THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

greenbee

thriftwizard wrote: »

Greenbee, clearly what you need to deal with those flies is - some spiders... (ducks)

I'm going to sack the spiders there are... they're clearly not up to the job!

[Deleted User]

greenbee wrote: »

Telephone directories or dictionaries work well Mar...

Please don't kill spiders.

They're a force for good.

[Deleted User]

thriftwizard wrote: »

Greenbee, clearly what you need to deal with those flies is - some spiders... (ducks)

And a bird, and a cat, and a dog, and a goat, and a cow, and a horse.

GreyQueen

Two nights ago there was a cranefly (aka daddy-long-legs) blundering about this small back bedroom as I put the light out to retire to the Land of Nod.

In the morning there was a bundle of legs,which looked exactly like a folded-up cranefly, in the web in the corner of this room which is home to one of those spindly spiders.

I was going to take this web down but I've changed my mind.

Have been Out for 8 hours in Forn Parts (another county, seemingly full of rich people driving chelsea tractors very very badly). It's been 29 celclius here today and the sky was a flawless perfect blue from horizon to horizon.

Wunnerful.

Witless

GreyQueen wrote: »

driving chelsea tractors very very badly

A much maligned and underestimated skill set.

GreyQueen

Witless wrote: »

A much maligned and underestimated skill set.

They must annoy the real tractor drivers no end. Those lanes are pretty narrow and were clearly laid out in the pony and trap era.

I knew we weren't in Kansas anymore when I saw a Se@s@lt shop. That, and the amount of wine shops and boats were pretty much a giveaway. Pretty part of the world but I'd hate to live there on my income level, it'd be very difficult to get by in Boutique-ville.

ivyleaf

Hope you're enjoying the break GQ! Are you in forn parts just for the week?

GreyQueen

ivyleaf wrote: »

Hope you're enjoying the break GQ! Are you in forn parts just for the week?

I'm at the parental home for five days and using it as the basis for day trips Mon-Weds. Here this morning, hospital visiting this afternoon, back home-home tomorrow.

I am kondo-ing in return for my keep, lol.

thriftwizard

I knew we weren't in Kansas anymore when I saw a Se@s@lt shop. That, and the amount of wine shops and boats were pretty much a giveaway. Pretty part of the world but I'd hate to live there on my income level, it'd be very difficult to get by in Boutique-ville.

Welcome to my world! Can't buy a screwdriver here any more, or a lightbulb if you need anything that isn't politically correct, but I can choose between 20 different kinds of overpriced, underspecified green welly (that'd last about a week in our garden, never mind a real field) or relax with a cup of organic delicately-scented chai and a wisp of exotic pastry on every corner!

I sometimes think I've blundered into some kind of living lifestyle magazine, where people think nothing of spending tens of thousands on a BBQ hut for one "special birthday" party. I see friends who had good, solid careers in teaching or middle management snapping up the rare yellow-stickers in W8rose and turning out their pockets for the last dregs of change to pay for it, whilst congratulating each other on how well the kids are doing upcountry. We're all frantically trying to keep the "face" up and not admit that we've all been priced out of the market & the pension's nowhere near enough to live on, especially not if you happen to have kids still living at home for whatever reason.

Worries me a bit that this is the part of the country that people live the longest. It'll be more like exist the longest for those of us not blessed with "disposable" income...

pineapple

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Please don't kill spiders.

They're a force for good.

These words won't cut any ice with a true spider phobic. I can't even begin to describe the horror these creatures instill in me. I've thought about getting one of those long spider catchers as I simply can't go anywhere near.
Been sleeping downstairs with the dog who had a stroke a couple of days back, then last night I saw a huge beastie roaming around. That thing may have been crawling all over me the previous night. Shudders.... :eek: