Preparedness for when

mrsmortenharket

Sounds excellent ninjasavingKat.

Today I am actually going shopping so will buy some extra water. Not the actual amount we would need. Not sure the car would cope with that weight. Or my purse with the cost tbh.

In a shtf situation, I think my most important people to look after would be my family.

My plan is to have enough stocks to stay put for a few days.

Well no gardening today by the looks of it as the weather is awful.

Have a good day all.

Frugalsod

mardatha wrote: »

Frugalsod Asda deliver to that cottage - they deliver to me and I'm just as far out. And they sell you cheap wood from the estate for the stove

I was joking about Waitrose but Asda would be just as acceptable. My only issue with the place is its very low efficiency rating. If there is no crisis it will cost a lot to heat and in a crisis would be cold. Location is not a problem if you could cope for weeks without heating in winter. Though I suspect that cottage would need loads of wood fires to keep it warm.

mardatha

Like my house, you keep the livingroom stove lit 24/7 most of the year. That keeps the stone walls warm, and it will have radiators in all rooms running off the stove that take the chill off. But I use coal not wood.
We have a nice day, showers and sun. Got my tatties in this morning.

Perplexed_Pineapple

Catching up with the thread before heading off to the lottie - trying to knock it into shape and stay on top of the couch grass, I know it will need to be properly dug over and the roots pulled out one by one but that's going to take a while so just beating the hell out of it with a hoe at the moment. It feels like a proper prepping rite of passage, getting a lottie, like I should get a new badge to pin on my tinfoil hat :rotfl:
Interesting stuff in the last few pages, food for thought as always.
Runcorn Bridge I think I would give the cans a good scrub and keep anything that was going to be cooked like beans, and chuck out anything that is destined to be eaten raw, like fruit maybe. Bugs don't survive well on a clean dry surface so even if there is contamination now (there will be) a good scrub now followed by cooking later should rescue them IMO. Alternatively (puts on paranoid prepper hat) you could use the contaminated tins for a decoy stash, to divert looters if that seems like a realistic SHTF concern where you are :eek:.

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

That's my method too.

Some people slit the belly full length, rather like you would do with a larger animal like a pig, but I think it increases the risk of rupturing something in the intestines.



You can actually twist the head off.

It's been quite a long time since I skinned a rabbit, but as far as I remember we cut the head off first to drain the blood, then a pinch and slit on the belly skin before gutting. I have a vague thought someone suggested tying round the anus internally with a bit of string to retain the contents before eviscerating but I'm not sure about that. Probably a skill I should refresh and teach the kids.

D&DD wrote: »

.....Mar you'd pay that a week down here I nearly fell over when I saw it was monthly!

That was my first thought too, you wouldn't get a lock-up garage for that money round here
Time to head for the lottie and put some more spuds in while wrestling with the weeds.
Here's an interesting (if not particularly new) article about peak oil@
https://www.tradingfloor.com/posts/peak-oil-signals-worlds-least-know-521368144

GreyQueen

I'm just finishing my cuppa then heading off to my lottie; must be something in the air. Weather's still unstable here but I need to get up there and do a little, at least.

PP, couch grass is hell on wheels but keep on top of it and you'll get there in the end. Each and every time you have the opportinity to get a digging fork into the ground (where you have a spare bit of soil or when lifting the spuds, f'rinstance), haul the stuff outta there.

Dee to much persistance (am stubborn as hell ) I've fought it to a standstill on the lower half of the lottie. This year's tattie patch was cleared from rough meadow/ town dump last autumn, so will be fighting the good fight there, too.

I have horsetails, too. They're fun; even more fun than couch grass. Nothing smaller than a tree should be allowed to have roots as deep as 6 ft, it's just not sporting, is it?

Have just treated my dozen new arrows with boiled linseed oil and have them resting in a bin to hold them upright to dry. Looking around my home at this particular moment, and I suspect that I may have left Normalshire behind some miles ago.:rotfl:

Ach well, there isn't a law against it. Probably that one is about to become a grubbyment white paper and go into committee, but presently, it's not bad to be [STRIKE]mad[/STRIKE] eccentric.

Oh, darn it; I think I need to be wealthier to be eccentric, pants.

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Hey GQ who wants to be NORMAL??????? it's like actually growing up, vastly overrated and absolutely no FUN at all!!! Stay as you are pet, and keep on enjoying being enlightened alternative sane!!! Lyn xxx.

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

Have just treated my dozen new arrows with boiled linseed oil and have them resting in a bin to hold them upright to dry. Looking around my home at this particular moment, and I suspect that I may have left Normalshire behind some miles ago.:rotfl:

Normalshire is highly over rated.
Looking around my study, there's a broadsword and katana, several quaterstaffs, a couple of bits of plate mail topped by a top hat and dress cane. (there's also piles of electronics and books).

Ach well, there isn't a law against it. Probably that one is about to become a grubbyment white paper and go into committee, but presently, it's not bad to be [STRIKE]mad[/STRIKE] eccentric.

Oh, darn it; I think I need to be wealthier to be eccentric, pants.

I'm fairly sure you can be eccentric without wealth, you just have to be a bit more [STRIKE]mad[/STRIKE] extreme (or have less pointy and bangy things - whoops)

COOLTRIKERCHICK

talking about rabbit, I went to our city market a week or so ago, as I want to try and support and buy local produce where possible.. went to a butcher where I got told they sold locally sourced rabbit... I asked where it came from, and they said it is supplied by a local company.. which imports it from China!!! those rabbits were around £4 each, when I asked if they ever had locally caught wild rabbit etc, they said no as they were more expensive at about £7 each...


doesn't make sense... but I think I might buy one to try...


Stocked back up with cat food this week, so we got a few months worth of food in for them now... but cant carry to much food for the quails and pigs, due to the harvest mite etc..


As for the topic of sharing your stash in a out and out SHTF....I would compare it with winning the lottery lol... where everyone comes out of the woodwork that you know and think they are your friends... The thing is you know who your true friends are etc.. and the ones that would only be scrounging.. family and very good friends that have helped us out of cack street in the past, and have been there when we didn't have 2 pennies to rub together.. which we will never forget..

mrsmortenharket

I now have 8x2l bottles of water. In date till may '16 so that's good.

My cousins & uncle shoot arrows (is that the correct term?!). They win stuff and are quite good.

I don't have any strength in my arms so I think I would be useless at arrows.

Ok. Off to swap over the bins and check on my garden while it's not raining.

Butterfly_Brain

craigywv wrote: »

everything growing nicely over here too bb especially the potatoes.beetroot is going crazy which im delighted at as I eat it by the bucket load. only concern is I planted iceberg and theres no sign of it at all,the baby gem is coming along lovely what copuld have happened? I was going to wait another week and if no sign of growth I was going to plant more of a different variety, any advice would be welcomed thank-you.xxx

are your seeds new or from last year? are they heritage or f1 hybrid?
sometimes if the seeds are old they will not all germinate, you can check this by laying the seeds onto wet kitchen roll to see if they germinate.
another cause could be that you have too much compost or soil on top of the seeds so they can't get through or the compost is too heavy, you need seed and cutting compost which is much lighter than ordinary compost.
GQ is the gardening officianado on here so i expect her knowledge will be greater than mine x