Living on next to nought - is that the key?

Igamogam

Postcard: keep what you will use - if there is stuff you dont eat then pass it on.

I put one item a week in FB collection trolley at T*sco - usually a tin of beans or soup. Like Pippi a bit of a 'hoarder' but am getting better - couple of times a year I have a big kitchen cupboard clear out and although I am not aversed to using tinned/packets that are out of date, way beyond date stuff I do put on Freegle and am always inundated with requests. In fact last time I just went straight to the freegler as I know it goes to a deserving cause

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Goodness, visitors!

Thankyou; Tilly, Pippi, Beanie, BoB and Igamogam for your advice re the foodstuffs. I have decided to take a germ of an idea from Tilly's post, as well as your advice. I will keep the stuff, but there are a couple of items that can be transformed into 'shared' food, and for the rest, I will shove a little money in a dish each time I use them, and donate some UHT/LL milk to our local FB with the proceeds. It is an item on their 'most wanted' list as it is (for their particular set of clients) so universally useful. Funnily enough, one of the most useful items (baked beans) cannot be donated, as they went 'OOD' overnight - - and yes, I am quite happy to eat them. THANK YOU for your input.

Igamogam - welcome to this thread. I remember you telling someone once that your username was a welsh word, who's approximate translation was 'zigzag'. That has stuck with me

missemptypiggy and Beanie - my best advice would be to not settle for anything less than the best, so look out for the subscription to 'Mi££ionaire' * catalogue - unfortunately, 'foryouBi££ionaire' has been oversubscribed for many a year .................

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Well, I've gotta dash, we're out blackberry hunting this morning and generally dashing about collecting and delivering. The good thing is, today should be a NSD

Thank you for dropping by, reading and commenting. I do appreciate it.

See y'all later.

Greying

* it is easily confused with 'Million-hairs' catalogue though, which is an entirely different publication, concerned with cat ownership........................

miss_empty_piggy

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

missemptypiggy and Beanie - my best advice would be to not settle for anything less than the best, so look out for the subscription to 'Mi££ionaire' * catalogue - unfortunately, 'foryouBi££ionaire' has been oversubscribed for many a year .................

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Oh thanks Greying, I actually do have a Mr Empty Piggy who is not far from the best - I love the very trotters of him. I just wanted a catalogue....sounds a bit wrong that doesn't it? (I am also well known in the library!!!!) :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Enjoy your balckberry picking (brings back fond childhood memories).

Have a great day everyone. :beer:

Igamogam

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Igamogam - welcome to this thread. I remember you telling someone once that your username was a welsh word, who's approximate translation was 'zigzag'. That has stuck with me

Impressive memory;)

Pippilongstocking

Enjoy the BlackBerrying and well done on the foodbank dilemma.

When I lived in the deepest darkest greenest part of Englandshire (Oxford) as a tearaway mudsplattered child I loved BlackBerrying - the smell of pies strewn with apples and jams bubbling.

They're all green and hard up here still, so a picture of the loot later would be goodly appreciated if you've time.



PS thanks for the other replies to my mutterings re food - interesting and sparked lots of thoughts here.

Igamogam

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

They're all green and hard up here still, so a picture of the loot later would be goodly appreciated if you've time.

Same here but then we are about 800 feet or so above SL - dont expect blackberries for another 2/3 weeks!

Karmacat

Oh my! The wasps are starting to get at our blackberries, some of them are so ripe! I have to check each one to see if a wasp's sitting on it, honestly, nearly got caught out a few times. Sorry!

Greying, thanks for the tip on the DD for the National Trust - I'd literally just shut the computer down, hey ho, so I bought the annual one for the single place - but honestly, other NT sites are so difficult to get to, and sometimes I can get in free or half price on the tickets my sister can get hold of, I think it will be fine. If things go according to plan, I'll get the national one next year

Lovely to see Pippi receiving her ology

Interesting on the food - you've decided what to do anyway, but I certainly think its right that you accept the food. The thing that interested me was that it came because of a house move - and thats the thing that says to me Pippi needs to temporarily address the food storage - otherwise, you're either giving away a lot of food (i.e. money) or paying out even more money to have it moved with you. I certainly ate out of my storecupboard for ages before I moved (3 years ago now, omigod!!!) and then did a few big stockup shops when I was in the new house.

Have a lovely time blackberrying

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Afternoon :hello:

For Pippi and anyone else remotely interested.......






We had a wonderful time, walking and picking blackberries. We picked 2.5kg in about 1hr. Probably too slow to consider it vocationally, but then commercial berry farms aren't up steep cliff faces, the briars aren't intermingled with wild roses, nettles, and gorse and surrounded by shifting scree! Can you tell we had an adventure

If it's any consolation, where we were, there were blackberries at every stage - literally from the flower petals still being on, through green bullets, crimson bullets and all stages through to dropping off the briar in ripeness. In addition to being plentiful and abundant(as has been mentioned elsewhere on MSE) , some of the berries were huge - especially if they were just out of reach, or hanging over a cliff face :rotfl:

Greying

Upsidedown_Bear

Igamogam

Can one have blackberry envy?! I can smell those GP.IMO commercially grown ones are tasteless. We grew a thornless blackberry for a few years and dug it up after 3 seasons as it was tasteless - much better getting ripped to shreds collecting them! Around here bilberry picking is very popular - I am sure I eat as much as we collect though!