Preparedness for when

paidinchickens

I'm quite fortunate that hubby is an electrician and one of my best friends is a plumber.

Hence the name Paid in Chickens we don't use cash only favours which works well for us.

Just found out one of the fellow dog walkers hubbies makes hunny so we will be trading for eggs. Can't wait

PiC x

ALIBOBSY

Karmacat wrote: »

I confess, I'm really confused by the pipe thing. I've tried to follow, I've cut and pasted it all into a document, but .... what pipe are we talking about, is it one that comes out from the back of the boiler? I don't have a pipe there, the boiler's on an external wall, and there's a hole in the wall that the steam comes out from. Is that a pipe for some people, if there's difficulty with the location of the boiler???

Sorry to sound so ignorant ...

It depends on if you have a modern condensing boiler or not.
If its a non condensing boiler-so probably not installed in the last five years or so.

Ours has the steam vent at the top, but the condensing pipe is usually a narrow bore, often plastic pipe which comes from the bottom of the boiler and runs outside.

So it may well be you don't have a condensate pipe at all. Our previous boiler didn't.

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

paidinchickens wrote: »

We can't afford the prices in most of the CS around here

That's why I love a good jumble

PiC x

As you can tell from previous post we live on the edge of a small town in Lancashire so the CS around here are still pretty cheap and most are local charities.

E.G got the littlies sunhats last April for 40p each :T.
Got a load of like new baby grows when we had DD3 3 years ago for 10p a piece.

Ali x

GreyQueen

I've given up going into certain c.s. esp BHF as their prices are getting silly. £20 for a pair of shoes? And I do mean regular high street brand shoes, not Jimmy Choos or Church's, btw.

I'm lucky that I have some cheap-as-chips chazzers around as jumblies are thin on the ground and mobbed. I used to help out at a village jumbly twice a year at Nan's village but can't get there now. Jumbling isn't for the faint-hearted and I (nearly 6 feet tall and not exactly delicate) have nearly been knocked off my feet many a time by determined little old ladies.

Hollyberry

My MIL is a regular volunteer at her local church jumble sale. It's a job suited only to the strong-willed and assertive. My jaw nearly hit the floor when she told me how much theft goes on there and how much abuse they take.

fuddle

What fuels it do you think? Is it out of desperation for getting something needed for cheap?

GreyQueen

fuddle wrote: »

What fuels it do you think? Is it out of desperation for getting something needed for cheap?

In the village, we knew most of the people and it wasn't people who were destitute or even particularly poor. Most drove to the jumble sale in pretty decent cars.

Perhaps it's because there are very few places in a modern society where it's permissable to push and shove and, at some level, this is enjoyable for a time? Also, if you assume that people only steal when they are out of all other options, you'll miss out on quite a bit.

A common motivation for theft is that people get off on it. They find it a thrill and they will do it when they can. I've known people risk £40k a year jobs to steal something costing pence. Or people to steal something utterly worthless without other components (which they don't have and won't be able to get, and which they know fine well they won't be able to get).

Sometimes people steal from their workplaces because they feel that they're underpaid and that this is additional compensation. Sometimes people steal for spite, to distress an individual. Or because they have a grievance against a particular company.

Thrill-seeking behaviour takes lots of different forms.

thriftwizard

I maintain that jumbling is actually a form of contact sport - you have the anticipation in the queue, the rush through the door, the push & shove, the thrill of spotting something worthwhile (to you) the disappointment of realising it wouldn't fit anyone you know, the element of quick thinking, e.g. "I could make a lampshade from this!" the triumph of "winning" it for pennies and the cup of tea afterwards! So when OH nags me for not doing enough organised exercise, I just have to go & find a jumble sale...

GreyQueen

thriftwizard wrote: »

I maintain that jumbling is actually a form of contact sport - you have the anticipation in the queue, the rush through the door, the push & shove, the thrill of spotting something worthwhile (to you) the disappointment of realising it wouldn't fit anyone you know, the element of quick thinking, e.g. "I could make a lampshade from this!" the triumph of "winning" it for pennies and the cup of tea afterwards! So when OH nags me for not doing enough organised exercise, I just have to go & find a jumble sale...

Yeah, it's like a full-body contact sport for (predominantly) the ladies. Like rubgy but with retail attached.

Although Monday's storm barely touched my city, it had more severe outcomes in my Nan's village (approx 40 miles away). Power outages due to trees/ branches damaging overhead powerlines aren't uncommon there. They can reckon to losing power for a few hours 2-3 times a year and having a major outage (24+ hours) about every 3 years on average.

This time it was 28 hours, Mon thru to Tues lunchtime, in homes where there is no mains gas and most people heat and cook on electricity. Several villages were affected by the same incident.

That left Nan, 90 and not too good on her pins, without even the means to boil a kettle. She lives only about 30 m from DD and SIL, plus there are other relatives in nearby bungalows. This isn't an old peoples' complex, btw, just a development of predominently council bungalows where people went into them 40-50 years ago and have grown old in place.

I've only had secondhand news of how Nan coped (will be calling her later today for the full update) but someone in the village had an alternate source of heating and was filling flasks for others.

When I next see my auntie, I'm going to tell her about these little butane camping stoves. For a tenner or less, it would have been a godsend and made life much more comfortable.

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ALIBOBSY wrote: »

we live on the edge of a small town in Lancashire

Hi there neighbour. :wave: