Preparedness for when

Rosetta92

GQ just popping in to say German measles is another name for rubella. Measles is a different disease. Best check you've had both. There were scare stories about the old single measles jab so lots of people didn't have it - bit like the MMR scare but in those days the MMR didn't exist. When I hear all these stories of people insisting on single vaccine nowadays I wonder if its the same jab people worried about in the 1970s!

Mardatha and everyone else feeling ill/ under the weather - sending hugs and sweeties. On the cooking front if you can find a copy of Delia Smith's book "One is Fun" it has several recipes she called "mixed doubles" where the same initial ingredients were cooked up and then made into two different meals. Have made loads from that book - everything worked, was easy, and tasted great.

Stay strong and safe everyone

R

D&DD

Afternoon all
I'm in a better mood today the Cantankerous Crustacean aka OH was this far from being a neat bump under the patio this week :cool:

I have done the spring cleaning sort of..windows washed etc and have been out the garden today playing catchup.

I'm so sorry to read of so many experiencing hardship ATM you are all such a lovely bunch it just ain't fair..

Hope all our poorlies get well soon too I know I miss people when they can't post as I'm sure others do,sending some muddy (cos I haven't washed my hands yet) positive vibes for you all XX

Off to slap something and chips in the oven,won't hurt for one night

Take care all D XX

GreyQueen

Thanks, Rosetta, I'd heard of rubella but didn't twig it was the same thing. Just spoke to mudda and I've been vaccinated against measles.

Have apparently had all the shots which were recommended, as and when they were recommended. Can deffo recall having chicken pox, and what a fun Easter school holiday that was. Calamine lotion........brrr.

Which reminds me, next time I'm at the GP I must check when my tetanus booster is due as I garden and there's enough rusty ole iron up there (mainly nails) to start a foundry.

Sadly, the vaccination against Foot-in-Mouth Disease fails intermittantly, leading to Wish-the-Ground-Would-Open-up-and-Swallow-Me Syndrome from time to time.

thriftwizard

GQ, you are quite correct that I also read the Archdruid & even comment from time to time. I think by & large he has a very sane & balanced view of the way the downslope of the oil bubble is likely to play out - not a lot of zombie-panic in evidence over there!

I do think more people are becoming more aware; after overhearing (all right, earwigging) a sotto-voce conversation on my stall at the vintage warehouse this week, as a couple my own sort of age (early 50s) scooped up several of my old Spongs & Moulis and 70s cookbooks, some people Out There can see that things may not always be as they currently are, and that there may not always be 'leccy oozing out of the walls. It's the generation just above me I worry most about after the young; they DO NOT WANT to go back there, so heads are firmly in the sand & community-destroying behaviour continues apace...

VJsmum

last time i went for a.tetanus - which was.some while ago - i was told that if you've had a good few over.the.years then they consider u fully immunised for life.

still worth checking tho

vanoonoo

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GreyQueen

Just back from Land of Lottie (bit like Land of Leather but with less furniture) and can proudly report that I am a Mum to 6 potato plants.

Just got to have a nailbiting month ahead of me as I hope that we can ease past the danger point for frosts which has been the 3rd week in May for these last several years. Although with the weather patterns being rather erratic these days, who can tell?

Sunflowers have germinated as well.

thriftwizrd, in my dawdlings around the chazzas, I have noticed that things of the preptastic/ OS nature don't linger long. I have been adding to my stash of things, as and when. It seems that some other people are doing the same.

I suppose we middling-aged ones have enough personal history to recall the seventies tolerably well; I was already a teenager when That Woman came to power and can recall quite a lot of shenanigans. I guess those who have been this way before can see the signs and portents pretty clearly.

In a few weeks' time, my extended family will be celebrating Nan's 90th birthday. I've just come off the phone to her. She's a bit frail but very alert; all the marbles are present and accounted for. She was in domestic service in London just before WW2 and grew up in a very poor country family. Poor as in lacking sufficient clothing and footwear and food being tight, with her being sent up to London at 14 to work and send home wages to help support her younger siblings.

With a memory of 70 years adulthood, she tells me that she has never seen the like of food banks and never thought she would, either. And weather patterns not seen for a century are making gardening a very hit-and-miss affair. This is a woman who hid under the kitchen table with her tots in her arms as a fighter plane shot up the village street because some idjit had breached blackout and an enemy aircraft had slipped across the Channel. She's solid as a rock and has a backbone of pure steel, as do many of her female peers.

I'm privileged that my work regularly offers the opportunity to talk to very senior citizens, and they are uniformly worried about the future. But not for themselves, but for their children, grand-children and great grand-children. It's as if the scales are falling from people's eyes and they've twigged that the future isn't going to be a steady progression towards More; more ease, more plenty, more joys and distractions.

It was hard enough trying to get established into adult working life back in the early 1980s but my heart goes out to the youngsters out there now, trying to make a go of it. And their families who are watching their struggle and doing what they can to help. There's more than a little inter-generational financial subsidy going on in a lot of families and it's the opposite direction to what you may think - going from the pensioners towards their younger relatives.

Hokay, quick pootle around the interwebulator then I must take my tired eyes off the pooter and rest up. One more day at the saltmine then then 48 hours out to play. Yippee!

katieclampet

vanoonoo wrote: »

and another one https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4065593

Thanks for letting me be a fully paid up crackpot! Oh I meant member!

katie

GreyQueen

:eek: The Flutrackers website seems to have disappeared off the internet. It's not just me, been looking at other sites/ bloggers and they say they can't get it either.

Accidental? Hacked? Taken down by a gubment to keep the lid on summat? Anyone else seeing it/ when did you last see it?

ETA: Oh, and the Taiwanese government have just put 5 Chinese provinces on their Level 2 travel alert (level 3 meaning don't go there). See this linkie for the Taipei Times article.

http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2013/04/taiwan-puts-5-chinese-provinces-on-travel-alert.html

Seems that Flutrackers has beein attacked over the past several weeks from IP addresses out of China, which makes me wonder if the Chinese have taken the site down. There's stuff out there via afludiary blog including links to the WHO reports, correct to 24/04/13.

alltrustgone

GreyQueen, they posted on twitter within last hour that website down and working on it, then updated to say there is a "lengthy DOS attack" and they'll be back soon.

https://twitter.com/FluTrackers

ATG