Preparedness for when

vanoonoo

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Thank you everyone for the lovely lists and the ideas for using stores :T

We don't have a local pound shop but do have a D£als. Today I added:

2 small bottles of hand gel (£1.20 for a pack of 2). My stores of gel are getting quite low (OH and I keep them in the car and at work).

2 emergency blankets (£1.20 for a pack of 2)

Somebody mentioned that they were good for wrapping round people on shock. I hadn't thought of them like that. OH has put one in his mini first-aid kit he carries in his work rucksack.

they are so good for so many things! we use them when camping underneath our sleeping mats or airbeds to keep the cold ground at bay - it makes an amazing difference and you get a really good, warm nights sleep, although turning over is sometimes a bit noisey!

vanoonoo

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

If water is ever so hard to come by, that a dog or cat can't find any for itself, then you are in a situation so dire, that you will need to keep every drop for yourself.

all the more reason to have some extra, available?

D&DD

Morning Preppers and readers

It's nice that more people are reading and also joining in it's an instinctive part of the prepper makeup to spread the word so it's nice to reach a wider selection of people who we may help.. hopefully !

Doomsday preppers was really good last night, Mar you would like it as the first ones were talking about a disruption to the global food production and agriculture weirdly enough,the very thing you mentioned yesterday!
Some of the people on them are a bit out there but it's always good for a few tips,and to make me covet their huge houses and stockpile rooms :rotfl:

Bob amazon have a 3 pack of those lights for £7.95 so if you have prime it's a little cheaper but do check as their prices go up and down like yoyo's. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rolson-90005-3-Piece-Lamp-Magnet/dp/B00C1EB33Q/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1369297490&sr=8-13&keywords=24+led+light

Hailstones here ATM and I took the chance and left my tomatoes out pooh..

short_bird

Wondered if you'd seen this interview with someone who spoke to the Woolwich attackers? First aider and former Brownie leader. A marvel, I don't think most of us would have gone toward someone with a weapon.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/22/woolwich-first-person-account

BessieBooBoo

Hello all (waves to newbies and lurkers) :j

So much useful advice, thanks all, and to the newbies stocking up, don't make the same mistake I did.

Stocked up on packets in plastics bags and cardboard boxes and had uninvited guests of the four footed furry kind! Keep stuff in pest proof containers just in case... (Not allowed to say mice out loud as it freaks some preppers out!)

Horrible to see what's happened on the news, tornado destruction, and now fanatics killing that poor soldier...

Unbelievable. I won't rant (much), but can't get my head around the fact that these fanatics take all the free education, benefits, etc. our country has then turn round and do that... War is always horrific, for centuries innocents have been killed, why do something like that?

Guess I shouldn't be surprised at the horrible things people can do to each other.... Rant over...

All we can do is try and look after ourselves, families, friends, neighbours as best we can, and keep prepping.

On a lighter note, managed to plant the following before the rain came to water them in:

Cabbages
Cauliflowers
Sugar Snap Peas
Chard
Borlotti Beans
Cut and come again lettuce
Radish
Beetroot
Spring onions
White onions
Nasturiums (sp?) These are edible, 'Burning Embers'
Sunflowers (type you can harvest seeds from if birds don't get them first)

Already have in the greenhouse:

Alicante toms
Beef toms
Moneymaker toms
Mini q's
Crystal lemon q (trying something different)
Peppers
Basil
Garlic
French Tarragon

And can see the goosegogs are laden, currants shooting up, strawberries starting to get flowers, blossom on the apples, cherry, pears. Already cropped some rhubarb, now stewed and nestling in freezer ready for crumbles, etc.

Was a bit naughty and went mad on seeds at the local garden centre. Saw a James Wong stand, and couldn't resist buying his more unusual veg:

Rat tail radish (look like chillies growing but taste like hot radish)
Japenese beefsteak plants - apparently that's how they taste
Electric daisies - edible flowers that taste like a jolt of electric!
Chinese chives - delicate roast garlic flavour (flowers and stems)
Asparagus Pea - taste like a cross between the two
Callaloo - like technicolour spinach
Purslane - supposed to taste like mangetout/bramley apple
Wintergreen - rootbeer and peppermint
Inca berries - like kiwi, pineapple orange & goosegog flavours

Trouble is, everywhere is planted up outside, so, it will be down to planting in pots, and nursing them indoors... Oops.

I don't know if any are perennial, but, some definitely don't survive frosts. I will try anything once!

Take care all you poorlies, congrats to 2T on her job, sounds like you are leaving at the right time.

Remember - keeeeeeeep prepppppppping!

BBB

daz378

awful business with the soldier....thoughts to friends and family..... setting off soon for a late shift... whoever as just bought the kindle be careful.... i have spent so much more on books since i bought it. stay safe

Butterfly_Brain

Got some of these in Wilkinsons for 50p today great bargain
http://www.wilko.com/camping/wilko-active-wash/invt/0299733?VBMST=camping

alfsmum

Fascinating to read snippets about how our mix of preppers live, from small city flats to small holdings with several acres. No doubts there are pros and cons for most situations, if you're in a city centre you may be more vulnerable to other people's actions, how ever unintentional, fires in flats etc, but you are more likely to receive help from the authorities in a SHTF scenario, have your power reconnected sooner and so on than those in the sticks.

I see our most likely SHTF scenarios here as being weather related, snow, floods for example so having enough stores to last us for a few days or more seems the best way to go. We are in a very large village, not at all isolated, but were without mains water for over a week in the floods a few years ago. It took a few days for water distribution to be organised and the bowsers were often empty. There was a great community spirit though, people collecting water for the less able and chatting to each round the bowsers and getting to know their neighbours for the first time.

Just being out of action for a few days with flu has made me reassess our stocks, and I'll be adding plenty of long life fruit juice as well as water to our store. Sometimes juice is all you want when you're feverish! Also must check stocks of medication as lemsip and cough mixture is seriously depleted.

Feeling the urge to head out to price up at the garden centre now I feel better as there is an offer on over Bank Holiday Weekend and I'd like to get some patio fruit trees for home to add to the standard size we have at the allotment. Can't help feeling we'll be better off having some fruit behind locked gates in the back garden rather than more vulnerable on the allotment.

ginnyknit

Well I am now prepared for anything, just been outside and have 5 beetroot growing and 1 cauliflower :rotfl: Actually have much more than that but they are my pride and joy. Japanese onions are doing very well in the greenhouses, I have about 5 pots of them so they will add a boost to meals.

Went to Mr T and could hear the hail banging on the roof, knowing I had my trolley and had to get the bus home I somewhat lost the will to shop. The prices are :eek::eek: and it took me ages to work out the best value for my meagre allowance but did use every voucher I had and my clubcard ones so saved £7 - it was bloomin heavy though. Also got double points and entered a prize draw. Remembered to pick up some custard sachets at least.

JayneC

Hey all,

thanks for my membership number vanoonoo

Got bitten by a blimin tick!! I'm blaming you lot talking about it the other day:p

Didn't notice it straight away - infact slept with it attached and discovered it in the morning so it'd had a good feed and I had quite a red mark. Probably jumped aboard whilst I was walking crazy doggie. Went to docs who had only encountered this once before and wasn't much use really. She consulted her little book and decided to prescribe antibiotics as a preventative measure even though this was not recommended. Now I have a dilemma - shall I just take the tablets regardless or shall I wait and see if I develop any symptoms??I'm not a fan of antibiotics but also not a fan of long term debilitating disease:(

On prepping front I had to travel to neighbouring town t'other day ( I say neighbouring but it is 20 miles away, that's what passes as nearby in this area!!) which has a Lidl so had a little mooch as we don't have one here. Got a lemon tree and a fig tree both for £6. Am planning to grow lemon tree indoors for now and may transfer to green house eventually. Fig will go out - I have quite a sheltered little yard and will keep it in container cos they fruit better when roots are restricted anyhoo - I may try to incorporate it into my aquaponics system.
Also got a nice multi-tool for under a fiver. One of those with pliers, it has a little pouch as well. So was quite pleased.:T

Been looking around the charity shops but not found much recently apart from a decent pair of soft leather boots for £2, which was particularly bargainus.

Keep well everyone x