It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

London_1

My son-in-law chased the insurers this morning once more and they actually sent an urgent response team out complete with flashing lights .They have removed all the flooring in their sitting room dining room and downstairs bathroom Luckily they have another bathroom and toilet upstairs as its a three storey town house. I must say I am more than impressed at the speed of the insurance company even though the assessor isn't due to come until next week Hopefully this very warm weather will help a bit underneath their flooring they have concrete floors as its a 1970s house so a bit rough underfoot but at least no rotten floorboards to cope with I'm hoping the insurers will get a humidifier out to them pretty soon as well.  its so heartbreaking to see the amount of personal stuff thats just got to be binned
JackieO xx

Brambling

Flooding is awful Jackie, I worked for a insurance company many years ago and can remember it takes longer than you think to dry out a property because of the risk of mould.  Restoration and recovery companies can work wonders but if is is 'black' water (sewage) they use to have to throw everything away.

Depending on your daughter's policy they may be able to claim the cost of running the dehumidifiers as I'm assuming if it is all of the downstairs there will be more than one?

sammy_kaye18

Oh @London_1 I do hope your loved ones are doing ok with the flood damage. I imagine it must be so sad and disheartening for them but at least you have said they have multiple levels they can still use and access whilst they are trying to sort the ground floor out. Fingers crossed the insurance company and assessor can get it sorted for them again quickly. 

@YorksLass I wish a 6pt would do us for a fortnight. With two kids here, husband and myself we are going through a 4pt every few days! I think I should probably look at land and getting cows....multiple. 

Well I sat last night and did an Aldi food shop online and compared it to an Asda shop online. I put everything I got from Aldi into the Asda shop - basically breakfast, lunches and dinners for 2 weeks. The total in Asda was £115.69 (including delivery fee between 12-2) and for the same items and collection time in Aldi it would of cost me £97.21 - so a saving of £18. 

Well we went for a change of scenery today and to pick up bugs for our lizards. They don't have a delivery until tomorrow so we just looked at all the animals instead with our DD13. Lots of beautiful lizards, frogs, fish, bunnies, guinea pigs, hamsters and then we hit the poultry section.....I wasn't very fussed on the chickens they had but the 3 day old ducklings did catch my eye.
Husband said no.
Spoil sport. 

Ive just enjoyed some of the fresher cooler air as well and went out and repotted some of my chilli peppers that were looking a bit overcrowded and put them in the greenhouse. I need to give my strawberries a good water today because they are looking a bit stroppy and sorry for themselves since I moved them

ladyholly

I stopped buying 4pt milk as I found they weren't keeping for a week and I was throwing loads out.

weenancyinAmerica

Could you freeze some of the milk for later?

Slinky

ladyholly said:

I stopped buying 4pt milk as I found they weren't keeping for a week and I was throwing loads out.

Could it be down to the temperature in your fridge? I find that our 4 pt Mr T milk is OK 3-4 days after expiry date, so at least 10 days since purchase.  Double cream lasts at least 7 days past date too.

GaleSF63

ladyholly said:

I stopped buying 4pt milk as I found they weren't keeping for a week and I was throwing loads out.

Were you always buying it from the same place? If so, try another shop. I found that there was one supermarket whose milk never lasted to the use by date - at least 3 days before - yet from anywhere else it was fine. It was a number of years ago - at least 15 - so I don't think it would be fair now to say which one.

ladyholly

Ye my fridge is at the correct temperature as I have a thermometer in there. I could freeze some but I understand that the full fat milk that dh has does not always do well from being frozen. Mine is no problem as I have skimmed. I must admit I hadnt thought of freezing some.  I do shop at various shops so that shouldnt be a problem.

I will try freezing the full fat milk and see what happens

joedenise

@ladyholly just be aware that it takes a long time for milk to defrost so you need to get it out of the freezer earlier than you would think to use it, otherwise you end up using some of the liquid milk and there is still a big frozen ice pole in the middle!  Ask me how I know, LOL!

tryingtodobetter

@ladyholly I've frozen full fat milk lots of times without a problem but as joedenise says make sure you leave plenty of time for it to defrost.

Last day of the summer holidays here, so it's a treat day. I'm taking DS3 and a friend to an Aqua Park, already paid for, and then to McDs for lunch afterwards. I always use the £1.99 offer when we go to McDs so it won't hurt my wallet too much!

Once DS3 is back at school I can start picking up some extra shifts again, it's been a long six weeks without the pay from those extra shifts.