Preparedness for when

ALIBOBSY

Cheapskate wrote: »

It just keeps getting better, doesn't it?! :mad: Despite the hiatus with the data sharing scheme, we're still going to opt out this week through our GP. DS' GF went to do this at her surgery, and none of the admin team knew what she was talking about, yet other surgeries I know of are eager to give out forms to patients, very disjointed.

The meeces are sneaking back into my pantry - two huge bags of oats have been got at. Really peeved as I just bought a bag to replace another they'd chewed and couldn't believe the price hike - from 95 pence to £1.65 in a couple of months! :eek:

Belated ((hugs)) to you, siegemode, on the loss of your kitty, the pics are lovely.

A xo

Hold onto the chewed bags, I know you probably wouldn't risk eating them, but sprinkle around seedlings in spring, the slugs eat the oats swell up and die ha ha!

Love anything that gets rid of the dreaded slimy ones and hate waste :T.

Ali x

Cheapskate

Ali, thanks for that tip, just in the nick of time!

It's half term here, so going to buckle down with major tidying up and prepping. TP supplies dangerously low (below 75!:eek:), going to order a kelly kettle and a swiss army-type knife, sort through tinned goods and check dates, cos pantry is a bit higgledy piggledy.

SiL has part of her garden across the road from her house, well maintained, but we've both decided we could turn it into a lottie, her arthritis is starting to make things hard to do. She's got the experience and I'm a bit fitter than her, and as she can see it from her window, it's easy for her to spot problems of the 2-legged variety!

A xo

Karmacat

Just a quick post as far as eye masks are concerned - I have my normal builder's mask, like BB's pic - if it was against volcanic dust, there's so much ventilation holing in mine, I'd have to put some duct tape over it but I also went to £land, and bought some swimwear goggles - 99p for two pairs, they be good enough for an EDC, and take up hardly any room.

mardatha

Power been out all morning here, just back on now.Hellish cold winds.

ALIBOBSY

Thanks for the tip about B & M bargains, picked up some of the mess tins and one of the camping stoves-now just £8.99, and gas canisters.

Also got some garden labels, never have enough lol. These are coloured rather than white and were 100 for £1.50.

Ali x

southantrim3

Sort of related - but considering all the data mining etc, and I'm sure there are pleanty of other revelations re that that we haven't been told about yet - is there anyone who as started to go off-line to reduce their "internet footprint" for want of a better phrase, yet?

Obviously, still useful to have a presence here, but I'm curious to see how hooked we are...

elaine241

Cheapskate I store 20kg sacks of oats for my horses and mice/rats are always a problem. I store mine in metal containers with a lid, you could downscale this to your pantry, hunt around for mini metal bins or similar, glass containers are usually too small and plastic containers get nibbled through. Failing that murder the bug**rs with traps set with peanut butter!

Alibobsy I am sneaky with plant labels, I buy a Gregg's coffee on the way to work twice a week (I know not v MSE!) Anyway to the point the long thin wooden stirrers are great as labels and by the door so I take a load every time I am there!:-)

Prepping wise I have sorted through them garage and old cow shed as its FULL of junk. I have sorted all the tools, DIY supplies etc in to boxes so that I can find what is needed. Along the way I have two log slitting axes,a hacker for morning wood , several penknives ,safety goggles,masks and a really big maglite torch that is going in my car to double as a friendly pursuader should the need arise.
My favourite find is a Husqvarna sewing machine although I had to hunt for hours to find the foot pedal! It is so smooth despite being in the shed for at least ten years, now I need to find the idiot manual online.
I have sown some chillies, cucumbers,peppers and they are coming up. The soil is too wet and I may have to move my veg patch if my OH gets his way. I tend to grow veg that are expensive or taste 100% better home grown rather than onions etc I have a lot of soft fruit and fruit trees, though we don't grow bananas yet! I have sorted through all my seeds in the hope of not overbuying , I have saved seeds from herbs and chillies to see how they get on, even saved some from long peppers bought from Al*I.

anyway going to sort through paper work, pay bills and start to scan in important documents as I keep saying I will do it but never seem to get round to it.

Keep prepping, Elaine x

Frugalsod

jk0 wrote: »

I think the deterrent effect of having it with you serves to ward off miscreants. To be honest, I'm not sure how effective I'd be if I had to fight off an attacker with my brolly.

There are other ways such as avoid walking in areas that you do not know too well at night. Plus walking like you know where you know where you are going. Do not carry a map it makes you look like a tourist and they are muggers easy prey.

ALIBOBSY

elaine241 wrote: »

Cheapskate I store 20kg sacks of oats for my horses and mice/rats are always a problem. I store mine in metal containers with a lid, you could downscale this to your pantry, hunt around for mini metal bins or similar, glass containers are usually too small and plastic containers get nibbled through. Failing that murder the bug**rs with traps set with peanut butter!

Alibobsy I am sneaky with plant labels, I buy a Gregg's coffee on the way to work twice a week (I know not v MSE!) Anyway to the point the long thin wooden stirrers are great as labels and by the door so I take a load every time I am there!:-)

Prepping wise I have sorted through them garage and old cow shed as its FULL of junk. I have sorted all the tools, DIY supplies etc in to boxes so that I can find what is needed. Along the way I have two log slitting axes,a hacker for morning wood , several penknives ,safety goggles,masks and a really big maglite torch that is going in my car to double as a friendly pursuader should the need arise.
My favourite find is a Husqvarna sewing machine although I had to hunt for hours to find the foot pedal! It is so smooth despite being in the shed for at least ten years, now I need to find the idiot manual online.
I have sown some chillies, cucumbers,peppers and they are coming up. The soil is too wet and I may have to move my veg patch if my OH gets his way. I tend to grow veg that are expensive or taste 100% better home grown rather than onions etc I have a lot of soft fruit and fruit trees, though we don't grow bananas yet! I have sorted through all my seeds in the hope of not overbuying , I have saved seeds from herbs and chillies to see how they get on, even saved some from long peppers bought from Al*I.

anyway going to sort through paper work, pay bills and start to scan in important documents as I keep saying I will do it but never seem to get round to it.

Keep prepping, Elaine x

Re the rats/mice the thing our ancestors did and what we do is the have cats lol. Mind you you still get them, just they are dead and presented as a lovely gift from your moggy :eek:.

Let ours in after a run around outside and Fi Fi tried to sneak one in the house yack! Otherwise as Elaine says rodent proof storage and/or traps.

I have all sorts of things being reused for labels in the garden, I hae cut up milk bottles-the plastic ones obiously lol, and yes I have some of the wooden stirrers OH used to pick up when getting a coffee on the way to work, but now S/E he doesn't go out for coffee very often. Also keep the wooden sticks from ice creams/ice lollies. But I do like to have some proper labels and these are cute colours.

Shortly will do my annual go around and collect up any labels left in the beds/garden as well as the ones I chucked into containers in the shed and GH and get them washed and organised for this year, but the new ones will be great for the seedlings I am starting this week on the window sills.

Ali x

Cheapskate

Elaine, thanks for the tip about metal containers, will have to keep my eyes peeled. Peanut butter traps? Pft, when we've tried them, next morning the trap's shut, peanut butter gone, I swear the bu99ers suck it out with a straw to tease! :rotfl:

Despite having Mount Ironmore in my front room, I spent time this afternoon chopping and sawing up a tree I chopped down before the winds a couple of weeks ago. A friend has a wood burner, as does my sis, so hoping they'll share it, it would be a sin to just take it to the tip! Have saved loads of little twigs ready for when I buy a kelly kettle, they'll need to dry out a bit.

A xo