'supporting each other through really tough times'

Nargleblast

mardatha wrote: »

Definitely yes - my husband and one son never get bitten but the rest of us get covered in them.
Avon Skin so Soft is good though.

I saw a little newspaper article once saying that members of the armed forces stationed in that part of the world used this particular product to repel midges. A spokesman was quoted as saying there was nothing effeminate about it, it really did work. The punchilne from the editor was "Calm down, dear!"

boultdj

Yes Fuddle,bear root's are fine, just don't plant 'em to deep, you want the crown part just peeping over the top of the soil, but seeing as it's very cold at the moment can I surgest you keep 'em in a shed over night and bring 'em out in the day once the tempreture has got above freezing, and also don't over water 'em.hth

fuddle

Excellent! Thank you boult, ill have a walk up on Monday. Haven't got shed yet but downstairs toilet going to get plastic terracotta pot for them, they will live on top of one of the three drains in the garden. This garden will be planted in pots be ause I want to take them with me when we move on plus I'm not allowed to dig up grass.

It's not good for plants in pots is it? Still doable though?

kidcat

fuddle- until we bought this place all our garden planting was in pots or Ikea bags, and it worked fine, we were able to bring it all with us when we moved.

Popperwell

mcculloch29 wrote: »

I've stopped buying from many CS's, though we have a Barnardo's 'everything's 99p' one here. I know Pops is a regular.
I don't need clothes at the moment, but when I do, Primarni and the NE/Cumbria/Yorkshire's X Catalogue Shops will be my destination.

As has been said we have at least 4 CS in our small town but not a great choice of items and many are as expensive as main shops. Being a man and spending a lot of time indoors I don't have to worry about looking really "smart" but do try. And we can getaway with a shirt, trousers/jumpers.

Its gone a bit quiet at Barnardo's lately...

Bric-a-brac is quite scarse too...and I would say the best bargains are probably on books...

If I can get out more(and am successful with applying for a bus pass)perhaps I will be able to visit more CS in other areas that perhaps get more stock. Then again perhaps the prices will be high too.

In one way CS have to serve those who need them the most(those who struggle)but if they attract those who have money that can be used for the work they carry out. So it is difficult to know who to pitch their shops at.

boultdj

Strawberries love pot's fuddle,as long as you remember to put drainage hole's in the bottom, and yes I'v been there,done that:o, the only other thing I would recomend is when the plant's start flowering, you need to start feeding them, it reley help's the plant's, all I use is tomatoe food once a week for the berry plant's [I'v got autum raspberries in pot's as well].

mcculloch29

I have a mental shopping list and on 9/10 shopping trips, I use that. Sometimes I have a splurge trip - yesterday was one.

We both deserved treats, son as he had a funeral to face first thing this morning and me as it's been a bit of a week, with losing my mate.
I bought alcohol to drink at home for the first time since Christmas - just a bottle of light-ish rose wine. I have other treats too, hope DS didn't nab the lot on a midnight raid..

My friend's funeral is towards the end of next week - a crem. service, no church service. That crem. is a more pleasant one than others locally, which is something.

Just realised that it will be the fourth service I've been to there, all of them were under 55.

fuddle

Boult what compost would you suggest for the bare roots? I'll remember tomato feed. am I correct in thinking that I have to pinch the flowers off in the first year or am I getting confused?

boultdj

You need a compost that has some John Innis no:3 in it, no:3 being a soil base, which is recomended for all plant's which are going in tub's/pot's for more than a year.

Flower's are to be left on stawberry plant's,they are programed to give fruit from the first year, I think your getting mixed up with rhubard, which you don't pick the first year, and it's only lightly picked the second,but after that you can go for it picking wise.

nuttyp

Thanks fuddle, i think i will just leave sorting the bank for a while. Just want to forget it ever happened now. I know im not the only person to have gone through it. Some days i forget then something will remind me of our stupidness in buying when the banks were tripping overthemsleves to over lend for a house. I was 19 and stupid to have even bothered with buying a house then, my only excuse is i was pregant with our first child.

We are definatley feeling the pinch like everyone. We had a £6 of a 30 shop, so we got a few bits. My trolley was mainly basic's from sainsbobs. Just check bank and 62p in the current account, payday is monday.
I always trek to aldi when OH isnt with me, hes not as keen as me to go there. HMMMM does anyone know when the next voucher is due in the mirror newspaper. I will stock up on bits when its in again. I tend to get the baking stuff and other dried items that will keep.

Heating has just gone on, tis rather cold here.