THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

mardatha

I've been told by the gp and consultant to eat more salt, my sodium is low. I can eat ready salted crisps now without feeling guilty.
And the best bit is that the bathroom scales battery has died so I don't know what the cost is. Yet.
Preps this week are filling the flu box and scraping together a pile of prescription meds, in case of emergency and not being able to get to the docs in bad weather.

GreyQueen

fuddle wrote: »

That's what I do GQ. I figure I can turn tinned ham, corned beef and tuna into something over a heat source or eat it cold. I've also got some tinned stewed steak in for a gravylicious treat... the thought of eating it in normal terms just makes me think salt but in an emergency...

Could I ask which brand of stewing steak you use, fuddle? I'm minded to have some in my preps, too, but haven't decided which kind, yet.

Like mardatha, I trend towards the low side on the old sodium, so don't worry about occasionally eating something salty.

I can recall seeing maps of the UK covered in snow apart from one little chunk out of the south coast, which seems to be where thriftwizard hangs her hat. What a peculiar microclimate that spot must have.

I thought Mt Cook National Park was fabulous, ivyleaf, but the three days I was up there in the YHA hostel were unusually clear and dry. Regulars tell me that some visitors come and never actually get to see Mt Cook itself as it is hidden in clouds. I loved it up there, boating on glacier lakes (I've eaten a bit off an iceberg!) and hiking and watching the kea prise their way into the dustbins.

When icebergs first calve off the glacier, they pop up from underwater and they haven't yet turned icy, they are an astonishing turquoise for an hour or so, the most beautiful things you ever saw in your life, like massive gemstones

Know what you mean about embarrassing visitors, tho. I was elsewhere in NZ, on a tour boat in Milford Sound. Google it. And don't forget to breathe. Bear in mind it's in the middle of nowhere and you have to travel for many hours to get there. And what did I see on the tour boat?

People sitting SLEEPING or drinking coffee and reading magazines throughout the short excursion trip. Honestly, holidays are wasted on some people, hey? :rotfl:

ivyleaf

GQ We stayed out on deck the whole trip on the Sound, and it was very windy and very wet, that time. But an amazing experience. A few years later we were lucky enough to go back on our own and the weather was gorgeous and we saw seals and lots of dolphins in the Sound and I shall never forget it

Concentrate, ivyleaf! This is the prepping thread So, stewing steak - we had some the other day as i felt too ill to cook the chicken I'd planned. It was the Sainsbugs own brand and was fine, not too salty.

Hope you're feeling much better fuddle

fuddle

I am Ivyleaf, thank you

GQ I have princes stewing steak. It seemed the best of a bad bunch. You're spot on with thriftwizard's residence and it's microclimate. It is indeed quite bizarre. Hopefully thriftwizard will be able to explain why. Someone explained it to me whilst I was down there but it's gone from the auld cogs.

thriftwizard

You're spot on with thriftwizard's residence and it's microclimate. It is indeed quite bizarre. Hopefully thriftwizard will be able to explain why. Someone explained it to me whilst I was down there but it's gone from the auld cogs.

TBH I've never known, Fuddle, but I suspect it's to do with the lie of the land; from whichever way you approach this area except south, you are coming down from higher hills; we lie in a basin amongst gentle rolling hills, with a huge natural harbour a few miles to the south, which exerts a very moderating effect on the weather. South of that, there's a high ridge which keeps the worst of anything approaching from that direction away from us. North lie the big chalk hills of the Dorset/Wilts border that run into Salisbury Plain, east lies The Forest, quite hilly too, and west lie big hills including the highest point on the South Coast, Golden Cap. So from almost any direction that nasty weather might hit, there are hills before you get to us, which will bear the brunt of it as precipitation falls when the cold air in the clouds encounters warmer updrafts from the hills.

Great country for hang-gliding & parasailing, too! But it has the odd effect that I can walk up any of our local hills when the rest of the country is blanketed by snow, and see it lying thick on the hills all around, but not one flake will have fallen here. You can see it a bit in the local placenames; the "Winterbournes" are chalk streams that only run in winter, partly because chalk is so porous & absorbs much of the water, but also because this little chunk of Britain just doesn't get quite as much rain as the hills all round us. Usually...

DigForVictory

The conjunction of Salisbury Plain & hang-gliding has my imagination blinking somewhat. I'm sure there are communications methods in place to prevent misunderstandings but Yikes!

GreyQueen

Custom and practise dictate that the Army can only shoot hang-gliders after the Glorious Twelth-and-a-half, and then only on alternate Thursdays and if said hang-glider is wearing neon apparel.

At all other times, shooting them is strictly forbidden and will get the perpetrator court-martialled.

Therefore, with a little pre-planning, it should be a perfectly safe past time, of one isn't actually colour-blind or chronologically confused.

DigForVictory

Ah GQ, delighted to hear there is a Proper Season for hang gliders. (Bet the Navy do it differently...) I struggle to keep the young guns mindful that Mince Pie season runs from Advent to Epiphany & not one minute before or after, but I must remind them of the penalties. Courts Martial galore... [I put the Riot Act onto my Facebook feed so I could find it in a hurry & to my surprise, it got shared, repeatedly.]

Just had one of those short but fervent conversations about leaving antihistamines in the car Throughout The Year. For me, the things are sedatives. For Himself, they are vital as not only is he allergic to cat hair, I'd forgotten he's also allergic to wool dust....

Ah well. I chucked a set of poundshop bike lights in the kit as well. Can double as alert & torch as needed. Plus two bottles of Lucozade (vile but effective). Still looking for fruit & nut choc that is right on the *edge* of Devour Me Now... Suggestions?!

armyknife

thriftwizard wrote: »

TBH I've never known, Fuddle, but I suspect it's to do with the lie of the land; from whichever way you approach this area except south, you are coming down from higher hills; we lie in a basin amongst gentle rolling hills, with a huge natural harbour a few miles to the south, which exerts a very moderating effect on the weather. South of that, there's a high ridge which keeps the worst of anything approaching from that direction away from us. North lie the big chalk hills of the Dorset/Wilts border that run into Salisbury Plain, east lies The Forest, quite hilly too, and west lie big hills including the highest point on the South Coast, Golden Cap. So from almost any direction that nasty weather might hit, there are hills before you get to us, which will bear the brunt of it as precipitation falls when the cold air in the clouds encounters warmer updrafts from the hills.

Great country for hang-gliding & parasailing, too! But it has the odd effect that I can walk up any of our local hills when the rest of the country is blanketed by snow, and see it lying thick on the hills all around, but not one flake will have fallen here. You can see it a bit in the local placenames; the "Winterbournes" are chalk streams that only run in winter, partly because chalk is so porous & absorbs much of the water, but also because this little chunk of Britain just doesn't get quite as much rain as the hills all round us. Usually...

Oh Lytchett Matravers; I used to pass through there all the time, nowadays once a year.

I'm over in the Hampshire/Wiltshire Avon valley.

milasavesmoney

Chalk streams...... Sneaking off to Google. (Love new things I'm unfamiliar with)