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

kidcat

Oh my, have been shopping today (waited til OH was off so I could use little car and less petrol)and my have the prices risen. GOt a few lidl weekend offers but its still a shocker. I am finding that I am doing a few small shops over the course of a fortnight and then one big shop - but it makes the price rises much more obvious. Mr T value pasta is up to 32p a packet, last time I bought it was when it was 9p.

I did manage to buy yet another kitchen bin and the lid fits the last one, so have used the new lid and kept the new bin for potato growing.
Am beginning to think I may need a trip to GP, I have a cough yet again and its driving me mad , added to the constant exhaustion and I think I may need to see if they can help


Its the house warming next weekend and on reflection it was a stupid day to choose as its end of term Friday and as such its a massively busy week, have got to get teachers gifts all sorted too. For most am going simple with a bottle of wine, but for DS7 who has had these teachers for almost two yrs he will move into junior class. They have been exceptional and have made such a huge difference to his entire life - and ours too I want to give them something special, was thinking flowers and a personalised gift?

GreyQueen

Gordon Bennett, came in like a drowned rat about half an hour ago. Am in my robe now, wet and muddly clothes in the washer, brolly and jacket in the bathtub, trainers stuffed full of newspaper..

I bring tidings of great joy from Lottieland; the carrots have finally germinated and the beetroots sown last Saturday afternoon are popping up like wee troopers. Slight problemo is the ground I cleared to sow those two crops is now full of freshly germinated couch grass, lots of little spears of it already 3 inches tall. Gonna be a fun and fiddly job extracting that from among the seedlings.

:eek: My squash plants are making a bid for world domination. This is the first time I've grown anything curcubit that wasn't courgette and I think I may have slightly underestimated how big they get. The leaves on the beggars are already the size of hubcaps. What have I started.......... This could be what gets called a Learning Experience.:rotfl:

Softstuff, welcome back and all is redeemed by the mouse recipe. I have some whoopsied turkey mince in the freezer due to shopping without due care and attention the other week, could I substitute mice mince for turkey mince or is it just lamb which would work? I'm not overkeen on lamb myself, ever since the last time, when I got the wool stuck between my teeth.

Have been checking the times of Harry Potter on the web and it seems that every fleapit cinema in town is running it back-to-back for 16 hours a day. At this rate the entire population will have seen it by Wednesday. Must text my pal to see what time works for her tomorrow.

It is absolutely chucking it down here and has been chucking it down without pause or let up all day and looks set to continue doing it. I have harvested all the broad beans and all the peas which are fit and podded the beans before I got home so that they'd be easier to carry as I walked today rather than cycled.

Going to chill out for a while on the interweb whilst the prune-effect dries out of my fingertips, then will mooch up the city to see what's happening before having a major OS session. I shall use the last of my Jus-Rol pastry which I stashed in the freezer until this morning to make a bijou apple pie with the Bramley which was part of yesterday's whoopsie haul. If the filling looks a little insufficient, I have a fallback plan to add some superannuated sultanas which should plump up nicely. Then, as I'll have the oven on to do the giant whoopsied baked potato from the same shop, I may well extract one of the Fray Bentos pies from the underbed cache and bung that in as well.

For those who follow the running gag, there are now a mere 63 tins of tomatoes under the bed..........

Catch you all later..........and stop staring at that vacuum cleaner, Softstuff, t'isn't Brad Pitt in electrical form......PS what brand is it because I'm nosey.......:rotfl:

NEWSFLASH @ 3.18 rain has stopped and sun trying to shine, I'm outta here.

ifonlyitwaseasier

LMAO @ mice mince!!!!!!!!

am extra happy today, uncle is sorted and settling in to his new abode
new mattress has been bought and got rid of the lumpy bumpy 14 yr old one!! i cna't wait to go to sleep and see the difference twas a bargain, 60% off at m&s

so we splashed out and went to the chippy for lunch


x

ginnyknit

The slugs are reaching epic proportions here, and they are loving the rain:mad: The hedgehogs living in the shed must be stuffed full! Just nipped to local market and picked up last of provisions, its bustling there and there's even a singer on on the market hall - not bad either which means a lot cos I am very fussy about live music. Lets hope their business keeps doing well as I would hate to lose my supply of cheap cakes, barmcakes and cooked meats.

Off to pick up Dgs so Dd can get some sleep and work her little cotton socks off at Mr M tomorrow - they are not particularly nice people to work for but she is sticking it out so far. Finished Dgs's crochet snake and he loves it, actually got an order for another one - maybe I will make my fortune that way - stripey snakes :rotfl:

mardatha

I want to make applie pies/quiche but have nothing to roll it out with. Last time I had a milk bottle but now got nothing at all.
How do you make cheap Smart Price sponge mix a bit posher or tastier?
Does anybody make their own room or linen spray? If so, how did you do it?
We have decided not to grow tomatoes next year at all, seriously. We are sick of the sight of them, and OF having the bedrooms green and gloomy for the whole summer so far. On the third "crop" now, 5ft tall and had to be pinched to stop them going higher. So if anybody has big windows and likes tomatoes a LOT then try Latah mixed with other varieties !

HariboJunkie

mardatha wrote: »

I want to make applie pies/quiche but have nothing to roll it out with. Last time I had a milk bottle but now got nothing at all.
How do you make cheap Smart Price sponge mix a bit posher or tastier?
Does anybody make their own room or linen spray? If so, how did you do it?
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Instead of quiche why not try impossible quiche. No rolling out of pastry involved.

And instead of apple pie why not line a cake tin with stewed apples and top with the sponge mix before baking (adding a bit of cinnamon to the mix) before baking. Two birds with one stone.

I make room spray/linen spray with boiled water and a few drops of lavender oil/fresh lavender from the garden.

I've been in the garden (no rain atm). Thinned out some of the tomato leaves, added magnesium sulphate to the basket tomatoes and sowed more baby carrots, bright lights radish and peas for pea shoots. Cucumbers are starting to come slowly but the courgueets are still chucking out male flowers only.

OH is making me some more shelves for the kitchen from offcuts of wood to house my expanding collection of vintage tins.

Filling fell out and took a corner of the tooth with it so expensive trip to the dentist next week. :cool:

mardatha

Ouch re tooth and dentist bill. I did the apple sponge already and he whined for apple pie. Will try the impossible quiche thought, forgot about that and I have it written down somewhere.. Still chucking it down here.

smileyt_2

mardatha wrote: »

Ouch re tooth and dentist bill. I did the apple sponge already and he whined for apple pie. Will try the impossible quiche thought, forgot about that and I have it written down somewhere.. Still chucking it down here.

Could you not bash the pastry flat using hubby's head?







:rotfl:

kidcat

Mardatha can you cover a paint roller with tin foil and try that for rolling pin?

stiltwalker

HariboJunkie wrote: »

I've been in the garden (no rain atm). Thinned out some of the tomato leaves, added magnesium sulphate to the basket tomatoes and sowed more baby carrots, bright lights radish and peas for pea shoots. Cucumbers are starting to come slowly but the courgueets are still chucking out male flowers only.

I think if you give them a good feed it encourages the female flowers.

GQ - you make me chortle, thanks! :rotfl:

Had a friend and her sob round for cake and chatting this afternoon - we were going to the local fete but it got cancelled due to weather. Such a shame for all the hard work everyone will have put in but it would have been miserable in the middle of a muddy field. S*ds Law - it has now brightened up in last half hour!

Pizza dough proving for tea and OH upstairs building DD's new bed bought on trip to Ikea with MIL on Thursday - can't believe my little girl is big enough to be going into a real bed!! DS (9 weeks today) needs the cot next as he's about to spill out of the moses basket - they grow so fast. I promise not to get weepy - though I have had a couple of pangs I actually prefer them when they get a bit bigger and start doing stuff.

Happy Saturday everyone:j