Preparedness for when

Angel_Jenny

BigMummaF wrote: »

Hhmmm..NY Rezzies...hhmmmmm...


~I would like to start writing letters to people again, or at the very least a decent e-mail; there are some folk who are going through their own SHF moments & I owe them a show of support.
~My next reaction is to say to make more time for me, so I can do my letter-writing! Between muvva, my own home & all the poorly peeps around me, my days are filled with filling in forms & attending medical appointments with one person or another. Yes, they're adults, but they don't listen to unusual words coming from the mouths of scary people wearing white coats! Meanwhile, I luvvit; I've always enjoyed learning about the human body so I'm the only one who wants to listen
~Put as much effort into keeping me healthy, as I do for the others. This will include ruddy exercise *folds arms & sulks* & not just of the cerebral variety.


Perhaps I should write a timetable so the others will know what I'm doing...I like planning things...it's the putting them into practise I struggle with *blush*

Letter writing is fun! I have pen pals and sponsor children and one of my resolutions is to be more organised in my letter writing. No more waiting and then having 5 letters to reply to at once! It is so lovely to get letters in the post too - makes a nice change from bills and takeaway menus. It is always fascinating to hear what my Amish pen pal has been up to in her garden or that another pen pal has goats and even things like what sort of jam another has made!

I like planning and have a diary / organiser thing on the way - one that I can carry about at all times. No excuses now!

short_bird

Never heard the phrase "every herring must hang by it's own tail" till yesterday; Libby Purves used it in an article on the power cuts. Seems to be appropriate for a SHTF situation

MrsAtobe

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

You can make a very nice toasted cheese sandwich in a lightly buttered frying pan over a lowish/medium heat. Hold the sandwich down with a spatula to get the bread crispy, turn it over and do the other side by which time the cheese (use grated) is melted in the middle. Saving toasters lives here!!!

If you have to make lots of toasted cheese sarnies, you can do them in the oven. Make the sarnies, put them on individual oiled pieces of foil, wrap them up and put them in the oven, 180oC for 25 mins or so. Obviously not very MSE for a few, but great if you need to cook 8.

westlothianlass

Afternoon my lovelies,
Heading out to my parents in the big city in a bit :rotfl:
Hope you all have a relaxed, fun, chilled, tipsy (delete as applicable, or be greedy and do them all:D) night.
Hugs x WLL

mardatha

Broomstick - when the SHTF we will all need toasted sammiches!

Broomstick

Oh, silly silly me. It's stopped raining so I'm off to buy chocolate and more boring things with which to stock up the cupboards (and spare cheese and muffins for the freezer and maybe a medicinal caramelised red onion chutney too?)

B x

homesteadchick

I was in Ik.ea the other day, and came across this wonderful little LED Torch that is wind up. For 4 euro I was thrilled to bits. that's now hanging in a convienent place in the house where we can get to it should there be a blackout.

New years goals.. yes many..

1 Get fit!!
(that includes losing lots of weight)

More being organised, more preps, more growing food, more loving and laughing and seeing the good in people around me.

This will be a year of lots of fresh eggs, home raised meat and home grown veggies.

thriftwizard

Homesteadchick, is that one of the red ones? I picked one up the other day & have been really pleased with it; my little red one like Bedsit Bob's is in danger of being superseded for making sure my birds are all on the roost at shutting-up time!

Resolutions here:
1) to re-organise my stores so that my kitchen & storage areas look a little more "normal" - it's never going to look like other people's, but it could look a lot less cluttered & haphazard!
2) to get back on my bike; I don't think I'm terribly unfit as I walk a lot & dance a fair bit, but I need to cut down on transport costs.
3) to work out some sensible plans for assisting the more remote family members in a crisis. That Christmas Eve journey is still haunting me! Though to be fair, in a real crisis, DS1 could go to my brother, who lives a couple of miles from him & is even better supplied with home-laid eggs, home-grown apples, greens & herbs etc. as his kids have all left home now. DS2 is moving out, but will be within an hour's walking distance, has a bike & will be on a direct bus route home. DS3 studies 30 miles away, but also has reasonable public transport options to get home, and a bike. It would be the parents I'd worry most about, 26 miles the other way, but they are right by a supermarket & there are people there whose job it is to make sure they're OK, and they pay a lot of money for that. Still…
4) to get the (tiny) greenhouse & garden producing to the max this year. Which will mean banning OH from going anywhere near bits of it; bless him, he's never worked out that plants don't appreciate being moved at weekly intervals or buried as a means of "feeding' them.

That's probably enough to be going on with!

GreyQueen

Thanks, nuatha, depending on how badly I wibble, I may call on your tech expertise. I have placed my new hard drive (still boxed) on the cabinet and am circling it warily. Won't be playing with it today as am suffering a bit from end-of-the-year-itus and probably an excess of sweeties.

My rezzies involve making every penny squeal for mercy before it's allowed out of my purse, refinining my archery (I shot a bauble, I may have mentioned this? :)), losing some kiloage and holidaying in my native county, which is tolerably big and contains some corners which I haven't set hiking boot on yet.

Just done the accounts for 2013 and have spent less than I earned in 11 out of 12 months. This is always good. The odd-month-out was holibobs. Native county holibobbing should cure that, particularly if I make it back home to my own bed each night.

And I can road-test my BOB and routes out of the city and towards the hometown. If I took a day-and-a-bit, I could amble over there. Heck, given Nat Express's pricing policy, I may well have to.

Righty, off to put mah sums into an Excel spreadsheet. If I can remember how, I may make me a pie chart. I do like food-related graphic representations.:rotfl:

I also like sayings but that one about the fish hanging from it's tail is a new one on me? Could someone explain, pls?

homesteadchick

thriftwizard wrote: »

Homesteadchick, is that one of the red ones? I picked one up the other day & have been really pleased with it; my little red one like Bedsit Bob's is in danger of being superseded for making sure my birds are all on the roost at shutting-up time!

yes it is!
really cute little light thing, and puts out quite a light beam. I'm really pleased with it.