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  • D&DD
    D&DD Posts: 4,405 Forumite
    Busy day stuck the dehydrator on full to the brim with basil,tomatoes,peppers and courgettes from the garden,washing machine is groaning and the roast is on already!

    Grandma the avvy says Run the zombies are coming over the top of the usual Keep calm message :D

    Gotta shoot out and walk the dog will be back on later to catch up

    Madfrog glad you're here still wanted to pick your brains re emergency plans with the councils etc I was 'volunteered' last time we had the snow to organise stuff here as I help out on the residents assoc but OH was worried in case I was making myself liable if the paths were not done properly etc Sadly this is how society is now isn't it when we try and help ourselves..

    Later peeps dog is giving me sadeyes!!!
  • Fruball
    Fruball Posts: 5,739 Forumite
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    edited 26 August 2012 at 1:31PM
    Woke up *very* early this morning and it was quite chilly... Going to pop to Pr!mark for some wintery bits for the kids.

    They both need gloves
    Will find a fleece blanket to cut up for scarves :D
    Slippers for both
    Slippers for me
    Fleece for curtain/blind lining/making

    Wrong thread :D Meant to post in preparing for winter :o:o:o
  • Born Blonde I have to thank you for the link to wild stoves! We've just spent half a morning on there! Hubby now has plans for one of the ultra-light models for camping, and I have designs on the rocket stove, plus extension for.....ummmm for...... ok, I just WANT one!
    Thank you :)
    No spend days 2/20, Food for 5 for January £30.67/£200, Fuel/Transport £0/260, Charitable giving £20
    Foodbank donations £8, Debt Slain Nov 2012 to date £1956/£19030 Walk 2/31 days meditation 2/31 days
  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    It's cold here today as well. I hate autumn !!! But I will knit faster now.
  • GreyQueen
    GreyQueen Posts: 13,008 Forumite
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    D&DD wrote: »
    I'm planning a nice comfy night sat here with some of my cookery books :D
    I have quite a few regarding foodstorage and tons of recipes so I'm menuplanning,some with foodstorage alone for the winter (in case I can't get out to the shops) and some a mixture of fresh and stored.

    I've tweaked my avatar today too as I saw a lot of people had the Keep Calm ones on Old style and I thought this one was rather fitting for me :D
    :p I got the first Keep Calm and Carry On avatar on OS about a year ago, then Smileyt found the thingy which generates versions of this (I have the shortcut but it's on my home PC but I can post it in a couple of days if anyone wants it). Then there was a rash of versions of it and now I'm bored with mine. Shall have to find something both funny and appropriate.

    Was poking around a boot sale this am looking for a variety of things but the one thing I didn't see was the stainless steel cutlery drainer which I wanted to have a play with. I'm sure I'll find one.

    I have also seen a website about ultralight backpacking, more a blog, and this feller had a mini stove made from a drinks can, cheap and very simple. Where do people not in catering get catering-sized food cans, I'd like to have a play about.

    If people are interested in bushcraft, but lack the money/ free time/ inclination to do a course, may I say that I found many of the same things as my intro level bushcraft course last year covered in a book (oh sugar, am away from home, haven't got note of the title). It was also in Waterstones, close to the pocket-size SAS survival manual, large format softcover about survival skills. Lots of stuff about shelterbuilding, water gathering etc etc and lovely line drawings and very clear. It was good because it showed things which I had been shown to do person-to-person in such a well-illustrated and well-described way that you'd be able to make it out from there.

    ;) D'you think the Guides would accept me at nearly 50? I feel there ought to be a club for adults who want to do this stuff, why should the kids have all the fun.

    Today my prepping type activities were limited to the acquistion of some more candles for pence from the bootsale and the choosing of some offcut MDF from the pile of offcuts on the parents' woodshed which will have a set of Poundland castors and become a second homemade underbed rolling trolley for the canned goods.

    Keep on posting, I love this thread to pieces. GQ x
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
    John Ruskin
    Veni, vidi, eradici
    (I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
  • vanoonoo
    vanoonoo Posts: 1,897 Forumite
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    we popped into "Go Outdoors" today and I treated myself to this as it was reduced to less than half price their price (I got it for £8.00) http://www.multitools.co.uk/victorinox-swiss-card-lite-3-0-99202?utm_source=GoogleBase&utm_medium=GB&utm_campaign=GoogleBase&gclid=CLf195e3hbICFaTJtAodSUMAmg and it fits in my purse perfectly :D
    Blah
  • boultdj
    boultdj Posts: 5,334 Forumite
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    GQ, ask nursing home's or cafe's for catering-size tin's,hth.
    £71.93/ £180.00
  • Popperwell
    Popperwell Posts: 5,088 Forumite
    edited 26 August 2012 at 3:04PM
    vanoonoo wrote: »
    we popped into "Go Outdoors" today and I treated myself to this as it was reduced to less than half price their price (I got it for £8.00) http://www.multitools.co.uk/victorinox-swiss-card-lite-3-0-99202?utm_source=GoogleBase&utm_medium=GB&utm_campaign=GoogleBase&gclid=CLf195e3hbICFaTJtAodSUMAmg and it fits in my purse perfectly :D

    Well done Vanoonoo,
    I have sometimes thought about a swiss army knife...one day who knows...
    boultdj wrote: »
    GQ, ask nursing home's or cafe's for catering-size tin's,hth.

    What a great idea, when I used to drive a car a local hotel allowed me to take away as many wine bottles as I wanted so I could use them to make my home made wine...those were the days...long ago and far away when all was well...
    "A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!" ~Thomas Jefferson

    "Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in" ~ Alan Alda
  • nuatha
    nuatha Posts: 1,932 Forumite
    There's been several mentions of bushcraft courses, one of the Woodland Trust sites not far from me does single day basic survival courses at £10 per day covering navigation, building a shelter and fire.
    They also do fungal forays at £3 per day, easily the safest way to learn which fungi are safe to eat and which to avoid.
  • vanoonoo
    vanoonoo Posts: 1,897 Forumite
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    nuatha wrote: »
    There's been several mentions of bushcraft courses, one of the Woodland Trust sites not far from me does single day basic survival courses at £10 per day covering navigation, building a shelter and fire.
    They also do fungal forays at £3 per day, easily the safest way to learn which fungi are safe to eat and which to avoid.
    I'll have to check out if the one near us does these - I'd really enjoy both of those I think, its been a long time since I was in venture scouts and I could do with a good refresher
    Blah
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