Preparedness for when

2tonsils

Torro - the UK's Tornado and Storm Research Organisation
11 mins ·
TORRO CONVECTIVE DISCUSSION 2014/006
A TORRO CONVECTIVE DISCUSSION has been issued at 14:30GMT on Saturday 2nd August 2014
Valid from/until: 14:30GMT - 20:00GMT on Saturday 2nd August 2014
for the following regions
Parts of (see map)
Much of central, eastern, and northern England
THREATS
Isolated incidences of severe wind and hail; isolated tornadoes; CG lightning
Cold front is moving eastwards across eastern parts of the area, with an unstable SSW'erly flow following on behind. Thunderstorms are occurring both along the front (mainly in the north) and behind (mainly further south just now). Wind shear is sufficient for organisation into lines, bringing the risk of strong winds. However, there is also a low risk of a tornado or two, especially in the post-frontal convection. The lack of strong insolation behind the front and rather marginal shear precludes the issuance of a tornado watch.
Forecaster: RPK.

rebeccalb

jk0 wrote: »

I get mine from 'Bullion by post' based in Birmingham. They have not let me down yet:

http://www.bullionbypost.co.uk/

However, silver is a bit of a loser in my view for wealth preservation, as you pay 20% vat when you buy it.

If you really want some, buy silver Britannias as they are CGT free. (Bars or American Eagles aren't.)

Thanks for your advice. I originally looked at the silver, because my finances can't allow me to make a huge purchase. Although looking at the gold the 1 gram bars look like a good deal. Thank you

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He Who Knows is making cider again as we keep getting phone calls from apple tree owners offering windfalls, so 3 gallons burbling away in the study already, I've just picked and put into the freezer yet another colander full of ripe blackberries and we picked a 6 litre bag full of raspberries last night from the lottie. I've got red cabbage salted in a big bowl to make pickled cabbage tomorrow and thank heavens, the first lot of runner beans has finally finished!!! mind you I've still got hot and cold running courgettes so I'm thinking I might run up a batch of chutney tomorrow if it's cool enough. Love all this prepping, which it is, for nice things to liven up winter produce in the colder weather!

rebeccalb

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

He Who Knows is making cider again as we keep getting phone calls from apple tree owners offering windfalls, so 3 gallons burbling away in the study already, I've just picked and put into the freezer yet another colander full of ripe blackberries and we picked a 6 litre bag full of raspberries last night from the lottie. I've got red cabbage salted in a big bowl to make pickled cabbage tomorrow and thank heavens, the first lot of runner beans has finally finished!!! mind you I've still got hot and cold running courgettes so I'm thinking I might run up a batch of chutney tomorrow if it's cool enough. Love all this prepping, which it is, for nice things to liven up winter produce in the colder weather!

Wow that sounds amazing. Our garden is slowly coming together, but it'll take at least a year to sort it out . I've started to bake again, bad experiences in school meant it's taken time for me to have the passion again. It's been mostly successful although my tarts were more thick pastry with jam ontop :rotfl:

2tonsils

I have been busy cooking gluten free goodies for my friend's coffee mornings at the crystal shop...coconut biscuits, flaxseed and walnut muffins and citrus muffins with lemon icing. Have a separate batch for my freezer so all good. Both freezers are getting filled now so it is time to think about what I need for the food cupboards for the winter.

Worried that the weather (and maybe the Russian cut off of our fuel ) might prevent deliveries of all kinds to our island so trying to factor that into my plans as well. We have a car but if there are shortages or it's too expensive then we will only use the scooter if we have to. It is already 1.79 euros a litre and the heating oil is currently 1.49. Will be ordering olive wood logs at 100 euros a ton as that is the cheapest we can get.

Off out to pick our friend up at the airport then going on to the karaoke. Hoping to see at least one of the fifty odd dolphins that have been reported in the bay at Ipsos.

Stay safe and dry in those storms folks!

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I'm going to buy a sack of rice, some 2 kilo packs of lentils, lots of tinned potatoes and Mr Mash instant mash,pasta, pulses, tuna, meats of various kinds,tins of different types of vegetables and fruit, packets of dried milk, tea bags, coffee, fresh jars of herbs and spices, make lots of jams and pickles and chutneys , buy in a 25 kilo sack of sugar and 2 x 12 kils bags of salt and a few gallons of vinegar also lots of dried fruit prunes, dates, apricots etc. and packs of nuts then I reckon we'll be OK whatever the weather or the world throws our way.

Butterfly_Brain

We have had a fifteen minute heavy downpour here at 4pm it is now back to bright sun and getting hotter

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REBECCA you've made a start pet, and you've the drive to do all the things you want to do. The garden is best tackled one step at a time and don't feel you have to do it all in one year, bit by bit and do it properly is much better than doing it all in a rush and ending up in a pickle with it. The cooking is also best tackled one thing at a time, get confident with the pastry cooking and then learn how to do something else, maybe yeast cookery or cakes? and before you know it you'll be completely happy in the kitchen and have a thriving and productive garden to keep you in nice fruit and veg. You'll get there, Lyn xxx.

pineapple

2tonsils wrote: »

Stay safe and dry in those storms folks!

No storms here at the mo. We did get a nice Yorkshire downpour though. A drainpipe at the rear had come apart in a couple of places. Cue Pineapple half way up some stepladders trying to wedge the lower segment into place like a candidate in a 'tossing the drainpipe' competition - while a mini waterfall engulfed her.
Where's a Ms Wet T Shirt Competition when you need one? :eek:

GreyQueen

Seconding MrsLW re the garden. I took on a full size allotment (it's a whisker under 300 sq m) in 2008. It had been completely derelict for many years, the couch grass was nearly tall enough to disappear into (and I'm nearly 6 fti tall) and I had so many horrors to deal with, I could write a bliddy book.........at one point I was hacking away with a matttock and it bounced out of the ground. I was wrenching layers of carpet underlay, scrunched up chickenwire, all buried and grown through with layers of couch grass, in the cold and rain and the wind I had a little snivel, it was so hard.

You get past it in the end. Although if I EVER get my hands on the man or woman who covered my plot with green waffle rubber carpet underlay, I won't be held responsible for keeping to the terms of the Geneva Convention. Or even the Queensbury Rules.:mad:

Been up the top of the plot clipping the 5 ft tall nettles and brambles which are encroaching from the plots over the back and to the side. It's a jungle out there. There was muttering and gnashing of teeth about how I shouldn't have to keep doing this, bliddy incompetant allotment neighbours etc etc.

Then I got the digging fork into the potato patch (harvest was 22 days ago) and started re-clearing it. Forking up the horsetails and the bindweed and the docks and the nettles and the brambles........ plus a lot of nails, plarstic, glass, more nails, bitsa pottery and misc. There are some random bits of corroded metal in there which are so carbuncled with rust that identifying what they orginally were is impossible. My best guess is summat-what-fell-off-a-tractor.

And I still have failed to find buried treasure, although if bent and rusty nails ever become a medium of exchange, I shall be a rich wumman and no mistake. :rotfl: