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

westcoastscot

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

WESTCOASTSCOT - It is usually in the World Foods section of Mr T with the Indian section - I think it's a KRAFT product and is in a blue tin. Hope you can find it, I tried some and its like processed cheese - quite nice. Cheers Lyn.

Thanks, i'll look next time i'm in the city doing a bit shop- we only have small supermarkets here.
WCS

THIRZAH

Westcoastscot

We used to buy canned cheese when we were on holiday in Majorca in the 1980s. It was quite nice -not a cheese spread more like tinned camembert or brie.

I did look out for it over here as thought it would be useful to take camping etc but have never seen it.

prepareathome

Hi everyone, not been on here for a bit and not caught up yet, but thought would say Hi and send hugs to all who need them before going back about 15 pages to start to catch up.

I am still off the cigarettes but gums are not amused at now having more blood and oxygen going into them and have had very bad pain which built up to a nice abscess which actually burst on way to dentist on Wednesday. I have till yesterday been living on soups - but not noticed any weightloss sadly as even just touching teeth hurt. Thankfully that seems to past, and if anything will stop me smoking again its the thought of going through that again.

Hubby is away for weekend since Friday morning at a couple of bowls comps in Guildford and Northampton and yesterday would have been my mums birthday ( she has been gone 4 years) and as I still miss her so much ( I know big softie age 55 missing her mum, get the violins out) she was my best friend as well as my mum, help myself I was worried I would end up back on the cigarettes but I am pleased to say although I wanted one like mad I didn't give in. I do have an e-cigarette but not using it much as I don't plan on being hooked on that either - just use it when nicotine craving hits, whether that will happen or not I don't know, but idea of stop is to save much needed money so cannot afford to spend a lot on supplies for the e-cigarette either.

Past 4 years I have had rather nasty depression from around now till March as 16th March would have been my second daughters birthday but thankfully this year am managing to keep the depression at bay - have odd moments when blackness seems to be descending but I put on my biobulb ( wonderful thing) even better than my SAD lamp I think, although that will go on if I need it and just toddle out into the garden even if its just moving bits around from one place to another without actually doing anything. Yesterday afternoon I made myself go into garden and clear the area where my fruit bushes have to go - I have them all sitting jammed together in a big pot covered with compost so next stage is to put up the fruit cages to see exactly the space they cover then plant the fruit bushes in it.

I was very naughty yesterday and ordered a takeaway - found out the only place we ever go ( about twice a year tops) accepts on-line payments now, as I forgot to ask hubby to leave me any cash but had some money on cc as I got a refund for something that never turned up, only took two months for them to give me my money back. Got to admit I totally enjoyed the take-away, and dogs enjoyed the 2 sausages each we always buy them when we have one.

If anyone has a B&M near them and wants to buy soups they do a range called Bonner which has lot of different soups and at 29p a can ( they were 49p) they are lovely and tasty - I have been living on their mushroom and chicken soup plus a few others. The worst with them is they only have one type till they sell out and then replaced with another.

Right sun has actually come out here, although freezing so am going to wrap myself up and go and set up fruit cages, most likely will not get bushes in today but at least another step in right direction. I bought two fruit cages last summer and am I glad I did as couldn't afford them now. I have always encouraged birds into the garden and dogs never bother with them, so ordinary netting just put over plants held with a few sticks doesn't stop them eating my strawberries that is why I though go for a proper cage. One thing must remember to do is move the feeding station as its on side of garden fruit is going and might be to much of a temptation for the birds to have the fruit right by where they are feeding.

Right will have my cuppa and get out there - just feel so lazy today.

Will read all the missed posts when I come back in, but hugs and love to all who need them

mardatha

Survivalists all buy tinned cheese, and tinned butter and even tinned bread
No chance of any gardening here GQ, the ground is like iron and the wind's baltic. It's a day for running out and throwing food at hens then running back in again
Think the danger now is that we end up like Dickens day- but at least then people had work to go to, however badly paid. Now there's not even that.

ivyleaf

Please excuse a longtime lurker butting in - but katieowl, I was wondering just the other day about your friend you bought the dog food for, and how he was getting on. Did he manage to get his benefit reinstated, do you know?

:wave:to mardatha and GreyQueen, another PWME here , just about finished filling my ESA questionnaire in for (I hope) transfer across from IB It's so hard to explain everything so that a person who has never had it themselves, and may not know anyone who has, will understand the problems. Oh well, can only do my best.

I love reading this thread, thanks so much to everyone who contributes to it :T

gardenia101

Hi everyone - been MIA for a few days as feeling a bit low, but feeling better today so will go & catch up!

Hope everyone is doing OK & hugs to those who need them.

katieowl_2

ivyleaf wrote: »

Please excuse a longtime lurker butting in - but katieowl, I was wondering just the other day about your friend you bought the dog food for, and how he was getting on. Did he manage to get his benefit reinstated, do you know?

They messed him about something awful, saying they'd not recieved any appeal from him etc, and then he finally got CAB on the case and they faxed paperwork through, and sorted it out. It was re-instated, but it took ages. In the meantime, the house he was renting proved to have a defective chimney, and he had a too close for comfort, near miss with Carbon Monoxide leaking :eek: but the upshot of that was that one of the local housing associations is going to re-home him in a nice brand new eco-heated build nearby, that has this amazing thing called central heating! I'm very relieved for him, as if you have any sort of disability being cold just makes it worse. There's no problem with him taking the dog, and he has a parking spot right outside :T

It's his experience, and those that have been talked about on here, that made me tell needy friend she needed help with the appeal...seems they have the bar set too high for us mere mortals!!! I'd love to know how many people have actually died over this, either as a side effect of the weather and not having the heating on, or hot food, or from self harming in despair. These are grim times :mad:

Kate

paidinchickens

I see Mr T is telling people off for their opinions on Facebook and reminding everyone to be respectful

rosieben

they're not only telling off, they're deleting the threads! free speech!!

interesting reading here

paidinchickens

rosieben wrote: »

they're not only telling off, they're deleting the threads! free speech!!

interesting reading here

Just telling DH about the FB page and it's no longer there :eek: