NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

GreyQueen

:eek: Blimey, it's the Medway M a f i a.............you couldn't make it up. For the record I am not, and never have been, a Medwayer, and probably would struggle to find it on a road atlas.

Kent - it's that sticky-out bit below London, yes?

cydney65

GreyQueen wrote: »

:eek: Blimey, it's the Medway M a f i a

I'm originally from Chatham upon Medway

I_want_a_baby

Ok I've been giving it more thought and if supermarkets are out including lidl then I'm really going to struggle with:

Milk
Boxes of Cereal
Yoghurts
Possibly tins/flour

Any ideas, the milk and more delivery doesn't cover our area and Abel and cole boxes are too expensive as I can get fruit and veg at the market.

Ideas?

IWAB x

Chrisblue1962

GreyQueen wrote: »

fuddle, I think this christmas build-up is something which has only occured in the past 20-odd years. Yeah, there used to be nativity plays, the school christmas party but that was it, pre-Christmas eve.

I was in a chazzer yesterday, earwigging on two women who obviously knew each other. One was a teaching assistant and was itemising what they were doing for the children in the next week and frankly I lost the plot after about a half-dozen special Christmas-themed activities.

Gordon Bennett, no wonder people often feel a bit flattened by the reality of Christmas, nothing can live up to the hype which is out there, and the kids as well as the adults are liable to feel a bit done when it comes down to pressies, a few big dinners and some booze.

Hype leads to unrealistic expectations, and unrealistic expenditures, and unrealistic efforting, which leads inexorably to exhaustion, irritability and financial woes. We need to stand firm against the tide of engineered expectations and make our personal christmases relevant to us and to those we love.

I have some lovely vignettes in my head about christmases past. Such as the first christmas with a certain stray cat we'd adopted. She had a ribbon rosette put on her collar, not something we'd normally do to a cat, but we had a random rosette and she was nearby and looking interested. She sat on the sideboard, bolt upright with her chest puffed out, as if to say Look at meeee!!!! Seemed to be beaming with joy.

Or another christmas scene with Halfwit, a six-month old kitten and the neighbour's kitten of the same age under the tree. Neither youngster had ever seen anything like a shiny bauble and sat there batting it to and fro between them, very solemnly.

This year, I'd love to have a real iron frost, so we can go walking near the gravel pits where its a monochomatic wilderness in sepia tones of gunmetal, griege and pure dazzling white. Seldom seen, but magical.

What a beautiful post. On this occasion, the words "Thank You" seem somewhat inadequate

carolbee

carolbee wrote: »

A meet up could be on the cards for us Kent folk?

I'll start a new thread after Christmas to arrange a meet up in Kent, in an independent coffee shop!

Got to get JackieO to come along, so much to learn from her I guess.

I_want_a_baby

Sorry for all the posts, on researching it seems that you can order with Abel and cole and as long as you order a minimum of £12.50 then you don't need to order a veg box.

So I effect I could use this just for milk and dairy.



It would double the price I pay for a bottle of milk but it would be organic, local as from the fields of Wiltshire and they pay the farmer a fair price.

So I'm going to look at it more tonight with a view to placing my first order ready for January.

Does anyone already order milk from Abel and cole? It seems organic milk goes off quicker so I was thinking of the three I order I should put two straight in the freezer?

Thanks

IWAB x

alice-mary

It COULD be worse... my family are in Gravesend!

Mint1955 wrote: »

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GreyQueen

alice-mary wrote: »

It COULD be worse... my family are in Gravesend!

Izzat where you're buried alive? I had no idea Kent was so notorious. I always believe the Garden of England line and thought it was full of market gardens and orchards..... oast houses?

Dammit, haven't been so disappointed since I couldn't find the Hanging Tea Gardens of Yorkshire a coupla summers ago. Those lying marketeers with their so-called 'yorkshire tea' - pffttt!

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It used to be GQ but they grubbed out all the orchards to grow linseed for the subsidies, they grubbed out all the hedgerows to make massive fields for more subsidies and the rest of the countryside and market gardens they built on!!! I'm from Rainham originally when it was a small village and haven't been back for 25 years but even then it was so built up that you couldn't see where one place ended and anothers boundaries started, I can't even hazard a guess as to how much housing is there now.

All the Oast Houses are now tasteful house conversions except for the one at the Whitbread Hop Farm at Beltring (if that still exists) where I was reduced to small childhood on the visit we made as the smell of kiln dried hops is the smell of going 'Hopping' with Mum as a tiny child, oh nostalgia eh?

fuddle

Been thinking ahead about what I still need to tweak and have found I over indulge in my stocks of sanitary products :rotfl: I do like to treat myself it seems :cool: Seriously I have 4 different products for different flows/time of the month and I do not need that. I have obviously been swayed by marketing *spit! I do not like that thought! :eek:

So I will use up what I have/in stock and then when I replace I will get normal in towels and normal in tampons. I should consider the mooncup and rid of both but I wear plastic gloves on my hands day in day out, I just don't fancy the thought of them.

The mooncup would lower my consumer spending though. :cool: Thoughts?