Preparedness for when

jk0

As if students needed any encouragement to pee in inappropriate places:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-29552557

moneyistooshorttomention

jk0 wrote: »

As if students needed any encouragement to pee in inappropriate places:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-29552557

Well I suppose you could say "Every tinkle helps:rotfl:"...but wouldn't it damage the shower by being acid-y or something? Now goes off to scratch head and think "There are people who actually drink it (for health):silenced:_pale_, so I suppose not?..."

GreyQueen

jk0 wrote: »

Oh, yes, you are right.

Funnily enough I used to buy this for the WC's in an office building I owned twenty years ago, even though it was twice the price of the soft even then.

The water bill used to be around £1000 per year, so I tried to think of a way to reduce toilet use.

Izal paper did the trick! Water used reduced by half.

Ooohh, that is devious.............:rotfl:D'you realise that there's a whole generation growing up now who don't reflexively shudder when hearing the words Izal Medicated? No wonder we're slipping as a nation in many respects, a nation needs robust tracing-paper TP to form its essential character (constipated and uptight).

In one of the anti-cluttering author Don Aslett's books (he has also run a very large cleaning company for decades) he discussed how to steer people's behaviour to reduce cleaning. An example given was of an office/ factory where the women's loos had 20 stalls but even on a shift where there were only 3 women, most of the stalls were used and thus needed cleaning. He thought about removing the TP from many of the stalls but decided that was unethical, but did choose to put a really nice bar of soap on the washbasin opposite certain stalls.

Result was that the ladies chose to use the stalls opposite the nice soaps, not other random stalls, nor walking to other sinks opposite other loos one needing to wash their hands. And cleaning time was muchly reduced.

I have been off the interwebs for more than a day (am not an addict, see!) as have been busy IRL and have read two whole books. They were murder mysteries and very compelling. I have to read another whole book by 7 pm tonight, but I'll manage it.

Oh, and yestereve we had some more 'fun' involving the fire brigade as yet another drunken neighbour passed out with food in the oven and set the kithcen on fire. That's two in six months, fer cryin' out loud.

The fire brigade were brill, we had 3 engines down here plus the police. It's a rare day we don't have the police and the ambulances down here, but we manage to go more than a month at a time without the fire brigade. They were having great fun with their hoses (ooo-err missus). I was talking to them up the precinct last week as they were practising climbing up the shops (I asked, the officer said it was a quiet evening so they were practising) and they were clambering around the Towers for quite a while, too. I think they like to practise on the tower flats.

It was quite gregarious outside watching events and chatting with the neighbours. As our flats are so tiny, one smoke detector will be heard over quite some distance, and most of us have enough sense of self-preservation to react instantly to signs there might be a fire.

Before my time, we had a gas explosion and it caused SuperGran to rocket out of bed. She got to the window and flames were coming out of the top of the building but before she could even reach her phone, she heard the fire brigade tearing in here. There are some advantages to city centre living.........

daz, ouch about getting stuck in the bath-tub, hope the shoulder is a bit better today. Bet you're glad not to be an archer, the rotator cuff is well-used in archery and people who do a lot of archery can rotate that a lot father than the rest of us.

Righty, better see what the world is doing. Laters, GQ xx

craigywv

Back from lurkdom to say i bought the dettol lookalike from land of poond the other day not bad for emergencies but when handed a real bottle from my mum yesterday as she saw it whilst out shopping i can honestly say theres no comparison!!! Shall keep it in my preps as emergency antiseptic. Also have a bottle of tcp love the smell and great for gargling mouth ulcers etc.... Tcp that is not the dettol!!!!!!!!! I another fan of coal tar and pears soap also vosene s a firm fave in our household.xxx good clean squeaky smell.

GreyQueen

Hi craigyw, I was given a tip years ago about mouth ulcers; rub salt into them.

It really works (stings a bit) and you often have to do it only once. If you get a lot of mouth ulcers, it may be worth mentioning it to your GP next time you're there, in case you might be a bit run down or something.

I'm all for using old-fashioned home remedies if they work and don't have any drawbacks. Some things recommended in really old books are actually dangerous, so commonsense and medical advice should be followed at all times, of course.

Like a few other posters here with chronic health problems, I owe my life to modern medicine, so I don't disparge it. Until the mid-twentieth century people with my group of illnesses just declined, weakened and died. My brother's epilepsy is controlled by anti-convulsants and he hasn't had a fit in nearly 2 decades. Having seen him fitting, and the debilitating after-effects, I am very glad he doesn't have to suffer that.

I'm enjoying the soap talk, as have a cache of the stuff seasoning nicely in the airing cupboard. Went to a chazzer a couple of weeks ago and they had some unopened big fat bars of Lux soap (1980s in my best guess by the packaging) for 30p each. All 4 of them came home with me and the first is in use now. Lovely stuff, and properly seasoned.

One thing which was mentioned by the Bosnian blogger Selco was that hygiene supplies were in very short supply during the conflict and that two members of his extended family died as a result of poor hygiene. He stressed the importance of this side of things inc things like bin bags etc. Not as fun as some of the other things you could be buying, but we're practical sorts, we OS preppers, and think of these things.

Re disinfectants, some of the dearer ones are meant to be used in dilution whereas some of the cheaper ones are meant to be used neat, which can make the apparently more expensive product as cheap or cheaper than the dearer one. Worth having a quick snout at the labels before making your choices.

Surgical spirit is a good thing to have, and something we always had in my childhood bathroom, and which I keep by me now. Suitable for treating yourself as opposed to floors etc.

Righty, better get another cuppa and then get on with my day. Have a preptastic one, lovely peeps. GQ xx

jk0

Regarding mouth ulcers, I used to have lots of these as a child. However, I have not had a single one since giving up ketchup nearly thirty years ago.

(This was very hard, as I loved ketchup, but it has a lot of sugar in it. I gave up sugar for my zits, and it made a big improvement.)

craigywv

Hi i get the ulcers as i have a new "false tooth" newly put in and its soooooo sore getting "broken into my mouth". I loved lux soap i envious gq!!!the big oval shape of it in your hand .........im a bit weird like that..............love bristles on a brush too lol and the smell of firelighters and petrol......saunters off all glassy eyeed!

GreyQueen

craigywv wrote: »

Hi i get the ulcers as i have a new "false tooth" newly put in and its soooooo sore getting "broken into my mouth". I loved lux soap i envious gq!!!the big oval shape of it in your hand .........im a bit weird like that..............love bristles on a brush too lol and the smell of firelighters and petrol......saunters off all glassy eyeed!

We must be secret sisters. How do you feel about parfum de creosote, proper hessian sacking, that distinctive tang of garden shed? I was so thrilled that my brand-new allotment shed started to get that shed-smell after only a few months.:rotfl:

That Lux bar is soooo fat it keeps falling off the basin. Yesterday I was washing my hair in the basin and had parked the Lux on the bath-bridge to keep it out of the way. Only it fell through and landed in the tub with a heavy clunk.

Just before I started to wash my hair I'd noticed that a silverfish had somehow got into the tub since I had my morning bath and was ambling up the tub towards the tap end. Do they parachute in, or what?

Anyway, when the Lux hit the enamel, I was busy with shampoo but did think to myself, hope that silverfish wasn't in the way of that. It was, unfortunately, and was reduced to a small grey smudge on the underside of the bar.

Death by soap - it'll go down in the annals of silverfish history, to be told whenever silverfish are gathered together to remininsce about Great Uncle Ernie and his death from the great white meteorite.

I only see a silverfish every few months and quite like them. I am also quite possibly bonkers, but I think you'd worked that one out already, hadn't you?

craigywv

Hahahaha your bonkers gq !!! I hate silver fish they revolting but i do like the sound of them parachuting! Oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh creosote now your talkin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mardatha

Old fashioned ironmongers shops....