Preparedness for when

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charlies-aunt wrote: »

come up to the lab. . . . . . .and see what's on the sla-b-b-b-b!

I'm shuddering with antici

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pation.

Another stage show worth seeing (a bit less weird, but still funny) is Noises Off.

Anyone seen it?

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greenbee wrote: »

What's REALLY worrying Bob, is that you've actually thought about it as an option... :cool:

What actually put the thought in my mind, was when it was announced she was pregnant.

It suddenly occurred to me that, is wasn't just the country Tony had been ****ing.

Cottage_Economy

Thought I'd pop in and post this as it's been on my mind lately: The prepper toolbox.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y98czv7J2g0&list=PL13666A039236896A

To add to my list of prepping resolutions this year is to put together a good toolbox.

JayneC

That water contamination is bad enough, but the article stated that they don't even know how dangerous it is because the chemical isn't supposed to be in the water. Well then which bright spark thought it ok to have the container on the edge of a flippin river:eek:. And people want to trust TPTB to take care of us! My days, I do despair of people, I really do....

To calm myself ( otherwise I would go potty at the sheer craziness of this world we're living in at the minute) I had a wander up to lottie and did battle with the couch grass, twasn't as bad as I feared, it's made a kind of mat over the soil, so not too much digging, but it does go on for several feet across the ground. All my carrots had carrot fly damage:( So they went into the compost. Thought I might try putting in some onion seeds under cover, they're really supposed to be started off indoors at this time I think but I'm sure I've heard of people sowing outside around now. It will be an experiment...

Walked back over the park and stopped to chat to some geese at the other lottie on the way. They weren't very friendly, a lot of hissing was going on so I left them to it:p Was very pretty, could see right out to the sea and I stopped to take some pics on my phone to remind me that the world is a wonderful place really... if it weren't for the people;)

Take care all, off to walk crazy doggy and then to bed.

JC

PS forgot to say thanks to Ginny for the kick, how rude. Thanks Ginny

siegemode

Another fan of the RHS and also the Blues Brothers too.

Had a real busy week of appointments Drs, Dentist, Physio and car MOT and service (a big one this year) Passed thankfully with no probs just the advice that we'll soon need a couple of new tyres. Next week it's blood tests and a re perm after the disaster just before chrimbo, at least they're not charging me.

With thoughts of the possibility of icey and maybe snowy weather I have finally ordered some of these for OH. Thanks for all those that have recommended Yaktrax at various times, I went for the pro ones. As I was looking through I came across the walking stick ice grip which hadn't occurred to me before and then spotted the heel grips. OH has to be so careful, if he falls he could do real damage to already weakened bones and joints and although I'm his carer, he's my driver.
Bet we won't get a bad winter now we're prepared. I'm ok as I have the snow boots with built in ice grips that just flip over when needed.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/walking-spikes-none-slip-universal-foldable/dp/B00FX8IMJU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389494932&sr=8-1&keywords=walking+stick+ice+grip

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Icey-Heel-Anti-Grippers-Medium/dp/B003DKTEBU/ref=sr_1_23?s=sports&ie=UTF8&qid=1389495170&sr=1-23&keywords=ice+grips

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yaktrax-Pro-Traction-Device-Large/dp/B001CZJBC0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389495821&sr=8-1&keywords=yaktrax

GreyQueen

BigMummaF wrote: »

Anyone see eye tee vee 1 on Thurs evening, when they were discussing the pros & cons of building on flood plains :rotfl: Own up! Which one of you is a tv producer who specialises in documentaries ... we were talking about this very thing only a few pages back, so come out, come out, where ever you are!!!:p

Not guilty. I really do work in a call centre. If I was going to tell fibs to a forum, I'd aim to have a more interesting life. Heck, the most thrilling things that've happened to me in the past fortnight is a stray locust in the flat and some pretty good YS bargains..........:rotfl:

I guess the trouble is, with the UK being so densely settled and for so long, all the best places to build on have been built on, long since, or are preserved. So they're eying up marginal land like floodplains.

This is certainly what's happened in my hometown, a settlement since the Bronze Age, and a market town since Roman times. There's bits of ground only a couple of hundred yards from the ancient centre which have never been built on. Until the last couple of decades.

Because they're right beside the river and prone to flooding - duh. Ancient people used them as water meadows and let them flood but we're so much cleverer now. I wouldn't touch them on a bet, and not just because they've been marketed as 'executive homes', a turn of phrase which ought to be good for a day in the stocks whenever deployed with a straight face.

Seems to me, anyone contemplating sinking the fruits of a life-time's labour into a property needs to be ultra-cautious about risk and do a lot of research into the history, particularly if you are new to the area and don't have the knowledge which a native might have absorbed as they grew up.

I've mentioned it before, but there's a bungalow we pass everytime we drive from my parents' place to my Nan's village. It was built on an old pond which was filled in with anthrax-killed cattle in the early years of the twentieth century. My Dad worked on that farm as a youngster in the early 1950s and the old hands told him about it. The bungalow was put up in the late sixties.

Local people know about it, but I'd be very surprised if it's mentioned on the deeds. I'm not qualified to know whether limed anthrax-infected cattle corpses could pose a health risk 80-90 odd years later, but commonsense suggest to me that a pond full of dead animals might not be the most stable foundation. Anyroad, nobody local ever buys the blessed thing.:p

Today's cunning plan involves waiting for the day to reach opti-warmth then hitting the allotmentino. Flawless blue sky out there atm but the car windscreens outside are frozen.

Darlings, I can see a Picasso. Sadly, it's not one of Pablo's.....

ETA; Bob, I had the cold shudders when I realised that Eggwina and the Grey Man had been bumping uglies - pass the Acme Mind Bleach, willya?

VJsmum

Erm, please can I have some of whatever it is you were all on last night?

I went to see the Railwayman. Now if we think we've got it hard.... but shows the resilience of the human spirit and what it is capable of.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2058107/?ref_=nv_sr_1

GreyQueen

VJsmum wrote: »

Erm, please can I have some of whatever it is you were all on last night?

I went to see the Railwayman. Now if we think we've got it hard.... but shows the resilience of the human spirit and what it is capable of.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2058107/?ref_=nv_sr_1

I was drinking tea. Heaven knows what the rest of them were on.........

COOLTRIKERCHICK

morning all,


been ready, but haven't had anything interesting to say...except I am totally piddled off with this weather.


I think this year more and more people are going to be prepping... the wet weather has hit everyone in one form or another.. with the extreme being flooded out and damage done to property, down to people not being able to afford to put use the tumble dryer to constantly dry clothes etc..


stroll on the spring... or even when this flipping rain stops, so I can start getting the garden prepped for sowing and planting...


It wouldn't surprise me at all if journalists, whether it be newspapers, news, documentaries etc scan these forums on a daily basis, to get information.. as lets face it... on general day to day living and how the depression ( yes I don't care what the flipping government says its a depression and we have been in it for a few years... I can't see any flipping recovery!!!) is effecting the general population, this would be an ideal place to find out..through out thevarious boards and threads on this forum...

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Morning all, the most useful items I own, given how uncertain the weather has been lately are my waterproof coat and trousers and some decent wellington boots. They have saved me having wet and smelly clothing constantly drying out in the utility room over this last few months. I would heartily reccommend buying in waterproof outer gear if you can afford to, it really is a sound investment, Lyn xxx.