Wild edges, how are you getting on with the scary costume? I suspect there will be a few kids in old sheets with eyeholes cut in them! Or you could tear some old sheets into strips and ‘ mummify’ your children? Our local schools are all on half term this week.
My sister says she might have some old costumes from her kids so she's going to dig those out. It's a gamble though as she's the type to only let us know the night before we need them that she can't find them.
Welsh half term is the week after the English one normally. I've no idea why. Probably stops us mixing with the riff raff.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Our very rural village church traditionally held a Harvest Festival Market when all the donated produce was sold and the money given to charity … it seemed that was a better solution than transporting foodstuffs many miles to somewhere they might be needed … for a start the quality would be impacted, and the quantities of different veg probably wouldn’t be in useful amounts. The vicar was a very practical man.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In the church I go to the altar was decorated with fresh fruit and veg but the congregation were asked to bring in tinned or packaged food with long sell by dates. The food was given to the Red Cross to distribute. Quite a lot was donated.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I can appreciate that now, where the donated goods are going off to food banks and the like, that packaged and dated stuff is the order of the day,
Plenty of the food banks shown on TV accept fresh, unpackaged fruit and veg. As most supermarkets are now removing 'best before' dates will some food banks no longer accept fruit and veg. It's not difficult to tell if veg, and most fruit, is beyond use.
I'd rather give the foodbank a fiver than the same value in food that I've had to buy. I'm sure they can make more savvy decisions on how best to use the money than I can. The trolley in the supermarket is just advertising really and it annoys me that the supermarkets profit from the sale of food bank donations while throwing away enough food out the back to feed a small country.
Grumpy today as I'm now £400 in credit with my energy supplier and still using over £40 a month less than they're charging me for. I expect a rise when we start using the heating but I can't see it making much of a dent on that £400 before spring unless we have a very cold winter.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The government seem to be giving out payments willy nilly, don’t know when I’ll ever use my £400.00, plus the fuel allowance, will cover this year’s and next.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Plenty of the food banks shown on TV accept fresh, unpackaged fruit and veg. As most supermarkets are now removing 'best before' dates will some food banks no longer accept fruit and veg. It's not difficult to tell if veg, and most fruit, is beyond use.
Why is there a fad for putting pre in front of words? Pre-order, pre-book, pre-sliced, pre-grated … in all cases the pre is superfluous.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.