Small victories!

[Penny Lane]

I'm going to have a little gloat now as there's no-one else I know who can relate to Isher victories!

*Last week I made butter (thanks to lovely Isher folk advice), and it worked first time so I'm going to make all our butter from scratch from now on. Just hope my waistline can handle it... I sense another thread!

*I found booster pads that came with a set of prefold nappies that I couldn't get on with, made a pattern from one and have now started making more from the prefolds that I was going to either sell or give away. Planning other projects for the leftover prefolds. (Ideas would be most welcome )
*I used my last disposable nappy two days ago!

I've been using terry nappies on Indi for about 6 months on and off but during the day & one disposable through the night for most of January, heading towards complete disposable freedom. Last night I tried a terry with a booster and although it did leak over the top I think that was because the pad was too far up the front of him. It didn't leak through the leg holes or out the back so I'll try another way tonight.

*I made homemade bread that isn't destined for soup dipping only!

Doesn't sound like much but with it being winter & not having a chance to do outdoor isher stuff, I'm happy

[Uller]

Fantastic! Small victories maybe - but all building towards something bigger. Imagine the impact if everyone in the UK did one or two small ish things that they don't do now!

I like the idea of making butter (as you will see from my reply to your other thread!) - I'll have to find the instructions for that somewhere.

[Annpan]

Well done Penny Lane ... hmmmm homemade butter.... yummmm.... Uller, it's dead easy once you know how

A warning on the terries nappies front.... allow yourself some breathing room on this - don't feel like a failure if you have to fall back on disposables every now and then, your only human (I have learned this through experience and bitter disappointment)

But otherwise you go girl!

[becks77]

Great victories I'd say, great stuff

[Big Al]

I'm going to have a little gloat now as there's no-one else I know who can relate to Isher victories!

*Last week I made butter (thanks to lovely Isher folk advice), and it worked first time so I'm going to make all our butter from scratch from now on. Just hope my waistline can handle it... I sense another thread!

*I found booster pads that came with a set of prefold nappies that I couldn't get on with, made a pattern from one and have now started making more from the prefolds that I was going to either sell or give away. Planning other projects for the leftover prefolds. (Ideas would be most welcome )
*I used my last disposable nappy two days ago!

I've been using terry nappies on Indi for about 6 months on and off but during the day & one disposable through the night for most of January, heading towards complete disposable freedom. Last night I tried a terry with a booster and although it did leak over the top I think that was because the pad was too far up the front of him. It didn't leak through the leg holes or out the back so I'll try another way tonight.

*I made homemade bread that isn't destined for soup dipping only!

Doesn't sound like much but with it being winter & not having a chance to do outdoor isher stuff, I'm happy

Think of it this way Penny Lane. Isinbard Kindom Brunel ( probably) started with a mechano set for his 10th birthday.... he went onto design and build some of the finest metal thingy bits in this world.

You started with butter, bread and booster pads ( whatever they are). I reckon in this day and age you will be more sort after than a bloke with a big mechano set.....lol.

[Green Aura]

Good stuff penny. Keep a few disposables for when you want to go out - carting soppy terries round is no fun

[Helsbells]

Thats brilliant Penny,
Well done, and keep it up.

I feel the same, little things like when I have been in Asda or Sainsburys recently, I have looked at things I would not have thought twice about buying a couple of years ago, but now would not even give a second look, like tinned soup, pasta, bread, bags of lettuce to name but a few. I think I cant believe I bought these things a few years ago.

[JulieSherris]

I agree with Hels... it's SO very satisfying when you do have to go to the shops, to walk through aisles, glancing left & right, but not stopping...... especially when you might have spent a fortune from those aisles a couple of years ago.

Hubby spent the drizzly saturday in the hayshed chopping wood, & we've kept our Stanley going for the last week exclusively on free wood from the garden..... everytime I fill Stan up, I can see hubby with a little smile on his face.....

Yesterday, we had egg & bacon for breakfast - home made bread, home made butter, fresh eggs from Camile's chooks & BOGOF bacon... and it was luvverly - had we still been in Blackpool, we would have been in the local cafe having a full english.... and paying thru the nose for greasy cheap products & weak dishwater tea......

Thank goodness we changed to an Ish life

[MuddyWitch]

My Mum used to say "one step more is one step less to go" You are well down the ISH road, well done, Penny

MW

[Big Al]

Wel I think all of the people on here are one less step to go and it makes my heart sing to know that I belong to a community that thinks the same as me and are not a lot of weirdo greenie swampy type people but normal people who care about different things but also a collective as a whole.

Sometimes the road to ishness is long and is full of muddy holes which make the steps hard to do but then the boots dry out, the sun shines and the steps get bigger and longer.

Say hooray to Ishness....

[JulieSherris]

That's almost poetic, Al!

But how do you know I'm not a weirdo greenie swampy type creature?
I certainly looked like it after slushing thru our extremely muddy gardens on Saturday, I can tell you

[Penny Lane]

Hooray to ishness!!

Thanks everyone, I am glowing with happiness

[Wombat]

Well done Penny!

It's great when you can celebrate the little victories!

Nev

[Big Al]

That's almost poetic, Al!

But how do you know I'm not a weirdo greenie swampy type creature?
I certainly looked like it after slushing thru our extremely muddy gardens on Saturday, I can tell you

Back in the early - mid 90's I WAS that swampy type greenie being chained to rail line to stop nuke fuel going to sellafield etc but that was hardcore greenie stuff and I didn't wish to upset people who now 20 years on want to help save the planet but not in the same way,lol... I'll stop digging the hole now.....