Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Are you referring to the Sawyer 4 Litre complete water treatment system?

Yes that looks like it. I also think that there is a version missing a few parts that is much cheaper. I have been looking at the US site for information.

jk0

How nice is this:

http://www.shedstore.co.uk/gardening/greenhouses/windsor/windsor-wooden-combi-greenhouse-8-by-8



Would this be too big for you guys with allotments?

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JKO that is a beautiful building and I think would be a very expensive adornment for an allotment. The greenhouse side isn't even beginning to be big enough to grow crops in and I suspect the shed isn't anything like big enough to store the contents of the average lottie shed. Our shed (we inherited it with the plot) is half as big again and made of random bits of plywood and recycled door and window, it also has an earth packed floor but it works perfectly well as a storage area for all our needs. We have hot and cold running mice in there and also occasionally a resident wasps nest underneath the back wall!!! I think anything as 'posh' as the picture would instantly be the focus for passing thieves and the local kids up to mischief and it wouldn't stay looking like that for long. It would be super in a small garden though, very easy on the eye!!!

I've been sat here with the news on in the background listening to the surprise and speculation regarding the European MEP Election results and the impression I get is that all the political parties have been shocked to the heart by the success of the UKIP and Green Parties. The nationalist parties seem to have had great success throughout the EU and the news presenters are actually speculating on the possibility of a Merkel/Cameron pact as a result and suggesting that will effect changes in europe, we'll see of course but what I'd like to know is why this result came as a surprise??? The main parties must really live in a rarified and self absorbed world to have not seen this as an inevitable happening!

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Frugalsod wrote: »

I also think that there is a version missing a few parts that is much cheaper.

It would need to be much cheaper.

Have you seen the price of that one? :eek:

GreyQueen

Morning all.

jko, that's a sweet shed/ conservatory combo but too fine for allotments. I had some concerns about my new 8 x 6 apex roofed shed even though it's a generic shed, because it was new. I'd've rather had a secondhand shed, but try sourcing one of those when you only have a pushbike. They go like hot cakes on Freecycle/ secondhand etc and are gone in hours with the proviso that you dismantle and remove yourself, which I couldn't do.

Lottie sheds are a class of building all of their own and some seem to stay (almost) vertical by force of habit, in defiance of accepted norms of gravity and physics. A good shed should see you out. One small shed in my Nan's back garden is old over 70 years ago and is still going strong.........been in several different gardens over the years, tho.

This morning I had my initial cup of tea whilst commencing reading Against Austerity by Richard Seymour. Shaping up to be a very interesting read; it's dismantling of the idea that you can achieve balanced budgets by cutting back spending, and revealing it for what it really is. To whit, the rebalancing of the wealth of the world from the many to the few. What the ZH site would refer to as the greatest wealth transfer of a generation.

I have also sown some more peas in toilet roll tubes in my sitting-room, as one should always leven theory with practicality.;)

Goodness, I can't understand why anyone is paying attention to this euro election malarkey at all; don't people know Kim and Kanye got married and there's loads of stuff to read about that, far more important than boring old politics, hey? :rotfl:

Oooh, pecularities about; microsarft security essentials has woken up from the angry red pavilion to the spinny turquoise pavilion and accompaning computer noise which indicates that it's running it's regular Monday scan. Considering it continues to remind me that it's not supported everytime I turn the pooter on, and didn't scan for about 6 weeks after support ended, it's a case of WTH?! but mine is not to question why.

Grey day outside but none of yer actual precipitation, which is pretty good for a public holiday. I shall garden, prolly after lunch.

thriftwizard

Whilst I'd have something bigger like a shot (if we had room in a sunny corner) we raise a decent crop of tomatoes & peppers and lots of salad leaves every year in a tiny 6' x 2' growhouse. It's the only thing we could fit into an area that actually gets enough sun, early enough in the year! It also fitted into the budget quite nicely. Lined with bubble wrap, it "does" for over-wintering my geraniums etc. too. Serious gardeners may laugh but it does the job for us, quite nicely.

Frugalsod

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

It would need to be much cheaper.

Have you seen the price of that one? :eek:

Yes the US version is so much cheaper. In fact I think that it is more than £100 cheaper. Though even the sawyer minis are significantly cheaper there as well.

Frugalsod

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I've been sat here with the news on in the background listening to the surprise and speculation regarding the European MEP Election results and the impression I get is that all the political parties have been shocked to the heart by the success of the UKIP and Green Parties. The nationalist parties seem to have had great success throughout the EU and the news presenters are actually speculating on the possibility of a Merkel/Cameron pact as a result and suggesting that will effect changes in europe, we'll see of course but what I'd like to know is why this result came as a surprise??? The main parties must really live in a rarified and self absorbed world to have not seen this as an inevitable happening!

For our politicians to think of it as just another protest vote is completely missing the point. Extremist parties only ever get a look in because mainstream parties have completely failed. I doubt that it will change by the next euro election, because the mainstream parties will just tinker at the edges to be seen to be doing something. While the UKIP vote might retreat at the general election I do not see it as the end of UKIP. Even exiting the EU will not be the end of extremist parties because the fundamental problems will still be there, like unemployment, under employment, and falling living standards for the majority. Only when these problems have been addressed will extremist parties disappear. So I still think that prepping is a sensible option.

Frugalsod

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I thought it was cracking down on knife possession he was resisting?

As I see it, cracking down on a knife possession, is going about it the wrong way.

It's knife misuse that needs tackling.

Also we already have laws against certain types of knife already. In the countryside there are many reasons why you might want to carry a knife and none involve stabbing anyone, or have farmers started wearing stab-proof vests yet?

GreyQueen

I see the issue as the inevitable continual postponement of a referendum on membership of the European Union. No party is going to dare to have one, but dare not outright refuse to have one, hence the postponement will always be after the next general election/ when the moon turns to cheese/ when I've safetly retired with my big fat pension-for-life (signed, any former prime minister).

When I walk around my hometown (small market town in southern england pop circa 25,000) I hardly hear anyone speaking english. It's all eastern european languages. It weirds me out. It's like having gone abroad, except you haven't. And don't even get me started on the squatter camps of migrants on the woods and commons surrounding my town, in defiance of the bylaws. If I'd be moved on for camping there, why the hell aren't they? It's got so people are intimidated out of walking their dogs and enjoying the amenities because they'd have to walk through a squalid encampment of (mainly) young and drunk men. There have been several murders and rapes perpetrated by migrants in my little town, too.

Provincial City is much the same. I encounter people buying small single family homes and carving them up into houses of multiple occupation, let to floating groups of migrants. And I answer the anti-social beahviour hotline from neighbours complaining about the accumulations of rubbish, the vermin attracted by it, the constant loud music and partying at all hours.

I'm not a racist because I'm exactly the same ethnicity as the bulk of the european migrant popluation (white), and I'm not a xenophobe because phobia means an 'irrational fear'. When I see quality of life going down the toilet because of the biggest movement of population in peacetime ever, I'm not a happy bunny, but it's a rational, not an irrational reaction.

No one in the UK has ever had the chance to vote on whether we wanted to be in the European Union. Unlike the more recent joiners, I might add. We were taken, two generations ago, into this thing called the common market, and were allowed to vote on whether we wanted to stay in it. But those voters are mostly pensioners now.

I revile UKIP because of their sexism, racism and homophobia and sure as hell didn't vote for them in the election. But I would vote to exit the EU like a shot, and it's people like me that the mainstream political parties ought to worry about.