Preparedness for when

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jkO someone very clever over on the Doorstep thread started taking Sea Kelp as a supplement some months ago and it has transformed her energy levels, so quite a few of us decided to try it too and I can speak from experience that it makes SUCH a difference, it takes a few days to feel a difference but boy oh boy, then you're off and whizzing about like a whizzything!!! I had a few days when I was away from home and ran out of Kelp and felt like a moribund slug stuck in reverse on a very steep hill but, when I got back home and started taking the Sea Kelp tablets again the energy levels came back very quickly and off I went again. Might help if you can take them, best to check if you are on any medications that Kelp is compatible, but worth a try? Lyn x.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

I once got to drive a brand new (less than 100 miles on the clock!) Ford Transit automatic. It rocked.

You are Sabine Schm1tz and I claim my five pounds.

ETA: What's wrong with the word Schm1tz, spelt with an I instead of a 1 :huh:

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Well, that's another £84 a year saved. :cool:

The credit on my gas account has been steadily climbing, over the last three quarters (probably courtesy of the 12" of insulation that went in the loft last year), so I've been in touch and they are sending me a cheque for £100, and reducing my monthly payment by £7.

That takes my combined (gas and electric) payments to just £420 per year. :j

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

You are Sabine Schm1tz and I claim my five pounds.

ETA: What's wrong with the word Schm1tz, spelt with an I instead of a 1 :huh:

Explanation pls; I'm baffled.

nuatha

jk0 wrote: »

You might want to check your emergency money stashes folks for any £50 notes with Sir John Houblon on the back. They are being withdrawn on 30th April 2014, and no doubt will raise awkward questions if you try to use them after that.

See here for more information: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Pages/about/faqs.aspx#50d

Thank you for the heads up. There's very little point in keeping £50s in these parts, even the supermarkets seem reluctant to take them and nearly all small shops refuse them.

GreyQueen wrote: »

I'm the product of a mixed marriage; one parent from each side of the county line. Well, Mum's a deported Londoner, but she's been awarded naturalised bumpkin status as she'd been in the sticks since she was a seven-year-old.

They naturalise quick in your neck of the woods. It took 4 generations for my family to be accepted as belonging (despite actually sinking the pit shaft that the village was built around)

It's interesting to imagine what the UK, in it's varied topographies, might have looked like if we'd never had the industrial revolution. Or if we hadn't moved from the steam age into the oil age. There's a whole genre called Steampunk, which some of us may be familiar with, which plays with an alt-future scenario.

We may yet have the chance to find out.

:question:What do people imagine a world of declining oil supplies will do to us? Will we see the private motorcar become what is was once before; a toy of the wealthy? Will those of us with long commutes have to give them up or take a weekly lodging in the place where we work?

I find as a person who has to use public transport, and who doesn't have a free bus pass, that many journeys I would have made become impossible. You can get somewhere but you can't get back, or the cost is extortionate, etc etc. I travel a lot less than someone with a car, and think more carefully about what journeys I do make.

If you drive for leisure and pleasure as well as for necessity, would you be prepared to switch those journeys over to public transport?

Regionally I can't afford to use public transport, its cheaper for me to keep a car on the road. Even national travel can work out cheaper, several months back I needed to be in Ely, National Express was £90, Rail was £109 (and 1/3 the time the bus would be) diesel would have cost £60 (since I'm already committed to the general running costs). Though if I take the annualised costs per mile into the equation then the journey cost would be £98.
I can travel to London by train for £50 return according to a current offer, but travelling from Newcastle to Edinburgh is almost double that. There is no logic to how public transport costs are calculated and certainly no encouragement for this driver to opt for the supposedly more environmentally friendly option.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

Explanation pls; I'm baffled.

Check out this video, and all will be revealed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KiC03_wVjc

VJsmum

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

OK. Time to wheel out my big guns.

Sir Robert Peel, who was Prime Minister and Home Secretary, and, in his role as the later, created the modern police force (hence their nickname "Bobbies"), was born in Bury.

And here's a photo, of part of the foundations, of the castle, which stood on the site of the current Castle Armoury/Drill Hall.

I take your "Robert Peel was born here" and raise you "was MP of, died and is buried here". And we've got a castle. Ner ner

One of the perks of my OH's job is that we get free rail travel. It is a MASSIVE bonus. ATM we are travelling around with DD to uni applications - I dread to think what a massive amount of money that must cost people who have to pay. The children get it until they leave full time education - so they will be able to travel free when at university, also a massive bonus for them.

GreyQueen

Mum joined an old established country family as a fosterling, hence the express naturalisation process. It's normally a minimum of 20 years before people will even talk to ya.

To give an idea of how closely networked the villages are, Mum and Dad were raised in villages 15 miles apart and met at the local hop in their late teens. The inevitable Where are you from...? questions revealed that Mum's foster family are distant blood relations of Dad's people.

Mum's tribe are partially from Devon/ Somerset, and partially from the Scottish lowlands. Where they stole cattle. Some of them are in London stealing cars............. you have to move with the times, hey?

You can say a lot about me, but I ain't inbred. Bonkers, yes, but not inbred.

ETA Thanks Bob. I can see the point. She's much better looking than me, but I could have a go at that. You can get a fair turn of speed in a Transit, I find, out on the motorways.

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If anyone is looking for a security camera, for use around their home (eg. for a caller checking system), ALDI are selling off the last of their stock, of Home Protector brand, colour surveillance cameras (with sound), for just £7-99 each.

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VJsmum wrote: »

I take your "Robert Peel was born here" and raise you "was MP of, died and is buried here". And we've got a castle. Ner ner

You live in Westminster?