Preparedness for when

moneyistooshorttomention

The old height/weight tables are still up there online and I believe they were in both sets of measurements when I checked them out recently.

Working in "old" measurements as I do - I just keep in mind that a 5'4" medium build woman like myself has 8stone 7lbs as absolute ideal weight (and...yep...that is absolutely correct for my "best" weight) and each extra inch of height means being 4 lbs heavier.

I had got to about 10.5 stones I think and I was starting to feel the effects and well aware I was starting to head into "vicious circle" territory. That being - it feeling like more effort to move and therefore moving less and therefore putting on more weight etc etc.

I've been on that diet at last for last few weeks (with break whilst I visited back home) and I can start to feel bones re-emerging and a bit of structure:D.

I look at it that its no wonder I was starting to feel it was more effort to do things - as I have been carrying around the equivalent of several bags of potatoes in a knapsack on my back. I would soon get tired from carrying that around constantly - so is it any wonder I was finding it tiring to carry around 2 stone on top of my own weight so to say:cool:

I know my own mother stopped telling me I was overweight a few years back and has been saying the weight is okay - but I'm "comparing and contrasting" with the fact that she can do elegant at her weight and, at the weight I'd got to I couldn't really. Now I'm too old to do "student look" - I guess "elegant" is more appropriate for me...

I've got my most modern cookbooks all lined-up ready to go when I've finished and really pleased that there are now healthy cookbooks starting to come onto the market the last couple of years (the clue seems to be that they are often called "clean eating"). So - "Deliciously Ella" and co. here I come in a few weeks time:D. On the next shelf the fermented cookbooks for the food that will be fashionable in Britain in a couple of years or so time as well. Sorted:T

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Errrm....and on the summer of 1973 being a Hot Hot Hot one - errrm...yes I recall where I was living at that time. In Grotty Bedsitland:( and am now trying to remember if I ever felt too hot then:rotfl:. Maybe my "thermostat" got set in those hot climates I got dragged off to live in for a while as a child:cool:

thriftwizard

Summer of '76 I was studying for my "A" levels and driving my poor mother bananas; she couldn't see how I could possibly be studying whilst lying on a sunlounger in a bikini and listening to The Who!

I remember walking in the park just down the road, seeing the brazen disk of the sun in a cloudless golden sky, the colour echoed by the grass on the hill, and thinking, "Something's gone wrong with our weather...". Seeing the ducks standing in a muddy puddle that had once been a lake. Hearing happy squawks of excitement from the archaeologists at the museum I worked at part-time; the dry grass & dying crops were revealing all sorts of promising clues! Spending most evenings sitting in pub gardens eking out half-pints of cider, whether where we lived in Hertfordshire, or in the Brecon Beacons with our Venture Scout/Ranger Guide unit, or back home in Devon where I came from. Still not studying... Also, evenings spent on the beach, cooking fish we'd just caught, baking spuds & apples in the embers, toasting marshmallows and playing guitars & harmonicas, very badly, round the campfire. Not a lot of studying going on there either.

Somehow I don't think we had a standpipe, though I saw them on the news, but I do remember saving every drop of water used to try to keep our food plants going. I too remember massive cracks developing in our lawn; the soil was mostly clay there. I remember not being able to wash my hair, and nearly dying of embarrassment at suddenly being hauled off to a Posh Do with horribly lanky locks.

I love the sun and am still functioning happily at 35℃, although I'm not daft; I don't go out when it's at it's zenith, I wear long-sleeved shirts, swirly skirts & floppy hats, although I tan easily, & am perfectly happy to take a siesta! I tend to lose weight easily in the warm and gain it in the cold. And our house lends itself to warm conditions; it's easy to create a strong through-draft and shade the windows as they need it. The problem is stopping drafts and getting enough warmth in in winter!

greenbee

All I remember of 1976 was that we were living in a bungalow with a tin roof and my wax crayons melted (I was 3)

S_Wales_Saver

Re the summer of '76. I was a SAHM with three small people - 4, 3 & 2. Watching "Pebble Mill at One" (remember that anyone?) on Good Friday April 11th. They had an Easter Bonnet parade on the lawns outside and it snowed as the programme was running.

From that day we had sunshine right through the summer until the first rain which was in September (in South Wales at least)

I remember binning the children's ice creams as swarms of ladybirds were landing on them. Did you know ladybirds bite? No, nor me before that summer.

It was s*d's law that we took our first holiday abroad that year. Might just as well have stayed home as my OH said.

grandma247

I was pregnant with my second child in 1976. I used to do the ironing in the back garden at 6 am.
My oldest got bitten by a ladybird that year and I didn't believe him till an elderly friend told me that they can bite.

Ryanna2599

In 1976 I was 4 but can still remember the scorching sun and that was in Scotland... A bit of sun at the moment would be a nice break from the sleet, hail stones and relentless rain we've been having recently in Manchester.

Changing topic slightly I came across an article today talking about the opposite of cooling houses down, i.e. ideas on how to heat them if the power goes down. It is still cold at the moment (although I hope Mrs LW is right about a warm summer), so I thought I'd share a link to the article: http://www.naturalnews.com/052839_preppers_off-grid_heating_emergency_heat.html

VJsmum

mardatha wrote: »

My god MrsL there won't be any complaints from me of being too hot - I am so fedup of freezing my a$$ off !

And me, I love the heat and NEVER ever say "it's too hot". Last June I spent 10 hours in Dubai (in transit), it was 45 degrees - that was a tad warm, even for me. :rotfl:

My best temperature is 25...

I was also a child in 1976, but all days were hot and sunny then...

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moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

On the next shelf the fermented cookbooks for the food that will be fashionable in Britain in a couple of years or so time as well. Sorted:T

I make/made fermented food, sauerkraut ie cabbages beaten up with a bit of salt in a pot with a weight on top, brined green beans which I don`t like, sourdough bread regularly, kefir but not any more

I am eating sauerkraut daily at the moment, made it in 2014 and kept in a cool dark place. Tastes lovely. My dh used to make kefir, I dehydrated some of it at one time and still have the dried grains just in case but truly I never liked it nor the potch of making it. The beans were fine in soup but not really what I want to eat. SD bread is utterly amazing. Did you know that most sold sd bread is made with just a blob of sd and also with yeast? Ok long fermented but still with yeast. Sd bread is so easy to make, just stretch and fold but I need about 72 hours to make it as my starter sleeps until I get through my large boule, sliced and stored in the freezer

My top comfy temperature is 24 indoors. Sister just e mailed from aus, they were up at 4.30 picking oranges on their 10 acre farmlet, expecting temperature to get to 40 today

Re body weight, well after spluttering over my `perfect` weight. Yes right, I don`t want the body of me at 14 with a face of nearly 70. That was when I was at my ideal `healthy` weight. My mothers stroke ward was full of thin people btw, not even slightly rounded people. So I have slept on it and decided that I must lose weight but a more realistic two stone, which is achievable. I am going to do this the ayurveda way, which is a health system that I have been interested in for a long time. Deepak Chopra, perfect health

I know I have been comfort eating and feel that I no longer have to turn to sweet snacks. The sewing/altering is an indicator for me,got my backside in gear at last and got the oomph to actually do stuff, more than just clean and garden. Going to try my new Liz Earle shampoo now to make my silver locks shiny and sleek

Karmacat

S_Wales_Saver wrote: »

I remember binning the children's ice creams as swarms of ladybirds were landing on them. Did you know ladybirds bite? No, nor me before that summer.

It was s*d's law that we took our first holiday abroad that year. Might just as well have stayed home as my OH said.

grandma247 wrote: »

I was pregnant with my second child in 1976. I used to do the ironing in the back garden at 6 am.
My oldest got bitten by a ladybird that year and I didn't believe him till an elderly friend told me that they can bite.

Yes! I'd just finished at college, and I was doing factory work and bar work to save up to go Interrailing. The ladybird plague was horrible - for hundreds of yards, they were so thick on the ground you crunched dozens to death with every step and bites were regular. Even though it was so hot, when they first hatched, we closed the windows, it was scary to see them flying - like the pictures you see of the locust plagues in Africa.

Then I went to Norway :j:j:j

thriftwizard

Another fermenter here, owning up to a regular supply of kefir, kombucha tea, kimchi, sourdough and ginger beer! Well, this is Famous Five country...