If you don't laugh, you'll cry. WFA

The Treasury does have a full internal analysis of the effects of withdrawing the WFA from pensioners….. seems we don’t get to read it.

welbeck

did it used to be coley ?

Yes, it did. Still tastes horrible, whatever they call it.

Tizliz

Allira

I've a better idea.

We could all be issued with a survival blanket, so much easier to wrap ourselves up than faff around trying to push crisp packets behind radiators.

For those nifty with needle and thread, we could make ourselves survival outfits so we can wear them when we move around our chilly homes and go to scrape the ice from the inside of the windows.

www.kcl.ac.uk/making-lifesaving-blankets-out-of-crisp-packets

You make the blanket from the crisp packet - not a new idea

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I've heard everything now!!

Allira

I've a better idea.

We could all be issued with a survival blanket, so much easier to wrap ourselves up than faff around trying to push crisp packets behind radiators.

For those nifty with needle and thread, we could make ourselves survival outfits so we can wear them when we move around our chilly homes and go to scrape the ice from the inside of the windows.

www.kcl.ac.uk/making-lifesaving-blankets-out-of-crisp-packets

You make the blanket from the crisp packet - not a new idea

Now the fish is Basa. It tastes OK as long as you don’t trace its origins. It sticks well to tinfoil if you don’t grease it before cooking.

welbeck

did it used to be coley ?

I think so.

did it used to be coley ?

M0nica

Maybe pollock! A fish with a name close to a rude word, probably because that is what is said when someone first tastes it. It is really cheap (for fish) because it tastes so awful.

I was very proud that I was the only person who caught a pollock when we went mackerel fishing off the coast of Cornwall years ago.

We were camping and we barbecued it (plus mackerel) for dinner.

When I told my mother she said "Pollock's for cats!"

RosiesMaw2

WFA Winter Frock Allowance - donations to Lady Vic Starmer?

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WFA Winter Frock Allowance - donations to Lady Vic Starmer?

I have had some very tasty Pollock!

[laugh]

The fish, unusually, mate for life.
That's where that saying comes from...
A pair of pollocks. 🤭

M0nica

Maybe pollock! A fish with a name close to a rude word, probably because that is what is said when someone first tastes it. It is really cheap (for fish) because it tastes so awful.

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Maybe pollock! A fish with a name close to a rude word, probably because that is what is said when someone first tastes it. It is really cheap (for fish) because it tastes so awful.

M0nica

Good point. How about recycling cooking foil? Specifically for a survival blaanket, then you can supplement your diet by nibbling at all the burnt on food bits.

Especially if you have cooked salmon, oh forgot most of us probably can’t afford a piece of decent fish 🤣

Bet the sanctimonious Gary Lineker doesn’t have to put crisp packs behind his radiators 🙄

merlotgran

So if it takes a while to freeze us all to death they want us to eat salt laden, high fat ultra processed food to hurry things along a bit?

Sponsored by Wa*kers! 😂

This lot are trying to bump off the pensioners for sure😩

ronib

Kitchen foil behind radiators might be better - it might be more economical than buying crisps in bulk?

Think it’s a joke? Right

Allira

Do we wash them, stick them together to make one large sheet?
Which are best - are Tyrrells lightly sea salted ok or does it have to be Walkers? Tesco own make?

Some crisps are made locally and the bags are apparently compostable so will they disintegrate slowly and disappear?

So many ponderables.

So you get doz of those big bags of crisps ( cost £57 ),run the hot tap, get the water boiling hot to wash all the grease off, ( cost £3.00 per bowl of water). You have eaten all the crisps ( £9.80) for a statin as you have raised your cholesterol & god knows what else- some folk are blinking nuts 🙄

Weaty

Are some crisp bags better than others,
this maybe of help, to know which crisps to buy for efficiency.

I think some crisp packets have a silver lining which is what all us elderly folk should be looking for at present!

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Weaty

Are some crisp bags better than others,
this maybe of help, to know which crisps to buy for efficiency.

I think Kettle crisps are the best. Nicer crisps but more importantly the bag itself is strong, doesn't tear easily and has a more restrained colour palette for those of us who prefer a refined blanket.

Are some crisp bags better than others,
this maybe of help, to know which crisps to buy for efficiency.

I live on my own in a 3 bedroom house. I assume I should be looking for a bedsit and I may as well give the house sale money to Keith and Rachel as they will be taking it anyway eventually.

I’ve just remembered from 20 odd years ago. My dear old dad was living in sheltered accommodation in his 90s. There was a flurry of excitement when the warden informed the residents that she would be delivering a little gift package to them from the local council and it would include a blanket.

Poor Dad had pictured a nice tartan rug for his armchair. The gift package was a foil survival blanket, a room thermometer and a small wind up torch to use in a power cut.