Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

Doveling wrote: »

Real life has been too busy with Easter hols.
Everything's weird - I appear to have broken the site:rotfl:

Things look normal again! What happened?

And you broke it back to normal again. :beer:

Doveling

Was it just me?
Some days I doubt my sanity.
Mr. Doveling says he has no doubts whatsoever :rotfl:

Karmacat - Forgot to say i bought your book. Really interesting!:D

TiredTrophy

Was not just you...took an hour to get back on site. ...I always read this bit....very educational but post elsewhere.....

Karmacat

Doveling wrote: »

Was it just me?
Some days I doubt my sanity.
Mr. Doveling says he has no doubts whatsoever :rotfl:

Karmacat - Forgot to say i bought your book. Really interesting!:D

Doveling! You did! Thank you :o:o While I was writing it (which took *forever*) I sort of forgot that people would need to read it if I was going to get it "out there", so thank you for that!

candlelight_2013

It wasn't just you Doveling, I saw it as well. Good thing Lyn isn't on line today because she was not happy last time it happened, she is baby sitting the Zebra child

Candlelightx

GreyQueen

Did they do that new-look forum thingy again? I was out playing with bows and arrows for the first time in weeks. Wheee!!!!!!!!!!

candlelight_2013

Yes they did GQ, they know most of us don't like:eek:

Candlelightx

Perplexed_Pineapple

Evening all, popping by to say hello having been lurking for a bit. About the selling shares thing, my suspicion is that a crash is likely but it's close to impossible to time things even for experts (which I'm certainly not:rotfl:).
In the long term, though, share based investments have usually beaten cash based investments/savings. I guess that makes sense because cash is fiat and subject to inflation, while share based investments are based on some productive part of the economy which has real assets - bricks and mortar, plant and employees. I have some savings in an index tracker ISA which I hope to use to pay off part of the mortgage eventually. I read somewhere that people who lost most of the value of their investments in the 1929 stock market crash found that if they stayed in shares they regained their wealth eventually - I think it was about 1960. So in answer to the original enquiry, if you need the cash soon then sell up and reduce risk, but if you can afford to hold on longer term it may be better to stay invested. I am not an IFA :rotfl:

Ryanna2599

I've been preoccupied over the last few weeks so am just catching up,on all the posts (all very interesting reading).

I am definitely not an IFA, however I wanted to share this link in relation to some recent comments on the stock market:

http://www.economicconfidencemodels.com/

Martin Armstrong advises governments on trends, cycles etc., and he reportedly predicted all of the last market crashes correctly. According to the posts he's been making for months the next crash is anticipated for the end of Sept/early October. Make of it what you want...

mumilini

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Good point and I guess you'd get round that one by finding the odd egg and catching the odd fish, maybe even getting lucky and catching the odd pheasant/rabbit, what I will do is maybe find a couple of 'filling' things a week so we're satisfied and not hungry again an hour later, but veg don't need catching and can be stored so it seemed a sensible move to get used to a few just veg meals each week.

OK todays has just come out of the oven and is most acceptable.

Roasted Root Vegetable Salad

1 large carrot
1 parsnip
4 small cooked beetroot
6 new potatoes
1 medium onion
a little cooking oil
salt
black pepper
a few seeds, I used cumin seeds, whole not ground
cider vinegar

I diced the onion and cut the rest of the veg into battons about an inch long. drizzled them with sunflower oil (but any would do) and a grind of pepper and put them onto a baking tray in Fan oven 160/non fan 180 deg C and gently roasted them for almost an hour, turning them over a couple of times to make sure the bottom ones cook evenly, I added a sprinkle of cumin seeds half way through. Took them out of the oven and added 2 capfuls of cider vinegar, I used the bottle cap and seasoned them with sea salt and a little more pepper. The beetroot give this a lovely sweetness and the other veg are nutty tasting. Nice, I'll make it regularly.
I might try it on the hob in a lidded pan to see if it works as an alternative to the oven.

Hi Mrs Lw, can`t remember if you ever mentioned this but cider vinegar is really easy to make, just google " homemade cider vinegar", my sister makes it and its very MSE:money: as you can use just the apple peels and cores!
I hope to try it soon and will report back - hopefully!
I usually just lurk on these threads because i read from the start and don`t catch up!
No idea if i`ve done this right as i`m an idiot with messages and emails..i hope to have added a spinning Martin ? but who knows?
Recipe sounds yum by the way! lini