Preparedness for when

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Maryb

dreams are just so weird sometimes aren't they?

Interesting about the bacon I did read about a year ago that farmers were struggling with feed prices and were slaughtering more than they would usually which would in turn lead to higher prices as less meat was about and of course the chinese are eating more meat now etc...think it was on a bbc article will see if I can find a link

Heres a more current article than the one last year http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/0/19558714

GreyQueen

I once dreamed I was being chased, as in to the death, across open country by giant pink sofa-sized French Fancies with ravening maws full of teeth.

Absolutely terrifying. I dread to think what a headshrinker would make of the contents of my imagination...........:rotfl:

Wel, have taken my offering to the GP surgery (andthank heavens for city centre living as it's 2 mins walk down the road) and am chilling a bit before going to w*rk.

SpikyHedgehog

maryb wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208665/The-A-PORK-alypse-coming-Bacon-pork-shortage-unavoidable-2013.html

This is serious - never mind Keep Calm and Carry on - Panic and Rush Around!!!:rotfl:

Not sure how my DH would cope without bacon and eggs for a Sunday breakfast treat. Mind you, I'm not sure he deserves it - I was very cross with him in a dream last night. I can't remember what it was about but I'm sure it was all his fault:D Funny isn't it, how you can wake up from something like that and feel quite as ruffled as if it had really happened

Bring back the pig club! Actually why & when did they stop using school dinner scraps for pigs? I think it was before BSE & yes, I know that's cows not pigs :-) (or it would have been porcine spongiform encephalitis), but I guess meat in the chain was why.

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MEME - I'm just sad enough to grow pumpkins every year so we have one for Halloween. We have a convention in the village that the kids only knock at houses with a pumpkin lit in the window and the parents bring the very small ones at 5ish parents in fancy dress too .The older ones don't call much after 7.30 and we all enjoy it so much. Imagine my delight when at a friends birthday party this summer a complete stranger(to me) came up and said 'Oh you're the lady my children love coming to at Halloween, they love all the homemade things you make, in fact most of the village kids love your Bat Biscuits and Ghost cakes. They always make me bring them to your house first!' I admit to loving the whole thing as well, and the kids make the best effort they can on a costume. Never had any problems and all apparently have a great time, including me! Cheers Lyn x.

ab.da54

http://youtu.be/yVXoC-95zDk

This made me think of this thread

catznine

Back home from sunny Zante/Zakynthos after a traumatic flight out! We got caught in the storm that hit Albania, Italy and western Greece! Couldn't see the island as we hovered over it in the turbulence and storm clouds, then after 10 mins or so we whooshed off in the direction of Athens (apparently lightening had struck the nose of a the plane in front of us, a Thomas cook flight on landing and taken out all the power at the airport! :eek: thankfully no one hurt!) After re-fueling and sitting on aircraft for 2 more hours, we were kindly put up in a 5 star hotel (very nice) in Athens. Great food but then woken up at 3.30 am for a 4 am breakfast, I am not at my best at that time but wanted to do justice to the food (thinking about the poor folk on the streets going hungry made me feel somewhat guilty) Then off to airport for a 9am flight into Zante! We hit massive turbulence on the way over (people yelling, crying and being sick) again but landed with a bump safely! The planes after us said the crew were having to crawl up the aisles on their hands and feet to get strapped in :eek:) Very grateful to be safely on the ground by then even if it was pouring down! Also so glad I had paid out for some hypnotherapy 7 years ago to alleviate my fear of flying! I now feel I can cope with almost anything, dh very impressed with me though I was on the point of tears by the end of it all! Many of us were laughing about it later though as the happy band of survivors of the storm! :rotfl:We found out that they had a bad time on the ground as well, flooding and a rep said an old fridge she had put out for collecting had been lifted up and crashed down onto her parked car causing lots of damage!:eek: After a couple of days the sun came out and the holiday began, we caught up with friends and made new ones!:)

We are both so glad we made the trip though as it was very quiet - a lot of tourists are staying away and this is having a worrying knock on effect on the hotels, bars, shops etc., At least Zante has a goodly amount of olives and grapes so that brings in an income other than tourism! I do feel for the locals though as on talking to them we found them to be very worried about the cuts! We were even thanked by the guide at our trip to Olympia, she said "Thank you so much for coming to Greece, we thought you wouldn't come" We saw plenty of food, were very well fed and watered (literally in the case of the rain :rotfl:) and got lovely sun tans on the return of the good weather. On our first trip to Greece we were shown nothing but kindness and friendship and would love to return!

We have now seen both the London Olympic stadium (the paralympic tickets were so cheap and the venue only 2 stops on the train from us) and now the original site of the first Olympic games! Wonderful! Dh now totally de-stressed (until return to work today!:()

Back to reality now though as we continue to save, deal with the taxman (grrr) and get our mortgage paid down! We do feel very lucky though with all we do have!

fuddle

Be careful MrsL one might just be a zombie

Mary as headlines go that was beautifully on topic :rotfl:

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If it was I'd still give it a Bat Biscuit!!!!!

D&DD

Catznine sounds like a scary old flight my nails would have been embedded in the armrest :eek: Glad you managed to have a lovely trip after all that adventure getting there X

MrsL I love halloween here too we have trick or treaters and they all make an effort with costumes its a really nice evening usually.My one pumpkin I managed to grow this year is Jackblittle so that won't be much use for carving..

Byatt

catznine wrote: »

Back home from sunny Zante/Zakynthos after a traumatic flight out! We got caught in the storm that hit Albania, Italy and western Greece! Couldn't see the island as we hovered over it in the turbulence and storm clouds, then after 10 mins or so we whooshed off in the direction of Athens (apparently lightening had struck the nose of a the plane in front of us, a Thomas cook flight on landing and taken out all the power at the airport! :eek: thankfully no one hurt!) After re-fueling and sitting on aircraft for 2 more hours, we were kindly put up in a 5 star hotel (very nice) in Athens. Great food but then woken up at 3.30 am for a 4 am breakfast, I am not at my best at that time but wanted to do justice to the food (thinking about the poor folk on the streets going hungry made me feel somewhat guilty) Then off to airport for a 9am flight into Zante! We hit massive turbulence on the way over (people yelling, crying and being sick) again but landed with a bump safely! The planes after us said the crew were having to crawl up the aisles on their hands and feet to get strapped in :eek:) Very grateful to be safely on the ground by then even if it was pouring down! Also so glad I had paid out for some hypnotherapy 7 years ago to alleviate my fear of flying! I now feel I can cope with almost anything, dh very impressed with me though I was on the point of tears by the end of it all! Many of us were laughing about it later though as the happy band of survivors of the storm! :rotfl:We found out that they had a bad time on the ground as well, flooding and a rep said an old fridge she had put out for collecting had been lifted up and crashed down onto her parked car causing lots of damage!:eek: After a couple of days the sun came out and the holiday began, we caught up with friends and made new ones!:)

We are both so glad we made the trip though as it was very quiet - a lot of tourists are staying away and this is having a worrying knock on effect on the hotels, bars, shops etc., At least Zante has a goodly amount of olives and grapes so that brings in an income other than tourism! I do feel for the locals though as on talking to them we found them to be very worried about the cuts! We were even thanked by the guide at our trip to Olympia, she said "Thank you so much for coming to Greece, we thought you wouldn't come" We saw plenty of food, were very well fed and watered (literally in the case of the rain :rotfl:) and got lovely sun tans on the return of the good weather. On our first trip to Greece we were shown nothing but kindness and friendship and would love to return!

We have now seen both the London Olympic stadium (the paralympic tickets were so cheap and the venue only 2 stops on the train from us) and now the original site of the first Olympic games! Wonderful! Dh now totally de-stressed (until return to work today!:()

Back to reality now though as we continue to save, deal with the taxman (grrr) and get our mortgage paid down! We do feel very lucky though with all we do have!

I went to Zante years ago, does it still have the very small airport where you have to queue outside? A lovely island, but my now ex turned into a husband I didn't recognise, drinking, dancing on tables and oggling women...:eek: We'd been married some years so a real shock! :rotfl: