Living on next to nought - is that the key?

Pippilongstocking

*mopps brow of those assisting surgery*

Boils more hot water.

boredofbeingathome

I had Sweet and sour veg tonight with egg fried rice..Go me.:j Cost absolute pennies:money: and there is enough sauce for me to try with turnip:D:beer:

Love that site btw-have been on it before and it is a versatile veg..may try the cake as well Pippi:D

Quick visit tonight so will catch up on posts tomorrow. Bob x

Edit to say-when emptying washing machine keep the back water pipe up and if you can get it to the back door( mine is next to it) then lay it down flat and let it flow... If not then mopping bucket is useful and just pull up every time it gets to full.etc. I would also look at emptying out any bits which may have been clogged-i have had two machines which have done this on me and mysteriously Mr.B always bogs off when hard work is to be done...

Pippilongstocking

Happily post a link to neep-bunnage Bob

Excellent tea frugality too

I'm still at work (don't ask) eating kiwi's (not the human kind) which is quite frugal I guess. Although it just feels dull as I wait for the printer to get inspired enough to actually work.

miss_empty_piggy

I have committed washing machine murder today. I had an old one in the garden which was waiting to be removed. I kept it in order to make it into something else (probably an outdoor fire or ice bucket or something) but after Kirstie's programme last night I was even more inspired to "get on with it".

Today, it was like groundforce in my garden, all my family came round to help me with the jungle. They are just so lovely, they all knew it was more than a one-piggy job and came to lend a trotter. Poppa Pig took it apart for the most part today (he's 73) and it took hours, but there were times when we basically had to take a hammer to it. I thought of you Greying in your quest and how you may at some point want to do the same thing, so I gave it an extra big whack just for you.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

*mopps brow of those assisting surgery*

Boils more hot water.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Thanks Pippi I needed that laugh. As well as putting water on to boil, you've not got a dolly tub, washboard and mangle at the recycling centre have you? I think I have need of a set

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

I had Sweet and sour veg tonight with egg fried rice..Go me.:j Cost absolute pennies:money: and there is enough sauce for me to try with turnip:D:beer:

Love that site btw-have been on it before and it is a versatile veg..may try the cake as well Pippi:D

Quick visit tonight so will catch up on posts tomorrow. Bob x

Edit to say-when emptying washing machine keep the back water pipe up and if you can get it to the back door( mine is next to it) then lay it down flat and let it flow... If not then mopping bucket is useful and just pull up every time it gets to full.etc. I would also look at emptying out any bits which may have been clogged-i have had two machines which have done this on me and mysteriously Mr.B always bogs off when hard work is to be done...

You wait 'til now to tell me this :eek: :rotfl::rotfl: No, actually, that we knew. But unfortunately our machine is not located near to the door, so trying to move it out on Monday evening when over full with water was no joke #herniainducing.

Well folks, it is bad news I am afraid. Despite stripping the machine right down, no obvious blockages were found. This now points to either the pressure switch malfunctioning - a £10 spare part or something more serious with the circuit board. The machine fills constantly, no matter what part of a cycle or function it is on. Still, it is too late in the day to start thinking lucidly about next steps/course of action. DP has worked very hard to find a fixable fault and has slunk off dejectedly for a shower

Now to other things.

pixiedust09 - :wave: & WELCOME! what an incredibly nice comment you left - thank you so very much. Yep, Shovel Lad is rightly becoming a comedy legend for the butter/Buddha bowl gag - extremely funny BTW I was a pixie in a time far far ago. The pixie on our badge was white with a broom in it's hand - talk about wrongly cast from an early age....:rotfl: (I always wanted to be an elf - I think they were red and carried a spade or an axe - or something useful). Edit; I was never a pixie was I - I was of course a Gnome! It just occurred to me - sorry!

BoB - I reckon one of these TV celeb chefs is going to pick up on all this 'turnip talk' and claim it to be the 'new' oyster, lamb shank or cranberry. There'll be a run on stocks of turnips in the shops and marketplace, making it yet another unaffordable foodstuff for the MSE classes, and it'll be your fault........ starts to consider whether clever BoB has shares in a turnip farm acreage .......:think: ........:rotfl::rotfl:

7 Week Wonder - saw your light on. Hope you have had a brilliant day.

Today has indeed been a nsd :j Just as bloomin' well really

Dinner this evening was lentil Bolognese and pasta using a recipe from a student vegetarian cookbook. I didn't have any fresh mushrooms in, so crumbled in a few dried mushrooms and lobbed in a courgette instead. There is plenty left for snap boxes tomorrow too :T It was quick to prepare, eat and tidy away, as per DP's instructions :cool:

Well, today I have been grateful for these 3 things;

friends who write letters - even though this is now the second one that I have not replied too (in my defence, I have texted in the meantime). But it is so nice to have a hand written letter in this day and age, and I will write soon....

Teamwork - doesn't matter who does what, but it is always interesting to see different approaches to problems. Even if you don't reach a satisfactory conclusion, it helps that you both know you both tried your best and explored every avenue.

Friends who make you laugh - especially those with excellent comic timing and those that drop by when you need a lift the most. Thank you

Well folks, I'm outta here now. I look forward to folks dropping in, reading and commenting here. Thank you in anticipation.

See y'all later.

Greying

Greying_Pilgrim

miss_empty_piggy wrote: »

I have committed washing machine murder today. I had an old one in the garden which was waiting to be removed. I kept it in order to make it into something else (probably an outdoor fire or ice bucket or something) but after Kirstie's programme last night I was even more inspired to "get on with it".

Today, it was like groundforce in my garden, all my family came round to help me with the jungle. They are just so lovely, they all knew it was more than a one-piggy job and came to lend a trotter. Poppa Pig took it apart for the most part today (he's 73) and it took hours, but there were times when we basically had to take a hammer to it. I thought of you Greying in your quest and how you may at some point want to do the same thing, Oh yes, you are so right, but knowing our luck, we'd of hit the only 'substantially made' bit and the hammer would of bounced off and hit us on the bonce! :rotfl: so I gave it an extra big whack just for you. Why thank you miss empty piggy note to self, do.... not.... mess.... with miss empty piggy.........:rotfl:

Thanks for dropping in miss empty piggy - sounds like you have had a busy day

Greying

Fortune_Smiles

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Bees and pollen - I spent ages watching bumble bees go mad for pollen on some wonderful flowers* in the parentals' garden. The bees were all dusty yellow/orange from the pollen, and as I took a t-shirt off the clothes line, a single speck of pollen had fallen onto it - priceless.

Hello Greying

I hope you don't mind me de-lurking to pop in and say hello. I love you're 3 things to be grateful for. I have short cuts to happiness and watching bees is definitely one of those. I have a huge English Lavender bush in the garden which is alive with all sorts of bees and butterflies at the moment. They lift off in a cloud around you as you brush past.

Fortune x

Greying_Pilgrim

Fortune Smiles - WELCOME - thank you for 'de-lurking' and joining in. Happy to have you here. Oh yes, bees love lavender don't they? I was struck by how many butterflies were in the parental's garden the other evening. Mostly 'cabbage whites' it has to be said but certainly more than I have seen for a long while.

I know it is not the same plant, but we went to Tintinhull Gardens (NT) and they have 2 'streams' of Nepeta lining the central path in their vegetable garden. The bees were mad for that, and I've got a lovely close up shot of a bumble bee working the flowers, very detailed - it's part of my screensaver slide show now.

Greying

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Well a plan has been formulated re washing machine. DP is going to investigate spare parts/engineer call out/prognosis from what we know is wrong etc etc today, so we should know where we stand by this evening. There is no way that the budget can be stretched to buy anything - secondhand or otherwise - this month, so I'm betting I'm down the launderette for a good few weeks.

Today is a low spend day, DP has been despatched with coinage and a list comprising bananas and milk.

Can anyone tell me where I can find (simple) instructions on how to convert T*sco clubc*rd vouch*rs these days please? We do breakdown cover with them - it is the only thing we use them for. When I did it last year, you still had to download a form, fill it in, attach your coupons and send it off to an address in Surrey. Is it all done via the website now? How do I make sure I've got the same coupons 'on screen' as I have in my hand? This will be the last time we can do it anyway, we purchase so little from t*sco these days, we never earn enough vouchers for anything.

Hopefully, dinner tonight will be Jack's 9p burgers and a selection of veg. However, with the 'moveable feasts' we've had this week, anything is possible :rotfl:

Well, I'd better get a shift on.

Thank you, as ever, for dropping by, reading, commenting and joining in. I greatly appreciate it.

See y'all later.

Greying

Shovel_Lad

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Can anyone tell me where I can find (simple) instructions on how to convert T*sco clubc*rd vouch*rs these days please? We do breakdown cover with them - it is the only thing we use them for. When I did it last year, you still had to download a form, fill it in, attach your coupons and send it off to an address in Surrey. Is it all done via the website now? How do I make sure I've got the same coupons 'on screen' as I have in my hand? This will be the last time we can do it anyway, we purchase so little from t*sco these days, we never earn enough vouchers for anything.

No idea if this will be simple however...:cool:

Had a wander round the T*sco site and eventually got to this. Seems they do breakdown cover with the R*C.

http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/browse.aspx?Ntt=&N=4294967150&No=0

There are a number of different kinds of breakdown cover.
Picking on one at random tells you what to do to claim.

http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/product.aspx?R=3322&%20bci=4294967150|Motoring

Simple?
I'll let you be the judge