Curry

[ailbhe]

Rob and Pat Kight make a mean curry. They are a good team.

And Linnea reminds Rob when he forgets or runs out of some of the spices, which is cute.

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In other news, Rob liked his birthday gift, which Emer gave him after work today. He was touched by the signatures. Linnea is refusing to hand over the card she made him, but I'm sure she will eventually.

I've been thinking about the tightening of belts, and wondering where ours can be tightened (in terms of general budget, not unusual expenditures). I'm not willing to compromise on much, is the problem. I might do a charity-shop trawl for shirts for Rob, but since it's really hard to find sleeves long enough anyway, I don't hold out much hope. We will probably end up eating less and less meat, since meat is expensive and pulses are cheap. Soon we will switch from cold cereals with rice milk to porridge, and that will help.

But I don't want to stop the local organic fair trade ethical consumerism kick. We're nothing like poor enough to justify it. In point of fact, we're rich.

But spending it all.

Comments

[perceval.livejournal.com]

What about voucher sites or coupons?

[ailbhe]

Of limited use when I buy from a co-op market most of the time; the stuff they stock tends not to be the kind of stuff which gets special offers. And the kids and I have stopped getting new new clothes already, too. Basically, we don't do supermarkets or the high street chains at all.

Unless those sites have fuel coupons, I suppose. Do they? I've never looked.

[perceval.livejournal.com]

I've only seen fuel coupons associated with spending £50 or more at supermarkets.

[ailbhe]

I was thinking electric-and-gas fuel, not petrol fuel, too. I suspect coupons won't help us much :(

[perceval.livejournal.com]

The problem with that kind of fuel, too, is that customer service is an important part of the equation - at least for me. Hence I've chosen the cheapest provider with good customer satisfaction, and I am with a broad band provider who is a bit more expensive, but will let me switch without much hassle and is well known for good service.

[pauamma]

If that's the Pat Kight I'm thinking of, how long is she staying in your neck of the woods?

[ailbhe]

Oh, she's not, but her curry recipe has been here for a while!

We've never met her in the flesh but consider she's fed us well and often.

[pauamma]

Ah, OK. (Too bad. I haven't seen her in meatspace in a coon's age.)

[ruthi.livejournal.com]

Pat Kight's curry recipe is *good*.
I have it bookmarked.

I need to make some, the vegetables are mounting up.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

My last partner (tall, long arms) had a huge problem finding work shirts that fitted in high street shops, but then accompanied me on a charity shop crawl where he unexpectedly found and bought more shirts than I bought of anything altogether. I also find this to be true when looking for trousers that fit, though I fear that ridiculously-shaped sub-hipsters have been around now for long enough that even charity shops are flooded with them and have no real trousers anymore.

[the0lady.livejournal.com]

High waisted trousers are totally coming back - I already have a couple of pairs, and tried on a couple more yesterday but they weren't the right size.

I don't know how long it will be until they start filtering down to charity and vintage shops though; you might just have to Primark it for a season.

(and before anyone jumps down my throat about Primark using sweatshop labour, so does everyone else - in the case of some "luxury" brands, the _same_ sweatshop labour!)

[ailbhe]

My fair-trade clothes place online does high-waisted trousers. We don't buy clothes in the high street any more because of the labour issue - except for John Lewis own brand (they have a reasonable written policy which they were able to let me see on request).

Mainly we dress in Freecycle and charity shop gear.