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I am carrying out a make do and mend challenge this month to try to make better use of items I already have around the home. Check out my blog to find out more.

Hope you are well Piper. I have recently had a law firm pertaining that some relative had left me a small fortune. Isn't that nice of them. Better to be rid of them and live pennyless, lol. Take care, Caren...

Not too bad thanks Piper, looking forward to reading your book sometime soon. ;)

Hi! Come laughter... true delight... with sweetest sympathy: How much is is ONE sterling today(may I ask)... I'll faint & die.
Yours: AnDy

Hello, Piper,nice to meet you O(∩_∩)O~

Hello, Piper, got six hens and a cock in the garden, all pheasants unfortunately from the economic point of view, counter-frugal, as they nibble the veggies and don't leave you any eggs, not any I can find anyway. Never mind, they're lovely burds, and what's a nibble between friends? Rabbie said: "I doubt na, whyles, but thou may thieve,
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen icker in a thrave
'S a sma' request;
I'll get a blessin wi' the lave,
An' never miss't!
Hey, can I join the clan?

Hi piper,

Did I see details of a JC employment adviser on your blog somewhere?
I have searched but seem to have lost it.

I am normally treated as some extremely undesirable alien, by some equally arrogant abnoxious civil servant who at best, redirect me to some totally unsuitable/confused at some useless "training" firm for training that I do not need or want, and for which I am already too well qualified. After over 30 years as a Group 2, Class 1 part time/spasmodic driving instructor, they believe that I would like some-push bike or lawn-mower training.

Back then, I drove various shovels up to 25tonnes, dozers/draglines up to 60t, and small dumpers up to 250t. I have also driven trombones of over 30 meters/80t, and have driven buses/ambulances, oft 75 hours/2000miles/wk on 5x nights. I also have 8 IT subjects at Level 2, & am currently studying for BSL 102.

Many of the courses they offer are only suitable for semi or completely illiterate, & are not intended to improve their situation either.

They should be offered an adequate improvement to their education, as a means of improving their future "self-defence" & self-sufficiency.

My book of moneysaving tips 'The Frugal Life: How to spend less and live more' is due out on 31 March and is published by http://www.goodlifepress.co.uk and also available on Amazon. Check out my blog
http://frugal-life.spaces.live.com to find out more

Hey Andy. Good idea but you can't get a mortgage on a wooden house in the UK. Be great to build your own though, wouldn't it? Cheers, Piper

... I Think: build a new wooden house together, sell it imnmediately for a "lazy people", then build Your own with all frugz'n thingz to add. Here in Finland people really do not have much cheaper "process" to get a really "earned" own house.
Truly: AnDy

...the SEA and our 22 000 lakes has a frozen cover -> up to 1.5 meters (short human lenght) btw Jan. to Apr. We have possibly those fastest growing potatoes, etc, (due to summer when sun really does not go under the horizon, 2-3wk in helsinki,2-3months in the notrh (1000 knm from capitol/Helsinki)Lappland), blackberries........trrrrrrrrr

You are beautiful!

p.s. my mention is not to concentrate / nor focus onto failures we do, but Y Terret and....mr x, are livin' with atlantic powers... my aunt lives in Norway->Hammerfest ...and the sea : it never/ever gets n' ice cover, nor under minus 13 degrees.!!!!
Here in southern Finland the will froze up to 1.5 nmeter ice - so we need huge ice-brakers...-> Norway has 1-3 we: 12.

>If You Piper Dear are living on that nasty isle of brittain, Do pleaze remnove old pictures and have a more aggressive "sense" of a moment plz. (so many are strirrig a nice(l.) uk-girl & garden.!!!
My Only & Best Regards: AnDy / Helsinki / Finland.
p.s. Kisses! For Y all!

Hi Andy - the roof is already insulated and we have cavity wall as well. Cheers, Piper

Yours: AnDy

But it's reasonably frugall to concentrate to insulate attic/roof... OK. Even if You move, You really will save money for that next house!
OK..huh.

OK: First insulate that house (upper parts), ok.... this order anyway.

underground heating... OK: Y mean ground-heating! OK !!! Here in finland and sweden people had to insulate houses always first, "underground"(means that we have to drill really deep hole to get groundwater and put pipes into hole ~ +4 degrees C is the limit) heat is used here a lot but it does not help one unless the house is insulated->"warm".

...ok