Preparedness for when

sophlowe45

they might for iPlayer but I had not watched anything on 4od for a while until a few days ago and they have so many ads before the programme starts and during it, so I think 4od and other channels will be able to provide a free service for much longer than the BBC.

Caterina

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Shhhhhhhh CATERINA I've got a really large case of the Borlottis, and mine have gone dry and hard and I'm keeping them in a jar in the kitchen - is it an offence to keep them after they've been dried off on the boiler, will we be in trouble? Hope not Cheers Lyn xxx.

If you are sure that your Borlotti are dry, the best way to keep them is in a textile bag with a great big iron key with them to keep the weevils off! I tend to cook them and freeze them though as I only have a few left over, we eat them fresh as they grow!

2tonsils good luck with all the power cuts and well done on all the careful prepping!

Good night all!

ginnyknit

2tonsils, hope all goes well for you, thank goodness again for prepping -seems to have said that several times this week.

2tonsils

Just been catching up with the posts. Awake early this morning as my OH was sick earlier, hope he hasn't got a tummy bug...he's got enough problems with being laid up with his back.

We don't pay a tv license here as we are covered by a small premium on our electric bill....I think its only a few euros a year. I don't watch much tv at all, maybe the news a couple of times. My OH watches tv or films online. Veetle.com is very good and has many of the latest movies. Filmon is great but I find the signal varies on my computer.

I saw the head torches in the big warehouse in town, they were only 2 euros and that included a set of batteries and spares lol. Off there to get more big candles today while the going is good.

Lovely day here, 35 degrees and sun forecast so going to wash all the winter hats and gloves while I have electric. Have a great weekend folks

mardatha

Thanks for Ferfal GQ, I had lost him.

mardatha

If anybody in here is trying to join UKP. we've had to disable new join-ups temporarily cos we couldn't keep up. We had over 100 in two days and are now at over 1000 members (we started with 27). Unfortunately an awful lot of them are eejits LOL and I expect they will post a few times then vanish back into the pub, the bookies or the woodwork

meme30

I have been talking to a friend who is in Spain at the moment. She is in the area where there has been all these floods, but luckily they have not affected her. She said the rain was constant and torrential and the lightening took out the electricity. It was only the trip switches and after a while she got it back on.
She is out there alone in her second home for a couple of weeks and has walking difficulties. She said she was praying it was not the fuses because she did not have replacements for all the different ones, and she would have had to go out in the storm to get some. :eek:
She happily said she would have had to use candles until it was sorted.

I have suggested a wind up torch and a head light torch as a just in case. She walks with a stick and it's a three storey place she has, so I think the head torch would work best for her. She is a very practical person ordinarily so I'm a bit shocked at the unpreparedness of her situation. I know her OH in England will be horrified at her thinking of going out just for fuses.

I think I will be talking to her about being prepared especially when in a foreign county.

2tonsils

Just been to town on my scooter, its a 25 minute ride away and it is SO hot out there, it was 36 in the shade when I passed the thermometer.

All the supermarkets were mobbed with people buying night lights and candles so I went to the big store. Got some 90 hour scented candles (orange and cinnamon oil) at just 2.50 euros each so got three of them. They will make the house lovely and cosy and it smells like winter when they are on. I also bought a small storm lamp that runs on any oil for 1.99...we already have stocks of the oil in. Some of the parents were buying their children night lights that run on batteries...what a good idea!

Off to plug my things in to charge over the weekend and will top up my Kobo reader as well. I love the free books you can get for them and have loads of memory spare so can load a few later this afternoon.

I really enjoyed the fresh air and sun on the scooter. But I did get stung twice when I passed the villagers mulching the grapes for the wine and once on the way home. The wasps get drunk on the sap which is fermenting already when the grapes are picked...it could have been worse, it might have been one of the drunken hornets, some of which are 4 inches long!!!! By the way, the grapes are pulped by machine, not by treading the grapes as some of them make 2000 litres of wine at a time! Nothing is added, only spring water then they are left in the sun to ferment. Judging by the heatwave its going to ferment till its lethal....

Other half feeling a bit better but still confined to bed as his back is too bad to wander round.

SpikyHedgehog

born_blonde wrote: »

Is the cider recipe similar to this?

Simple Cider
3lb apples
12 pints water
2lb sugar
3 lemons
Clean apples and mince cores skin and all. Place in an earthenware bowll or a brewing tub ( bucket) and add cold unboiled water. Stir well and if in bowl or bucket cover with clean tea towel.
Leave for one week stirring morning and evening.
Strain off liquid and add sugar and grated rind and juice of lemons.
Set aside for 24 hours the strain and store in receptacle of your choice.
But remember it does ferment and a pressure barrel is a good idea or clean plastic pop bottles though you might have to release the pressure.
Ready in a few days but the longer you leave it the stronger it gets!

Thank you, born blonde :-) DS1 wanted to make cider last year, but we didn't have a recipe - will give that a go.

D&DD wrote: »

thanks for the links hunters and Soph will have a proper read in a bit I was surprised actually at how many people on MSE don't have TV's there are quite a few on Ostyle and the debtfreeboards too..

pops do they still do stamps at the post office for tv licences etc I used to get them years ago and they did used to help when on a fixed income

2T I do love my headtorches they are so handy when cooking etc in the dark have you got one of those? Just sometimes you need to be handsfree if you know what I mean.Meant to say hope hubbies back improves X

I didn't have a tv till Errant Husband moved in with us, & we now have 2. I'd be happy not to have a tv, & just listen to the radio, but the boys wouldn't. I don't actually mind paying the tvlicence though, as we watch a lot of BBC stuff on I player if not live, & listen to bbc radio stations.

A friend phoned me up this morning with her SHTF situation - her 16 year old son's 15 year old girlfriend gave birth to their baby, 12 weeks early. There are so many ways it can hit us, & all we can do is try to be ready for whatever happens.

mardatha

Sending love, light and strength to the wee baby and the families xxx