Daydream thread continues.....

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

thanks... yep cute, but a pain in the butt on times, especially when kitten goes on a made one:rotfl::rotfl:

British preppers is on tonight at 11 pm national geographic ( i think) its a repeat of last night ( new series)...As I have mentioned before this does strike a chord with me:cool:, not so much of an invasion of zombies, or the end of the world etc, but to have a reasonable stockpile etc for emergancies..

Just wondering what type of stockpile you lot have, and basically if we had major snow, how long could you last?

I have a bit of a stockpile, but I think after about 7 - 10 days it would be some wired mixtures of food combinations.

Animal food wise, we normally buy a few sacks at a time, but only buy it when we have just used the last bucket full or tin.

Think I might actually take stock this weekend... and also buy some more candles etc:rotfl:

Cold this morning, frost on the ground

edit.....Alfie.... just wondering if you still had the fire bricks and shelving? as we are still interested... its just things a bit manic here,so dont know when we could come down and pick them up...maybe in the next few weeks. or just after christmas

Ctc, I am winding down stocks in the house ATM. I know it's a dodgy time, but we are reasonably connected. I want to start again from fresh. We have rarely eaten so much meat as I try and work our way through it.


I think though, unpredictable and novel meals included, we would easi
Y cope four weeks. I have eight pots of treacle for good ness sake, for a week or two we could sit eating treacle off a spoon if we had run out of every thing else.

Itismehonest

We keep enough food in to go for up to 6 weeks - a fairly large pantry helps.
Of course, the fresh stuff would run out or rot before then. Semi-skimmed milk freezes so milk is not a problem. DH bakes the bread.
We only go main shopping about once a month with an in-between visit to the fruit & veg shop.

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

We keep enough food in to go for up to 6 weeks - a fairly large pantry helps.
Of course, the fresh stuff would run out or rot before then. Semi-skimmed milk freezes so milk is not a problem. DH bakes the bread.
We only go main shopping about once a month with an in-between visit to the fruit & veg shop.

We choose to go food shopping as liottle as possible. Even know its so close. Like you I top up for fresh. We have good access to fresh milk but I keep some in the freezer too.

There are jars and tins of fruit (the brandy it's in is requisite in times of crisis) and frozen veg is perfect, (even better in years we have grown the majority of it). Our freezer is the size of a small panic room......if I were organised I could feed us for three months I am sure.:o

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

It was around -4C here early this morning, with outside taps frozen. Even in the polytunnel, it was -2.7C at 8am.

Now we will see how hardy the red lettuce, which I'd just germinated, turns out to be!

I think we could survive for around a month here, possibly much longer, if we ate the chickens!

Even longer if we ate their food...:rotfl:

Cold but not freezing here on the coast. Just as well as there's still a bit of run-off so, if frozen, that would become a Cresta Run on the hill.

Oh yes, of course :rotfl: I'm surrounded by thousands of rabbits, pheasants, pigeons & sheep.
CTC. we could go on for years but I'd get heartily sick of lamb. :rotfl:

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

Our freezer is the size of a small panic room......if I were organised I could feed us for three months I am sure.:o

We got rid of our large chest freezer last year. No longer growing vast amounts ourselves made it pretty uneconomical. We just have the normal sized one. It's less to bury in the snow when the power goes off, too

rhiwfield

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

British preppers is on tonight at 11 pm national geographic ( i think) its a repeat of last night ( new series)...As I have mentioned before this does strike a chord with me:cool:, not so much of an invasion of zombies, or the end of the world etc, but to have a reasonable stockpile etc for emergancies..

Just wondering what type of stockpile you lot have, and basically if we had major snow, how long could you last?

Not that much of a food stockpile for 3 people here, 2 weeks max of limited choice eating, and we'd be very vulnerable if water or leccy were cut off for a long period. Like most people we're wired in to the modern world and would sorely miss the mains services and telecoms, especially as the latter is so essential for selling. Heatingwise we keep our oil tank topped up (just ordered another 500 L) and we have 3.5cu metres of logs left as well as leccy heaters and lots of candles/oil lamps! Woodburner can be used for cooking and we have a small wood cooking stove and a butane gas cooker.

So short of going survivalist and getting water treament kit/tablets, if I were stocking I'd start with bottled water and get a mix of flour, tins and other dried foods. I'd restock my empty log store and get more oil for lamps. In the past the Ty Bach just had a bucket under the seat so that wouldnt be a problem, albeit not pleasant (in old Waterways parlance "bucket and chuckit")

Itismehonest

rhiwfield wrote: »

Not that much of a food stockpile for 3 people here, 2 weeks max of limited choice eating, and we'd be very vulnerable if water or leccy were cut off for a long period. Like most people we're wired in to the modern world and would sorely miss the mains services and telecoms, especially as the latter is so essential for selling. Heatingwise we keep our oil tank topped up (just ordered another 500 L) and we have 3.5cu metres of logs left as well as leccy heaters and lots of candles/oil lamps! Woodburner can be used for cooking and we have a small wood cooking stove and a butane gas cooker.

So short of going survivalist and getting water treament kit/tablets, if I were stocking I'd start with bottled water and get a mix of flour, tins and other dried foods. I'd restock my empty log store and get more oil for lamps. In the past the Ty Bach just had a bucket under the seat so that wouldnt be a problem, albeit not pleasant (in old Waterways parlance "bucket and chuckit")

Youm be maining they Thunderboxes, rhiw?

When I was young an elderly aunt & uncle had a double. On long, cold winter nights they could venture out with a lantern & keep each other company :rotfl:

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

Youm be maining they Thunderboxes, rhiw?

When I was young an elderly aunt & uncle had a double. On long, cold winter nights they could venture out with a lantern & keep each other company :rotfl:

When I was a nipper, I heard of one with autoflush. It was built over a stream. :eek:

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

When I was a nipper, I heard of one with autoflush. It was built over a stream. :eek:

:rotfl: True but they were less popular because there was always the worry that rats might take an inordinate interest in the parts that rodents should not reach :eek: :rotfl:

Davesnave

What a glorious day! Sunshine, no wind and no noise.

Moved all the hens toys into their new area. Those are tyres piled up with a few 3" x 2" poles across them for extra perching. The tyres make good windbreaks but they can fill with water, which goes stagnant, so I've drilled lots of big holes in them.

Then, since it was so nice, I set the Workmate up in the sunshine and recycled a rickety old 5 bar gate. It's now a windbreak to go in front of the west-facing pop hole on the new house.

In the late afternoon our new log supplier turned up with a trailer load, so the rest of daylight was spent throwing those into the wood store and stacking them. They were pretty good logs, so we'll use those chaps again when we need to. There's no telling when Pete will get the next load here or what they'll be like when he does, so I thought it sensible to stock up on hard wood. It's not like they'll go off.

Oh, and we've had 2 eggs. No idea which hens laid them. Maybe the new ones?