Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

jk0 wrote: »

Someone posted a link to these on Landlordzone. I thought they might make you guys chuckle:

http://www.diyfaq.org.uk/humour.html

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Start the day with a belly-laugh and get it over. Brilliant!

My job involves booking repairs to council homes, among many other things. Some of which are needed as a result of fey and illicit DIY procedures by our tenants. I can't give specifics but more than once I have had semi-hysterical calls from housing officers or social workers who have Seen Things when out on visits which have scared the stuffing outta them and we need to send the cavalry to the rescue.

Tell ya, I admire jk0 for having the bottle to be a professional landlord, it's a nerve-wracking business to be in.

Today's cunning plan involves the allotment, which has been bereft of my attention for nearly two weeks and that bliddy horsetail will need to be shown Cold Steel fer sure.

I may also take the opportunity to poke around for preptastic supplies. It's officially autumn as two nights ago I had to break out the slippers and the fun-fur blanket for the bed.

ETA; Oh happy day, my two-egg omelette has three yolks in it, can't recall when I last had a double-yoked egg. I shall be able to garden extra well this morning.

thriftwizard

It's officially autumn as two nights ago I had to break out the slippers and the fun-fur blanket for the bed.

It does seem like summer's come to a somewhat speedy end. I'm trying to work out what to take to a pop-up event in a very posh area tomorrow, and have reluctantly put all the pretty summer dresses & chiffon evening gowns back in the shed and broken out the tweeds & Fair Isle jumpers instead. But I'll take the hand-fans along too in case it's warmer there than it is here!

Have had a break from prepping this summer, as I tried to stuff two extra people and all their belongings back into the house. It's become apparent now that we're not going to be able to take DS3 down to the South of France next month; not enough cash to hand the transportation bit over to someone else (i.e. the train, or airline) plus accommodation & food, and not enough drivers/cooks/bottlewashers to do it ourselves. I'm not driving 800 miles without a co-driver, and Him Indoors reckons he can't possibly take any leave. Funny that, he never can - unless England are playing wherever we need to go! SO, I shall see if I can get my chosen wood burner installed in the living room with what I have managed to save up, instead.

To my mind that'd be the biggest single thing I could do to help in times of trouble and also with the fuel bills. The garden produces more wood than we currently use, it seems very silly to be throwing it away and paying for electricity to cook with!

Memory_Girl

Ah the voices of sanity (3 yolk breakfasts notwithstanding;) )

Been having a wander through some of the other forums - and Oh Me Oh My ...... preppers or not I now think we are some of the sanest people on the site

Big Girls Knickers on and deal with it - that's what you get here. Less of the "The sky is going to fall in" crapola I've seen elsewhere.

Big boy off to school - small person still off ill .... so shopping list after checking out my prep stores I think. Then on to prepping for winter I think whilst I can wash and dry outside still.

Curtain linings, thicker duvets and checking of electric blankets I think.

And sweetie supplies!!

MG

GreyQueen

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Ah the voices of sanity (3 yolk breakfasts notwithstanding;) )

Oi! I'm perfectly sane, just very easily pleased by some things. I buy mixed weight eggs and they're normally smallish but one was a whopper and it had two yolks, yippee.

I regularly encounter people who care, deeply and sincerely, about such things as fashion, cycle accessories, motor and non-motor sports, fine dining and any number of other things which barely cross my consciousness threshold.

I have also worked alongside wimmin who are the sole support for dependant children and who have a mortgage and don't even have one month's mortgage payment saved as an emergency fund. But they spend money hand-over-fist on utter trivialities.

I guess it would be a boring old world if we were all the same, but a lot of people seem to me to be mired in silliness and bereft of all sense of risk, even risk of losing their job as opposed to worrying about possible but less-likely events like CMEs.

Ach well, let's hope that life treats them kindly in the long run.

ivyleaf

Talking of chiffon evening dresses (which thriftwizard mentioned) and people spending hand over fist on trivialities, did anyone watch "Prom Queen Divas UK" last night? (I recorded it to watch as a "guilty pleasure" while OH was having a bath ) One girl was having a tantrum because her parents wouldn't buy her a pink wedding dress costing well over £1000 to wear to the school prom *rolls eyes*

Frugalsod

ivyleaf wrote: »

Talking of chiffon evening dresses (which thriftwizard mentioned) and people spending hand over fist on trivialities, did anyone watch "Prom Queen Divas UK" last night? (I recorded it to watch as a "guilty pleasure" while OH was having a bath ) One girl was having a tantrum because her parents wouldn't buy her a pink wedding dress costing well over £1000 to wear to the school prom *rolls eyes*

Why not rent one for the night? There are alternative solutions. If people thought ahead they could actually make a pretty good dress if they had acquired the skills to make one. It would be unique and cost a fraction of the ready made one. Then there are always the options of the fancy charity shops in Kensington. I will be honest in that I try to avoid programs like that as I find the people so appalling.

cuddlymarm

Hi oldie alert

The problem is Frugalsod that all these pampered young ladies need to be dressed slightly different but all the same ( if you see what I mean) because being different isn't acceptable when you are a teenager.

Cuddles

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GreyQueen wrote: »

can't recall when I last had a double-yoked egg.

Try duck eggs. Double yolkers are so common, I'm surprised when I crack one which isn't a double yolker.

Now to a subject, about which I definitely yield to your greater knowledge.

Is a bow, with a 15lb draw weight and an 18-22" pull, any good?

greenbee

Pullet eggs are often double yolkers. They're also often smaller or irregular in size, so if you buy mixed weights at certain times of year - particularly from smaller producers, you are likely to get them. Big producers check for double-yolkers (shining light through the shell) and sell them separately (at a premium, obviously!).

Memory_Girl

I have it on good authority that all eggs in an Independent Scotland will be double-yolkers and of the Cadbury Chocolate variety. ROFL

Mind you said expert was rummaging through my veggies beds this morning for slugs before I hoisted her back over the wall to join her flock-mates.

I think a taste of freedom went to her head LOL.

Finished my store cupboard audit and I have to declare a state of emergency ...... I have NO repeat NO bags of sugar in stock!!! How am I going to make tablet? Will nobody think of the children???

Guess what is TOP of the shopping list?


MG