Preparedness for when

ALIBOBSY

Rereading my earlier post I realise I have miss worded things and made it unclear who makes the trugs. It is in fact old Bill who makes the trugs. He was telling OH today how he travels around to various agricultural shows selling them. He also told OH he worked for a while as a wildlife ranger so he is a guy with a lot of experience to pass on.

Looking forward to our crimbo turkey, Bill says they aren't like the shop bought ones, all breast, but have a lot more taste and are pretty big.

Mum has been having some health issues in the last few months and has slowed right down-heart problems and infected swollen legs, so think if we are getting a large bird we may as well invite mum and dad for dinner, trouble is my little sis usually goes to mums and inlaws for the first time in about 8 years aren't going away for Christmas.

The Joys of sorting out Christmas dinners lol.

Ali x

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The little nursery paraffin lamps are called KELLY LAMPS and they have a weighted bottom to stop them being knocked over, you can also get then that are hung on the wall so really out of harms way. There are usually several on Fleabay but lately they are going for fairly high prices, might be very useful if you have young kiddlers though, Cheers Lyn xxx.

DawnW

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

Rereading my earlier post I realise I have miss worded things and made it unclear who makes the trugs. It is in fact old Bill who makes the trugs. He was telling OH today how he travels around to various agricultural shows selling them. He also told OH he worked for a while as a wildlife ranger so he is a guy with a lot of experience to pass on.

Looking forward to our crimbo turkey, Bill says they aren't like the shop bought ones, all breast, but have a lot more taste and are pretty big.

Mum has been having some health issues in the last few months and has slowed right down-heart problems and infected swollen legs, so think if we are getting a large bird we may as well invite mum and dad for dinner, trouble is my little sis usually goes to mums and inlaws for the first time in about 8 years aren't going away for Christmas.

The Joys of sorting out Christmas dinners lol.

Ali x

I always get a big turkey from a local farm and offer open house to family who are on their own / want to come, and the odd friend too. I also cook a ham or something for Boxing Day when others tend to descend

Supplemented with HG veg, and HM sauces, salads and stuffings, plus puddings, so not a big outlay in the greater scheme of things. Visitors often contribute nice things too

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

The little nursery paraffin lamps are called KELLY LAMPS and they have a weighted bottom to stop them being knocked over

No offence to the late Mr Kelly but, for a nursery, I think I'd prefer a Hurricane lamp, due to their built in safety.

elaine241

Hello all been catching up. Seem to have been caught by the time bandits today, lots of visitors etc and getting nothing done that I had planned.
I have been building my candle stocks well over 100 plus loads of t lights. I have quietly acquired oil lamps, six dotted around the house as "ornaments", all working and ready to go. Quietly building up paraffin supplies, hidden in the cupboards!
Still building up supplies although mainly from the garden, loads of runner and french beans, beetroot, gooseberries, currants, strawberries, raspberries,spinach, herbs, toms, potatoes, chillis,etc and others still growing! Foraged some blackberries and made crumble, jam and bottled some, still picking, going for some type of record! Got my eyes on several apple trees on land next to car parks etc, looking out for sweet chesnut trees as I love them
Still picking field mushrooms, when picking up my prescriptions parked and growing up the embankment were quite a few mushies! felt a bit weird as lots of stares from passing chavs wondering what I was doing (Love full shelves I was in Thornhill!!!! LOL chav central).

Well seem to be prepping booze again, got strawberry wine on the go and a wine kit rose from Wilkos as it was 1/2 price. Thought I would use up some of my chillis by making chilli vodka (got some left over from the cassis), it will make a good prezzy for a chilli fiend I know if I dont like it.
I have decided if we think TEOTWAWKI is on the way all round to my house!! We will go out happy and rip roaring drunk!!:beer: :beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:!!!!!!!!!
If we all survive the apocalypse the only casualties will be our heads and the worst hangovers since the dawn of time!:rotfl:

I have yet to use my food dehydrator, not sure what will work well in it. Thought I would wait for YS bananas for my first try. Anyone got any suggestions?

Keep prepping everyone, and smile it makes people wonder what you have been doing!:)

DawnW

pineapple wrote: »

I had a combi boiler in the previous house and now in this. For me, the advantage of having hot water 'on tap' is outweighed by the fact that the water can take a while to heat up - while you are standing there like a lemon with the tap running. A plumber told me it depends on the proximity of the boiler to the tap but the previous house was small and this one is tiny .

If I had a water meter and had to pay for every ounce of water used, it would be a no brainer. Plus I much prefer the 'old fashioned' system of heating up a tank - with a back up immersion heater. The traditional 'airing cupbard' could be useful too. One just needs a little organisation/discipline - such old fashioned concepts these days

I have a combi boiler, but had a small radiator fitted in the airing cupboard, which is part of the central heating system. According to the plumber, it is quite a common solution.

westcoastscot

mardatha wrote: »

I am soo ashamed to admit that I havny got a pinny!
I'll see meself oot lol

Really??? I'll make sure Santa brings you one Mar
In among my main knitting I knit small items - dishclothes, doll clothes, socks, mitts - anything that will fit in my pinny pocket on double points and I know the pattern by heart - if I'm waiting for a pan to boil, or chatting to a neighbour, or have a few minutes between tasks I whip out my knitting. Its surprising what you can get done!

alfsmum

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

alfsmum.

How easy was it to get hold of the cloth mantles?

Bob, this is going back a fair few years but I don't recall my family having any problems getting the mantles from the local but sadly now defunct store which sold everything you could possibly need around the home.

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A quick word of advice/warning, for buying paraffin for lamps.

Make sure the paraffin you buy is to BS 2869-C.

Also, if the paraffin isn't specifically labelled as suitable for paraffin lamps and heaters (or if it's not labelled at all - eg. it's dispensed from a tank/tanker/pump), then check the flashpoint, which must be between 124 and 150 degrees Fahrenheit.

Be particularly careful if you are in America, as they sell something labelled "Paraffin Oil", which is not the same as the stuff we call Paraffin, and you call Kerosene.

"Paraffin Oil" is liquid candle wax, and has a flashpoint of at least 200 degrees Fahrenheit.

If you put this in an oil lamp, it will clog the wick.

The only solution to a contaminated wick, is to replace it.

Also, of far more importance, is the things you MUST NOT use as lamp fuel.

The most important of these is low flashpoint (ie. below 110 degrees Fahrenheit) liquids like Petrol (Gasoline), Meths/Bio-ethanol (Denatured Alcohol), Turpentine, White Gas, Coleman Spirit, etc.

Low flashpoint fuels like these EXPLODE, with devastating, possibly fatal, results!!

elaine373

Hello all, just a quick catch up. Today I got my old banger through its mot with only a £25 repair needed on top of the £30 mot fee. So all in all, not too bad.Paid for that from my emergency money, which is scarily dwindling.
Still not done the meal plans but hoping to sit down tomorrow to go through my cupboards and work out what is in them until next pay day.
Today I used a coupon in Bella magazine to join Slimmng world, so have an added extra pressure of dieting on a budget.
Just haven't got enough money coming in at the moment but all I can do is budget and try and sell on ebay, which is proving slow and hard work.

Kids needs some bits for school (clothes). I managed to double up my tesco club cards (£30)points to receive £60 to spend. :T

Not shopping in Tesco's for my main shop any more,so better make the most of this bonus.

Onwards and upwards in the battle of survival :rotfl: