Preparedness for when

craigywv

Thanks thy shall be in tomorrow morningxxx

GreyQueen

craigywv wrote: »

THANKS lYNN.SHOULD I PUT THEM IN NOW OR WAIT A WHILE,WHEN WOULD BE SUITABLE

Chuck 'em in immediately. Spuds take about 18-22 weeks to mature and they're not frost-hardy, so you'll be pushing it to get a harvest sowing this late, but if the ground's going begging and the spuds are there, it's worth a punt, IMO.

fuddle, yes, these ulcers of Nan's have been defying all medical remedies for many a year, only this past year has she been referred to the hospital and they biopsied and found they were a form of skin cancer, caused by a life-time's exposure to the sun. But ulcers are awfully common and the lower leg is a beggar of a place, due to the naturally poor circulation there. Look after yourselves as much as possible, lovely peeps, and hope that genetics have dealt you a good hand, too.

Been grafting away at the interface today, helping keep things rolling. Because of what I do, I am very aware that a city isn't a static thing, that there are problems happening day in day out, even on benign days like today.

F'rinstance, a tree falls straight across a footpath and suddenly it's impassable to anyone who can't climb. Got a buggy or a pushbike, use a wheelchair or a mobility scooter? Or just not very big or young and bendy? Tough, until the [STRIKE]ghostbusters[/STRIKE] arbori h'officers get out there with their chain saws.

Likewise carp in the river builds up, iron drain covers snap, revealing holes in the pavement or the road. People drive cars, lorries and buses into street furniture like railings and traffic lights and then drive off without telling us (one of the many uses of CCTV is to find out whodunnit, and boy are they sheepish when we call their depot ).

All this Stuff is breaking and getting mended, likewise the utilities underground and overground, the repairs to private properties and all sorts. Imagine, if you can, a year of no mainenance. Or visit a failed state or read Alan Weismann's A World Without Us, which I cannot commend highly enough.

I am dining creatively a la labelle jaune, with added repurosing of leftovers, tonight. If you cook extra deliberately, is it a leftover or a leftunder? Eager minds want to know.

BTW, can't recall who recommended the Mr Money Mustache website but I have spent a lot of time over there already and am about to spend some more - really enjoying that one, thank you.

JamesSmith2000

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

On the herb front I have rosemary, thyme, fennel, chives, apple mint, spearmint, pineapple mint, bogstandard mint, parsley and tarragon in my herb garden.

Lyn I have been looking at old cookery books as well, it is surprising how many exotic ingredients were used in medieval times

War time cook books have a lot of recipes that use foods grown here plus interesting uses for hedgerow stuff such as blackberry leaf tea etc.

I have been watching Tales of the green valley, Victorian and Wartime farm again

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tales+of+the+green+valley

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=victorian+farm

Manor House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3REDVjOmns&list=PLUOxCrDh0oVc0IK2J3G1tXaboor_Ilwe_

Edwardian Farm

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=edwardian+farm

Tudor Monastery farm
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tudor+monastery+farm

The coal house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93RHoIkWAdM

The coal house at war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aICzcTUd-go

Turn back time wartime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqli0YdL9Cg

Turn back time interwar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXh8Bpbxw0E

The British High Street WW2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXh8Bpbxw0E

Wartime kitchen and garden
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wartime+kitchen+and+garden

Victorian kitchen and garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOF49wIxDrA

I love all of these programmes

These are great. I would love to live like that again. That brings happiness.

pineapple

JamesSmith2000 wrote: »

These are great. I would love to live like that again. That brings happiness.

Are you kidding? Think of the dentistry....:eek:

alice-mary

southantrim3 wrote: »

It's not just near you that they're building houses with no chimneys, it seems to be all over. I just bought a house in the last couple of years and surprisingly this development did have chimneys, however, 95% of the purchasers were putting in gas/electric fireplaces. I went for a wood burner and am so glad I did, they're great.
I'm not sure how some are gonna be able to cope when there's a fuel shortage, some people do indeed seem to be short sighted...

I consider myself really lucky as the house I live in has an open fireplace and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! When I was looking around the area, thinking about buying or renting a place, the estate agent almost didn't mention this house as he assumed that a woman on her own wouldn't be bothered with coal/logs etc... I am SO glad that he did or I would have missed out!

I do have radiators but as this is a terraced Victorian place, if one radiator is on, they are all on and I am too tight to heat the whole house if I am in one room! In winter, if I am in the bathroom or kitchen, I am using hot water, if I am in bed, I don't need the heat on and if I am in the lounge, I have the fire! The radiators only come on if I have house guests or if the forecast is for near freezing (just to keep the pipes from freezing) but that's it!

Alice
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GreyQueen

:T Sounds brilliant, alice-mary.

I have serious stove-envy. Not happening in Shoebox Towers, but I sate my love of pyromania at the allotment sometimes.

Has anyone else seen new build HA houses with FAKE chimeys? There are some near by Nan's place. They are built to echo the looks of the 1950s council houses nearby, hence the chimneys, but they're just decorative piles of brick on the roof, nothing actually inside them. This same social landlord is planning to de-chimney existing stock when they re-roof.

Madness. Even with zero heat, my place is a wee oven, which means I'm stifling at present, but that I don't take any harm in winter even if the boiler house goes down.

The trouble with most properties is that they are not built with anything like commonsense, just for profit. Why doesn't every home have a porch front and back, to create an airlock and a place to store coats and shoes? Why isn't there a laundry room with a high ceiling to cope with a sheil maid and a tiled floor with a drain to cope with those delightful washing machine floods? Why do they think that pantries and broom cupboards are somehow old-fashioned and unnecessary?

I'll tell you why; because they're cheap eedgits, the whole crowd of them.

Has anyone seen that wonderful house on Grand Designs, the one built by the coppice worker? I adore that house, I could move in there like a shot. You can see them building it on the programme but here's the guy's website: http://www.ben-law.co.uk/

I read one of his books very recently and I like his ethos.

jk0

GreyQueen wrote: »

This same social landlord is planning to de-chimney existing stock when they re-roof.

GQ, could you not prevail on the councillors you work with to prevent this happening in some way? It sounds like vandalism to me.

GreyQueen

jk0 wrote: »

GQ, could you not prevail on the councillors you work with to prevent this happening in some way? It sounds like vandalism to me.

Completely different local authority. And across the county line.

Shocking though it may be to some readers, some councillors are a bit thick and a bit lazy. They'd most likely not get through the extensive recruitment processes me and mine went through to get our jobs, and the performance standards we have to meet or exceed to keep them.

You don't have to pass any kind of test to be a councillor, or to be any kind of politician, come to think of it. You just have to get the votes of people who don't know you.

VJsmum

Hi all.

A quick update from a field in Glastonbury. We pitched without fuss. fetched the water in my collapsible water container from poundland. Made a cuppa with my Kelly kettle. she wee is good to go although the toilets are composting ones. Much better than last year. my solar shower is ready.

All around people are fussing but we are relaxed.

smugly proud of being prepared.

Although there is a child screaming for England. But I have earplugs so should be fine

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VJsmum wrote: »

fetched the water in my collapsible water container from poundland.

Is there no water supply on site?