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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45382 Location: yes
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013 Posts: 1733 Location: Tasmania Australia
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 20 5:59 am Post subject: |
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well I would have sworn I posted two days ago, but apparently not.
It was light the fire weather last night, and probably would be tonight too but I think I will just add a jumper.
Thanks for the heads up Dpack, I will ask him.
Meanwhile here in Tasmania the topic of the week is toilet paper. It has become quite frenzied. I finally laid my hands on an 8 pack this morning but, as I had to leave it in the ute all day as i drove someone to their appointment, I hid it in the footwell of the back seat, haha. I said to the checkout girl that it was my retirement fund which I would offer on Ebay for a fortune while tearing up rags for my own use.
The hall grant application stalled for a bit so I have chased up the chap who was supposed to be reviewing it for me, and he is now back on track.
Today's trip to Hobart went smoothly, and I even managed to get the shopping done. Now all I need to do is get it put away. It was hilarious in the toilet paper row - six boxes of facial tissues, four packets of toilet wipes and not a roll of toilet paper to be seen. I am looking forward to all the new recipes for toilet paper, because the canned goods row was devoid of shoppers. I actually do have something of a stockpile at all times at home because you never know when you are going to need some particular ingredient, so no panic buying for me. Even if the electricity fails I have more packets of dried beans than you could poke a stick at, and canned or bottled goods to make them taste tolerable.
Tomorrow I also have a friend coming up for lunch, so that will make a nice break in the general frenzy. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15542
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 20 7:30 am Post subject: |
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Sadly reports of the toilet paper buying are coming in here too. I haven't been to look, as we have enough for a few weeks yet, and by the time I need some, I hope those that hoard will have run out of room. I mean, most houses only have so much room for it.
Because of the political uncertainty here I have been keeping my stocks of tins etc. fairly high anyway, so that we have enough to tide us over any initial trauma. I also managed to get my seed potatoes yesterday, so they are chitting up, and once it stops raining long enough for me to prepare a bed, I should be able to get the spring sown onion sets in the ground as well. More of the autumn sown ones are coming up, and with an onion and tinned tomatoes, you can make a lot of different things with a few herbs etc. |
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15542
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15542
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 20 7:58 am Post subject: |
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If you can earn enough nets to keep you going for a week or so Gregotyn, which by the sounds of it you should have done with all the work you have carried out for them for free, you will have time to look for the bearings. I expect your ladies at the library will show you how to do it, or even get your friends that you visit, or their children on the job for you. They might find a shop you can get to has them, or failing that, order them for you online.
The weather here yesterday was a little better. Just sudden hail showers, but they were pretty vicious. I went with son to deliver some log sacks in the afternoon down near the coast, and it was interesting to say the least. The road was flooded in two places; possibly a mixture of a very high tide with the wind behind it and rain. The first was draining into the sea, so wasn't as high when we came back. The second, round the corner, was a bit deeper and son was worried about driving off the road into the ditch, but I pointed out there was the odd marker each side, so keeping between them should keep him out of the ditch. That was deeper if anything on the way back, and a lorry had just gone through it at about 30mph. He stopped and warned us it was deep, but we knew we could get through, and a panel van followed us, at a far more sedate pace I should add. Adds interest to deliveries. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 20 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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I have spoken to a man who buys from us at work; he has a tractor franchise like us, but a different brand, but like us he services any make that comes his way. And he has asked a local man in Oswestry, if they can find any bearings so in the morning I may not get here as I will be doing Oswestry first thing to see if I can get any of the needed bearings. I will still be cutting wood, but for other projects besides, rather than kindling, though all 6 inch plus offcuts will be in the kindling department! They are not doing kindling today as they have to brash-out and chainsaw the trees into the right length-18 inches ready for the cross cut saw on the back of the tractor, where they are reduced further to 6 inches, and then a dumpy bag to the kindling machine, a bit of a journey but it works for them, I just fit in! Any large logs are split on the back of the tractor. All the man who takes off the cross cut does is decide on dry or to be dried!
It's good as I don't have to worry where the next stick is coming from.
We have had some wet too, but not as badly as you. There is one place where folks stop and wonder if it is deep. If I am there I tell them not to worry just second gear and slow with higher revs and I'll will pull them out if it goes wrong. It would not flood in that place if the farmer would not keep blocking up the exits into his field from the flooded piece, not much to go down over a period of rain "in bits" but a lot if you break his defences! How anti social the man is!!
One thing is certain if the council decide to have another meeting about the rates they will get it in the neck from me regarding potholes. Here there are holes 9 inches deep, I have put a traffic cone in one of them! At the present they seem to put the rates up every year, do nothing to the roads, and there are no extra services added unless you are on the dole; and raise council wages; I have friend who said there is no incentive to get a job, he is better off as he is not travelling anywhere and a few lawns to mow in summer and "lols" to help in the winter. I am not taking notice of Boris as I think he is too confident regarding things he is going to do, but I doubt if he will have enough money to do it. I guess you can tell where I think his brains must be! Life ain't too bad when you are a multi millionaire, I guess. I wouldn't know how to spend to his kind of money. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15542
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013 Posts: 1733 Location: Tasmania Australia
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45382 Location: yes
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013 Posts: 1733 Location: Tasmania Australia
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 20 6:22 am Post subject: |
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If I were to do that I would spend the rest of my life completing paperwork in triplicate Gregotyn. They take dings and bumps very badly.
If you hear MI6 wants old cruddy cars they can buy mine for the right price Dpack.
I have had a fairly unproductive day - the bank is clean and sanitized, the market in town produced some beetroot and carrots which will be added to various other vegs to make a borscht variation, and I have persuaded the organising committee to cancel our Greens gathering next weekend on the grounds that what with Coronavirus and the fact most members in my electorate are in the 'at risk' and 'most readily disposable' category it would be a pity to have to start the branch from scratch in a few months time.
Things grant related have been studiously ignored so I expect I will have to do that this evening. The fire is laid, and ready to go if required - it's warm outside but indoors it's relatively chilly), and I am engrossed in Antiques Roadshow.
Our government has been shamefully focussed on conserving the economy at the risk of human life, but the one good thing they have done (to rescue the economy, not to be nice to poor people) is to offer us all a one-off payment of $750. Mine will be going on firewood, so I hope my woodman is up for the job. Of course we don't get it till the end of the month if not later, by which time it will be harder to get the wood and most of us will be dead anyway, haha.
It's interesting times we live in |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15542
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