THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

Witless

Si_Clist wrote: »

Or as neatly put on one of my favourite T-shirts "Life is meaningless, and then you die"

ETA - my all-time favourite is the one best suited for messing with the minds of folks in the checkout queue in Waitrose ... "My friend Brian lives in my pocket. He tells me when to start the fires."

I once had one that said "I should have listened to the voices and stayed home to clean the guns" (and many other equally inappropriate ones - like the two vultures on a cactus plant "Patience my !!! - I'm gonna kill something").

Either I've matured or the ravages of time mean they no longer fit or aren't fit to wear.

DigForVictory

Well, none of mine have gone to dust yet. Youngest devoured heroic (larger than godfather's) portion & is now searching for Terry Pratchetts he can't recite.

Thanks to those who post, when I go to dust, I'll go a Great Deal Better Informed, although my death certificate may suggest not quite well enough to recognise unsafe home made cheese. (My reading has included pTerry & so I've been leafing through a 'make your own cheese' tome. I may yet churn my own Horace...)

I have a sudden urge to print & wear assorted T shirts.

Nargleblast

monnagran wrote: »

Enough of this petty pilfering!

GIVE THAT ELEPHANT BACK AT ONCE.

You have no idea of what you might have unleashed. Have you never heard of the fearsome army the Garden Fence has assembled?

Get back to your prepping games and leave the serious stuff to us.

x

Timely entrance there, monnagran, there's a dumpy little squit in North Korea could do with a good old schoolmarm talking to!

Witless

DigForVictory wrote: »

I have a sudden urge to print & wear assorted T shirts.

We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.

Don't take life too seriously; you won't get out of it alive.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side & a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either. JUST LEAVE ME ALONE.

Si_Clist

Nargleblast's mention of matey boy in North Korea prompts me to post this ...

moneyistooshorttomention

Is this where we all have a contest to figure out a suitable name for "matey boy" in Korea?

I can't use the first name I thought of - as I already use that for another political leader.

Any suggestions?

jk0

Anyone read this on Zerohedge:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-15/video-tampering-evidence-syrian-chemical-weapons-attack

If you read to the end you can see that basically well meaning US presidents have been 'wound up' by their intelligence chiefs into taking unjustified action.

Who needs TPTB to instruct the president, when they can just manipulate him into doing their bidding?

fuddle

Never dare a fool...

Can I ask for prepping lamp suggestions?

I have a hook in the beam in the kitchen (oh, eradicate visions of wooden beauty, it's been artexed and staying that way) and looking to keep it when the kitchen is refit this week.

It would be an ideal place to hang a lantern if we lose power on the hill. Please could you educate me with fuel types, safe burners, robust lanterns, low scent and toxicity for poorly lungs and asthma etc so I can make an informed decision?

cbrown372

fuddle wrote: »

Never dare a fool...

Can I ask for prepping lamp suggestions?

I have a hook in the beam in the kitchen (oh, eradicate visions of wooden beauty, it's been artexed and staying that way) and looking to keep it when the kitchen is refit this week.

It would be an ideal place to hang a lantern if we lose power on the hill. Please could you educate me with fuel types, safe burners, robust lanterns, low scent and toxicity for poorly lungs and asthma etc so I can make an informed decision?

I ordered a metal old style-ee looking lamp from Amazon but when it came I couldn't get it to work, battery operated, returned it. Then saw one in Aldi in plastic, again battery operated, with LED lights, really bright. We are prone to power cuts so I have one in the hall and one beside the bed, think it was about £2.99 and you can hang up. I have a feeling they were in Aldi for the summer for outdoor entertaining so have a look now.

Dying to see your fireplace :j hope the new kitchen goes well. I went on holiday when mine was being done, best move ever!

fuddle

cbrown the plan was to take the caravan away for a few days but the fools we are we went away last weekend and had a tyre blowout (tyres had perished but as they looked like new we didn't replace them last year when we bought the caravan. Idiots that we are) which has damged the pipework so we can't take it out until that's fixed, serviced and 3 new tyres (3rd being the spare and confidence in it)

cbrown I love my fire. She's nothing special; just small on a black yorkshire stone hearth but the feeling she gives me is one of control and investment. Nothing I can put in this house will give me what that stove does. She's a dirty girl but I wouldn't have her any other way. I'll show you when the living room done.

I wandered along the miner's lamp way of thinking cbrown and got all romantic for a minute there but battery operated would be better with kiddlers, heck even solar eh?