Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

Karmacat

I'm glad your friend has been saving loo roll innards for you! I've seen people make similar, origami style, with sheets of newspaper, tho - I bet you there's a youtube tutorial on it

You do need to catch up, Pippi, of course you do - but I'm not surprised you're thinking about the polytunnel. When you do the trip, tho, you're going to get as much as you can on the mainland for the garden, aren't you? Any chance of bringing the polytunnel itself, or is that already on the island? Sorry ...

Pippilongstocking

KC frame here (recycled- free if I took it down so we took it down last november and moved it here) cover in england - other bit of country from Wik - Colne, in Lancs (?) - am phoning them to see if it will fit in OH van which if it does I'll drive that down and see what they charge if anything to deliver to north lincs.

The loo rolls are genius cos the size of plants I sell fit exactly into an innard and they go well into a box and then post brillantly when I ran out I was making tubes from paper to pop them in. Great idea thank you

I was going to put an appeal out for innards locally - they all think I'm deranged anyway

I often wonder if it truely recycling if you recycle everything you have to other people?

Got run!!

Karmacat

Sounds good, Pippi - have a good one today
xxx

Uniscots97

Pippi, OH has a large diary I bought him he's not using it. Would you like it? PM me your address (had clear out of pm's) and i'll send it up to you.

starnac

gilligansyle wrote: »

Looking like your mother? Visiting my Mum in hospital the other day everybody could tell we were related and kept saying 'sister?' Now while thats probably a complement to Mum at 75, I'm not sure it works the other way :rotfl:

i too look like my mother and get mistaken for her all the time :mad: but reading about you being mistaken for her sister reminds me of one time a few years ago. i work with adults with learning disabilities and one lady had to have an operation. the doctor was unsure how she would react when coming round from the op so asked me to be there when she woke up as a familiar face for her which i agreed. I walked into the recovery room and asked the nurse where she was and the nurse looked at me and asked "are you mum??" I was horrified. I was about 22/23yo and the lady was old enough to be my mother!!! :eek: it had been a rough day but i didn't think THAT rough!!

lots been going on last couple of days. it's taken me ages to catch up. hope everyone is okay.

LT - hope your dad is okay. The doctors probably won't give a diagnosis of epilepsy unless he's had these fits before.

Pippi - hope you are feeling more "up" now than before. it was probably due to the fact your thesis had taken up so much of your life and energy that now it's not there anymore you hit a bit of a downer.

Raining here so planning not to do much today. What's everyone else up to??

Cheery_Daff

(((pippi)))))))))

Sounds like you need a holiday (although I can see why you think it might be too much hassle/money!) Wish we could come and house sit for you Can't wait to see the chickens again

How big's the polytunnel cover?! Would we be able to bring it when we come? Or is it too big to fit in the car?? (or would you rather have it before then?)

Wanted to say lots more than that but at work and bit stressed today and can't think straight Head full of chickens now :T SOOO need to rethink my life over the next few years! :T

chevalier

Hi Pippi
It isn't recycling if you send your stuff to other people it is REUSING which is higher up the conservation cycle than recycling. Reduce first then Reuse then recycle! (Watching lots of bob the builder does have some purpose after all)

chev

starnac

chevalier wrote: »

(Watching lots of bob the builder does have some purpose after all)

chev

Don't let DD hear you say that :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

Hey up all hope you're all good

Didn't manage the recycling - too late away from work

Had a bit of mindmappy brainstorm today about life/work etc which was OK
Ended up doing an hour in one of our work polytunnels I've been given my own project (unpaid well I think its unpaid, but means I have resources at my hand )

Off to catch up

Greying_Pilgrim

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

the physalis are an experiment at growing fruit ..... so its part of my 'how much and what can I grow at home' experiment - hmm my life appears to be one big experiment


I'm struggling with the idea of a holiday - kids off for 8 weeks - they will be at dads for 6 ..... which is why I want us to do something fun - but right now its probably not the best use of money - to spend it all on petrol.

Ferry and petrol = £350 without any adventures paid for yet
Make things to take and take flowers/eggs/cakes

I know its terrible but I'm looking at the money and thinking - hmm thats a polytunnel cover. But that is very selfish of me. We could stay home but we do that mostly and it would be lovely to catch up with folk.

Pippi - I read your post and a question came into my head, I hope you don't mind me asking it. I know a 1200 mile round trip will take alot of petrol/diesel, but is £250 island priced petrol? Erm, when (a little while ago) fuel prices were going up (seemingly daily) I recall you mentioning what you were paying per litre, and it was (I think) at least 10 - 20 pence more than perhaps we were paying here at the time. Now whilst I know fuel prices vary around the UK, and 10p doesn't seem like much, actually the difference per gallon does tend to add up. Therefore, if you could actually buy most of your fuel on the mainland (if that's where you intend holidaying), would it cut your travel costs even a little???? I realise that the ferry prices are probably non-negotiable, but wondered if petrol presented a little saving? Sorry if that is a really daft question and you've already factored in the lesser prices.

I would shuffle back into lurkdom, but I want to ask you something else!!!!!! :rotfl:


You mentioned about growing fruit at home. When we went off for a little sojourn to the coast last month, we came across a roadside stall and they were selling 'wonderberry' plants. They were only 50p, I had no idea what they were, but the label said, 'Wonderberry - produces sweet blackcurrant like fruits for cooking'. So I bought one. Googled it when I got home and found out its parentage :eek:

So, what I'm wondering is, IF I don't manage to kill off the plant, and IF it doesn't manage to kill off me shall I save you some seed? I'm not too sure if the plant is wind proof, but if I ever get seed off it, you'll of got an extension to your polytunnel by then, so could give it a whirl! :rotfl: The plant does resemble a blackcurrant to be fair - although I do think it looks more like an aubergine plant currently as it's quite small.

Not too sure that this has been a terribly useful post!!

Greying