THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

TheGardener

mardatha wrote: »

That's the first step on a long road, Gardener!

Tined food is next on the hit list - I've always got a few cans in the back of the cupboard but next weekend will do an inventory and a little plan - I reckon 2 or 3 extra cans of food each time I go shopping will be ok budget wise. I've also spotted a nice little wind up radio online that will hopefully find itself wrapped up under the Christmas tree after a few hints to the kids
I'd be lost without a radio - not much of a TV watcher but the radio goes on at 6am and goes off about 10pm (the dog listens to it while I'm at work )

pineapple

GreyQueen wrote: »

Nettles are great because you can chop 'em off at ground level and get brand new nettles in any month of the year. Ain't nature wunnerful?

Phew. That's a relief. Just so long as they haven't been peed on :rotfl:

maryb

I've been very discombobulated by the change in the clocks this year and slept very badly the last couple of nights. It occurred to me that some herbal remedies might be helpful to have in store to cope with disturbed sleep patterns in times of upheaval. I've tried Valerian in the past and they say that lavender oil on the pillow is also helpful. Might try that tonight

silverwhistle

Si_Clist wrote: »

By gum, that's the first sighting of that term since I left Merseyside many a moon ago now! According to the old biddy across the street, Waterloo Porridge was what you'd get if you diluted a bowl of proper porridge in a bucketful of hot water ...

That's the stuff - very thin gruel for when times were hard.

moneyistooshorttomention

maryb wrote: »

I've been very discombobulated by the change in the clocks this year and slept very badly the last couple of nights. It occurred to me that some herbal remedies might be helpful to have in store to cope with disturbed sleep patterns in times of upheaval. I've tried Valerian in the past and they say that lavender oil on the pillow is also helpful. Might try that tonight

I've got a feeling I get rather "disoriented" sleepwise twice a year (ie when they change the clocks). Been difficult to tell this year - when I've duly had several disrupted nights in a row because of "Life". But do report back to us results of this please:)

GreyQueen

pineapple wrote: »

Phew. That's a relief. Just so long as they haven't been peed on :rotfl:

If anything was peeing on my allotment, it was probably a rat or a cat. I think 4 mins in a saucepan prolly counts as sterilisation.

They were lovely little nettles and I felt very energised after eating them, you could almost see the vitamins in the beggars.

Was reading about eating weeds and it is apparently the case that many weeds root deeply and bring up minerals not easily found in mainstream veggies. Also, soil which has been flogged for decades with chemical fertilisers is liable to be deficient in trace elements.

More and more, as I reel through life, I've come to believe that dining on widely-varied produce is the way to good health.

DigForVictory

GreyQueen wrote: »

you could almost see the vitamins in the beggars.

Right. If you lovely souls will excuse me, (and some of the inevitable language), I have a spot of light nettle picking in the back garden calling me.
Not the tender young shoots - the big hairy badtempered things. For vitamins, however...

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It's going to be a cold night, here in Lancashire.

It's not even 2100hrs yet, and it's below freezing.

DigForVictory

Cold in parts, certainly. I slipped, put a hand out straight into the nettles, landed badly anyway, got stung in places I'd thought were covered & in getting back up crushed more stings into one hand.

It's quite tricky opening the multivite tub one handed, but I can feel the mitt of Fate in the small of my back.

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Thinking about bicycle trailers, it occurs to me that it's odd that you can tow a trailer behind a bicycle, but not a small motorcycle :huh: