THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

fuddle

Thank you all for your help. It's very much appreciated.

I have a small Bocking 14 comfrey plant and know where it will be sited and corralled in it's own bed. I have had leaves from the plot stewing - a smell already experienced in my caring days!

GQ I walked past the lavender in Lidlll yesterday had a think and then walked on. If it's still there I shall purchase because we've been working hard on the plot this weekend and I know just the place.

fuddle

Thank you all for your help. It's very much appreciated.

I have a small Bocking 14 comfrey plant and know where it will be sited and corralled in it's own bed. I have had leaves from the plot stewing - a smell already experienced in my caring days!

GQ I walked past the lavender in Lidlll yesterday had a think and then walked on. If it's still there I shall purchase because we've been working hard on the plot this weekend and I know just the place.

GreyQueen

My Liddly has now finished with the three English lavenders in a cardboard sleeve and got big pots of French lavender.

French lavender has a (dis)honourable position as one of the very few plants which I've managed to kill - someone told me this kind is a bit less robust in our climate, which may be a fib but it made me feel better.

Ye Olde Potato Blight has struck up at the lotties and my maincrop Rooster spuds have been de-topped and the haulms taken down to the tip. The earlies (Rocket) are still underground but their tops had died away naturally.

Just come off the phone with Dad, he was going to help me lift the spuds the last weekend of August but we've decided to do that job this coming Sunday. There's no guarantee that the blight spores washed down into the ground and infected the spuds but, given the amount of rain we've had here, it's possible.

He'll have the spuds shot out on the shed floor at their place and keep a close eye out for any which seem a bit affected by blight. The typical sign is a bronzing on a white-skinned spud but I'm not sure what to see on the red spuds like the Roosters.

Slightly annoyed as the tater tops were very verdant and would have gone several more weeks before dying off naturally, and thus adding to the bulk of the tubers, but these things happen.

I have also found and killed 9 of those big orange slugs in the past couple of days. Cold steel, they don't like it up 'em!

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I've been watching the news this morning both in the UK and the American news channels too and am wondering just why we have politicians in the first place? surely it can't be worth all the salary they earn to not answer in any way any of the questions asked by journalists can it? in both countries on widely differing topics I saw consummate ignoring of the original question (which was asked fairly forcefully several times) and 'spiel' about what a wonderful job they and their fellow politicians were doing, how wonderfully their own particular department was doing and how everything in their respective gardens was coming up roses and would solve all the problems in a most wonderful way. DO THEY LIVE IN LA LA LAND? I ask myself? do they NOT touch base with real life EVER? or are they just ensconced in their Ivory Towers, looking into the mirror of narcissism like the Lady of Shallot and only seeing the world as it really is in reflection? Things I feel have GOT to change.

mardatha

MrsL, they're just trying to see how many of the people they can fool for how much of the time! They're laughing at us.

elona

MrsL

I am not sure if it is worse that they are delusional and actually believe what they say or if they are cynically twisting replies to avoid being called to account.

I am constantly reminded of an old "Steptoe and Son episode" when an election was taking place and the main three candidates called round. More passion was shown by father and son, albeit on opposite sides than by the candidates. At the end of the episode father and son were at daggers drawn while the three candidates went off for a drink together.

I wish all MPs were forced to have lived for at least a year as "a real person" with a real lowish level job, cheap rented place to live and reliant on public transport .

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I'm beginning to think they all hold us in utter contempt and think they can act and do in any way they want to while they search for the vainglory of being in charge and being in 'the media eye', it almost feels they consider themselves unaccountable for any of their actions and the consequences thereof. Almost like life and people aren't real but part of a 'game' where all is expendable but their ego and their ultimate standing within their elite little group!

elona

Do you remember Martha Stewart's statement about the "little people" for whom laws, rules and regulations applied? She was disabused of her notion that tax did not apply to her when she went to prison.

ivyleaf

Lyn I remember a couple of years ago watching Cameron et al on the news and exclaiming to OH almost in disbelief, "It's all just a game to them, isn't it?" with which he agreed.

Elona Yes, I remember that! One can imagine her astonished disbelief when she was sentenced! I wonder if she said "But don't you know who I am????

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Prepping matters..... Ikea have made a new 'thing' that may be of interest it's called SOMMARLEK and it's a square steel 2 x tea light teapot keeper warmer which would keep other things in casseroles/saucepans etc warm and (I will try later today) might just bring a mug of water to the point of being hot enough to make a hot drink. It costs £3 which is not a lot to lay out. I think (again I will try later today) that you could probably fry/poach an egg on it if you have a small pan and it will probably be enough heat to warm up beans/soup/rice pud etc. but might take a while. Will report back when I've had a little play.