THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

fuddle

Thank you Mar

mardatha

Sooo basically, a lot of us on here are stuffed if the S hits the F. Quite a good excuse to just eat cake now innit!

jk0

Thanks guys.

MITSTM, I am drinking Actimel drinks daily. Amazingly these seem to be essential to keep my acne under control. (I didn't think I'd still have it at 51! )

Regarding iron & other vitamins, I take a multivitamin with iron, and also two Sea Kelp tablets daily at the suggestion of someone here. (Sorry, I forget who suggested it, but I'm very grateful.)

Those items mean I function perfectly normally. Also, it's nice not being struck down by flu for weeks every year.

moneyistooshorttomention

Jko - worth checking what types of beneficial bacteria are there in Actimel and how much of them.

I tend to rate kefir more than yogurt personally - as I gather it has lots more types of beneficial bugs in than yogurt. Being a bit lazy at the moment and not keeping up making it currently (though I'll get back to it). So - buying a huge carton of live organic yogurt frequently and having some of that regularly.

Re flu - I was surprised to read recently that apparently 40% of people (that would be British people then presumably - it didnt mention anyone else...) get flu regularly. I thought flu was something one might get once or twice in a lifetime - but I guess some would say I'm in good company. I've had it once in 60 plus years (and I certainly realised what people meant about it then - as I staggered from bed to sofa back to bed for some days). The "good company" (well...maybe) was a comment from Prince Philip in that article that he hasn't had flu in the last 40 years. Apparently it's down to some gene or other 40% of (British?) people have got that makes them more vulnerable to it.

westcoastscot

Fuddle try not to worry about it - try and keep on top of visits to the GP/nurse for your injections, keep an eye on any meds and make sure prescriptions are requested and filled in a timely fashion. I am not prone to catastrophising, but when I feel myself heading that way I have a cup of tea and calm down. Despite my enjoyment of discussing eotwawki scenarios on this thread it's highly unlikely that anything more serious than weather/power cuts/ill health will happen.

You sound like a very capable women, and you will cope with this as well as you have coped with other challenges in your life.
I think I've said before that up to recently I've felt secure in the knowledge that while I have my health and I can do anything - well I've found now my health is poor that I still can find a way to do most things - but it involves more tea drinking and thinking first!!!!

GreyQueen

Well said that woman!

I find I am actively applying my deviousness to getting stuff done without knocking this ageing and poorly body about too badly. A little tea-drinking and plotting can save a lot of energy expenditure.

When you're young and healthy, you tend to deploy a lot of energy unnecessarily just because you can. When those happy circumstances no longer apply, you have to get wily.

Am now about to pedal gently off to the lottie. I will buy some food at the supermarket on the way back, and harvest some food up there. I will strategically do some of my winter work, which I will chip away at, steady as she goes, until I am ready to plant things in spring.

As will all the old hands up there. Some of the noobs will sit and wait until March and then suddenly realise that you can't plant very much into an unruly meadow of couch grass.

Slow and steady wins the day. Have a good 'un, GQ xx

machasraven

Hi all have had a very busy summer/autumn with work, travelling and getting stuff done in the house.

I have had a good harvest from the allotment and now have onion, red onion, and beetroot chutney to last more than a year in the cupboard. I also have plenty of apple sauce and frozeen veg( had to get another freezer).

Still have cauli and broccoli for over the winter growing, though there is a thief who has taken some of the caulis grrrr and explains the number of peas and broad beans looking rather sparse in places.

Oh there is mint wine bottled, lemon balm, peach, black cherry and elderberry wine waiting.

mardatha

Looks bad from NZ today doesn't it - imagine waking up in the middle of the night to a house shaking under you and then hearing those tsunami sirens.. Thank god that's one thing we don't need to worry about here. And yes I do know we get them here lol - but not on that scale.

VJsmum

a few years ago i was woken in the night to a loud jolt.

Woke up OH with me saying "what was that?"

he said "It's an earthquake" rolled over and went back to sleep!!!

:rotfl:

There had been a 4.0 quake about 30 miles away......

machasraven

All the disasters in other countries makes me feel very humble as we live in a place that so far has not received the full force of nature. After the earthquakes before how many people in both Italy and NZ must be thinking how long until my home is destroyed something that we here cannot even imagine.