THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

ivyleaf

maryb wrote: »

My feeling is it's a combination of noise for domestic consumption in the US and Japan - distract people from what's going on under their noses - and getting their excuses in first, particularly in the case of Japan where their latest economic strategy is proving no more successful than any of the others.

The British press feel safe in being mischievous/provocative, since the economic numbers aren't looking too bad at the moment so they are putting out headlines suggesting Theresa May was pushed to the fringes when the G20 photos were taken. But Zerohedge was quite interesting. They showed the whole photograph, not just a part of it, and what you actually saw was Theresa May standing next to Saudia Arabia (who were right on the edge) - so she was hardly out in the cold. The person who WAS right on the fringes was Juncker. Also interesting - Russia and Turkey chatting away but not with the US

Someone said on another thread that people's position in these photos depends on how long they've been in their post, and posted a similar one showing David Cameron in a similar position :cool:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=71254800&postcount=10

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Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Mini problem planning - the OH's ferry home didn't go to plan, as the driver wasn't very careful about working out where to go in Calais to pick up the return. Cue circumnavigating The Jungle a couple of times and they eventually got on a much later sailing, so he's still not back.

My mate is a coach driver, and he got sacked for missing the ferry.

I wouldn't mind, but he only missed it by 20 feet.

ALIBOBSY

mardatha wrote: »

What do we all think of the news in todays papers about the state of supermarket meat? Is organic meat ok? What can we do to prep for this - all turn vegetarian?? And eat green stuff?? :eek::eek::eek:

TBF as long as meat is thoroughly cooked through any type of ecoli will be killed alongside any other bacteria, we buy the majority of our meat from a local butcher on a farm so the meat is high welfare, locally produced and fab quality. Pretty good prices as well. The best tasting steak beef mince we have ever tasted, from their farm itself is 5lb (actually 5 1/2 kilo bags) for £13.99. Free range local big chicken breasts same weight and same price. Can get a large free range chicken locally produced for around £5-£6. They also do locally shot game of all types, local pies and puddings and cheeses eggs etc. Great place and lovely family. Well worth looking around to see if you have this sort of place near to you. We also have another local farm shop for fruits and veggies et al. Got 12.5kg sack of local "fambo" spuds for £3.20.

Ali x

Just realised both these shops have been around for years and are family run, both started as little places selling their own produce and in recent years have really expanded. The veg shop even has a fish van outside twice a week who sells lovely fresh fish, but you queue for ages behind people wanting just £2 of that fish or the other lol.

Si_Clist

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

Got 12.5kg sack of local "fambo" spuds for £3.20 ...

Am I the only one here now wondering what a "fambo" spud is?

ALIBOBSY

Si_Clist wrote: »

Am I the only one here now wondering what a "fambo" spud is?

It's the variety of spud and is an all rounder type. Unlike the supermarkets in farm shops you get the actual variety names, they also had maris peer for slightly more and freshly dug up new pots from the field nearby (dug that morning in fact) for simular prices, but you wouldn't buy a large amount of new spuds as they don't keep as well.

I guess I am lucky we live in a village on the edge of a small town with lots of farms around.

Ali x

maryb

We found a fantastic butcher selling high welfare meat off the farm. Sadly they've just been turfed out of the farm shop they were selling from and it is going to be an e-shop where you order and collect from the mobile van on one of its stops. Not the same as being able to look before you buy. But I probably will order some meat in bulk because it's all 100%grass fed, no grain at all so really good stuff. Ivyleaf I think you live in my neck of the woods - did you ever use them? it was the farm shop at Kelsey farm near Bexley.

maryb

We are in France for a few days. We thought the ferries to St Malo would be nice and quiet and a good bit cheaper once the schools went back.

Talk about a Geriatrics Getaway!! And sadly, I have to accept we were as grey haired as any of them. Far from being quiet, the ferry was heaving and we could only get a cabin on deck 2 well below the water line. I'm not sure there is any prepping you can do in a situation like that, if anything happens while you are in your cabin you are a gonner They have been carrying out drills on Brittany Ferries simulating a terrorist attack mid channel - they did make announcements before helicopters practiced landing while the ship was in mud channel. However if you are in your cabin, you can't necessarily hear the announcements - not all of them come through the cabin speakers.

GreyQueen

maryb, my city's streets are suddenly full of pensioners on their holibobs this week. I wouldn't mind but they're lollygagging around clogging up the narrow pavements and taking all the time in the world and I'm trying to get to places in a hurry.

My grey-haired self will be on holibobs next week, too. I plan to be in various other parts of the region, doing touristic things and browsing in secondhand book shops.

Added some more corned beef to the stash this week, gotta rebuild supplies. I am still slightly-shocked that I nearly ran out. OK, I do eat it most weeks as well as keep it for the apocalypse, but even so, I didn't expect to be nearly out of it.

I am now reading Richard Doyle's novel 'Deluge' from the 1970s, which was re-written by him as 'Flood' - I'd rate the re-write as better but they are both real page-turners. I find the behaviour of officialdom, as in not wanting to upset business-as-usual by issuing warnings for something which could well be a false alarm, to be all too credible.

I have also re-started archery after a summer break. My first shot of the evening was a '10' - right into the centre of the target. It was all downhill from there, sadly........... :rotfl:

ivyleaf

Glad you're going to have a proper break GQ, you work so hard for other people all the time! Hope you have a really relaxing time.

maryb I know the farm shop you mean, but we've never been there. I hope the butcher will continue to thrive in its new guise. We're lucky enough to have a really good butcher locally, with a greengrocery next door to it (I think he rents his part of the building from the butcher.)

maryb

People who are -ahem- older than oneself are always nippy enough to get in front of you before they slow to a crawl