Preparedness for when

D&DD

Katie I have this kit http://www.amazon.co.uk/DENTAL-MIRROR-AND-SCALERS-SET/dp/B005S7TM3Q

Plus a set of toothy pegs (amazon) (for temp fillings and reattaching crowns etc)
Miniature/travel size mouthwash (ebay)
Cotton wool roll things (ebay)
And a pack of strong painkillers

all reasonably cheap stuff but very handy

HTH Dee X

ETA I just checked and forgot I have clove oil in there too. Thought I'd better add as well *just in case* this is only for minor emergencies until you can get to a proper dentist (like when my front cap fell out and I had a meeting with the education authority!!) and does not constitute medical advice

herbily

Taurusgb, I don't know if you've considered a microwave/oven combo, some of them are just over the £100 mark, and if you don't need the oven all the time they're not bad. I lived with one for the best part of a year, together with a single plug-in hotplate, and that covered most of what I needed to make (NB v basic cooking in this household!)

taurusgb

D&DD Thank you but as the door fell off it caused further damage DH is quite handy and doesnt give up easily so I'm afraid it's def dead. herbily thanks for advice but I have issues with microwaves (rotten coward here):o

pineapple hope car is sorted and didnt cost too much. When I was young my Dad always used to say that you always had your hand in your pocket if you had a car. I knew what he meant when I bought my first one.

GreyQueen

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Don't park near a bottle bank if you can avoid it!
Car started behaving oddly just as I reached home. One flat tyre and another looking dubious! I'm guessing I rolled over some glass :mad:.
I only have one silly 'spacesaver' spare. Parked up but stuck. Hopefully the little man from the local garage will come out and fit new tyres. Then we will see if the punctured ones are savagable for use as spares.
Of course in an ideal world we would have a whole garageful of spares in our preps. Not so easy if you don't have a garage or have limited space though

:mad: That is so maddening, you're trying to do a good thing (recycling) and end up badly out of pocket.

My Dad won't take the family car to the tip as he's convinced that he'd pick up punctures.

Mar, my Nan was one of the last generation "in service" in London in the 1930s. She was the sole servant in a middle-class household, the Mr was a businessman out travelling in Europe and the Mrs was out all day, bridge/tennis parties/ shopping. Nan hated it.

The family were known to our family (although not as social equals) so she wasn't being sent into the total unknown but she was a bored and lonely 14 year old, needed to earn money to help raise her 5 younger siblings. They used to like to have country girls up in London in the early years of the twentieth century as the London girlies were considered lippy.

Read; knew their own worth and how to stand up for themselves, more like.:rotfl:

When Great Gran saw which way the world was going, she went to one of the few telephones in the village and summoned Nan home. As she changed buses at the nearest town for the local bus to the village, the news came out that WW2 had been declared.........3rd Sept 1939.

Hard to imagine how frightening that must have been for a 16 year old..............

Years later, as a married woman, Nan used to do some work at the local big house. Her Ladyship had no idea that, below stairs, her staff referred to her as Sally (the name of the kitchen cat).......:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: People had to mind their p and q but they didn't necessarily like their employers. They often held their so-called betters in contempt.

My Grandad's first ever job as a young boy was as a helper to the deliveryman from the local hardware store. They used to take a horse and cart to the big houses with things like deliveries of parafin (for lamps), boxes of household candles and such like.

Grandad hated it. They had to go to the trade entrance and snooty butlers treated them like the scrapings off their shoes. They'd think nothing of messing working people about by demanding that they split packaged items, or go miles back to the shop and out again with a trivial amount of stuff.

I must admit, I get very little enjoyment from watching great house period dramas or visiting stately homes as I look at all that wealth and wonder how many ordinary families went cold and had their children crying with hunger so your ancestors could afford all that tott? Me and mine would have been the ones with the breaking backs and cracked, chapped hands, doing all the donkey work, and I'm bliddy not giving my hard-earned over so I can admire your appalling taste in knick-knacks and the motheaten taxidermy.

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Anyroad, went shopping after w*rk (scuse my Klatchian) and got some antibac gels and some more tealights and more disinfectant and paper plates.

Now, I find that my tealights in their bags of 100 fall all over the shop and are a bit of a beggar to store. Plus they take up more room than necessary, becasue they're all higgeldy-piggeldy, and in my tiny gaff every centimeter must earn its keep. I was thinking of stacking them neatly single file and containing them somehow in rolls, such as sheet plastic with a sweetie-like twist at either end. Can anyone advance me better ideas?

Really glad the milk jugs can be made to function as water carriers, that is something well worth knowing. There will be a lot of them about and they seem pretty sturdy. Can't recall which poster who suggested it, but she was going to keep a few bottle tops of the commoner sizes in her BOB. That's an excellent idea IMO; weigh next to nowt, take up little space and could be a real boon in a crisis.

And a quick plug for a Radio 4 documentary on at 8 pm tomorrow about antibiotics. I shall be tuned in.

Hokay, time for tea. Laters, GQ xx

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I believe someone was asking about hand sanitizer earlier.

Asda have it in their "Pound Aisle" @ 50p for a 2 pack of 57ml bottles.

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Evening all, back home from my travels having had a lovely trip to DD1. Hello to all our new friends who have joined us over the past few days, lovely to have you all with us, it's an interesting ride even on a dull day. Have just read back and caught up with all the news, hope you are all OK and well, Cheers Lyn xxx.

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I've had a search around, for something to use as space-saving pots, for my BOB.

I've settled on 2, from a set of 3 stainless steel storage canisters from Asda.

http://direct.asda.com/ASDA-Stainless-Steel-Canisters---3-Pack/001415275,default,pd.html

The lids I can't use, because (a) they contain clear plastic which would melt, and (b) I wouldn't be able to stand my aluminium water and fuel bottles inside them, inside my BOB.

The canisters, however, are perfect, being light in weight, and holding 1.25 pints (800ml).

The only thing they lack is handles.

I've considered drilling a couple of opposing holes, near to the top, and inserting a couple of screws/rivets, onto which I could attach either a wire loop handle (made from something like a coat-hanger), or a strap handle, like you get on paint tins.

Naturally, they would need to be either folding, or quickly removable.

I've also considered cannibalising a couple of cheap B&M saucepans, for the handles, which could be carried separately, then attached, as and when needed, with a screw and wing-nut.

I even considered attaching a couple of wooden door knobs, but thought better of it, as the rising heat might scorch them, or cause them to split.

Any ideas/suggestions?

RAS

GreyQueen wrote: »

Now, I find that my tealights in their bags of 100 fall all over the shop and are a bit of a beggar to store. Plus they take up more room than necessary, becasue they're all higgeldy-piggeldy, and in my tiny gaff every centimeter must earn its keep. I was thinking of stacking them neatly single file and containing them somehow in rolls, such as sheet plastic with a sweetie-like twist at either end. Can anyone advance me better ideas?

Depending on the diameter of the inners, I think that loo roll or kitchen roll inners might work?

They are rather variable - I used to get 7/8 in a punnet for seed growing and now only get 6, but the latest lot of inner rolls (almost emergency buy) are much smaller.

Fairly certain the larger eco-rolls I got would house a tealight and some kitchen rolls.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

Now, I find that my tealights in their bags of 100 fall all over the shop and are a bit of a beggar to store. Plus they take up more room than necessary, because they're all higgledy-piggledy, and in my tiny gaff every centimetre must earn its keep.

It's a bit late, now that you have bought them, but Asda are selling square packs of tea-lights, 5x5 and 4 deep.


BTW. For anyone using Bio-Ethanol, I've found a cheaper supplier.

B&Q do 2L for £5.

2tonsils

Thanks to all for the good wishes re the new job and our future. We move over the last week in June and I feel really excited. We will be about 30km North of Bangkok on a university campus, which seems to have everything from swimming pools to a theatre. We also get the housing thrown in free and we can choose our apartment from a brochure or wait till we arrive.

We have already started prepping for the journey over, paperwork is getting sorted and things arranged at banks etc. We will be keeping the house here as a holiday home until it sells. People are stunned that we are leaving. The people who heard the rumours assumed we would be returning to the UK, but that was never on the cards for us!

We are selling off the excess household things we don't need and will be running the freezers and cupboards down as soon as our visitors leave. They are with us till the end of May which slows down our prep a bit! It's a good job we did a lot of clearing before I got the job. They did know that it was 7am here when they interviewed me. The time was chosen when they were in the office . I was shocked to find it was a committee and not one person interviewing but they seemed pleased with my answers.

Now I have the problem of sorting out a working wardrobe suitable for a tropical climate. It is actually close to our weather in July and August in Greece so I am aiming at a business casual/smart wardrobe with some comfy clothes to wear on the plane. I will get changed before we arrive as I know we are going to be met by a welcoming committee complete with garlands of jasmine! How wonderful!

It will be hard to leave Greece and some of our friends, but it would be even harder to stay. If we stay they will bleed us dry (the tax man and politicians) and leave us with nothing. Moving to Thailand means I can earn myself a pension plan and save quite a bit of money over the three year contract. I can also extend that another three years if I wish. I hate to say this, but even with the politicians saying things are getting better in Greece, I can see the writing on the wall for this country!