Preparedness for when

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VJsMUM I will withdraw the wish for autumn if you will let me send you my spare courgettes, I guarantee you'll be praying for autumn within week!!!!! you do too belong on this thread Disneyland has green bits, think SHREK!!!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

westcoastscot

Hi Mar,
Totally agree - I have about 100 things listed that I already had made - I think i'm just dithering I need to get on it and list daily to get my ranking back again but seem to have lost my enthusiasm.

I guess I know the answer - I really need to do both - generate more income and save money - it's just finding the energy these days. Need to get my head down and get on with it.

Really happy to see that you're feeling better just now - hope it lasts into the winter - did I see you're getting back into your soap-making again??

WCS

mardatha

Yep, I do love it, the essential oils and the lovely colours cheer me up and I missed it when I stopped - but was dreading getting orders because I had to drag meself through to make them when I just wanted to rest. Hopefully this year will be better. I spent a fortune on getting certification, moulds, and all my supplies so might as well get some of it back
I wish you could get the arthritis under better control xxx

VJsmum

wondercollie wrote: »

I can honestly remember when society changed. From 1981-1983, I was living in Germany with the spousal unit. We came back to a Canada that was very different from the one we left.

Hmm you see, I was blaming thatcher but I guess she didn't have that much influence in Canada.

GreyQueen wrote: »

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Went ooop town with the wally trolley just before lunch time as needed some heavy things. My goodness, aren't shopping trollies popular now? Every third woman and some older men were trolleying along and there were so many variations of size, colour and pattern that no two were alike.

In France it is quite common to see ladies Avec leur trolleys de wally. Their were some louvverly ones in the supermarkets - bright shiny yellow, some with the Campbell's soup picture or coke bottles on them, my favouritist was in Paris and it was bright shiny yellow vinyl with a great big smiley face. Oh but I wanted it.:o

ALIBOBSY

My rosehip syrup is lovely, had some on my porridge today. We found a row of rose bushes under some trees around the back where we do some of our foraging walks. One plant produces a darker hip almost purple so its a lovely colour.

Went to pick some of the plums DD2 spotted last week and just took one carrier bag full-still lots not yet ripe, and it looked like we hadn't touched the tree. Weighed when we got it and its over 4lb of fruit.

Thinking of trying a chutney for the first time and probably a jam. Got 2lb of blackcurrants to deal with from my sisters and her golden greengage tree is full to bursting, not quite ripe yet though.

Not sure I will have time between all this preserving to get the kitchen sorted lol.

Ali x

thriftwizard

Catching up after me holibobs. I may not belong on a thread talking about materialistic things and spoilt kids.

I've just taken mine to Disneyland

And I bet they loved every minute of it! Hope you did too. I sometimes wonder how things like Disneyland will seem to our descendants in, say 500 years... mythical, to say the least! I'm another one that could happily live in summer full time; I don't mind autumn and I do love Spring, but I think my body & skin type belong about 500 miles South of here.

I think shopping trolleys should be available on prescription, personally. Have been happily hauling one around since I was 25, no matter how unfashionable they were in the 80s.

smileyt_2

Just popping in quickly to say I only have about 40 teabags left in the house.

This is a catastrophe.

I will be going shopping first thing tomorrow!

Eeeek!

ginnyknit

I think a trip to Disneyland is a wonderful experience for a family and I can't see as if you would be going often so its something special.

I saw a couple the other day with matching trolleys, they looked so pleased with themselves solving the carrying tons of shopping problem but OH just looked and looked at me as if to say ' no bl**dy chance' but really I could attach one to his wheelchair and he wouldnt know :rotfl:

WCS so sorry you are having a tough time, hope things improve for you soon - sending hugs x

Picked the first sweet blackberries yesterday, about a pound in weight. Looking good for the season but must get onto the rosehips as I missed them last year.

BessieBooBoo

thriftwizard wrote: »

Just in passing, a bit of good news on the trainee-daughter-in-law front - where she was working, they have sacked her utterly incompetent & rather nasty line manager, she applied for the job herself and has got it! Very, very pleased for her, & my opinion of the company has wavered upwards very slightly.

Hello Thriftwizard

Great news! Nice to hear something good for a change.

I hope your trainee DIL and son have a good start for their lives.

BBB

BessieBooBoo

siegemode wrote: »

Hi all.
Have been prepping for a financial hit and bogged down with form filling for OH. Just about finished one set due in next week and the next dreadded envelope fell through the letter box so no rest here for a few weeks. Am exhausted already but hey ho it's gotta be done.
Have been stocking up just in case there are problems and our income is cut. I can't think of any other prepping until I know about our financial position.
Been trying to keep up with world events and news. Apart from the economic side two things I'm concerned about are Fr@cking and the stem cell burger. Both are sinister in my view.

I don't think many would come knocking on our door in a crisis because only two people who are like minded and discreet know I stock up etc. I was thinking of the first crisis I tried to prepare for and it was the year 2000 when even the IT crowd weren't sure what might happen. OH was in IT at the time and I had the micky taken over how much I had stored. Then after it passed ok the OH lost his job and suddenly we were skint, but we never went hungry because all that hoarding paid off and saw us through for almost a year until things picked up slightly.
Since then I've always tried to keep a reserve just in case. As time has passed I've also become even more aware of so many other potential shtf senarios so prepping has taken a whole new meaning in our world.

Having read the past weeks posts this afternoon as OH listened to the footie I was reminded of one of my favourite films "When the wind blows" worth a watch, lovely, but sad and kinda topical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9aHT-IlkHo

Hello Siegemode

Thank goodness you prep. Horrible filling in forms, then the suspense of waiting, just fighting for what you should be entitled to is exhausting. Been through some of that, and sadly, things do look to be getting tougher.

Keep your chin up, keep prepping, and keep posting. Fingers crossed that things work out...

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