PowerSwitch

Have you decided on a New Year Resolution yet?

I have: I've decided to be less shy about posting on blogs.

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Take full advantage of the downturn. I feel a company purchase coming on.

Stove with oven and possibly backboiler

Vortex. Shy?

Several, and they've already been through the approval process by the wife...

1. Goats
2. Spend at least 3 afternoons a week at the beach in Summer
3. Grey water reuse
4. Build the new pergola, firepit, 2nd bread oven & cool/hot-tub (I've now started referring to it as my 'leisure complex')
5. A 2nd run for the chickens so that they can alternate on a monthly basis

I'd like to add Pigs into the list, but I'm not sure I'll have time, so that project is strictly in the 2009 Aspirations category at the moment.

I'll need to get a new job soon, that'll mean moving again. No chance of buying/selling right now so it'll be a rented place and that'll seriously limit what I can do in my next place. Groan, container gardening again!

Invest every penny I have in oil stocks when it reaches $31 in March and sell when they get to $380 a year later

Play more, work less.

Yes mate I have and started it. My next job is home so I can also help implement it.

Ok for a long time I believed that process food is causing cancer. Trouble is I was also a bit blind, cancer and death is sod all - I for one am certainly not afraid to die. But so I realised that all this processed crap was not only getting worse but as a physical hard worker I thought "whats wrong with the food there is nothing in it, no get up n go, no goodness, no energy, it just makes you full" I spoke to a lot of mates about it and they all felt the same.

Dont get me wrong we construction workers always moan, and moan about food, having to slam mars bars down and pop a pepsi to just get up the gears in work. However when I lived in Germany for two years, I noticed a profound difference with their food, felt like I was young again ie full of beans. Dont get me wrong I'm fit and a get up n go person, but out there I simply required less mental effort.

Some of the foreign construction workers, whislt I do not want them here, I still chat and get on with them. They all moan about the same thing ie "whats wrong with your food" they cant get no energy from it.

So I'm dumping all the processed crap and me and the family are making an effort to cook, eat wisely with good products. I made a big list and all our meat is will be coming from a butcher that everyone raves about. I've also been offered a large allotment anytime I want it. So that could help and I love gardening. We all agreed in the family to make this change, its not about health its simply about no longer eating 'supermarket soylent green'. The misses used the list and found that its actually cheaper to eat and cook real food than all the crap! The outcome of all of this hopefully will be we feel must better for it and therefore end up leading a more fun life. We'll defo stick to it for the year

Last years resolution was to change my job - I failed to fulfill that one
This years is to keep it
Apart from that; to learn the lessons from this years gardening and apply with vigour in the new new year.

Last years resolution was to change my job - I failed to fulfill that one
This years is to keep it

Wow, mine too, and mine too

Get 6 in the gold at 50 yards (archery). Grow a decent number of single root carrots. Do less Saturday mornings at work. Go camping for at least 1 weekend in the summer.

careful_eugene wrote:Get 6 in the gold at 50 yards (archery). Grow a decent number of single root carrots. Do less Saturday mornings at work. Go camping for at least 1 weekend in the summer.

I want to have a go at archery now. Always fancied that

MisterE wrote:

careful_eugene wrote:Get 6 in the gold at 50 yards (archery). Grow a decent number of single root carrots. Do less Saturday mornings at work. Go camping for at least 1 weekend in the summer.

I want to have a go at archery now. Always fancied that

They'll be a club near you and they should do a `have a go' session for about £5
http://www.onesite.co.uk/find/archery.htm
go here for a list of clubs

careful_eugene wrote:

MisterE wrote:

careful_eugene wrote:Get 6 in the gold at 50 yards (archery). Grow a decent number of single root carrots. Do less Saturday mornings at work. Go camping for at least 1 weekend in the summer.

I want to have a go at archery now. Always fancied that

They'll be a club near you and they should do a `have a go' session for about £5
http://www.onesite.co.uk/find/archery.htm
go here for a list of clubs

Me too. And there is a local club no more than a (very, very) good arrow shot away but when I phoned up I was told there is a waiting list of months for the intro session but they'd take my details and contact me when my name nears the top of the list. That was around April and I've not heard anything since!