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Missed the last couple of days so just had a read through to catch up.
I know its a bit late but Happy 2014 to ev1 anyway lol.
New years eve was my birthday, but we just had a nice family day at home, unfortunately OH started feeling ill. Yesterday went mum and dads for tea with the kids and left OH at home to rest.
He saw the GP on the 31st who says its his gallbladder playing up again and maybe some more stones. Looks like he may have to have it taken out after all, just seeing how he goes on for now. GP has given him some strong painkillers and done an urgent referral to the consultant again, but he did say if the pain gets unbearable or he starts with vomiting he shouldn't be afraid to call an ambulance or at least to get himself down to A & E.
And here I was hoping 2014 would be a better year health wise.
Been distracting myself with garden plans for next year, started saving plastic bottles and pots as well as toilet roll inards and debating what seeds i need, been looking at doing one bed as a polyculture, packed with various veggies/herbs/flowers.
Ali x"Overthinking every little thing
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Been checking out the free kindle books link from Holly-TY.
Downloaded this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00ELN26CC/?!!!!!untagged-21
The Genocide Of The Undeserving
Which is anovella about a future UK where they decide the only way to cut the over population is to produce a drug which gives a high and kills after 12 months usage.
Also
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00DJV4DKK/?!!!!!untagged-21
Paradigm
A post US collaspe sort of fantasy novel.
So thanks to Holly, off to check out the rest
Ali x"Overthinking every little thing
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Hollyberry wrote: »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.
Thank you for posting Free Falling still available for kindle downloading free if anyone else interested that's my afternoon reading taken care of although I should be clearing away the xmas decorations0 -
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Well it’s a rather glorious winters day here, sorry to hear that others are still having trouble with storms and flooding though.
I am still having trouble sending thanks etc, can only give thanks via my tablet as my laptop logs out every time I try using that, and It’s a pain to try and post more than a few words with the tablet so I am trying to multi-task.
I have had a wander round the garden this morning with a measuring tape, making plans for some new veggie beds, ooh I do love planning:D .
Over the last few days I have been thinking about our plans/preps and have decided that we just need to carry on “future proofing”our house, we hope to have the mortgage paid off in the spring (my hubby retires from his job then so income will change too). However it’s also an exciting time, he will have more time to sort out garden and house and I will hopefully be able to carry on only working 4 days if we watch what we are doing(I am a good few years younger so will have to carry on in the world of workfor a few more billion years:eek:).
Take care all
WLL xx
Moving towards a life that is more relaxed and kinder to the environment (embracing my inner hippy:D) .:j0 -
Do you not think we will come full circle though? that after too many easy years some people - the wiser ones or more thoughtful ones - will decide enough is enough and go back to OS ways voluntarily? Many of us are doing that.
For me it's the reassurance that these were the ways I was brought up to adopt, and it feels like being true to my values to stay with them. I've had my years of daft wastefulness (mostly, in my defence, when I was commuting for 6 hours a day, and was just so constantly shattered that batch cooking at the weekend was as appealing as a small trek up the Eiger) for which I now in retrospect feel guilty. OS here does feel like home, though, and it's encouraging me to be more careful with the resources I have.
Agreed too about the attention span of a gnat that is being displayed by most news channels with regard to the important issues such as the weather. I'm in the Midlands, and even here it was thrashing down with rain last night, with some flash floods nearby and a veritable waterfall outside our back door. Fortunately, on this occasion, outside rather than inside, as it does seem to depend on the wind direction as to whether water can seep in at the back of the house (builder, guttering guy and roofer all baffled, but we are still soggy when the rain comes hard at us from the north west).
And it's an added bonus to see how many fellow bookworms there are here. :cool: Just remind me when it's time for me to stop babbling about books.
ETA: GQ - Hope your day of being prodded has passed painlessly. Ali - Hope your OH is doing ok - sounds very painful indeed. I've downloaded the two books you posted ty - I'd missed them before.0 -
Regarding Fuddle's search for a pocket torch, the 99 Store is selling these, except with a short, detachable, lanyard and a carabina, instead of the keyring.
Contains 6, very bright, LEDs.
Dimensions are:-
Length - 40mm
Diameter - 29mm
Weight (including batteries) - 40g.
Operates on two CR2032 batteries.
A pack of ten (that's 5 sets for this torch) CR2032 batteries can be had, from Amazon UK, for £1-55, P&P free.
On a different note, ASDA are again selling 440g cans of Heinz soup, for 50p each.0 -
Seems that COBRA meeting was because there is some "exceptional weather" yet to come… batten down the hatches again, folks, and may we all ride out tomorrow safe & dry!
ETA: Fuddle, hard to believe it, but that roundabout is actually a huge improvement on what was there before; if you weren't on the main road, it could easily take you 20 minutes to get across it there. When it's gridlocked, that's just how it used to be all the time! They should have built an underpass for the 4 local roads that cross or join the main road there, as they did further up where the A338 crosses/joins it, but as usual, there was no money left...Angie - GC Jul 25: £225.85/£500 : 2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 26/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)0 -
I would like some advice please. Given recent weather events, we were considering how when I was child, we lost our power nearly every week over the winter. Mum and Dad would lay a fire and we had a gas cooker and heater we wheeled out. No hot water was a pain for bathing but you get by.
I've got a woodburning stove - and I don't store wood but I have a barn full of hated wood furniture that we would chop up if needed! The stove gets so hot that it should boil water in the old aluminium kettle we inherited with the house.
I was thinking of buying a gas stove as well - a camping one just for cooking with, however, I am unsure as to whether this is a waste of space or wise - we don't go camping much (as in a night a year!). I do have a mini trangia and perhaps I should just upgrade that to a full size one.
Any thoughts much appreciated.0 -
I've never seen anything like it thriftwizard. I've sussed it now but it's took a long time to get used to the correct lanes. I think every time I navigate it someone else makes a mistake. Definitely need your wits on it.0
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I would like some advice please. Given recent weather events, we were considering how when I was child, we lost our power nearly every week over the winter. Mum and Dad would lay a fire and we had a gas cooker and heater we wheeled out. No hot water was a pain for bathing but you get by.
I've got a woodburning stove - and I don't store wood but I have a barn full of hated wood furniture that we would chop up if needed! The stove gets so hot that it should boil water in the old aluminium kettle we inherited with the house.
I was thinking of buying a gas stove as well - a camping one just for cooking with, however, I am unsure as to whether this is a waste of space or wise - we don't go camping much (as in a night a year!). I do have a mini trangia and perhaps I should just upgrade that to a full size one.
Any thoughts much appreciated.
I have got two of Bedsit Bob's favourites and about 30 gas bottles:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yellowstone-Portable-Gas-Stove-Black/dp/B001W78P0W/ref=pd_rhf_gw_s_cp_5_AXAM?ie=UTF8&refRID=13DZXTCHAY61AYRCDQ2Z
They don't take up much room.0
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