Preparedness for when

COOLTRIKERCHICK

thanks Lynne.,


I don't panic all the time.. but I do go into panic mode on the odd occasion, and I have found I have got more 'sensitive' to thing has I have got older... and I can tell you exactly when it all started... when those poor kiddies got killed in Dunblane.. my kiddies had just started nursery, and I went into panic mode, thinking that they could have been my kids..in that school...and I felt as though I went through every bit of pain those poor parents and families went through.... I don't think I was alone with the feeling I had.. I think a lot of people in the uk, and across the world felt the same..


Prepping for me, is first and foremost for financial reasons, and as you say peace of mind, which I should imagine is why most people prep.. lol..


on a happier note... I need to start prepping for our litter of piglets which will due to be born in the next few weeks...lol..

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Bless you CTC I don't know anyone who wasn't distressed to the core by that event, it's a natural thing to empathise and if you have children, no matter how old, you can't but feel the grief of the victims families and imagine your own loved ones in a similar situation. I've spent many times scared and worried by things that have happened, totally out of my control and sleepless nights with my mind going round like a hampster in a wheel. There came a point for me however, when the anger I felt for the perpetrators overtook the fear I had of things happening to me and mine and it led to the realisation that these events really are few and far between, and the real 'terror' was that that is created in our own minds and imaginations and that I was keeping myself scared more than world events. I had to make a massive effort to change this but now I live, I will not let fear stop me from doing that, I'm cautious in all things, who wouldn't be these days but I enjoy living and will to the day I die because I CAN!!!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

after 'nagging' hubby he has just bought a jar of locally produced honey, I used to buy the expensive maluga honey, and hubby said he has never tasted 'proper' honey.... lol..


going to start eating some everyday, plus some jars will be added to my stash.. as it has soo many good properties.....


even though I am scared sh!teless of bees lol.. and totally respect beekeepers, I 'might' become a member of the local beekeepers association to try and built my confidence in them, so I might in the future have my own hive or two....

GreyQueen

Evening all.

Am back in the city and have spun by the dump and then up to the allotmentino to put a coat of wood preservative on something (so hopefully I can do a second coat tomorrow).

Re announced threat levels; I am a contrarian and always wonder why they are telling Joe Public anything at any given time. Surely it would be more effective to hunt terrorists if they thought they were being overlooked? I am suspicious that the threat of terrorism is being used to terrorise us and that the terrorists are the grubbyment and their presstitute handmaidens in the meeja.

Not because I don't believe they're aren't some evil barstewards who would gladly do harm to innocent strangers. I absolutely do. But it's very convenient for TPTB to point to external bogeymen and focus attention away from themselves. And their arms sales into the region, and their geo-political meddling etc etc.

Lovely peeps, most things which do you harm happen at home and the people most likely to harm you are your partners and other family members. Home is where you are most likely to suffer a grieveous accident but where, perversely, we all feel safest. I know of two people who broke their necks falling down their own stairs. One died and one was left permanantly disabled. The biggest threats most of us will encounter will be heart-attacks, strokes and cancers. Terrorism is so unlikely to harm any of us that it is a vanishingly-small probability and not, IMO, worth fretting about.

Have just received a telephonic digest from SG of the last few days' worth of doings at Shoebox Towers inc who's dealing and who's buying and who is rowing with whom and all the usual aggravations. Sounds like I haven't been missing much.:rotfl:

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COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Plus by bulk buying when I do go shopping, it is lessoning my journeys so lessoning the odds if that makes sense..

You are also saving money, because you are eating at last weeks/months/years prices.

jk0

My late father always seemed to have indigestion, and was always sucking Macleans tablets. I seem to have inherited his delicate digestion, and cannot eat anything rich without plenty of dry wholemeal bread.

Now approaching 50, the age he had me, mine seems to be getting worse. It seems like I have stomach cramp after eating every day, no matter how carefully I eat.

Any suggestions?

GreyQueen

jk0 wrote: »

My late father always seemed to have indigestion, and was always sucking Macleans tablets. I seem to have inherited his delicate digestion, and cannot eat anything rich without plenty of dry wholemeal bread.

Now approaching 50, the age he had me, mine seems to be getting worse. It seems like I have stomach cramp after eating every day, no matter how carefully I eat.

Any suggestions?

See your GP. You should get this checked out pronto.

Having had a cast-iron digestion most of my life, I am finding that I have to be a wee bit more careful what I eat these days, which I attribute to middle-age. Seems to be a common thing esp with rich foodstuffs.

calicocat

Just popping in again...


Sorry if this is old news.....is new to me so thought I'd share.

I have just been cooking with the star ship (halogen oven), and the booklet states you clean it by putting water in, switch on and leave etc.

Anyhow, I have been doing this, then suddenly tonight I had a flash of genius....!...lol.

I figured it would be great to do the washing up in....! So, put the cutlery in it....pristine it is now (and sterile). Haven't tried plates yet as had already washed those and it may get a bit hot for plates...but is fab for cutlery if your dishwasher breaks down....and imagine it would be good for thick glasses.

Will report back at a later date as to the plate situation when have tried it out.


Yay.....i have my own mini dishwasher........lol.


It would also be good to wash dish cloths or scrubers in too thinking about it and animal bowls.






No black flies here, but imagine they could be corn flies?, I used to get loads of them when I lived inland the odd year.

kezlou

Personally I think the government are just "terrorising" us. Where I used to live it was very multicultural, the amount of nonsense we all heard was unbelievable.

Instead the best thing to do is keep an open mind and enjoy life as much as you can.
We take things day by day and try to enjoy as much as we can.


When dunblaine happened we had a very similar incident in a secondary school, with an insane knifeman.

Freaked everyone out.
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moneyistooshorttomention

lobbyludd wrote: »

the increased threat level is in all probability because of NATO popping over next week.

Quite possibly true:T

Personally, I take the view that "whatever will be will be" and you prep. as much as humanly possible for things and then Get On With Life.

....and I honestly think the most important part of that sentiment is "...Get On With Life".

Some people seem to enjoy being scared. Some people seem to want to hark back to "I lived through the 2nd World War and therefore should be treated as Special for the rest of my life and be treated better than other people" (bit of a bugbear of mine at present, because I've never heard of that one before...but am encountering it now).

Me = I think we all "Have our cross to bear" and the "cross" we are all bearing is we have had to blimmin' well live with some level of threat looming over us for the last 40 years or so (IRA terrorists/Al Quieda (sp?)/ISIS/you bloomin' name it....and, after a while, its time to just "cut the crap" and think "Sorry...matey...I damn well AM going to live a normal life, with all appropriate prepping done...but, after that, you aren't having any of my mind space and I will just get on with 'living my life' ".

Sighing heavily and wishing I still believed that mantra I recall from my younger days of "The onward progress of the human race....trade union movement and then women getting the vote and then women getting The Pill and legalised abortion and progress...progress....progress etc". But I "grew up" somewhere along the line and read the history books and realised that its all "going round in circles" and we never do darn well learn.....

You just make the best of things you can in those circumstances...