make do and mend for tougher times

fuddle

Byatt do you have a wooden door? My mothers vents are a series of holes drilled through her wooden doors, covered with a metal grid strip.

It will be a bummer if lack of ventilation stops the fire

http://www.handlestore.com/category/Trickle-Vents/0/?gclid=CNuM4MG_nLMCFXDLtAodK1MA6g I had these on my old house UPVC windows but they were installed with them on.

Byatt

fuddle wrote: »

Byatt do you have a wooden door? My mothers vents are a series of holes drilled through her wooden doors, covered with a metal grid strip.

It will be a bummer if lack of ventilation stops the fire

http://www.handlestore.com/category/Trickle-Vents/0/?gclid=CNuM4MG_nLMCFXDLtAodK1MA6g I had these on my old house UPVC windows but they were installed with them on.

Nope, I'm hermetically sealed in with UPVC double glazing doors and windows. Not sure LL's would agree to a dirty great big hole being bored through the stone walls. They don't like pictures being put up. I will survive, it's just the inglenook takes up a 1/4 of the room, and it would be a reasonable square size without it. If I could use the burner, then it doesn't seem such a waste.

missrlr

I had forgotten the joys of pepper mint tea

(shuffles off to raid cupboard, sure there was some in there not so long ago and to add to shopping list for work)

Byatt

Sunshine, sorry you've been so poorly. Hope you feel much better soon. xx

Pooky

Byatt - it would be worth asking the landlord to put a vent in to comply with current rules.

A friend had one fitted last year and as it was under a certain size she didn't need a vent.

Popperwell

valk_scot wrote: »

I've had a good run at the Tesco YS shelf the last couple of evenings and also found some miss-prices. They had the very large roasting chickens marked up at £1 per kilo rather than £4 (!) so a big chook worked out at about £1.80 each, dated till next week. So I took four and gave a friend of mine who was in the shop a nudge, she got two and still plenty left. Also three pork fillets, two roasting joints of pork, a pack of eight chicken breasts, a large pack each of Finest chipolatas and burgers and some packs of casserole steak at 75% off. I think I spent about £20 on meat in total and that's meat for a month or so, give or take a couple of packs of Lidl bacon. But it all needs portioned up for the freezer and that's a very boring job!

I never find bargains like that:eek::mad::(but no room in my freezer but I could have bought one for the fridge and/or managed to take the meat off and get a few meals out of it, the YS stuff they put out around here is usually rubbish...and not discounted much. The best day was last Saturday but I had not taken enough money with me but I got a small loin of pork, decent sausages and fish for £3.20 and saved around £6.

Yet on various MSE threads people seem to be doing much better in their food bargains...

Popperwell

GreyQueen wrote: »

Pops, you need to remember that 2tonsils is posting about Greece and not the UK. Lots of us will have had experience of Greece, sometimes over many years, and a deep love of the places and the people, but there isn't here.

I also spend my working life talking to people who are at the very bottom of the economic pile in most cases, inc some distressing calls recently about the BT, and I also live in a neighbourhood ranked high on national indices of deprivation where a lot of people are struggling to keep body and soul together.

This inevitably colours my world-view and thus my posts. If what I write sometimes causes you anxiety, I would like to apologise and urge that you maybe skip over my stuff, or even put me on Ignore. You're vulnerable because you're only a few months on from a major bereavement and you don't need to take on other burdens, IMO, anyway.

Firtsly thank you for your kindness and concern for my well being GQ but you are not causing me anxiety and you are expressing how I see things.

Much as 2Tonsils is talking about Greece I can see simularities to here and I expect it to get much worse for myself and many others.

It is still early days even though almost 6 months has passed by but that is nothing in comparison to being with someone for 50+ years.

If I was living in your area I could quite easily be the one on the other end of the phone talking to you about the same things. Someone else will get that pleasure no doubt as the changes start to to hit. I have to keep hoping that things will not be as bad as I fear. I'm not saying that life will not be more frugal and I will have to live within my means but who isn't.

Popperwell

D&DD wrote: »

Happy Birthday Smiley and Mrs Chip :beer:
Here's hoping you both have a wonderful day and are spoilt rotten XXX

7ww great news about your cat! X

aw Pops you sound fed up today Hope you got a bit of kip and the world seems brighter this morning X

Fuddle hope DD feels a bit better now,been there done that it's no fun juggling work with littlies especially when they're poorly XX

XXX

Belated Birthday greetings SmileyT and Mrs C...:T

Still great news about 7WW's cat:)

I hope that Miss Fuddle is feeling better I usually have some Dioralyte in the house for those kind of times...if I get ill now like so many others I will have to so alone...

Thanks D&DD,
I am better than of late(bit worried about the future)but who isn't? If I can live in the day and no nasty letters drop on the mat or I am told something really horrible when they come out to tell me what to expect from the Housing Association. It won't be good though will it:(

What has got me a little upset is all the talk over the care plan Mum was put on The Liverpool Care Pathway and recent talk in the press and on the radio suggests many have had similar experiences to me and...perhaps Mum could still be here.

I wasn't asked, I was more or less told this was what would happen. Perhaps I could/should've questioned what was happening. What did I know? I do now but it is too late...

All I was told was to expect the worst and given a badly photocopied leaflet about what the procedure was...Mum rallied, we got her into a Nursing Home and it looked like Mum might've still come home(wish I had insisted)but the NH sedated Mum as feared in the plan. If can submit my views I will do so.

Sorry about that...

BTW contaaray to the way some of my posts sound I don't sit around feeling sorry for myself or being miserable for hours, honest.

Lets get back to the theme of this thread but thank you again for your kindness...

homerdog

fuddle wrote: »

Aw homerdog, I'm sorry. I've never had a doggy before Alfie and can honestly say he's like one of my kiddiwinkles. I hope that seeing a pic resembling homerdog can help ignite some happy memories for you. I'd hate for you to be upset

I wasn't "upset" upset, just surprised upset, if you know what I mean, they could have been brothers. He was my second dog, but hubby has had dogs all his life. Before him we had a lovely gentle daft springer spaniel called George. We waited a year after he died till we got Homer but we won't be getting any more, it's too sad when they go.
My sister has just got a cockapoo puppy called Alfie, he's a real cutie.:)

homerdog

7_week_wonder wrote: »

First - congratulations to Mr Possession, I'm really pleased things are looking so good on the job front.

And hugs to everyone who needs them. Life really is tough at the moment, and there is so little true justice around.

And now for something very bizarre and karmic! At almost exactly the same time I was posting this afternoon - it turns out that OH got a phone call at work to say that boy-cat had been found safe and well (if considerably thinner) in our elderly neighbour's garage. The neighbour's carer thought she had checked the garage when we first leafleted everyone - but he's such a wussy cat that he'd hidden when someone went into the garage, and it was only today when another neighbour went into the garage that she spotted him. So as of 5.30 this evening we have our boy back home, where he is purring and eating like it is going out of fashion:T We've now decided not to find out more about the other cats - our boy is such a nervous thing I don't think he would take it very well.

Back to making a fuss of boy-cat. Have a good evening all.

That's brilliant news 7 week wonder xxx:T