Preparedness for when

charlies-aunt

sorryImoved wrote: »

I found this recipe for an oral rehydration drink online and it got me wondering if anyone has a home remedy they would like to share.

Our doctor told us to use original Coca-Cola when our children had tummy bugs - pour some into a glass and beat with a fork to remove the bubbles - it has the perfect balance of sugar etc to make it a perfect rehydration drink and its a lot easier to persuade children to drink rather than those vile rehydration sachets

GreyQueen

Glad you're back, VJsMum.

Yes, I noticed that about Amsterdam, too. You see the coolest of cool young dudes on trad granny bikes with baskets on the front and neither they nor anyone else seems to think that this affects their cool quotient.

Compare and contrast to the poseurs tooling around on expensive mountain bikes and road machines. I've been cycling, girl and woman, for over 45 years now and have managed never to involve Lycra in the process.

I guess the attitude is the difference between the one which sees bikes as a workaday form of transport and the one which sees them as an accessory. I spend a lot of time with cycle nuts as have a couple of them in my office and catalogue-lusting and gear-discussing are all Greek to me.

Mind you, compared to archery, their choice of kit is scanty, p-poor and so uncool. Archers have all the bestest toys and some of them have been banned by their nearest and dearest from websites and emporia selling any more of the stuff. Some of those top-grade arrows are £50 each! I couldn't stand the worry of it; what if you lost it or split it?

charlies-aunt, the flat-Coke tip is in a lot of travel books, too. Rehyration sachets are vile even if you're an adult. And Coke is widely-available.

Splitting arrows with other arrows is expensive anyway; if you do it at our club you have to take the gang to the pub and stand a round of drinks. Fortunately it doesn't happen often.

pineapple

GreyQueen wrote: »

Compare and contrast to the poseurs tooling around on expensive mountain bikes and road machines. I've been cycling, girl and woman, for over 45 years now and have managed never to involve Lycra in the process.

I really managed to wind up the 'lycra and silly hat brigade' on another thread. :rotfl:The thing is we don't see too many cyclists hereabouts until we get to the Tour de France and then every man/woman and his/her lycra comes out of the woodwork. Wot's goin on? :eek:. Either they are lapsed hobby cyclists who are newly enthused by the event or they are newbies who think it might be a fun thing to try.
It's just an extra hazard on the local narrow twisty country roads. Plus there are motorists like me around.

thriftwizard

Laughing a little at the Lycra thing - I am a cyclist, in a minor, potter-about sort of way, but I do wear Lycra leggings. Not specifically for cycling, I hasten to add (I originally got them for dance/exercise) but because they're comfortable, practical & hardwearing and they don't sag. I had to replace my first pair, bought in 1985, a couple of years ago when the mends finally overtook the original fabric. They weren't a cheap pair, and nor were the ones I bought to replace them, but it was money well spent.

I was about to add that not all Lycra-wearers are posers, but then I realised that I can, & frequently do, pose like mad!

mardatha

I've got a very dry house thankugod, with a tons of books in a big cupboard. I can read favs over and over and I spent 90% of my time at home, so if the custard hits the fan then I won't be hugely disturbed. I do need more lentils though. Porridge oats and lentils and I'm sorted for armageddon

Butterfly_Brain

I want one of these mobility scooters bit pricy at £3,995 though :eek:

Frugalsod

Si_Clist wrote: »

As lifelong cyclists (as opposed to Cyclists, who wear Lycra and a Magic Hat and teararse all over the place and jump red lights and so on), we'd always aimed to give up the motor car as soon as we didn't need one for work. The problem was that we live in a relatively hilly area, so getting all the shopping in and towing the bike trailer with a couple of bags of potting compost or whatever in it would be seriously hard work with our "proper" bikes, especially as we get older. So we started doing a lot of research into electrification.

For various reasons we wanted a pedelec (bicycle with electric motor to assist with the pedalling) as opposed to an electric bike (which you can just sit on and go like a moped), and we determined that the make to go for was Kalkhoff.

I duly bought one secondhand off Fleabay for £700, rode it for a few weeks, then sold it on Fleabay for £800 and ordered a new Kalkhoff Agattu for £1600. The Lady Wife then bought the identical bike but with the smaller frame size.

Two years later (and coming up to two years since we got shut of the car) hers has only done around 1000 miles due to various health problems, but I've done 3420 on mine, a proportion of which has been spent towing the trailer. Both are ridden in all weathers, and neither bike has ever let us down. All we've done to them is replace the brake pads and the tyres and I've put a new chain and back sprocket on mine.

Ours are now out of guarantee on both bike and battery, but the latter still seems to be performing very much as it did when new.

I used to be a regular cyclist with the lycra even with it I was still hit when stationary more than a few times. Drivers simply are not careful towards other road users. Though I would "teararse" around as you say I never went through red lights. I would also not use the pavement and was considerate to other road users, though I could be pulled up at red lights and have other cyclists overtake and go through the same red lights.

Butterfly_Brain

i really can't see mr bb in lycra :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

for all of you who grow your own fruit and veg i found an interesting article about antibiotics in manure

http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/the-coming-food-shortages-antibiotics-in-manure-proven-to-alter-soil-composition-reduce-crop-yields-and-cause-human-health-issues-04112014

Perplexed_Pineapple

That's very interesting and slightly scary BB, will have to investigate our sources of manure but don't use much anyway, mostly use compost. I have discovered that we can collect the compost made from the content of recycling bins at the local council facility for free so storing up some bags to go and get some later in the year.

sorryImoved wrote: »

I found this recipe for an oral rehydration drink online and it got me wondering if anyone has a home remedy they would like to share. I would only cautiously use this recipe if there was a SHTF situation with no doctor or pharmacy available. Thoughts?

Ingredients:

Servings: 5

1 liter water, boiled
8 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
lemon juice (optional)
lemonade (optional)
mashed banana (good for potassium) (optional)

Directions:

1
Boil the water and let cool.
2
Stir in sugar and salt, and let them dissolve.
3
Add any desired flavourings.

I think it depends on how badly dehydrated you are. If it's only minor you just need the water, the sugar improves the absorption so you are less likely to throw it up. If you are really ill it's likely you will need salt as well, the problem is that salt water tastes revolting so the other ingredients are an attempt to make it more palatable. I'm really not tempted to add bananas, it sounds terrible. Also, there's no reason to boil the water if you have a clean source of tap water as we have mostly in the UK. Flat soda drinks are fine but tend not to have much salt if you need to replace that. HTH.

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Just finished One Second After.

Interesting, and rather worrying.