Preparedness for when

Hard_Up_Hester

I've decided to buy the jumper, wear it on the last day of term, then wrap it up & give it to DD2 for Christmas, she's happy with that, I'm not going to the meal but I have a good excuse with my stomach problems.
Hester

Butterfly_Brain

Bob that is very good :T

I have a lorry load of pallets being delivered next week, that will get the wood store built and keep the stove in fuel

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Actually I think it's pretty rubbish.

It works as a pallet, but it's roughly made.

BigMummaF

Before now, I've purchased some 'named' fashion items for The Offspring from the exclusive CS Boutiques & particularly at this time of the year. A quick whizz in the washing mashing & a bit of care with the iron & they've always been thrilled with the spoils of my various hunting expeditions (add smilie here, cuz I can't get them to work)


Another Prospect for the Carntbe Rst Klub.. my body-shape has never been something to be admired; I would rather have root fillings on every tooth than clothes shop for a funkshun, more so if muvva needs to be dolled up too. She's 4'6" in her Cuban heels so even Petite is gigantic on her!

GreyQueen

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

This is for GQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w7ALMIUy74

That's a blast from the past, really enjoyed listening to that. Oh. and look at all the other RH related stuff over there..............:rotfl:

I once spoke to Robin Hood on the phone. I don't think he was the original, most disappointingly. Anyone seen Robin Hood; Men in Tights? You're missing a treat if you haven't.

I like your pallet, Bob. I've always found them a beggar to get the sides off, even when I've had a go with a gorilla pry bar. Refresh the little grey cells; was this for supporting water carriers or was it something else entirely?

Hmmm, a post-SHTF crimble.

I imagine it would be much quieter and much more thankful. Winter would have barely have started in most parts of the UK and people might just be coming towards the end of a flurry of drying, pickling and preserving. I imagine if anyone gave you a hand-knit jumper or a pair of socks or gloves or a hat, you would be very happy.

Probably regular meals are much plainer than pre-SHTF and therefore the contrast of a good roast and the trimmings is much more apparent, and much more appreciated.

I fell thru the doors of Farmius Foodius today and bumped into a pallet of Br@nston spaghetti in tins at 4/£1 so I got 4 for the Armageddon Cupboard. And somehow they had g@laxy at 69p a bar so I may just have got [STRIKE]one[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]some[/STRIKE] OK, three of those, too.

I suspect that there are a lot of us here who wouldn't, post-SHTF, be getting stressy about ruining our manicures whilst growing veggies or not being able to do fashion or statement handbaggery. I suspect that we'd be busily going about the essential stuff of life, such as trading for sheep-fleeces and swopping recipes, and working out if fat hen really is better than spinach......... I have a book which assures me of the latter.

Fat hen plants, bring it (sorryImoved, if you're reading, this is the common Brit name of a weed you Americans call lambs quarters or pigweed) it grows in abundance on my allotment and is a great source of vitamins and minerals. Beggar the veggies, I shall just raise fat hen.

Hollyberry

I've been coming over all indignant about those here who have been requested/required to wear specific things to meals or for last days at the office. :mad: Not only are some people mortally embarrassed at the very idea , but it really is thoughtless to assume that people have money to burn on something unnecessary. Optional is fine, mandatory is just not on. Grrr!

Now returning to our normal programming...

Bob, in pallet terms, I'm sure it's pretty far along the catwalk as far as beauty is concerned.

Interesting thoughts on retail therapy. When I was employed rather than self-employed (hence my propensity to skedaddle in here now during the day for a constitutional, as I work from home), I was terribly bad at succumbing to the harpies of the hangers. Now I'm happier, more focused (and relatively less affluent ) I'm really not tempted at all. My biggest vice now is probably freebie Kindle books, and the occasional eB@y binge on paperbacks. I am wondering if it was more a mixture of tiredness, stress and plain boredom that sent me shopping before. It was never more than I could afford, but equally, it could have kept me a lot warmer in my dotage than will now be the case. Don't get me wrong, I was lucky to have been able to afford to do it, but I genuinely don't miss it now.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

Refresh the little grey cells; was this for supporting water carriers or was it something else entirely?

I built it specifically for supporting two 25L water carriers, and here it is, doing exactly that.

I fell thru the doors of Farmius Foodius today and bumped into a pallet of Br@nston spaghetti in tins at 4/£1 so I got 4 for the Armageddon Cupboard.

Tins of spaghetti in tomato sauce are 15p in ALDI.

GreyQueen

Hmmm, interesting comment about spending to soothe emotional wants.

I think that there is a lot of that. I know I've done it. One of the earliest times I recognised this in myself was when I went into town after a carpy week in the factory, itching to buy something/ anything.

I bought a Sony Walkman (yes, a portable tape-player, it was so very long ago ). Fine little machine, performed as advertised, just not something I had much use for.

Cost me £35. Kept it for over 10 years, moved it carefully from one home to another and eventually sold it for £5 at a bootsale. Repeat similar things a few thousand or tens of thousands of times in a life and you will end up in your dotage living on porridge alone.

I've given a fair bit of thought over the years of the silliness of gala occasion clothes and the pressures we females are subjected to, mostly by fellow females, to constantly have new dressy clothes.

Take a wedding, f'rinstance, or a black tie dinner. Bloke in a decent suit, shirt & tie, polished shoes, all sorted. Do other blokes check to see if that't the same suit he wore to the last wedding and make snidey comments to make it clear that they've noticed and that he's letting the side down?

From a mixture of having a father and a brother, male friends, flatmates, colleagues and acquaintances, I can be fairly confident it happens seldom or never.

Yet we women, who typically have less money to start with, are supposed to have enough dressy clothes to fill an industrial freezer, as bluebag so memorably phrased it upthread. And bliddy accessories.

I'm sure it causes so much aggro that people forgo social invitations which they might otherwise have enjoyed because they haven't got/ can't afford/ have need to spend their money on wellies, children, childrens' wellies, doggies or hand-spinning courses. Not to mention chocolate.

I'm sorely-tempted to look for a Standard Party Kaftan and be done with it all...........:rotfl:

maryb

This is the most comfortable bra ever and they do it in 40B or 42B
http://www.marksandspencer.com/Support-Moulded-Smooth-Oriental-Embroidered/dp/B00110JSYC?ie=UTF8&ref=sr_1_21&nodeId=43248030&sr=1-21&qid=1386958096

I stopped wearing underwired bras a few years ago because I scared myself reading about breast cancer links. Having calmed down I realise it's a question of making sure that the bra fits - important for any bra, of course. However having found non wired bras which don't show under a tee shirt (and don't show the pointy bits either as GQ puts it) and are substantial enough to keep the girls in line and which are COMFORTABLE!!! - I wouldn't go back to underwired bras

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Just paid my last CT instalment of the tax year, and will be paying my final water bill instalment tomorrow.

That, plus the overtime I've done this month, should mean I'm fairly flushed next month. :cool: