Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Anyway, it was vile stuff with not much coffee in it, but lots of chicory.

Italians have ''orzo'' made from orzo! which is barley. TBH, its pretty decent alternative, better than lots of our proper coffee!:D

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm sorry am I moaning a lot :o:(

that means the answer has to be :

Fine thanks!

In seriousness, ok...just annoyances really.

edit...if I groan yell at me. Its really bad but I do feel my self slip into ''sick person mentality'' which is really , really annoying for people around one, and IMO, very bad for the sick person too! It could always be worse, I should be dead, and instead I'm very much the opposite. I've had some really, really good days this year too.

I think you are very brave LIR (along with other very brave souls on this thread). I am panicking over my silly droopy eye (as it could mean carcinomas on the same side of the body according to one link) and I really wish I hadn't googled it now. I would also like to take a moment to say I am very glad you are alive too * I can't write with tone but when we meet one day I'll say it in the correct tone and sound for the sentiment.

Davesnave wrote: »

By growing an early type, we've been running on our own tomatoes since early June, but we've no special facilities, just a conservatory and a battered old polytunnel with no doors. We're also 500' above sea level.

What we have over you guys, is time.

The longer I do this partial self-sufficiency thing, the more I realise how difficult it is to go beyond scratching the surface. Yes, we've a good amount of stuff produced on-site, but I still find myself in the supermarket almost every week. Next year, we want to do better in that respect; i.e. shop locally more often and do the supermarket stuff three weekly, or even monthly. It's all about being more organised.

I suppose we eat well and our fairly small income seems to last OK, until something major breaks down. Thanks to the bartering system and our land, we receive a quantity of 'free' fuel and meat, but no way is it enough to meet more than a fraction of our needs. It's scary how much we depend on oil too, both for heating, getting about and maintaining the place. (machinery, fertilizer, weedkillers etc.)

If we weren't soon to be altering our roof, we'd have joined Lydia with the solar panels by now. If you're in a long term house, that has to be a great investment for the future.

Have you looked at ground source heating? The one where you lay loads of pipes under your ground in trenches. Expensive to set up but gets you almost bill free for life? We don't have enough ''land''.......one day they may invent systems to work in handkerchief suburban gardens.

I love reading about your life...I live it 'vicariously' (I think that's the right word) and LIR's one too. I reckon if you gave up modern stuff like tea/coffee/loo roll/ Mr Muscle/Moisturiser and other things we are used to nowadays, then you could live Tesco-free.......but still sounds like you live Teso-lite which is better than us poor surburbanites. We are slaves to the machine in suburbia.

lostinrates wrote: »

OH, feral chicken is roosting thisafternoon, so chances are she really IS back for winter

I am rooting for Feral Chicken to survive the winter....at what point does 'Feral' become 'Wild' or is that never possible?

I have a feeling she'll come home and go 'tame' again. Would you eat her eventually if she came back?

LJ, will work ease up a bit stress wise when term starts? I have about a dozen toms in the bowl da da! Snag is, I am reluctant to wolf them down as they symbolise such effort and pride.:o

We grew lots of sunflowers once and they were lovely to look at..will you harvest it Silvercar

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Italians have ''orzo'' made from orzo! which is barley. TBH, its pretty decent alternative, better than lots of our proper coffee!:D

I did try to like it, but if I remember correctly, girls brought up on Nescafe certainly didn't. It wasn't the best way to follow through on the line: "Do you want to come back to my room for a coffee?"

Looking at those labels, perhaps there's something camp about them after all!

Davesnave

fc123 wrote: »

I think you are very brave LIR (along with other very brave souls on this thread). I am panicking over my silly droopy eye (as it could mean carcinomas on the same side of the body according to one link) and I really wish I hadn't googled it now.

The trouble with getting medical info from the web is that every possible eventuality is covered, and when all the possible symptoms are added-in it becomes very confusing. You are probably just fine, but now you need a real medic to tell you you're OK.

I agree lir is brave and generally cheerful about her medical difficulties. So is Sue.

fc123

Davesnave wrote: »

The trouble with getting medical info from the web is that every possible eventuality is covered, and when all the possible symptoms are added-in it becomes very confusing. You are probably just fine, but now you need a real medic to tell you you're OK.

I agree lir is brave and generally cheerful about her medical difficulties. So is Sue.

Ditto to above
..............the symptoms of a fatal brain anneurism (sp?) are none....nothing at all. scary.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

I think you are very brave LIR (along with other very brave souls on this thread). I am panicking over my silly droopy eye (as it could mean carcinomas on the same side of the body according to one link) and I really wish I hadn't googled it now. I would also like to take a moment to say I am very glad you are alive too * I can't write with tone but when we meet one day I'll say it in the correct tone and sound for the sentiment.

I read about your droppy eye with concern. Predictably I have had bells palsy quite obviously twice and get minor droops..so know how disconcerting it can be even when its not in itself serious, but you know.... I wouldn';t delay but get to someone quickly, just in case.

I am rooting for Feral Chicken to survive the winter....at what point does 'Feral' become 'Wild' or is that never possible?

I have a feeling she'll come home and go 'tame' again. Would you eat her eventually if she came back?

NO! Girls get a home for life. Even when they don't lay so often they are no harm. Yes they eat, but they also help rear babies and they don't fight like boys.

Feral never becomes wild. ..There is feral/freeliving or wild. Much is wrongly refered to as wild when it is ''merely'' free-living or feral. e.g. our barn cats are freeliving not wild, even though they might feel wild, they are merely feral.

lostinrates

the only time I wish we din't have dogs is when we're waiting to put them out for a widdle at night when we want to go to bed...

Davesnave

fc123 wrote: »

Have you looked at ground source heating? The one where you lay loads of pipes under your ground in trenches. Expensive to set up but gets you almost bill free for life? We don't have enough ''land''.......one day they may invent systems to work in handkerchief suburban gardens.

I love reading about your life...I live it 'vicariously' (I think that's the right word) and LIR's one too..

Yes, we've got ground source as one option. There's a space with no drains or trees where we could dig a huge trench. I'd still keep the woodburner though; in fact we want two of them.

Our life is pretty normal compared with yours, y'know. Ask lir. She'll confirm it's mainly just weeds, mud and poo! :rotfl:

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

I read about your droppy eye with concern. Predictably I have had bells palsy quite obviously twice and get minor droops..so know how disconcerting it can be even when its not in itself serious, but you know.... I wouldn';t delay but get to someone quickly, just in case.




NO! Girls get a home for life. Even when they don't lay so often they are no harm. Yes they eat, but they also help rear babies and they don't fight like boys.

Feral never becomes wild. ..There is feral/freeliving or wild. Much is wrongly refered to as wild when it is ''merely'' free-living or feral. e.g. our barn cats are freeliving not wild, even though they might feel wild, they are merely feral.

I kind of thought that about feral. Do you have the barn cats spayed?

Did you inherit the barn cats with the property or were they yours?
So many Q's late at night.
I have an OH sitting next door wanting treats I think as both adult-kids are out on the town...I might offer to do some DIY instead.

This dam eye thing is scaring me now and the more I look the worse it seems to be (which I know it isn't..it is the same as yesterday).
Monday I will 'phone to see what the procedure is to register. Would be really rubbish to have something bad when life is suddenly ticking over OK now too.*humph*.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Yes, we've got ground source as one option. There's a space with no drains or trees where we could dig a huge trench. I'd still keep the woodburner though; in fact we want two of them.

Our life is pretty normal compared with yours, y'know. Ask lir. She'll confirm it's mainly just weeds, mud and poo! :rotfl:

poop, mud and weeds. And poop. And smelling of poop. And planning about how to best be warm, and when in the day is best to bath to have minimu cost of imersion and minimum time spent smelling of poop. And decideing whether to stack poop collectively or by species. And feeding people. no sooner have I finished poop scooping and feeding then its time to let them out to poop more, by which time its time to feed someone else!


Have to say, didn't expect the geese to be QUITE so poopy. They manage to cover the yard in a day.


This week I had a delivery of 8 boxes of cat litter, which shoud see us through till sping....so I'm even forward planning poop for cats,

then of course there is thinking about when to empty the septic tank we have so proudly installed. At least we've got past the stage of dh inspecting our poop proudly every weekend!:rotfl: