That I think sums up life these days , nothings going very far on the DWP front , we had a letter a few weeks ago saying they were refusing to accept the consultant letter we supplied regarding the current situation with Mr BH and the lower back and bowel problems , they told us we must reapply because they were a new condition that occurred after his assessment ...REALLY
This week we have a letter from the tribunal service saying they have received the same letter and it will be included in the evidence pack for his tribunal.
If you didnt realise what lying cheating skanks the DWP are you would get nowhere with anything .
Not around much at the moment due to work and harvest commitments , being poor is bleedin time consuming im afraid , its all a bit 50s housewife , by the time its picked prepared and into the freezer or jammed thats another day gone .
Someone did ask if I would publish recipes , but being as im a spur of the moment cook and what i cook is hardly healthy , just filling and very cheap , that will be a very occasional happening ..lol
On the crafty front I think i should hang out a sign saying closed for the foreseeable future , I just dont have the time.
What I really need at the moment is a nice sunny sunday to do one last car boot sale , ive been donated tons of curtains and bedding by the church charity shop , they were going to send them to the ragman but theres really nice clean items among it , tons of big modern curtains and nice bedsets that sell so well out here in the sticks . We had one of those chats where you realise that the person youre talking to has no concept of real poverty and rural poverty is very real where i live .
Bless her I caught her chucking piles of blankets to the rag man , nice expensive aertex and real wool blankets , she was baffled when i said price them up and sell them .
But nobody uses blankets these days
Live in a house with heating you cant afford to run , you use a lot of blankets come the winter
A wonderful christian charitable lady , love her to death but shes never had to think before she puts on the heating and really doesnt grasp that theres a lot of people out there who have no heating all winter. Theres plenty of houses that i visit where the kids spend the whole of winter under a duvet on the sofa with hot water bottles . Our munchkin is a hardy soul who spends his time moaning that its to hot at school , even now hes getting funny looks running to school in his shirt sleeves , they look even more baffled once it gets to January , the trick is physical activity first thing in the morning and popping your hands and feet in a icy bucket of cold water when you get up , my dad taught me that one many moons ago its an old farmworkers trick it constrictes the capilleries in your hands till the point where they hurt , but you dont feel cold again all day even working outside . Guess i just grew up in a farm house with one little range it was only warm when we had the washing copper on all day and we all had corned beef legs from sitting to close to the fire and fighting the dogs and cats off the hearth rug ..lol ...those were the days its sad to see them back again .
Poverty is alive and well, its right under a lot of peoples noses who choose not to see it. I live in Tendring its officially classed as 'an area of depravation'. The town has lots of empty shops yet a high proportion of banks/building societies! There is very little local work that isn't paid at national minimum wage. To earn anything decent you have to travel. My husband has always worked out of town, I was aCivil Servant locally until retirement. My girls learned to drive at 17 and promptly left the town ASAP. There has always been a power struggle locally with the Conservatives winning most times, blocking any town improvements and sources for future employment.
ReplyDeleteIts a weird sort of poor blindness that so many older people seem to suffer from , theyve never stood counting the coppers in their purse to see if they can afford to buy tea for their kids. They dont get that without a mobile phone you cant claim benefits at all . If youve never been anything other than comfortable , if youve no idea who Rossendales are , if youve always had the money to pay your direct debits its very easy to believe the Tory bile that if you just try harder the world is your oyster .
DeleteWe used to have ice on the inside of the bathroom window.... oh those were the days. Hardy souls we are though. I didn't know about the bucket of ice water trick...Not sure if I am brave enough to do that.
ReplyDeletei well remember ice flowers on the inside of the windows when i was a kid , this house has them every winter the joy of ill fitting double glazing
DeleteHope the weather improves so that you are able to get a car boot sale done. There are always some lovely blankets in our local charity shops, that sell just as quickly. I have never come across the bucket of water trick either, like Cherie I am not sure I am brave enough to try it.
ReplyDeleteI tend to hang the washing out on cold frosty mornings in my bare feet , that works ...lol
DeleteI hadn't hear that before, but I stand barefoot on the back on my metal boat feeding the lonely swan, he arrives about 6 or 67 in the morning.
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