Preparedness for when

Karmacat

ivyleaf wrote: »

Thoughts are with our posters in the "danger area". Glad you didn't get flooded, pineapple!

Thanks for the lookout kittie.

1tonsil Nice to see you, but I'm sorry to hear your DH is poorly ((HUGS))

From me too

mardatha wrote: »

Ta Karmacat & kittie, I'm 1000ft up so I was just being picky lol, I won't flood xx

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Glad to hear it

I'm going to be researching storecupboard recipes that use melted butter today - I'll replace the melted butter with veg. oil, which I understand is almost like for like. I've thrown out a *lot* of butter recently as it started smelling, it went rancid bought it before the latest bout of being ill so I never used it. Veg oil would keep for much longer, so thats where I'm headed. Anybody got any fave recipes they use? Simple ones?

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mardatha wrote: »

Ta Karmacat & kittie, I'm 1000ft up so I was just being picky lol, I won't flood xx

Likewise, I'm way up in the hills, so safe from rainwater flooding.

Nargleblast

mardatha wrote: »

Ta Karmacat & kittie, I'm 1000ft up so I was just being picky lol, I won't flood xx

If you flood then we're all boogered.

Frugalsod

I recently purchased some of these


http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00DO4J262

Now all I need are some old out of date value food item labels to deter thieves. Heinz might be too appealing. Old Asda smartprice might be just what is required and over time they will be even more unappealing.

happydays89

I was in Tesco yesterday and they had reduced Halloween stuff down to silly prices,the one thing that caught my eye was illooms led balloons.They were 19p for five balloons,you blow them up and they glow for at least 15 hours,the pack has pumpkins on the front but the balloons are plain.I put one on the bathroom door handle last night and was surprised how much light it gave off.could be useful in a power cut.Might be worth keeping a look out for them next time your shopping.

mardatha

I've never seen those but they sound handy happydays.
Frugalsod you've just broken my heart. I thought amazon was selling tins of smarties and clicked on the link so hard I nearly broke the keyboard...

happydays89

mardatha wrote: »

I've never seen those but they sound handy happydays.
Frugalsod you've just broken my heart. I thought amazon was selling tins of smarties and clicked on the link so hard I nearly broke the keyboard...

This is worth a look if you don't know much about them
https://www.illoomballoon.com and if you search u tube people have posted there.They are about £3.25 in Tesco for 5 so 19p is a bargain.

pineapple

A strange little electrician turned up on Saturday. He seemed unable to get his head round my living arrangements. Had to keep telling him there was was no bathroom upstairs - just a shower room tagged on to the ground floor.
'Well where is your tank?' he asked.
'I have no tank'.
His eyes widened in astonishment. Then 'Where is your washing machine? 'There is no washing machine'.
He looked astounded. 'Well what do you do then?'
'I use the launderette'.
Similar astonishment was expressed over the heating and hot water arrangements.
So it's official - Pineapple is living well below the poverty line - and then some.

thriftwizard

Pineapple, we recently had boiler issues, and the engineer took quite some time to wrap his head around why we need "such a great big monster of a boiler - these things are usually used in places where there are more than four people!" I had to repeat that there are currently seven of us, and that there are eleven rads running off it, and we don't have heating in every room, several times before he stopped trying to sell us a new, smaller, more "appropriate" boiler.

GreyQueen

I used to live in a house which had two separate combi boilers. The one which served the basement floor and the one which served the other three levels. When that Victorian monstrosity of a house was assessed for CH, no one domestic boiler was capable of handling the load.

It was great fun trying to explain to TPTB why we had two separate gas accounts but only one water and one electricity account.:rotfl: