Preparedness for when

Memory_Girl

S_Wales_Saver wrote: »

10p a tin!! Good buy MG. Can I ask where? Always up for a good tomato bargain :beer:

They were found by my Mum in a local Asdeees. I don't think they are in every one though.:(

MG

GreyQueen

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

If GQ gets wind of 10p tomatoes she'll not just live in a tower block, she'll build one in the flat and have a mezzanine floor with a platform bed!!!

:j 10p?! 10p?!?

I am beyond jealous, you have to tell me where these bargains are to be found and I shall be so cross if I can't get me some.

Although I am notorious amongst - oh, at least a dozen MSE regulars - as the Tinned Tomato Queen, I have actually long since diversified into cartons of tomatoes and am eating my way thru the last of the tins. The tins and cartons of tomatoes are roughly comparable in price in Liddly but the cartons have 100g more product. Plus, as an Advanced Tetris Master (gingham belt), I know that you can pack more cartons than cans in the same amount of space, by approx one-third.

We dwellers in small homes have to pay attention to such minor details.

Loving the idea of meals put by in batches. Consider the comfort of knowing that you'll have food if a crisis strikes. We need not experience TEOTWAWKI (and I sincerely hope none of us ever do, especially moi) but lesser evils such as sudden job loss, an illness or injury or terrible weather can make it difficult to get out.

I was thinking about Stuff today. A big chunk of my job is dispatching tradesmen hither and yon to effect repairs. Plumbers are like gold dust this week, seems to be a spate (spate, geddit?!) of plumbing crises in this city. Lots of carpets are having unseasonal baths, and lots of baths are leaking into flats downstairs and general mayhem. I think plumbing is an excellent trade for a person to persue if they have the aptitude and are bendy enough to scoosh themselves up into tight corners in homes.

An I bethought me that I was very glad I don't have carpets and that all my rugs are small enough to be treadle-washed in a bathtub if necessary, should they take a wetting. And, if you consider that the fewer belongings you have, the less you have to worry about on normal days, never mind crisis days, the easier life may be.

I've had an eye-test recently and am about to do something with my new prescription; I will scan it and take a scanned copy to put in my emergency paperwork folder at my parents' place, and I will replace the existing prescription with this one in my VIP (very important paper) folder in the bug out bag. And shred the obsolete prescription to avoid confusion.

I also have my spare (current prescription) specs in the BOB and one of the last script ones in store, in a case clearly labelled, in case of dire emergencies.

We Mrs Magoo types need to think about what'd happen if we had to evac in a hurry, and what'd happen if our only spex were so damaged that they were unusable.

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G'wan GQ build a tomato tower, then I can say with some truth that I DO have friends in high places!!!!! Sorry!!!!! Ducks and runs........

Re specs, I've decided that to be able to be useful in a post SHTF world I really do need specs and to that end, even if they aren't my personal prescription I'm going to buy in a couple of pairs of all the higher magnification readers from the pound shops and stick them into the store. The 99p ones are made from very thin wire and although only 99p wouldn't last 10 seconds on me, so I'll save up and buy the next grade up whenever I find them, better than nothing when the chips are down.

If people don't/won't vote then we'd be stuck with the party in power at the time but they would have increasingly less authority and accountability. In the short term there would most likely be civil unrest verging on anarchy and a loss of order on the streets, possibly followed by the declaration of martial law and maybe a takeover by the military powers. If we were lucky that would be benign but if we were unlucky we'd have a military dictatorship and nothing we could do about it. Maybe voting isn't such a bad idea after all is it?

GreyQueen

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

G'wan GQ build a tomato tower, then I can say with some truth that I DO have friends in high places!!!!! Sorry!!!!! Ducks and runs........

:rotfl:LMAO!

I always say IRL; Some people have friends in high places, some people have friends in low places, but I have friends in interesting places.

My other tag line, particularly if advanced-upon by Da Management is It wasn't me and I didn't do it!!

I am having a delightful bit of pottering about time at the homestead, having checked that my DDs went safely off (back to my employer in rent and council tax, lol) and removed some of the pittance left to make sure that the banksters don't get too much benefit from holding my money for me. Have up-to-date mini statement and a cupboard full of grub, life is good.

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

If GQ gets wind of 10p tomatoes

I'd be more concerned, in case GQ gets wind from 10p tomatoes.

GreyQueen

Cheeky monkey.

I'll have you know I have a cast-iron digestive system and wind ain't a problem.

Anyone know what might be indicated by a symbol of 8 crossed arrows, in two bundles of 4, with a capital letter R on the left and a capital A on the right? Arrows point downwards on the diagonal and where they cross, from a diamond lattice of 9 diamonds. It's about the size of a penny, in bronze and the reverse is blank.

Isn't a coin, doesn't seem to be a medal, any clue what it was meant to signify?

jk0

Today I received another one of those demands for VAT & fees from Parcelforce for some old art deco bathroom fittings I ordered from the USA via ebay.

It reminded me of what happened about a year ago that might interest you guys:

I ordered a dash cam from Korea via Ebay, and paid in dollars via paypal. This was $159, so was well above the £15 low value consignment limit. However, they kindly suggested that they would write $20 on the package, so I would not have to pay any VAT.

However, about a fortnight later, sure enough, I got a letter from Parcelforce asking for the correct VAT and fee, so still had to pay this before I got my item.

Nowhere either inside or outside the packaging was any reference to the true cost of the contents, just the $20 mentioned above.

The consequenses of this shocked me a little. Did paypal report the foreign currency transaction to HMRC, who then emailed Parcelforce to look out for a parcel from Korea for JK0?

Or, worse still, is someone in authority reading my emails?

Big Brother is watching you folks.

craigywv

Jko, thats weird. I would prob say the seller did it to keep on the right side of the government since just about everything is monitored over there he would prob be exciled or worse for doing something that might go against his country, however small.............then again could be something completly innocent and its just my paranoid mind.

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I'm going all experimental today, the elderflowers are in full bloom down here and I wanted to pick some fully open ones to make elderflower fritters for breakfast for a couple of days. They smell so delicious it got me wondering how else I could use them? I've made some elderflower and lime honey - pulled the flowers off a good sized head and zested a whole lime and mixed it in with some honey that is beginning to need using us as it's been open for a while. This led me to wonder what else I could do and I'm going to get some lavender from my brothers bushes and do lavender and lemon honey and the roses are particularly good here this year and my neighbour has a beautiful yellow climber that comes over my fence and tumbles down outside the lounge window so rose and orange will be made too. I'm going to leave them a full month to infuse the flavours before I try them but it occured to me that in a SHTF situation, if we still had bees, we'd still be able to harvest honey and if these experiments work it will be the 'treats' to lift us at festival times and a real morale booster too,let along bartering value, we'll see, they might be horrid!!! Nothing ventured, nothing gained. I'll be reporting back!!!

Butterfly_Brain

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I went into town today as I needed to top up a couple of things for us and think I might have come up with a good way of building the stocks in the storecupboard. I set myself a top limit of £3 and wanted to buy a complete meal to go into the stocks and I got a tin of Princes corned beef (on offer this week) for £2, a tin of potatoes for 15p and a big tin of british marrowfat peas for 50p which leaves 35p so I got a basics tin of rice pudding which is the meal for £3. I'm going to do this every week from now on and in the course of a year will accumulate 52 complete meals to add to the stores. I'll try to take advantage of special offers and if I get a 2 for 1 deal I'll credit it to the following week and it will all come out of the weekly housekeeping and not have to be paid for on top of it.

That is a really good idea Lyn.

Just a heads up that Farmfoods are doing 3 cans of Princes corned beef for £5, 3kg bags pasta for £2.50 and 2 jars of 300g Lyons coffee for £5, Bisto powder £1.39 Tinned pies £1, plus other bits that I can't remember blurdy old timers disese dontja know
I might be going in there today so I will see what else they have on offer x