Preparedness for when

sb44

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

sb44 ask WONDERCOLLIE she lives in Canada and the temperatures get very low, the collie I know from her posts has leather (I think) boots and a warm dog coat for this extreme cold. These items will be available here too, at a price, but don't get too worried about what might happen, we'll deal with posibilities when they become realities and there will be ways of coping. We're more resilient than we realise and although the weather events are making lives very difficult and the cold would be uncomfortable we'll all rally together and there will eventually be an end to it all and there will be Spring and warmth again!!! Lyn xxx.

Thanks Lyn. I was thinking of buying a cheap fleece blanket to cut up and make her a warm coat. I have been meaning to buy her one but a lot of them don't seem to be very warm looking. My husband laughed when I said I would 'make' her one as I am totally c*ap at sewing etc, hence being of of the first to take engineering instead of home economics (in the 70's)!

I said I would staple it on her if need be. :rotfl:

This is coming from someone who has used sellotape to keep up hems of their jeans in an emergency, not to mention chewing gum when one leg fell down once when on a school run! Disgusting I know but it worked.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Agree with MrsLW ... no need to panic, prepare just incase..


The main thing people panic buy when there is a flake of snow, is bread, milk, pasta, rice, potatoes and longlife milk....and fuel for the car, and coal etc for the fire...


so as long as we prep early with some of these we will be fine....


that's what I am going to do this week...


If no snow comes then fine.... I have just bought ahead of myself....


As there is a hard frost this morning... We will check pipes up the smallholding... and see if there is anyway of adding a bit of insulation to the water supply pipes to the pigs. BUT this isn't going to do do a great job..lol.... so just got to make sure I get some water containers so we can take water up to them...if things freeze badly etc..

craigywv

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Agree with MrsLW ... no need to panic, prepare just incase..


The main thing people panic buy when there is a flake of snow, is bread, milk, pasta, rice, potatoes and longlife milk....and fuel for the car, and coal etc for the fire...


so as long as we prep early with some of these we will be fine....


that's what I am going to do this week...


If no snow comes then fine.... I have just bought ahead of myself....


As there is a hard frost this morning... We will check pipes up the smallholding... and see if there is anyway of adding a bit of insulation to the water supply pipes to the pigs. BUT this isn't going to do do a great job..lol.... so just got to make sure I get some water containers so we can take water up to them...if things freeze badly etc..

hi,just being nosy is this a smallholding that your planning on moving to permanently in the not so distant,i would love that. are the pigs already up there? can you leave them alone .....I from the city lol not high up in pig sitting.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

craigywv wrote: »

hi,just being nosy is this a smallholding that your planning on moving to permanently in the not so distant,i would love that. are the pigs already up there? can you leave them alone .....I from the city lol not high up in pig sitting.

we bought the place 2 years ago next month.... needs loads of work... which we are slowly doing...


have had pigs well over 18 months now, we are back and fore there all the time, at least twice a day, plus the stonemason is the most days...


would love to totally get out of the ratrace.. and be there 24/7 but you need money to pay bills etc... its not remote... its backs onto a posh housing estate... so you can imagine the reaction we are getting by having pigs on the land lol....we live about 6 - 8 miles away from it

sb44

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

would love to totally get out of the ratrace.. and be there 24/7 but you need money to pay bills etc... its not remote... its backs onto a posh housing estate... so you can imagine the reaction we are getting by having pigs on the land lol....we live about 6 - 8 miles away from it

Aren't you scared that someone will 'pignap' (sorry!) them or do them some harm?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

sb44 wrote: »

Aren't you scared that someone will 'pignap' (sorry!) them or do them some harm?

everything is padlocked, PLUS this day and age with tagging and movement licenses etc...it does deter a lot of people etc..


the thing is, there is only sooo much you can do, and if someone wants to steal something then, they will find a way... like GQ found out this week up at the lottie, and her shed... and people who get burgled...

sb44

Regarding prepping, cold weather.

Has anyone bought the thermal underwear from B&M's?

Off there in the next hour so may get some if they are decent.

craigywv

sounds great ,good luck and I hope you get the life style you seek.im afraid I would prob get too attached to the pigs to slaughter them, but if tshtf I would wouldn't have a second thought if it meant feeding my family.

craigywv

i find most thermals are mostly the same , i used to buy them when i was a market trader for many years,then i just started wearing a vest style top or thinish long sleeved top from primeek boutique about 3 quid and find they just as good.hth

jk0

sb44 wrote: »

Regarding prepping, cold weather.

Has anyone bought the thermal underwear from B&M's?

Off there in the next hour so may get some if they are decent.

Sorry, just had an image there in my mind of indecent thermals. Crotchless longjohns perhaps?