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

Softstuff

GreyQueen wrote: »

Aww, only teasing, softstuff. Are the pest controllers coming today? I once had them in the kitchen of a shared flat (think they came up the walls from the manky corner shop below us) and I was a complete Tom and Jerry, too. It's weird how they get to you, I grew up with hamsters and gerbils and didn't freak when some wannabe suitor dumped a pet rat unexpected on my bare shoulder, but mice in the hice.......ewww.

The guy who was trying to attract my attention (was a young lass of 18 at a festival) was sooooo disappointed that you can drop a white rat on the bare shoulder of a woman from behind and just have her turn around coolly with the animal held between lightly around it's midriff and a laconic "Is this yours?" :rotfl:

I know you were teasing. If I'd thought you were serious you'd have been getting mouse a l'orange in the mail.

No pest controllers today. According to the maintenance manager, the bait may take a bit longer, so I should just wait for it to do its job. Easy for him to say. He's not getting any more muffins this week I have no aversion whatsoever to pet mice, rats, heck even pet tarantulas. What freaks me out whether it's with rodents, insects or other is not knowing where a thing is or what it's chewing.

I've had some weird come-ons, including one guy who bit me to say hi, but even that isn't as odd as a rat on the shoulder.

Pee

I've made some elderflower champagne, which seems to be going well.

I bought a bucket to make it, but no demi-johns, and I wondered did anyone know any recipes that don't invlove any equipment.

annie123

Pee wrote: »

I've made some elderflower champagne, which seems to be going well.

I bought a bucket to make it, but no demi-johns, and I wondered did anyone know any recipes that don't invlove any equipment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A593363

I use this one every year and it's wonderful........only 40ltrs this year:D

Larumbelle

jediteacher wrote: »

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.

I just reregistered But I agree with the others, there are plenty of ways to get a new IP, then get hubby to register, it would be cheaper. If you are on broadband all you need to do is reset your router.

pennib wrote: »

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

Yay! Another sock monkey maker! Any interest I would have had in having a real pet monkey vanished when I saw the 'pine and die' bit.

Oh, and for GreyQueen: You thought the book was bad? Asbestos - for the active room - like the family room! The merest sight of those stiletto heels on the asbestos makes me cringe with horror. We have an asbestos shed and I hate even going near it.

mardatha

I actually like rats and mice - obviously pet ones. My daughter has had pet rats and they do seem to like sitting on your shoulder cuddling into your neck. Very funny clever wee things. But it's not granny-like to have a pet rat .. and anyway the RV is terrified of any rodent with a tail :rotfl::rotfl:
We sometimes get the odd field mouse in the house in winter , I met one once when I got up for a drink of milk. I always feel sorry for them because they're so tiny & so terrified.
And she had a snake too but she was scared of it. I dont mind snakes either, only animals I'm wary of are cows and big dogs.

ceridwen

grandma247 wrote: »

Floss how would I find out. I don't think they would have exclusive rights and I would be selling generic anyway. Interest in the thing is growing here.

Many bloggers do have adverts on their blogs for other peoples products - so why shouldnt one do so for ones own then?

My own blogs are more an online store of information I've gathered and decided to keep that way - but I could tout for adverts on them if I chose to (its just I made the decision not to even want to...).

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Suspects I might know what this item is;) - and, if I'm correct, then I'll be glad to see it available here in Britain easily/at a reasonable price.

LittleBrownFrog

No advice, but I'm, itching to know!! I'm just too nosey for my own good!!

ceridwen

Larumbelle - or anyone else who knows....

I started my peanuts off on Sunday. I'd soaked them for about 12 hours first and found they swelled up a lot during that time. I then put them in a beansprouter set of trays and have been doing my normal run them over with water morning and night - and the nearest I've come to seeing beansprouts is that a couple of them have very tiny little nubs at the end.

So - wondering what I've done wrong:
- do peanut sprouts take a long time to get going?
- should I have bought ones in their shell and shelled them myself (ie rather than buying that bag of ready-shelled ones from the health food store)?

What should I have done purlease?

Larumbelle

They take a week or longer to sprout, longer than most sprouting seeds, so don't give up yet! That little nub is the start of the sprout

Do make sure to rinse religiously so that they don't go mouldy, but you sound as if you're on the right lines...

GreyQueen

My library-wandering yesterday turned up "The Art of Being a Well Dressed Wife" by Anne Fogarty, a reprint from 1959 which I just had to borrow and kept me chortling on and off all evening, between texting nonsense with pals and talking on the landline, too.

It's very very dated and quite amusing, very much aimed at the middle and upper-middle class American corporate wifey and tells you all you need to know about how to be such a person. Not surprised so many of them were on Mommy's Little Helpers. This is the generation that Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique about; it's a bit Stepford Wifey. But is has a pastel pink cloth cover and I always choose my books with pink on just so that I can be absolutely sure that what I've got is gender-appropriate and not liable to corrupt me with unladylike thoughts.

One must always guard against unladylike thoughts, btw, as well as runs in one's stockings and a thousand and one other potential disasters.

I did think that, in all seriousness, I need to review my wardrobe, as things are getting a bit out of hand and a few things have gone past tolerable and into ragbag territory. Trouble is, I loathe shopping for clothes. What I like, I cannot afford, and at nearly 6 foot and a size 16-18 a lot of the ruddy stuff in the shops doesn't even fit. And I don't like most of the stuff in Long Tall Sally. Grrr!!!!

Reluctantly, I shall go off and purchase another pair of black trousers for work. My current pair have gone peculiar and stretchy and are hanging off me. I had hoped it was a symptom that I'd lost a lot of weight, but the scales say different; think they've just stretched to beggary. Sigh.

My other book borrowed yesterday was far more true to form; I like it if they have vampires and werewolves in them but please don't tell my book group girlies because they might think I'm daft.