make do and mend for tougher times

mcculloch29

My new wind up radio
arrived yesterday. I am absolutely thrilled with it. It also has a torch function and a clock - and sockets/leads to charge from mains/USB along with a solar panel.
I had it playing whilst I ironed for some fifty minutes first thing this morning and it was still going strong, on just one minute's brisk winding. I had a feeling it would be good when I saw that the original RRP was £40. Now £17.
It's got a digital display which makes tuning it in a dream, and an alarm function. It's also small enough to pop in my bag when I go away. Very pleased.

katieowl_2

fuddle wrote: »

Brings me back to when DH used to go on walking expeditions when we first met. He'd talk about his pocket rocket and I cracked up every time He meant Actually, that has to be in the house somewhere. I must ask him.

is there such a thing as a portable stove. Bare with me.I'd like a woodburner stove in the kitchen but I don't think I should be spending money getting one installed in a house that we envisage leaving in around 3 years. I had hoped there was such a thing as a free standing one, with a flue that could go out the window or even out the side of the house brick work. Bare with me, I'm thinking aloud in the hopethat someone can follow my train of thought :rotfl:

one i could cook on or boil the kettle would be nice

Any stove you have has to be properly installled because of the risk of carbon monoxide poisioning. Not a thing you want to risk.

That having been said there is no reason why you can't have a stove installed and then decide to take it with you, but it will leave a hole in the wall :rotfl:


kate

prepareathome

((((Kidcat)))))) I to am so :mad: on your behalf, I don't think its just the weather either, all the stress with your family and OH is the main things methinks, body cannot take the strain and your lungs obviously your weakest point - you are going ( pot calling kettle black here) tell hubby he has to pull his weight more - take it from one who speaks from experience.

I am sure a lot of my bad health now comes from the years of trying to bring up and deal with everything on my own as hubby no help - for me it was when I got them through the worst and youngest was a teenager and his health thankfully improved dramatically and I home schooled him so no more stress of school that i started going downhill as I could then relax a bit.....( just like panics hit after in the year that first daughter died then 3 months later both other children in hospital for 6 weeks with seriously ill with whopping cough ( none of my children could be vacinated), panics appeared 6 weeks after they were home and well and a wonderful dr I saw about 3 years later explained it all to me how you carry on and on but stress takes its toll and if you have a weak spot physically it will show, but if not then mentally it will ( yep I know weak in the head:rotfl:) - now they realise the cause and effect of stress on people who seem to be fit and healthy and drop dead from a heart attack ). Then I had youngest and his health was bad and we thought we lost him so many times over and over and so it placed stress on my body and now am paying for it all, nothing I could have done except get hubby on board more to share the burden and you must for your own sake do the same.

Not easy I totally understand as you know I still have problems and my own fault not putting my foot down with hubby, I get mad he behaves better for a bit then he slips of the path again and before iI know it I have a grown up child to look after again incapable of even taking a vit c without me telling him to and moaning at me for not giving it to him every day and I end up running after him till resentment builds up again and off we go again on the merry-go-round - MEN:mad:

Hugs, Love and Healing to allxxxxx

Byatt

Fuddle, back when I was married, early 80's I think, we had a coal burner installed, it was free standing and the metal chimney was in the room and up through the roof to the outside. It looked kind of cool and even the owner of the company came along to see it in situ. We were in a bungalow though, but it was modern and had no chimney of any sort, in fact over head heating was installed for some mad reason.

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woo hoo, I am getting my summer clothes out of storage , I`ll have to do it by 18th of august but until then I`ll be keeping my raincoat and boots by the door.

Mrs_Chip

So pleased for you Kittie :D. Do you know how long it will be before you have to put them away again - is it worth all that unpacking?:o;):D

katieowl_2

Just thought you guys might enjoy this... a blog one of my online American buddies put me onto earlier in the week

http://www.onehundreddollarsamonth.com/who-is-mavis/

Mavis is OUR KIND of GAL!!!


Kate

fuddle

Thanks kittie I watched the youtube video of Piers. There's something captivating about watching him talk. I'm following him with interest. I too am looking forward to August 18th. That's one whole month away. One whole month more of rain though, a lot of nasty rain

Just looked up bot belly stoves. Yeah expensive to install and carbon monoxide risk. I best knock the idea on the head

Mrs_Chip

As long as it is installed properly (and by law has to be installed or at least certified by a Heatas engineer), with all the right ventilation in place and annual services, the likelyhood of CO poisoning is minimal. CO is created by insufficient combustion, and can happen with anything that burns.

I don't think it would cost anything to get an adviser in from installers, they will know if there is an innovative way to get one installed.
Fuds - can't see the bread pic?

ETA - I don't know what you are calling expensive, but some sites it is just over a grand for a stove all installed. Might be too much?

fuddle

Yeah far too much Mrs C It would take a good few years to save up that amount of money, by which time we would be moved anyway. It was just an idea that might not cost a lot. Stupid really.

My bread:



Can you see it now?