Preparedness for when

ginnyknit

If one of your neighbours keeps geckos or lizards it could have escaped from their food GQ. My dd has various animals and I go and buy the food for her when Im passing petshops.

GreyQueen

ginnyknit wrote: »

If one of your neighbours keeps geckos or lizards it could have escaped from their food GQ. My dd has various animals and I go and buy the food for her when Im passing petshops.

:eek: Now there's a thought!

Next door one side has a dog, there's a dog upstairs, and a cat next-door-but-one. Dunno what the other next-door has by way of pets. We've never spoken so it'd be a bit of a difficult intro to a conversation. Can't exactly take it around the neighbourhood and ask if anyone's lost one.......:rotfl:

Mind you, seems a bit of a strange thing to just turn up on a cold winter's evening and I've never seen a cricket this size in the UK, the ones on the lottie are much smaller and a very pale beige.

I've decided 2014 is The Year of the Cricket. The Chinese can call it The Year of the Horse (from 31st Jan) if they like but I'm operating on my own calendar.

Check out the new sigline - g'night, GQ xx

thriftwizard

Sure it's not a miniature plague of locusts, GQ?

bluebag

We need some decent cold weather with ice and snow and a stonking load of frost to get rid of all these slimeys and creepies that are invading our living space.

All this mild weather has stuff growing and being where it shouldn't.

alice-mary

bluebag wrote: »

We need some decent cold weather with ice and snow and a stonking load of frost to get rid of all these slimeys and creepies that are invading our living space.

All this mild weather has stuff growing and being where it shouldn't.

And hopefully all the germs and lurgy bugs that have been hanging around for weeks will finally disappear too!

Alice
xx

Hollyberry

Bluebag Re Ankara Fever - I've now finished and I'd save your pennies. It turned out to be less about the pandemic, and more about a journey to a bug out location, coupled with a little light M!lls & B00n developing relationship en route. As you do. Meh... It was ok, but I'd be happier at having read it had it been free. I suspect there may be more in a series to come, so will check previews to see if it is worth continuing.

I've also just finished Free Falling by Susan Kiernan Lewis, currently free for Kindle. This is a post-nuclear EMP scenario with an American family holidaying in the wilds of Ireland at the time of the attack. There are two further books in the series (neither free, sadly) and I've just started the second. It has a lovely sense of location in that you can almost taste the countryside, although it's not one of those SHTF novels that is heavy on knowledge sharing (in other words, you won't learn much you don't already know). Worth a read, nevertheless.

craigywv

I lol there Hollyberry I didn't know we had any "wilds of Ireland " over here certainly plenty of wild peeps running around! but authors do tend to get carried away,its funny sometimes listening to actors doing an Irish accent I cringe it sounds painful and thick as a brick, also no leprechauns been found locally recently ......darby o gill you have a lot to answer for!!!!!!!! anyway will look book up and have a duke a it thank-you.

thriftwizard

Anyone else interested in how quickly the flooding has become "yesterday's news?" We've had another night of torrential rain here & our main river was already at or slightly above bank-full. DS1's town was on another flood warning too, 70 miles away, when we spoke last night. But apart from a couple of "missing person" searches going on locally, all I can find on the BBC news site is that there's to be a COBRA meeting about it, including the little gem that there's yet more rain on the way. Seems the news editors are bored with floods now...

fuddle

S_Wales_Saver wrote: »

I use Excel in work GQ but at home I favour googledocs spreadsheets. Not quite so many functions but more than I need (and will auto sum). As I use for all sorts including meal planning, I find the fact that I can open it anywhere including the simplest of smartphones very handy.

Really don't like the sound of the beast.

I'll have a look at that one at some point today SWS, thank you.

Thank you for the torch rec's I'm after an investment/sturdy piece that I can rely on so think the solitaire mag lite is worth a few more £'s come pay day. You know me, as tight as a ........ but I don't want to be replacing something cheap in 6 weeks or so.

completely agree about the coverage of floods. Last night was horrific driving about.Ok, it was New Years Evening and no traffic on the roads but I needed the news to inform me of the state of the situation - so tired of news not being as informative as it should in favour for entertainment!

mardatha

I'm another one who was thinking the news isn't really news any more. On Sky you get a few major stories that they do to death and they totally ignore other stuff - plus to Sky News Scotland doesn't exist. We can have snowmageddon with force 12 gales and at the very end of a paragraph Sky will tack on "and wintry in Scotland". Sods lol. We need to find the best preppers news channel.
Watched the Tudor Monastery Farm christmas last night on iPlayer and it was magic, I love how they do everything by hand - but you couldn't live like that and hold down a job as well. One thing that I don't think I could tolerate though is the great clunky pottery jugs and beakers, I hate that stuff. Musta been aristocracy, me