Preparedness for when

mardatha

They will Ivy - we left Australia and NZ in a bit of a mess, with nowhere to export to. I still feel bad about that.

ivyleaf

mardatha wrote: »

AWH TA MrsL xxx I can live with or without indy as long as.....
.............WE HAVE TABLET!! :D

And Lee's Macaroon Bars

I lived in Scotland for just two and a half years as a teenager - we moved around quite a bit due to my Dad's job - and am still in touch with my closest friends there. Going to visit them in a few weeks, I am a bit nervous about possible heckling from complete strangers for being English, especially at the moment, but we were there 5 years ago (my first visit in over 40 year) and it was fine then.

elaine241

Hello All
Just catching up after taking time out to try and get stronger physically and emotionally.

I have two bee hives and the bees dont tend to fly at temperatures below 16 degrees as they use more energy than they gain in nectar or pollen.

I tend to use the stick it in the compost and see approach to propagating fruit bushes. I do use hormone rooting gel if I can find it and cut the cutting just below a leaf joint, removing any excess leaves. I then tend to ignore it/forget it in a sheltered place. It seems to work quite well as I have several new bushes coming along for the future. I tend to try and grow fruit and veg that are expnsive in the shops or never even seen. I buy plenty of YS onion, pots etc and only grow a few for taste to be eaten young with melted butter!

As for grown up never! I keep waiting to see if it will happen but it never does! I dont care if I am embarrassing or silly :-). I also enjoy foraging and that gets funny looks to!! On a side note my council have planted a couple of orchards locally and I may just get caught scrumping from them! S W Saver watch the local paper I may just get arrested! LOL

As for phones, well I may be from a distance just like the phone drones but you would be wrong!! I hate being in a built up place or waiting or crowds etc so I have downloaded Kindle to my phone and may well be reading prepper books trying to get through being somewhere I hate! When in the country or at home phone is firmly in my pocket just in case emergency with the kids etc!

Coffee, Aahh! Well when I do go to work in the local city (two days) I have to have a coffee first thing to get my legs to walk in the direction of my office and not run in the direction of home!! I only drink 2 a week often use a voucher or coffee card and dont feel guilty! I use the cup to grow things in!!

I had a v minor shtf situation y'day. Whilst away a pane of my greenhouse roof blew in and all my seeds in a solid wooden box got soaked. Luckily the majority of them were in silver foil pouches and I have dried them out. Peas, beans , beetroot and radish seem to have all sprouted so I have potted the beans and will plant the peas. I will have a million radish!! anyone want some!! LOL

Preps wise I havent really done a lot!! They got me through the recent major SHTF's events and for that I will be eternally greatfull!!

Keep prepping!!!:rotfl:

Frugalsod

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Britain has been one country for hundreds of years, so that's how it is now - whatever did or didn't happen some centuries back". It sort of equates, in my mind, to saying "How far back in history do we go to start differentiating between the Saxons, Celts, Normans, Romans, etc, etc?" and I wonder if there would actually be any British person anywhere in Britain that didn't have that sort of mixed ancestry level and Britain would be left sitting here as an empty lump of rock in the middle of the ocean if we differentiated like that (apart from those from another country that have moved here this or last century).

Margaret Thatcher had a viking heritage.

I am a Heinz made up of 57 varieties. Though I look at that as an advantage.

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ELAINE thanks for the 'BEE INFO' I had a feeling they wouldn't be out and about as the temperature was cooler and I've just looked out of the window and there ARE honey bees on the apple trees, just not very many of them but it is warmer today. I guess they'll be more apparent as the spring developes into the summer. It's a worrying aspect to climate change isn't it? given how much we rely on them for pollination to provide the food on our plates.

moneyistooshorttomention

Right got it - I think - bees like things pretty calm (any wind I don't like = they wont either) and with a temperature of at least 16C.

That's sorted then that if I'm okay with the weather = then so will they be.

How do bees feel about rain?

nuatha

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Whereas, on the other hand, whatever happened a few hundred years ago happened a few hundred years ago and is now in the history books. The Present Day is a different era iyswim. I've heard the English described by a few as an "occupying country"

Some of us are still suffering from the last lot of invaders to occupy our country. The present really isn't a different era, history just legitimises the excesses of the past.

elaine241 wrote: »

Preps wise I havent really done a lot!! They got me through the recent major SHTF's events and for that I will be eternally greatfull!!

Keep prepping!!!:rotfl:

Really good to see you posting.
Prepping wise I've one thing to say to you "Paperwork"

My ancestors picked the side of the border that suited them best at the time or fought both countries depending on when you're looking at. The Union of the Crowns barely slowed them down but the Act of Union did - quite a few were exported by the government as mercenaries after that.

I've long been a supporter of Scottish independence - but I'd want the border moved South a bit from where it currently is.

moneyistooshorttomention

Nuatha

Well - I've had two cups of coffee for the day...so my brain should be fully awake by now....but....errm...it isn't.

I guess you mean the people who suffered the effects of the 2nd World War? and it is true that there are (my mother still gets upset whenever she thinks about the effects it had on her).

Hence why I tend to differentiate between this century and the last century on the one hand and 19th century backwards on the other hand (ie as there will only be a very very few people left alive that were born in the 19th century).

I think you have to draw line somewhere and decide that Before that Line is "history" and after that Line is "Present Era".

nuatha

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Nuatha

Well - I've had two cups of coffee for the day...so my brain should be fully awake by now....but....errm...it isn't.

I guess you mean the people who suffered the effects of the 2nd World War? and it is true that there are (my mother still gets upset whenever she thinks about the effects it had on her).

The last invasion of Britain was the Normans.

Hence why I tend to differentiate between this century and the last century on the one hand and 19th century backwards on the other hand (ie as there will only be a very very few people left alive that were born in the 19th century).

I think you have to draw line somewhere and decide that Before that Line is "history" and after that Line is "Present Era".

When injustices are perpetuated down the generations then its difficult to draw that line.

moneyistooshorttomention

Told you my brain is still not quite awake for the day yet - must be the poor weather out there..

"Invaders" ...ah right....as the Germans invaded part of Britain (Channel Islands) and not all of it so to say at that point.

Will have to agree to disagree on that point, as I personally only look at what has happened to my own generation and the ones after mine. As regards my mothers generation - I would only want to know "what was what" as regards Germans (for instance) of her own generation (in case they'd been part of it all...).

For myself - there is no reason not to be friends (and I have been) with Germans in my own generation and to deliberately seek out their goods (because I think they will have been made to a better standard probably).

So my own viewpoint is "The past is the past" and its interesting to read sometimes and try and learn lessons from.