'supporting each other through really tough times'

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Hey FUDDLE I'd like to take life by the neck and give it a good hiding on your behalf, then hold it down so you could have a go too!!!!! Don't make any assumptions about what is going to happen until you have firm sound news, what you imagine is often far worse than reality, hang in there until Monday and we'll be right there with you honey, and if things get tight and difficult you can pick our collective brains for ways to cope. Whatever happens we will be here for you and yours and if you need to say what you're really feeling pm me and I'll listen, courage mon brave, I know you are made of strong stuff, Hugs, hugs and more hugs, Lyn xxx.

The_Dragon

Hugs Fuddle, at least now you are in a more energy efficient house etc!

GreyQueen

katieowl wrote: »

Discuss.... I was out with my mate in the week shopping and they had one of those vintage signs in N3xt which says "The world is your oyster" and I had one of those moments you have from time to time when you see something you've seen for years and it strikes you as very odd (tell me other people get those too please?)

I know 'what' the world is your oyster means, as in..the whole world is there for your taking... but Really The world is your greyish/beige rather strongly tasting fishy bi-valve with a reputation as an aphrodisiac when eaten raw, and a bit of a reputation as a decadent luxury, some 100 years after being the food of the poor....really doesn't have the same ring does it...??? What does "The world is your oyster" really mean???
LOL!

Kate

The variation of the world being your mollusc is a Discworldism (I believe there are some fellow-travellers from the Discworld amongst us). And yes, it is very odd.

I have always been pothered by the phrase She's no better than she ought to be in the context of a woman's sexual morals. What the heck does it mean?

RosiePuddingPaws wrote: »

Whilst here, I wish to register a complaint. What do Leedl think they are doing selling their chocolate for half price and putting the stand just inside the door? How am I expected to keep to my list when I get ambushed like that?!! As it is I think I am lucky that only six bars secreted themselves within my shopping. Just a shame it was after I had been attacked by a bag of large Cadbury buttons.

On another matter, whilst in that in-between state that happens when you are snug in bed but starting to feel you really should be thinking about getting up, I had a thought about Nursie. Can I suggest, Softstuff, that you try and persuade her to go and see 2Tonsils? I feel sure that she is the woman for the job to sort out Greece.

RPP

:eek: OMG, that happened to you, too?! Two of them sorta fell into my hands this aft (I did pay). They're very nice, btw. 2tonsils is more than a match for Nursie but I dunno if the jobsworth in the local office can withstand Nursie's considerable....errr.....charms?

fuddle wrote: »

Tears galore in this house this afternoon. DH broke the news that when he goes in to work on Monday they will be discussing pay cuts. It's happening, just a case of how much.

Please can I swear?

(((((fuddle))))) swear if it helps, so long as the littlies aren't in earshot. This burgering economy is really p-ing me off. Far too many good people are losing jobs, losing hours, being forced to take pay cuts.

Just remember that the cut off the front end won't feed thru pound for pound (due to paying less income tax and NI) plus there are changes to the tax allowances next month anyway. It might not work out as bad as the headline figure shows.

Teeth gritted and chin up, we're here for you.


Well, went to the lottie expecting the day to continue in the dry-grey-cold format and blow me if the sun didn't come out. Have had a darling robin almost under my feet tucking into wireworms (good work, that bird) and regular worms (wah!). Such a bold little creature.

On the way too and fro I suddenly noticed that there are daffs about 6 inches tall with buds starting to grow, catkins out, and the sky is full of wheeling birds and birds in trees singing their little hearts out.

Deffo springlike. I may plant onion sets and broad beans next weekend. Still trundling away thru the veggie patch.

Today's haul; a bit of waffle carpet underlay the size of my palm, 4 rusty nails, a bit of pottery and several bits of glass and plastic. Plus a very surprised little toad.......:rotfl:Oh, and lots of couch grass, now in the green waste section of the tip, garnished with some docks and some mallows with 3 foot long tap roots. They're a burger to extract, requiring a double-handed grip below ground level and all my considerable weight thrown at the problem.

Sometimes they give way suddenly. And then I end up on my rear in the dirt, laughing like a loon.

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GQ it is deffo spring, I went into the bedroom a few minutes ago to pull the curtains and the entire window sill is covered in little pots and trays with labels in - He Who Knows has spent the entire afternoon planting lots of seeds ready to plant out in the polytunnel, I have to say it smelt wonderful, (I know I'm so sad!) and he wouldn't have done that unless his internal weather clock had gone Boinnnnggggggg IT IS SPRING - envious of the robin though!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

grandma247

liver with ginger, Liver with ginger and coriander, and lots of curried liver recipes. Some with loads of ingredients and some with just a few. I buy a ready mix of the spices for it from the Asian supermarket which is very hot so I only use a bit at a time.

kidcat

Fuddle - ((Hugs)) can I also point out that if you do get a pay cut you may be eligible for some of your rent and council tax paid or even some tax credits. If you do receive some tax credits you may then be eligible for the childcare element if you did manage to find work If you look at entitledto.co.uk you can work out at what point you become eligible and how much - so that when you know the figures you will know if you can get help

I have been so busy again here today, DD6 finally got to her dance lessons which she loved, we are really lucky as four of her class friends also go so she knows lots of the class. What was lovely was that the mums all stay to watch and they take turns bringing coffee and knowing I was coming one of the mums included me.

I was able to have a lovely chat and catch up, share news that I cant normally do with DD6 school as I am usually doing DS8 pick ups.
We then had to go shoe shopping with DS8 and DD6, he had split his school shoes and DD6 was determined she had outgrown hers - thankfully she hadnt. So just one pair to buy.

I have also managed to get all the presents for DD6 birthday on Friday sorted and I think I have most of the stuff for the party bags - just food to organise. I am thinking hot dogs and pizza, some crisps and then Jelly, Ice cream and a cup cake. Have cheated and ordered a cake - she has 45 kids coming so I needed a huge cake, which I could make but with DS8 around the odds of it surviving are slim:)

Starting to think about DS8 birthday the following week as well, his is all catered thankfully, I just need to provide party bags and cake.

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KIDCAT you are just the best Mum, your littlies are so very lucky, Cheers Lyn xxx.

katieowl_2

westcoastscot wrote: »

Kate my understanding is that it originates from the Merry Wives of Windsor - if I recall someone asked for a loan and was refused, so threatened to get said money through use of a weapon (a sword) - as one would use a sword to open an oyster to extract the pearl. Modern thinking has adapted this to have a less violent meaning - the world is your oyster, you are the pearl, that is the most valuable thing in your world.

Ah so maybe it is the pearl that is the thing...as in if the world is your 'oyster' you will find a pearl within... who knows!!!

Oh FUDDLE what a blow...about your OH getting a pay cut I'd be upset too if I were you.

Did anyone see the programme on the day before yesterday about the shortage of jobs. There was some poor woman working three jobs, some uni graduate who was doing unpaid work at a zoo hoping it would lead to something, and working part time in a hair dressers, and she said she felt bad working there, because she was taking a hairdressing job from someone who would have wanted to do that, and it was the only thing she could find. DD and I were discussing that programme the next day, and she says that most of her school friends that went to uni have McJobs...those that have them at all!

Whatever will become of us all??? There was some blithering idiot on the radio at teatime, saying he wasn't going to stand for defence cuts, why couldn't they take it out of the benefits bill??? :eek: I'd like to frogmarch some of these lala land luvvies around some of the people I know and then ask them what the hell they expect them to do!!! Is someone keeping a count of the death toll?


Kate

meanmarie

Mrs LW... brisket that has not been corned is more difficult to find here than hens' teeth but will have a go the next time I'm in butchers.

Fuddle...hope that the cut will not be too severe.

Still feeling very cold although the washing (3 loads) came in nicely dry, will air it over the banisters.

Had some lovely news last night...friend of DS1 to whom we would all be close, and his wife have had the safe delivery of triplets, 2 girls and a boy....they have been married 6 years and already have 2 little girls of 4 and 2....have been thinking about them all day and the mayhem that is going to be their household for the next few years!

stay safe and warm everybody

Marie

mcculloch29

Some great advice for you, Fuddle, already, so I don't think I can add much, other than the relief that we are out of the expensive end of the year as regards heating and that you are in the new build.

Spring deffo on the way up here, though so much later than in recent years. The snowdrops are still going strong and the daffs are all still in bud. I had to take my gloves off when cycling as my hands were too warm. That's a first for this year.

Lots of new tempting bits and pieces in the local Heron (discount food store, for those unlucky enough not to have one). Hungarian salami to try and frozen belly pork slices with their own sauce (think it was apple/mustard).
The shop was really busy - as almost always - I really think people have caught on to just how much money this place saves you - some were looking at disbelief at the prices ( eg 3 500g Rachel's Organic yogurts for £1.20, UBD 17 March) so they must have been newbies.