2024 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

Nelliegrace

2025 is going to be the year I knit a pair of socks, I have plenty of sock wool from Yarningham wool fair DD and I visited some years ago. I used to knit gloves on 4 needles, so socks should not be beyond me. There are just a few things to finish knitting first.

I bought a pair yesterday from my favourite knitter on eB, the yarn is King Cole, Zig Zag, Mayfly. I bought lovely alpaca socks and fingerless gloves from her during lockdown. I treasure them, it was such a bleak and lonely time.

Liverpool_Anne

Hi all,
@Nelliegrace that tea making sounds very organised . I am not sure 3 pots a day would be enough for me I am a proper tea pot but I will give it a go . OH is out most days working so I will try it with the small teapot and small flask and see how it goes. 
Lovely socks
Take care everyone

PipneyJane

Those socks are lovely @Nelliegrace.  No idea what you paid for them, but you got a bargain, when you consider that a pair of adult socks average 16 hours of knitting.

@Liverpool_Anne - I am surprised that the nurses didn't know about suitable diets for their patients' conditions but things have changed since my day and hospitals have less control over menu options than they did, since most catering is outsourced.  (Diets were certainly in the syllabus when I trained in Australia, back in the 1980's.)

- Pip

Liverpool_Anne

Hi all,
@PipneyJane I was gobsmacked by the nurses lack of knowledge , especially as everyone on the ward was there for gall bladder removal. Admittedly the patient was ordering her food from a limited list so really it was her lack of knowledge that was causing her to be ill. It took me a while to realise she was there for gall bladder removal as she was eating things I had not even looked at for over a year while waiting for the op but then because she had been ill and lost her tea they offered biscuits and crisps 🤷. I suggested dry toast . The patient was not really pleased with that suggestion but as I said I was supported by another patient and between us we managed to educate her. I was a bit surprised that her Dr hadn't already explained it but she wasn't the sort of person who asked questions, unlike me and I suppose some medical people forget we don't all have their knowledge. I also think the system has changed, no longer having matrons, who were probably a font of knowledge, etc. At that time the ward was staffed by a lot of trainee nurses overseen during the day by a lovely nurse from the Philippines who was absolutely rushed off her feet
Take care everyone

Cherryfudge

It's very interesting though worrying that the hospital staff weren't aware of the effect of diet - but I can well believe it. When I had an op, I was transferred between wards and my luggage only followed me part of the way (fans of Disc World will see this differently). It still hadn't caught up next morning, meaning I had to refuse breakfast as I hadn't had my medication and I need at least half an hour between the medication and food or most drinks in order not to reduce its efficacy.

I don't think having a matron present would necessarily make a difference as training in dietetics seems to be minimal unless you are a professional dietician. I remember my son telling me during his nurse's training, that I'd enabled him to get a question about vitamin storage right. For some reason I'd told him the week before about different vitamins being stored in water or fat and I think he took it 'with a pinch of salt' (Mum's off on a hobby horse) till it came up in class! How much is remembered when they don't have to deal with this day to day, I don't know.

On the other hand I have a family member who's well qualified in this and works for the NHS, so the information is there - but possibly how it's used differs between hospitals.

I still haven't made any Olafs, by the way. DGD was unwell again yesterday.

Nelliegrace

My lovely hand knitted socks arrived today. 

I transferred some money to DD and she went with GS to let him choose casual, long trousers and a hooded jumper now he is thirteen. That saved my clothing coupons. The way he is growing they were lucky to find something to fit, the popular stores have children's and adult’s clothes. His younger brother gets hardly worn hand-me-downs.  

They are having a meal at the local British Restaurant. It sounds like vegetables on baked bread with a little bit of cheese, a strange menu, but a change from rabbit. 

Laura_Elsewhere

Nelliegrace said:

They are having a meal at the local British Restaurant. It sounds like vegetables on baked bread with a little bit of cheese, a strange menu, but a change from rabbit. 

Gosh, what a strange meal- I'd like to try a piece-o' that    

Nelliegrace

I think it might be Mediterranean, @Laura_Elsewhere, another way to feed a family on half an ounce of mousetrap cheese. It is not like our good Welsh rarebit, or that recipe on the wireless the other morning, for hacking the middle out of the grey, stale, National Loaf and filling it with cooked vegetables and white sauce. I think that recipe made even Woolton Pie sound appetising, though where can you get all that parsley in December?

I do like to listen to Gert and Daisy’s recipes on The Kitchen Front. (There are several of their recordings on YouTube, I like, G & D Make a Christmas Pudding.)

https://blogs.bl.uk/socialscience/2013/08/gert-and-daisy-on-the-kitchen-front-celebrity-humour-and-public-opinion-in-the-second-world-war.html


https://the1940sexperiment.com/2016/03/13/the-original-lord-woolton-pie-recipe-no-151/

CapricornLass

Well, I grow mine in the garden. It is in quite a sheltered position and is in open ground, not a pot.   You need to grow quite a lot of it, though, to meet the requirements of the  1940s diet.

Gem-gem

Good evening all, 
No new spends for me. My total for the year so far is...

3 x yoga pants 6

4 x t-shirt 16

2 x tops 10

1 x trainers 5

1 x shoes 0 present

1 x cardigan 0 - sec hand

4 x jumpers 20

1 x t-shirt 4

1 x blouse 5

2 x jeans 12

78/66 spent

My DH has three new jumpers and a T-shirt for Christmas. These will come out if his coupon allowance. He did buy himself a pair of gym shorts. So his total 19 coupons plus the coupons for his shorts. 

Will have to start to think about my clothing needs for next year. Trousers will probably be needed. 

Have sold £31.50 in clothes and £16.00 worth of books. Shame you can't gain extra coupons when you sell items. 😀