Preparedness for when

Witless

thriftwizard wrote: »

..... The big park on your side of town was once a huge "shally" factory - shally being some kind of fabric that I don't seem to be able to find out much about ...

"Challis (shally) is a soft woolen or woolen and silk fabric"

http://images.library.wisc.edu/HumanEcol/EFacs/MillineryBooks/MBRhoeDress/reference/humanecol.mbrhoedress.i0020.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challis_(fabric)

Frugalsod

jk0 wrote: »

I just worked out why the Chilcot Inquiry is taking so long. Yesterday's paper says that Chilcot is paid £790 a day!

I think I'd spin my job out for 6 years if I was getting £790 a day.

Crikey, I'd try and take another 6 years!

Add the expenses as well.

Islandmaid

jk0 wrote: »

I just worked out why the Chilcot Inquiry is taking so long. Yesterday's paper says that Chilcot is paid £790 a day!

I think I'd spin my job out for 6 years if I was getting £790 a day.

Crikey, I'd try and take another 6 years!

Would that be on top of the £300 per day to attend the House of Lords?

We,re all in it together:rotfl:

1Tonsil

This is the latest news from Greece, the elections have been called for the twentieth of September. Under the constitution, the opposition party with the most votes in the last election have three days to form a government. If they cant do that, then the second group have three days. The bad news is that the old boys, the New Democracy at first dab at it....then Golden Dawn...the Fascist neo Nazi group

Here is the link to read up http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11814487/Greece-live-Alexis-Tsipras-resigns-and-calls-September-snap-election.html

Meanwhile, 37,000 migrants are at the border with Yugoslavia FYROM and they will not let them in from the Greek border. The ones on the ship were taken to pireaus on the mainland instead of Thessalonika as originally planned, as it would have made the situation worse at the border. It seems most of them want to go to Germany. Considering how Germany has treated Greece, we see a nice bit of irony in that....:rotfl:

We have a few storms around here and there was a brief fire on the mountain when an old man decided it was going to rain later and lit some undergrowth to burn it off. Thankfully, they extinguished it very quickly, before the winds got up.We have a few days of higher winds, but cooler weather coming, which should make it easier to sleep. We are saving up for air con to be installed before next summer, this one was unbelievably hot.

My new slow cooker is fantastic ! Easier to use and clean and just what I needed. Going to make some ham and pea soup tomorrow in it, as we have a visitor coming to help with my OH s computer and he might be here for hours.....

Just stocked up on loads of offers at PLidl , my stock cupboard is looking good. Going to look for warm blankets and quilts and jumpers for the winter at the charity jumble sale on Saturday. I might even find some heavy curtains if I am lucky.:T

1Tonsil

Karmacat wrote: »

Thanks for this! I thought Mar meant that you'd written it but I *do* remember you recommending this one now


Aha! That *is* interesting!


Me too ... I'm trying to build up a really full stock cupboard so that I buy as little as possible over the winter flu season ... I'm hearing a lot about the heavy berry crop being a forerunner of a bad winter, but I've no idea if that's true.


Oi! Did I not just say, a few pages back, that I won't accept that sort of carp about my beloved Liverpool? Mind you, I get that you're making a point about it all

Here's another one: down here in southern England, it's common to see people kiss each cheek in greeting. When my niece first saw this, she mumbled something about wishy washy counsellors - that was me greeting my business partner, and we *are* both counsellors, it's true. But it actually comes, as far as I'm concerned, from the number of French/Italian/Swiss/Spanish, take your pick but France is *so* near, that its become sort-of normal to adopt the French greeting. I love finding out about that sort of adoption of cultural tone

When we first moved to Greece my husband swore he would never get used to all the kissing and hugging that goes on when you meet someone here...especially if the person he met was male. The first time we went away to visit the UK....he suddenly told me he really missed the kissing and hugging in Greece. Then I knew he had settled down to the local customs.

One thing that does upset me is when I go and meet friends and close family at the airport and they shrink back from the greetings. Its a sad reflection on how scared of others folks are becoming and how anti social some of the new generation are now.

1Tonsil

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

MAR a brief look into this years 'El Nino' weather seems to indicate that from all the signs 2015 IS an El Nino year, the last was 2009/10 and indications for El Nino events mean colder dryer weather for Northern Europe and warmer wetter weather for Southern Europe, 2009/2010 was also exceptionally cold , no one was predicting definites for this winter though but if there is a possibility of it being cold and possibly snowy (although that's not been said) it makes sense to be well stocked up, particularly in the north where you are rather than be caught out by weather events.

I saw a forecast for Corfu today and it would seem to agree with that, numerous storms in the next six months or so...then periods of having very cold and very dry weather. I am going to the UK for a month and I am already thinking about the clothes to take with me. Going prepared for a very cold , snowy month with ice! If it doesnt happen then I will have to take a few layers off...

1Tonsil

mardatha wrote: »

Re the cookery book - I paid £6 for mine. Very interested in how they cook sprouts and cauli, going to try this to see if it tastes nicer. Wish to god a pound and a half of lamb was still 1/6d lol - I'd be eating it 7 days a week!
I have a theory about people who move away and then start slagging their new homeland. We have a few up here from the far south who I've seen stand in shop queues loudly slagging off the Scots and all that we do, it's so rude.
I think these people are misfits who didn't fit in at home and had no friends, so moved away to "start again" but immediately begin to repeat their pattern of behaviour. They can't see that's "not done".
Anyway back on topic - I'm slowly building up the tins for winter, a friend in America is saying they are expecting a bad winter because of El Nino, but I'm not sure of that will affect us here - does anybody know?

I totally agree with you about the ones who move away, then start slagging off the new area or country. It happens here a lot. You see them all bright and full of enthusiasm for living the dream, then reality sets in. A few weeks or months later you hear them slagging off the locals in a bar or coffee shop, totally oblivious to the fact that the locals are listening and are going to take it to heart very soon. They do repeat their old patterns of behaviour. Winter here brings out the worst in folks who move here from other countries. They never expect the weather to be torrential rain or extreme cold, they dont understand why there is no entertainment on all winter. They have expectations that they have created, which cannot be met by anyone or any place, so they end up returning to the UK or moving elsewhere in Europe in the constant search for living the dream. But its not a dream really, its just a fantasy....

jk0

New Simon's Cat video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsOYg5gpS0s

Enjoy.

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moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I can confirm it isn't bedsitbob....there are an awful lot of sheep here....but nope...it definitely aint compulsory to "get up close and personal with them"...:rotfl:

That's fortunate, because I'm allergic to wool.

That's enough Red Dwarf jokes for now.

rosiepup2000

All these comments directly/indirectly criticising one particular person are getting very uncomfortable to read. I remember when Popperwell was hounded off these forums and this kind of thing is the reason why I mostly lurk and hardly ever post anything.