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

Hardup_Hester

I'm not taking the mick, PAH, but your post about the message reminds me of the last time my DD & I went to a Psychic Fair every time a message came through on stage one couple in the audience insisted the message was for them, even when the messages were being claimed by other people & even when the message was from a boy who'd crashed a motorbike into a wall, they insisted that the message was for them & that it must be from a girl in a car crash! I think they ruined the evening for a lot of people. I whispered to my DD 'If I get a message from an elderly lady who has s£x with gorillas do you think they will be so quick to claim it as theirs?'
Hester

mardatha

I sit in online circles too Hester and you always get one "spirit grabber" It comes in handy - because if you're giving what you're getting and the whole room sits there in dead silence and you feel all the eyeballs on you, even a grabber is welcome
I'm on the "what did people eat in the 1950s" thread - and just wondering if any of us in here already do it. I know I do. But when you get summers like this one and last year, there must have been dire shortages in the fruit & veg dept eh.

prepareathome

slowlyfading wrote: »

I know I'm new to the thread, but I just have to share this with someone; I got the job I went for today! :j :j :j :j Finally, after a year of searching! :j :j

Fantastic news, congratulations, oh am so, so happy for you, so great news to start my day ( even if it is 2 days old its new to me)

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lizzyb1812

mardatha wrote: »

Lizzy - I thought you were suggesting I should go into an old folks home to get some sweeties...Not just quite that desperate yet pet LOL

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:The thought of the havoc you could wreak in a place like that :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

PAH the so called poverty line has fallen because it is calculated by reference to average earnings (or something like that) and as those have fallen so has the poverty line. I believe that even this government recognises that this moveable feast is unfair and unrealistic and is looking at alternative ways of calculating it.

No plague of flies this morning :T They must have all hatched and gone - whew!

No delivery yesterday - was supposed to be a 24hr delivery and had confirmed that Saturday counted as a working day. Now I'll have to wait in on Monday as well - boo :mad:

Sunny and windy at the moment - best get out with pup before it turns.

Evie74_2

Good morning all

Wow - I had a lot of catching up to do on this thread this morning! That's what comes of letting DH use the computer last night!:p

It's still very grey here this morning, but at least it's stopped raining. I am surrounded by washing so will have to chance putting some on the line today I think. I honestly don't know how we generate so much laundry, it's insane. I also need to get out in the garden and see whether all this rain has washed my veggies away

DH has gone fishing again this morning, which is (allegedly) giving me a chance to skate round and do the housework but instead I seem to be lingering over coffee and MSE...

Dinner today will be HM fish pie - I seem to be making a lot of comfort/nursery food at the moment. Hopefully there will be plenty left for tomorrow's dinner as well. For pud we'll be having the carrot cake that the girls and I made for DH's Father's Day gift.

I think I need to sturdy myself with a second cup of coffee and a catch up with the boards. (((Hugs))) to all those in need.

Evie xx

prepareathome

Well at last I have finished my marathon catch-up, that will teach me not to stay away from the thread that long again.

Lizzy I felt awful taking the message, if friend hadn't put her hand up I would not have said a word as being medium myself I cannot stand those who keep insisting every message is for them - I remember when I used to go to the Spiritualist Church there was this one guy and every message and I mean every one he would put his hand up and of course visiting mediums didn't know about him and if they were not ones who knew where they were going they would go to him, no matter what name, what health condition, whatever they mentioned he could take, if true he must have know about 10 million people in his life and no two with the same name or had the same health problem.....he knew better than to come to the training nights as we were told to ignore him as Jean the trainer told us once she actually stood there and made up things for him and he went oh yes that's right etc.

Still don't know why dad bothered as no chance of me saying anything to brother and he knows it have to admit its par for the course when alive my parents put the boys first and dad who has been over for just under a year is still following this course, so message was actually more upsetting than pleasing as just confirmed what always felt I was not really wanted same as sisters, I even feel the love I felt for him was only to persude me to contact brother.

sister had a dream the other day in which brother was having problems - money and now this message so we both agree he must be up against it yet only himself to blame as he and his wife like the Good Life as in best resteraunts, clothes holidays etc and happily spend way beyond their income which is quite a big one each year well over 3 figures but are always in debt and he even talked mum into letting him take out a loan against her home which he wasn't paying back and she was under threat of being made homeless just before she died - we reckon that is what killed her, as she died of nothing specific - then he and brother walked off with half a million when they sold mums flat, after clearing out two days after she died and us girls got zilch, not even the items mum specifically put in her will for us and as we didn't have the cash for a lawyer even between us nothing we could do and same is now happening over dads flat.

Yes admit I am bitter and that message has made me more so, at first didn't feel that but the more I think about it the more I feel used still by dad. yet I miss the blighter - today first fathers day I have not had to send a card or phone him ( he still lived in Glasgow) mind you mums been gone 5 years next week and still find it hard not having to buy a card and go and visit her on mothers day, daft at my age. So if brother is having financial problems(and never in a million years would he tell me or my sisters, we have tried in past to help him when parents said he was having problems) - he would look down on every one of you here as losers, as we suspect to be honest I don't care he has lived the high life on other peoples backs for long enough so if he becomes a cropper I would never see him starve or homeless but apart from that I don't care ( not very spiritual I know and maybe in time I will be more generous but at the moment I just cannot be, not me usually to be so unforgiving but that message really tipped the balance for me, just feel so angry and used)

Anyway think I will get out this pit and go and have a cup of tea, considering I only fell asleep about 4am I woke up at 7.50am, yet was feeling sickish with tiredness so surprised I am awake so early.

OH well at least will be ready to brave 30 screaming kids later, pain meds will have had time to kick in fully........

Sorry will not mention this again just had to get it out of my system...........

Hugs and love to allxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Possession

A nice OS breakfast of pancakes for fathers day. No sure what we are doing later, the kids have settled themselves down watching a DVD and DH has to do our VAT return. What exciting lives we lead. I need to make a few cakes as we have a catering order all next week so I guess excitement and adventure is probably out of the question for today.

SDG31000

Morning all

Happy Fathers Day to any Dads that are reading and to all the single Moms. You do all the work, so should get the praise to go with it.

DH isn't feeling well and is still in his pit of doom...aka...bed. DS1 has given him his jelly babies, but forgot to buy him a card. DH can't really complain as he hasn't sent his dad one despite me telling him for the past two weeks. DS2 hasn't emerged blinking into the light yet, so apart from having to suffer Skyrim on the ps3, things are quite calm here this morning.
At some point I need to go shopping and to decide if it's worth going back into town. I wanted to buy sausages in M&S yesterday,but all the packs in the 3 for £10 offer had a use by date of today. So today they should be reduced. They had about 30 packs of them, but I'm not sure it's worth the journey in on the off chance they have some left. If DH gets called out I'm not going anywhere.

I'll post properly later when I have the laptop, posting on the iPad is a pain when it comes to quoting people.

Take care everyone xxxx

prepareathome

Oh gosh being so gloomy made me forget ( am over that now and bouncing again) I added to my store cupboard 60 tins of spuds this week, yes 60. Mr S does a nice tin of basic spuds which I use on days when hands just to painful to peel spuds, veg etc - which is most days now alas, anyway I used to have quite a few in as they were so cheap ( when I first started to buy them they were only 10p and that was not that long ago) then they started to creep up and so only bought what i needed and money tight blah, blah then for ages they were 20p but then jumped right up to 34p so definitely only bought what i needed. This week they were down to 20p again and just had 56 tins so as I could actually afford it - £11.20 and when popped in yesterday they had another 5 tins sitting there in big space where they have them, no more added, so bought 4 of the 5, the 5th was rather bashed. As they have not as yet refilled the space I can only presume they are either no longer going to sell them or new stock is going to jump up in price again.

The tatties in them are really quite nice, you can do anything with them, don't fall to bits when boiled, make passable chips ( ok a bit of fun slicing wet cold cooked potatoes but easier than peeling raw ones with my painful hands). If we have just the whole boiled potatoes 1 tin is enough for the 2 of us but if I use them for mash then 2 tins are needed to make enough. They also had reduced the price of basics pasta and rice - I have not been doing real shopping for a couple of months due to serious lack of cash so stocks were taking a beating so nice to see them coming up again.

More organised this month with the monthly pay, all bills paid ( got to admit quite liking all bills being paid at once instead of a few every week) and then as no son borrowing - he knows until he either works off what he borrowed or pays it back he will not get another penny, would give him food if needed but that is it) what was left had the money to actually buy food and in decent quantities - even able to take advantage of YS items in there, had said to hubby will spend up to £40 if there are things I want but ended up spending nearer to £60 but have enough mains for the month and with the pasta, rice and potatoes have enough of them to go with it, just need a bit more veg.

Restocked herbs/spices/ tinned tomatoes etc as well so basically have got this months shopping in ( my month goes from 15th - 14th these days) so feel a bit better, I to get jittery fuddle when not much in, shades of childhood and food only being bought daily and nothing in cupboards. So this means can concentrate on building up stocks again now have caught up with food we actually need - next month will be a bit tighter as yearly line rental due then august TV license but will still have enough I hope to buy what we need and add to stores... it always seems to be with us I get some stocks in and money either takes a nose dive or extras come up which mean we have to live off the stores as past few months.

Hugs and lovexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

elisamoose

I know I will probably get shot down in flames ......but could you please paragraph your posts?I am sure you have lots of interesting things to say but I just can't read it !