Preparedness for when

Memory_Girl

I've been on a snail hunt - which is my normal morning routine as I wait for the kettle to boil for the first pot of tea in the morning.

I have drainage holes through a stone wall that empty onto my raised beds. The snails over winter up there so when I say I have thousands I am not kidding - you can just about hear them munch my plants if you listen carefully.



So I popped a tablespoon of pellets into the end of each pipe last night and this morning picked off 70 slugs lying on their backs kicking their little [STRIKE]feet[/STRIKE] foot in the air.

These have gone into the bin (can't really feed them to the birds if I have poisoned them can I?)

So - now I am off to sow my new season K**e - making a bed about three times the size than we had last year as it overwintered brilliantly. The prepared bed at the bottom of my picture will be the "Kail Yaird" Growing our greens is saving us a fortune.

But first - more tea I think.

MG

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Morning all, I've been checking my stored beans this morning and have found a couple with what look suspiciously like unhatched weevils in them, luckily in jars in the kitchen so I'm having a major soak up and cook session using the pressure cooker and then they'll go into the freezer. It might be a good thing to check any stored dry goods particularly pulses and flour just in case as it would appear that it's 'that' time of year again. I'm taking no chances though, anything iffy is going straight into the bin!!!

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Just received my electricity bill.

It's the end of the year one, where they tell you how much you've used over the last 12 months, and how that usage compares to the previous 12 months.

It then says how much they want to change the monthly payments, if at all.

This is how it pans out.

12 months ago, they estimated I would use just over £235 worth of electricity, this last year.

In actual fact, I've used less than £180 worth.

I've actually used 21% LESS than last year.

Throughout the over 4 years I've been here, I've NEVER been in debit.

Indeed, at the moment, I'm over £10 in credit.

Despite all this, they want to INCREASE my payments by £48 per year :huh:

mardatha

Memory Girl, my grandad had a fishing boat out of Pittenweem and my dad told me they always called the garden the kale yaird. I suppose it was the only thing they could count on to grow through any weathers

mardatha

BB then why pay it? It's your money, don't give them it!

nuatha

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Despite all this, they want to INCREASE my payments by £48 per year :huh:

You know know what they want to put their prices up to.
Seriously I'd be checking for a better deal elsewhere and either leaving or informing them that the debit remains at the same price, since you've never been in arrears.

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mardatha wrote: »

BB then why pay it? It's your money, don't give them it!

I'm not paying it.

nuatha wrote: »

Seriously I'd be checking for a better deal elsewhere

It is the best deal for me.

and either leaving or informing them that the debit remains at the same price, since you've never been in arrears.

I've already emailed them, pointing that out.

Memory_Girl

mardatha wrote: »

Memory Girl, my grandad had a fishing boat out of Pittenweem and my dad told me they always called the garden the kale yaird. I suppose it was the only thing they could count on to grow through any weathers

Its about the only thing that would grow in a garden in Pittenween - wee bit blawy down there

Mine went right through the winter with us this year and got cooked in so many ways I could write another book LOL

MG

greenbee

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Mine went right through the winter with us this year and got cooked in so many ways I could write another book LOL

MG

You could dedicate it to Mar

jk0

Most of my bulbs here at home are fluorescent/ compact fluorescents for the energy savings.

I am toying with the idea of buying LED bulbs now, but am worried about spending so much (£12 for some of them) then finding the light unacceptable in some way, and thus wasting the cash.

Can anyone reassure me?