Preparedness for when

Butterfly_Brain

jk0 wrote: »

I bought some new bath taps for a flat in October 2012. Can you believe that since then I have had to have the innards (gland) replaced twice?

I'm so cheesed off with new stuff breaking, that I've decided to try buying 1970's stuff off Ebay from now on. I just bought these for a flat I'm working on:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111633133610

Anyone else feel the same?

We have just changed our whole bathroom suite but DH has used the old taps that are over 25 years old and still perfectly good. The taps that came with the bath DH has used to repair the kitchen tap, saving us quite a few squiddlies.

We were hanging some new curtains on BH Monday and I had a pack of the new flimsy plastic hooks, but remembered that I had some old ones stashed in my needlework box.
The old ones are three times the thickness of the new ones and are a hell of a lot stronger:eek: I also found some old brass hooks that belonged to my Mum, and like her I still have a button box.

Butterfly_Brain

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

morning all,




haven't been here for a while, so need to catch up on the posts..


with what has been happening with IS Around the place etc.. do you think its only a matter of time where they will start tampering with the food chain? I mean with food we get from abroad... we get lots of fresh food coming in from Kenya etc..


all you need is a couple of converted workers, either in the growing/fields or in the packing plant to start playing silly buuggers with our food..


a bit like germ warfare, but with our food..

TBQH I am more afraid of GM foods making all seeds sterile if they are allowed in this country

jk0

Thanks BB. That reminds me of a story a few years ago when I was selling my house. At the time I was helping a friend fit a new bathroom. My friend could only afford a £200 suite from Focus which came with very cheap looking taps. I suggested he give me the cheap ones, and I put them on my house, and gave him the nice ones. They are still going strong six years on. Not sure the cheapo ones would have been.

RAS

Thought this was an interesting article on thought processes in different situations http://ind.pn/1HZyB5L

The guy who fired the grass uphill was amazing, IMO.

And as a complete aside; a snippet from Jane Grigson's Vegetables. To replace rennet and curdle milk take the dried leaves of cardoon (enough to make a walnut sized lump when squashed together) add to the milk and heat gently. Not sure if it works with globe artichoke flowers???

moneyistooshorttomention

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

TBQH I am more afraid of GM foods making all seeds sterile if they are allowed in this country

True.

...and a thing that has been horrifying me has been the number of articles I have read in recent times re M*nsanto suing some poor farmers that have had their crops contaminated by nearby GM foods being grown:eek:

.....and...yep...on a different topic = I've kept a button box for many a long year now and its often come in handy.

moneyistooshorttomention

RAS wrote: »

Thought this was an interesting article on thought processes in different situations http://ind.pn/1HZyB5L

The guy who fired the grass uphill was amazing, IMO.

And as a complete aside; a snippet from Jane Grigson's Vegetables. To replace rennet and curdle milk take the dried leaves of cardoon (enough to make a walnut sized lump when squashed together) add to the milk and heat gently. Not sure if it works with globe artichoke flowers???

There are other ways of producing rennet substitutes I do know and I've got them saved somewhere safe....:rotfl:

Must investigate on that....but I have a feeling that nettles were one possible way of dealing with that...

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Nettles and Ladys Smock also Ladys Bedstraw all can be used to curdle milk for cheese instead of using rennet. I guess you'd make an infusion from the plant you chose and add that to the milk then wait?

Perplexed_Pineapple

I don't know much about rennet but always happy to learn. A productive day here of sorts, have built a cold frame to harden off the seedlings and prepared the raised beds to accommodate them when ready. Reading the news from various sources and shaking my head in increasing disbelief at world events - it seems inevitable that it will end in tears, the question is when rather than if. During darker moments it seems like time to take the the hills and build a bunker, during lighter moments it's more a case of "bring it on", we're better prepared than 99% of people (current company excepted, of course) and would rather face a crisis while we have our sanity and health (which are not to be taken for granted). I have the impression that tensions in the world are accelerating and that a crisis is probably inevitable in the next two years would be my guess. Hard to overcome that normalcy bias and do anything about it though

moneyistooshorttomention

Difficult to tell what way the wind is blowing sometimes and maybe part of it is down to whichever news one follows. I read both the Daily Mail and Guardian online and figure that, between the two, I should be able to work out an objective take on what is happening.

If I just went by the Daily Mail I'd be shaking in my bed at the fact that literally every single day without fail there are numerous articles about what ISIS are getting up to:eek:. If I just went by the Guardian I might still be thinking Society is basically steadily progressing towards getting better on the whole...with some blips along the way going on.

I gather there have been End of the World groups for certainly hundreds of years and we're still here. On the other hand I can sometimes be rather astonished by the extent to which some people bury their heads in the sand.

That's the problem = trying to work out EXACTLY what is happening (ie is it worse than normal - ie 1960s-1980s I would say being Normal Times) and, if so, then how to evaluate what is likely to happen next? Will it get steadily worse/dramatically worse/go back to Normal at some point?

GreyQueen

PP, I also have a !!!!!!?! feeling about world events and can easily see a fabricated excuse for a war being used as smoke and mirrors to cover up the ridiculousness of the present financial system.

But, if things get a bit too heavy and the soul darkens, it's also important to remember that really scary scenarios in the past have come to naught, like the whole Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis etc.

All a person can really do is hope for the best and make reasonable preparations for the worst. And keep smiling.

My joking IRL prediction for the 21st Century was Don't buy real estate in the Netherlands.

Moving into the next few years, my best guess is that the essentials of life will continue to cost more; food. energy, water, transport, accomodation. And that as people shrink their expenditures, the grubbyments will invent ever more ingenious ways to tax us, to keep up their strength up at our expense. They will have to put the fear of outsiders with alien values onto us to justify decreasing our freedoms and increasing their surveillance, and to foment divisions between different parts of the population so that iniqitious changes to society can be forced through.