Preparedness for when

wondercollie

I was glad of my stockpile this last week. I had surgery last Wednesday. Long story short, I won't be shopping or cooking for a while.

My oldest son pointed out to my husband that "Mum has everything under control. Look in the freezers and the pantry. We just need to buy milk and fruit".

I raised them well.

Unfortunately, I won't be eating the same as them for a while due to complications but hey, I needed to lose some weight and I think I've taken in under 3000 calories in the last week.

Toast, jelly, lots of water and semolina are my staples right now.

Dog is well provided for.

I'm going back to bed to take drugs.

thriftwizard

Wondercollie, wishing you a swift & uncomplicated recovery. It's good to hear your preps stood you in good stead. Make sure you get plenty of rest; let your family look after you for a change!

DD1 & I are off for 5 days tomorrow "doing" (i.e. trading at) a festival; I shall be interested to see whether I come back to partially-emptied shelves & freezer, or a houseful of chip wrappers...

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WONDERCOLLIE hope your recovery is quick and as painless as possible. Well done on your preps and even more well done on having a DS who knows about them and is tuned in enough to maybe look after things until you are well again, take time if you need it, the world will still be there when you're fully fit again and can look after itself pretty well until then, Cheers Lyn xxx.

mardatha

Adding healing thoughts to the collie
I meant to tell you all about a museum I went round last week. Gladstone's Land in Edinburgh.
http://www.nts.org.uk/Property/Gladstones-Land/
That's a pic of the posh 17th cent room - but there's also a 16th cent room that's not pictured which I fell in love with. As a prepper I could've moved in there! The only hassle would be getting water and a loo
The big 5ft long fireplace with the pot stands either side, and every conceivable kitchen gadget known in the 16th cent. Iron toastie makers, oatcake makers, griddles, frying pans, stewpots and kettles. And loads more that even the guides said we're not quite sure how they were used.And a wee bed that folded into the wall, beside a baby's crib with a lovely doll in it lol. The one overwhelming feeling you got going in there was how homely and cosy and liveable it was.
Then through to the posh room shown in the pic - and that too was so cosy around the fire. I was wandering around getting the feel of the people who had lived there and it was much nicer that I had expected.. (although you aren't allowed up into the garrets where life wouldn't have been so good.)
All of which I just wanted to say to show that womankind have lived for centuries just fine without elect and gas at a flick of a switch - and if need be could do so again

mardatha

Funnily enough the one room I didn't like was the Georgian 18th cent one. So perfect and elegant and polished - but I got all these vibes of boredom from both the snooty ladies and the servant girls who had polished the damn furniture about 9000 times a week and were sick of it lol

RAS

mardatha wrote: »

Adding healing thoughts to the collie
I meant to tell you all about a museum I went round last week. Gladstone's Land in Edinburgh.
http://www.nts.org.uk/Property/Gladstones-Land/

A lot of my ancestors lived in the tenements along the Royal Mile. Most families apparently in one room, sometime two rooms but only one with a window. When you go into the Lands (we would call them burgage plots down here) and look up, there was a different family behind every window. Talk about cheek by jowl.

I realised when I walked down one year that one couple grew up two doors apart even if their census records were in different sections, and then discovered that a distant cousin descended from the same couple visits the bar below one tenement every week after visiting his auntie who lived in the more modern flats behind the other tenement.

mardatha

Wow small world RAS. The biggest surprise for me was when I came out the back of the close and found a postman delivering letters to tenements there - that people still live now in the back courts of such an old place - seemed so odd somehow to me.
The RV is Edinburgh, from the slums of Arthur St - long demolished. He's much posher than me cos he's Edinburgh

RAS

mardatha wrote: »

The RV is Edinburgh, from the slums of Arthur St - long demolished. He's much posher than me cos he's Edinburgh

If my memory serves me right that makes it a very small world.

You should have seen the look on a friend's face when I said that one section of the family (descended from the above) lived in Pleasance at the turn of the last century. He had just been commenting on the appalling living conditions in that area and it was a picture.

annie123

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

may I suggest investing in a couple/few of these.



£1 a piece from £world.

While they do appear (based on a highly unscientific test) to fractionally increase light output, compared to a naked tealight, more importantly, they shield the flame, thereby reducing the risk of fire, and prevent the tealight being blown out, by a draft from an open window, or a hastily closed door.

They also enable the light to be moved, with a greater degree of safety.

I bought one of these last year and it leaked everywhere.
May have been a duff one but when filling for the first time make sure it's on a surface that can be easily cleaned or garden soil maybe.
We did it on the hearth and it stank for weeks.

Butterfly_Brain

Get well soon Wondercollie x

We bought 4 led mini lanterns in Aldi reduced to £2.49 each this week and lots and lots of batteries. Going to Ikea tomorrow so I want to pick up a few of their solar lamps as well.

Garden veggies are growing like triffids , so I have plenty of dehydrating and freezing to do this week, I also need to get some more plants into the raised beds that DH has built me They cost us nothing to build because DH built them out of scrap wood that he had in the shed :T Mind you it has cost a fortune in top soil and compost.:eek::eek::eek:

All three 200L water barrels are now empty so I will have to use the hose tonight, I hate having to resort to that, but needs must, this is for my crops, not the lawn or bushes, if they are not going to feed us then I am afraid they will have to get on with it.