2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

elantan

white wing i had my period for three months whilst i was pregnant ...dont know if that helps or not but thought i would share..

mrs macawber can i get your hubby to phone my hubby and talk some sense into him please?

well i was hoping for a nsd today but hubby's back is extremely sore so we bought a weight lifting belt to give him some support hopefully it will ease the pain a bit we got it for £10 so things could be worse

elantan

we were there in november of last year ....went to bangkok chaing mai (just a wee quick day thing for the cookery courese) and phuket if i can help with any places to go etc give me a wee shout ...while we were there we spoke to alot of people that did the vietnam cambodia cycle holiday they all loved it...oh and burma is actually called mynmar ( i think thats how its spelled) pronounced myanmar just incase you get strange looks whilst there and people say what you talking about ...and if you say your going to the river kwai and pronounce it the way we do you will get laughed at (in a polite way)

bails

Hi everyone, I had lots to reply to but seem to have forgotten the lot now! :rolleyes:

I spoke to OH and he has agreed we still have far too much waste coming into the house and we're both going to work on reducing it. I had suggested making a small greenhouse by 'rescuing' bottles from our neighbours (we don't use any) - he laughed it off originally but I'll try again and he'll probably agree We are also looking at making our own energy - OH is currently making a heat store (for an environmentally-friendly greenhouse heater, but can be adapted) for his MEng project, so we're going to do our best to keep it at the end, but probably won't be allowed. He is managing to get quite a few free samples of the technical materials needed, so I've suggested we could use some of this to make our own if there's some left over. He worked for a wind turbine consultancy too so we'd like to build one of these at some point. You can get grants for up to £2500 for introducing things like this and solar panels etc, as well as the wood burners Nyk mentioned (your house has to meet certain basic energy-saving criteria first, like having energy-saving lightbulbs in all main rooms). Although we'll be here for a while, our plan/hope is to properly convert our next house/derelict barn or cottage so that we are self-sufficient energy-wise too.

Haven't added up my spends yet so will go do that now. Glad the first day went well Janey, sorry I can't remember what else I wanted to say to peeps.
ps we're on page 200! Now whos' going to make Post 4000?

Oh yeah, I'm going to have a go at the E-Day too, and try not to use anything for 24 hours.

elantan

can anyone give me a link to the plastic home made green house please? i mustve missed it

mama67

Have just updated sig as my grocery total is sorted so £415.20 spent to date.

Heres the breakdown

Grocery - 211.40(includes bogofs for future use)
Heating Oil - 47.00 ( this includes the boiler service)
Mobile phone - 10.00
Home Phone & Internet - 32.00

Weekly cash exps - 114.80 ( this is stuff like boys football subs, pocket money, and school expenses)

andromache_2

elantan wrote: »

we were there in november of last year ....went to bangkok chaing mai (just a wee quick day thing for the cookery courese) and phuket if i can help with any places to go etc give me a wee shout ...while we were there we spoke to alot of people that did the vietnam cambodia cycle holiday they all loved it...oh and burma is actually called mynmar ( i think thats how its spelled) pronounced myanmar just incase you get strange looks whilst there and people say what you talking about ...and if you say your going to the river kwai and pronounce it the way we do you will get laughed at (in a polite way)

Sounds like you had a lovely time! lol, I have found when talking to ppl about my summer plans they tend to know the country as burma and 'myanmar' gets blank faces so I have trained myself to use the 'old' name instead; but I didn't know that about the pronunciation of the river kwai, will have to be careful! :silenced: When we have firmed up what we want to do I might well PM you nearer the time - thanks very much for the offer of help

elantan

your more than welcome

sophiesmum_2

elantan wrote: »

can anyone give me a link to the plastic home made green house please? i mustve missed it

Hi elantan,
It was like this-
http://www.sci-scotland.org.uk/greenhouse.html

sashacat

Andromache, we were in Bangkok recently and whilst there bought a second hand lonely planet guide to Cambodia (easily bought very cheaply on the Koh Sarn rd....the backpackers road). We went to an internet cafe and booked cheap flights to Phnom Phen and it was great. We then went by boat up to Siem Reap to see Angkor Watt...it's great and easy to travel around.
PLASTIC...
Give the plastic back at the checkout. I have very little rubbish as I grow my own food but it drives me up the wall when I can't get rid of the packaging. I recycle everything I can but my local council don't yet recycle plastic.

Bottle Greenhouse...a man on our allotments had a bottle made large gteenhouse for years. Sadly he died last year but used to grow tomatoes in it quite successfully. He also used plastic bottles to mark out his veggie beds. He used lond ,bendy plastic rods and put a hole in the base of the bottle and fed the rod through. It was a bit of a problem in high winds as he didn't secure them all that well and some inevitably blew away. But he was getting on a bit so it was only to be expected...we called him " Bottle Joe". It does work though.

elantan

ohhh thank you thank you thank you i love it ...i am fed up of putting my empty bottles into the recycling ...i can do this for next year ....brilliant