make do and mend for tougher times

GreyQueen

Kittikins wrote: »

GQ - just come up to my parents for a few days' break and to see DD who's having a holiday up here and guess what I've spied handing up, looking all lonely, in the garage?!? Yup, a Jiffy..........well, not as beautiful as your Jiffy, as she's plain blue, not navy but a lovely blue, and I must confess to having trolley envy now.

I'm about to be made redundant and currently wheel my laptop and all my tut around in a wheely laptop bag, but when I leave the job, the bag will go. I think I need to work on my mother as when I'm using the car less and walking more to get groceries in the village rather than out at the supermarket, I will get great use out of it!

Watch this space.........we could be needing to think up a name for a 'new' trolley, actually maybe Bluebelle?!

Oooh, I think that lonely trolley needs to be rehomed with you where she will be loved and appreciated........wheedle, gal, wheedle. What shade of lovely blue? I admit I could have had a plainer Rolser for £15 less, sort of an airforce blue/greyish shade but it had no pizzazz and for that amount of money, plus crossing the Rubicon into trolley-dollydom, I blinking well wanted pizzazz.:rotfl:

Bluebelle is good. I'm sure someone can find something wittier than I can.

Have been up since six excavating my sofa and tabletop *. Not quite there yet but needed a break. Went to the lottie after work yesterday and hadn't been up there since the 4th. I was away from home amusing Yorkshire folk and then when I came back I was convalescing from a minor operation which didn't stop me working but which wasn't compatible with throwing dirt around.

I know; excuses, excuses. All I can say about the state of the lottie is ARRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Weedsville. Spent an hour with the grass shears re-establishing control over the path and found about a dozen very large slugs who were cruising around there with insolence. They're histoire now, of course.

Righty, need to have some breakfast and continue trying to find the floor. I assume it must be under there somewhere but it hasn't been seen recently. Cover me, peeps, I'm going in!

* Nothing as exciting as the news that archaeologists are about to excavate what they think is the burial place of Richard III. How cool is that?

meme30

Well I am off to S*insb*ry's today to buy teabags. I am even buying them for DD's although they want them for cheapness/quality rather than stocking store cupboard. Both are still of the 'I've got two, how many more do I need persuasion!' Some of us,:p are buying lots and lots and then trying to work out just where the hell I am going to put them. :rotfl:
We are coming up to our hols soon, :j Nothing exciting, just sitting in a field a lot and eating lunch out more than usual. It will be the rest that we both need. I have my eye on a few gardens to visit and for some reason a drive down to Harrogate! I have never been and for some reason I feel I need to go. I don't think it's the famous 'cream teas' but you never know!:rotfl:

Don't! I know! Only two boxes of tea bags! The world has gone mad!

grandma247

I'm off to Mr S soon too and I will be adding to the tea bag mountain. I have 33 boxes at the minute.
I will look out for more veggies to freeze and dry too.

I do have enough flour from last year (kept in the freezer) for months and months even if I bake for dds sometimes but I am thinking of getting a bit more and storing in the bottom of the freezer. DDs are struggling now so I want to get some stuff to make up care boxes.

I don't want to over do it because I think a little bit of adversity will be good for them. They will realise I was right. I think that youngest is almost there because she was talking about stocking up last week.

SDG31000

Morning all

Meme30 Can I confess a lack of tea bags in the house at the moment? I have a minor addiction to Clipper Assam tea and am on my last box. I do know that Mr Amazon is sending me another 6 as a birthday present, so it's not too worrying. I do have Earl Grey, English Breakfast and Tetleys in the house as well.

fuddle Welcome back . I think the cleaning is a great idea. I know when I'm feeling down I could do with someone popping in and sorting the house out. I don't think the insurance is too expensive and it is well worth getting.

Kittikins Fingers crossed that there will soon be another member of the trolley family living at your house.

This might be a bit random as I haven't had any tea yet and the iPad keeps correcting me.

We did the pizza celebration thing last night and I had a rather large faux pimms aka Austins from Aldi rather than a G&T. DS1 is getting a tv/monitor for his bedroom as a present for doing so well. It's something he has been saving for and we are going halves with DPIL. DH would have brought it alone, but I'm afraid I put my foot down and said it was too much. Then his parents offered half without us saying anything. It's a good job as the scanner has died so that needed replacing and has been ordered....along with my birthday present off DS2, a Soft Kitty hoodie I'm sure it will prove to be an embarrassment to DS1.

The visit to see our former neighbour went as well as it could. There were times she remembered us and other where I was someone else or she had no idea. All in all it was ok. She is very happy in the home and well looked after.

Today's plans include cooking pork chops and lamb chops that I got ys last night. I also need to work out what DS1 is going to have for dinner. Masses of laundry need doing and I also have to try to get the dining room table clear and some of the paperwork filed. My plan to get DH to sort out changing the gas and electricity supplier has just backfired as well and he wants me to sort that out and he will just do the switch.......aarrrgggghhhhh. I don't want to. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Definitely time for tea xxxxx

smileyt_2

Hmmm, I wonder if the kids of OS parents get better exam results than the rest of the GCSE population ..... Well done, both to the young 'uns and the old 'uns who had to cope with the exam stress of their offspring .

Fuddle, could you get a bike and market yourself as 'your local greener cleaner'? You could even supply some organic and biodegradeable cleaning stuff (built in to the price, of course).

Well, the bookcases arrived and they are fab! A friend is going to help me put the doors on and then I will spend a happy few hours re-jigging my stock cupboard and getting various bits of clutter stored away (will be throwing/recycling some stuff too). I only have 8 boxes of teabags :eek: so I need to up my game .... :rotfl:

Lol, Bruno is snoring and whistling through his nose! I'll be waking him up in a minute because it's time for walkies.

fuddle

I could smiley, I could

Tea? Is tea likely to go up in price too or are you all just storing because you can

I have two boxes of tea in my cupboard and thought I was doing alright :eek:

Looks like I have a lot to learn still :rotfl:

Got a lot of blackberries last night so off to peruse the web in search of something to do with them... is it greedy to go back for more today I feel like I should leave some for someone else but.... my storing/frugality is shouting at me to just go for it :cool:

HariboJunkie

kidcat wrote: »

Can I ask what low blood sugar would indicate? DS had his bloods taken at hospital, it was supposed to be a case of they take blood and prove nothing physical wrong with him, but they told my dad his blood sugar was low but gave no further indication other than to tell him to take him to cafe to eat and drink straight away.
Bit worried as have never had anything like this with kids.

kittie wrote: »

kidcat, insulin and diet led diabetes perhaps in the frame. He needs to eat wholefoods like wholemeal bread esp the one with seeds in it and baked potato with skin on, not eg mashed potato. Look for low GI like on the list

Kidcat, A reading of low blood sugar is not likely to indicate diabetes as it would be more likely to be high and if the hospital suspected it they would have done a simple urine test to diagnose. It is more likely to have simply been a case of him not having enough to eat that day. In children, hypoglycaemia can be present during gastro-intestinal problems though so you can ask if you're worried about it.

Morning all :hello:

Just a quickie from me.

Life continues to be busy here with never enough hours in the day. The children are back at school and so all my voluntary work begins again. Busy with real work too as the upturn in our business means a load of extra paperwork for me. Even relaxation times are busy between spending time fishing and foraging and in the garden. The harvest hasn't been too bad at all. All the broccoli is finished, beetrrot picked and pickled, raspberries and currants are picked and jammed. Dug up the spuds yesterday and picked more corguettes. We are sick of eating them fresh so these ones will be turned into chutney. The tomatoes are ripening well and are being frozen to be turned into sauce when I have time.

I haven't been keeping up with the thread but I hope all is well for eveyone and times aren't toooooo tough for you all. x

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Hi FUDDLE hope you had a nice holiday and some time off to relax. Go back for more blackberries, if you don't pick them they'll go off so quickly they'll be wasted. If no one else has picked them by now I reckon they belong to you!!!!! I know you like baking so do you think you and the family would like fresh blackberry muffins? we love them and they freeze well too so you could have some later in the week.

The garden and allotment are producing well now, I picked a whole bag full of both runner beans and french beans yesterday which are now in the freezer and the courgettes are giving us 2 or 3 every day, also the tomatoes in the poly are ripening so I will be making some chutney this afternoon. The thornless blackberries on the back fence are amazing I'm picking them every couple of days and usually get around 4lbs per pick. It still looks as though I havent touched them as there is so much fruit waiting to ripen we shall have blackberry everything this winter.

Have a good day Cheers Lyn xxx.

grandma247

price of tea

SpikyHedgehog

SDG31000 wrote: »

Morning all

Meme30 Can I confess a lack of tea bags in the house at the moment? I have a minor addiction to Clipper Assam tea and am on my last box. I do know that Mr Amazon is sending me another 6 as a birthday present, so it's not too worrying. I do have Earl Grey, English Breakfast and Tetleys in the house as well.

fuddle Welcome back . I think the cleaning is a great idea. I know when I'm feeling down I could do with someone popping in and sorting the house out. I don't think the insurance is too expensive and it is well worth getting.

Kittikins Fingers crossed that there will soon be another member of the trolley family living at your house.

This might be a bit random as I haven't had any tea yet and the iPad keeps correcting me.

We did the pizza celebration thing last night and I had a rather large faux pimms aka Austins from Aldi rather than a G&T. DS1 is getting a tv/monitor for his bedroom as a present for doing so well. It's something he has been saving for and we are going halves with DPIL. DH would have brought it alone, but I'm afraid I put my foot down and said it was too much. Then his parents offered half without us saying anything. It's a good job as the scanner has died so that needed replacing and has been ordered....along with my birthday present off DS2, a Soft Kitty hoodie I'm sure it will prove to be an embarrassment to DS1.

The visit to see our former neighbour went as well as it could. There were times she remembered us and other where I was someone else or she had no idea. All in all it was ok. She is very happy in the home and well looked after.

Today's plans include cooking pork chops and lamb chops that I got ys last night. I also need to work out what DS1 is going to have for dinner. Masses of laundry need doing and I also have to try to get the dining room table clear and some of the paperwork filed. My plan to get DH to sort out changing the gas and electricity supplier has just backfired as well and he wants me to sort that out and he will just do the switch.......aarrrgggghhhhh. I don't want to. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Definitely time for tea xxxxx

I'm with Southern Electric for both gas & electric - I'm not sure how that compares to others but they were both read the other day - I pay £42 per month for electric & am £90 in credit which they're leaving on the account, £26 for gas & they're re-paying me the £141 I'm in credit by. I'm ok with that as I can keep up with the winter usage and get a needed new vacuum cleaner!

And very proud of my boys and I for getting the usage down