Nearly Time

 Maybe i should panic?  ive got a full house this year , im cooking xmas day and ive got a buffet to do for Boxing Day ..lol  havent been this busy for years , ive decided the buffet will be a meatfest its just easy that way lots of wraps and make your own mixed salads and pickles along with various nibbles from Heron that were cheap and cheerful and just require chucking in the oven , ive been buying bits since September so its proved not as expensive as ive feared on the current strict budget .i will do a mountain of my infamous Bhajis for the boys . I did venture to the chicken factory last week and they had huge family sized chickens for £5 but i have no freezer space so bought a load of cheap M&S products of a chicken nature that are keeping us busy this week. All the veg is prepared and in the freezer ive just mash and roasties to do on the day and xmas eve i will churn out loads of yorkshire puddings . We are auditioning a new trainee daughter in law with attached teenager this year , dread to think what they will make of our joke bad taste prezzies and lack of festive bullshit and himself shouting all the time  but ho hum at least theres no weird diet requirements this time . Son does say he plans to marry her , we shall see

ive had my third win on the competition front and for a change its one just for me ive won a huge selection of House plants, pots and plant paraphenalia . got the mailing invoice today and im horrified at the cost .

Scary

 Went to Asda today , himself had a dentist appointment and it was the nearest supermarket , it was crowded but bearable , packed with pensioner couples arguing like hell ..lol.. one old bloke was about to die for saying he didnt like the  colour of the wrapping paper the missus was buying , guess he should have waited in the car like he does all the rest of the year , There was dozens of bewildered blokes wandering round with shopping lists obviously told to pick stuff up on the way home then you tripped over them shouting down their phones at their other half because they couldnt find stuff or it wasnt in stock and they darent make any descision for themselves . I did laugh one builder with a white van full of his stuff literally tipped his whole trolley in on top of everything then just launched his empty trolley across the carpark . I do think the shops are making a bit of a heroic effort this year this is the first time ive seen the shelves packed in there all year and they even had all the checkouts manned , mind you for the prices they are charging they need to be . Ended up having to pop into Lidl for the last 2 items on my xmas shopping list , streaky  bacon and cranberry sauce . who knew they would be hard to find ?

Anyway please remember its now pensioners driving on busy roads time of year , so please take granny shopping before she leaves a trail of devastation in her wake . Also the foodbank reminder, no chocolate oranges or selection boxes they are over run with them this time of year , dried milk is always a good one and i did see a lady loading a donation bin up with small boxed xmas cakes but you can eat those anytime .

Non Retail Therapy

 The problem with me having a small pile of money pre xmas is i will spend it not so much on xmas , but on the last jumble sale of the year a whopping £2 worth of pleasure , A ring bound Grand Canyon cookbook , another big kilner cliptop, a gorgeous turquoise Pyrex divided dish and a little rexard doll from the 70s . But then you have to realise its the pre xmas auction season and box lots are going for next to nothing..lol ..we had a trip out to Grantham to pick up the other day only to find my 2 boxes of weird and wonderful had mutated into five boxes and an Antler wicker picnic basket ..lol ..i did ask and the man said its all got to be cleared and you always buy crap?  it was free so what the hell . I managed to fill my wheely bin with a whole box of fake Tupperwear  himself filched a few for his fishing and i kept a huge cake carrier and the worlds biggest Pizza plate for the xmas buffet , the picnic hamper was filled with table lamp bases , they will be stripped for the wire and cable for updating lamps i like . I really did actually buy a box of dolls and cuddly toys , the dolls are worth a bit and can go to ebay after xmas, the teddies can go in the free box over xmas . There were tons of brand new RAF ties and black ties and tea towels, towels and tablecloths , so useful things and finally a big box of craft stuff with lots of part finished tapestries and my reason for buying it a huge file of vintage knitting patterns from the 30s , im still rooting my way through it all . Ive another auction to pick up from tomorrow and the last sale of the year is on Thursday .  I still have change from my £10 pocket money to spend ..lol 

Online auctions can be a cheap and cheerful bit of fun its not all antiques and spending hundreds of pounds .  4 china dolls have already left the building for £20  to a lady who goths them 

Wanders In

 Its the funny season yet again , tapping my foot waiting for xmas to be over ..lol but in the real world we have had to find nearly 5k for the van repairs so we are having a very skint winter and im trying to sell the contents of the dining room online, such is life . 

So in a fit of misery i bought a raffle ticket for a whole £1 and won a huge grocery hamper , not a xmas hamper but real everyday food and it was huge , far bigger than shown and it was from Tesco delivered the day after my skint monthly shop , so we cant move for food , im frantically dehydrating loads of veg because ive no freezer room , theres a stack of ready meals in there , just hundreds of pounds of real food , you open any cupboard and it all falls on you , himself has discovered he doesnt like blueberries and theres a limit to how many kiwi fruit he can demolish , guess im going to be dehydrating fruit mix next , plus theres several bags of frozen fruit , theres rice, pasta and so much more packs of heinz soup , tomatoes , spagetti beans etc etc , theres not a single thing that we wont use  . This will keep me going well into next year , so we celebrated by spending every penny we had on heating oil , the luxury of heating might even cheer me up a bit 

Shop Shop

 Well i got up this morning to 240 Black Friday emails it wasnt to hard to delete the whole lot , which of course means im a huge failure for not buying bugger all today . Not so much lack of funds more lack of interest . Turkey has entered the freezer all the veg is in there , plus loads of crap for the boxing day buffet , just need to source a huge bag of decent chicken nuggets for the plebs and big kids . Cheese can wait till the last minute , everything else i can bake and make . So  im not worried about the farmers stating a blockade , cyber attacks over xmas , power outages, you can barbecue a turkey if you have to !!  identity theft , well theyd be in for a nasty shock you aint got nothing what are they going to steal ?  pension theft ha ha ha .

ive a project for today , compressing a huge auction lot of craft stuff i bought for the price of a decent ball of wool , the huge box of wool i will add to my hoard and it gets used eventually , theres a load of full vintage sewing baskets to go through , yet more knitting patterns , tons of embroidery silks a couple of half done embroiderys  a jacobean cushion front and a tablecloth . Mountains of tatting thread and books , so many bags of knitting needles , embroidery transfers and i dont think i will ever need to buy sewing needles ever again , it should keep me busy for ages as i sit here like an episode of hoarders 

Tad Warm

 Well its officially winter , everything looked very Christmas clean this morning when i opened the curtains . Picked the last of the outside tomatoes in the snow the other day , towels are frozen on the line , just off to put on my wellies and hang a few more out . This year ive been lucky the huge sycamore has dropped its leaves on my side of the fence it depends on the wind direction , so ive been clearing up four or five barrow loads every morning so it doesnt kill the grass this means ive popped four foot piles in the veg garden and covered them with ground cover sheets ...if that along with copius amounts of well rotted chicken manure doesnt help the washed out garden come spring who knows ?

The farmers chose the best time to stage a demonstration , when theres nothing much doing on the farms at the moment other than cabbage and leek harvesting , which hoards of Eastern Europeans do in all weathers , then the supermarkets will up the prices and their profits and the actual farmers will be held up as the villains . We live in Dyson land he owns most of the land around here , well his family trust does , he doesnt pay taxes here only in Singapore , nor will he be affected by the death duties regs . He grows huge amounts of government sponsored bio fuel, a contract from his buddies the Torys. The sad truth is that farming is pretty much finished on a small scale here they need to cover the whole country over with solar panels and wind farms just to try and keep the lights on and the EVs running . The most disgusting thing is that King Charlie got that extra 45 billion in his greasy pocket from leasing his property aka the sea bed for wind farms . 

Meanwhile all the crap thats going on is keeping everybodys mind off World War 3 , nothing to worry about there is there? 

Well Hard

Well he thinks he is...lol  Himself demanded a decent pot noodle the other day he knew i would have some hidden somewhere, ive been leaving an assortment of vile and out of date ones on the worktop knowing he cant bend and get into the bottom cupboards , we were down to the last 3 scabby rejects  so i made them and offered them to the birds who are turning their noses up as well ..lol... himself  pottered off with his decent pot noodle chuntering about how ive changed since we got married so hes now rationed to 1 a week .

Are we already for the starvation that the farmers blockades are going to cause ?  thought so , indifferent would be the full scope of my emotions on that one . Then the Labour Numpty appeared on national TV saying we dont need farmers and the government will smash the farmers like Maggie Thatcher did the miners , I think it was a bit obvious that he never lived through that bit of history and had learnt it in his public schools economics class. Bet they didnt teach him that hungry people are angry people and a government can fall with a very loud bang if they annoy everyone enough . 

Then there was the dispatches documentary on the Windsors , cant say there were any suprises there bunch of theiving parasites was always my view . They merely scratched the surface and the Royals have just ignored it . They could make a whole series on other stuff they profit from but ho hum 

Royal Wedding

 What a week lol we got married last Monday , yes i know i should run for the hills , find my inner self etc etc but at my age and after 20 years of his shoutiness and general daftness im used to him .  No frills no fuss he got married in his camo shorts and a Lego tshirt and i raked a 70s burgandy velvet frock out of the back of the wardrobe and my DMs , we took a grown up kid each, one of who knew nothing about it till we got there. Due to his dire walking abilities he was on his crutches and stumbling allover, so we ended up getting married in the Coroners office which was the nearest available room ..lol it appealed to my inner goth . 

What occasioned this event , well i think he finally agreed when he found they were going to charge him £400 more for his car insurance because we wernt married , or it could have been the threats from our ever loving landlords the Local Council , recently theyve been reminding me that i and son are homeless in 6 weeks if he goes into care or dies at every turn . Or the not being able to deal with his medical matters because im not his next of kin AARRRGGHHHH .

So its a marriage of convenience with added Chinese food . And we now have the magic bit of paper that will shut them all up 

Jumblie

 So ive been to at one of the posh villages this morning to a jumble sale and spent my whole budget for the month lol... these sort of jumbles are few and far between and when they opened the doors i was nearly barged to the ground in the rush by a gaggle of resellers determined to get what they wanted , i could have come home with so much more  if i had shot a few of them. But im happy with my haul and i noticed the couple of  loud resellers were getting really mouthy about some of the prices. Three trips to their laden car later, they were shooting off to another sale . so obviously the prices cant have been that bad . At that point as they drove away the old bloke running it shouted everythings now half price and we will take offers too now theyve gone. Had to laugh , but i have come away with a big bag of books lots of winter reading to be going on with , a 1970s Mrs Beaton and a few 50s kids books . a cardigan and a scarf  by some posh make and i have managed to buy two big lush red vintage rugs you know the kind they dont sell on Wayfair but they do sell in antique auctions . Struggled to get them to the car and can now barely move , but i was determined , ive wanted some for years and could never afford them they will spend a week wrapped in plastic with tons of Permethrin powder ,apparently they came from the manor house !! 

Blessed

 So another fun packed skint week on the horizon ..lol  the van has entered the garage and we await the verdict on how much damage it has done . Himself is still on his extreme economy drive , you know the one where we cant go out and hes no money for the groceries but the delivery vans keep arriving for him . Not that we needed anything im well stocked up, in the slow cooker i have a really weird version of chicken stew , son donated some vile extra spicy chicken portions and i defrosted them peeled most of the god awful orange coating off chopped them and added to a bag of stock from a garlic chicken , three years out of date white tinned kidney beans and all the dregs of last years dried veg , plus three aged sticks of celery from the fridge it smells gorgeous ..time will tell 

The slow cooker died last week i spotted a big crack in it , son had some amazon vouchers saved up, so i now have a blue one because they were £10 cheaper . I still had the huge slow cooker but thats for big chickens and joints , not that ive used it lately . the everyday sized one does us for 2 nights of stew of some description . As kids we both grew up on mystery meat stew and big wedges of bread and butter or dumplings . I sometimes think that its yet another out of fashion food kids miss out on .Sometimes you just have to feel blessed by what you have , with good memories and bad times in the background 

£30 and Counting

 So another week of the £30 food budget and off to the social supermarket , 3 red cabbages ,2 large bags of string beans , bag of mushrooms and a mountain of sprouts ,4 huge cooking apples , celery  , burger cheese slices one frozen curry , tin of potatoes tin of irish stew tin of soup and a pack of tiger buns didnt go anywhere else so saved the money till i picked himself up from hospital after a minor bit of repair and popped into little Tesco on the way back .  a big bag of 11p giant oranges, a load of bakery, yellow stickers bananas 25p  huge bag full .

Today has been prep day So ive microwave blanched all the beans and sprouts , just loaded the big slow cooker with redcabbage and apple for xmas and beyond , more apples from the garden for the dehydrator .

Best find of the week i decided to repot my scabby dead looking ginger plant to find 2 huge roots , so ive loads of fresh ginger , repotted two little nuggets and have bought the planter in for the winter funny what you can grow from a 10p Tesco dried up nugget of ginger .

My big question is why cant the food pantry get rid of a lot of the veg they are given?  I seem to be getting mountains of it . Im more than grateful the price of a cabbage in the Coop can be £2.50 , in fact i cant afford any of their fruit or veg its out of my price range. This isnt a food bank its a community waste initiative . i know energy prices are stopping a lot of people cooking but i use the slow cooker and microwave for practically everything . The mountains of exotic bread i sort of understand most people wont have a clue what to do with it if its stale , but why charge such a high price instore for it when theyre giving mountains away ?  Must admit on the veg front theres a couple of things id run screaming from the building about Advocados and Aubergines my pet hates ..lol

Bad Habits

 So off to the cat jumble i went , managed to buy a weird handbag bright yellow and furry , couple of books and it was fill a bag for £3 on the clothing front . so it had to be done . out of a bag full two items fitted such is life and if i can find a decent clothes rail by spring i may carboot my huge pile of dont fit which will have amassed by then .im a really odd shape and size so if i had to buy from shops or online it costs me an arm and a leg because it mostly doesnt fit , so ive given up on them and just buy a mountain of might fit from the jumble and sometimes get lucky.  It was the last carboot of the season so i dragged myself out of a nice warm bed and toddled off to Metheringham there was a good few stalls and plenty of buyers but it was really baltic and the frost light was on in the car , bag of veg, a couple of giant Kilners and 3 balls of wool , how will i cope till the Spring..lol  On the busy front im drying endless apple chips made pear jam that im told is to sweet ??  last of the pears used but still mountains of small apples. Highlight of life in a small village seems to be the antics of Mavis the escapoligist sheep , just the one sheep who because i get up early i seem to be bumping into an awful lot while walking the cats first thing it came with us the other day the cats looked suitably disgusted 

Economy Driven

 The repairs to our van are going to cost over £2000+ so at the moment the whole of our income has to be saved to pay it we are nearly there, we have barely spent a penny for 2 months and i was given a £30 budget for this month...lol ..i like a challenge . Anyway it was off to the Sleaford Community Pantry this morning thats a whole £7 for whatever this weeks list is , now i usually walk round and have a good look then sort of write a menu in my head with whats on offer, this week i got a big frozen pizza for himself and a big tub of cottage cheese for me , 5 shelf items , so a tin of potatoes and a tin of carrots , a tin of Fareshare soup bag of oats and some cheese nibbles ,  veg items so a bag of carrots , bag of tomatoes small cabbage , cress and large cucumber , freebies were all manner of spices so i got a box of some kind of indian chicken seasoning , then the lovely lady says its compulsory to take at least 4 lots of bread even if its just to feed your chickens , it seems they had a bread problem lol they had received an unexpected delivery of huge amounts of posh bread as the lady called it , nobody really wants it but to me this is a bonus i came away with 4 small sourdough loaves all have been sliced and garlic buttered and popped in the freezer , that will make a whole winter of soup bread , huge bag of different bread buns all weird and wonderful ive sliced and tomato pureed them for whatever pizza bits i may have, into the freezer again. Bread and butter pudding my favourite , done a huge one with dried egg , nobody will know if i dont tell them , i will portion some into the freezer . Now ive just got to make our favourite coleslaw with mayo and mango chutney . Pop into iceland to see if theres anything with a yellow reduced sticker got two big bags of some obscure fish fingers for £1.75 each . still had nearly £10 left so to the Moy Park chicken factory on the way home . £2 fresh chickens with todays date , southern fried chicken bits for himself x2 , 4 big kievs and a chicken crown for sunday  dont think i did bad out of £30 plus my endless prepper pantry just adds together all the obscure bits . Only thing im getting low on is milk but ive started to cheat and rinse out the cartons and refill with powdered , himself wont touch powdered milk but he never realises that ive done this for years when we are hard up 

Stocking Up

 So its that time of year , stock the pantry for winter , ive always got a pretty full pantry, but during the winter we dont get out much ..lol  crutches dont do well on ice so himself is pretty much grounded once that starts . 5 miles to find a god awful cheap coop bread loaf , a butchers we cant afford and a community market once a month for gold plated veg . But we are used to it, so its just stock up well this time of year and hope for the best . These days its cook as much in the slow cooker as possible and use the microwave for most other things . I dont batch cook because himself wont eat stuff thats been warmed up , however he will eat a crap ready meal with the nutritional value of hamster cage droppings. but give him soup or stew out of the freezer and he turns up his nose. Men are just weird. On a plus front i popped in M&S at just the right time the other day and filled a big drawer in the freezer with heavily discounted decent ready meals , they also have their soups on offer at 62p which makes them 2p dearer than the Tesco own brand ones so ive stocked him a bagful of them . Still struggling on the veg front most of it is unaffordable though im hoping to get to the Community larder this week , ive tons of apples and pears still so im still dehydrating them and canning them Theres little leeks in the garden and thats pretty much it , desolate windy weed patch sums it up this year . Dried stuff wise i found a decent offer on amazon for red lentils and mung beans so i ordered a box full , amazon is a weird mix of tread carefully and decent offers that even with the monthly fee can work out really good .  Im a fan of Maggi instant catering mash that you can get in big sacks but its now got very expensive its much the same as Idahoan and lasts all winter . I ordered Sun mash this time its powder rather than flake very bland and hard to mix but hey it was on offer and adding a bit of flavouring never killed anyone . Im missing having squash but not having seen any around the boot sales i would imagine nobody has many this year , i will wait for the day after Haloween for the cheap pumpkins..lol i noticed a single golf ball sized one has set on down the garden im not holding my breath , the Tomatoes having yielded not a thing have now decided to go mental and ive  a windowsill full of green ones ...Its been a funny old year garden wise and im finding that its that time of year when i get really fed up and keep just staring out the window when i should be full of life and getting on with things . Winter is coming and i bleedin hate it , hes already moaning he wants the heating on and its to early yet...lol

Rained Off

 Well i hope this helps my final bid to get the ruddy potatoes out of the ground , so what do you do when rain has reached the level of monsoon ? Of course you go outside and pick apples...lol . So its been apple sauce day today , i dont use sugar i just peel and chop with the posh apple peeling tool , glad i paid a whole £2 for it in the Spring at the car boot. Then boil them with minimal water so theyre at the mush with chunks stage , fill loads of old jam jars then boil for half an hour in the big jam pan , ive sat here counting the jars popping shut and it sounds like 100% sucess , if your tight like me you sometimes get the odd jar doesnt seal but im not wasting money for new lids this year , every penny needs to be saved for the van repairs . I did go to the carboot but that was to drop off a batch of ghastly china modern dolls , to someone who revamps them into Haloween creatures , she pays me well for them and i spent a whole 20p on a couple of hand towels because all the kitchen ones are missing . No idea what oily handed cretin that was!! 

So lets talk the world , im suffering from ostrich syndrome at the moment , you know dont mention the war , Armegeddon , plague etc etc etc , just ignore the news cos theres never anything good in it . Dont mention politics same shits different coloured ties.  We live in terrible times , where our opinions count for nothing, so i guess i will just stick my head in the sand and bugger on with life  

R Soles

 We did a second car boot sale yesterday , we had had heavy rain last night so it was very misty and gloomy daughter and her friend set up next to me . We had some big tarps that himself had chucked in the garden once he had used them once , whats new . Anyway i just flung everything on the tarp and left anything that the damp could damage in bags and boxes sold loads of stuff i wanted rid of for a quid or two but what really peeved me was early on a bloke who im well aware has a music shop come and offered me £1 each for some vinyl i  offered him them at £5 each and he threw them down and stomped off muttering . Now i was well aware that online a couple of the LPs sell online for over £30 each and they were immaculate . Later on i toddled to the loo and left the girls in charge came back and the crafty arsehole had offered them £3 for the whole pile and they took it . Now am i annoyed ..very..but i will share the story around and make shore that everyone at the boot sale is well aware of him , crafty arsehole hope he doesnt get many bargains now  

Whats Going On

 Today the dehydrator is hosting a fridge pity party , cucumber ends , last of a punnet of cherry tomatoes half an onion , celery trimmings and a sad tiny red cabbage , ground down this will make veg powder , great as stock powder or a couple of big spoons in a pan of mash . Still struggling with motivation on the apple front ..lol. they are everywhere.

Managed to do myself a bit of an injury while chopping down branches , twisted my back and couldnt move for a couple of days and then dropped a big branch on sons head so thats a work in progress at the moment .

We have now been a year of the builders over the road , they have built mcmansions instead of the eco homes on the original plans , ghastly things twice the size of the original plans , theyve been reported umpteen times for the huge bonfires they built next to the old farm buildings the idea being to smoke out the bats living in there , they have suceeded and are now demolishing the building and squeezing in another house , the fires are now being built against a giant sycamore with a preservation order on , doutless it will die and they can squeeze another property on there, what was originally to be just 4 eco homes has turned into a housing estate . In the world of planning these days once the original plans are granted they go back after 6 months and get granted whatever they want to change.  Dread to think who will move in to these monstrosities , 4 bedrooms with two retiree occupants is the norm . Why they cant put a bedroom tax on private properties I dont know  

Being Prepared

 Woke up at 4am for a change and got watching a few of The American preppers on You Tube while i added yet more granny squares to my mountain . Good grief half of them have gone biblically batty, quoting the bible , Revelations seems to be a favourite or theyre all about to be raptured , which i always think sounds a bit like the aliens coming to harvest theyre food crop . What is  going on ? are they putting something in the food? 

Meanwhile im sat here with the jets screaming overhead because its Cobra Warrior the airforces annual war games season , we have Italians Americans Canadians Polish all spotted in the Coop looking baffled , theres others here as well so the plane spotters are going mental . Being between two of the major bases its a bit like living on the side of a motorway during this exercise . Not sure what night shifts are on this week but its dig the ear plugs out time .

Managed to buy 3 books and a tshirt for son from the jumble , the carboot however fielded a load of plastic coated metal garden stakes for a bean row , the bloke had only used them this year and his beans much like mine yielded bugger all so hes given it up as a bad job , so i snaffled them and proceeded to javelin everybody as i wandered round with them , still looking at raised bed ideas I dont think im going to get any better at digging my concrete ground , all i know is that it has to be cheap..lol 

Winter Checklist

 So its the time of the year when i start to check off the stuff i need to get done for the winter , apart from the usual 10 tons of garden jobs that im not hurrying with due to disalusionment . The never ending saga of the jam jar lids that i finally have the right sort of , still havent figured out why all the bleedin suppliers cant put on , these will fit  a Lidl pickle jar or these fit a standard jam jar along with the size and the number of lugs . I have a huge box of jars seals lids etc etc that are unused but i figure they will be ideal if the freezer dies or we have a big power outage , himself doesnt like me canning meat based stuff but i know how to do it .  we cant afford a generator or solar big enough to power a large freezer .Still have to source the Camping Gaz cylinder that i emptied , nobody locally supplies it anymore so im waiting till im in town to go on a hunt . ive a mountain of apples to tackle but i could do with a few more cookers to make the apple sauce and pie filling a bit more tart  . Pears sit happily on the tree yet before i start making endless pear chips which i could happily eat all winter. Popped into the chicken factory shop today they were practically forcing big tubs of chicken drumsticks on you at 75p a tub so i got a load that ive bagged and split for chicken soup and stew for the winter . Got a big bag of veg from the Community larder that will be mainly dehydrated , they were also forcing carrier bags of broad beans on you which is no hardship they will be podded and blanched into the freezer they will go . Im missing the squash that usually sits on top of the kitchen units , nobody seems to have any so im not the only one had a massive fail this garden year . Noticed how well plants sell these days at the car boot so ive been frantically taking cuttings and splittings galore .

Jumble sale season is upon us now, the little Cat Charity has one tomorrow  so i will see what i can find just to annoy himself...lol

Meanwhile

 In the meantime ive not done a stroke of gardening , think ive lost the will to even venture into the depths . Best ive managed is popping a few mini daffodils in the planters round the door ive got a big tub where ive thinned out the ones in the back yard planters, how a dozen daffs have turned into a couple of hundred never ceases to amaze me. 

Himself has been a tad mentally challenged he blew up his new van on the way to Mablethorpe and we had to pay to have it recovered because Mr I know what im doing didnt bother to tick the recovery box on his insurance !!!  i havent said a word . The fact he was 3 days over the warranty about finished him its going to cost thousands for a new engine if it cant be repaired . Ho hum we will be skint till next year and there wont be any heating oil so he had better get used to it being cold . I have enough food and pet supplies to last 6 months so we will be fine . Im still off to the Jumbles no matter what he says ...lol 

On a plus note my cousin  rang me up whinging that mother had a black eye and she was being abused yet again trouble is theyd sent me the video already as she walked smack into her toilet door, he insisted that the doctor see her straight away , poor little love was there to see someone else so obliged , mother decided to attack her , nothing new but it rattled the poor girl .  As he said ..God shes fast, not sure if he meant mother or the doctor running for her life