Preparedness for when

Cappella

Wish I'd seen the pratfalls GreyQueen. Grey Cyril's are a pest here, too many people pave their own gardens and feed the little dears peanuts which they come to bury he's because we still have a garden :mad:Grey squirrels definitely dig up beans and young bean plants. Also bedding plants - got up a few weeks ago and found two empty flower pots and plants scattered on the ground and on the soil. Mice will dig up beans and peas as well though, we've got them on CCTV, - they usually eat the seeds though. We tried the ' growing peas in lengths of guttering ' trick one years. Brilliant germination and growth one day, and nothing the next. The mice beat us to it.

GreyQueen - what are the requirements for a proxy vote? My sister will be in New York on the 23rd. She's voted postally already, but she's moving there and we wondered if I could vote for her in General Elections in the future?

GreyQueen

You don't have to make a case to get a proxy vote, you just have to ask by the deadline. Mostly, it's because people will be away from home, tho. Sometimes, people who have a medical impairment which means they can neither attend a polling station nor recognisably sign their name choose to have a proxy vote for them.

But if your sister is moving abroad, she may not be entitled to vote at all - she should talk to her elections office.

Cappella

Thank you GreyQueen.We will do that when she gets back

jk0

This video came up on my Youtube suggestions. Spooky eh? She's very funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATjMxH3-e4Y

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This is likely way over the top but I'm going to go to Lidl and stock up on a few trays of tinned goods and buy in more rice/pasta/lentils/rolled oats/ flour/oil/coffee/tea/dried milk/soap and CHOCOLATE just in case we do come out of the EU and food prices rise dramatically in the first few weeks after that. I think I'm being a bit paranoid about the whole thing and I KNOW we'll manage well whatever the outcome of the referendum but I think we might see panic buying for a while if the perceived threat is that we might find ourselves in the suds if we step into that unknown and actually leave!

mardatha

I've got lots of American pals on FB and we phone amost daily. The nicest accent is Carrie in Alabama, she's pure Elvis but broader I'm teaching her Scots though, and she now types things on FB like "Hi y'all, I canny make the class today as I'll be standing in line at the store"
The ones we canny sort out are what the hell is a biscuit and what do Americans call paraffin. And is house gas and petrol all gas. Or different gas. O god lol my brain.
I've said in here often that every time I stash something, one of us has to change our diet and it ends up thrown out. This time its liquorice tea. I fell in love with the stuff - it's gorgeous, but on Sunday I blacked out (on the street - thank god the RV was there!) and nobody seems to know why, but my BP was through the roof and normally it's low. Sooo then I start googling high BP and food - and get hits on Liquorice Tea... bah. lol

cheel

Hello everyone,

First time I've posted in this thread, but I've been reading with interest.

Brexit and remain: I was walking through my local town last sat. A leave table at one end of the street and a Stay table at the other. Then some fella walks through shouting 'scum, scum your all scum my grandad gave his life...' At the leave people and they proceeded to shout the odds too. I was properly scared by it, there was such venom in their voices!! Then I passed a shop doorway to see a woman in a 'vote stay' t shirt hiding and attempting to cover her t shirt with her bag. She must have been handing out leaflets when it all kicked off.

I'm not sure how to vote and that little scene didn't help!!

I do think we will end up leaving as no one I know is planning to vote remain. Not that I ask everyone I meet!

Do you all think its likely food prices will rise? Maybe I should stock up a bit? What about gas and electricity (I'm on keys) ?

I also wanted to ask about heating in a preppy kind of way. I'm in a housing association house, with gas heating and no fireplace, if worst came to the worst what would my option for heating be if the gas and electricity fail for some reason? I can cook, i have a sunn gas stove and will stock up on gas bottles and I've space enough to make an outside small fire maybe a rocket stove? i wish i was able to install a wood burner!!

Interesting thread.

Cheel xx

mardatha

Interesting point there cheel - I think all the gas and elect companies are foreign-owned aren't they?

milasavesmoney

mardatha wrote: »

I've got lots of American pals on FB and we phone amost daily. The nicest accent is Carrie in Alabama, she's pure Elvis but broader I'm teaching her Scots though, and she now types things on FB like "Hi y'all, I canny make the class today as I'll be standing in line at the store"
The ones we canny sort out are what the hell is a biscuit and what do Americans call paraffin. And is house gas and petrol all gas. Or different gas. O god lol my brain.

A biscuit is about the same recipe as for a scone.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/biscuits-recipe.html

Paraffin is the same if you are talking about a solid waxy substance that can be melted and is used in candles and polishes.

Gas is gasoline and (house) gas is natural gas (no, not that kind ) depending on context.
An appliance is usually referenced with natural gas. i.e. gas stove, gas hot water heater, gas dryer etc. Central heat (in a home) can be natural gas, propane or electric. Some older homes run exposed hot water pipes from boilers in the basement to rooms all over the house for heat. I went into a charming antebellum mansion in Kentucky that was heated this way. It was freezing outside and toasty indoors. Radiators tend to be forced air and are generally fueled by a large gas heater.

GQ our voting systems are very very similar.... Thanks for explaining your voting methods to me. So many people posting on MSE kept talking about waiting for their ballot, or mailing in their ballots that I thought the entire voting population was voting that way.

milasavesmoney

mardatha wrote: »

Interesting point there cheel - I think all the gas and elect companies are foreign-owned aren't they?

This is extremely surprising to me. I don't understand why your government would let foreign companies own something so crucial to your infrastructure. :undecided:huh::think: I'm just really astounded. I'm assuming they are owned by companies from EU members? Surely they must be?