when you reach breaking point

Popperwell

Excellent post GQ. Can't disagree with what you say(not that I want to):)

Trouble is they'll probably get their policies through before there is the chance to change things at the ballot box and as you suggest the alternatives aren't exactly great...

Butterfly_Brain

I remember the winter of '63 GQ (I was 4) and my dad burning anything that he could to keep us warm, including a billiard table that would be worth thousands these days :eek: But the coal man couldn't get through, so people had to make do with what they had.
There had to be air drops of food in rural communities and for animals stranded in fields, even the sea froze :eek: I remember icicles that were four or five feet long hanging from windows. I hope I don't see another winter like it, but the odds are that it will happen again. I have just read that SSE have raised prices by 9%, that is treble the inflation rate so the others will quickly follow it is a sure bet. British Gas has been threatening it for months. I am fed up with being held to ransom by these foreign owned companies :mad: How many will die of cold and hunger this winter thanks to the wealthy politicians who have never had to struggle in their over privileged lives, not just the elderly but the poor, sick, disabled, and homeless.

OrkneyStar

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I have just started a thread on the food and grocery board, just to give people the heads up, so please let peeps know on other threads about the supermarkets removing some of the lower priced items from the shelves because of the christmas stock...

We really do need to give the heads up on things like this.....

I cant remember what items were targeted, but if anyone can remember from past years.. it would be nice to know which items to stock up on:T

OrkneyStar wrote: »

But then we still won't be able to get any as everyone will be buying more than normal, only the lucky ones able to get in early enough will get the products surely?

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I can see your point, but i was only trying to give people the reminder of what happens most years in the supermarkets...Should I have not said anything, and let people find out for themselves when their regular cheaper item isnt on the shelf? Iwould have thought that was mean and selfish

suburbanwifey wrote: »

I read your entire thread (that you mention here) and I think it was lovely of you to pop over to here to mention it for some others to see. You always get those on here, you know the type I've seen them on my own posts and others, ignore them keep doing what you are doing, benefits us all xx

suburbanwifey: I presume you were referring to me as being 'the type' :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
I understand what cooltrikerchick is trying to do, my point was just that it is very hard to win with the supermarkets, so even if some folk do have a heads up on things being 'shelved' for a while, not everyone will be able to pop along and get all they need. It wasn't a dig at the OP, more a comment on the reality of it all.
Believe me I understand the frustration at not being able to get certain products or cheap items, being as we live on an island and are pretty much at the ransom of Tesco/Lidl (though we are getting a Dealz/Pounland-yipeee!).

Popperwell

I had signed up for duel fuel with N Power but British Gas has just talked me into going with them, now this threat...oh dear!

Where are my thermals?:p

GreyQueen

I just heard about that price hike, too. Burgering barstewards. People are trying so hard to cut back and then, at the end of the summer, when folks have already calculated how much (little) they can afford to spend on heating this coming winter and you get a kicking like that.:( I think people will suffer a lot over this.

Re 1962-63, Dad recalls how he'd bike off to work in the frozen wheel ruts of the backroads and the bottle of squash in the ex army haversack on his back would freeze solid. That's bitter. My folks didn't dare put me to sleep upstairs in our cottage because there was no heat other than the coal fire in the living room so we stayed down there together with me snuggled down in my carrycot.

lostinrates

GreyQueen wrote: »

I just heard about that price hike, too. Burgering barstewards. People are trying so hard to cut back and then, at the end of the summer, when folks have already calculated how much (little) they can afford to spend on heating this coming winter and you get a kicking like that.:( I think people will suffer a lot over this.

Re 1962-63, Dad recalls how he'd bike off to work in the frozen wheel ruts of the backroads and the bottle of squash in the ex army haversack on his back would freeze solid. That's bitter. My folks didn't dare put me to sleep upstairs in our cottage because there was no heat other than the coal fire in the living room so we stayed down there together with me snuggled down in my carrycot.

My drinks have frozen by my bed lat two winters.:D. Thank goodness for electric blankets!

Ins been really beautiful though. I will be glad to have heating this year as i have been worsening in health this summer.

OrkneyStar

Just a thought, any of you who can knit/crochet, now is the time to get the needles/hooks out. If not for yourselves then for a family with young ones on a low working income, or an elderly friend/neighbour. That blanket or even lap throw could make all the difference in a cold winter, with the rising price of fuel. Or if you cannot knit/crochet then keep an eye out in charity shops for such things. Also mitts, hats, scarves. Just a thought.

OrkneyStar

lostinrates wrote: »

My drinks have frozen by my bed lat two winters.:D. Thank goodness for electric blankets!

Ins been really beautiful though. I will be glad to have heating this year as i have been worsening in health this summer.

We no longer use our leccie blanket but I do swear by flanelette (sp?) jammies and a hot water bottle. We are in the Northern Isles and if we have a northerly wind up here, boy does it chill you to the bone!

Butterfly_Brain

Don't know whether to believe this or not, but maybe, just in case..............http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1313858/Solar-flare-paralyse-Earth-2013.html

Popperwell

BB,
The link did not work but I hope this one does...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2191936/Government-adviser-fight-save-Earth-devastating-solar-storms-expected-knock-National-Grid-2013.html