THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

VJsmum

I'm fascinated / obsessed with the whole bliddy !!!!!! storm of it. If he's taking us to war or whatever then I want to know in plenty of time,....

I also want to see the impeachment unfold.

Mind when I thought about all the possibilities of war through Brexit and Trump, I didn't think it would be due to Gibraltar.......

Karmacat

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

The articles I read about ants/aphids were the recommended 'Pyrethroid Insectiside' info. Now you know it IS aphids, you can try all the benign alternatives there are until you find your own solution in a form that is acceptable to you pet!

Thank you Mrs L, thats kind - and, um, I never thought about dealing with the aphids directly, bypassing the ants

mardatha wrote: »

If any of you lot down there feel like coming up to the Border and throwing cake or sweeties over... I'M HERE!

I was up in East Lothian last May for a family wedding, Mar, and me and my sister loved it so much we're planning to head that way again now we're both retired. Will definitely bring English jelly babies for you to bite

Nargleblast wrote: »

I suppose if you're desperate you will eat anything. Did anyone see the TV series out last year where volunteers were put into slum surroundings to experience life in the slums in different decades in Victorian Britain? In one episode they cooked up pigs' feet, and teenagers amongst them were picking at the cooked meat and saying how nice it was to eat hot meat after an endless diet of bread and marge. In real life they wouldn't be seen dead eating it.

I have some feedback on this, as a vegetarian who used to have a flying phobia

A loooong time ago, I was travelling from Crete back to England by train - boat/train/boat/train/train, etc etc - and I was really tired by the time I got to Switzerland, needed a sleep in a proper bed. I had the money for a weird little room in a posh hotel very near the train station. After that, I only had money for fast food type stuff, not a sit down restaurant, and there were no supermarkets or food shops near enough for me to get to, I was so tired. So I went to McDonalds and had double cheeseburger and chips. I ate very slowly - I'd been vegetarian for about 5 years, and I expected the meat to play havoc with my stomach, but I really needed the protein, and I was absolutely fine. You do what you feel you have to do, I guess.

Perplexed_Pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

I don't really know what anybody else thinks Fuds, I rarely see neighbours and we wouldn't talk politics anyway. I do see a lot of cars with the YES2 stickers though. Nobody is more SNP than I am - I've wanted independence since I was old enough to think. But I feel this isn't the right time, and I wish Alec Salmond had stayed in charge, as I feel he was brilliant but NS is a wee bit over the top for me. I do want to leave Europe and I'm glad we are coming out.
I'm not racist or nasty in any way - just a very very proud Scot who loves her nation dearly. I cannot believe any country should willingly vote in another country to rule it.. You feel annoyed sometimes at Brussels bossing you around down there- imagine how we feel up here lol. And if the figures on Scotland's economy are wrong and we run very short of money, then we will deal with that, stand on our own feet and stop blaming London
I have seen such a lot of nasty racist comments online about all of this and I'm not being hauled into that, so I'm not gonioning any further on this, ok.

Mar, I think it is great that you are proud of your country and personally I would be sorry to see the UK split up. As I understand it the reason the Act of Union was passed in Scotland was because "the figures on Scotland's economy were wrong and you ran very short of money ".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme

"England wouldn't ever vote for France to come in and take over, so why did we? " - you didn't, both countries voted to be ruled by a Scottish king (James VI/I).
I'm sure my understanding is too simplistic though :rotfl:

GreyQueen

I don't want to see Scotland leave the UK. I studied in a Scottish university and am very fond of many places north of the border and have visited such far-flung places as the Outer Hebrides, which are fantastic.Have Scottish friends in Scotland and Scottish friends in England.

Of course, I don't get a vote but neither will the very many Scots who live in England and Wales and other places further afield. I wonder what the intention is for them, should Scotland vote for and secede from the UK? I know Scots down here who have never lost their wonderful accents but who have spent much more of their lives in England than Scotland and who will never 'pass' as English. Nor would they want to.

Will non-Scotland-resident Scots suddenly become foriegners in the other parts of the UK and have to apply for residence permits? And non-Scots living in Scotland, will they have to choose between naturalisation or moving south?

What will happen in respect of the land border between Scotland and England? Customs posts? Passport checks? Tariffs on trade? Exports and imports? Who will make the physical money, who will patrol the shores?

What will befall Scots resident in other parts of the world whose rights therein are based upon them being UK citizens? Will other countries decide that they are no longer covered by immigration rules that apply to Brits and maybe decide they're not welcome? The Scots diaspora is massive........

Have all these things been thought through and planned for? What will happen if there is a closely-contested result, will TPTB demand a re-run of the re-run, sort of a best of three?

Lots of parts of the UK feel ignored by the beast of Westminster, my own among them. We used to have several discrete countries in what is now 1-2 counties, as did just about everywhere else; I'm sure there used to be four whole kingdoms in what we now call Kent.

Perhaps the best result would be for Lunnon Town to secede from the UK (their energy needs can amply be supplied by a hot air catcher over Westminster) and then the rest of us can get on with it.:rotfl:

greenbee

GreyQueen wrote: »

Perhaps the best result would be for Lunnon Town to secede from the UK (their energy needs can amply be supplied by a hot air catcher over Westminster) and then the rest of us can get on with it.:rotfl:

I've been saying this for years GQ. I'm glad to see someone else agrees - do you think we could get a campaign going to expel Westminster and all the politicians from the UK? (and if we could do genetic testing for politicians we could make sure that all future politicians were proactively exiled too...):cool:

maryb

I think an independence vote while we were still all in the EU would have felt as if not too much would change. I feel now as if it would be much more of a parting of the ways.

But look at Ireland - none of the Irish would change anything now even though they plunged into priest-ridden poverty and isolation for decades after 1921. And at least you wouldn't be priest-ridden. Sometimes there's a price to pay and a decision to make whether it is worth it.

GreyQueen

greenbee wrote: »

I've been saying this for years GQ. I'm glad to see someone else agrees - do you think we could get a campaign going to expel Westminster and all the politicians from the UK? (and if we could do genetic testing for politicians we could make sure that all future politicians were proactively exiled too...):cool:

Sign me on the dotted line!

But where is bad enough that they should have politicians inflicted on them? Gobi Desert? The Skeleton Coast? Parts of Alaska where I understand the polar bears are getting a bit peckish?

You certainly couldn't honorably send a boatload of politicians to any inhabited place, think of the havoc they could cause........:D

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Marianus Trench???

'Mare Imbrium'???

mardatha

I don't think we will get it anyway. But I do greatly admire Ireland for having the courage to go for it and get it. I'm half Irish and always wanted to retire to Galway.. but not going to happen now.

maryb

Well at least it wouldn't be accompanied by the same level of violence. My grandmother's cousin was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising, (which makes me related to Gregory Peck), and my grandfather was in the RIC. They were never stationed in their home area so they were very much at risk with no local ties. The IRA took a shot at him one Sunday. Family legend has it that it was in church as he went to communion but I can't think that is right, it would surely have made news. Much more likely is that he was on his way home from church.

Anyway a lot of RIC had to be evacuated after the Irish Free State was established for fear of retribution. My grandfather was offered passage to any of England, US, Canada or Australia but my grandmother couldn't face never seeing her family again so they chose England. And in late middle age they took ship from Queenstown with two small children to start again with nothing. Asylum seekers, in effect. He sent my grandmother and the children back for six weeks every summer but never went back himself. Cardinal Heenan was their parish priest at the time and used to come round of an evening to drink whiskey and keep him company. Just one family among many whose lives were turned upside down.