Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

Pippilongstocking

So monthly review time it is as I was awaiting for greying to be awesome as always I'm nudged into doing my own one.

That and the spreadsheet that's not done yet :P

Visitors 19/individuals on overnighters, 8/daytimers I do like it when folks stay
Food spends 121.26/165 (although I was aiming for 75 this month, having spent £90 on DD getting set up at uni £211.26) so I'm woefully over. *hangs head in shame*
Petrol spends 133.89/100
NSD's - forgot to count.
Chook food (22/9/14) 18.90/£6 egg money
Paid work 1/day week + 4 days teaching + 2 hours gardening

Free stuff from the garden
Eggs
Apples
Chillis
Tomatoes
Courgettes
Cabbage
Leeks
Cukes
Herbs
Lots and lots of wood - free heat.

Now none of that progress with the food spends and petrol in particular is particularly good. Especially the groceries. OK we had more folks in and about the place but they all contributed well and in kind. And the alcohol bought in for wine/beer etc isn't in that figure. Although a lot of it was gifted as were some lovely food and treats - thank you all.

Mostly I blame the kids. Especially for the petrol* being up and all the food being scoffed

Why not. Pesky kids.

*although work petrol expenses this month almost cover the spends due to conferences etc.

So in review of these figures - I pledge to have Non driving days (NDD's) and watch my fuels spends. I'll aim for 15 NDD's
Pledge to record some NSD's and aim for 15 if I can keep out the car can I keep the spends off.

Octobers budget is thus and food damaged a bit with a huge internet shop and some fabulous bargains of reducedness.

Petrol 25.99/£100
Food 60.06/£165
Visitors - O due
NDD's 1/15
NSD's 0/15

Pippilongstocking

starnac wrote: »

Or trip over the threshold and do a "Superman" into the lounge a la DS

Indeed done that twice this week already.



Hope you're all splendid. Greta is hanging out with the lasses in the main garden when I let them out for a bit and sneaking into the house to lay her egg whilst she thinks no one can see. She's not totally integrated but she's going into the enclosure alot and when they head back in for bed, I swear I've seen her head in too. Not of course that she'll confess to that.

ZTD

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

1 and 2 are affirmative.
The room is the only 'corridor room' between the kitchen and the rest of the house

Right, this is something I'm not visualising very well. How did you end up with a conservatory as a corridor (or convert a corridor to a conservatory)? Did the kitchen used to be an out-house or something? Which way does the conservatory face? Does it direct get sun at any time? How glazed is it?

starnac

ZTD wrote: »

Right, this is something I'm not visualising very well. How did you end up with a conservatory as a corridor (or convert a corridor to a conservatory)? Did the kitchen used to be an out-house or something? Which way does the conservatory face? Does it direct get sun at any time? How glazed is it?

I think the kitchen was an extension put on after the conservatory x

Pippilongstocking

ZTD wrote: »

Right, this is something I'm not visualising very well. How did you end up with a conservatory as a corridor (or convert a corridor to a conservatory)? Did the kitchen used to be an out-house or something? Which way does the conservatory face? Does it direct get sun at any time? How glazed is it?

Hello. Its all quite new.

Bingo it (kitchen) was an adjacent outhouse and the conservatory faces west. Good summer sun, not so much from now on in til late afternoon, hampered by a pesky tree full of apples.

Conservatory hosts the doors from both old cottage (directly into the lounge) and the door to the new kitchen/once shed. Rather than breaking through the wall between house and shed and going through a chinmey to put in an internal door they used the original doors and used the conservatory to bridge the gap.

Starnacs quite right the conservatory came first the kitchen second.

Which is why both doors have lips that folks trip over frequently.

Its quirky, but chillsome.

Pippilongstocking

This is ace but not sure how practical in a carpeted room.

http://www.permaculture.co.uk/readers-solutions/heat-your-room-1-candle-plus-flowerpots-nuts-and-washers

8p/heat your room for a day.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10449357/Heat-your-home-office-for-8p-a-day.html

I'm sure Wik's Dad made one of these for the greenhouse over the winter.



Not much you can't do with a flowerpot eh.

Pippilongstocking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oa7ifmHm4U

More fun.

And even posher - one that looks nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b11dqKJrulk

Pippilongstocking

The cornish one is my favourite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-NTZOE0A90

I'm off to find a flower pot and a few pennies.

Not sure I have any pennies mind.

:eek:

I did however find some euros

Its not bonnie but its the proto-type. When I get my engineer home we can have a bash at something bigger over the weekend. Well its a laugh if nowt else. And heating up nicely. Don't mind the dust please.

Karmacat

I remember them coming up! Fascinating I actually have the makings at the back of one of my desk drawers - I've never put it together, as I'm so bad at finishing things. I don't have anything big to hold it all together, but I was going to put a load of fire cement onto the little flowerpots (which I had in stock anyway, half used) and stick all the washers and bolts and whatnot onto that - add bulk that way

Pippilongstocking

KC I'm similar but this simple one just uses pennies and plates, a candle and a pot.

I made it in less than ten minutes most of that finding the stuff.

I do like the look of the bigger ones with bolts but will consult with himself before I embark or high engineering in the hoose.

Its blinking warm already, can't touch the lid anymore.

Mind on I might just be imagining it from being so giddy.

*waves*