A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

maryb

Gosh you lot can talk. Been out for the day and gazillions of posts to catch up on. Apologies if I missed anything but Mrs Chip I would say one walkers' essential is packets of tissues!! I ALWAYS get a runny nose when I go for a country walk and I always forget tissues. I saw someone mentioned wet wipes - maybe also anti-bac hand gel so that people can eat their sandwiches when they stop for a break

charlies-aunt

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Unfortunately (or perhaps not, Every cloud has a silver lining etcetera) I have my own experiences to go by, so I don't rally need to read any books about it to know. What you're describing is very familiar to me. And I was born in the mid-fifties, when we allegedly "had never had it so good". For some, the having it good took an awful long time coming. Eh, we were poor but we were happy. Read: too young to know any different as everyone around us lived like it and we had no telly, so we couldn't know what other people's lives were like.

To be honest, I wouldn't be doing any walking five miles to a public lav, not even today. A spade is a cheap and easy thing to acquire. :T :T

Those days are gone and maybe for the majority never to return. I do hope so.

:rotfl::rotfl: I'm from the mid-50's too - what you say is so true!

When I was a lass - everyone was hard-up, wore jumble sale buys or hand-me-downs and grew their own . . . . . hard times financially but in my experience people were more generous and we were time rich.

I worry that the changes that Welfare Reform is going to bring and sadly I think that those days will be back with a revenge in the next couple of years

lizzyb1812

I've got one of those little pots and use it every day, but was tempted yesterday by it's slightly bigger brother for £1-50. But the lid looked a bit wrong so I left it, although I may take my lid to check to see if it fits/looks better.

I finally got the DVD player to work :T - now I can watch the films etc that I've had for ages but have never seen. And I found whoopsied cream and made butter. Not a bad week so far, just blooming cold Went for the paper with the pup this morning and by the time I got back my hands really hurt despite thick gloves. I'm not looking forward to the rain tomorrow but at least it will be a lot milder.

D&DD

Been catching up with some light reading I got for xmas but like the sound of those Mass observation books must resist for now tho:A

Been watching some of the boys films they got too its been lovely tucked up in the warm with fleeces and homemade munchies shame I have to brave the cold field with the dog in between lol its been freezing here!

I got the Time Tunnel series for xmas sooo chuffed I used to rush home from school to watch that years ago and didn't realise they had released it finally...thats next on the watchlist though I'm not sure the boys will appreciate it as much as Thor and Captain America :rotfl:

Been doing the yearly rejig of our finances and so far so good we're not completely broke just yet! Do need to start a better system for some savings though so need to pull in the horns a bit.

I'm hopelessly behind as per usual so sending hugs and positive vibes to all those in need in return can someone send me an extra 12 hours in the day pretty please :D:D

elche1

I wonder if I may be allowed to join in?. I have read this thread from the beginning and a couple of the previous threads as well and now find that I need "my daily fix" !
If I may introduce myself....57 and have lived in Spain for nearly 7 years. Came here mainly for health reason, chronic eczema amongst other things. We too are now trying to be as OS as possible, We both have very small pensions and have to supplement these from savings and have been really hit by the fall of interest rates and the exchange rate. So am really intersted in the tips and recipes that abound on here. I also wondered if it might be of interest to compare the differences a 1000 miles makes! Eg I get so jealous of all this talk of whoopsied food. Spain has never heard of a whoopsie..gaw´d knows what happens to the stuff but it never appears on the shelves

BitterAndTwisted

Another 57 year old bat here but alas and alack not in Espana, Go on, taunt us with the temperature over there, go on.

If that exzema hasn't been improved by basking in the sun like a lizard you could try making laundry gloop. I think to qualify as a proper OSer you need to have made it at least once anyway, so best get on.

Welcome to Old Style elche1. Now if you could enthrall us with your daily doings in that lovely country I'm sure we'd all be very grateful. I would be, any road. Maybe we could have a chat and compare prices for various things. I haven't been to Spain since the euro came in and it was very inexpensive back then. Probably not now.

bluebag

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Thanks Rach, by cakes I did mead the less squishable type, having done a bit of coast path walking (but only short stretches) I know that anything edible needs to be a bit robust or it ends up looking like an elephant has sat on it!

My thoughts so far are:

Flapjacks, energy bars, welsh cakes, bara brith, stuff like that;
Sausage rolls, small pasties, scotch eggs, small pies;
Filled rolls, wraps;
Fresh fruit

I'm not sure about teas and coffee - they will not get very far before they get cold, what do people think?

And I could hold a small stock of 'essentials' - things people forget and then need for the trip - any ideas? I though about things like blister plasters, lipsalve, travel size sun block (wishful thinking !)?

Chocolate, and cheap umbrellas and those plastic macs and tissues and 'erm ladies things and safety pins and did I mention chocolate?

shegar

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I was sorely tempted by a little one-pint traditional brown glazed tea-pot in a charity shop yesterday for a pound. Thing is, I already have a blue one a bit bigger, enough for three or four cups rather than two and couldn't justify it purely to sit on a shelf and have yet another thing that needs to be dusted. Sweet little pot.

Ive also been there done that with something Ive wanted at the time in a charity shop, only to get home and think why the bloody hell did I buy that its dam horrible....:eek:..or its a dust trap........The only collection I have in the home is my cornishware , we use it as well as display it, all my other rooms are definately ornament and clutter free.......

mardatha

Hi everybody, finally starting to feel human again after a horrible couple of weeks. Reading news this morning that unemployment set to rise a good bit yet and no chance for a while of anything getting better. Thank god for this forum eh - look how many new people are joining -shows how the OS ways are so badly needly again.
Daughter had bad news yesterday that she lost her rent rebate and will be £85 a week down, she is in shock and maybe will need to become a bit more OS herself. I think it's a lot harder with kids all wanting playstations/Xboxes/tellies etc in their rooms. I personally don't agree with that, would rather see them all outside - but if you live in a busy or bad area then it's not always possible & you like them to be safe inside.
I am trying very hard to cut down meat and use more veg, also plotting and planning this year's veg garden.... which I do every bloody year but it never seems to work out

kidcat

Mardatha - thats awful, its a lot of money for anyone to find but especially hard now with everything going up.