Preparedness for when

calicocat

Hmmmmmm


Food for thought......or Not. I always 'supposedly' got medical grade honey as used it on my skin to help healing...but I probably wasn't then. As a kid, next-door had hives, so we had honey from them. Best honey i've ever had. I'm not mad keen on it to eat unless using it in cooking, but the honey I had back then I would willingly eat. I can remember being terrified as a kid around the hives.

moneyistooshorttomention

Yep....I was thinking "There would be advantages to having nuatha as a neighbour - I could buy some of his honey from him"...oh well....

I'm restricted to a choice of precisely one genuine honey in my local health food store (and its not one I'm particularly keen on - but buy it because its the only decent one I've found). Note to self for New Year to try harder to source some other honey here

- once I've finished that diet I've been meaning to start in on for some time. I duly started it at last a couple of days ago - New Years resolution time of "Must get my figure back". Have had a lot of feeling "driven to drink" over the last couple of years and been waiting for that to be over with - and (fingers crossed very hard) I think things are more "under control" at last. So I can get on with it at last...:)

Ryanna2599

Mojisola wrote: »

Buy from local beekeepers who don't heat treat their honey - that will be just as good for healing.

Reading the article and subsequent posts on honey it has firmly implanted the need to buy local honey.

However, I have a question - is there a way of telling if a honey has been heat treated, or could I presume if it was sourced from a local farm shop that this would be the case? Thanks

Ryanna2599

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Yep....I was thinking "There would be advantages to having nuatha as a neighbour - I could buy some of his honey from him"...oh well....

I'm restricted to a choice of precisely one genuine honey in my local health food store (and its not one I'm particularly keen on - but buy it because its the only decent one I've found). Note to self for New Year to try harder to source some other honey here

I wonder if this link may be of any interest to you (although I'm sure the bee keepers in the group may know of other sources of info)

http://www.honeybeehive.co.uk/honey/suppliers/

nuatha

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Yep....I was thinking "There would be advantages to having nuatha as a neighbour - I could buy some of his honey from him"...oh well....

Sorry, didn't mean to imply I kept bees, the keeper is a close friend and I'll help out as and when she needs a hand. There's a covenant on this house that forbids me from keeping bees, hens and pigeons. I don't think there's sufficient space to keep a pig (though that was done hereabouts until the 50s/60s) but a personal hive would otherwise be very tempting.

If you can find a small scale beekeeper they'll usually be able to put you in touch with someone locally who will sell honey - my friend supplies a few people but turns a lot of her surplus into mead and metheglin.

thriftwizard

The BBC news website is down, and has been for half an hour or so - anyone got any clues as to why?

Cancel that, it's back again! Nothing undue alarming there.

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Any kind of honey will help with healing, carpenters long ago used honey and cobwebs to stem bleeding and cleanse a wound and it's only in the last few years that Manuka honey has been lauded as being the best thing, it wasn't available or known about before that by the general public. Honey is a healer, no matter what kind!

We own our house, were lucky to be in a position to buy a 4 bed detached when prices were sane and got it for £39,500 way back in 1982 but that was a good price for it then and our wages just, only just enabled us to pay the mortgage. Then mortgage rates rose to an eyewatering 17 and a half % and we scraped by that, just!!! it's amazing just what can be done with baked beans and potatoes if you HAVE to and it keeps you fed and healthy. We paid off the mortgage in full, as I've said before when we were made redundant. Having our own front door to close gives a feeling of security like no other, we maintain the infrastructure and also have insurance so for us it makes a comfortable life but our needs are few, we don't mind making do with what we have and what we produce mostly feeds us. We don't go out much and when we do it's to the local pub where we walk the Cookie monster and they give us a free meal because we walk the pup. Life in the slow lane is certainly NOT boring or deprived but for us means peace, quiet and contentment and also a little slack in the system that enables me to keep our prepping supplies to a level that makes me comfortable.

nuatha

thriftwizard wrote: »

The BBC news website is down, and has been for half an hour or so - anyone got any clues as to why?

Cancel that, it's back again! Nothing undue alarming there.

And down again.
The BBC are blaming technical difficulties, there are suggestions that cutbacks have left them unable to pay the electric bill and that nuclear subs will launch any minute due to the absence of Radio 4. Though the truth of the matter is so far the Beeb haven't given details, I do like the 500 error page with flames behind the blackboard and clown.

Hopefully normal service resumes before too long

jk0

nuatha wrote: »

And down again.
The BBC are blaming technical difficulties, there are suggestions that cutbacks have left them unable to pay the electric bill and that nuclear subs will launch any minute due to the absence of Radio 4. Though the truth of the matter is so far the Beeb haven't given details, I do like the 500 error page with flames behind the blackboard and clown.

Hopefully normal service resumes before too long

That is a bit of a worry, isn't it? Imagine if we did have a week long power cut, as per that documentary last year? Three days after Radio 4 goes off the air, our nuclear subs assume we have all been wiped out. They launch all their missiles at Russia, who promptly return the favour to us?

nuatha

jk0 wrote: »

That is a bit of a worry, isn't it? Imagine if we did have a week long power cut, as per that documentary last year? Three days after Radio 4 goes off the air, our nuclear subs assume we have all been wiped out. They launch all their missiles at Russia, who promptly return the favour to us?

At the moment Radio 4 is being broadcast on FM, it will be far more of an issue if/when we lose the analogue broadcast system.

Anyhow we're safe from an accidental launch at the moment since Obama is unlikely to give consent, wish I could be as sanguine about Trump.