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Sorry not a lot of prepping in this post - we did buy 2 enormous bottles of water when we did the shopping today though. DH said "I'm not being funny or anything, but why are we buying this water?"
So I told him what GQ had said about how suddenly you can find yourself with no water supply, so he said "Ah, I see!"You tell him 'cos GQ said so. I'm a bit bossy IRL (it's being a big sister, I really can't help the character trait) so it's funny to have extended my range via the t'interwebs.:rotfl:
No, jesting aside, you'd be poorly or deid from want of water long before you starved. Or, in my case, consumed my own subcutaenous blubber.
Starting to get upside of this cold for the first time in 3 days. Can't keep us Weebles down for long. But it brings it home that it's important to look after yourself in order to look after others/ take care of business in general, even though it can seem a bit self-indulgent, it's necessary.
But you don't get brownie points for martyrdom in my world. After a sleepless night and an upsettiing and stressful day on Saturday, we chilled at my parents' place with a couple of bits of seventies rubbishy tee-vee (The Goodies and Fawlty Towers), had a stiff sherry each and retired to bed at a reasonable hour. In a mostly-teetotal household, this accounts for riotous livin'.
I'm shuddering to think what my allotmentino is doing without me. I left it weeded within and inch of its life, but that doesn't count for much at this time of year. I also transplanted some peas and a bliddy great woodpigeon fell on them like a hawk after a bunny within 5 mins, the !!!!!!. I've never known them to alight near me whilst I'm working and I shooed it off and it came right back and started pecking the pea plants to death. What are they, crack cocaine to the avian world?
Tell ya, if they don't make it, I'm throwing in the towel and buying them from FarmeFoodes, they ain't worth all this angst. Or I could just use them as bait and catch the bliddy woodpigeons. I can make pie with woodpigeons - from scratch as it were.
GQ Pigeon Pie Recipe.
First take your dead pigeon and (details deleted to spare your sensibilities).Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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Hi all,
Hope your feeling better mar and gq I'd go for a whisky toddy but I'm sure tea will work too:D, and hugs for your nans swift recovery.
Welcome back 2tlovely to see you again.
A new bag for my bug out stuff arrived at the weekend from the rainforest place, so I spent a happy half hour moving everything over and playing as it has lots of pockets:rotfl:
Take care all
Wll xMoving towards a life that is more relaxed and kinder to the environment (embracing my inner hippy:D) .:j0 -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0456qs8
Might be useful for someThe panel discuss local salt marsh lamb and sea trout, and hear from the Centre for Alternative Technologies in Machynlleth about the use of alternative cooking technologies like the solar cooker.
I love CAT it's one of my favouritist places
Welcome back 2TI wanna be in the room where it happens0 -
Hi and nice to see you 2T. I remember you from when I first joined (lurked around) this thread. Still a lurker but I love it. GQ sorry to hear about Nan - hope she's recovering. Look after yourself.
Sooo prepping....... Water MUST be my next goal. I keep it covered from light yes? And not on concrete? Is cardboard enough to stand it on or does it need to be lifted up more?
Also need a BOB. Usually manage as DD2 needs most help, and she's close by. DGDs come to us when her back stops her coping. But need to be aware of maybe other problems. I need to think on it..
Prepping is taking an ever larger part of my life as my personal SHTF moment is drawing closer with redundancy in August. At my age it's more or less a forced retirement (though no more welcome for that) so I can't say we're in the most difficult situation, but we love to travel so need to conserve all our resources.Dor0 -
So the EU have allowed GM to be grown throughout Europe just before TTIP and TAFTA are signed hmmmm.
So Monsanto and the like have got their way :mad::mad::mad: Burn them out I say, our slimy politicians will make money out of this, hasn't Patterson the GM scientist with shares in GM companies who just happens to be the enviroment secretary of state been saying GM is so wonderful and pushing it for all it's worth :mad:
So the poison is coming here because you can bet the Condems will welcome it with open arms.
The next step in their plan to have world domination of the seed market is to outlaw all heritage seeds.
And breathe
GQ I hope that your Nan is a little better today x xBlessed are the cracked for they are the ones that let in the light
C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z. Member #35 Butterfly Brain + OH - Foraging Fixers
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If you've got the room, grow your own, save your own seeds and grow as much of your own un GM food as it's possible to do, cram every inch of your plot with food producing plants, forest garden the bits not suitable for mainstream crops, the PTB cannot possibly garden police every single plot in the land so there is no chance they'll be able to stop us growing our own. I wonder if the days of the ornamental and lawned garden are coming to an end? Lawns are only a 'statement' and invented to show how rich you were and how you could afford to leave a large chunk of land to grass rather than cultivated for food and those times are long gone now. I know there is the likelihood that there will be GM contamination from many sources but we can't just roll over and give in on something so fundamentally important to us can we? We must vote with our cash and NOT buy any products linked to the GM market and provide our own alternatives and feed ourselves!!!0
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I also transplanted some peas and a bliddy great woodpigeon fell on them like a hawk after a bunny within 5 mins, the !!!!!!. I've never known them to alight near me whilst I'm working and I shooed it off and it came right back and started pecking the pea plants to death. What are they, crack cocaine to the avian world?
Tell ya, if they don't make it, I'm throwing in the towel and buying them from FarmeFoodes, they ain't worth all this angst.
If it's any consolation, GQ, our broody bantam & her 3 chicks are happily ripping through DD2's pea plants right now... they have dug, fought & rootled their way through OH's arrangement of wire & netting fences to get at them, so yes, clearly something akin to crack cocaine to our avian friends!
Wondering how we will know what not to buy now that GM is allowed? Will they still have to label it? We don't have nearly enough land to grow everything ourselves, or enough money to buy everything organic.Angie - GC Jul 25: £225.85/£500 : 2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 26/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)0 -
Bedsit_Bob wrote: »That's how they work, but I wouldn't use meths, if I were you.
It's pricey and rather smelly.
Get yourself some Bio-ethanol instead.
It's £5 for 2 Litres, at B&Q.
I use it in my home made spirit stoves.
EDIT: Beaten to it by PP.
Was just searching for this stuff and found this.
http://www.staffordshirefire.gov.uk/2573.asp
Not sure whether I want to buy any now, I suppose there are dangers with anything that is flammable though.0 -
Get Well Wishes to GQ and Nan, Welcome Back 2T and Hello to all new posters - I have been eavesdropping for longer than I can remember and rarely post, but just wanted to check in to say how hard I am finding it at times to make decisions about future-proofing the house I will be moving into shortly.
Balancing budget with potential fuel/energy economy and the needs of a fluctuating family life (young adults trying to make their way through education and life thereafter) when it comes to considering a replacement boiler etc is giving me headaches.... for which I have plenty of remedies in my well-stocked first aid box of course ! So far I have had the woodburner serviced and ordered double glazing to replace the 1960s single glazing in rotten frames, so as long as I can get the hot water sorted we should be cosy this winter. A water meter has been installed at the property so the next thing on the list is the installation of a shower - more decisions and a rejig of the bathroom required.... I am happiest quietly going about my business acquiring bits and pieces to squirrel away (much to the amusement of my family), but making proper commitments to more 'serious' stuff when there are expensive mistakes to be made is a whole other ball game..... Still, it will be good to get into a permanent home and I am lucky to be able to make such changes despite the dithering I am doing and for that I am thankful.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
Belated (((get well hugs))) for GQ and nan, hope you're both fighting fit soon!
Just musing on the GM crop/political shenanigans, plus heritage seed banks under threat, which led to thinking about the recent halal meat issues - short of growing everything yourself, how sure can we be that we're not getting 'extras' in our weekly shops? I think more people, specially the types on here, will be buying more locally, growing their own, sharing the cost of rearing animals, then sharing the beast at slaughter time, esp if TPTB keep fiddling!
When we cleared stuff out of the garage DH came across a few bin bags with twigs in that he was going to chuck. When I said no, cos they're for the kelly kettle, he just raised his eyebrows, but said nowt - last year he'd have been very scathing about such stuff, so think he's getting some of my mad ideas now! :rotfl:
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