Preparedness for when

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You must be yolking CTC.

Besides, who fries Quail's eggs :huh:

Frugalsod

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Aldi have the one egg frying pans in again.

Yes I bought one last week. I dread to think how busy they would be if they had a preppers week rather than the garden or tools week?

GreyQueen

fuddle wrote: »

'tis a bit weird out there this morning. I did a bit long slug dodging getting the girls to school. Reminds me, we have a carer who wrote in the notes 'fed the slugs' I thought she must have meant the birds and because our lady has dementia I couldn't ask her if there was a mix up. Cue a few hours on and I worked with said carer. I began pulling her leg over her error. "oh no" she said "I do feed the slugs left over salad stuffs". Me? I just thought if GQ could hear you. Boy oh boy would you get it! :rotfl:

Gimme her name and address, just gimme them..!

Criminal irresponsibility of the highest order, you can go to hell for that kinda behaviour. Obviously never been a gardener, has she?

thriftwizard, I've often made the dino-hen connection myself. If they were bigger we'd be running from them. Back in the day, Mum saw a mouse take a shortcut across the hen run. Tried to take a shortcut, I should say; pecked to death very quickly by a pack of velocitraptors.

Frugalsod

I have decided on getting some Kelly Kettles and have decided on getting Base Camp and Trekker versions. My question is does anyone think that getting the cook sets are a good idea?

GreyQueen

Frugalsod wrote: »

I have decided on getting some Kelly Kettles and have decided on getting Base Camp and Trekker versions. My question is does anyone think that getting the cook sets are a good idea?

I have the Base Camp with the cookset but haven't yet used the cookset - bit hampered by living circs. Will be playing around with it on the allotment after October 1st when the burn-bans comes off.

I've heard mixed and contradictory things about the cooksets, with some people suggesting they're just about OK for warming stuff thru but not really cooking.

I guess the KK requires a bit of skill to handle, in terms of maintaining the fierceness of the flames roaring up the volcano chimney, so it may be that is a restriction on the efficiency of the cookset, and some users have taken the time to master it, and some people quit before they'd got there.

I honestly don't know, hopefully someone more experienced with this aspect of the KK will post an answer.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

You must be yolking CTC.

Besides, who fries Quail's eggs :huh:

we do lol....

GreyQueen

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

we do lol....

Don't blame ya, I hate peeling the things, so darned fiddly. Besides, if you keep quail (and they're very much recommended in permaculture circles as small quiet fowls suited to urban environments, I believe) they aren't an elite food but your everyday grub.

My late Grandma had a flock of 50 laying hens for the Sainsbury's egg lorry to collect once a week as her side gig as a housewife in the countryside, but the eggs used at home were from the bantams, nomnomnom.

moneyistooshorttomention

thriftwizard wrote: »

Shame you can't see this, GQ - it's Slugmaggedon out there this morning! We had a lot of rain overnight - there's a massive storm rumbling away over the New Forest as I type, but it's dry here now - and every giant slug from here to Timbuctu is galloping around our lawn. I think it's been so dry here for so long, they're the only ones who had enough moisture inside to survive. The chickens are going bananas and have totalled ignored their carefully-prepared breakfast; who wants fruit, veg & oats when there's slug-on-the-hoof to be had? They're squabbling over the 6" ones... not a pretty sight! There are times when poultry-keepers can see that the dinosaurs never died out, they just grew feathers...

Shame I cant import those chickens right now. Have been on a "search and destroy" mission for slugs and thought of GQ every time I despatched one of them to "higher realms". You are my role model on that GQ....:rotfl:

Butterfly_Brain

Talking slugs, the burgers can climb as can snails, caught one on one of my runner bean plants today and it was dispatched forthwith.........................shudder.

It is cranefly central here at the moment and they are real pests this year, there are hundreds of the blurdy things!

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The, somewhat delayed, battery test, of my Aldi LED lantern, has just begun.

I placed 3 brand new £land Kodak, Heavy Duty, AA batteries in the lantern.

Then, at precisely 1500hrs today, I turned it on, at the maximum setting.

I will now wait for it to run out of power, while making regular reports on the diminishing light output.