make do and mend for tougher times

Popperwell

Thanks for the vote of confidence on the jackets. Don't know who mentioned wearing waterproofs but I'll try and get to a Lidl and buy some when they go on sale...

Prices going up...well as I have been buying value goods a lot and stick to a certain range of items my shop seems to remain much the same week in week out. I spend too much but what I buy lasts and allows me so much choice and variety.

I so love going through my cookery books, even if I don't get around to making the recipes, it can give me ideas or the chance to look for something similar perhaps in a shop.

Seriously keep a look out in the charity shops some great cook books come up for sale at great prices...

prepareathome

Am glad he got the JSA Evie, might not be much but every penny counts now.

I should point out I did find the memory foam topped was wonderful for my aches, it supported me perfectly, they didn't go but did ease a lot but even with a giant piece of muslin over me I was just to hot - cannot sleep without something over me, just like the feeling of being snug even if it is something so thin. Hubby was ok with it and didn't feel to hot most of the time. From what I have heard on the whole most men seem fine with them its just some of us woman that get to hot- hormones most likely.

prepareathome

Popperwell wrote: »

I so love going through my cookery books, even if I don't get around to making the recipes, it can give me ideas or the chance to look for something similar perhaps in a shop.

You remind me of hubby, he loves to sit and watch cooking programmes on tv yet never cooks unless its pre-made and all he has to do is heat it up........even breakfast is cereal never porridge unless I make it for him. I know he wouldn't know how long to boil an egg never mind fry one, yet he will sit for hours watching

charlies-aunt

prepareathome wrote: »

Opinions wanted - would a woman of 56 look totally daft in footless tights?

Now chances are I would be wearing them under trousers, but daft as it sounds for all my cold feet, they warm up very quickly and then I cannot stand anything on them. During the winter I rarely even have tights on or socks just my fur boots (and even then have to take them off if indoors somewhere so always carry a pair of pumps with me).

I know I don't go out much but just wondered if they would be a good buy - Lidl are going to sell them for £2.99 a pair from 23rd.

Its just sometimes I wear a skirt in winter but it can be chilly so these would be better than trousers (which I have worn before now, but only with a skirt that is basically down to ground).

Thanks

I'm 55, size 14 and wear leggings and footless tights all year round. I find them very practical and comfy. Leggings can be layered up under longline jumpers/tops/dresses with boots for winter and footless tights are cool under longline shirts/tshirts/sommer frocks with flats for summer. Leggings give a slimmer silhouette too.

Leggings/footless tights allow you to wear any length of dress with confidence IMO because you are essentially "covered up" so . . . very handy if,like me, you rely on you local CS for your wardrobe

Give 'em a go! I think that you'll very pleasantly surprised

Popperwell

PAH,
I so love food and used to be a reasonable cook, I hope to keep it up if I can continue to freeze and portion out what I make, the trick now is to try and adapt some of what I fancy so they work for one person.

Besides I have all my kitchen gadgets to make use of...

Popperwell

So do you think charity shops will start to put their prices up when we need them more than ever or be fair realise how important they are and we need them more than ever.

Some are not as inexpensive as you'd think.

Here's another site for you Fuddle(Though others may be interested)

http://www.lifehack.org/

fuddle

I have never worn a footless tight but do don the leggings quite often Actually, as I'm a tights fiend... I'm surprised I haven't!

I don't see them as a young thing, but a comfort thing and can actually slim a leg because of the tight fitting at the ankle... one rule hough, always have your top/tunic/dress covering your bum - with leggings, :eek: and of course with footless tights :rotfl:

Very good news with the JSA Evie

Pops I sourced a bread maker from freecycle around three years ago. I liked it, but didn't love it. I too was annoyed by the holes where the paddles had been, except they weren't just holes, they were manky great tears where the paddles ripped the bread getting it out. I passed it on to my MIL. Excellent at mixing dough though, and for proving when the kitchen is cold

Had a busy day, a few bargains of BOGOF at the butchers so got stand bye of sausages and burgers. I noticed their fruit and veg prices had gone up Mar they are independent so might just be a knee jerk to the headlines lately.

bossymoo

Oh gosh yes, nobody needs to show the waistband of their leggings outside of a gym, lol. Even if you are Paris Hilton, lol. I am a big fan of leggings, I have a denim mini that I cannot carry off with my pasty dimpled thighs, but I wear in summer with Capri leggings, of various colours to match top, and in winter with cable knit leggings, opaque tights etc.

And of course, leggings under trousers in the snow. Very cosy...

Mrs_Chip

Evening Everyone!

Smiley - hope goggie is feeling better, and Cake, sorry about puss:(:(

Glad too about the JSA and well done on exam results! Thankfully my parents did not give two hoots, I was a very lazy student, and got a job rather than take 'A's - never held me back but they were different times!

I cannot stand being hot at night, here is a pain as the road being right outside means no open window at night . OH always has a thicker duvet than me,we have two singles. I always have the thinnest I can find, and a sheet in summer. Like PAH cannot sleep without something over me, although legs will be stuck out everywhere! I have one of those little tower fans which has a timer, I put it at the end of the bed and it cools down my feet :rotfl: We have got an Ikea mattress with an Ikea topper, not memory foam, so no heat issues. Our bed is so comfortable .

I am going to take up a new hobby - fishing! I thought as we are so close to the sea, and have kayaks, I could try to fish for the pot (mackerel) and in my usual way, I am incapable of doing things by half and have been reading up about rigs, shockleaders and rotten bottoms :rotfl:. I have a little cheap telescopic spinning rod I bought ages ago on a whim, so can do a bit of feathering from the rocks at the end of the harbour too. Mr OG used to fish a lot, so he is going to go through his old tackle box with me and we are going fishing one evening when it is sunny and calm. Beers in a net over the harbour wall - lovely! I have no doubt this will be a five-minute wonder, unless of course I start catching lots of fish!

fuddle

That's what we'll be doing when we visit FIL next week MrsC, fishing over the makeshift peer for mackerel. good luck with it, sometimes you can get them in abundance!