Preparedness for when

thriftwizard

If my microwave pinged off altogether today, I wouldn't miss it. It's only used for re-heating meals when people - actually that's person, DS2 - comes in late from football or the gym, and he's moving out in January. Wonder if he'd like to take it with him - I'd be glad of the space!

From my allotmenteering days, I have a feeling that there's always something that each little patch of ground does exceptionally well, and something that won't grow at all, and it's going to be different for each patch and each gardener. Leeks are no problem here, and we have baby cherry plum trees popping up in every vacant 1cm patch of soil, but can I grow hollyhocks, which I absolutely adore & which rampage away in unswept gutters around here? Not on your nelly…

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We can grow leeks like young trees here and parsnips go well but can we grow celery or carrots? Oh no no no!!! I could never get aquilegia to grow in the garden when we lived in Kent but here it grows wild and seeds itself on every patch of spare soil and on all the waste patches too but can I grow Delphiniums which grew like a forest in Kent? Oh no no no!!! Horses for courses eh?

ArthriticOldThing

WCS the specialist has mentioned methotrexate as next step but I am very reluctant. A friend/distant relative had Rheumatoid Arthritis and was put on methotrexate. The side effects nearly killed her :eek:- she was on life support for a while last year - so has made me very nervous of it. Would be interested to know if you had any side effects?

I could not manage without my microwave nowadays. It did sit practically unused for ages but now that I struggle to bend or lift things into/out of the gas oven It is well used - as is the slow cooker.

Does anyone know if they do small, lighter weight pressure cookers - got rid of my old one as could not lift that either?

I am looking to change my energy provider as well - any ideas as to best choice - there is only me.

grandma247

Just type in small pressure cooker at Am@zon or other. This is one example.

maryb

grandma247 wrote: »

Just type in small pressure cooker at Am@zon or other. This is one example.

Just don't do a search straight afterwards for the sort of luggage that is commonly carried by hikers::D

charlies-aunt

ArthriticOldThing wrote: »

WCS the specialist has mentioned methotrexate ...... any side effects?

Hi AOT - I have been on Methotrexate for 7 years - the dosage is adjusted up and down by my consultant as necessary. No problems at all - it really helps control my RA symptoms

I bought two packs of Poundworld fairy lights at the weekend too! Planning another return trip after payday for more and for collapsible lanterns and batteries

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happydays89,

Are the fairly lights, the set of 10 star shaped ones, which come in a plastic pouch?

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charlies-aunt wrote: »

Planning another return trip after payday for more and for collapsible lanterns and batteries

Haven't seen the collapsible lanterns in Poundworld.

I got mine from the 99p Store.

homesteadchick

GreyQueen wrote: »

You can get these for pence secondhand, I think they're pretty cheap new, also;



Of course, nowhere near as sexy as a whizzy "handcranked" thungummy doodah but you can probably come out 198 euro ahead.........:rotfl:Plus I never knew vitamins could be traumatised by rough handling. Knew they can be cooked out of stuff, but knocked out by friction..........? I fink I smell a marketing ploy.



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Do you reckon??
:rotfl::rotfl:

I was in absolute stitches!
The things they come up with to get folks to pay through the nose for something that is perfectly normal is hilarious.

homesteadchick

Yesterday, in my backward part of the world, the movie: American Blackout was on tv.

Goodness me, I shouldn't watch that sort of thing late at night!
I was awake half the night thinking of preps I still need and want to make!

I know it's a movie, and I know it's dramatised and all.. but it was uncanny to 'see' what might happen in such an event. That is something different than imagining altogether!

makes me think a few times more before shooting my mouth off about my meat rabbits and chickens and such...

AND spent a few hours today looking up crossbows online... .. haven't decided yet, but am thinking about it. ..