Preparedness for when

mardatha

I remember well the craze for brown in the 70s, I hate brown and love blues and greens and it was a nightmare trying to get anything new.
I also remember a granny's house that had an outside loo.. I wouldn't go in at night because the moths were bigger than me!

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

I remember well the craze for brown in the 70s, I hate brown and love blues and greens and it was a nightmare trying to get anything new.
I also remember a granny's house that had an outside loo.. I wouldn't go in at night because the moths were bigger than me!

One of my few memories of very young childhood is sitting on the outside privvy peering up anxiously for spiders.

thriftwizard

GreyQueen wrote: »

One of my few memories of very young childhood is sitting on the outside privvy peering up anxiously for spiders.

You were lucky - we quite often had pheasants hanging out there. You don't know want to what might fall on your head from a 2-week-deceased pheasant...

Heaven only knows why people thought they had to hang them for two weeks. They taste perfectly excellent fresh...

In other news, this story seems to me to indicate utter lunacy developing amongst our PTB.

GreyQueen

thriftwizard wrote: »

You were lucky - we quite often had pheasants hanging out there. You don't know want to what might fall on your head from a 2-week-deceased pheasant...

Heaven only knows why people thought they had to hang them for two weeks. They taste perfectly excellent fresh...
.

I do, actually, thanks to an anecdote from one of my cousins involving a spiralling detaching pheasant skin and maggots in her hair........ ick.

I occasionally used to hunt pheasants with my fiesta or metro. Not deliberately, other than a case of hitting one on one side of the road or two on the other, which is the best outcome.

Once had to run over a pheasant on the main road (it was the bird's death vs a headlong collision with a car coming at me, the bird bought it). Didn't notice that I couldn't see a puff of feathers behind me until I got home and found the bird neatly hanging from the towing hook on the fiesta's front bumper. A handsome male bird, all neatly furled.

We chopped it up, rolled it in herbed flour, pan-fried it then casseroled it with celery and carrots. Nomnomnom.

Cappella

Ooo! Pheasant yum yum!! Not a bird I see often anymore, penalty of inner city living sadly - plenty of pigeons but it's not the same really. Dad always had a brace ready for us in a autumn and winter when we used to go back to Linconlnshire to see them. I remember them hanging on the inside coal shed door when I was a child. We had an outside privy too until I was 13 and the highlight of my mums life was
The installation of a new bathroom

We have a compost toilets on the allotments now. Years of fund raising paid for them. Previously it was a ' bucket in the shed' site :rotfl:We used to water the compost heaps with the urine (still do when we get caught short)and disposed of solid matter in a trench and cover it with spent tomato compost. It's got apple trees growing on it now and we do get good crops. I think most people would find the idea horrific though now. Which is a shame because soil fertility would be vital if we had to survive long term without food imports.

[Deleted User]

We'd have to learn to live with and without all sorts of modern ideas and prejudices should TSHTF for real wouldn't we? IF human waste was a resource rather than something we don't like to talk about and we were going hungry because the soil needed nutrients I think minds would change about it's use as a fertilizer and we'd use it again for just that purpose. They do say that hunger is the best sauce and no one likes being hungry do they?

In the US poo is processed, treated and is then used in a product called BIOSOLIDS as a fertilizer in orchards and agricultural fields, it's the old fashioned and third world NIGHT SOIL which was and still is collected in the mornings and taken from built up areas. Urine is almost always pathogen free and can be added to compost heaps and in times past was collected, aged and became ammonia which was used in washing fabrics and cloth manufacture. Poo was used in the hide tanning process to make leather.

Karmacat

My mum, who has *never* been an old fashioned storecupboard woman in the sense we talk about on here - when she changed our nappies, and there was no poo on them, she used them as dusters before boiling them

mardatha

I don't find the idea awful- as you say MrsL it has always been used and it makes perfect sense to me. Manure on hand, easy to get and free lol - and without oil-based chemicals in it.

fuddle

Everything happens for a reason I think and it makes perfect sense to plough back into the land the by products of what we took from the land... of course if you subscribe to eating from the land and not from the factory processing machine. I would think that some people's waste these days will do nothing for soil nutrition. Ah modern progress eh? :cool:

Karmacat

fuddle wrote: »

I would think that some people's waste these days will do nothing for soil nutrition. Ah modern progress eh? :cool:

I never thought of that :eek: but you're right :eek:

Am very happy - thanks to my kondo efforts, I just found a dozen lightbulbs I thought I had a good stock! But losing them within the house isn't such a good idea :eek: