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

anna_p86

Coming out of lurkedom: Annie you & Monty sound like very kind, compassionate people, that dog's lucky it was found by him

de1amo

my mum comes out to turkey and falls in love with all the street animals--the british are in love with animals like no other nationality--my wife rolls her eyes because my mum shows more love to the street cats than me!--i do like animals but i prioritise my family first----come on rip me apart!!

trifles

Have just used very cheap hair conditioner as substitute for shoe polish with great results-just have to rub a bit longer but does produce deep shine on leather.Only use a very little.Am becoming obsessed with alternative uses for things in my make do and mend mission! Have spent 10 mins patiently rubbing gravy granules paste into damaged lower sideboard to cover up dent marks left when friends pup decided to use as a substitute bone! Worked well-hope pup doesnt find this even more tempting...Hope everyone has a good weekend

sb44

charlies-aunt wrote: »

We came across a cat, mooching sadly round an empty food bowl - guess some ratbag of an owner had taken it there, given him a dishful of food and then bogged off while it was distracted by the food.

:mad:

Barstewards!

lora

shegar wrote: »

Hi to you all, once again so many thanks to you all that have been so so so kind to me, and all your knid wishes I cant tell you all how I appreciate it . THANKS ... dont sound much , but to mean it certaiintly comes from my heart:T...I keep all the little gifts in their sweet little box that they came in and the beautiful homemade "lots of love" card sits here next to the computer,,,,ive had some chocalate so have gary....:eek::eek:, he says a little of what you fancy do you good, and it put a smile on our faces when we where eating it like 2 naughty children.....:T.............. Me too think that the my Dr say about green shoots certaintly sums things up, ive also got green shoots in the garden too,weve been sitting in the summer house this arvo watching all the birds eating, drinking, shrieking etc... also my son gave me 2 new hanging basket with new moss and hessian in for me to fill for him, cos I usually make all my hanging baskets, but as this year I didnt feel up to doing anything, I came across his empty basket in the shed so I thought right I will just hang it up as it is with no peat, no plants or anything, just for the birds, and today we see sparrows in the basket getting their beaks full to take to their nests they are building, to us that was so sweet, I usually put the contents of the tumble dryer fluff in the baskets and haircuttings.........lovely to watch the birds nest building............



Weve still not got any rain here, we always seem to miss it being so close to the coast, like everyone else we are desperate for a soaking...........

Catch all you folks a bit later , ive got to go and watch Gardeners world now..:D:D

The birds in my garden enjoy the white fluffy hair from my thick cat--I do mean thick coated.:D

GreyQueen

trifles wrote: »

Have just used very cheap hair conditioner as substitute for shoe polish with great results-just have to rub a bit longer but does produce deep shine on leather.Only use a very little.Am becoming obsessed with alternative uses for things in my make do and mend mission! Have spent 10 mins patiently rubbing gravy granules paste into damaged lower sideboard to cover up dent marks left when friends pup decided to use as a substitute bone! Worked well-hope pup doesnt find this even more tempting...Hope everyone has a good weekend

I like alternative uses for things, it's very OS and very MSE.

Several years ago, a friend offered me her old DFS leather sofa as she'd decided to replace it. She'd had it 5-6 years at this point and the leather was in good nick apart from in the middle of the bench-style seat where it had been badly worn and scuffed up, showing grey instead of black. My friend had sheepishly handed me the leather care kit which belonged to the sofa at the same time; said kit being completely unopened. After a while I had a brainwave; what about using a leather shoe colour restorer product to work over the damaged bit? (the leather treatment is to clean and protect and has no element of colour to it).

Off to John Lewis and found a Dylon product for dyeing shoes in the homecare dept. Worked a treat and brought the sofa up like new. It even filled in some scratches. Maybe this'll help someone else with similar problems.

The stories of pets lost and found made my blood boil and warmed my heart in equal parts. I'd like to get my hands on whomever abandoned that cat in the middle of nowhere. My family always gets rescue cats and. although I haven't lived in the family home for a long long time, I always want to be a part of chosing the new ones. Of course, as anyone knows, they tend to choose you!

Until about a year ago, my Nan had a big fluffy ginger cat from the rescue place (imagine a pedigree persian mated with the local ginger tom and you get the picture). Even when he was alive, another cat, a battlescarred black one, was "woo-ing" my Nan. He'd leave little presents on the back doorstep of her country bungalow; rats (several), rabbits, a squirrel, a woodpigeon, the rind off somebody's boiled bacon joint, and once, most memorably, a pheasant which turned out to be not dead but merely stunned, and took off like Roadrunner thru the hedge!

Nan called me last night; the cat was on her lap and is officially part of the household. He deserves it as he worked so hard for about 4 years to get his feet under the table with little encouragement.:rotfl:

jamanda

Annie, Well done with the dog. If I lost mine, I'd like to think that someone like you would find her and look after her until I caught up. You have done, and are doing, everything possible and by the book (apart from the kissing) and you should be proud. I'm sure most people on here are proud of you.

grandma247

Cats often have two homes. My stepmother had a cat come into her home for years. It used to come in sometime in the morning and laze by the fire,even if it was not on. At 10pm it would get up and go to the door to go home. We knew who the owner was and he was quite happy for the cat to do this because he worked all day and sometimes till late evening.

HoneyBee83

charlies-aunt wrote: »

My DD works in a dog rescue centre and they are at saturation level with dogs that have been given up, abandoned and/or rescued - they get a fair amount of KC registered pedigrees especially the big breeds like Great Danes, Labradors, Mastiffs, Dobermans, Rottweilers

I have a black labrador and yes shes big and yes she eats loads and costs me a pretty penny each month but i could never give her up! If i could bring home all the given up,abandoned and/or rescued Labradors i would...i have a huge soft spot for that breed.

ANNIE56: I think you are doing a wonderful thing looking after the dog. My pooch is part of the family,just like having another child and we love her so much! I'd like to think that if the worst happened and i lost her that she would find a family as kind and caring as yours to look after her! :D Keep up the good work :T:T

Mrs_Veg_Plot

Morning all

shegar it's wonderful to hear from you again. I am glad both you and Gary are soldiering on. I love your GP's description of your progress. One of the things that has really stuck with me from my counsellor is that people don't have breakdowns so much as a slow painful break through. This struck a cord with me at the time and I though it was a very good way to describe what I was experiencing at the time. Keep tending those shoots.

Annie 56 chantelle is very lucky to be having a “holiday” with you. It’s nice to know that people still care. If her owners are not found she will have a happy loving home to call her own again.

For those of you who are familiar with the ups and downs of my life, at the moment bridges are slowly being built between OH and I. I can see how hard he is trying despite his depression. Unfortunately his colitis has flared up which is not helping matters at all.
For the next two weeks he is on a very bland low residue diet, which I can plan but I am a bit stumped with sandwich fillings. Any suggestions form any other colitis sufferers out there?

The garden is coming on a treat although the only things ready to eat at the moment are the radish and some lambs lettuce. I do not seem to be having much luck with lettuce or salad leaves this year. Will sow some more tomorrow and try again. Monty Don on GW last night said that veg seed sales had topped flower seed sales for the 5th year in a row. Understandable when food prices are rocketing. Lots of rain here and the water butt's are over flowing :j. We also have several large containers on the patio filled with water as well.
The new neighbours (have been here 8 months) have taken a lot of plants out of their back garden and planted them at the front to carry on the planting theme that the neighbours the other side of us started. They offered us some of them to fill in the gaps where we lost some plants over the winter. We are the middle of three houses at the end of a close and the front now looks great with all of the plants out there, all with a similar planting theme.

Have not been able to stick to the £30 grocery limit (had to buy lots of fish/chicken and soya milk/yoghurts for OH) and have had to raid the pitiful savings. OH is pretty sure that he will actually get some wages this month but I will not hold my breath. I have still stuck to the challenge of not buying any new clothes for myself this year. I was going to the charity shop to get some much needed replacement work trousers but have found two pairs in the attic that I had forgotten about so I am still sticking to he challenge.
OH and I are off to a family wedding in a couple of weeks and a wonderful friend had lent me an outfit she bought for a wedding last year, dress pretty cardigan, bag, bracelet and necklace :A. The only thing I need to get is a pair of matching shoes, do they count as clothes, I hope not because I will need to buy some shoes for work soon.

The sun is shining here and I am looking at the veg in the garden
whilst typing and the weeding is calling me.

Have a good day

Mrs VP