Preparedness for when

paidinchickens

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Not of the tramp I hope :eek::eek::eek:

:rotfl::rotfl: I should really check what I write but you know how it is you think you find two minutes to yourself and the whole family decide to start gibbering to you

Made me laugh though

paidinchickens

Forgot to say I have a really bad case of stove envy as we called the builders off this year.

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craigywv wrote: »

on another note BOB whats the name of the batteries again I forget and thank u very much xxx

The ones I used, on my lantern test, were Daewoo brand from the 99p store, but tests show the best, for price per mAh, are Ikea alkaline.

VJsmum

I've probably said this before, but anyhoo

We went to Zimbabwe 20 years ago. At that time there were 10 Zim dollars to the pound. At one point we picked up a hitchhiker, he was a local bricklayer walking to Harare for work. He told us he earned around 50 Zim dollars a week, Later that day we were in a bookshop in Harare and we bought BIL a book as a joke present (it was a tradition - build your own carport ) - we paid 47 dollars for it.

A joke present - and it was nearly a weeks money for that brickie I work in the building industry (though now am in the education side). At that time a brickie earned around £500 a week - 100 imes the amount of that Zimbabwean man.

Beautiful country, wonderful people who were so happy to see us and that we had visited their country - a criminal waste :( Some were especially thrilled that we went to Great Zimbabwe, when they had little hope of going to what was a kind of Mecca for them (in the sense of somewhere to be visited at least once). It was very impressive and very beautiful but obviously had no spiritual meaning for us and I felt a bit sad that I had been and they had not.

JayneC

GQ one of my DDs did some studying of Benin Art for her uni course and that was apparently a very well to do African city in ancient times
http://www.answers.com/topic/benin-city

JayneC

Not sure if it's a bit hippy for you arthritis sufferers but I've read a lot about silica being a good treatment for arthritis.
Here's one link
http://johnleemd.org/OSG5_ORGANIC_SILICA.html

JayneC

Not much of a prepping nature today.
Been doing mercy dashes - DD2 forgot some uni work, so I came to the rescue and took it up to her and then DS1s little one was poorly and had to go up to hospital, so gave them a lift. He has a bronchial infection, but is on the mend now and should be back home tomorrow, bless him.

Oh I did learn how to make bow stings! DS2 archery club had a workshop this evening. I found it quite interesting but DS thought it was beyond tedious. He did concede that it may come in useful come the Armageddon though:rotfl:I told him he may need to learn to make his own cordage from nettles too;)

Butterfly_Brain

GQ I love the wallpaper as well, we got it in Wilkinsons a few years ago, sadly it has been discontinued which is a shame because we would like to re-paper in the New Year.

GreyQueen

:eek: Shades of George Orwell's "tele screen", anyone?

Big Brother is watching you. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2513592/Is-TV-spying-YOU.html

Not me, obviously, as I'm a TV less zone and this aged pooter doesn't ahve a camera.

westcoastscot

AOT will pm you today