Preparedness for when

thriftwizard

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

GQ that's because you have that rare commodity called common sense and can apply it to all areas of life with that often unused by joe public thing called a brain!!! Nanny state dictates are in place to purportedly keep us all safe from ourselves but are probably responsible for the general dumbing down of the collective cognitive ability of the entire nation. I wonder if there would be such levels of hardship if people were not forcibly given so much 'good advice' by our beloved parliamentary committees and badly thought through improvement schemes?

Excellent post! I've met people who literally won't eat blackberries from the riverbank because they're not in a packet with a sell-by date... how d'you know they're safe to eat, then?! And every year people dump boxes & boxes of fruit (apples & plums in particular) at our local tip because they don't think they're edible, they're just nuisances & wasp-attractants in the garden. Their loss is my gain, but what a waste...:eek:

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I came across a new incomer to the village a couple of years ago out walking her dog. I'd said hello in passing a couple of times before and was out with the lurcher,so we chatted a little and she asked where we were walking that day, so I said I'll show you and took her with us along the lanes and tracks. She was terified, she had come from an inner city environment where if you left the lamplight areas you inevitably got mugged or found drug use paraphernalia. I took her past the best blackberrying patch in the area and told her that the berries would be ripe later in the autumn and she said how lovely, the owners will have a lovely crop won't they? How do you convince someone with no countryside experience whatsoever that blackberries growing in wayside places don't belong to anyone and are free for the taking and don't have an owner and an even harder task is to convince someone from that background that they are edible in the first place? She would go to the supermarket and buy blackberries because they were nice and clean but the thought of using something from a wayside bush was horrifying and probably going to poison her. So difficult!!!

pineapple

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Nanny state dictates are in place to purportedly keep us all safe from ourselves but are probably responsible for the general dumbing down of the collective cognitive ability of the entire nation.

It's a wonder we haven't got government appointed advisors to tell us what to wear each day, eat and drink etc.
Oh wait.....

elaine241

Hello All

Just catching up on all the interseting threads.

My garden seems to go from strength to strength especially using the wonderful duck pooey water!!!! Never had such enormous courgette plants they are huge!!! Anyone for a courgette or ten? The french beans and runners are groaning with flowers and beans and everything else is going well, so different from last year. Every lettuce seems to have decided to grow, Im thinking lettuce soup, roast lettuce, lettuce chutney, lettuce jam and of course lettuce wine! :rotfl:

Had a go at bottling (US canning) with my redcurrants and a jar of redcurrants and black currants layered. Put both in hot syrup then waterbath for the prescribed time, seems OK so will test the seal and see how they get on.

Got a demi john full of a rose wine kit but it seems to be working overtime, instructions said it would stop working about 7-10 days and mine is still flat out 2 weeks on, does it make any difference?

I forgot my elderflower champagne andis still inthe bucket, do you think it will be ok to bottle?? been there 2 weeks!

Love full shelves I took out the storing garden produce book you recommended and I have "Booze for Free" on order!!

I bought the stack a cans from Lakeland so I will be auditing (posh word!) my stocks and getting sorted so that they are all in date order. I seem to be getting more organised, I have 3 freezers all with lists of what I have in each, although I cant resist yellow sticker 75% off deals.
I hope to list all my dry and canned stocks plus all my emergency equipment and where it is stored! I keep finding things stashed in cupboards.
My candle stock seems to be growing daily, I think they are breeding in the cupboards!. I walked into 2 Cs in my lunch break and each had 10p candles so I cleared them out!

My Get home bag has been taken out of the car as it was set up for winter and I need to check and restock.( Guarantee a SHTF will happen now!!) The main thing on my to do list is to scan in all important documents and put on a stick, with all this great weather I am loathed to be indoors.

Did anyone see the program last night on hurricane Sandy in New York? It seemed a vary frightening situation to be in especially in an area that was flooded then caught fire! what a choice those poor people had to make!! A bug out bag would have been some help IF you made it out and were capable/fit enough to try.

Anyway keep safe everyone and enjoy the weather while we can! It wont be long before we are all shuffling round in layers and wearing fingerless mitts whilst posting!!:rotfl:

metherer

The torches arrived today. Does anyone know how much power they can store?

pineapple

Lovely story MrsL!
Hereabouts a lot of the taxi drivers are of a particular ethnic background - particularly those from the nearest city (I'm choosing my words carefully here as I don't want to be accused of racism like on Corrie! :eek:).
Based on my limited taxi experience, it seems that once you get out of the city they also get out of their comfort zone. You can see them trying to stifle panic as we slowly leave behind signs of habitation.
Maybe they think pineapple is kidnapping them :rotfl:
'What, you live here?' asked the most recent one as if he found the very notion incredible.
We do get the odd walker passing by though. One neighbour recently got a shock to find a stranger peering through the window at her beamed antiquities!

GreyQueen

pineapple wrote: »

We do get the odd walker passing by though. One neighbour recently got a shock to find a stranger peering through the window at her beamed antiquities!

:eek: Blimmin' heck; I hope she called the polis. I would if anyone was peering in at my beam end.

Wandered online for the first time today at nearly 8 pm as have been allotmenteering and poddling around. Humidity in the high nineties isn't conducive to productivity, I find.

Tomorrow (weather permitting) I have the parentals' help to harvest the tatties and re-do part of the felt on the shed roof. Blasted stuff has peeled off in the heat somehow. We will sort it, yes we will.

Re-packed the BOB as had been using some of the clothes from it on holibobs, so had to get them back in there. My preps aren't rarified, specially purchased stuff, just everyday stuff which is doing a turn in there. I love the idea I can grab and run, given the shenanigans which are apt to go on at Shoebox Towers, its a possibility that we might have to evacuate again.

Isn't especially preptastic but I bought a towel today. Bath size, with embroidery, for 50p. I am a happy bunny. It's blue with daisies on it, in case you're wondering.

Actually, keeping the linen cupboard in good order is part of my preps, now I come to think of it. Don't want to be down to my last theadbare towel, come the zombie apocalypse.

elona

GQ

As Douglas Adams would say "As long as you always know where your towel is!"

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First Aid Kit just arrived.

Gloves were only Size Medium, no burn dressings, and no Resusciades.

Not a major problem, but would've cost very little, to include them.

A classic ha'porth of tar situation.

GreyQueen

elona wrote: »

GQ

As Douglas Adams would say "As long as you always know where your towel is!"

:rotfl::rotfl:

I loved those books, must do a re-read. Whenever I saw George W Bush I recalled the Adams-ism about the purpose of the president being to distract attention away from those who were really in charge.........:rotfl:If I'd've thought Dubya was actually in charge of the world's superpower, I wouldn't have slept at nights, I tell thee.

I have a big blue towel with daisies and three slightly smaller towels without daisies. They are another blue one, a red one and a lovely mossy green one.

And I know exactly where they are; on the bliddy clothes airer in my sitting room adding to the humidity which is apparently 94% outside and about 100% inside.

Ergghh, this is too sticky for me, and the pooter fan ain't helping.