It was getting tough in 2006 and the workhouse still threatens us in 2011

flowertotmum

paidinchickens wrote: »

I am now on day four of a bad back :mad: I have hardly done anything apart from watching carp films with an occasional hobble to the loo. I am so bored. I find reading difficult as I just can not get comfy and hold the book. grrrrrrrrrr I just keep thinking I need to clean up, mow the lawn, go to the lotty............etc etc etc

I am loving the descriptions of all your bedrooms!!!

Flowertotmum My dresser sounds the same. Last year I would have a good book next to my bed but this year it is moneysaving and gardening books :rotfl:

What is everyone's most helpful/interesting money saving book they have read???

AW (((hugs))) hope you feel better soon..nothing worse than having a bad back and knowing things need doing...makes me a bit bad tempered:D..poor hubby...

Had to smile at your dresser..i would say the best book so far is "Self Sufficiency" a practical guide for modern living...i love this book..it doesn't matter what you have or not it gives tips on how to be sufficient wether you live in a flat,house,town or country..i always have my nose in it...also "knitting for begginers":rotfl:..thats me:D..and i also have lots of old books from the 30's,40's and 50's about homekeeping and home-making..lovely books..also have some purloined:o country living books and homes and antiques mags...got them from my doctors waiting room;)..

Well got all my laundry dry outside..big black clouds keep getting blown over..we have been outside double checking everything to make sure it doesn't get blown away..its blowing on the side of our house,straight in the back door when its open whoosh..:eek:
Made 2 loaves this afternoon,still got ironing to do:(..i'm sure it doubles in size when i'm not looking...
Hello to all the new ladies..its lovely here,like slipping on your fave slippers and getting cosy...
got to go..tea-time
love
ftm

7_week_wonder

Hello everyone,
Gosh, you can tell it was my first wek back at work - I haven't had a chance to post all week.

It's blustery and rainy here, so I've had to resort to the tumble-drier to get OH's shirts dry for work. I've tried to secure as much stuff as possible in the garden for the next couple of days, but I suspect our poor runner beans (which are only just beginning to be big eough to eat) will take a battering.

On the OS front I made 8 jars of plum jam yesterday. It was a big improvement from the blackcurrant jam I made early in the year as I managed not to over-boil it, so it is definitely jam rather than toffee! I also made a batch of hummous using Weezld's recipe. I added two cloves of garlic and OH said it was the best hummous he'd had - far better than the shop bought stuff:D

The other big OS news is that, inspired by Kittie, I have started my first ever starter for some sourdough bread. I started it yesterday and today it had started to ferment slowly so I gave it its first feed. I'm following the instructions/recipe in the River Cottage Bread Book (Christmas pressie from OH last year) and it is all very exciting.

Our bedroom has mainly yellow walls, with a couple of white sloping walls, the furniture is pine and in a few weeks' time we will have lovely white curtains complete with fleecy interlining. I ordered them yesterday, they cost a fortune:eek:, but I figured that as the old ones were at least 25 years old (apparently - before my time!) and getting threadbare in places it was time for a replacement and I might as well get as good ones as we could afford as we don't change stuff very often.

Welcome to the new folk, it's very friendly round here:) and hugs to everyone who needs them.

Hope everyone gets through the next couple of days without too much damage.

parsonswife8

OH managed to forage a carrier bag full of lovely, fat rosehips, so I'm going to make rosehip syrup tomorrow.:)

Getting loads of apples from MIL to make apple sauce. Also managed to pick a tray full of blackberries, which DH eats with his cereal.

On the subject of bedroom decor, our bedding is cream and gold, our floor length curtains are a light gold colour, I have a shabby chic, cream coloured dressing table and stool and cream floor to ceiling wardrobes. The fitted carpet is a deep burgundy colour with cream rugs on either side of the bed.

I have a French style clock and wall mirror and some cream and burgundy wooden roses in a gold vase. Stuffed heart shaped hanging decorations on the cupboard door knobs.

Gold and cream wallpaper on all the walls. The room is very restful.

Hope those in the west and north of the country, stay safe in the bad weather to come. :wave:

shegar

THEGOODOLDDAYS.../TGOD/

I like your name, I shortened it tgod...........you must live pretty close to me.;) well probaly 10./12 miles.........we not far from bentwaters, that where Caroline Grace house her spitfire dont she?...it didnt fly today due to high winds..:mad:nevermind eh......

MADARTHER....you got high winds up to 70 mph so the forcast say for Monday,tie those chicken legs to bricks so they dont take off..........:eek:my hens are still laying everyday Ive 33 hens now ,I lost one last week, she was poorly for a few days I give her tonic etc, but poor girl died .....

Weve had a dam nice day today about 22 degrees and sunny got out in the garden and done a bit tidying up, had to water the verbena got quite dried out and looked soory fir ir self, topped the wildlife pond up, newts are looking very happy when I threw some nice long juicy worms in....:D Got 2 load washing dried and in and ironed up and put away..........hubby go off to Headway at Ipswich on Mondays so I get a bit of me time , ......................soon be Counrtyfile on BBC1 I love the nature and seiing how thing are doing on Adams farm too................:)

shegar

Parsonswife, you seem to like a bit of gold and cream like me, Im addicted to soft cream and gold, your bedroom sounds lush, and elegant......:T

7_week_wonder

paidinchickens wrote: »

What is everyone's most helpful/interesting money saving book they have read???

These are my favourites: not necessarily directly money saving, but more frugal life-style type books:
Downshifting (now out of print)
NOT buying it (entertaining read - but not many MS hints)
Extreme simplicity (a bit american, but interesting)
Living Lightly (I love this book, some of the case studies are sooo appealing)

I've recently read the Tightwad Gazette. It was quite interesting, but not inspiring - and I must admit some of the "1001 ways to reuse a laddered stocking" sections were a bit beyond me!

redlady_1

Good evening young Sages...I am after a log store. As you know everything on here I thought I would ask you lot first. Yes, I know I could make it but unfortunately there are not enough hours in a day.

Steve has been lit and now Fat Knacker is sprawled out in front of him. I am about to go and make some onion marmalade after actually doing chuff all today for a change.

I had a blokey round last week to quote for a landing and stairs carpet. The walls are lime and the wood is a white and I am after a navy runner but all I kept getting from him was "oh it will be expensive". I was very tempted to say "yeah, thanks for that but let me decide whether I can afford it or not please!" I dont think he wants to do it as I believe it is pretty fiddly.

parsonswife8

shegar wrote: »

Parsonswife, you seem to like a bit of gold and cream like me, Im addicted to soft cream and gold, your bedroom sounds lush, and elegant......:T

Thanks shegar...I will try and post some pics up soon.

shegar

paidinchickens wrote: »

I am now on day four of a bad back :mad: I have hardly done anything apart from watching carp films with an occasional hobble to the loo. I am so bored. I find reading difficult as I just can not get comfy and hold the book. grrrrrrrrrr I just keep thinking I need to clean up, mow the lawn, go to the lotty............etc etc etc

I am loving the descriptions of all your bedrooms!!!

Flowertotmum My dresser sounds the same. Last year I would have a good book next to my bed but this year it is moneysaving and gardening books :rotfl:

What is everyone's most helpful/interesting money saving book they have read???

Thats a hard question.......I suppose I dont really read books but I do read monthly mags.......and always read all the peoples homes and how they done their house on a budget so that I get ideas that way.......hard one to answer, I will give it more thought:D

HariboJunkie

Redlady I have never seen a log store that looked reasonably priced. Can you just find a sheltered spot up against a wall and cover it with a tarpaulin for now? This one looks ok though.

Fat Knacker sounds content. Our woodburner is not yet connected but the cat is lying prostrate in front of it as though it is glowing with heat. She must have seen it done on telly. :rotfl:

Weather is filthy here. Looks like it's not going to be as bad as expected though and will be worse on the west of the UK. Those of you in the south and east shouldn't get the gale force winds hopefully.

Edit. Welcome to Becky and Thegoodolddays. :hello: