dimensions are an exact match for the space it has to stand in. Result!

The only fly in the ointment is that I can't have it at home until the folks bring it up in their car when they make their planned visit next weekend, but I am thrilled.

See, not sophisticated but easy to please. Gonna go off and play with it now (sad but true )

lizzyb1812

Well done Grey Queen :T and I just love the "veneerial disease":rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Sorry about the cold, and yes, Mardatha will be pretty low if she has a chest infection - I used to get them every winter and they are rotten. Not had any for a couple of years - must be all the fresh stuff I'm growing/cooking/eating?

oldtractor

:hello:Get well soon mardatha, sorry you are feeling _pale_