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Busylizzie

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Thanks eeeeeeemap for both the Fortitude quickie review and your blog link.

Unsure if I want to invest any time in Fortitude. After Breaking Bad it's going to have to be pretty good TV.

I read the blog and the sequel. It made good reading I know that I have lots in my life to be thankful for. I often think that we have great survival skills.....laugh ye not.......in shopping,cooking, spending money wisely but no vehicle to convey them:o if we could harness our collective knowledge, we could really make a difference to how people live. The foodbanks answer an immediate problem but so many people are missing the basic life skills. I know what can be made with an onion and a carrot but lots of people don't:o a homemade soup can be sooooooo cheap and nutritious but it needs someone with a pan, some cutlery, a stove, some money on the meter and a little bit of knowledge to make it.

I was at a meeting on Friday attended by the local police who reported that shoplifting is going through the roof . They quoted a young woman who had stolen 4 ready meals from A for her 4 children. Nothing for herself. They supported her to get a food parcel.:o

DD2 has just spent several weeks analysing a Pasta bake in her Food Tech lessons. Planning it, cooking it then looking at ways to improve it, make it gluten free, vegetarian, low calorie and how to improve its appearance. Fine, but surely better to learn to cook a wide range of dishes first?

elsie1969

springdreams wrote: »

Good morning,

I'm taking DS to his football match shortly. Going to be taking a thermos of coffee with me, as it is going to be freezing standing on the sidelines cheering his team on. He'll need a warm bath when he gets home to defrost.

Have a lovely day all

Morning all,

Done a very quick skim read, sorry for the lack of 'thanks' from me but what I have to do now is take my DS to footie as well...... To Referee!!!!! So when the game is done, it's hot bath, but hopefully not any ice for a black eye! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Actually he did his FA refs training a couple of months back and is getting on really well. After seeing this morning on breakfast telly that teenagers are lacking social skills and don't know how to do things like handshake, I can see that doing this has helped him in this respect no end. :T

Nannylala

David. wrote: »

I remember my gran having one with a coin box thing on the back payg tv :eek:
:rotfl:

Busylizzie wrote: »

We had one of those when I was small. If your money ran out and you had no change you missed the end of the programme! :eek:

David we had one of those TV when first married think that must make me old enough to be your Gran:A
As far as not having enough money to put in I remember my Brother-in-law taking the back off and using the same coins:eek:

David.

RootedNomad wrote: »

Although the headline focus was about poverty, and I agree about many of us being blessed with what we have and about the benchmark being what is our normal, but everyones " norm" is so very different. Is it possible to draw any meaningful comparisons? I read grief and heartbreak and mourning for things lost. Health, mobility, ability to raise her family in the way she had hoped for, overwhelming helplessness and difficulty coping with being unexpectedly out of control. It takes time to grieve, to make the necessary adjustments, time to haul things together and turn things around. And time to let go and move on. It is very hard not to feel resentment, not to have occasional moments of feeling sorry for yourself during that process, no matter how strong a person you are.

Touched a chord here, and I know it would for others.

and the poverty part was what I was referencing.
I even mentioned "and I am in no way having a pop at you or the author" as I often see on here how easy it is to sit back and dissect a post and turn it into something else

David.

Nannylala wrote: »

David we had one of those TV when first married think that must make me old enough to be your Gran:A
As far as not having enough money to put in I remember my Brother-in-law taking the back off and using the same coins:eek:

:kisses3:
I opened my grans with a hairgrip :rotfl:

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Good morning all, a tad breezy here but OK otherwise

Bananababe wrote: »

You keeping busy too.

I'm on track. Gotta finish one today and put crib sheet together for economics exam on Wednesday.

Gotta decide next month if doing next year which seems incredibly daunting at this point but I guess no sense in leaving it to last minute as places be gone.

I keep telling myself not sure would manage but I guess its just building on this year.

We'll see

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

TrulyMadly

elsie1969 wrote: »

Morning all,

Done a very quick skim read, sorry for the lack of 'thanks' from me but what I have to do now is take my DS to footie as well...... To Referee!!!!! So when the game is done, it's hot bath, but hopefully not any ice for a black eye! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Actually he did his FA refs training a couple of months back and is getting on really well. After seeing this morning on breakfast telly that teenagers are lacking social skills and don't know how to do things like handshake, I can see that doing this has helped him in this respect no end. :T

I love teenagers shaking hands:j:T

3dogs Noela is beautiful. She has a gorgeous coat. Hope you'll keep us posted with her progress:)

RootedNomad

David. wrote: »

and the poverty part was what I was referencing.
I even mentioned "and I am in no way having a pop at you or the author" as I often see on here how easy it is to sit back and dissect a post and turn it into something else

Hi David, I really really wasn't. Sorry you see it that way

Busylizzie

Happy February Everyone

Has anyone else had this? For the last few weeks I have had a till spit from Sainsbobs giving me 800 nectar points when I spend £40, but in dribs and drab over two weeks :beer:

Its great - am on my third one now. They must have realised I never do big shops. Only on one of my Nectar cards though. Even better when you combine it with Brand Matches and its my nearest supermarket :j

aau1

David. wrote: »

Strange isn't it when I was a child used to wonder what was for tea well if we were having any :rotfl: now they are wondering if they should get an iphone 6 or a samsung s5 :eek:

Credit cards/loans should be banned or at least not allowed till you are mid 20s when hopefully you have got a bit of sense by then and don't go overboard :rotfl:
Everything seems to be a get it now pay later approach :eek:

Most things we buy are "pay now get free within about 3 hours" :rotfl: