Preparedness for when

mardatha

Frugalsod, tap water is fine as long as it's there... one day they might be doing something to the pipes/have contamination at the works and there there is none.. lol Doesn't do any harm to have a couple of wee 17p bottles in the house for a cup of tea in an emergency

craigywv

Hope the kids get better soon muffin man, i know its horrendous for adults to get food poisoning, i got it at age 22 had a takeaway after night on the tiles ended up 5 am getting needle stuck in my rearend excrutiating pain in abdomen lasted 2 days vomiting etc.... I tend to keep in my preps a box of imodium and the kids satchets dioralite(i think thats the name) for putting salt etc back into their bodies if they get it.tastes vile but it works , hope they better soon xxx

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If you don't have Dioralite you can make a homemade rehydration drink with:-

6 level teaspoons of sugar
1/2 a level teaspoon of salt
1 litre of clean drinking water

just mix all together until the sugar and salt are completely dissolved in the water. You must get the spoonfuls level as too much sugar can make a bout of upset tum worse.

GreyQueen

thriftwizard wrote: »

Oh goodness, Muffin man 7, here's hoping your DDs are soon on the mend. Here we all are watching out for exotic diseases, but their experience goes to show just how nasty "everyday" threats can be.

Another one owning up to having both John Seymour and Richard Mabey, more than one book in both cases! I also found John Yeoman's Self-Reliance thought-provoking & useful.

I have this book, too. Very good - esp as a 25p chazzer purchase.

Another thing which would be a useful thing to have would be a first aid manual, one published pretty recently. I see these in chazzers, too.

muffin man 7, OMG, those poor girlies. Here's hoping by the time you read this that they will be more comfortable.

I would like to suggest that when you can, you report this incident to the council in whose area the restaurant is located, as a food and safety issue. If people are getting sick, they need to know, they may need to take enforecement action against the premises.

Well, have been enjoying what I call a rinse-and-repeat day, or sunshine & showers, as the weather folk phrase it. Have dodged out between showers and sown 156 broad beans (6 rows). Will expect to see them up in about 2-3 weeks as haven't pre-soaked them. They should grow a few inches tall then stay dormant for the winter and get going again in spring.

You can't pull this stunt in all parts of the UK, but I'm in southern England where the weather is fairly benign, so should get away with it. Unless we get a horrendous winter, in which case they may die, and I'll sow in spring. Have lots of home-saved seeds, so the only cost is a bit of my time and effort (20 mins today).

Going to interwebulate a bit befroe shoving a duster and vacuum around the place - got pals coming over for 5 pm for a bite of food, some vino, boardgames and a good goss.

Butterfly_Brain

calicocat wrote: »

Ebola may be in colchester..........

I read that as well but it seems that it is a false alarm as he has not been to any of the countries affected.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-29673678

More worrying though is that in September, about 1,000 people arrived in the UK from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa :eek: They should have all been quarantined, this government is playing fast and loose with public health

Butterfly_Brain

This is scary

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-ebola-virus-pandemic-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/5394976

VJsmum

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

If you don't have Dioralite you can make a homemade rehydration drink with:-

6 level teaspoons of sugar
1/2 a level teaspoon of salt
1 litre of clean drinking water

just mix all together until the sugar and salt are completely dissolved in the water. You must get the spoonfuls level as too much sugar can make a bout of upset tum worse.

Thanks for that - as someone who suffered earlier in the week, I will keep this handy.

Flat full sugar lemonade will do the trick too - but it must be flat as the fizz may make you chuck again :eek:

lobbyludd

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

This is scary

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-ebola-virus-pandemic-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/5394976

well, it's scarily badly written, and the bits I do know about are complete !!!!! - god help his therapy patients.- all just my opinion of course - but can I suggest that if anyone wants to know about the science of ebola they can look up every paper ever written on it here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=ebola

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This is ONLY a just in case reminder, not a scare mongering panic, we are forecast the tail end of a hurricane on Monday night/ Tuesday morning, who knows where it will hit the UK or how strong it will be? but just in case we do get a disruption it would be worth making sure you know where the torches are, have something cooked and ready to eat in case the power lines are broken,make sure you know where the wind up/battery radio is to listen to local news, make sure you have actually put your travel box in your car in case there are trees down/floods/road closures due to high winds and if you are having to travel make sure you have an overnight bag with you just in case, make sure your solar lamps are charged up and make sure you know where your thermos flask is and your cooking stove so you can have hot water. Batten down the garden furniture etc. and perhaps get in firewood/coal in case the power goes out and it gets cooler after the storm. I know it's teaching granny to suck eggs preaching preparedness to all of you, but it would make life so much more comfortable if the storm causes chaos and disruption when it arrives.

lobbyludd

we're very windy here already - not sure if it's related, although still very warm, I'm behind on my winter garden battening down - been lulled into thinking I've got loads of time because of the warm weather I think - need to get out there and secure things/tidy away pots etc. thanks for reminder