The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

nursemaggie

Glad you have been fixed up with removals. Lyn It's a wonder anybody moves so much is last minute. Renting takes as long as then you sign up and they say, you can move in now. What at 4.30 in the afternoon removers will all be closed by the time I get home.

Well I have decided to go for another housing association and in a different area than I planed. It is still within walking distance of DS. It is open to the back, not exactly a park but a large green space criss-crossed with lots of paths. There is a huge Asian Supermarket practically next door.

This supermarket has another even bigger on the curry mile in Manchester. It has had a few awards for it's green grocery which is near on half the supermarket. I keep telling myself I will get off the bus and go have a look. I won't have to now if I get this one. I have to apply in an email and if they think I am suitable I will have to apply with a lot of forms. I also have 2 bids in for bungalow, and a flat near DS.

Lyn you will get more rain in Gloucestershire but not as bad as up here. That will save a lot of watering. I hope everything will go smoothly now. Never panic about removals. After that lad punched DS when we moved to this flat DS went on the internet and found someone to bring the second load of our furniture. They were very good.

FairyPrincessk

Nursemaggie I think I know the supermarket you mean on the curry mile. They have good prices on spices, lentils, rice, tinned pulses and similar. I found their fruit and veg to be a bit hit and miss--a good selection but not always the same selection which was tough if you wanted to stick to a list. They did marvelous fresh herbs and less common fruit and veg. I could usually get okra there which I grew up eating but isn't so common here. I haven't been in well over a year, we used to live not too far down the road from it--a 20 minute walk or a 5 minute bus ride and I'd go in periodically for certain things I couldn't get elsewhere. No idea about the Bolton branch.

nursemaggie

FPK I did not even know we had one until I tried to look round the corner of the flat I was looking at on street view. Now and again Street View will place at the other end of a footpath they don't allow you to go down.

I thought you were somewhere in that area. I'm not that rigid with my meal plans that I can't change the veg. I'm sure it will be fine day to day. That's if I get it. I would be quite near both Lidl and Ald!

FairyPrincessk

Yes, flexibility in meal plans definitely helps! We were extremely strapped for cash when we lived around there--both still students for part of it and then I was a student/not well employed for all of the time we lived there. We were closer to the Aldi and I could cost that out and base menus on the super six, but if it had just been me to please and it was a bit closer I might have shopped there more. Before we moved there we lived very, very close to the Christie. That was a much pricier neighbourhood but I still used to journey up to the curry mile sometimes to go to that supermarket for the odd thing. Having lived in Turkey and Japan in my younger years I sometimes wanted things I could only get there. Fingers crossed you get it!

mardatha

Well I'm very sorry but I et the camel. It was a dreadful terrible tragedy. It wandered into my freezer and got lost in there, froze to death. So sad.

Islandmaid

mardatha wrote: »

Well I'm very sorry but I et the camel. It was a dreadful terrible tragedy. It wandered into my freezer and got lost in there, froze to death. So sad.

Mar - it happens- it's been hot, they aren't too clever - what can I say

So, when's the [STRIKE]BBQ[/STRIKE] Wake

mardatha

Yes you're right IM. Poor thing was overheated and delirious. We're saying goodbye in em. stages. One steak at a time.

nannywindow

As the camel has bought it I wondered if Mar was partial to ferrets ? DD came home from her hols today to find one in her garden, looking at her through the french doors. She managed to catch it and put it in the old guinea pig hutch, only it bit her twice and she ended up in A&E. :eek: She didn't think of putting any gloves on and she ain't no animal whisperer, that's for sure :rotfl:.
Hope everyone is OK, sending healing thoughts and hugs anyway.
nan

monnagran

WHAT???? You et. my camel?. That was very, very naughty. I could really get the hump with you. And if you think we believe that tall story about it getting lost and wandering into your freezer you must think we're stupid. There is no need to comment on that last remark.

There will be consequences to your latest outrage. Mark my words. I am just trying to work out what they will be.

Be afraid.

mardatha

Nannywindow I love wee ferrets. We kept them for years when toungest son was at home. But I never got bitten by one - she should just have put some food in the hutch and stood back, it would have gone in by itself. They don't really like being feral, prefer a comfy home life
Monna I am heartbroken. Is it my fault that I have a very tempting inviting freezer? That I provided a nice cool refuge for a poor overheated tired camel? Ok yes it died, but nothing is perfect :A