Preparedness for when

nuatha

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Oh lorks and lummy NUATHA do you think that making cider is going to be classified as fermenting discord? (actually the closest we could find was Discovery, there aren't too many discord apples to be had this year!!!) Wish me luck!!!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

There's a long association between apples and discord, an apple led to the Trojan war, so could be.
Of course we'd all have to sample the product to ensure widespread discordia

GreyQueen

Evening all.

It's nearly dark here, d'you think it'll storm? Certainly humid enough. Of course, I haven't been helping matters by boiling a pan of water to put bean cans of candlewax in to reconsititute into new candles. They're candle ends and damaged candles from a friend and I remake them to add to the prep-stash.

Candles and baked beans. A potentially volatile mix, methinks. If you had too much wind indoors your candles might blow out!

I'm unimpressed with the list of stuff the nanny state wants to protect me against. Web forums, really? Like MSE? Or various other places where people knock up against each other and exchange views? I'm a big girl and can look after myself in cyberspace.

What I'd really like TPTB to do is get off their backsides and vote some decent police funding so that the RL crims infesting my RL neighbourhood can be harrassed and put on the back foot. But I guess it's far easier to make online laws, harrass journalists and intimidate Mr M*randa in an airport.

It's a bleeding disgrace.

Nice to see you back with us DD&D and sorry to hear of our poorlies. That arthur bloke is evil, isn't he? Bane of SuperGran's existance these past several months.

Has DOT beggared off somewhere? Hope so. I think everyone who has several weeks of grub, several days of water and alternative heat, light and cooking methods ought to be entitled to a special tax break. Because we won't be part of the problem in a crisis, we'll be knitting museli jumpers and working out how to make fruit leathers.

Or in Mrs LW's case, taking up the distillation of spirits for medicinal purposes. You can never have too much medicinal spirits, especially with winter coming on.

thriftwizard

Nuatha, having done some fairly exhaustive research into the Trojan Wars, there's a very good chance that the "Golden Apple" that Paris awarded to Aphrodite was actually a quince... Can't imagine what pickled quince would taste like, but pickled pears are delicious - and I don't even like pears - and I have a feeling that pickled blackberries, whilst likely turning to mush, would be pretty tangy & tasty too.

Volunteering to help sample the cider, and the pickles. I'm scratched & stung to pieces from blackberrying & need something to ease the tingling!

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I've made pickled plums, they're pretty good. I think I'd make chutney with the blackberries not pickle them although I know you can make blackberry vinegar with the distilled white stuff and some sugar and that was used as a sore throat and cold cure with hot water in times past.

Cor I reckon if we tried distilling our cider we'd end up with Harpic!!!!!
the cider is pretty good as it is, and if we distilled the pitiful amount we made we would only get a thimbleful of distilled harpic at that!!! Think we'll just drink it as is, Cheers Lyn xxx.

nomi01

Hi all,
I like to lurk on this thread as it makes me want to be more prepared.
My family thinks its hilarious that I think about stashing tins and candles as they say if the apocolypse happens it won't be needed.
I have explained to them I do it for security and who knows what type of s**t is gonna hit the fan. We have been extremely hard up in the past and now I have kids I am not going to let that happen again.
I have a reasonable stock of canned and dried foods. Butane gas in case its needed. Camping stoves, batteries, torches and a stash of change. Lots of warm blankets and also have an allotment for fresh produce. A few bottles of water also.
I know if the power went off we would be ok.
Even learned to knit so if the power goes off I can fill my time making stuff instead of lurking on MSE forums:)

notjustlaura

nomi01 wrote: »

Hi all,
I like to lurk on this thread as it makes me want to be more prepared.

I also like to lurk here, nomi01, when I'm in MoneySaving Mode (which I very much am as of now!) I am not prepared. I know I'm not. But I like to think I will be one day because ... well, you never know, do you? I can remember load shedding and the miner's strike. I can remember getting free school meals (and in those days it wasn't nearly so common as it is now - I was the only child in my class and mortified). As an adult I've sold possessions because I needed money to buy food.

So I shall lurk and learn and when finances permit I'll put by what I might need and hope I never do. Last autumn I made up a box labelled 'One Week's Emergency Food Supply' and put it on the top shelf of the larder. I ate it in the spring. My family laughed but I shall do the same again this year - and consider a 'Ten Day Emergency Food Supply.'

GreyQueen

:hello: Warmest welcomes to nomi01 and notjustlaura, glad to have you lurking along with us but please post as and when the mood strikes you. We're batty but most 'armless here.

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Ginnyknit,

You weren't, by any chance, picking blackberries at about 1800hrs (6pm) today, where you?

elaine241

Candles and baked beans. A potentially volatile mix, methinks. If you had too much wind indoors your candles might blow out! Greyqueen

More likely you would blow yourself up! explosive gas methane in confined spaces!!! LOL May have to sit on tin hat!!!

nuatha

thriftwizard wrote: »

Nuatha, having done some fairly exhaustive research into the Trojan Wars, there's a very good chance that the "Golden Apple" that Paris awarded to Aphrodite was actually a quince... Can't imagine what pickled quince would taste like, but pickled pears are delicious - and I don't even like pears - and I have a feeling that pickled blackberries, whilst likely turning to mush, would be pretty tangy & tasty too.

Thank you Thriftwizard. I've texts that translate it both ways, though the apple seems far more common in modern versions of the Eris tale, I suspect you're right (and I don't do Greek and my Latin is fairly rusty)
I suspect pickled quince would be highly perfumed, I did try making proper marmalade when I had access to quince a few years back, I can't understand why it isn't more popular.

Volunteering to help sample the cider, and the pickles. I'm scratched & stung to pieces from blackberrying & need something to ease the tingling!

Would you apply it internally or externally (or both)

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I've made pickled plums, they're pretty good. I think I'd make chutney with the blackberries not pickle them although I know you can make blackberry vinegar with the distilled white stuff and some sugar and that was used as a sore throat and cold cure with hot water in times past.

I never get past blackberry jam, I've yet to harvest sufficient to have surplus from pie and jam making (Its my favourite jam)

GreyQueen wrote: »

:hello: Warmest welcomes to nomi01 and notjustlaura, glad to have you lurking along with us but please post as and when the mood strikes you. We're batty but most 'armless here.

Seconding GQ's welcome, some of us may be less 'armless than others, but there's a lot of good folk in these parts and some useful ideas around.