Preparedness for when

Caterina

Ginny (((HUGS))) get well now! Have you got anyone who can come to help you make food, give you a hand in general? I hope you have a good rest and manage as well as you can x

ginnyknit

Everythings organised and I cleaned up yesterday so can have a day off. Unbelievably I am well organised - thats rare for me :rotfl: thank you hunny x

westlothianlass

HI all
Thanks for your kind thoughts for mum:), all is good and she is home.
Ginny honey take care of yourself, and have a big hug from Scotland (can't find a hug smiley but im sure you get the idea :rotfl:) .
Today is a sorting through paperwork day, its too blooming cold to be in the garden but i will need to venture out soon as i definately need to pick some runner beans as they are looking a bit over excited, so some chutney will be made and stored.
x WLL

D&DD

WLL so pleased to hear your news don't forget to spoil her with copious amounts of cake
Molly hope your parents get home safely X
BBlonde what a lovely offer...and you have secret damsons!

I must say thankyou to everyone who posted about the Aloe thats one thing I've never thought to get in and very handy to have.I usually buy aftersun with that in as its so much more soothing than regular don't know why I never thought of burns :doh:

Ginny hope you manage a restful day with your feet up,I still keep seeing ferrets lol X

Thankyou also for all the 'cashstash' ideas everyone really helpful as I have a *few* boxes of cereal etc laying around :whistle:

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Oh NOOOOOOO Born Blonde has SECRET DAMSONS!!!!!!!!! I thought they'd found a cure!!!!!!!!! HOBSONS I'd stay in for a while if I were you just in case of a relapse............. He he he!!! Lyn x.

grandma247

I dare not put anything in a cereal box or any other food box unless it was something the family would not touch with a barge pole. My lot would probably chuck it out

RAS

Lived in York during several of the worst floods. The BBC coverage suggests that is is another bad'un but they show King's Staithe (on the river) which floods several times each year anyway. The pub has no plaster on the walls and is designed to hose clean. Chairs and beer barrels for tables, all float or easily shifted upstairs. All electrics at a high level.

However, at one stage no-one would buy in the Leeman Road area because it flooded every other year. The last big'un when I was there (likely to be just lower than the current one), the sand-bags on the levee held by 1/2 inch/1cm, so I have things crossed for them.

Because of the small streams flowing into the river there are often floods in unexpected places - the water in the streams cannot flow out and the river backs up as well.

We lived just off the river but up above the flood plain. The normal walk to town was down the road, down two flights of steps and onto the river path. In that bad'un the water was lapping the top steps, folks at the road end could not get out their front doors and we were all still 5 foot above the flood level. That flood was just lower than the worst recorded (on the wall of a building opposite the Castle).

Monday was interesting - I suspect that at least one road which we got through on the bus despite it being totally covered in water became impassable to all but 4x4s shortly afterwards.

born_blonde

It gets worse Mrs L, I've got secret sloes as well!

luxor4t

grandma247 wrote: »

..... A neighbour did this so her husband would not find it and spend it on drink.

My sister hid the chocolate biscuits & the kids' treats in the ironing pile as it was the one place BiL would ignore.

GreyQueen

born_blonde wrote: »

It gets worse Mrs L, I've got secret sloes as well!

Get yourself to the [STRIKE]
Clap Cl[/STRIKE] erm GUM right away, lass; don't want to be spreading those all over the t'interweb!

I have some cash at home. £14 in a mustard jar. Well, ex-mustard jar, all washed up and de-labelled, naturally. Anyone daft enough to burgle me is going to be a trifle disappointed, I reckon. As long as they don't find the tinned tommie and FB pie stash..............:rotfl:

The guy who fitted the parentals' c.h. system told them he'd once fitted one for some older people out in the sticks. Was paid in cash, slightly damp bank-notes with the imprint of hessian carpet underlay in them.

Gosh, wonder where they'd been hidden, then?

What d'you reckon is the most OS hiding place? Pinny pocket? Inside a bag of flour on the larder shelf? In a casket buried under the greenhouse? The permutations are almost endless.......