Hoarding...not just on TV

whitewing

I seem to remember that the pet doesn't actually have to be alive. Cowskin rugs and zebra wallhangings are permitted under the act, provided their use is terminated when the householder is fed up with them.

yellowdots, get rid if the camera.

Byatt

whitewing wrote: »

I seem to remember that the pet doesn't actually have to be alive. Cowskin rugs and zebra wallhangings are permitted under the act, provided their use is terminated when the householder is fed up with them.

yellowdots, get rid if the camera.

You are all so clever and funny. :rotfl:

UnluckyT

Byatt, i love the stove, and soo jealouse. id also love to have a cuppa and have a chat by it whilst it lit.
it must feel bril to have it swept to know it okay to use.

Lilyplonk

bobble_hat wrote: »

That is an awesome idea :T :beer: :j I have loads of cassettes and have a note on my TODo list (No.77) to get a machine to convert all cassettes to MP3s and get them on the portable hard drive, but maybe I'll do this instead. :T :j :beer:

Wow - I didn't even know you get that kind of machine :j - now that sounds like a brilliant solution to my problem of tons of cassettes that 'I'm forever tied to' .

Any ideas what this contraption is called and where I can get hold one?

Enlightenment

I bought this one http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007BYM6L4/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00

Lilyplonk

Thanks for that :T, Enlightment - methinks I may be adding that to my 'Wish List' for Santa .

GreyQueen

Brighton_belle wrote: »

Yes, it's the Inglenook Pet Act 1862. It fell out of use in the latter stages of the 20th Century due to Central Heating beoming much more popular/common but was used in a legal case (Smith vs Kendal 2007) which set a new precedent in that the dog must be gangly but you could have any sort of dog if you also had a cat.
As a result of this case, the Government then added an additional clause to include woodburners.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

:T By gum, that's good. I was reading it seriously for several seconds before the penny dropped.

This afternoon I have decluttered 8 overipe bananas and some soft light brown sugar from the baking cupboard (not be to confused with the soft concrete-like dark brown sugar on the radiator) which I shall get into the cupboard and then get used and then not replaced as I am planning to be slimmer than I am now. But I have to eat the banana bread first.;)

I bought these fancy sugars with recipes in mind but have come to the conclusion that I CBA with fancy cooking and really don't need to add any more inches to my beam end, so it'll be used then out of here.

Day 3 without chocolate, who woulda credited it?

I have also taken the current donation bag into the c.s. and pulled out the paint cans from the storage shed. The ceiling emulsion has been in there for years, one whole and one part-used can, so I levered the lids off and they all seem good to go.

I'm not really a ceilings person (if it was left in my hands, the Sistine Chapel would've probably had a superbly-painted skirting board) but I feel that I want to get the living-room ceiling done next week and then deffo one and possibly 2 of the cans can exit.

Oh burgery, was wondering why it's been 4 pm for a long while; my wristwatch has just keeled over. Darn thing couldn't have done it this morning when I could've nipped up the road for a new battery, could it? Oh no, it does it when I'm tied to a stove and the stores are shut. Grrrrr!

Onward and outward!

Infinity and beyoonnnndddddd.................!

babyshoes

GreyQueen wrote: »

Oh burgery, was wondering why it's been 4 pm for a long while; my wristwatch has just keeled over. Darn thing couldn't have done it this morning when I could've nipped up the road for a new battery, could it? Oh no, it does it when I'm tied to a stove and the stores are shut. Grrrrr!

GQ, that's part of the reason I asked for (and got) a kinetic/self winding watch last Christmas. My old one was getting past it - still working but with bits of the metallic trim floating about under the glass. It did well to last as long as it did; it was my 18th birthday pressie from my parents. I was fed up with the regular inconvenience of dead batteries, and remembered my grandmother's self-winding watch that I had always coveted. She seldom wore it, so when it came out of the drawer I would sometimes get to shake it for a while to wind it up for her! I was fascinated by it then, it just seemed so magical and also immensely logical - why didn't everyone have one?

I love mine now, and hearing the slight noise when I move is very satisfying, knowing that the movement is being productive...

katep23

GreyQueen wrote: »

I bought these fancy sugars with recipes in mind but have come to the conclusion that I CBA with fancy cooking and really don't need to add any more inches to my beam end, so it'll be used then out of here.

My larder is full of things bought for one recipe and then never used again - I can't bring myself to throw them out "in case I need them" but I almost invariably don't find a use for them

Progress on OH front - I mentioned a while ago consolidating my upright freezer and chest freezer and switching off the upright. Ahem, all well and good but we still have said freezer, sat in the woodshed doing nothing as OH declared "but we might need it again".

Have said I want it out of the woodshed as we need that space to store things like coal and duck feed (i.e. things we actually need!) and he has agreed - if my mum, sister or his mum want it :cool:

My sister has said maybe, if not we will ask his folks then next door (fairly certain next door will take it as they are on the look out for a new freezer, albeit a chest one). So fingers crossed this may be gone soon :T

Also have thrown a pair of brown boots (after deliberating for so long over the knackered knee highs) which were, um, well worn. Took me ages to decide to do it ("but the boots are fine", yes apart from the fraying and peeling heels :rotfl:) and the final nail was when I realised I had 3 other pairs of brown boots so will I really miss these

And a few more things to the charity shop pile.

Went to a Christmas bazaar today as the cat charity we got one of our cats from was there and wanted to support them.

Potentially dangerous as I usually buy something from every stall as I feel guilty otherwise but I only bought 3 handmade cards (2 of which I have uses for), a necklace and earrings which I fell in love with, 2 calendars from cat charity and a couple of presents for niece. (oh and mulled wine and mince pie but no chance of them becoming richard!)

Little tiny steps but definite progress

GreyQueen

Thanks, babyshoes, they've been around for yonks but I'd forgotten about them.

I only have one watch at a time and after mucho experimentation came to the conclusion I got as much life from a £5 quartz analogue face watch off the market as I did from a £50 one from the jeweller's i.e. 3-4 years life and maybe one battery change. Only costs £2.

The little place which does the batteries is a shoe repair-key cutting sorta thing, on my way to w*rk so normally very convenient but they're not open on Sundays.

Any idea how much one of those watches costs? I'm reluctant to spend much as I have a fairly poor history with watches for nearly 40 years (I seem to be afflicted with too much electromagnetism, digital watches would always go blank on me and recover if parked on some furniture).

ETA katep23 I think aspirational ingredients is a class of richard all of its own. Y'know how it is, you get some tasty treat around a mate's/ try something new eating out/ see or read something and ka-powee!! You are suddenly quite convinced that you're a gourmet cook and get all the stuff to make ???? ignoring that you aren't a lady of leisure with a large kitchen but a harried chronically-ill partime worker and fulltime sloth with an acute internet habit and a pile of unread library books clamouring for your attention.

And you're not going to use them. Not now, not ever, but they mustn't be thrown away until they have been given a few years' cupboardtime to mutate into toxic sludge (or possibly attain sentience) because THAT WOULD BE WASTEFUL.

Said GQ, a woman who is using up white wine vinegar on her chips..........