Preparedness for when

D&DD

Thanks Lisa I'm not too bad really BUT I think my best erm accident had to be when I was cladding the lounge and used the jigsaw..I was using my nice new pine 18 drawer sideboard as a table and wondered why my blade suddenly wasn't cutting the panels so well,you can probably guess the rest :whistle:
Those classes sound really good though what a great idea.

Popperwell

Bought a Mandoline slicer for £5.99 which sells on the John Lewis website for £30:eek:and some very very long matches yesterday(Probably around 18inches)40 for £1.

lisakay_2

:eek: OH NO!!!!! gutted:(

I thought candle too. so do you just fill it with meths? does it need a wick or something? sorry, if i sound a bit of a dimwit!

must away to my bed now. full day at the lotty ahead of me tomorrow, in spite of the forecast rain. perfect weather for planting out the brassicas
hoping to get the kids to use their newly learnt skills to build me an arch for hops and a bench

pineapple

Sometimes day to day life gets in the way of the long term. Interesting your comments about steroids Pops because I'm trying to get my canine companion off them and a US forum poster has been very helpful. So much so that today I emailed my vets practice details of a treatment used in US that they should know about!
But the highlight of yesterday was taking my dog to the vet on account of constipation caused by the steroids. One £40 bill later I emerge with 100mls of Lactulose. This dear friends is available on Amazon - 500mls at under £6 and if I need any more of it, that's where I will get it.
If you have a pet, it's worth doing research to find out which 'human' meds/natural remedies can be used by pets and in what dosage.
Because pets have to be part of our preparedness too.

Popperwell

It may not be as cheap as Amazon but you can buy it at Boots if you ask for it...Mum used it when things started to go wrong and it gave a gentle movement and you don't need much...

craigywv

hello allnewbies and welcome, good to see more preppers emerging. IWANT A CROSSBOW I WANT A CROSSBOW I WANT A CROSSBOW.................there got it outof my system!!!!!!!!! soo happy for the lucky person getting 1 for their birthday , actually im green with envy and dont think i will talk to you:D only joking :p lucky duck i REALLLLLLLY want 1 as im sure you can tell. you have to let us know how it is when you getit ..........away to get a coffee and ponder if it would reach KOREA if aimed properly ;)xxx

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lisakay wrote: »

so do you just fill it with meths?

Yep.

does it need a wick or something?

Nope.

It contains just 3 parts (none moving and all free) and it weighs just half an ounce.

GreyQueen

lisakay wrote: »

long time lurker and very occasional poster.

Greyqueen, those peas make a fab pea and ham soup with a ham hock or bacon pieces in the slow cooker (or hob, i just love my sc).
also, plant them to get very decent pea shoots for use in salads/garnish or grow to full size for homegrown marrowfats.

Rebeccalb, you lucky thing. I would secretly love a crossbow! I could get some very fat and lazy pigeons for the kids tea. would have to get someone else to prep them though, I just couldn't I don't think.

Thanks for that. I shall get some next time I head that way. They were really cheap, about 33p if memory serves. Wily gardeners have long been buying certain things sold to eat to plant esp broad beans.

rebeccalb, having seeds for sprouting is an excellent prep as, depending on the latitude/ season/ accessibility of the outdoors, there might be a real problem accessing green foods. Beansprouts are packed with nutrition.

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

You are half right ginnyknit.

It is a stove, but it runs on Methylated Spirits, not candles.

I'm gonna call Trangia and tell them you're making a knock-off off their product. Only joking, I've seen these on interweb tutorials. Great, aren't they? Making something useful from discards is a special joy all of its own.

DD&D am now a bit worried about your exploding greenhouse. I hope you mean the contents has exploded into growth, not that the glass went bang?!

Days are pretty long now and with warmth and a bit of moisure, things will grow like crazy. I've seen butterflies and even a large buff-tail bumble bee exploring the potato baulks looking for a nesting hole. One year, one of these bumble queens was investigating the holes as I was actually planting the tatties and I had to be darned careful not to plant her as well.

I do love bumblebees, as you may have gathered by my avatar.

Crashing into bed just after 9 pm last night and resurfaced at 7.30 today, slowly unseizing and bringing my brain back into gear with a copious application of tea. Then, it's allotment time.

Laters, GQ xx

mardatha

You can't legally hunt anything with a cross bow in the UK. Just now. Sorrry lol

Rosemary_Jane

GreyQueen wrote: »

They also have dried peas in 250g cartons, which you soak for 12 hours before cooking. Anyone tried such things and how did you rate them?

Hi GQ
My Mum swears by boxes of dried peas, she makes pease pudding to go with her gammon - I find it an aquired taste.

I too have heard that they germinate well, and as they are so cheap that they are good for sprouts.

I wonder if you might consider not just sprouts, but microgreens?

You can download a free pdf here
http://www.markbraunstein.org/growmicrogreens.htm

and, on research round the web, find that the nutrition is much higher than sprouts, though they do take a little longer than sprouts, and need soil etc.

The trick with all this is to source seeds cheaply enough that one doesn't mind them not growing into full plants Dried peas fits that, and windowsills are closer to home than gardens and allotments if you can't get out.

R