Preparedness for when

mardatha

Just found this interesting wee snippet - might affect how they report outbreaks of disease? Might be what it's all about??
China decrees use of foreign news must be approved
By Bob Dietz/CPJ Asia Program Coordinator

You have to wonder how this will be enforced, but China's State Administration of Press Publication, Radio, Film and Television has issued a "Notice on Strengthening Control of Media Personnel's Online Activities" (关于加强新闻采编人员网络活动管理的通知). Chinese media organizations have been told to stop posting foreign media news without government permission: "Without authorization, no kind of media outlets shall arbitrarily use media release from overseas media agencies and media websites," is the way Caijing magazine translated it.

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http://cpj.org/internet/2013/04/chin...e-approved.php
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ALIBOBSY

Lidl has a camping theme on he specials next week (from 25th onwards), some prep items with a wind up lantern for 8.99 and a small stove for 11.99 if anyone is interested. I know many of us are gardeners and they also have plants in as well.

I agree with the post about not getting the consumerist society. I see young girls on TV with perma-tans, that thick tangled red coloured hair they seem to love (or brassy blonde), caked on makeup, fake eyelashes and boobs, all of them with the life ambition to "be famous" or even worse to be "a glamour model". My god if one of my daughters said her life ambition was to get her boobs out I would be banging my head against the wall in frustration.

On the theme of preferring a more basic, which on the whole means a more "green" lifestyle, don't you love freegle.
This week got a lovely bag of clothes (been losing weight-down nearly 2 stones since Feb, yay me so need some smaller stuff) and the same day we had to chuck out the computer chair the kids broke-we had struggled on for a while, but if finally colasped, one was posted on our local freegle and picked up the same day .

Yesterday I posted a want for pots and trays for the garden and had 3 replies very quickly. I arranged to go to the first one this morning intending to contact the others today, but got so many from the first guy I am set for life I think lol. Lovely, lovely older gent explainned as his wife was now disabled and he spent his time looking after her, and him being older, plus kids grown up and moved away he didn't do much gardening at all. He had what were obviously years worth of pots he had collected up over time. He took me into a utility room and we filled two binliners with various sizes of plant pots. Brilliant I said thats great, then he said lets go to the greenhouse now for the rest. I was shocked he gave me big plastic and glazed and terracota pots as well as troughs, seed trays and propagtors. He was apologetic that things were dirty and had cobwebs on, but I just kept saying "are you sure we can have all these". I thanked him over and over when we left and promised to make good use of them.

If there is any karma in the world that nice old gent is due a payout. I keep looking at my hoard sat stacked up against the shed outside and it makes me so happy, just planning all the things (and extra stuff) I can grow in these. OH is quite excited to be able to get the jet washer out at W/E and even said "half the fun is cleaning them up ready to use". Are we really sad rofl.

Ali x

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ALI thats lovely, what a nice gentleman, I expect he didn't want them to go to waste and by taking them you have helped him so he doesn't have to worry about getting them to the tip so it's done you both a favour. That's the way the world should work isnt it? Send him a photo of them planted up and in bloom later in the season, that will make him happy, Cheers Lyn xxx.

boultdj

Let's lovely Ali, like you said the old gent need's a nice bit of karma back, but then again, it could be it's his way of saying thank you to karma for nice thing's that have happened in the past when he and his young family needed it.

dandy-candy

elona wrote: »

GQ
Made home made burgers and rolls for tea and dd has requested pizza whirls to take with her to friends tomorrow.

Any chance you could post the recipe for pizza whirls?

esmf73

Oh yes please for pizza whirls recipe

Butterfly_Brain

DH is really getting prep mad now, we are going here tomorrow
to pick up some stuff such as a dutch oven etc. You will see the sort of stuff I mean on the site :whistle: :whistle:

http://www.ronniesunshines.com/contacts

Ali that was really lovely of that dear old gent, maybe you could take him some home grown veggies when you have grown them, I am sure he would appreciate that a lot seeing as pensions do not stretch far these days.

pineapple

How do I know this? Well today I exchanged the bags of rocksalt for bags of seed potatoes!
So I am 90% certain but will be 100% when I have the winter tyres changed over next week. :rotfl:
Meanwhile been charging up the batteries for the ultrasonic cat scarers - sorry cat lovers but there ain't going to be any furry friends stalking baby birds and crapping in my garden (well only the deaf ones).
Been watching the news on Sky. Boston on lockdown? A time when it pays to be a prepper....

GreyQueen

:eek: Blimey. I don't have TV, Sky or otherwise, but the stills on the newspaper websites are bad enough. A huge area under lockdown. Makes you think, doesn't it? About what a curfew would look like?

Been measuring and taking notes of the surgery which the shed will require, will make a detailed cutting plan and send some of it to Mum to see if she has something suitable at the wood store, which includes some timber of mine. Some purchasing-in will have to take place but as much re-purposed stuff as possible will be going into this project. Will check out the timber merchants tomorrow to price up the boards as she doesn't have any of that in the woodshed.

Sheds are a bit like Trigger's Broom; there is no reason for them to ever die as long as you can keep replacing the bits.

I am going to dine entirely Labelle Jaune tonight; carrots, parnips and a chicken dopiaza. Ooooh yes, we knows how to live it up in my neck of the woods.

ALIBOBSY

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

ALI thats lovely, what a nice gentleman, I expect he didn't want them to go to waste and by taking them you have helped him so he doesn't have to worry about getting them to the tip so it's done you both a favour. That's the way the world should work isnt it? Send him a photo of them planted up and in bloom later in the season, that will make him happy, Cheers Lyn xxx.

What a great idea lyn, will try to remember to do that.

Ali x