Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

Cheery_Daff

Morning :hello:

Nowt useful to add, just saying hello

mum2one

pippi - dont know if you have done anything about your landline/broadband I'm currently with BT, have all calls (not mobile) and fibre optic currently paying £56 a month, i'm in process of swopping to EE like for like also including 1000 mobile minutes a month - the new bill will be around £36 a month.... unfortunatly BT are a bit slow with the mac code... x

xx

Pippilongstocking

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Morning :hello:

Nowt useful to add, just saying hello

Hello back. 5 eggs today - does anyone want pancakes.



The gals are bringing in a steady 2/3 quid a week - all good.
If only we'd stop scoffing them ourselves there would be more.

Hen photo updates in a wee blink I've told the lasses that its time for some new ones.

mum2one wrote: »

pippi - dont know if you have done anything about your landline/broadband I'm currently with BT, have all calls (not mobile) and fibre optic currently paying £56 a month, i'm in process of swopping to EE like for like also including 1000 mobile minutes a month - the new bill will be around £36 a month.... unfortunatly BT are a bit slow with the mac code... x

xx

We're not in a fibre optic region oot in sticks but we're looking at EE so I'll bare in mind what you said.

Thanks for posting.

Pippilongstocking

So I've done an hours volling
Done a half hour or so painting
Visited Mr A for his sooopersix although I only indulged in 3 of them as I have plenty tomatoes thank you kindly and some washing powder- £3.98
Visited Mr A's bigger cousin for dugfud and a couple bits not at the other place (I spent £5.23) as its cheaper and the lady in front of me spent £143.64 - just a normal week she said. I nearly fell over.

£9.21 to add to spends


Two loads washing done and hung up and time for a bit of lunch.

[Driven 36 miles]


NOTE TO SELF 20ltrs/£125.8 £25 give or take a penny.

mooomin

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

the lady in front of me spent £143.64 - just a normal week she said.

:eek: :eek: :eek:

What on earth was in her trolley?!

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Morning :hello:

Nowt useful to add, just saying hello

me too :hello::hello::hello: Tho I disapprove of this cold of yours, how dare it stay around so long to bother you and DS!

RT - sorry to hear of your news, hope you and OH are doing okay.

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

"Bay - evergreen and takes a hard hack at most times of the year. Take off the growth to contain it and save those tasty leaves. Should do OK.

Sage can be a bit of a menace. Really best done in spring if you can stand it can you trim the worst of it back to let you get access and do the dirtier deed in springtime?

Neither sage nor lavender is long-lived. Old, straggly specimens are best replaced. Either start with new plants or take softwood and semi-ripe cuttings later in the summer."

Pippi, this was really helpful to me too, thank you :beer:

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

mushy peas leftovers from friday and left over tatties for lunch

Its all glamour here

Sounds gorgeous :beer:

I'm fighting a lurgy myself, tbh - which gives me an excellent excuse to sit here and catch up on mse

Thinking about what you said in the last couple of pages, about liking working from home but wanting a physical job too ... how you doing with thinking about that? Growing plants for sale online would work, I guess ... what about very elaborate, specialised plants that earn a really good whack? Orchids and the like, not the useful stuff we grow for ourselves? Do lots of that and you could be onto a great earner No idea really its just blather - trying to find my own version but with no physical work, as I'm so often lurgified ...

Tea and cake?

Pippilongstocking

mooomin wrote: »

:eek: :eek: :eek:

What on earth was in her trolley?!

gold plated dime bars. Erm, just lots of grub and bits and bobs really.

I have to ashamedly say it reminded me of pre-mse.

Each to their own eh?

Thesedays I have a heart attack if it goes over £20

Karmacat wrote: »

me too :hello::hello::hello: Tho I disapprove of this cold of yours, how dare it stay around so long to bother you and DS!

RT - sorry to hear of your news, hope you and OH are doing okay.


Pippi, this was really helpful to me too, thank you :beer:


Sounds gorgeous :beer:

I'm fighting a lurgy myself, tbh - which gives me an excellent excuse to sit here and catch up on mse

Thinking about what you said in the last couple of pages, about liking working from home but wanting a physical job too ... how you doing with thinking about that? Growing plants for sale online would work, I guess ... what about very elaborate, specialised plants that earn a really good whack? Orchids and the like, not the useful stuff we grow for ourselves? Do lots of that and you could be onto a great earner No idea really its just blather - trying to find my own version but with no physical work, as I'm so often lurgified ...

Tea and cake?

Coffee and no cake please

I'm so full of soup and crackers I might actually burst.

Hadn't thought of orchids, thanks for that idea. Hard boogers to grow though - ponder, ponder ponder.
Am also pondering more specialised/harder to get but easy to grow edibles and maybe some free radical busting houseplants. Gotta love that spider plants are SO easy to propagate. Sold those of them.



I'm really enjoying A year at otter farm which is a very different perspective on grow your own/climate change issues.

(Greying did recommend it dear love that she is)

I'll get there - I've a few scams up my sleeve for now perhaps a part time cleaning job might suit - then again - looking around - mabye not.

:rotfl:

Lurgies of the worlds begone.



I had a nice chat with the post man who said if I did label everything he'd take it down for me (saving on fuel) something to think about.

Maybe I should just set up a 'text a gardener' service = my friends use it loads, at a quid a go - I'd be rich i tell you, rich.

Loving a bit of nonsense on the welly's fb page and that's got me a couple bits of wee work so far, so all good.

As cheery would say - patchwork is the way forward I think.

Well, at least able to pay for the biscuits.



Hope you feel fighting fit soon.

Cheery_Daff

Patchwork is indeed the way forwards Sounds like you have many patches up your sleeves :j :j for girls and eggs :j

starnac

And if you've got biscuits you'll be grand

Pippilongstocking

Biscuits are of course my arch nemesis, but I love them Starnac you're very right. Hello

And you're right cheery - somehow it will all be OK. I forget sometimes I've shifted my whole life 300 miles.

I'm happy I've moved, but I never thought I'd instantly find me feet.

Sometimes I forget that.

Speaking of kettles - its now on and the alpine strawberries need finishing putting in their little 'coir teabags' for selling.



Peedies cracking the whip - he'll set the lasses on me if i don't get at it but I do require a cuppa - I'll refill the kettle.