The Matrix - Re-Evolution!!

groatie_queen

Sure is, troglodyte, good to see you! And welcome to freshair (love the name!)

On the make do and mend front, IKEA have come to the rescue and are posting free of charge all the bits I need to mend my broken chest of drawers! Great customer service, given it is about 6 years old! :T:T

Yesterday's abundance continued with a gift of garden produce from a friend - yummy spuds, green beans and mint. :j:j

I'm having a much needed blitz through the kitchen today, followed by my Friday morning cuppa with another friend. Then back home to contnue keeping entropy at bay!

Have a good day folks.

thriftyscotslass

Mornin' all

£170 wtg Matrixettes :j:j:j

Groatie Queen - forgot to say that was a great post you did last night on the changes to the dla / esa system, thank you. The proposed changes (if/when they go through) will cause our family income to drop by a further 25% and that's after the 50% drop in income we took when ds was initially diagnosed and I gave up work to become his carer.

I am going to put this subject down now because it completely paralyses me and instead focus on moving forward. Off to see what little gem MrB has lined up for us

Have a great day folks, Thriftyxxx

groatie_queen

Chin up, thrifty, we'll not see you sink! Here's a hand my trusty fiere! You can't go wrong with the Matrix to support you.

I think as time goes on, and life continues to change in the West, we will see the emergence of more 'communities of support'. This (The Matrix) is one, the Transition Town movement is another, credit unions, food co-ops etc.... whereas in the past, there was 'The Parish' and people lived and knew each other locally, modern people will (I hope) continue to find find their own ways of connecting and helping each other, online and in RL, in new and imaginative ways. Despite the politicians!

fantasia322

Morning Matrix,

I just found this little gem, and wondered if this is what Hovel Lady had in mind in Wales. Amazing, I want one, and at £3000 - the possibilities are endless. The Hobbit House.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article-2039719/Simon-Dale-How-I-built-hobbit-house-Wales-just-3-000.html?ito=newsletter

Brilliant x

Bitsy_Beans

fantasia322 wrote: »

Morning Matrix,

I just found this little gem, and wondered if this is what Hovel Lady had in mind in Wales. Amazing, I want one, and at £3000 - the possibilities are endless. The Hobbit House.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article-2039719/Simon-Dale-How-I-built-hobbit-house-Wales-just-3-000.html?ito=newsletter

Brilliant x

It's lovely although they are very lucky to get the land for free.
I think the only thing that puts me off is I like my light and it looks a bit too dark for my needs.

I am off making DS birthday cake today at my mums but I just wanted to say I will pledge some money to K4K but I can't log on again via my iPad (forgotten gatekeeper password oops) so will do it this evening.

Have a good day all x

Firewalker

Groatie, I completely agree with you. The State is withdrawing; communities and individuals have to replace it. Thus it is out sacret dury to be in a positions to do so - you know my biggest 'aha' was that I am not much use to anybody if I can't pay my own bills. This is what has been propelling me forward.

However, I have no intention to let the Neo-liberal half-wits to get away with it! Just have to figure out how to do that because neo-liberalism is tricky - it brings everything down to the individual so traditional ways of organised struggle don't work (like demos, strikes etc.). Apart from that, a friend who right on neo-liberalism calls it 'head-!!!! ideology' because it changes the way people think. Examples: on this website (not here, thank Goodness) there are people who believe that the economy is crap because of people in debt; my son when he expressed his outrage at the changes to the esa system got a response from a 'friend' of his 'but these people are already dying anyway' (not his friend any longer I guess). This is hard to off set.

There must be a weakness that can be hit!

Firewalker

groatie_queen

Wow, FW, how shocking - but how revealing. I think this utilitarian viewpoint is behind much of the ESA / DLA thinking - ie we aredeemed to be 'no value' unless we are a unit of production. Well, stuff that, we will knit our own society and treasure everyone.... it IS a bit head hurting finding different ways of organising but what an opportunity too.

Maybe the strikes and protests don't work now because they focus on what people don't want - law of attraction..... We need to focus on the change we want to happen and then enable it....

Memory_Girl

Today I am being my very own unit of production - and making do and mending for me and mine.

Had a treat £5.00 to spend in local Charity shop - you see yesterday I found a fiver in a pair of jeans I bought from them the day before. So today I took the money back to them - and the Manager wouldn't accept the money, but did say that I could "spend" it in the shop t make things for my "Adventures from the Pound rack series"

So I got:

A designer shirt to turn into a toddler shirt for DS2 (beautiful blue, cream and green stripes)
2 x 50g balls of cotton (will make 2 shopping bags for Chrimbo pressies)
3 x 50 g balls of marled green and cream wool - either socks or cardigan for DS2
2 x Double Duvets in shabby chic pink, greens and blues for patchwork
A leather button to finish an aran bag I have knited
A bead necklace to act as a handle for the knitted bag

Its like all my Christmases have come at once

MG

ETA Red Curry soup in slow cooker for lunch - I wonder how much money I have saved making soup every day?

tenmah

Wow, that is a fantastic haul MG and very enterprising of the manager to not take the money but allow you to spend it in there!

With regards to the red curry soup and others, I am going to ask a really stupid question, but I am a novice cook. When you say two 'portions' of chicken stock, what exactly is that please?

To clarify - I know what chicken stock is but can I only have it if I have cooked chicken and frozen the stock or can I use a crumbling cube type thing or am I off the track completely

Memory_Girl

Hi tenmah

At the beginning of September I made a batch of chicken stock and froze the stock in a silicon muffin mould - each "disc" is a portion and measures about 100ml.

Everything is eyeballed at 100ml portions

MG