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

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Morning Toughies, aren't we all early birds today! I was woken up at silly o clock by someones car alarm going off, they must have been asleep as it took them a while to get to it and then I couldn't get back to sleep.

The news on the tellie this morning is covering the horrendous weather that our friends in the north have been experiencing and I am really hoping that all of you are OK , it's an unbelievable amount of water down and the hailstones - oh my goodness. If any of you have been caught up in this I do so hope you are able to get the help you need to sort it out.

FUDDLE pet don't get too concerned about folks getting a bit strong from time to time on the thread, I sometimes have to go back and re-read posts so as not to feel sniped at, but it is a free world and we don't all have to agree all of the time, everyones circumstances and problems give them different views of the world. At heart we're all on here to find ways of having a better life, and helping each other with compassion and ideas and a bit of banter to cope in such trying times. If anyone does feel a bit aggrieved at a post there are always others who will support the sentiment, its good that we are all different. It's also good sometimes to be able to say what we feel particularly on here where folks understand how grim it can be to struggle along in the daily grind. There's room for us all, no matter how diverse!!! Bless you for being the peacemaker, and caring enough to want to keep us all together. Have a good day all Cheers Lyn xxx.

grandma247

Well it is raining here again. I am so fed with waking up to rain, in June!

I had a restless night, not helped by dh snoring. Not his usual driving the pigs home but a quieter and even more annoying noise. kept pushing him and tapping him but he only moved when I gave him an almighty shove.

He came home looking very tired last night. I just cannot see him working at this job for the next five years. It is very physically demanding with a lot of lifting.

I am going to have to insist he sits down and looks at a calendar to book some regular holiday time as he is not good at sorting it out. He thinks the place will fall apart if he isn't there. He is only one of two men qualified to do certain jobs but that is the companies fault for not training more men to do it.

Have to take youngest dd shopping at @sd@ this morning because her dh has an all day job, which I am pleased about. He is working on his own now ds has gone to work and live on the coast. I miss ds being around though.

I saw some good offers while I was there midweek so might get some for cupboard.

thriftwizard

As someone who gets to play with a lot of sewing machines, I'll agree that the John Lewis littlie is a decent machine & well worth the money. But don't go anywhere near any of the cheap little white ones, which often run on batteries as well as mains leccy; if I say they are toys, I'm insulting the little old Essex, Meccano & Singer 20 chainstitchers which you could easily stitch a pair of curtains on if you were patient. Most of the little white plastic ones will only stitch two layers of thin fabric at the most and a lot of them don't work at all, so steer clear! (I expect there are some worthwhile ones, but how you tell them apart from the others, I don't know.)

We've been so lucky with the weather so far, I keep wondering whether it can possibly last. I often suspect we live in a little climactic bubble; when the rest of the country is snowed in, we can see it on the hills all around, but it never seems to fall on us, much to my kids' dismay! And so far our river has hardly filled its banks; as it's only 200m away, albeit down a hill, I'm quite relieved about that, but also wondering how long we can continue to escape the mayhem that seems to have struck the rest of Britain. {Hugs} and {as little damage as possible} vibes to all who need them...

GreyQueen

grandma247 wrote: »

((((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))))) for everyone.

GQ Is it possible you have a rabbit problem? They like onions!

we lost cabbages and then onions in the same bed on two consecutive years then realised it was rabbits. we planted our raspberries in that bed on the third year. Funny that they have never been touched eh?

We also had a problem in another bed with ducks coming in off the canal but they were not as destructive as rabbits and most damage was with them tugging at the leaves on cabbages and caulis.

Morning.

I don't think it's bunnies, as there have never been the slightest sign of them (no poop, scrapes, tunnels etc). My lottie site is in the middle of a housing estate towards the edge of the city. We have an awful lot of foxes, so much so that some people have given up chicken-keeping, so it wouldn't be a very rabbit-friendly environment. No one has ever mentioned seeing one. Foxes, stoats, pigeons, cats, hawks and mice, but no bunnies.

The red onions are beside the white onions and they're untouched. One of life's mysteries. Actually, I'm in the mood to blame slugs and snails for everything. I'm sure they're responsible, little boogers.

Have woken to clear blue sky and glorious sunny weather and shocking reports of landslips, floods and more further north. Ohmigoodness, I'm feeling for people. Water where it shouldn't be is a disaster. I'm sending good wishes to those affected.

Popperwell wrote: »

Fuddle some of the wartime recipes were simple and quite inventive. I don't actually think our doiet was any worse nor our health. As much as anything it was probably the size of the meals but then again havikng said that many people were far more physical in the work they did so needed nourishment and to burn off the calories.

During WW2 my grandad was in a "reserved occupation" - they wouldn't take him for a soldier because he was needed to work the threshing engines which toured the farms and threshed the wheat grain from the straw. No threshing = no grain = no flour = no bread. Men like him doing heavy physical labour used to be given an extra official ration (think it was mainly cheese) as you can't do the heaviest jobs on the same amount of calories as you would for a sedentary job. The body breaks down under the strain. They'd do a long day's work and then come home for a bite to eat, then out again doing stuff like manning anti-aircraft lights.

I have read many many times that medics found that the population of this country was never healthier than under wartime rationing. Beforehand, a lot of the poorest people were malnourished, and afterwards, we've run amok with unsuitable foodstuffs (and I am a serial offender, so hand up here).

I CBA to be cross as I'm an early riser and have been awake since 5 am, but the window fitters (final departure 8.20 pm last night) were back before 7.30 am. They're not being terribly noisy (no drills) but it is astonishing. I'm pretty sure workmen shouldn't be working before 8 am in this kind of environment. Respect to them as grafters. They're lucky they're not on the Far Side as the junkie woman over there stormed out in her dressing-gown one day last week to yell at the guys digging up the road with pneumatic drills; they'd woken her up.

She didn't get any joy.........it was 10 am.:p

Ooof, more tea needed to get brain into gear for w*rk, then a trip to the lottie in the early evening, methinks. I have a terrible amount of grass from the derelict plots on either side threatening to engulf my paths and need to get the shears on that. Grrrr! As if I don't have enough to do without that.

Have a good day, all. GQ x

SDG31000

Good Morning all

The rain has started here this morning. Fingers crossed we avoid the hail stones and storms that yesterday brought.

PAH Yeah! Another Jasper Fforde convert :T I'm so glad you are enjoying the books and I really hope you have managed to get some sleep.

Shegar to say I'm angry on your behalf is a mild understatement. I told DH about your situation and his response can't be posted on here, at least not without lots of beeping. I really hope this gets sorted very quickly.

For those interested in the Lidl rice offer, I went to Tesco last night and mine has 4kg bags of Basmati rice on BOGOF so it is £6.99 for 8kg and as it is in two bags easier to store as well. This is the link to it on the website. http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=268557915
This morning I'm off to the Doctors and then I am feeding the masses, but at my friend's house this time. Her daughter is moving in next door to her and gets the keys today. So everyone is decorating tonight. I'm more useful feeding everyone than with a paint brush.
I'd better go and get DH out of bed. Take care everyone xxxx

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GQ - we have a pest problem on the allotments here that we just don't seem to be able to solve. we have Roe Deer getting in fairly frequently, they come along a dried up stream bed and despite DH and a few other allotment holders actually putting up proper Deer Fencing they still manage to find a way in. They love love love young bean shoots, they will eat most things, but beans they go for first. Is it a possibility that you may have deer? We are in the middle of a fairly large connurbation of housing with the allotments being centrally placed in that and the little perishers are as bold as brass here, out in daylight and totally fearless. It's an ongoing annoyance Cheers Lyn .

GreyQueen

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

GQ - we have a pest problem on the allotments here that we just don't seem to be able to solve. we have Roe Deer getting in fairly frequently, they come along a dried up stream bed and despite DH and a few other allotment holders actually putting up proper Deer Fencing they still manage to find a way in. They love love love young bean shoots, they will eat most things, but beans they go for first. Is it a possibility that you may have deer? We are in the middle of a fairly large connurbation of housing with the allotments being centrally placed in that and the little perishers are as bold as brass here, out in daylight and totally fearless. It's an ongoing annoyance Cheers Lyn .

I grew up in an area with a lot of deer (I'm not native to Provincial City) and can identify the different species by their slots (hoofmarks). There are no deer slots but there are slime trails on the beans and around the onions, so slugs or snails it is.:)

SDG31000

Could it be rats GQ?

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GQ - I am feeling thankful at this point that deer don't have slime!!!!! Don't even go there!!!!!!!! Cheers Lyn x.

grandma247

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

GQ - I am feeling thankful at this point that deer don't have slime!!!!! Don't even go there!!!!!!!! Cheers Lyn x.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:what an image that created.