Preparedness for when

paidinchickens

vivatifosi wrote: »

Thanks pineapple. Firstly and most importantly, sorry you're going through a scary blue head moment. If you want someone just to chat to, please feel free to pm me.

I don't know if MSE has changed the rules on sigs but I used pretty much every character and had to keep rewriting until I got it all in. I've had the same sig for a long time and about once a year I get a PM from someone whose seen it and gone to see their doctor, which is great because it means it works. I also get comments that it isn't my business and that it's a bit like being part of a nanny state. I tend to ignore those as it's a path I've walked and if my experience helps someone, it's worth doing.

If you wouldn't mind, PM me the change you think you'd make and I'll see if I can fit it in. I'm open to change if the space is available.

Hubby has a spot on his leg that has not gone away, I've been telling him to go to the Doctors for weeks so I will be insisting now, thank you x

I buy candles when I see them at Jumble sales. I bought a hefty square one yesterday for 30p.

PiC

vivatifosi

Good luck to hubbypaidinchickens. I hope that the spot is nothing to worry about, but it is good to check out.

mardatha

Was me looking for candles Craigy but no pound shops within reach that have parking outside. And no jumble or car boot sales here either. I've just been ordering asda tealights every week when I do the online shop.

vivatifosi

Re candles: even with the postage these are pretty cheap tea lights:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/251428378689?hlpht=true&ops=true&viphx=1&lpid=95&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=95

I think they are £1.45 for 20 at Ikea, so works out cheaper with postage.

mardatha

They're 100 for £2 in asda

mrsmortenharket

mardatha wrote: »

I'm finding candles really dear- if anybody finds any cheap ones please post on here..

£2.00 for 100 tea lights in Asda if that's any use.

vivatifosi

mardatha wrote: »

They're 100 for £2 in asda

That's far better! I don't like candles much and prefer wind up lanterns, but that's a great buy.

GreyQueen

Oh what a glorious day, the first day of proper warm weather. I was gardening in shirtsleeves and had my sunhat on. And I saw both red admiral and peacock butterflies, both of which were feeding on the clumps of red dead nettle which have sprung up in the veggie patch.

I have to garden around red dead nettles until their flowering is over as they are so beloved of the bees and the butterflies and there isn't much nectar about this early in the season. They also love dandelions so they have to stay as well.

Been extending the cleared area by tackling the Feral Strawberry Patch. Y'know, those strawberries which got taken over by the couch grass and docks coming over from the dereliction next door and the whole thing go so out of hand.

I've relocated the strawbs into new beds as they were due for a transplantation and as I bring the ferals out of the couch grass, I'm potting them on and giving them away to friends and acquaintances.

The area around the allotment and on the way to it has sloes and wild plums which are full of glorious white blosson and the subtle perfume is drifting on the breeze. Birdies singing, toads starting to emerge sluggishly from hibernation and sit blinking in the sun. Love, love, love it.

Viviatiosi, Mum had to have her basal cell carcinoma (rodent uncer) treated twice as it came back. When they did it the second time, they did a new procedure where they take a slice of flesh, rush it to the lab, another slice etc until they have it all. This was on the side of her nose. It was photographed by a medical photographer as was quite a new procedure at the time (probably about 15 years ago). Mum's nose is in a text book somewhere. And a cousin's OH is in an early 1960s medical text book as once of the first rhesus babies to live.

Mar, past the Asda or Wilko tealights at 100 for £2, I don't have a source of cheap new candles. I buy mine at bootsales when I see them going cheap-cheap. Can often get large pillar candles for 50p or less and have a goodly stash.

In terms of how the world is turning, I think any number of bad things could be heading towards us. I fully expect the government to allow 'bail-ins' for struggling banks and that they would also do something to money held in their own hands such as NS & I bonds and Premium Bonds. Something apart from the slow robbery of reducing interest rates to sub-inflationary levels and reducing prize levels.

I think we will see pension ages retreat ever further. Mine has gone from 60 to 66 and I expect in the gap between now and then it will retreat still further. I can easily see the situation when the normal non-privileged person doesn't get to retire unless they are signed off as permanantly unfit for work. And S@ga's shares will plummet, as will the profits of any business who relies on the gadabout element of the grey pound.

If the Federal Reserve in the USA keeps printing money they will crash the economy of the whole world and this will cause both short-term chaos and long-term immiseration as devalued savings and pensions see people living like paupers again in their old age.

I like to know that there is a supply of food and water, alternative cooking methods and medicines to hand. I don't want to be fighting like an animal to get these things at the last minute, when everyone else is panicking. It wouldn't be safe to be out.

Better still to sit quietly at home and wait for the dust to settle.

Shropshirelass

Hi everyone I have to agree about candles being dear, also I recently got a nice big M&S candle at c s to find it would not burn, due to rubbish wick.

Have been worried by grocery prices, hope everyone is noticing reduced weight of just about all packaged food in sm 's. Have had to introduce strict 'meanest housewife' measures .

Got our spuds planted into half-barrel s this weekend, also separated and re-homed strawberry plants to sheltered spot ready for growing season.

Have a friend who lives in Z1mb@be@, they have trouble with disrupted electric supply, usually any random 2to 6 hour period during 24 hours, have now been without in her area for 48 hours. No report or comment from suppliers. How would we cope with lack of info? Surprisingly, keeping cheerful seems to be biggest problem - I know because she never, ever complains... says it can be the last straw, listening to moaning all day...

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GQ we drove to B & M this morning as He Who Knows had to go to the Skoda dealer to sort out something and they are quite close together and on the way home I saw quite a few Brimstone butterflies, the first of the year. I know they come to us from the continent and it's early for them to be here in such numbers, must be this first warm high pressure period that's carried them across the channel. Lovely to see them flittering in the sunshine, Lyn xxx.