Preparedness for when

ginnyknit

I know GQ just didnt explain myself right the first time - sounded like I was a bit of an air head. :j you know 'Oh look its the good life ':rotfl:

GreyQueen

Morning all.

Well, started the day with a little bit of a flapdoodle. I wear glasses (very shortsighted) and these spend the night on the wee shelf beside my bed. Without fail. First job on waking is to reach out and find them by touch and on they go.

Only today they weren't there. For some inexplicable reason I'd left them in the living room. Which made me wonder if I'm starting to go a bit doolally.

It also mde me aware if a crisis had happened overnight I would have been left for a while in Mr Magoo land. I do have my spare glasses on the current prescription in my BOB which is in the bedroom with me, and one spare pair of the last prescription (adequate but not perfect) in a drawer in the living room so it wasn't the end of the world (pun intended).

Sooo, I'd encourage preppers like me who rely on visual apparatus to consider the whereabout of them and perhaps to do as I do and have a copy of your prescription for glasses in your BOB as well as a copy of any prescription for medication.

Today's plans involve going to work and then shopping for a thumb drive to copy my files on. I have a nice baccy-sized tin to store it in, nestled in foam, which I shall tape up with duct tape and put in the BOB.

My pooter is 10 1/2 years old and this would be a useful backup if the hard-drve suddenly fails, never mind the zombies.

mardatha

I suppose the worst bit to them ( people who went to the big city and made it good) is the feeling of failure and back to square one. Plus at least some of the folk back home will be having a good snigger. The huge difference to me is the climate. You can def live cheaper in a Mediterranean country than you can here. Here we spend such a lot of time, effort and money on just staying warm.

pineapple

Just a funny story to lighten the mood. I'd been on antibiotics recently and had got to the point where I didn't know whether the symptoms were part of the original condition or an effect of the antibiotics :huh:. Anyway still not 100% and now suffering from a somewhat alarming and vivid 'toilet effect', I went out to replenish supplies but thought 'why bother - I could be dead by the middle of next week' - so I didn't get that much .
It was on the way back that I remembered the beetroot eaten the day before.... :doh:

missrlr

Oh yes the good old beetroot next day issue - giggling here as remembering images of DS when v small running out of the loo in floods of tears proper full on hysterical screaming I am "w33ing all my blood out I am going to die aren't I?" after eating many more beetroot than she was told would be OK from the lunch buffet the day before.

scary at the time, but amusing in hindsight - especially Mum's face which went from PANIC to SMIRK in about a second. DS is not fond of beetroot still but does eat it on occasions.

bluebag

mardatha wrote: »

I suppose the worst bit to them ( people who went to the big city and made it good) is the feeling of failure and back to square one. Plus at least some of the folk back home will be having a good snigger. The huge difference to me is the climate. You can def live cheaper in a Mediterranean country than you can here. Here we spend such a lot of time, effort and money on just staying warm.

And calories (cue more sweeties), it takes a good deal more calories to keep warm, I really notice an increase in appetiite in the winter. I suppose it's why winter type dishes are full of starchy stuff and stodge.

Confuzzled

missrlr wrote: »

Oh yes the good old beetroot next day issue - giggling here as remembering images of DS when v small running out of the loo in floods of tears proper full on hysterical screaming I am "w33ing all my blood out I am going to die aren't I?" after eating many more beetroot than she was told would be OK from the lunch buffet the day before.

scary at the time, but amusing in hindsight - especially Mum's face which went from PANIC to SMIRK in about a second. DS is not fond of beetroot still but does eat it on occasions.

that reminds me of asparagus, i used to eat it very very rarely as a kid and never noticed anything untoward but in recent years i've been able to eat it more frequently as they have frozen spears available via asda for £1 i'm the only one that eats it so that's a fair price

anyway being frozen i would eat some then tuck the rest away for later and it took me a bit of time to suss out it's effects on me personally as i'd never noticed it in the past

upon toileting the most foul odours appeared, often quite quickly, which appearantly has to do with ones genetics, you either have the stinky aspargus pee gene or not, it appears now that i do (least i don't have the soapy flavoured coriander leaf gene though ) but at the time i didn't know anything about that and was smelling this horrid rotting meat smell only it would disappate after a day or so.

upon the 3rd time of this happening i was ready to go to the docs when i saw something about asparagus and some people not reacting well to it, thank goodness i thought i'd developed some horrible disease :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

i suspect as more and more people do more foraging we may also find interesting unexepected effects. i for one know that the french refer to dandelion as pis de lis (pi$$ the bed!) because of it's diuretic effects so be ready for that if you eat a lot of it

bluebag

Well!! with the 'pis de lis' and the asparagus pong, it really sounds like there is no such thing as a free lunch... you pay one way or the other!

Can't any of these side effects result in 'fragrange de fleur' and looking ten years younger, why does it have to be incontinece and odour of rotting flesh? Life is savage at times.

mardatha

See this is why its far far safer just to eat sweeties!

bluebag

mardatha wrote: »

See this is why its far far safer just to eat sweeties!

OMG!!!! It's a safety issue??? Who knew?? I don't have any where near a big enough supply to get me safely through safety issues.

This is an emergency, off to the jellaby shop right now , see ya later.:hello: