Preparedness for when

Hollyberry

On the matter of sheep and The Stare, we once stopped on the way up to Flash to take the air. OH decided to take a vertical yomp, while I did a little stroll around the car. Up trotted a very purposeful ewe, fixing me with first The Stare, and then The Head Butt, as I had forgotten to give her any food. Cheeky beast! :eek:

boultdj

They wer'nt welsh sheep GQ!, they were a mixed bag of swaedale and the little horned jacob's that seem to be popular here in the midland's.

Do you count mad peacock's as poultry? Seeing as I'v been chased by them, give me geese any day.

Hollyberry, by Flash do you mean the dam?

craigywv

torrential rain here and its freezing looks like no let up in it, i dread doing the school run as we share a school run, not only will i be bricking myself driving with son in car its also 2 other midgets who dont belong to me!!! will stay focused , hard to do when they talk about the most random stuff..................are you getting your teeth sharpened into points?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!does a slug have ears ?!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hard to drive when laughing. well have a good day all and 2t you were right again about the weather!!! xxx

pineapple

It's forecast to start snowing here in the Pennines around lunchtime but !!!!!! here it is already :huh:.
Reportedly it will wash away by tomorrow and we may even get a nice weekend. I can guarantee this personally by expending a lot of energy shovelling and putting down grit. It never fails...:rotfl:
Maybe I'll amuse myself by paying car tax and other bills online and reviewing how I can cut back. Never mind the council tax free period - the major bills for 2013 are already lining up...
As for the government's inflation figure of 2.whatever percent - not in my reality it aint. Max Keiser says it is more likely around 7/8%.
Onto preps I hardly ever eat convenience food but in common with many other batties, I have in my emergency storecupboard a certain brand of tinned pie - commonly on offer at £1 a piece. And now I'm wondering what exactly is in those pies..... :eek:

thriftwizard

I do sometimes think we are on a different continent weather-wise to most of the rest of the UK, here in South Central, as the Met Office used to call us. It's quite a pleasant early spring morning out there, far from freezing, silvery-grey light, fresh & a "soft" feel to the air. Birds cooing & warbling away...

Which reminds me, I was in the bathroom first thing this morning listening to the dawn chorus, when I heard a fairly large "cluck-cluck" from the front garden. Oh my goodness, thinks I, that pigeon sounds just like a chicken. On hearing it again - it IS a chicken - aaargh! I always count them before I shut them away for the night, but supposing someone had opened the shed looking for garden implements to nick, & let them out? So I rushed out & there, playing chicken with the early commuter traffic, was Rosie, one of my neighbour's birds. Which explains why I was hurtling up & down the street in my dressing gown, in hot pursuit...

Do you count mad peacock's as poultry? Seeing as I'v been chased by them, give me geese any day.

Definitely poultry. Never go anywhere near a peacock whilst carrying sandwiches... in fact, it's quite dodgy even growing currants & berries whilst living within half a mile of peacocks; many a morning I've gone outside & been startled half to death by an enormous bird crashing out of my fruit bushes (& we don't have that many, it's not a big garden) and whirring off in panic two feet above my head!

sevenup01

whoops - posted in wrong thread so deleted. Sorry.

GreyQueen

I wouldn't worry about the FB pies, pineapple, I've just given mine a good shake and none of them whinnied or neighed, so I think we're OK for now.

I hear today that even Wait.rose are caught up in the I can't believe it's not horsemeat scandal. And if you can't trust them, who can you trust?

'Course, heaven knows if my stash of Sainsbugs Basics corned beef is actually beef. I mean, I've eaten it and it looks like beef, it tastes like beef, but who knows? Unless they recall it, it's staying. It's in date for over 3 years and is my hedge against inflation.

Inflation is a total joke. My year-on-year rent inflation is at least 8% and some groceries I buy have gone up 100%. Fuel went up 8% last month........nothing I purchase goes up as little as 2%. Absolutely nothing.

My wage increases in the past 5 years have been 0.5, 0.5, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 and I'm expecting 0.00 again in 2013-14. And TPTB wonder why businesses are going down the toilet faster than a dose of Delhi Belly? Put the politicians on NMW and zero expenses and let them see what life is really like.

OK, the daily rant is over. I shall have another cuppa whilst the going is good.

mardatha

We have snow and thick mist - the world is white. I wish to god I had a nice soft spring morning thriftwizard
I think I'll find a gardening website and waste time dreaming of stuff that won't grow here. I do every year so why change a habit lol. Does anybody know what cows wont eat apart from tatties? I've got a bed up top of the back garden I use but the cows just lean over the fence and munch. Have had tatties in there 2 yrs running and can't do a 3rd.

westcoastscot

GQ I agree about inflation, we're stretched to the max but I know we're going to have to stretch even more!! Not sure how though!!!!
Mar i've been pondering trying again at the veggie growing - we were drowned out last year, but even normally our crops are pitiful - the soil is mostly sand here, even though we manure and seaweed heavily each year, and full of stones - however visiting a new client in the local area he was just pulling his last parsnips - they were huge! he only has a small garden like mine but there is evidence of good winter greens come out of it so its obviously possible!!!! Once i've helped him sort his issues i'm going to pick his brain for gardening advice!!
Snow/gales here too Mar - its freezing!!
WCS

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

We have snow and thick mist - the world is white. I wish to god I had a nice soft spring morning thriftwizard
I think I'll find a gardening website and waste time dreaming of stuff that won't grow her. I do every year so why change a habit lol. Does anybody know what cows wont eat apart from tatties? I've got a bed up top of the back garden I use but the cows just lean over the fence and munch. Have had tatties in there 2 yrs running and can't do a 3rd.

Hi Mar, sorry to hear that you're afflicted with coos and I hope they soon have a workable treatment.

Dunno if outdoor tomatoes would work up on your hill (prolly not) but they're the same family as tatties so maybe cows don't eat them?

Another thought which occured was gooseberry bushes of the seriously-spiny kind. HTH.