Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Surely the concrete becomes a tool?

Absolutely it does, Bob. Real Men probably chew their way through the tins with nothing but the teeth which nature provided them with; the SAS probably train you how to do this............

Frugalsod, they're not my cats, they're a motley collection from the roads by the allotment site who cruise the plots hunting, or curl up snoozing in sunny spots. Can't get within a plot's width of this one, mostly hear it before I see it (bell on collar). There used to be a friendly one I called Big Ginge who'd just arrive for TLC. One time, he'd come up to me and had some fuss, I was standing about 6 ft from him chatting to a lottie pal, and he pounced into the long grass and surfaced with a juvenile rat. Attaboy.

Years back, I did arrive on the lottie one summer's morning to find a freshly-killed rat on the allotment patio. It had a small wound in its side and appeared to be cat-kill. As it was getting flies on in, I decided to pass on that offering. But in times of crisis, a rat in hand is worth two in the nettles.

Was woken by torrential rain in the middle of the night and, peering out of the window, wondered if I would have to start bailing, but it ceased before it became a crisis. Some Bank Holiday, hey?

thriftwizard

Your lottie has a patio, GQ? How posh is that?! Our garden doesn't have a patio!

Lots of preserving still going on here, but it has to be interrupted this morning whilst I transport the parents to their "holiday home". They've got plumbers arriving to turn the bathroom into a level-access shower room, and the dust & chemicals wouldn't do my stepfather's lungs any good, so they're taking a short break in a very posh respite care home. Mum is very much looking forward to having some staff to do the cooking & the laundry, something she's always hankered after since returning from Sri Lanka in the late 1950s, but poor dear stepfather's not so happy & may take a fair bit of persuasion!

Would help if I'd remembered to clean the car out after doing my pop-up market on Saturday...

GreyQueen

thriftwizard wrote: »

Your lottie has a patio, GQ? How posh is that?! Our garden doesn't have a patio! ..

I sometimes phrase it as a 'patio'; I got extra slabs delivered by the reclamation yard when I bought the ones which sit under my 6 x 8 shed, so there is an area in front of the shed with the same number of slabs on it.

They're just sitting on earth, a tad wonkily, but it comes in very useful. Deffo not 'posh'. Shed's posh-ish with net curtains and gingham pretend-curtains, just strips down the edges, which was a whimsy of mine a few years ago with bits from the scrap-bag.

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Good catties GQ if you're ever forced to live in your shed by circumstances beyond anyones control in the autumn time you'll be able to cook up Ratatouille made with real Rat and the obligatory courgette of course on your emergency cooker using your emergency water supply too, how delicious will that be????? I'm sure we're all envoiusly salivating at the thought of such delights to come!!!!!! Or perhaps NOT!!!

Frugalsod

GreyQueen wrote: »

I sometimes phrase it as a 'patio'; I got extra slabs delivered by the reclamation yard when I bought the ones which sit under my 6 x 8 shed, so there is an area in front of the shed with the same number of slabs on it.

They're just sitting on earth, a tad wonkily, but it comes in very useful. Deffo not 'posh'. Shed's posh-ish with net curtains and gingham pretend-curtains, just strips down the edges, which was a whimsy of mine a few years ago with bits from the scrap-bag.

I was going to say that many "patio's" are nothing more than an extra couple of paving slabs. Though I cannot think of what else they would be called so patio is good enough. As long as you have somewhere to put a deck chair or that is in the sun, what more would you want on an allotment?

greenbee

Frugalsod wrote: »

I was going to say that many "patio's" are nothing more than an extra couple of paving slabs. Though I cannot think of what else they would be called so patio is good enough. As long as you have somewhere to put a deck chair or that is in the sun, what more would you want on an allotment?

Someone to do the gardening while you issue orders? :cool:

mardatha

I think we need a thread on Rat Recipes..

Frugalsod

greenbee wrote: »

Someone to do the gardening while you issue orders? :cool:

Yes but are there bye laws that prohibit such operations?

Frugalsod

From ZH. The impact of the US drought.

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perhaps gRATin recipes might go on it? or recipes using bRATwurst sausages?