THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

mardatha

Kittie I'd do all that and then lose the file...

moneyistooshorttomention

Not so much a house file - but a specific house diary (quite apart from my own personal diary - duly carried around).

It's frequently useful for things like "When is the yearly house insurance due? I think it's August some time". Cue for looking up the August entries in last years diary and its down there as what day I paid it and how much (for easy reference to see how much extra they are going to try and charge me this year for it).

If someone has promised me something verbally - it's down there in that days entry that Workman X said "quote quote quote" to me.

Handy if one has one of the bl**dy-minded Councils in the country - for writing down stuff from their own website that will help in dealing with them if quoted back at them (for instance email just sent to them saying, if more politely phrased than that: "Your website says you do x at point 5.6.1 in document z. So DO it"). Also any "higher authority" source to quote if there is one.

etc etc

ivyleaf

kittie Please could you explain what you mean by "rollers for the curved shower screen"? I don't currently have a curved shower screen, but am curious

AnimalTribe

Thanks Nargleblast I'll have a look there.

AT

elona

animal tribe

If you use the forum search it was posted in 2007 by the optimist and renamed dandelion honey.

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ivyleaf, the rollers are at the top and bottom of each glass shower door. The doors each move and they meet in the middle. The rollers are fixed to the screen and run in a groove :cool:

The house file: a large file kept in the utility room and came with the house, explains all the systems. I only need a couple of extra pages to jot a few notes. Blinking tired again, I didn`t plan any work for today but it evolved in the form of work as in tiring and grubby clothing

Moneyis, bills and so on are easily organised with the m/soft money programme, I think it was originally with m/soft works and is ancient but something I could not do without. I input all the expected bills and incomings through the year and then move everything for the next couple of months into the current screen, so I can see everything ahead and don`t get nasty shocks

I am prepping the allotment for winter, you can see its fading

maryb

It has a real end of summer feel at the moment, doesn't it? All the berries are out on the hawthorns and cotoneasters and I never remember it being this early

thriftwizard

It has a real end of summer feel at the moment, doesn't it? All the berries are out on the hawthorns and cotoneasters and I never remember it being this early

It smells of autumn down here... the blackberries are ready, the crab apples too. My big apple tree is doing its best to demolish the conservatory by dropping huge apples on it at half-hourly intervals, but they're not the best, this year; lots of moth larvae & bitter pits. My hazelnuts have become visible, which means they're ripe, too, so I'll be racing the local squirrels to try to grab a few for us. We never see squirrels in this street at any other time of year! I picked up lots of fir cones at my brother's at the weekend, which I will dry for a bit of autumn decor, then use on the woodburner, but these are all things I thought I'd miss out on this year as we're away for a largish chunk of September...

Hoping we don't get any early frosts; the runner beans on the allotment are finally getting into their stride. They look fabulous; I planted some commercial plug-plants (grown by a friend) but underplanted them with a pack of multi-coloured beans, expecting to lose a fair number to the dreaded molluscs. But it didn't happen, and now we have a row of canes groaning with beans, and a glorious range of multi-coloured flowers, all alive with happy bees! We don't usually get any frosts until late October, sometimes well into November, but it feels as though they might well strike earlier this year...

maryb

wonder if it will be a hard winter? Anyone seen any long term forecasts?

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Our runner beans are finally producing too after an extremely difficult start (3 lots before this one failed to germinate) and all male flowers for the first couple of months they were in leaf. Also noticed absence of bees in the earlier part of the summer. Big old apple tree has a fair crop and is dropping a few windfalls now but isn't usually pickable until October at the earliest. What we did well with this year was figs, and the small tree we have gave us more than 30 beautifully ripe and luscious fruits. Blackberries rampant as usual have produced many kilos and the raspberries are giving quantities now too. We had a slow start with outdoor tomatoes which have fruited very well but now are covered in blight and will have to come out and be burned, greenhouse plants still cropping but down in number of fruits and finishing early. It's a weird year all round! Everything in the polytunnel is winding down too much earlier than usual, indoor beans finished and vines out with no old pods to dry, lettuce continually boulting means many discards, peppers still going well and so is the basil but no beetroot to overwinter as they've been slow in and out. Good stands of leeks and celeriac in the garden for the winter but total failure of carrots and parsnips on the allotment. Luckily enough potatoes to see the two of us through most of the colder weather. Mother Nature is a law unto herself!!!