Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

Welcome to the madhouse, autumnwintersmiles. Good to have you aboard.

I'm the sane one who keeps canned goods under her bed. Never lift a bed valance or a tablecloth in a preptastic household, you never know what you might see. And if you see too much..........mwah ha haaa!! We may have to kill you.:p And you want to watch out for that lot in Scotlandshire, esp Mardatha. High as a kite on sweeties, the lot of them, sure to lead us all astray.

Have been toiling on my allotmentino and have had the first strawberries of 2014. Never mind food miles, dahlings, it was about 5.5 feet from ground level to mouth-level and you don't get much fresher than that. Delish.

I have weeded everything I could get my hands on and had some lovely convos with the lottie gang and loaned out my wheelbarrow to someone for a stables-run and received a bucket-ful of manure as 'rent' and slung it under the blackcurrant bush. Tis well rotted. Blackcurrants adore manure, mine accidentally got in the way of 4 tonnes of it a couple of autumns ago, and went from a sulky stick with 20 currants to a monster plant which is threatening to take over, despite it being pruned.

I feel a bit like 'pruned' should be in quote marks as all I do is remove one-third of the branches each year to achieve a aesthetically-pleasing shape. Not sure what I'm doing but I've never let that stop me to date.

Hmm, going to be interesting about this shale oil, seeing as how it's under a wealthy and heavily-settled part of the country. If they don't like wind turbines, how will they react to fracking rigs? I expect rampant nimbyism and lots of hot air being expelled.

Don't think they're going to be fracking here. We are already on top of ancient mines. So ancient no one knows exactly where they are, until the whole house or a big chunk of road falls into one, which greatly adds to the gaiety of nations but doesn't do much for the insurance premiums.

I feel quite sanguine about mine collapse risk as I don't think they ever mined down here on the river bank. Plus we're sitting on thousands of metal pilings, according to SuperGran, who saw the Towers being built.

I always enjoy those calls at work which start A really big hole has opened up......... we send someone to look into it.

jk0

GreyQueen wrote: »

I always enjoy those calls at work which start A really big hole has opened up......... we send someone to look into it.

Who do you send? The Burrow (Borough) Surveyor?

GreyQueen

jk0 wrote: »

Who do you send? The Burrow (Borough) Surveyor?

Groan!

We send Dan the Man. If it's a really big 'ole, we send Desperate Dan. No one around here is at all surprised if vehicles, gable ends or even whole houses subside into a mine working. I'm quite glad I'm too poor to own property as it can be nerve-wracking purchasing around here. You really need dowsers to find some of this stuff......

I'm claustrophobic otherwise I'd be down those tunnels like a greased rat. Had a fascinating convo once on the Towers car park with an urban surveyor who'd spent a happy few hours spelunking under the old town. You can go a surprisingly long way under the centre of Provincial City, if you're smallish, non-claustrophobic and probably certifiably insane.

Like Ankh-Morpork, we're mostly built on top of earlier versions of the city, including , the bits the Vikings burned, the pre-Norman bits, the bits re-arranged by the Luftwaffe and the even worse deprivations wrought by post-war urban planners.

Y'now, I reckon the Normans were a tad obnoxious. You win, you demolish most of the centre of the city and smack a castle on top of what was probably 11th century Acacia Avenue......... someone was making their presence felt a bit forcefully, I reckon.

Nargleblast

greenbee wrote: »

I'm well aware of the connection... doesn't stop me being concerned about her mental health though She really does need to be kept away from politicians.

In fact, for the safety of the general public I suggest we put them all somewhere well out of the way. Mars maybe?

And what exactly have the Martians done to upset you????

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GreyQueen wrote: »

We send Dan the Man.

Do you also have Dan Dann the gardening man, and Dan Dann the lavatory man?

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Was in £land today, and noticed they have a new line in.

A 300g bar of milk or dark chocolate.

paidinchickens

I like the @ldi value chocolate Bob 30p for 100g so 10p cheaper and tastes like galaxy IMO.

I do prefer the chocolate buttons though, don't know why it's the same chocolate.........I'm sure there's some scientific study about the size and shape and how it melts

PiC x

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Was in £land today, and noticed they have a new line in.

A 300g bar of milk or dark chocolate.

That's not a supply, that's a light snack. Chocolate is a non-storable material, highly-volatile and liable to go bad if not eaten immediately. You have been warned.

Today I will go to work and we will perform the usual post bank holiday chore of ramming 5 days' work into the remaining 4 days of the week. Sorta negates the advantage of having a day off, but there you go.

No archery tonight as Teach is selfishly going away for a few days with the missus and kiddlywinks.

I may go to the allotment for an hour instead, depending on the weather. Presently it's raining. Bygorry, I shall be getting some very fine potatoes at this rate, oh yes indeedy.

mardatha

My tatties only went in a fortnight ago, no sign of them yet. I'm sure there's something wrong with the soil up in that corner even though we had chickens there 2 yrs ago- hedge roses are going yellow and withering and anything else I put in doesn't thrive. I got potato bags and tubs but will need to get some topsoil for them. Going to be the dearest tatties we ever ate at this rate!

pineapple

GreyQueen wrote: »

Chocolate is a non-storable material, highly-volatile and liable to go bad if not eaten immediately.

I find the best way to eat said material is to break off a piece then place the remainder out of the way because you are not going to eat any more at that point - right? A few moments later you go back for 'a last piece'.
And so on
And so on
Till you finally do get to the very last piece. Oh what the hell - it looks so lonely on its own.....