The Tougher Thread continues.....

lizzyb1812

GreyQueen wrote: »

I have an entirely low energy bulb flat (pauses to polish halo, then considers how much leccy could be saved by hanging out less on MSE.......:rotfl:)

I'm about to find out - this morning I plugged my energy monitor thingy into the plug that powers my laptop and extra monitor. I'll let you know tomorrow. The day after I'm going to do it just for the laptop to see if not having the second screen saves anything much. Yes I know 2 screens are a luxury but I've had the second one for ages and got used to using 2 when I was working.

Slight overnight frost here - OK in the house but will need to do some bits in the garden. Luckily my bowls of salad and peashoots in the greenhouse were fine.

dronid

The weather here continues fine... Nice and sunny in London, so far and the first non-humid night in a while.

Leather chaps... quite a specialised market for those and rarely do people who wear them look good. Even leather trousers are very hit and miss. I know only one person whoever looked quite good in them and he gave up on them when he gained an ounce in weight.

Just putting on some coffee and frying off a pack of value off-cut bacon from Tesco, though a little disappointed as they used to chuck in whatever what off-cut (got some good streaky and dry cure stuff in there before) and now they chop it up so it's a bit homogenised! Still it'll mix well with a tin of value beans (drained), some tomato puree, garlic and a drop of Tabasco for breakfast). The leftover bacon will be going into lentil soup so that'll be dinner.

Also just getting a new cooker today. The last one's knackered and the main oven blown (and the top oven very variable) so got to break that one in - probably with some banana and apricot breat as I have some 'nanas on the turn.

Time to sashay into the bedroom with a fresh bow in my hair and a coffee for DH and a gentle good morning.

Mrs_Chip

Morning All!

What started as a gloriously sunny day, harbour blue and twinkly, has rapidly descended into a grey and cool one. Oh well, tis the way of the west, I should be used to it by now.

Dronid - the odd weather update for London will come in very handy. We have left our SE London garden to it's own devices, but it's lots of pots, and OH starts to panic that they are going to dry out and starts making noises about having to head east early.

Cookers - I am Cooker Bane, I don't know what it is, but the damn things just give up on me, usually in spectacular fashion. So much so that after the last one went in a shower of sparks I vowed I would not get another one. I left it in place and used it to store all my tins. I got a 2 ring lpg gas burner and sat it on the hob and bought a big combi micro (panny then samsung), and that does me now. However, for the catering venture I have purchased a lovely Baumatic dual fuel range cooker from ebay, and looking forward to using it. Just hope it does not go the same way as the others!

I am not going to join in with talk of chaps, leather trousers or hot dogs, I know where it will lead :rotfl:.

Gingermillie

Must get up soon and get up the village for the meat, fruit & veg shop. We're stocked up on everything else so £20 should keep us going. Our local butcher does 3 packs for £10 so I'll split them out and they'll do us for a while.

Pink.

ceridwen wrote: »

......and...no...no-one's having mine come the time I'm afraid...as I CAN cover the costs myself (once the house is sold or if I havent had all my savings "raided" by myself to cover pension shortfall). I want to make darn sure and certain I have no further use for my body myself - so will be trying to arrange for it to not be found until some days "afterwards" as a precautionary measure to be absolutely certain I've moved on (by which time it will be useless to anyone).

Hi ceridwen,

I'm genuinely interested in how you plan to do that?

None of us know how we will die and I for one am thankful that I don't know what's ahead of me.

If you (or I for that matter) were to be 'hit by a bus' or have a sudden death, how to prevent the body from being found? On the other hand if someone dies as the result of a terminal illness then surely the person concerned would have needed nursing care towards the end and that would mean that the body would be discovered soon after death?

A rotten subject (sorry! ) but I would love to know if you have put more thought into it than I have, and come up with any solutions? I told my lot I wanted to buried with a fully charged mobile phone, just in case They promptly informed me that there would be no network six feet underground. So much for that idea! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

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Red_Doe

Oh. I didn't know that anyone was "offput" by the thread

Well, here's one who isn't offput. Just had a lot of RL going on that I'd to deal with so all my energies have been going into that.
OS, not much to report from my end except I am trying my wee best to get prepared for the coming winter, to get food in and fuel and so on. Not easy with no cash, but been buying the odd extra tin/rice/whatever when we can to put in the pantry as an emergency stock.

ceridwen

Pink Winged

I have a theory (from my various reading) FWIW that people often "know" within the few days just "before"....and will admit to reading a bit of stuff on describing the "physical process" (eg going ICY cold from the feet up). Though I'm not the most "psychic" of people - I have noticed the odd "unusual" thing before - so think I would probably notice my "greeters" hanging around waiting to take me with them.

In all probability obviously - my parents are likely to die before me - and my mother has duly promised to "come and get me" at the time and I believe she would find a way to let me know she's there "in the corner" expecting me.

None of us can know if some Blimmin' Idiot might crash into us or something and we'd be left alive but injured and finding ourselves in a hospital bed instead of safely "at home" and able to lock and bolt our doors to prevent anyone getting in before we were quite sure we had "moved on". For that - I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed that there are no Blimmin' Idiots around ever. (Hmm...note to self in case of BI's "Make sure to have clanking chains available for taking with me and going back and haunting them;):rotfl:").

"Terminal illness", as I understand it, is a gradual process and I imagine one is usually "in control" in those circumstances for long enough to ensure one consciously decides when to "go" if the decision has already been made never to "live with" such an illness.

Re burial - no chance of worry on that - as I understand cremation is an instant - "whoosh and its gone". So - if a mistake had been made - then between "coffin to stay open UNTIL and "instant whoosh" - then I'd be elsewhere before I knew it..

I tend to think the old Victorian habit of "leave the coffin there open for days" was both yuk! on the one hand, but had the practical purpose of someone visiting would probably be "aware" one way or the other if the occupant was still "there". I think the modern habit of leaving bouquets at the scene of roadside accidents also probably originated for "practical" purposes - ie so that the if the "victim" was wandering round nearby and hadnt realised they were dead yet they could go and study the bouquets and wording on them and realise they were and "ask for help to go home".

Each to their own on that - but them's my views personally...

imogen-p

GreyQueen wrote: »

It would also vastly amuse me to have a small plaque buried with me, of something unlikely to decay (stone? lead?) saying something like; If you can read this get out of my bleeding grave! I like the thought of some archaeologist p*ss*ng themselves laughing a couple of millenia down the line when they find it.:rotfl:

Having worked as an archaeologist most that I know would find that great I've heard a lot of them suggest things like when they are buried they want to be put in a Bronze age style cremation urn, but have a mobile phone or an ipod put in with them to baffle later archaeologists.

GreyQueen wrote: »

Mrs Chip, I sooooo know what you and the rest mean about the low-slung trousers. I'm heading towards the big five-oh and it drives me nuts; so stupid, so ugly and I soooo don't want to see some numptie's nasty keks. I wonder if they realise that, from the back, they look exactly like toddlers with full nappies..........?

I agree about the trousers, they look so silly. And the always seem to be about 10 sizes too big. You really feel like saying buy a pair that fit, or at least get a belt.

Frugalista

ceridwen wrote: »

"I know some existing posters are feeling a bit offput at the moment - but please DO come back".

HariboJunkie wrote: »

Oh. I didn't know that anyone was "offput" by the thread.

I don't think many others were aware of that either. Which rather begs the question - how does ceridwen "know"?

If anyone has a problem with anything posted on the thread, surely it would be better to speak up? Failing that, just scroll on past any posts that hold no interest for you. We are all (supposedly) adults, are we not?

Red_Doe wrote: »

Well, here's one who isn't offput.

And here's another .

I am finding this new thread to be very friendly, upbeat and positive - (and it's great to see so many newbies posting - Hello to all newbies :wave:) - far nicer than the gloomy "Chicken Licken" "The Sky is About to Fall In" warnings.

So, if anybody is feeling at all "off-put" (for whatever reason) - please say so. I'm sure I speak for the majority when I tell you we want you on here posting and joining in.

After all, if nobody knows then we can't do anything to put it right for you :grouphug: .

dronid

Frugalista wrote: »

So, if anybody is feeling at all "off-put" (for whatever reason) - please say so. I'm sure I speak for the majority when I tell you we want you on here posting and joining in.

Indeed. More the merrier. I'm finding it fascinating and although I will come and go - as I get very busy, I will pop back!