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

mardatha

We call them slaters. And eariwigs are clipshears.
I just went over to the not T thread and found loads of people talking there who I thought were dead lol cos I havent seen them for so long!! How odd that I never thought to look in there before... scared to post in case they dont let me into the gang... :eek:

maryb

Funnily enough although this is the Tougher thread and that's the Not T thread, they seem more worried over there

mardatha

LOL Mary thats exactly what I was thinking! Maybe we've worried for so long we've become immune

maryb

It's a pity the two threads split. I think it happened when someone whose posting privileges have since been revoked really upset a few people and a group of them started that thread. But it's interesting to see how they interweave

maryb

Just seen on the Telegraph website that Santander UK has admitted that a few people have been taking their money out. In fact Santander UK is certainly safe right up to the point where nothing is safe at all.

The mattresses are getting lumpy all over Europe. Shall we see the beds made again in our lifetime?

mardatha

:rotfl::rotfl: That sounds so Churchillian lol. Well BRING IT ON IM READY
(in other words I have no money in bank nor mattress neither so I'm safe !)

GreyQueen

maryb wrote: »

Just seen on the Telegraph website that Santander UK has admitted that a few people have been taking their money out. In fact Santander UK is certainly safe right up to the point where nothing is safe at all.

The mattresses are getting lumpy all over Europe. Shall we see the beds made again in our lifetime?

:rotfl::rotfl: Oh, how I love that line!

I don't make my bed anyway; it's far healthier to leave the duvet pulled back to ventilate the mattress. Haven't got any dosh stashed under the mattress but invested in a new one last week so in a way I'm sleeping on my money. It's lush. I looked at a few and said to myself, if they're good enough for that Liz Windsor, they'll probably be good enough for me.

Remember, ladies, if the brown stuff hits the spinner, and you're in dire straits, all alone in the world and desperate need of a tin of tomatoes or a FB pie, I'd just like to say....... forget it, pal!

Only joking...........;)

ginnyknit

Ive made my bed and Im going to lie in it! only cos my Mum got me flannalette sheets from the CS and kindly washed them for me not cos of the European crisis. Im just going to keep on whoopsie hunting , dehydrating and throwing seeds around the garden till we get through this. If I eke out the chocolate rations I can last 3 or 4 days. Seriously I am worried and I think more veg less meat and grow your own is the best way to get through. Economy pasta with 2 slices of bacon, onion and whoopsied grated cheese was tea tonight, probably cost less than a quid for 3 of us.

Am pretending I am Alys Fowler and mixing little plots of veg amongst everything else. Amazingly all my flowers are lush this year - and you cant eat bloody carnations :mad:

maryb

It is actually a bit sobering to think that in two years time it will be the centenary of the first time Europe tore itself apart (and Sir Edward Grey made the remark about the lights going out all over Europe).

I think the Germans have actually forgotten their own history - it wasn't the Weimar hyperinflation that brought Hitler to power - that happened in the mid 1920s and by 1928 anyone who was not on a fixed income had recovered and was doing quite well. Hitler only got 2.8% of the vote in '28 (one of those little facts I had to learn for O level). It was the Bruning deflation in 1930-31 (ie austerity Greek style) that boosted Hitler's share of the vote to 37%. Interestingly after they realised that deflation wasn't working and Hindenburg replaced Bruning as Chancellor with another politician, the Nazi share of the vote dropped quite rapidly. (But it was still enough to get Hitler the Chancellorship in 1933).

I know the far left have done well in the recent Greek elections. But the far right did pretty well also - 1 in 14 Greeks voted for them.

Worrying times

Rowan9

Hi Memory Girl - nice to see you here.
Grey, wet, grey, wet day.
Good forecast I think though.
Hope to turn the heating back off this weekend!
Hope also to get a wee walk tomorrow. Up a hill would be good