Preparedness for when

notjustlaura

ivyleaf wrote: »

Just about anything is cuter than a baby pigeon

ETA Welcome notjustlaura Nice to see you on here. I hope William is keeping well.

Thanks for the welcome, IVYLEAF it's good to be here and I'm learning loads. Willie Wonka is dozing beside me - he has a bed on my desk - and well content.

My prepping at the moment is centred around winter. I've been caught on the hop previously but a little work and planning now should stop that happening again

GreyQueen

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

If it's a red moon is it safe to say it's made from Edam and not green cheese?

It's made of Red Leicester..............:p

Been away for 24 hours from the online world as have been busy gardening then doing Stuff in the flat and crawling on and off the sofa going Oww! at the aching muscles. Slept well, though.

Was chatting with some fellow plotholders and the feeling is very end-of-season and getting the plots ready to overwinter. Smug mode engages if you have the allotment all nicely put to bed by end October then barely lift a hand for 3-4 months before moving smoothly into your spring stuff.

I guess the thing about disasters is that some are devastating but very low probabililty, whereas others less serious but of high probability. Such as having a sink hole open under your house vs a spell of unemployment.

Although a surveyor in this city told me a few months ago that the geology here does run to sink holes. I am so glad I rent rather than own my home when I hear things like that.:rotfl:

But it's entirely prudent to prepare for a period of financial hardship by having some savings in cash and also in consumable items such as shelf-stable foods and things like t.p. We have probably grown a touch complacent about preparing for hard times, as a culture, because of living in a social welfare society. When they don't come through with payments at all, or in a timely manner, we can be scuppered.

I call to mind something written in the Guardian by Katharind Whitehorn a good twenty years ago (quote from memory so won't be word-perfect; they should stop calling it social security, it's about as secure as a cardboard raft.

ivyleaf

This area is prone to sink holes :eek: but it's one of those things it's just no good worrying about, or you wouldn't sleep at night.

On a different subject, I realised recently that the things like canned goods are running low because they've been eaten but not replaced! so will add a can or two whenever we do a supermarket shop. And horror of horrors, there's only one toilet roll left :eek:

Our son-in-law has three weeks of Uni coming up when his lecture timetable is very irregular, so plenty of opportunity for the STHTF as far as childcare's concerned. We'll be helping out a few times a week. DD has devised a wonderfully clear timetable setting out what everyone's doing after school on the different days (mornings aren't a problem, luckily), with each member of the family in a different colour. It's a thing of beauty and a joy for ever. Well, for three weeks, anyway.

mardatha

Lot of mutterings on the preppers sites about financial problems imminent. I didn't read it properly as my brain is full this week but a lot of people who usually talk sense are talking about it.
I have a Q--- does anybody know how long the safe storage time is on UHT milk?

Frugalsod

UHT milk can last for several months in this type of packaging without spoiling

from here http://www.100daysofrealfood.com/2013/07/31/uht-why-some-milk-is-not-refrigerated/

Frugalsod

mardatha wrote: »

Lot of mutterings on the preppers sites about financial problems imminent. I didn't read it properly as my brain is full this week but a lot of people who usually talk sense are talking about it.

I have the same misgivings. The economy is not as strong as the government is making out, and the insolvency of all our financial institutions is suspect. Hence why I am building up cash reserves even as I pay down my last debt.

It might take several months as things unravel but the problems of 2008 are going to reappear yet this time bank savings will be wiped out to bail out the banks. I doubt that politicians have any idea what they have done.

mardatha

I'm way behind on posts - just catching up.
GreyQueen I'm sitting just under 1000ft, but there's lots of hills around me here at over 2000ft, feel free to pop up. Price of admittance is a large bag of sweeties

mardatha

Thanks Frugalsod!

candlelight_2013

Mar I read one of your posts where you said you had put DH onto cinnamon tablets to regulate his blood sugar. I sent for some and they arrived yesterday, Ceylon cinnamon and it says to take one a day.

I was always able to control my blood sugar until I had radiotherapy for breast cancer and I find it very difficult now. My GP won't have it that it might have something to do with my treatment.
Did it take long for DH to see any significant lowering of it? I am not on insulin, just metformin, but they have a dire effect on my tummy, and, if possible, I would like to lower the dosage if I could get some control over it.

Candlelightx

PS Sorry if this is off topic I couldn't find Mar's original post

Karmacat

Mar - I've seen the financial mutterings too, and I agree, we're in for some troubled times. I see the Lehman Bros implosion as the first bit, the Eurozone crisis as the second, and the third, probably a toss up still between the Chinese slowdown and the dollar crisis ... really working on upping the food stocks.

candlelight - not off topic at all, I'm glad the breadth of this thread enables you to ask a question like that.