Preparedness for when

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Love Wales, grandad was from Swansea!!! DD1 went to Uni in Lampeter and CAT is one of the best places to visit on the whole British Isles. WALES IS GREAT!!!

ivyleaf

We've only been to Wales on holidays, but it is lovely We hated the noise and bustle when we got back home, and wanted to sell up immediately and run back to Aberystwyth!

One funny thing sticks in my mind, we were in the Oxfam shop and were looking at some very nice (new) teeshirts they had. An elderly lady in a raincoat exclaimed to our son "My goodness boy, you don't think you've come to Wales to wear a teeshirt do you? More like a woolly jumper!"

TiredTrophy

Umm don't give away the secret about Wales cooltrikerchick!

boultdj

Wales and Scotland are both on my 'places to visit' list, along with see the northen light's.

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Anyone who is near an Aldi might like to pop in and see if their seeds are reduced. Our local Aldi this morning had a big bin full of various veg and flower seed packets for 19p each and the seed is good until 2018. Very good prices compared with garden centres. They don't say though how many seeds there are in the packet.

thriftwizard

Many, many years of happy visits to Wales under my belt here; I've never lived there although I have lived in Scotland. I love both countries & their people though the weather in Scotland does tend to be a little on the cool side for my tastes. I myself come from the south-western fringes of England (though living a bit more centrally now) and can say without fear of contradiction that it can be every bit as parochial, badly connected and muddy as anywhere else away from major cities - and long may it stay that way!

And here we are, living 50 yards from open fields and a mere 100 yards from the city boundary, in a town that's been here for over a thousand years and quite important for many of those, and we have virtually no mobile signal. And our gas pressure drops alarmingly at 5.30 pm & the 'leccy wobbles like mad whenever there's a thunderstorm. Our fuel pumps run out before anyone else's and are the last in the area to be re-filled. You don't have to be on the far western frontier to miss out on superfast broadband!

nuatha

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I really wish certain people would stop slating/ bring down Wales.. And making it sound like the place time forgot!!.. Its an absolutely fantastic place... And we are proud. Of our way of life and our heritage...if people sell up and come to live here because of the cheaper houses etc, then please don't moan about our way of live and our services etc..

I live not that far from a town where time has forgotten it - and its wonderful, proper shops and real service.

However I wouldn't complain about people deriding Northumberland(1), anything that helps keep incomers* somewhere else and helps keep property prices somewhere near barely affordable is welcome. Attitudes that put the place down only help if it keeps like-minded people out.
I fully understand the pride, I'm just wary of boasting about how wonderful the place and its natives really are - it can attract people I'd rather not share air with.

*incomers is an attitude, its the constant carping that the place and people would be so much better if only it was more like the place they left (or the place they would rather live). Its not people who move into an area and are aiming to become part of it.

(1) I'm Northumbrian, therefore its Northumberland that has that place in my heart that might otherwise be filled by Wales or Scotland

moneyistooshorttomention

Frugalsod wrote: »

It is like that other big mistake in politics and economics is that governments need to run their budgets like households and maintain a surplus. This is called a fallacy of composition and what is true for one unit ie a household is not true for the economy as a whole. This causes recessions. The other factor that most people get wrong is that governments are printing money and that will cause inflation. This completely misses the real source of money printing are private banks and the inflation it causes called house price increases.

Can I "call" that and ask for details as to why you are stating that is the case please?

As I personally do tend to think there is no reason why firms/governments/etc shouldn't run their budgets on the same sort of principles as a prudent householder. Hence I would be interested to know just why you don't think that would necessarily apply please.

I may be missing the point - but, to me - it seems that any person/household/firm/government that exercises prudent financial judgement would only spend what they actually have in the way of finances and maybe take a (very very carefully and realistically) calculated gamble based on reasonable facts.

I was very well aware that (as a former Civil Servant) I could (and sometimes did.....) turn round and say "I have much better income security than some - courtesy of all the shilly-shallying that will happen if they try and kick me out of my job and then my 3 months notice of redundancy I'm entitled to" and I did 'trade' on that at times and make financial decisions I could not have made with a lower level of job security. Gawdknows there had to be summat to make up for the sheer bl**dy awfulness of our jobs in many respects and that made up for that to some extent:cool:

Hence I can see some level of difference in decisions according to financial circumstances - but I cant say I can say I can see a huge difference between "yer average prudent individual" and "the Government" as to what financial decisions would be based on and I would be interested to know on what basis precisely its deemed Governments could make rather different financial decisions to private households???

I do know sometimes things can translate to a financial level that was never envisaged at the outset. But....the one instance where I was watching that from the sidelines to date...seemed to operate on a similar level to individual households. That was the Lets skills (and ultimately goods as well) bartering scheme and I was absolutely gobsmacked to see a scheme that had originally been envisaged as something that little private households would use being translated up into something that mega size companies (eg Shell:eek::shocked::shocked::shocked: for instance) were using as a basis for transactions with other "huge" multinationals - and absolutely furious that they were "getting in on the act" at something that was never meant for them in the first place:mad::mad::mad::mad:. But - as far as I can make out - these blimmin' huge great multinationals seem to be operating their "finances" that are involved in this bartering sorta way in much the same way as the individual households that were the only ones meant to get involved in Lets in the first place.:cool:

Hence, if it can go thata way - then surely it should go the Other Way in reverse and governments should operate their budget on the same basis as yer average financially prudent household? Genuine question - and I really would like to know just why these are being adjudged as in different categories.

moneyistooshorttomention

Am guessing that many of us like what we personally are used to and actually it has to rate surely as "A Good Thing" if we go in for something that rates as "A Learning Experience" as far as we are concerned subsequently.? I do think it is necessary to spell out to people just how different things can be in different parts of the country (ie Britain) ....as its astonishing how ignorant many of us (yep....me included....) can be compared to what we are used to personally.

Parochialism is thinking that "What We Know from Our Area" is how things are? Open-mindedness is saying "Okay then - what we know from our own area is like this - but other areas are equally certain that "their Way" is THE way"??

Horses for courses and it boils down to what individuals personally feel comfortable with? All of us can find ourselves in a position where we find that "Fings Is Different yur" to what we know and then decide to either reject it or regard it as a "Learning Experience"?? Eg my friend turning up to "Posh Events" in "smart casual" clothes, whilst others are turning up in rather different clothes is "Each to their own" and we should all accept that we have dressed according to our own personal norms. Nobody but nobody is going to get me personally turning up to Major Events in gold brocade and lotsa "decorative bits" for instance - but, if that's what other people wish to turn up in then - that is entirely up to them and its entirely up to me that I've only "gone up one level" and am dressed in "smart casual" or "understated...but it musta costa bit" level". Its just personal tastes and there are no Value Judgements due here - its just personal tastes and "What You Are Used To" personally. Nothing is either Right or Wrong - it is what it is....

My own take personally is that I know what I personally know/am used to and am obviously going to go for that as far as possible and, beyond that, regard it all as Learning Experience and equally valid to my own personal "experience" and we all know/feel most comfortable with what our own personal "experience of Life to date has been". No-one is expected to change...and its accepted that we each have our own individual tastes...

mardatha

Food sales in Scotland this summer are the lowest in 16 years. I wonder if people are cutting down and being more careful.