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

lizzyb1812

kittie - Wurzel's WOW is a regular in this house - I have a batch on now. And am just clearing another juice based one which uses one litre Asda freshly squeezed red grape juice and one red grape, cranberry and raspberry - have had a little taste and for me this will be a keeper.:beer:

Gave up using the tabs/powder for sterilising ages ago and use Trust which is the Mr M version of Milton and less than half the price. As an aid to measuring one cap full is enough to sterilise 4 litres of water - so a cap plus a bit for a DJ or PET.

I made lovely elderberry wine last year - it was like port. Tried some this year with a view to keeping it for winter but it went mousy - my first ever failure. I've still got a PET full so may try some damage limitation, although as the berries were free I wouldn't lose much if I chucked it.:(

This week walking the dog has been doubled up with a survey of all my best foraging spots. There are going to be LOTS of blackberries - in fact there are a few that are pickable now, although only enough for snacking not a dedicated picking session. Found a lovely yellow cherry plum in fruit on public land as well. Field mushrooms are also starting to show up so will be off to my favourite place for them soon.

red_lady have you thought about a dress agency for your suit? The shop I used to use had nothing of less quality than M&S and was mostly nearly new really good makes for about a quarter of the price.

My place definitely has a lived in look :rotfl:I'm gradually decluttering - until I've done this all I do when I tidy is move piles of stuff into other piles and get nowhere. Read a post on another thread on here which took me to this site:

http://www.messies.com/get_started/

Part of getting started is the 30-second thing - if something needs doing and will only take 30 seconds to do, do it straight away. I've found this very easy to do and it has almost completely cured me of the put-it-down-instead-of-putting-it-away syndrome I have suffered from for ages :T

Hugs to all who need them and to everyone who doesn't need them have one anyway - we all deserve a hug

jediteacher

Skint_but_Optimistic wrote: »

Whats happened? Cant your hubby register instead?

redlady_1 wrote: »

I was wondering why cant you register under a different name?

Basically over the last year 5 people have said that I have not posted items quickly enough and have given me a low score for that! Despite having high marks for all the other categories and 100% positive feedback Ebay still feel the need to ban me for selling forever!:mad::mad::mad::mad: I cannot register another account with the IP address that we have. My hubby is going to see what he can do when he gets home about the IP address. Hopefully he'll be able to do something as I have enough items to sell to cover a months wages.

Larumbelle wrote: »

If it's any consolation, I got banned from Ebay 'forever' once (for selling Ann Summers products, I was a rep at the time). If it's any consolation, they let me re-register after about six months.

Maybe try ebid, it's lower traffic but free listing, so the two may balance each other out?

Can I ask how they let you back? Did you just re-register or did you contact them first?

I've tried ebid but nothing has ever sold when I've listed it. Will give it another go as I really need to earn some extra money.

greent

jediteacher wrote: »

Basically over the last year 5 people have said that I have not posted items quickly enough and have given me a low score for that! Despite having high marks for all the other categories and 100% positive feedback Ebay still feel the need to ban me for selling forever!:mad::mad::mad::mad: I cannot register another account with the IP address that we have. My hubby is going to see what he can do when he gets home about the IP address. Hopefully he'll be able to do something as I have enough items to sell to cover a months wages.



Can I ask how they let you back? Did you just re-register or did you contact them first?

I've tried ebid but nothing has ever sold when I've listed it. Will give it another go as I really need to earn some extra money.

How about going to the library to register an account there from their IP address? And use a different email addy of course - jt @hotmail or something

ceridwen

GreyQueen wrote: »

Oh my goodness, that's the one! Well, not the one, of course, as I burned it myself (and expect to suffer in one of the levels of hell, presumably just below the one reserved for people who hang up knitwear on metal coathangers).:)

EDIT just googled the Roomba and it has a sibling called a Scooba that washes floors. Am suffering momentary covetousness but will be OK again soon.

....and I'm not even going to look it up - I darent...having read an aromatherapy oils book for mental states of various descriptions (err...of the everyday type - not illnesses per se) - which included assessing one's personality type in order to better work out which oils to use. Errr...the bad side of a "cinnamon" personality is we're not exactly non-materialistic (:eek: who? me?:eek:) - so I might be buying it:(. There is a good side though - we apparently "try to help people out of trouble if we can - even though we dont consider it our responsibility to do so":cool: and yep....we're walking reference libraries:rotfl::rotfl:

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Speaking of which - and curbing my materialistic tendencies for a minute <down gal/sit/shut up> - that comment from Broomstick re "They cant ration these" book....hmmm...its not there to read for free on Googlebooks (darn it...).

So - I'm left wondering whether they include the gypsy method of cooking hedgehogs - ie coat with mud and bake in fire and when they are cooked peeling off the mud takes the prickles off with it??
But - I guess no-one wants to attempt cooking Mrs Tiggywinkle?:rotfl:. Squirrel Nutkin on the other end - if they happen to be the "invaders" - ie the grey ones....hmmm....:cool:

Uniscots97

GreyQueen wrote: »

That's a really clever idea!

I once read about the Great Exhibition of 1851, the one for which the original Crystal Palace was built. They had wooden board floors and, to avoid the trouble of sweeping them, they had gaps between the boards and the ladies' long dresses swept the dirt and debris down them. Can you imagine how mucky things were back then?

Anyway, having your skirts hitched up to show off your boots would have marked you as a very "fast piece" in the bad old days. I love the image of your skull-decorated boots peeping out from your skirts btw.

I know how mucky the bottom of my wedding dress got and I was so careful with that.

As for the skull boots, I have my 'work' wardrobe and my wardrobe for outside work. I think if my work colleagues saw the real me they'd freak!

pennib

Skint_but_Optimistic wrote: »

I want a baby monkey thing!! I am a child (ish) wrong side of forty, and I have an affinity with tiny monkeys!! I wouldnt put them in dresses or anything I would just love one and look at its tiny monkey hands!.

I know its wrong and I should stick to German Shepherds and cats.

Its thrown me quite off kilter, and I shall have to "calm down".

I have a picture of little monkeys.....sorry it's not real but no mess!
They are twins:D

Jolaaled

kittie wrote: »

I have been siphoning wine this am for storage in a wine box in the fridge, it was just a white kit and was cheap so is ok (for cooking) but it was meant for me to practise on and get confident again. Next one almost ready in a pet container is a wine called wow, made from grape juice and orange juice, it is a very popular recipe by someone on the net called wurzil.

Kittie...do you have a link for the recipe please??!!

THANKS

Jolaaled

Jolaaled wrote: »

Kittie...do you have a link for the recipe please??!!

THANKS

hmm..think i may have found it??:

http://www.zenspell.co.uk/wurzelsorange1.html

WOW stands for Wurzils orange wine, apparently!

scottishminnie

I have several "older" books - Good Housekeeping encyclopedia and Reader Digest and one from my great grandmother which has no cover and has to be treated with extreme care. They are full of great tips and also some interesting things. A few weeks back I looked up the GH one for Pesto and Courgette for 2 different things. Neither of them appeared at all - they must have been very exotic when the book was printed. I got it as an engagement gift in 1988 so it was definitely before then.

I'm trying a new approach with my washing - little bit of an experiment. I'm away before 7am and not back until after 6pm so hanging the washing out isn't an option given the 4 seasons in a day weather here. I couldn't live with only washing at the weekend and I don't want to use the dryer all the time so I've decided to wash most days and hang everything in the airing cupboard where the hot water tank is.
I usually hang hand wash stuff in there but there is enough room for a small load. I'll keep the towels for the weekend, along with the sheets, I can live with that. Hopefully that will be much less electricity.

On the subject of obsessive home owners - my aunt used to follow us around when we were children with a dustpan and brush. We weren't allowed to eat inside if it was dry outside - we had to sit on the back step and she told us the best game to play was using the eubank sweeper. As a farm child who was used to rough and tumble and lots of animals and muck along the way I hated having to spend time there. She may be retired now but to this day I feel like a dirty, unkempt country hick when I visit her (as little as possible thankfully:D)

grandma247

ladies I have been mulling over an idea for a tiny cottage business and would appreciate any tips or comments. I have identified a need in the UK market and can import the product at a very good price.
Because the item is small I wondered about starting a blog that ties in with it and selling it from there. It would be a few weeks, four at the earliest, before I could do it. I have ideas for expanding in time but want to start small and affordable. Am I making sense?