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£1 a day (3 Weeks Ago)
Warning bit ranty

I am getting very spissed off with a load of people saying how easy it is live on £1 a day or £14 a week

You know what I really get it, if you are incredibly careful and have good access to food suppliers you can live on a small budget.

But it is quite disingenuous to say oh looks at my yummy carrot, kidney bean and cumin burger that is all of 42p a serving, easy peasy budgeting for a family, yourself a period of time.

Yep yummy burger, put then points out that if you wanted an apple or a banana over the day that would cost you 10p or 14p and blow your budget

and then a nutritionist waded in with while you had a healthy diet not enough calories, especially if you are also active.

The £14.50 budget was based on a online pricing up of cheapest prices of a variety of supermarkets, yep because everyone has access to four different supermarkets to buy pasta from, spuds from the other and beans from somewhere else.

Also they didn't actually reflect the prices I see in the supermarkets or shops particulary for the veg.

Multi buys get on my wick and how they are budgeting in to price per serving. It is cheaper to four tins of tomatoes at £1 than one for 30p, but I want to buy my kid an apple to put in their lunch box and I'm not sure I can manage those multi buys and get on the bus.

Most of all I am titted off because I feel there is unlying message, you know what poor people, there is no real need for food banks in this country you are just not cooking right


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Best foot forward (5 Weeks Ago)
I don't often write journal entries but thought I would have a little clear up as we are on publicity drive

Leaving my email case anyone wants it at a future date

occupyh2g2@gmail.com

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Unpacked (Dec 5, 2012)
Well, it has only taken 12 years but yesterday I finally unpacked the last box that moved with us

it was in a smallish cupboard in the kitchen where I seem to just have thrown random things in over th years as well

I found some photos of the kids when they were very young and some photos of me when I was a teenager

A letter to a friend affectionally starts Dear Tart, it describes Hiccups 2nd birthday and has poems in it, not mine, others that I was reading to Hiccup at the time. It seems that I was seeing my friend the following week, I was packing my new tent, although I can't remember camping in October in Wales, but it was a long time ago. Anyway knowing me I didn't get round to posting the letter so just told her news instead

There was a few home made cards in there 'to Mummy' and Hiccup's baby health book

Everything else was rubbish, although I have kept a couple of random adapters 'just in case', couldn't help myself

I came across some smoking paraphernalia which I binned but there was a couple joints worth of weed in an old tin, purely out scientific interest, as in I wonder if weed has a use by date, I smoked it. It must be quite old although not 12 years old, so not very scientific then but it seems to have quite a long shelf life
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The Post (Dec 3, 2012)
I have a long winded way of getting to when I comment so am sticking this here A87773638
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Sun is shining (Nov 10, 2012)
and I feel like shit

and now I am angry and shamelessly posting in the hope that I garner some and sympathy and and gentle kicks up the ass

I have thought about mowing the lawn, then after that with the autumn sun glaring through my kitchen window I could clean that and admire my 'see through window' and better looking garden

but, forcing myself to do that, something that I would otherwise well, not enjoy, as in get out the flags and party enjoy, but find nevertheless rewarding, I'm spissed off and very tired of having to do that

that I see the beauty of the sunshine, the little things in my garden but have no feeling of them makes me

and now a ruddy great rain cloud has tipped up and I am even more cross


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