Not mentioning the T word at all

xx_Jo_xx

Well, its moving day...

I am sooooooo tired - I havent slept properly in weeks, the van arrives today and I have not finished packing. Im also worried I have too much stuff to fit in the van. I still have eleventy billion and one things to do and seem to be getting no where fast...

I am officially unemployed and seem to simply be bleeding money at the minute, despite having saved and scrimped very hard. Fuelling this van Im sure could pay off the debt of a small third world country...

Oh Im sorry, Im having a bit of a whine arent I.... Im off to make tea and do something constructive instead of moaning and achieving nothing.... wrists firmly smacked

My tinterweb will be disconnected today at some point, so if I dont get the chance to post again, have a super OS weekend and Ill speak to you on Tuesday

:hello:

PS - I have someone to introduce you all too when I get there... hes ginger and slobbery... and I lubbawubbaloves him

tru

Jo good luck in your new home

We dusted off the slow cooker a couple of weeks ago. Mr tru threw the ingredients in for a stew yesterday morning and miss tru had put the heating on for us before she went out at about 4pm. Came home to a lovely smelling, cosy house

Work is absolutely freezing. It's a carpet shop, but in a warehouse and it WILL NOT warm up. Luckily I'm in the office so I have an oil filled radiator. I shut the blokes out and park myself next to the heat I've bought thick woolly tights, leggings, jumpers, a couple of long cardigans and some warm boots. The boss has bought us fleeces and they're really snuggly. I'm wondering just how cold it'll be in there in January.

I worked out a budget a while ago but it doesn't really work for us anymore. I re-did it a couple of days ago, I now have about a million envelopes in a shoebox (actually I prefer Jo's number of eleventy billion and one, lol). I decided how much will be spent for every birthday/Christmas/Easter present (even though there's no young kids about, us grown ups still have to have an Easter egg ) Then there's the repointing fund, the window fund, etc. The envelopes will be added to weekly. All household bills are paid by DD so I didn't have to change anything there.

I need to concentrate on the grocery bill, food seems to be the one thing that gets out of hand in this house, as well as being the thing that's shooting up in price fasting than anything else.

paidinchickens

Suffering from pesky pigeons here also. I spent a whole day cleaning windows inside and out and when I got up the next morning my front room window was covered in poop :eek: It is going to stay there til it warms up.......next April it is then

PIC x

rachbc

good luck with the move Jo - home you have a few pennies for a celebratory glass of something when yon are in xxx

HariboJunkie

If you don't get on here again before the move Jo good luck with it all and we'll see you North of the Border.

I need to finish my painting today. I want a weekend off for a change and next week is going to me cccccrrrazy busy.

OH is in bed and I want to keep painting the bedroom. Should I just throw a dustsheet over him? :cool::D

ETA, funny but we don't have pigeons up here, even in the town. Maybe it's too cold for them....

Edinburghlass_2

Hope I've caught you before you leave Jo, best of luck today!

Thanks for the recipe, I'll see what ingredients I have to throw in with the pork belly.

Pressure cookers.... scary things I too remember my Mum forgetting to turn it down or whatever and the top thing flying off and hitting the ceiling with a lot of noise!!

rising_from_the_ashes

xx_Jo_xx wrote: »

:rotfl: - :rotfl:I used to be like that when I first got mine... I would only ever use it at the weekend when I was home all day and look at it every 5 minutes!

Gradually I would take the dog for a 5 minute sprint around the block, and would rush back to find it was fine! So the dog would get a longer 10 minute walk - and it was still fine... and so on and so forth.

Now I think nothing at all of whacking it on in the morning and coming home at 6 to a yummy dinner.

I still only use mine at weekends:o Pooch is known for being a bit of a thief (understatement!) and even though he has arthritis now he can still somehow manage to get up to the kitchen worktops and pull things off ........

xx_Jo_xx wrote: »

At the new house though, the garage is part of the house (if that makes sense.... ie you can walk out of your hallway and into the garage) and it has plastered walls and a real roof... Im so exicited! So therefore I am hoping it will be much better insulated just like the rest of the house.

I was thinking about using the cardboard idea someone mentioned (sorry, I dont remember the name ). I will have tonnes of empty boxes and was thinking i may put some under and around the freezers and supplies, just to be on the safe side... but not sure if this is OTT and really not required. I will have a look at what its like when I get there

My freezer's out in the garage. DM (who's kept freezers in the garage for years) suggested sitting it on an old bit of kitchen worktop so it's not directly on the concrete floor where it gets really cold. We were down to -18 last year and it was fine all winter. HTH:)

xx_Jo_xx wrote: »

PS - I have someone to introduce you all too when I get there... hes ginger and slobbery... and I lubbawubbaloves him

Good luck with the move Jo ...... can't wait to meet the new addition!

MaLarkin

Good morning all, welcome Kaz

Re the fridges that stop working at low temps. We had this too and when OH said it was because it was too cold I found it hard to believe. A fridge is meant to be cold for heavens sake! However little heater was put on and ta-da fridge worked. Cue OH doing victory dance (he is so rarely right about anything he is allowed this)

On the subject of storing things without them getting too cold. If I get anything big delivered. I hang on to the big chunks of packaging (Styrofoam is that what it's called?) and use them to insulate. Last big item was a freezer and that had a big piece top and bottom so I now have a warm box my tatties are living in out in the shed. Makes me happy to find a use for such a nasty material rather than sending it to landfill.

One of my crafty friends uses bits of it to pin her fiddly bits and pieces to as she's working and pin out little designs on too.

Off to work shortly. Catch up with you all later.

Edited to add - Best of luck for today Jo. Looking forward to hearing all about your new life. XX

PaddyPaws

Good luck with the move Jo!

PP
xx

HariboJunkie

MaLarkin wrote: »

I hang on to the big chunks of packaging (Styrofoam is that what it's called?) and use them to insulate. Last big item was a freezer and that had a big piece top and bottom so I now have a warm box my tatties are living in out in the shed. Makes me happy to find a use for such a nasty material rather than sending it to landfill.

One of my crafty friends uses bits of it to pin her fiddly bits and pieces to as she's working and pin out little designs on too.

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Another use for it is to break it up and use it in place of broken crocks in plant pots. It helps with drainage and you need less compost.