THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

maryb

Did you see a 20 something IT security chappie (reading between the lines one of the good guy hackers) has stopped it in its tracks by registering an address it was targeting as a domain name (or something) which has made it go round in ever decreasing circles.

Apologies to the IT people out there who actually know what the chap did and are certainly cringing at what I have just posted

GreyQueen

Yup. ZH are ruminating that the whole thing may be a false-flag to give cause to criminalise bitcoin, among other things. I do loves me a bit of tin-hattery of an evening..........

maryb

Why you cynical wee thing, you! How could you even think that things are not just as they seem?

[Deleted User]

Just bought a pair of Faux Silk curtains.

They're actually 100% Polyester, and are heavily creased, as they come out of the wrapping.

Naturally, I'm ironing them, before hanging.

I can feel (not to mention hear) the static building up, as I iron.

Every now and then it discharges, at which point my hair (if I had any ) would probably look like this. :eek:

GreyQueen

Just make sure you don't bring a naked flame anywhere near them, BB, or they'll catch fire with a whoosh.

maryb, it's a turrible wurld when cynical people like me are allowed to have internet connections, innit? I reckon I should be locked up..... :rotfl:

I'm gently easing into the day before a late morning stroll round some Sunday-opening chazzers then an afternoon sesh terrorising the allotment. Can see a fair few people haven't knuckled down and done much (or even done any) work yet. If you're waiting for the perfect weather here in Blightly, you'll have a long wait and need to (wo)man up and just get cracking.

[Deleted User]

I am going to prep and kondo a bit in my garden today, making life easier and prettier for the future. 4 large low wide stone pots containing gravel, helping to hold a cantilever umbrella in place. I have decided to empty most of the gravel out and fill with a poor mix of compost containing lots of sand and grit, the weight will still be there. I have ordered more semperviviums and they will go in there, all surrounded by grit and that is it. My other pots containing these plants are looking stunning and require no care, just a weed pull from time to time and maybe one watering,, if spring/summer is incredibly dry.

Prepping in my garden is almost complete, easy care, easy manage and lovely to be in, even the water features are easy solar features. I bought my third online a few weeks ago and was presented with a disgustingly ugly black bucket with three stainless tubes on top of the lid. This was meant for my patio. I almost pulled my hair out but slept on it and it is now hidden in a lovely lightweight round planter,speckled dark grey with matching large white speckled pebbles hiding the top and cables. I tweaked the workings and now have a beautiful feature which will last for many years. All I have to do is press the on button and keep the water topped up and it runs down all the tubes. Looks very expensive and designer now instead of tacky

I expect monday will bring a new wave of internet chaos, I have made sure that my computer is safe, some more windows downloads appeared this morning

[Deleted User]

I expect so too Kittie, whether or not it was a targeted attack someone has set the worm amongst the cables and if one hacker can succeed then guaranteed others will follow and there will be ongoing problems and different 'worms' to plague computer systems and cause problems for all of us. I guess it's difficult to prep for everything but He Who Knows as the computer guy in this house is meticulous in keeping updates downloaded and back ups regularly carried out. He has his own system for keeping us as safe as is possible BUT a couple of months ago even with all this and the layers of security we have and always have had I was looking for recipes and we got the 'oops your computer is locked' message out of the blue and I know a couple of others of us who use OS did too at more or less the same time. Thankfully we had backed up and could sort it out in hours and not lose anything important but it was a scare. When I search now I use Google Chrome as he says it's slightly more secure! live and learn petals, live and learn!!!

DigForVictory

Blimey. The research historian is chatting to strange women online trying to source a couple of cow horns of a specific vintage breed. Seems one horn held tallow & the other sand & the field worker dunked his stricklestick or rhip (squared length of wood, or even stone) first into the tallow, (wiped the excess on the edge of the horn) then dunked the stick in the sand making a sort of use-anywhere sanding rod to sharpen the agricultural tool to hand.

Well, tallow is easily rendered (and the Britannia beef dripping does a passable job if you *don't* fancy the boiling & straining & novel conversation with your butcher) & sand can be scooped from most beaches (and ahem building sites) so should you need to sharpen a blade, you need not get fancy tackle - you can go pre-medieval on it!

Stashing needles in oil in a length of horn has a longstanding seafaring history - how else do you protect sailmakers needles from the salt air?
Of course sandpaper & carborundum stones have their place but if that place isn't to hand then may *knowledge* be within reach!

[Deleted User]

Now that's exactly the sort of knowledge that we NEED to put into the prepping 'battery de cuisine' D for V, practical low tech 'How To' knowledge that will outlast anything electronic, written (although possibly cut in stone would last long too)or any other form of record storing. I'd have the conversation with the butcher though, how are we going to educate the rest of the world if we don't start with the local butcher for a tallow supply? mind you I'd possibly not do it in a supermarket.....anything else that Mr. D for V might have lurking in his 'lifestyle' that might be as useful to prepping???

fuddle

Can I ask for help in educating me about condensed and evaporated milk? What are they and how could they, if indeed they could, be useful to my food stores?