Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

fuddle wrote: »

What makes me laugh about sun cream amongst the girls I work with is that they think they are medical items... I do a little internal giggle when I think of the profiteering of the marketing companies for their hard graft in getting the general populous to think such a thing

This whole sun cream business creases me up. I'm a redhead. Y'know, coppery hair, green eyes, lilywhite skin with freckles from March to October, which never ever tans.

I see other people, inc redheads and blondes, as well as naturally pale brownhaired types, basting themselves with expensive gloop at £7+ or so a bottle so they can walk around outside in strappy tops and shorts. I only wear short sleeved stuff indoors or outdoors after darkness.

For 50p I can buy a top with long sleeves and I own a couple of wide-brimmed sunhats, the ratty one for the lottie and the other one for posing about a bit in the great outdoors. No icky sticky gloopy carp. And no risk of sunburn on the bits you didn't slather well enough, and I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen that.

My Nan needs to have a surgery on her lower legs for a skin cancer caused by a lifetime's sun exposure. Should be radiotherapy, but they daren't because of her age and circulation would probably lead to gangrene. All because she never in her life wore trousers.

My limbs may be pale enough to deflect low-flying aircraft from their courses but I don't think I'll be having ulcerated and cancerous growths on my shins, either.

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I wears a hattie, it makes me look like a stout walking mushroom but my hattie and I are old friends and he keeps my heady cool in all this sunny stuff!!! I daren't be out in the hot sun for too long on any day, I'm very prone to the boiled lobster look and I don't enjoy it at all so I stay indoors or in the shade as much as I can and remember well getting sunstroke as a child and how very ill it made me, never again I think.

maryb

I was almost warded off with garlic and crucifixes when I ventured to say that it was ridiculous to slather small children every day in the summer term for a 15 minute playtime, that a bit of sun was good for them and it wouldn't surprise me if there's an epidemic of osteoporosis in years to come because they never got enough sun to build strong bones. Sadly, we won't have to wait that many years - rickets is making a comeback.

My girls never burned but I preferred shade to cream

craigywv

hi all I was thinking..................it does happen! if the government and in fact the entire world knows there will be major oil shortages in the not so distant, as in running out for good not just as Lynn says countries at war,WHY are they building all the new housing projects near me with no chimmneys,would it not be in the long run safer to have some sort of heating ie fireplace where you could burn coal /wood anything at all no they all have nothing. maybe there is a reason for this ,I not the brightest spark in the fire but say 40 years away when tshtf will there not be a big rush on redoing these premises hope this makes sense xxx

jk0

I bought some Jersey Royals from Waitrose on Saturday, but already most have green bits, so I thought it safer not to eat them.

However, rather than discard them, is there any way I can keep them until next year and plant them?

Frugalsod

maryb wrote: »

I was almost warded off with garlic and crucifixes when I ventured to say that it was ridiculous to slather small children every day in the summer term for a 15 minute playtime, that a bit of sun was good for them and it wouldn't surprise me if there's an epidemic of osteoporosis in years to come because they never got enough sun to build strong bones. Sadly, we won't have to wait that many years - rickets is making a comeback.

My girls never burned but I preferred shade to cream

There is an epidemic of rickets right now for just that reason.

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Red hair and freckles. :cool:

:iloveyou: GQ.

thriftwizard

jk0, my brother has just posted a pic on FB of an enormous crop of Jersey Royals he grew from a YS pack he purchased last autumn for 29p. I think he just kept them in the dark in his shed, then chitted them indoors in early spring, then stuck them in a spare patch in his lottie. Worth a try, though I'd pop them in a spud bag now & hope to harvest them for Christmas. But we're both in the far South, albeit different parts of said South, so have a long growing season.

Spent this morning happily car-booting rubbish from the garage and parlaying the proceeds into stuff I can actually make a profit on, sitting & strolling round in glorious sunshine. Although I'm blue-eyed, I have olive-toned skin & have hardly ever burnt, though I do have the odd freckle. I don't push my luck, but don't take many precautions either & am an outdoorsy sort by inclination. I was sitting in the shade of the car when static, but that didn't last long - luckily! 4 out of 5 offspring have inherited my skin, but poor DD1 burns in about 5 minutes flat outdoors like her Dad. However, both of us look young for our "mature" (mid-50s) years, with no artifice involved; if the kids get it from both sides they'll still be being asked for ID in their mid-30s! It's not always an advantage; people don't take you seriously if you still look 18 when you're 32, no matter how good your qualifications.

Complications have arisen with my assorted stashes; I'm having to move lots of stuff around to make room for Ds2, his young lady & his furniture to move back in. I've already found a stash of tins I'd forgotten all about, but I'll need to stock up & store & rotate more stuff than ever before; I'm going to have to keep better records! What methods do you all use to keep track of your stocks?

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Red hair and freckles. :cool:

:iloveyou: GQ.

You daft burger! I'm a plain jane and nobody's fantasy woman. Nightmare woman, perhaps.......:rotfl:

Well, had fun at archery but not quite as good as I was last week. I have an ear infection which isn't helping, but all these things pass and I have some medicinal chocolate. I shall eat it rather than apply it topically, of course.

jk0, if you keep the tatties in a cool place and keep rubbing the shoots off them, you should be able to plant them about March 2015. But it's recommended that one uses certified disease-free seed spuds, which will be available from mid-January, but if you wanted to have a punt......or you could jush shave the green bits off with a peeler. I'd complain to the store as they've obviously been exposed to daylight to have turned green and frankly you expect more from a premium retailer.

The American flat bow (laminated and shaped form of longbow, with a wee shelf to rest the arrow on) continues to attract many fans, with one of the juniors declaring he wants one when he's bigger. My bow is presently taller than he is, bless his heart. I've just noticed that it has a discreet signature, which I assume is the individual bowyer, plus a serial number and the poundage written on it. I have taken note of this identifiers in case some thieving beggar lays hands on it.

Righty, time to interwebulate and come down off the archery buzz before bedtime. I do believe I'm expected in my place of employment tomorrow. Doesn't the world know I am a Rennaisance (sp?) woman and have things I need to be getting on with?!

DawnW

jk0 wrote: »

I bought some Jersey Royals from Waitrose on Saturday, but already most have green bits, so I thought it safer not to eat them.

However, rather than discard them, is there any way I can keep them until next year and plant them?

They went green because they were stored in a light place. Potatoes need to be stored in the dark, and you are right not to eat them, as the green is poisonous. I understand that if they are cooked, the poisonous effect disappears, but I have never fancied trying it :eek:
They are best kept in a thick paper bag, similar to the big sacks of potatoes that you can buy at farm shops etc. I have recently dug up my early potatoes because my garden is tiny and I wanted to plant some other things. They are kept in a thick paper sack with the top kept turned down, in the larder. They should keep ok like that till they are all used. There is probably enough there for a month or so.

Alternatively, for smallish quantities, Lakeland do a potato bag that excludes light and lasts for ever.

If you have a cool, dark, frostproof place (shed?) to store them till next spring, they would probably be ok to plant if they are still sound. It wouldn't hurt to try anyway.