Preparedness for when

mardatha

I think we have wandered a wee bit too far from prepping here..
One thing I was thinking about, reading reports on FluTrackers about villagers starving in quarantine in Sierra Leone.. how mad you be if you didn't prep at all. How important it is to stash some food. Because the unexpected does happen.

ivyleaf

About the "blemishes" thing...I used to have a lump on my scalp which wasn't visible as a rule because it was covered by my hair. I thought of it as a "mole". Every time I had my hair cut i had to remind the hairdresser about it (or tell her, if if was a new hairdresser) because if she caught it with the comb (a) it hurt and (b) it would bleed.

I would put off getting my hair done as long as I could, because I just cringed at always having to say "Don't forget about that mole thing on my scalp." Such a little thing, but it made me feel really bad about myself.

In the end I saw my GP about it, who said "Oh yes, there's a warty growth there and it's very friable [bleeds very easily]. I'll refer you to have it removed."

I only had to wait a couple of weeks and had it removed at the hospital. It was such a relief, no more feeling embarrassed at the hairdressers.

Unfortunately I now have another one growing and fifteen years on I know the NHS are extremely unlikely to treat it this time

Anyway....all this is a long way from prepping!

(Cross-posted with mar!)

[Deleted User]

Love the idea of using indigenous flavourings to make food more interesting if spices from warm climate countries become either too expensive to buy or unavailable altogether. It would be a very sensible move to plant up a herb garden both for flavouring and medicinal use and get it established and flourishing so it is there if you need it. I've got a couple of bay trees, some rosemary, sage, thyme and horseradish and in the summer months we grow basil, oregano and parsley in the polytunnel. I've never been able to get mint going in our soil but we do grow dill, fennel, coriander and I'm going to get a curry plant established if I can. Nothing will replace the taste of spices from exotic places but there is no need to go without flavourings entirely is there? I believe you can actually grow ginger on a window sill if you find a bud on fresh ginger root you buy in the shops.

Butterfly_Brain

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-02/bank-america-psychopath-murderers-automated-email-reply-says-he-insane-psychopath

It just shows how these banksters think

Butterfly_Brain

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/02/world-economy-flying-one-engine-us-growth

COOLTRIKERCHICK

ITS HIT THE FAN!!!


Came back to the house and no tea bags!!!!
what was I thinking, how did I leave that slip?????


I think I am sooo used to having a large stock of things stashed away, I don't think about that product, thinking I have loads, and WHAM its all gone... think I need to start doing a check/stock list of my essentials and tick off every time I start a new pack etc...

mardatha

WE NEED TO CALL A GM. WE NEED TO DISCUSS YOUR IMMINENT EVICTION FROM THIS THREAD UNLESS YOU GO OUT AND BUY 1000 TEABAGS THIS MINUTE!!
*signed: shocked and stunned, of Scotland.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

mardatha wrote: »

WE NEED TO CALL A GM. WE NEED TO DISCUSS YOUR IMMINENT EVICTION FROM THIS THREAD UNLESS YOU GO OUT AND BUY 1000 TEABAGS THIS MINUTE!!
*signed: shocked and stunned, of Scotland.

OK...OK... I AM SO SORRY, will find out who has the best offers on tea bags, and clear the shelf of them.. so PLEASE be leanient sp? with me...


but in the mean time I have just rescued a used tea bag from the side of the sink... and just made a cuppa...

RAS

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

but in the mean time I have just rescued a used tea bag from the side of the sink... and just made a cuppa...

One after my own heart.

Bet it was the boys that used them all up and said nothing as the pack getting empty?

[Deleted User]

OhhhhhNNNNOOOOOOO life without tea is not LIFE at all, send a rescue party to CTC with the emergency tea bag pack!!!!!