Our beautiful recycled life: a patchworking income, green living, dfw adventure!

Keiss_21

Love it Greying :rotfl:!

Pippilongstocking

starnac wrote: »

morning Pippi, I'll have a cuppa if you're making one. I took DD to dance class and had the worst cup of tea ever there. It was horrible. Don't quite know what they did to it but I won't be having aother one next week!!

yay to chooks laying a million eggs. and to busy work

Poor you! to the tea, maybe they do it deliberately??

unixgirluk wrote: »

Morning All, hope everyone is well. Trying to catch up, sorry been manic at work.

I hope you're grand sweetie :A

Piquant wrote: »

Quick wave :wave:

I'll be back to catch up with your life later!
Piq

Quick life update for you:

New job great but really really busy
Being offered more hours:j
Kids fine, one at uni in Sept (uncoditional offer:T)
Thother kid fine, just announced a trip to New York via school - won't even go into how much that will cost :eek:
Peedie is fine, he's friends with the chickens
Chickens are laying 6 a day and on the up
Mr Flowers is here but off to America soon

Aside the crazy hours and life brightening up outdoors, nowt much going on,

Rent due soon and I can pay it - woo hoo - thats always a bonus.

Steak casserole cooking for tea (Aberdeen Angus, local beast) - lifes OK, if a bit manic

Finances are still ruined from a year and a half writing up silly post grad work, but we'll get there.

Pippilongstocking

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

*waves*

Is it just me, or does anyone else get the feeling that before long Katie Morag & Flora are going to be getting up to some grade A, feathery, fun-filled adventurising on the isle of flowers?

There will be some of those cheeky postcards that those errant Gnomes are so fond of sending. Although these 21st Century, media savvy 'Chicks' have probably got a blog in the pipeline (or should that be duct?), and are currently cutting advertising and sponsorship 'deals' before going 'Live' at a press dawn chorus.

Yup, wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.....:rotfl:

Greying

Ps Stew 'n Dumplings round at 'r' ouse for tea too

Here too!

And, the girls would be that naughty wouldn't they!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

dottygirl

Hi just wanted to say what a lovely thread. Can I pop in every now and again. I have ME and some days I cant cope with the computer! I love the idea of your place (Sorry no good with names) living on an island and being outside a lot. I live on a council estate no beautiful views for me unless I look up and the sky is lovely x Keep up the good work x

Pippilongstocking

teapot2 wrote: »

Re the plastic bags in bins conundrum; don't know if its the same everywhere but we get lots of bags through the door for charities or dodgy businesses pretending to be charities and you fill them and leave them on the doorstep to be collected [or stolen :eek:]. I tend to use those in our kitchen bin as they arrive unasked for and we get several some weeks and I don't use them to donate stuff very much so am at a loss about what else to use them for.....

We don't get them here but that's such a good idea!

troglodyte wrote: »

Morning folks! Gorgeous sunny day here, really feels like spring, flowers opening, birds looking at nestboxes, rhubarb growing... I am full of the joys of spring! After 2 cups of coffee and reading stories to DD in bed I am going to sit outside with a late breakfast and then dig up the last of my parsnips ready to plant broad beans in their place.

Thanks for all the good wishes, yes we are fine (very lucky!) and I am now hunting for a new (to me) car; have a list of requirements and OH is researching for me to try to find what can best tick as many of the boxes as possible.

Thanks for all the bin-bag suggestions! Yes we get those unwanted charity collection bags as well, I never use them as I often wear my clothes until they fall apart anyway, and apart from that I want to support the charities I choose, not just the ones that shove junk through my letterbox (and many of them are not 'genuine' charities anyway!) For smaller bins I will think about the washable bag idea. In some rooms we have 'waste paper' baskets but I still use bags in those otherwise all the little bits of fluff, hairs etc get stuck in the weave, and anything sticky really make the inside yucky.

Hope you are all getting some spring sun today!

I can't imagine what spring looks like, I've forgotten what summers like too! But, you're little tree is a budding in the tunnel at work.

Kittikins wrote: »

Gorgeous day isn't it - had lunch outside with friends, and am wearing a summer dress (with leggings underneath) and my favourite sandals Who'd'a'thunk it was still February?!

I can't even wear sandals inside, its too cold.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

dottygirl wrote: »

Hi just wanted to say what a lovely thread. Can I pop in every now and again. I have ME and some days I cant cope with the computer! I love the idea of your place (Sorry no good with names) living on an island and being outside a lot. I live on a council estate no beautiful views for me unless I look up and the sky is lovely x Keep up the good work x

Aw how lovely to see you Dotty girl - you'll fit in quite well.

I grew up on a council estate too, well after I grew up on an army base surrounded with brick walls, barbed wire and fences then we moved to a council estate in Dundee, in a really rough area, took me years of grasping the nettle or the daisy to change where I was, its been an adventure.

You pop along anytime you like. Lifes often crazy, but we're both lookign at the same sky. And share my views anytime. The skies are as big as the beaches, walking is thankfully free, so I do alot of that. With Peedie (the cairn) mark 1.

Cheery has Mark 2

Maty has a lovely little snuffly pup too (er? spelling?>), LT wants a sausage doggie and everyone just chums along on here.

We live a frugal bugal living here - not much dosh about - but many daft adventures.

New job (which is great) leaves me really tired with little time too, so I'm sure you'll rub along fine.

Pops the kettle on, pulls out another chair. Pops the twinks hobnobs out of the tin.

How utterly delightful to see you.

Pippilongstocking

:T

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Hi Pippi hope you had a good day - quiet though?

troglodyte - a Frister and Rossman ........a friend has one of those (older though) definitely a workhorse. If I'd of got the machine I wanted in school, I'd probably still have it now too....sigh.

Still, whisper it very quietly, I may, just may of resurrected my machine from the jaws of the recycling crusher. So far so good, and all I can say is hurrah for internet search engines that take you to a single post, from a now defunct blog which, together with the comments that it generated might just of provided the solution that I was looking for. Fingers crossed, anyhoo.

rtandon27 - your post resonated with something i'd spotted whilst perusing sewing sites the other day (I blame Keiss entirely..... ). You talked about getting the knitting grannies into cloth bags, but I immediately thought about this (please scroll down to the second pic of the orange version of the bag - the white one doesn't exactly 'sell' the design ) It's another take on the reuseable bag - not dissimilar to the T*rtle bagz and another way to ditch the plastic.

And you mentioned that the group like to discuss how frugal and resourceful folk might of been in the past and this (click on the photo to enlarge it, then the handles don't look quite so 'thin' and 'ouchy' ) sprang to mind. I wondered whether someone might get a 'buzz' out of recreating a vintage pattern. Although it is a crochet pattern, not sure if your knitters do crochet.....

I don't know how easy it would be to recycle wool/cotton/yarn/string. Um, and folk might not be keen on those type of bags I suppose. But I was just musing on your post. As ever, feel free to disregard my witterings - I'm not out to cause work for anyone.

Greying

Why on earth would anyone ever disregard your fantastic ideas.

I'm so utterly grateful - I'm trying so hard to find useful and resourceful ways of engaging folk and offering solutions to the 'plastic' society we live in, this is utterly brilliant.

I'm always really bewildered, gobsmacked and amazed by how folks find such amazing solutions of the 'pre plastic' age and how we've forgotten so many of them.

Thank you so much for your wonderous help!:A I've downloaded and saved the lot and they're in the womble HQ special secret mission files.

:A

And as for recycling and rescuing a sewing machine - thats just fab!:T

Pippilongstocking

rtandon27 wrote: »

DITTO!



Ditto again!

Pippi - LOVE your cloth shopping bag initiative! - am going to ask the local knitting 'grannies' goup if they might like to form a pod - they are constantly telling me about how the frugal way of life was normal for them - so let's see if they will [STRIKE]buy in [/STRIKE]sew their way into the concept! - it may even encourage a few more of them to take up my offer to help them investigate the internet so they can check out the site!

Keiss - a belated thank-you for the potato growing advice! - and especially the link to the seed potatos - from what you have said my 'big' pots are probably small for the purpose - have a couple of fingerling potatos that have sprouted so will put those in the pots instead of the large baking potatos - have found out that the milkman will deliver both mulch and grow bags - yipee - and they are even less than the local farm shop!

XO
RT

Oh potato growing advice - keiss is the girl there - I've given up gardening (I jest of course) I have choloroplasts for blood.

I'm so chuffed you might be able to start your own pod locally - spreading the word thats just exactly the way and if you get a bit of the lasses on the net too that's ace!

Well done you!

Sorry I've been awol, womble activities keepign me very busy.

However, they do give wombles overtime, all the scarves they can wear. Recycled of course.

At the other end of the scale, I was talkign to rainbows (two different groups) about recycling and each made a single promise to try and do something to help the planet.

So cute.

I even wore a pretty frock, long odd socks and painted each nail a different colour to illustrate the concept of swapping (eg nail polish) and sharing rahter than buying.

And, using the library more, reducing book purchases to save the planet.

I think this place is the idea place for greenery and should win an eco award for the amount of frugal recycled living that goes on here.

:money::A:money::A

Well done MSE.

Pippilongstocking

Kittikins wrote: »

Thank you girls, love you all for nagging me

There's not much to go on the packing.....I think, not sure if others would agree

Just watching a programme about home removers, tee hee! I will be doing some more packing in a moment.........just relaxing after my pre-op appointment at the hospital. I've now been told I'm booked for an overnight stay, yuk

I'm so thinking of you - you've so much on your plate, yuk indeed.

You and LT...........moving and so many other things going on.

Poor chaps.

More tea I think.

Pippilongstocking

Keiss_21 wrote: »

Glad I could be of help rtandon27, think you'll still get a crop, from your pots, if not a very large one, though you never know! Don't forget to water them regularly, and keep them coolish, otherwise the tatties will cook in the container!! Great news about the milkman delivering garden stuff...brilliant!! :j

Greying - thanks for the links...I have a few patterns for string bags, need to root them out and have a go at a few. Great news about the sewing machine...all for everyone doing more sewing!

Pippi - so glad the chook has a friend...love the names. My li'l sis has the same name as the new chook....spooky!!

Slowly catching up with things, have had an eventful last 24/30 hours. Both DS2 and DH came down with a vomitting bug yesterday, DS2 starting @6am and DH finishing @ midnight...quite a shattering day!

Had to keep an eye on DS2 as he is diabetic. This was his first proper sickess attack since being diagnosed 6 years ago. He was quite bad at one point...did contemplate the hospital, but thakfully things improved, or that would have been on the cards. We ended up at the docs though, where we were assured we were doing the right things (we knew more than the doc we saw!! :eek:). Thankfully he is much better today, he even had breakfast...lets hope it stays down He has lost 6kg (nearly a stone) since Sunday morning!!! :eek::eek:

I seem to have avoided the lurgy so far...touch wood with crossed fingers. Not feeling great though, but been like that for a few days now.

Not travelling down to see client today, didn't know how well I would be, and she is very busy too, so rearranging our "photo-shoot" for another day.

Right, need to catch up with some data entry now, and prep for my evening class. I missed last week's as I had the runs, so hope I can make it tonight.

Not sure whe I will get your bags posted this week Pippi, hopefully Thursday/Friday.

Have a great day everyone xxx

Spooky indeed! Two chooks with cool names though eh/

Don't stress on my account abou the bags- you've so much on you poor little plate, poor chaps.

I hope you made your class tonight, you're enjoying it so much.

You're so busy, try and make sure you look after yourself.:A

Karmacat wrote: »

Greying, I love those links too, specially because they're knitted - so often, those bags are crochet, which I can't do, and when I tried to learn a few years ago it hurt my fingers too much.

RT, glad to see you about! I'm not on as much either - tho more than Pippi on her own diary, poor lamb!

Keiss - a sickness bug! Yuck! Hope you stay well, what a nightmare that is.

I'm doing good, overdid it a bit on Sunday - thought I wasn't working with my right hand at all, but I obviously did, and its put me back a bit, oops. Not doing anything at all now - all I can do much of is read and watch tv and walk - gets a bit monotonous, tbh - still 2 weeks down, 3 to go.

Oh dear KC I hope you're OK.

You're so right though 2 down, three to go.

I'm not about much, imagine a job interfering with my online life.

How rude that job is, even though its fab.

Our great news is we got our funding for another year, and it might mean another days work for me - putting me up to 25 hours a week, which is great but a bit scary on the organising front.

But, given the state of hte economy - I'm certainly not complaining. Need all the womble pennies to pay off hte phd debts.

And, the kids trips, and uni etc

Hey ho, it keeps it interesting though eh?

I'm attempting to keep getting on here everyday but its hard at the mo. I've no real routine as work is home/random due to events.

I'm hoping that might settle.

If not I need one of those thing Hermione Granger has, a time turner.:D

Please do keep yourself safe and mending.

:kisses3::kisses3: