THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

lillibet_dripping

Monna - I've just moved into one of these
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-57829576.html

This one looks a bit sombre, but my deck is full of flowers and plants in tubs plus lots of herbs. Tomatoes and strawberries are grown in window boxes.
I found that my 3-bed cottage with large garden and veg plot was getting too much for me and these lodges are the ideal solution!
So much so, that my parents have also bought on on this park!!
The only downside is that the park closes for two weeks in Janurary - but I just go to Spain for that time!
Lilli

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It's FAB!!!

lillibet_dripping

Even better, we have a pool, sauna, jacuzzi and golf course plus restaurant and club house - all free access to lodge owners! I absolutely love it. We are surrounded by deer, badgers, rabbits and more wild birds than you can shake a stick at! No council tax and all utilities are handled by the Estate - they just read your meters and give you a bill every quarter...

monnagran

Lillibet, that looks lovely, but it's a long way from where I want to live! I have a friend who lives in a Park home though not as beautiful as yours. If there was something comparable here I would give it serious consideration.

Ivyleaf and Nargleblast, I do thank you for your touching faith in my interior decorating abilities. Sadly it is misplaced. I am very boring and conventional. Give me a pot of Magnolia emulsion and I'm a happy bunny. My tablet seems to think that my colour of choice is 'mongolia'. Perhaps it thinks that i should be living in a yurt.
Now that's an idea!

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fuddle

Hear hear to boring and conventional Has any residential establishment caught your eye even just a little bit monna?

Well I have come up with the perfect solution for both of you monna and Lyn. Come up and live next door to me. Next door and next-door-but-one are up for sale and HWK knows can replace me as the only one on the allotment waiting list for the [STRIKE]allotments [/STRIKE]kitchen gardens out the back. We'd live happily ever after especially as those two houses still have the out houses. Perfect elephant storage, no?

ivyleaf

Excellent idea fuds :T

monnagran I was thinking more along the lines that any house/bungalow/yurt of yours would be lent bags of character by its characterful owner

monnagran

Oh Fuddle, you temptress you! Just imagine the chaos the 3 of us could cause if we combined our efforts. Mind you, your OH would possibly leave home, the girls would disown you and HWK would change his name to IDKTW, (I Don't Know These Women.)
I'll start packing, shall I?

No, I've not seen anything that tickles my fancy yet. Just as well as I promised myself that I wouldn't look seriously until I had a firm offer on this place.

Hope the chest is behaving itself.

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monnagran

ivyleaf wrote: »

Excellent idea fuds :T

monnagran I was thinking more along the lines that any house/bungalow/yurt of yours would be lent bags of character by its characterful owner

No Ivyleaf. You have misread me. Nobody knows how they come over to other people and no-one sees themselves as others see them but I promise you that I am a rather quiet mousy person, very conventional and ordinary. Honestly.

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Is house maintenance part of prepping? I think it is

A salutary lesson for all of is, just this week. A woman in a cottage in my village, not really kept up with maintenance. Had a man in to do some outside work to her cottage wall and a huge can of worms has been uncovered. Had to call an expert in urgently and it is going to cost her loads, ie thousands, obviously a non standard build so insurance won`t cover it. There will be a few cottage owners around who will be very worried, this was a poor working village in the past. Every bit of rot, every crack, it all should be dealt with when it happens or the consequences could be terrible

Re allotment or veg growing. Not everyone thinks ahead and some may have missed the boat, like I did with celeriac. The plants came today and yet again they are super quality. If you have space and want plants, then I recommend looking on ebay. I have never had bad veg plants from there

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My word that's a wonderful idea FUDS, we'll have to club together and buy a cauldron if we live three in a row, change the name of the village to Lancre and learn to ride broomsticks, Monna and I will wrangle about which one of us is Esme Weatherwax and which one is Gytha Ogg but you my dear will be Magrat Garlick as she was the youthful one and prone to picking wild flowers and making cordials! it would give gainful employment to that heferlump too but we'd have to find 3 more to make all proper, oh Sir Terry would be soooooooo proud.....and the rest of the known world would be quaking in their boots!!! Oh what fun!!!