Preparedness for when

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mardatha wrote: »

Where did you get it??

B&Q it's the small Athens one in the 5th row
http://www.diy.com/nav/decor/lighting/indoor-lighting/table___floor_lamps/-specificproducttype-table_lamps?noCookies=false&fh_view_size=24
The glass is opal not clear, so the light is soft but it throws out a surprising amount of light (using the recommended bulb) and looks good on furniture, the window, the floor....Love it - it feels like the sun has come into my living room!

mardatha

That looks just like the Ikea ones I have, and I used to have the huge big one we called the boulder. It sat on the floor and I loved it. Nice pineapple!

craigywv

mrslurcherwalker wrote: »

ok my library of prepping includes some cookery and gardening books as well as those more specific to prepping :-

a hedgerow cookbook by glennie kindred.
Just in case by kathy harrison.
The cottagers companion by d.s.savage.
A country cup by wilma paterson.
The illustrated hassle free make your own clothes book by sharon rosenberg and jean weiner.
How to live off grid by nick rosen.
Curing coughs colds and flu the drug free way by magraret hills srn.
Seaweed abd eat it byfiona huston and xa milne.
Cooking weeds by vivien weise.
Prehistoric cookery by jaqui wood.
Peak oil survival by aric mcbay.
Self reliance by john yeoman.
The handmade soap book by melinda coss.
Forgotten household crafts by john seymour.
The sportsmans cookbook by mrs e.m.walker.
Preserving food without freezing or canning from chelsea green publishing.
Making cider by jo deal.
Meat for your freezer by michael.e.richards.
Meat preserving at home by m.black.
Home poultry keeping by g.eley.
Herb sufficient by christina stapeley.
Hedgerow medicine by julie bruton seal and matthew bruton.
The new complete book of self sufficiency by john seymour.
The complete medicinal herbal by penelope ody.
River cottage handbooks edible seashore by john wright.
The thrifty forager by alys fowler.
The countryside cookbook by gail duff.
All good things around us by pamela micheal and christabel king.
Wild food by roger phillips.
Square foot gardening by mel bartholomew.
Soft cheese craft by mary ann pike.
When technology fails by matthew stein.

That is the bulk of my collection, the book i think is most use to me is self reliance as well as the survival handbook by michael allaby already mentioned. I also have several survival handbooks, ray mears, s.a/s etc, but probably you already have these so i haven't listed them.

Hope this is some use to you all, cheers lyn xxx.

I also have quite a number or original and repro wartime cookery books which i find really useful for cobbling meals together from 'what i have' that would also be of great use if we ever had problems and some 'make do and mend' books that would do the same, lyn x.

....................no 50 shades of grey?;)........guaranteed to keep you warm in this weather:d

pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

That looks just like the Ikea ones I have, and I used to have the huge big one we called the boulder. It sat on the floor and I loved it. Nice pineapple!

Cheers. I see on the B&Q website there is a bigger one, so I might look out for that, B&Q, Ikea or elsewhere. It would be nice for it to have a big sister!

2tonsils

Well the hail stones ended up three inches deep and were still there seven hours later! We now have brilliant sunshine but its absolutely Baltic out there at the moment. I think we are going back into the sunny/dry/freeze your bum off cycle!

My shoulder is feeling a lot better and I slept like a log till 10.30 this morning. I did wake up once to feel a shudder go through the whole house, it felt like it was shivering for a few seconds. Scary stuff! I am going to keep the sling on and rest it for the full week like they said even if it feels a lot better than it did. I want it to heal right before I do anything dramatic like weight training.

Hope you are all warm and safe in the expected nasty weather. There seems to be a lot of dispute about next week..the met office are saying warmer from Wednesday but Piers and other amateur forecaseas. Piers said the storm that hit America yesterday will be nothing compared to the one that will hit it next...and the same for the UK and NW Europe....I think I go for Piers forecast as he has been so right before!

So pleased we are prepped for all emergencies.....it has helped so much with my OH not able to do much due to his back playing up and now my shoulder problem. I am very pleased the house is clean and organised as it means I don't have to worry so much about not being able to do the usual amount for a few days while it heals.

Have got the fire on and its lovely in here....it might look nice outside but it is so cold its a shock to the system. No heat in the sun at all and the shade is a place to avoid.... Have a great Sunday folks xxxx

nuatha

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

OK my library of prepping includes some cookery and gardening books as well as those more specific to prepping :-

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I also have quite a number or original and repro Wartime Cookery Books which I find really useful for cobbling meals together from 'What I have' that would also be of great use if we ever had problems and some 'Make Do and Mend' Books that would do the same, Lyn x.

Thank you for the list, though my babk account may thank you less, there's several there I wasn't aware of but intend adding.

I was a little surprised not to see Mabey's Food for Free (a Collins Gem version lives in my go bag and another is usually in my car's glovebox if not in a jacket pocket.

In a similar vein to the Make Do and Mends, A good general house maintenance guide, mine is a readers digest red ring binder affair from the 80s, and something similar covering vehicle maintenance. They've already saved far more than their purchase price just in everyday usage.

Typing this I've just remembered a two volume set of "How it Works" that I've been meaning to add to the library, though checking Amazon it seems to have turned into a franchise. These were straightforward explanations of how a whole range of technologies worked from Archimedes Screw to atomic bombs, with good clear illustrations. Some of it no use at all, but a lot of it could be useful. Hopefully there's still a copy in the county reference library that I can get the details from.

pineapple

Fortunately there is also a load of free info out there.
Here's a few links (I've got a zillion more bookmarked)

Lots of knowledge here - join up to read forums
http://www.p2s-prepared2survive.co.uk/
And...
Becoming Self Sufficient. Towards self sufficiency
The Cottage Smallholder
Eco-communities
Frugal Living | Down the Lane (I love this site)
Self Sufficient UK
What Should I Do? | Peak Prosperity
http://www.endtimesreport.com/Site_Index.htm

Note to self - must get a printer!

GreyQueen

Bad nuatha! I have a hardback copy of Food For Free from the c.s. which lives at home at this time of year but didn't even know that they have a Collins one. They'll have one less, now.;)I also have the SAS survival guide in the Collins Gem edition, good stuff.

I spent a fair chunk of my childhood roaming about with a Collins Guide to Wild Flowers which has come in very handy identifying some of the things on the allotment. As well as adding interest to rambles. But edible interest is extra good.

I got a really good book 2nd hand for pence late last year called Trees in the Wild by Gerald Wilkinson ISBN 0 7028 1036 3(limp) and 0 7028 1048 7 (cased). It has a lot of detail in it inc excellent photos of leaves and enabled me to identify a wassat? tree which I've been passing for years and unable to identify.

It was a London Plane, although we're a fair old haul from Lunnon Town. I'd never eyeballed one of those before.

I have John Seymour's Complete Self Sufficiency and have just added some more of the Expert books by Hessayson (y'now, there's loads of them, the pot plant one is all over the place.

I keep a copy of the Vegetable Expert in the lottie shed and found another to keep at the flat for 30p. These are very useful primers for veg growing and I got the fruit one at the same time for 30p also. Plus a repro of the famous Digging for Victory and Foraging by David Squire.

Whenever I'm in a c.s. or a cheapy bookstore, I keep my eyes peeled for books of this ilk. There's some good stuff out there, tucked in odd dusty corners.

Today has been miserable, weatherwise, so I was reading a thriller set on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and wincing in memory of the gales. And I was there in summer. I kinda get the feeling that if the rest of the world went to hell in a handcart, the Hebrideans are prolly tough enough to manage, although the middling islands of the archipeligo are already boggy, long-slung and very watery, so mightn't survive rising sea levels.

Have decided that this week will be, as much as possible, and eat out of the storecupboard week, so that I can squander the housekeeping on books. It's all youse lot's fault.:p

Angel_Jenny

Jealous of the book lists!

I have quite a few myself - mostly from charity shops / cut price book shops.

I would like some hedgerow / foraging / herbal medicine type books though - haven't got any of those but it sounds fascinating!

sb44

Speaking of prepping before the SHTF regarding the snow...............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6zaVYWLTkU

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