THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

mardatha

HA heating engineer (sneer) came this morning. Looked at the water tank etc, stated he had never seen a system like ours and solid fuel heating was a !!!!!!. Made a few suggestions that showed he hadn't listened to a word we had said and we eneded up having to explain it all over again (twice). Then he said it was probly an air bubble and put the fire back on and "see what happens". Which we did, and nothing has happened. Still the same, no hot water since Sunday night. Waiting for the silly sod to come back. Wish some of the older HA plumbers were still around, they knew this system and always fixed it fast. All retired now and new younger ones who don't know - or don't want to!

fuddle

mar sadly I think what you're experiencing is the future for us all to come. I think we're educating to use diagnostic tools and part replacement rather than understand and fix. I agree that too much valuable knowledge is leaving our entire workforce as the elders retire.

A sight for today - extension leads plugged into each other 3 fold, coming out of a shop in town and right across the footpath on the high street and leading into an electric car.

Is this our future because all I know is that it's pretty dangerous for the unsteady, the wheeled and the buffoons like me!

ivyleaf

fuddle wrote: »

mar sadly I think what you're experiencing is the future for us all to come. I think we're educating to use diagnostic tools and part replacement rather than understand and fix. I agree that too much valuable knowledge is leaving our entire workforce as the elders retire.

A sight for today - extension leads plugged into each other 3 fold, coming out of a shop in town and right across the footpath on the high street and leading into an electric car.

Is this our future because all I know is that it's pretty dangerous for the unsteady, the wheeled and the buffoons like me!

:eek: That doesn't sound very wise! :eek:

thriftwizard

Would have been a very interesting way of recharging your car here; it was tipping down with rain!

DigForVictory

Not wishing to disrupt the flow, but this site is actually startlingly sensible on burying stuff.
OK, you may not need to bury - a judicious stash in a shed, car, at a neighbour etc may all be perfectly viable, but this Yank appears to have considered the matter Thoroughly.
Good fun reading.

mardatha

He is absolutely right. It has worked from the Romans on

moneyistooshorttomention

Slight snag to burying stuff though. A friend of mine was telling me about a relative that buried money in various locations - and then got dementia. There is a suspicion there might be some buried money underneath land that subsequently got sold and a multi-storey block of flats built on top of it.:cool:

Add that there are some of us perfectly fit - but won't necessarily remember all the possessions we have and therefore have to put them somewhere where it's very "logical" we would put that sort of possession - in order to keep track of them. Okay own up now - who else has bought a book - only to find they already have a copy of that book? Ahem...

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We're at the point of the year where we're picking larger amounts of various crops than we can eat so I've started freezing berries in large amounts, I picked 7 lbs of blackberries last evening! He Who Knows lifted another half row of main crop potatoes and they're clonkers despite having such a dry summer so far so they're going into sacks for storage and I'm going to get the dehydrator down from the store room for courgettes as they are coming in thick and fast too. There was some discussion on the news about the UK post brexit not being able to secure enough foodstuffs to feed us all if there are difficulties in agreeing trade agreements with the rest of the world and also changing the way in which farming subsidies are qualified for by UK farmers so perhaps the 'food chain' future is not as safe and secure as it has been in the past. I'm going to put up as many 'food futures' as I possibly can from now on, it may get a little 'samey' as home done stores deplete through the colder weather but even courgette soup can be made tasty with herbs and spices enough. To that end I harvested a goodly quantity of bay leaves last night to dry off and add depth of flavour to winter soups, stews and casseroles, perhaps now is a good time to start looking at what can be 'put away' for at the very least increasingly high prices in the shops?

mardatha

A farmer on the Scottish weather forum has just said the same thing - food going to cost more soon, something to do with farm subsidies and Brexit. But we managed before the EU and we will again, just need to be resigned I think to paying a bit more for stuff. He said we currently - well Scotland anyway- produces 60% of our own food and we will need to up that a wee bit.

maryb

That seems to me actually quite a high percentage, better than I thought. I'm sure if grants and inheritance tax exemptions are rejigged so that buying farmland as a pure investment and not doing anything with it is less profitable, you'd get more farmers able to make a decent living from, you know, farming