Preparedness for when

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siegemode wrote: »

like the screwdriver was it from the £ shop

Yep, £-Land.

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herbily wrote: »

Did you use self-raising flour?

Yes I did.

It rose alright, and was nice and fluffy.

Just not enough depth.

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craigywv wrote: »

i am sick of buying pears and putting them on window sill to ripen only for them to still be hard as [EMAIL="h@ll"]h@ll[/EMAIL] and mouldy. any ideas welcome thanks folks xxxxx

Put them in a paper bag, along with a ripe banana or apple.

craigywv

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Put them in a paper bag, along with a ripe banana or apple.

great thank-you shall give that a go.

D&DD

Craigy do you know anyone with fruit as cuttings are super easy to take,you just lop a bit off and stick it in compost
Grow your own mag has a patio pear for £5.60 postage only this month and its a conference :cool: I know I said I had no more room for anything but I can't resist...It'll only be knee high like the gala apple but that is now looking very healthy and has blossom so I'm going to get one,just have to find a place for it to hide til OH forgets whats out there and I can say Oh I got that ages ago
Link for the pear is https://www.thompson-morgan.com/GYB21 just don't hold yer breath as they're a bit slooooow lol

daz378

good evening having a couple JD and cokes (JD birthday present big sis) bought some batteries today from farmfoods ! 8 AAs a pack duracell 2.95
bought 2 packs is this cheap? heard its going to be lovely day tomorrow on a bank holiday.... go figure , my pancake type l.e.d still going strong on 3 AA batteries think thats 6 days now

craigywv

D&DD thanks for thatlink i looked and liked what i saw. but reading your post about knowing other people with fruit trees etc my mum has pear, apple, cherry you name itthey have it.so if igo and take a cutting from those trees and put in compost it will just grow? it wouldbe fab as i googled espaliers (sp) and thanks GQ think thats what i shall be doing and now if the cuttings work it wont caost me a penny yayyyyyyyyyyy your all so knoledgable cant spell it lol. thanks again.xxx..........saunters off to start planning "whole new garden"....xxxxx

ALIBOBSY

thriftwizard wrote: »

Oooh, another volunteer for island living here! Also a jack of all trades & master of nothing much, I'm a spinner, weaver, dyer, stitcher, papermaker & general recycler of useful things, chief cook & bottle washer. Done a bit of barmaiding too, and am keen on growing, preserving, fermenting & baking.

I also keep a few backyard chickens, aged from 8 down to 18months. It's never easy to introduce new birds; I tend to bring them in as day-old chicks & let a broody bantam raise them, which is usually trouble-free, but that rather depends on having a broody bantam! Otherwise you'll need to keep them separate but in view of each other for a week or two before removing the barriers; they'll still have a go at each other to establish the pecking order, but it's not as bad as just adding them into the shed at night when they're roosting, as we've had to do once or twice when fielding homeless chooks all unprepared. Good luck!

Unfortunately we don't have the space or equipment to keep them separate for that length of time. We are thinking introduce 2 more so the numbers are even on both sides and get that blue stuff in in case there is any serious pecking going on. When we got our original 4 chooks at POL there was some argy bargy getting things sorted for the first few weeks then it settled down, is the fighting any worst than that? And is the best way to keep the newbies separate till bedtime then shove them in the coop at night, so they all wake up together?

Ali x

lillibet_dripping

Heads up, Preppers.....

The lovely, gorgeous (sadly now married:o:o) Ben Fogle, star of the original island escape living programme 'Castaway' starts a new prog tonight on Ch4 where he goes to live with a family in New Zealand who are hunter-gatherers.
Might be worth a peek...... (if only to drool over Ben)!!!!

Perplexed_Pineapple

For anyone looking for more books on grow-your-own type stuff, I've spotted that the Book People website https://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/ has free delivery until midnight. Have a look at the gardening and self-sufficiency sections (under lifestyle). I don't have any personal interest in this, but I got a couple of prepperish books from them recently including Self Sufficiency by Liz Wright which I think is a great book for dreaming and planning...
Looking now for a new smallish fruit tree to put in a large pot that is being vacated by a lemon tree which I thought was worth a try but the long winter was too much for it