Preparedness - the continuation thread

milasavesmoney

cheel wrote: »

Hi doveling, its a dwarf lop crossed with Netherland I think. She's a beautiful grey colour and has the lop ears! Collecting her tomorrow. So at some point I need to move the water butt by about a foot to get the hutch against the house wall. There's a radiator on the inside of that wall so I thought in winter it might be warmer there. Though I can't remember the last time we actually had a frost just a few mornings with white grass last winter, no proper hard frosts (I'm in Cornwall) id probably bring her inside when or if it gets cold. Xx

How's the new girl? Has she been named?

GreyQueen

Hey, Doveling, get special footwear in leopard print and never ever give up being (absolutely) fabulous, dahling!

One needs to work on fabulousity in one's later decades, especially as the very young can be a tad prudish about their elders. Not yet having enough miles on their own clock to realise that inside every old(er) person is a very surprised younger person.:rotfl:

recap re the Churchill crowns, £1 old money got you 4. £1 now gets you 4. People bought them by the fistful back in 1965, going to the bank and spending £5 on them in some cases. Some people spent £100 on them, which was a serious wedge. Because Churchill being a great man, they were sure to appreciate in value, no?

Err, no. In 1965, you could have bought 20 Churchills or one gold sovreign for £5. Yesterday, the going rate for selling a sovreign was £230.00 and 20 Churchills are still worth only £5. If you can find a dealer to take them off your hands - they pay them into the bank for face value so there's no profit in it for them, just aggravation. Or you could put 20 into a bank bag and pay them into your own account.

VJsmum

pineapple wrote: »

At 41 I was the oldest. I remember saying to a fellow traveller 'For goodness sake you are behaving like a teenager'. 'That's because I AM a teenager' he replied... :rotfl:
It was exciting and wild and annoying at times. If you are used to being an independent traveller, it can be frustrating travelling on someone elses schedule. But we got to see and do things we'd never have experienced on our own. After the trip, a few of us went on travelling. I only came back because I was broke. But 3 years after returning to the UK, I was back in Africa running the office for a British Aid project. And after that I managed a safari lodge in a Ugandan National Park.. Plus I had a romance with a hunky Aussie met on the original trip and made some lifelong friends. All thanks to that mad leap in the dark years back.

Hunky Aussie, eh? I'm there, or I would be but the OH might get upset..
:rotfl:

milasavesmoney

GQ, the same thing happened when the US decided to issue quarters (.25) for each state in a roll out production over years. People went nuts collecting! They haven't had the years you are talking about GQ but are only worth face value too. Too many issued!

I like to put mint in my ice tea and had, in the past, been buying teabags to add. Now I grow mint in a pot and periodically give it a haircut, then lay the cut pieces out on a plate and let it air dry. I then strip the leaves off the stems and store it in my little glass bottle with a glass stopper. Score! :money:

I cleaned the fridge and now I know what I need to use in the next few days. I also froze a few things for later use. :A I did throw out the juice of some soup my husband had eaten all the chicken and veg out of...had plans to make something with the juice but didn't. Good intentions and all...

I need to go to bed, being six hours behind the UK, and dream of husky Australians.

pineapple

milasavesmoney wrote: »

Pineapple,
Were you able to keep the hunky Australian as part of your prepping...ya know>>>just in case of an emergency! :T :T :T

Unfortunately not - though he would have kept. He was so well pickled in alcohol......:mad:

milasavesmoney

Pineapple, I'm wonder about the two women up for PM. I've been trying to read about each one. Any thoughts on who would be better at the huge job ahead? (And of course anyone else who has thoughts on the subject)

I am absolutely flummoxed as to who to vote for in our election! They are both horrible so it will be a situation of trying to decide the least harmful of two impossibly awful choices. I hope your two candidates would either one be a decent choice.

GreyQueen

milasavesmoney wrote: »

Pineapple, I'm wonder about the two women up for PM. I've been trying to read about each one. Any thoughts on who would be better at the huge job ahead? (And of course anyone else who has thoughts on the subject)

I'd never even heard of this Angela person until she threw her hat into the ring. Theresa May is a long-time heavy hitter although I am no fan of the Conservative party. Angela person has just chosen to play the motherhood card, as in how having been one makes her the better candidate than Theresa (the Mays being involuntarily childless).

I think that's pretty despicable, as well as irrelevant, so she gets sent to the naughty step just for that. I think May will get it.

milasavesmoney

GreyQueen wrote: »

I'd never even heard of this Angela person until she threw her hat into the ring. Theresa May is a long-time heavy hitter although I am no fan of the Conservative party. Angela person has just chosen to play the motherhood card, as in how having been one makes her the better candidate than Theresa (the Mays being involuntarily childless).

I think that's pretty despicable, as well as irrelevant, so she gets sent to the naughty step just for that. I think May will get it.

I watched May's entire speech when she declared and if she is as tough as she is trying to advertise then that would help.

maryb

This is going to be interesting. Boris has backed Andrea Leadsom who campaigned for Brexit with him. I suppose he could hardly do anything else. Theresa May has the backing of the vast majority of MPs but could find that out at the grassroots, Andrea appeals more to the members who now have the final say. She certainly seems to be intent on throwing them plenty of red meat -war on political correctness etc. I think the phrase is dog whistle politics

It won't be a rerun of Jeremy Corbyn's election by Labour. Even if people pay £25 to join the Conservative Party ( and a whole load of people have joined) they won't be eligible to vote. So it's not a question of Brexiteers piling in to sway the vote. On the other side of the divide it looks like the Labour MPs despair of forcing Corbyn's out because so many new people are joining and can vote they think he would win. At least it's doing wonders for both sides finances

As regards the candidates themselves, Theresa May has senior cabinet experience though doesn't seem to have made an enormous difference for the better. She has a reputation for being a micromanager and incapable of delegating. I've worked with some of those and they are impossible. It's all very well saying she would have to learn but what tends to happen in practice is that they get overwhelmed at just the wrong time sand say"you'll just have to deal with it yourself" (as if you are the problem!) just when you actually need their input!:rotfl:

But Andrea Leadsom does seem to have a well padded CV ( resume). Her camp are claiming that it's all a smear campaign Well they would say that wouldn't they? But I worked in the financial sector in the City for 35 years and it does have that ring to it. To give an e ample, she gave an interview in which she claimed to be the first woman appointed as a Director of an investment bank BZW. The implication was, she was appointed to the main Board. But BZW had directors like big American companies have vice-presidents

Nargleblast

I can see lots of dirty smear campaign stuff happening between now and September. Life goes on as normal, hey?