Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

maryb wrote: »

Grey Queen there are lots of recipes on the internet for home made playdough, would that work do you think?

I have no idea. I can look into that but the nature of the problem would only be to use it in the event of an imminent flood. I'm a tenant and not free to fiddle about too much with the property but if the river was lapping at the wall, me jamming the airbrick with stuff might just keep the water out of the cavity wall, which would make longterm damp problems less likely.

Besides, I have a Proust madelaine thing with plasticine, the smell takes me right back to childhood............

maryb

I used to like squishing all the colours together to make it grey. I was an odd child

esmf73

2tonsils, hope you have survived the night, as you will no doubt read this tomorrow. Thinking of you, stay safe, love your weather reports.

bossymoo

thriftwizard wrote: »

a 22lb turkey.

My 2 year old daughter doesn't weigh much more than this...

(wondering if she'd fit in the oven :rotfl:)

siegemode

Hi all, having a mini shtf moment here. My faithful tumble dryer has died following 19 yrs 5 days loyal service and I am in mourning and turmoil. I have spent the last 24 hrs researching and I think my brain has had a melt down. I am fried. I have read so much and am totally unable to make a decision, but time is running out. There is an offer on AEG with 5yr cover for £370 (offer ends Nov 30th!!!!!!) and it's between that and a zanussi for £329 with 2 yrs cover. What do you think. Should I look at Beko ? whats your experiences and what features wook best for you ?
Don't really have anyone else to ask, sorry if its a bit off topic, but I would really appreciate your feed back. It will have to go in the kitchen which is next to living room in a v small house so noise is a consideration too.
Off to catch up on the thread now.

siegemode

2tonsils wrote: »

I would like to know if you would like me to carry on posting the weather predictions from my friends? I am not sure whether they are helping people or not. Please let me know, thanks.

Yes please, I look forward to reading them. Thanks:)

2tonsils

Wind is howling through the village and down the chimney and things are flying as well. It's poured with rain then stopped and dried in the still hot wind! There is lightning in the distance but we still have our power, unlike many in the island. The weather map was covered with exclamation marks for tomorrow as well as lightning and high wind marks and he said we were in the most dangerous area. The storms that come from the west are amazing! It seems Italy is going to get it for the rest of the week as well, then we get it from them.

Heard of an explosion in the North of the island and a fire wrecking a restaurant but that could have been the electrics in the storm....they set fire to a house two doors away from us last year when the wires on the pole outside got fried by lightning.

Meanwhile a huge truck carrying leftover pulp from the olive press overturned on the steepest mountain with the result all the cars and lorries were skidding off the road. No one hurt that I know of, but they had to close the road as its now rained on top of the oily pulp. It will be a deadly skid pan for weeks....

Glad we didn't have to go out anywhere in this, there must be loads of trees and debris on the roads. Might postpone shopping tomorrow if its bad and stay home as I have plenty of food in at the moment.


Siegemode you asked about Beko...I have a chest freezer and a fridge freezer by them and I find them very good....and they have a top rating with economy on electric.

craigywv

i have BEKO fridge freezer, washing machine ,and 2 small freezers used to have electric cooker but went to gas and i cant fault them they have outran my mums zanussi wahing machine and brothers candy freezer so i have a lot of faith in them hth.

Uniscots97

pineapple wrote: »

It looks like my freezer has bitten the dust. Repair or replacement - both expensive! - what's in your freezer?

In mine? A layer of my wedding cake...... waiting! . Fingers crossed its only been 3 years.

Could you get a temporary one from freecycle to see you through in the meantime?

siegemode

2tonsils Hope you are warm and safe, thanks for the reminder about the lunar eclipse. I love looking up at the moon before bedtime especially a full one. Can't explain how it makes me feel, but it's kinda warm and thankful and always positive.

pineapple wrote: »

It looks like my freezer has bitten the dust. Repair or replacement - both expensive! Plus it's the integrated kind - not that easy to get at to try diy fixes.
I'll be eating rather a lot over the next couple of days - can't see good food going to waste. That's my excuse anyway...:)
I was running it down for a defrost anyway. All I had was a bit of home made bread, some butter, some veg (home grown or bought fresh) and a couple of mutton chops.
Heck I remember the days when we didn't even have a fridge - let alone a freezer. How easily 'luxuries' become 'essentials'! Perhaps it's time to look into salting, drying, pickling.....
Meanwhile - what's in your freezer?

I feel for you when I was without a freezer for 4 weeks I became quite depressed. So many bargains in the supermarkets and no where to store them. We save so much getting reduced stuff, it really effected our budgeting. Hope you manage to get another one soon. We got an ex display american style that was later replaced with an upgraded model from samsung ( I knew the ex display had a potential fault but would be covered by the warrenty and the gamble paid off, could nefer have afforded it otherwise). I play freezer tetris everytime I get back from sainsbobs. It's full of meat, hm cakes and hm bread (oh just baked a load so will be having fun and games later).

Thanks 2tonsils and craigwv re Beko. Had looked at them briefly,but just looked at their site and the model I'd looked at is listed as being a potential fire risk :eek::eek::eek: so needless to say it's put me off a bit.
Modern machines all seem so complicated. My old faithful had 2 heat settings, a dial to select any time upto 120 mins and reverse tumble plus 10 mins cooling. And front venting. It seems no such thing exsists now. Progress my ****. simple and long lasting. I doubt my new one which ever it is will last the next 19 yrs.:(