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

ceridwen

auntymabel wrote: »

Just popping out of lurkdom to say that I heard on a Radio 4 sciency-type programme a few weeks ago that the best thing for nettle stings was the sap of the nettles themselves. (You'd obviously want to go and find some gloves before you attempted to get at the sap!)

Must try that sometime - I've never yet learnt the art of how to pick nettles without getting stung and I've been shown enough times - DUH! <slap head smilie>

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Anyways - note to newbies re the FK that Redlady_1 offered to lend me - FK is Fat Knacker (aka Redladys cat).

Well - it helped to finish the evening on a lighter note - having just watched that tv programme "Landlords from Hell" and thanked heaven I managed to escape from the rented sector years ago. I find it hard to get my head round how things are in the rented sector these days. Mind you - living in the part of the country I do I also "step back in astonishment" when I check out houses for sale in some other parts of the country and can see that loads of them are empty because they are being sold by someone other than the home-owner (ie repossessed) - so getting my head round that they ARE repossessed, when they are so cheap (compared to ones in my area - where I am struggling to recollect if I have seen any at all...).

Anyone who missed it - I've just found a handy resource - ie a "Dispatches" channel on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d5FbxhW_Y0

aurorahelios

silvasava wrote: »

I always thought Turnips & Swedes were different 'animals' Swedes have orangy flesh & turnips have white - or are they different varieties of the same thing??? Or am I just being a 'doh'

Not 'doh' it just depends on where you live- Down south that is how we distinguish them, up north they are all called turnips or neeps.

mardatha

My god larumbelle I wish I had a husband who had an uncle with a yacht. I'd be LIVIN on it !
Colder and greyer today so I take it that was the great Scottish summer then .
Am wondering when the other utility companies will put up their gas & electric, and by how much. Not happy with SP at all. Was on phone asking about other tarriffs and although she was patient & helpful, the one she said would save me money would actually have cost me more once I worked it out.
Son been here a lot more lately as he waiting for his second op on his feet - and he can eat three days food in one sitting. All my carefully-priced menus have gone to hell LOL

GreyQueen

VJsmum wrote: »

Thanks GQ re Morrisons. It reminds me, i was in there tonight and they were selling Cathedral City Cheddar £3.95, or 2 for £4!

Wasn't me deserving of a thank-you, it was smileyt's post.:o Great one, too.

We're currently sporting similar avatars except hers is cleverer because it says "keep calm and put t'kettle on" (hear! hear!) whereas mine is a straightfoward cut'n'paste off t'inernet poster "keep calm and carry on". Hey, saw a guy wearing it as a tee-shirt yesterday. I'm not into slogan teeshirts as my own apparel but I seriously wanted that one for all of 10 seconds.

:eek: I woke up about an hour after I went to bed shrieking because the walls were red and furry and closing in on me. How embarrassing to take up night terrors again in middle age. Gawd knows what my subconscious was doing; just hope the neighbours didn't hear. I'm still stuffed up with a cold and yesterday it was a real struggle to get thru my shift, but I managed. Have had the best part of 10 hours sleep and feeling a wee bit better.

jediteacher what's been done to your neighbours sounds a lot like a closure order to me? We had one done here in Shoebox Towers on a crackhouse (crack flat?) and they sealed it up and they were never allowed back in; guess it went to formal eviction at some point afterwards. It was before my time here but SuperGran told me all about it and it sounded horrendous. The woman of the couple in there was entertaining gentleman callers, too.

So pleased that you'll have a peaceful summer but just hoping the Family from Hell don't decide to move over to this part of the forest. We have a few candidates for that title already.

:wave:suzitiger welcome to the thread.

I made a flying visit to the lottie last night to harvest some grub for tea but wasn't well enough to do more than pick some broad beans and peas and dig a root of spuds. My bright yellow courgettes have just started to produce the 'gette, currently about a fingerlength and too small but I know that they grow like lunatics so will keep a very close watch. The squash have been left to their own devices since I transplanted them out at the beginning of June and are getting leaves the size of dinner plates but can't see any sign of flowers yet. Like kittie says, it call comes at once, doesn't it?

((Hugs to all)) and I hope everyone has a great day.

scottishminnie

Note to self - don't ever read the Praise and Vent board when at work - this thread (particularly post 15) caused hysterics on my part and I very nearly drowned my keyboard in tea. I'll stick to perusing the old style board while getting set up in future - it's so much more genteel:D

Not much danger of us suffering the above in Scotland now anyway, as Mardatha said summer was yesterday and it's cooler and wet this morning. I did debate watering my veg last night but decided they needed some anyway. I may feed them tonight - I have lots of miracle gro and tomorite. Does anyone have a view of what works better or should I just pick one and feed everything with it?
Maybe if I had been feeding my apple trees I would have some fruit now - no point in buying the stuff and then not using it:o

VJsmum

Oops - sorry Smileyt, thanks for your Morrisons post

Larumbelle

My other half bought me a card similar to Smileyt and GQ's avatars when I was in hospital. It read

DO NOT
TELL ME
to
KEEP
CALM

It is one of my favourite things, ever, and nurses were quite obviously sending each other to come and have a look at it :rotfl:

Bad neighbours are such a nightmare. Bad landlords, too, I have experience of both. I thank my lucky stars for where I live now.

Mardatha, the yacht is a very recent acquisition! When OH was a nipper he and his wife used to run tourist boats out of Portpatrick, but for years they've lived back down south. Sadly his wife passed away last year. He decided life is too short and bought the yacht, and plans to sail around Scottish waters six months of the year. I say fair play to him!

Scottishminnie, I'd use the tomorite on everything! Apple trees have all done badly this year, too little frost and far, far too little rain. Unless you've only a tiny little tree there's not much you could have done, and even then, not much.

GQ did you take any painkillers or anything? I took cold and flu tablets once that sent me doolally for the rest of the day!

I'm putting together a crib-sheet for my union guy today. I figured it's easier than him keep having to stop and ask me stuff. Seeing it all written down makes me pretty angry.

GreyQueen

Larumbelle wrote: »

My other half bought me a card similar to Smileyt and GQ's avatars when I was in hospital. It read

DO NOT
TELL ME
to
KEEP
CALM

It is one of my favourite things, ever, and nurses were quite obviously sending each other to come and have a look at it :rotfl:

Bad neighbours are such a nightmare. Bad landlords, too, I have experience of both. I thank my lucky stars for where I live now.

Mardatha, the yacht is a very recent acquisition! When OH was a nipper he and his wife used to run tourist boats out of Portpatrick, but for years they've lived back down south. Sadly his wife passed away last year. He decided life is too short and bought the yacht, and plans to sail around Scottish waters six months of the year. I say fair play to him!

Scottishminnie, I'd use the tomorite on everything! Apple trees have all done badly this year, too little frost and far, far too little rain. Unless you've only a tiny little tree there's not much you could have done, and even then, not much.

GQ did you take any painkillers or anything? I took cold and flu tablets once that sent me doolally for the rest of the day!

I'm putting together a crib-sheet for my union guy today. I figured it's easier than him keep having to stop and ask me stuff. Seeing it all written down makes me pretty angry.

Nope, it was purely self-generated. I have to take powerful drugs just to stay non-comatose and alive so am very reluctant to take OTC meds/ herbals without clearing it with my consultant, so don't tend to do anything other than paracetamol and hadn't even had those.

It was HORRIBLE. Can't recall having a nightmare like that since I was a nipper. Well, never had one precisely like that. My bedroom is small but not quite going-to-eat-me-alive-small and the walls are pale yellow emulsion not red fur.

Hope I can handle the phone shift without too many coughing fits.

Good luck with your meeting with the union guy.

stiltwalker

GreyQueen wrote: »

We're currently sporting similar avatars except hers is cleverer because it says "keep calm and put t'kettle on" (hear! hear!) whereas mine is a straightfoward cut'n'paste off t'inernet poster "keep calm and carry on". Hey, saw a guy wearing it as a tee-shirt yesterday. I'm not into slogan teeshirts as my own apparel but I seriously wanted that one for all of 10 seconds.

I don't really like anthing with a pattern which is making it easy not to buy clothes this season as everything in the shops seem s to have really busy patterns on and my only slogan t shirt is a macbeth quote from the Glode Theatre but I saw a good one the other day which was plain black apart from really small letters that you had to go quite close to read which said "Nosy b*gger, aren't you?":rotfl:

Well it's official - I have courgettes, yay!! Ok so they are only about an inch long so far but there are lots so give it a week or two and I'll have a glut.

Waiting for a parcel with my bath stuff ingredients stock up in, they 'tried' to deliver it yesterday but must have just knocked not rung the bell as I was upstairs getting the kids dressed and pottied and nappies done (as appropriate) but you can't hear a knock in our house which is why we put a doorbell up!:mad: hope it comes soon as want to walk through to town at about 1 ish to get the supermarket shop started before OH finishes work. Must do more walking as I need to shift the last few pounds of baby weight so I can wear more of my clothes because I am not buying new ones I have plenty - they're just a bit of a squeeze at the moment. Not going to beat myself up though as bubs only 7 1/2 weeks so I've done well to get this far.

Have a good day all.

suzitiger

I saw a great tip i want to share with you guys on here. If you have a potato in your cupboard that has started to sprout you can peel it, eat the potato and plant the peel and hopefully it will grow and give you potatos the next year. FOR FREE! also if you want to grow peas you can buy boxes of dried peas for dead cheap in the supermarket..they grow just fine and are much cheaper than seeds from the garden centre. HOORAY!
Thanks for all the warm welcomes, I have a thread on the debt free wannabe page called 'New Debt Free wannabe wants all your help and tips please' if anyone wants to look at my debt and SOA etc (won't be on until tonight as I am still working on it)