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

7_week_wonder

NualaBuala wrote: »

You could search forever and still not find it! RV = Ratty Virgo aka Mardatha's beloved OH!

I always read it in my head as "Recreational vehicle" !

I've suddenly started siffling and sneezing this evening - grrr, just what I need to start the week!

SDG31000

Evening everyone I'm not sure I have the stockpile to join in the food/non food poker. I have 6 kilos of sausages and 15 salmon fillets in the freezer if that beats anyone's stash. I get through a lot of sausages when I'm feeding the hoards and buy lots when they are half price. The Tesco traditional finest sausages are £3 a kilo at the moment. That gets you 10 really big sausages. Also the chicken breasts are half price at 75p each on Tesco butchers counter. I got 6 of them for £4.50 and they weigh 1kg, so much cheaper than the ones in packets on the shelves.
Somehow I got it into my head that the gate at the side of the house needed painting today. So DS2 and I scrubbed it with sugar soap solution and then rinsed it off. I think the neighbours were a bit puzzled by us using water pistols to do it, but I couldn't find the nozzle for the hose pipe. Tesco had an offer on the varnish and we got a free power sprayer. I think DH has decided that I've gone mad, well even more so than normal. I got the idea in my head that I had to paint the gate tonight, so went out and did the back of it in my pjs as it was getting dark. I can safely say that I'm not a natural with a paint sprayer and that I might be using a brush to do the front of it.
I'll let you know how I get on tomorrow and fingers crossed I don't end up spraying the neighbour's mobile home by mistake.

JIL

ceridwen wrote: »

T'only other point I'd make is a lot of us are very aware of how overcrowded England is (we literally don't have any "room" left)...think I should maybes have given a link to that photo in The Guardian yesterday of Brighton Beach to help prove that point.

Times havent changed, its the hot weather that gets people to crowd the beaches, look at this from 1949

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/8555125/Heatwaves-and-droughts-in-Britain-over-the-years-in-pictures.html?image=22

greent

GreyQueen wrote: »

However, I'll bid 254 bars of soap.........I'm holding Knight's Castile and Imperial Leather, but I'll accept any variety......:p:D

Can I raise you.... I have in excess of 500 bars..... and we generally use liquid soap, of which I've about 20 litres if you add up all the bottles!:rotfl::o:D

greent

rachbc wrote: »

drat - I had 25kg of basmati - but down to the last 5!

Umm..... 50kg of basmati anyone...? And 30kg+ of pasta....?:o:o

ceridwen

JIL wrote: »

Times havent changed, its the hot weather that gets people to crowd the beaches, look at this from 1949

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/8555125/Heatwaves-and-droughts-in-Britain-over-the-years-in-pictures.html?image=22

...hmmm...would be interesting to know the population size back then. I think Britain went overcrowded back quite early in the 20th century. Not sure when we reached the 17 million in Britain that seems to be the consensus of opinion figure as to how many people we can comfortably accommodate. The highest figure I've ever seen that we can accommodate is 30 million - and I think we'd topped that figure already by then.

Must admit I cant understand the motivations of anyone even being in such a crowded location by necessity - never mind as a "pleasure choice". Definitely "hell on earth" even back then in my books to be surrounded by so many people.....

I've one thing to thank you for there - I went googling and have found me a new website on this I shall have a good read of later:

http://populationmatters.org

EDIT: make that two lots of thanks - I've just seen enough of that website to realise that some users will have problems reading the left-hand part of some of their pages if they dont know how to adjust from the user end - so their website should now improve (as I've just sent them an e-mail telling them about this problem they have there). Goes off to look up the "temporary fix" from user end that Squeaky told us about on here t'other day for websites with this problem.....


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Anyways - thank goodness 'tis a bit cooler today..

cat_smith

7_week_wonder wrote: »

I always read it in my head as "Recreational vehicle" !

I'm glad someone finally asked the question about RV but I am now going to have a fit every time Mardatha mentions OH:D:D:D

ceridwen

Mardatha

Re your post on Denmark's "fat tax" - I've found in todays Guardian:

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/02/denmark-fat-tax-obesity

GreyQueen

greent wrote: »

Can I raise you.... I have in excess of 500 bars..... and we generally use liquid soap, of which I've about 20 litres if you add up all the bottles!:rotfl::o:D

:j Thank you, greent, I was thinking I was weird and I am glad to bow down and fold my hand on the soap bar round of Non-Food Poker (copyright Softstuff). You win!

Nualabuala I haven't bought any tinned tomatoes for about 5 months and the under-bed inventory, plus the accessible ones in my kitchen, is down to a mere 65 tins. I know; the shame of this paltry inventory, I could cringe at it. Am I still the Tomato Queen or have I been out-shopped?

Rach, I'm racking my brains as to what these jars of "pnb" in your cellar might be (and going green with envy at the mere thought of having a cellar). Whatever are you storing down there?

FTM hope you soon feel better. ((hugs)).

I am toying with the idea of having a minimal shopping month on foodstuffs (thinking I'd just buy milk) and chomping my way thru some of the freezer and the tinnery and actually BAKING. Reckon I could do it? What's the longest anyone has gone between foodshops and why (were you utterly skint, snowed in, too ill to get to the stores or experimenting?) Please tell all.

Well, I am nursing a wee bit of a sore heid today on account of having had a glass of wine too many round a pal's last night. I only had 3 glasses in 5 hours but I forget that his wine glasses are so much large than my retro wineglasses and big enough to swim a goldfish in. Silly gal that I am.........still we had fun.;)

Today's cunning plan involves "Enter agent ID" (a term which will be familiar to fellow call-centre staff), a cookie-baking sesh, then another evening with friends (different ones, I have to use both hands to count my RW friends these days, nyah!) but I swear I won't have any more wine.............:rotfl:

Hope everyone has a good day. I waiting to see if the day shapes up to be hot enough to get a summer dress out......and the flip-flops.......can't wait.

Becky_2

Morning everyone,

I am feeling a bit lost this morning. It's my first day as unemployed today and I am not used to having all this time to spare. Went for 2 job interviews last week so fingers crossed so should hear back from them early this week. Later today I will call Jobcentre Plus and apply for JSA, initially I was going to wait a while in case I find a new job in the next few weeks but thanks to your comments on this thread I have now decided to do it today. I didn't realise that it can take several weeks for JSA to start and also if I don't find a job quickly then I would have lost several weeks of JSA. Does anyone know if you get JSA does that mean you don't have to pay council tax and also can get help with the rent?

For the next two days or so I shall enjoy being off and rest and then I shall start looking for work again. Currently feeling shattered, the last few weeks has been really at work. I am also planning on popping into A*da and T*sco to see if there are any bargains, I haven't been there for several years.

By the way, have you all heard the news that the council tax will be frozen next year again. Wish they could do the same with gas and electricity! Imagine it would suddenly be so much easier to budget every month.