THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

maryb

Talking about prepping - is anyone doing the Organised Christmas countdown? One of their plans started last weekend but I think the main one starts this coming weekend (Labour Day in the US) I had a look on Zippychick's Christmas thread but couldn't see anything about it

I always start the, never finish them

Nargleblast

monnagran wrote: »

I don't know when Tide disappeared but it was sometime after Rinso and Oxydol breathed their last.

Don't let me start on the subject of Americanisms. It's the way some verbs are "- ized" that makes me choke. Apparently houses are no longer burgled, they are burglarized. Ugh. I have great fun guessing what will come next. This room has been decoratorized? I went to school to be teacherized?

And when did 'aitch' become 'haitch'?

The mind is bogglerized.

Bogglerised, monnagran - using a z instead of s is the American way.....

No offence to our lovely friends across the big pond, of course, it's just that, well, you know the saying, when in Rome and all that...

monnagran

Nargleblast wrote: »

Bogglerised, monnagran - using a z instead of s is the American way.....

No offence to our lovely friends across the big pond, of course, it's just that, well, you know the saying, when in Rome and all that...

My point exactly.

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There are two that really annoy me.

1. People who say "corter" instead "quarter".

2. People who say "as best as I can" instead of "the best I can".

:mad:

ancientofdays

There is a cheap furniture shop that I pass occasionally while swanning around on the bus. They advertise Chester Draws on their shop window. They are not doing so in the spirit of irony.

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It feels like the year has turned a corner this morning, it's so much fresher than it was yesterday and smells of the beginning of Autumn. I'm actually thinking that in a few weeks time we'll start using the stove again in the late afternoons and evenings and that the evenings will be seriously drawing in by then. We're up to date with wood in the store, have been squirrelling all we could get away all year and He Who Knows has been making paper logs for all of the good warm period as they dry well in the polytunnel and we have enough to use one to start the stove every day we'll need them until next spring. I've around 800 tea lights, I've bought a pack of 100 every time I've been to Ikea and several boxes of candles and some pillar candles too as well as solar lights of various types and 3 oil lamps so lighting ought to be covered too. A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to find a couple of National Trust Recycled wool blankets that top the duvets on particularly cold nights and keep us toasty. I've got a pair of really good sheepskin bootee slippers with a sole that lets me go outside and keep my feet snug, I've got good boots for staying dry in wet weather and boots with good soles for staying upright in the icy weather also Yak Trax for compacted snow. I need to buy in another waterproof jacket as the one DD1 gave me is very large on me now, it will keep me dry but not warm and I need also to aquire a smaller winter dressing gown as mine are now 5 sizes larger than I am so will go to the clothing bank. . Now perhaps is time to review wardrobes, lighting and wood supplies and even food stocks while we have this golden weather before the cold comes and prices go up?

lillibet_dripping

maryb wrote: »

Once you get your head round the difference between affect/effect and stationary/stationery you can't help noticing when it's wrong - but those are quite hard to remember and I know I used to get it wrong until I made a real effort to remember the difference

also it's when it should be its is very common - in fact so common, I've started getting it wrong myself because it just looks wrong!

Still a bit wobbly on despatch/dispatch

Here you go Maryb:

stationAry = cAr
stationEry = lEttEr

Nargleblast

I have a bit of a mental block with enquiry/inquiry, I suppose an enquiry could be a single question whereas an inquiry could be a whole investigation? I do get niggly when I hear things like prostrate instead of prostate, could of instead of could have, pacific instead of specific, the list goes on and on....then there is the apostrophe cropping up where it shouldn't, when the rule is simple - it's means it is, where its means belonging to it.

I can accept we all have mental blocks about some spellings and punctuation, none of us are perfect, least of all me. (Or should that be I??)

The problem in my view is when people make sloppy speech errors something to be proud of and accuse others of being grammar Nazis (today's on-trend term for anyone who insists on correct spelling), or organisations that really should know better (TV companies, newspapers, government departments) making such glaring mistakes and showing a poor example. We have such a fabulous, beautiful language that has evolved over the centuries, let's please use it right. Sorry, make that correctly!

Don't mind me, I am in the middle of a run of night shifts and am not so much crabby as verging on psychotic. Better get off my soapbox before I throw it at someone.....

lillibet_dripping

Do I remember Tesco recently re-calling the hessian bags with the town name on because they had written Isle of White rather than Isle of Wight?

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Have been reviewing food stores and find I need to get more basics of rice, pasta, sugar, tea, oat cakes, porridge oats, dried fruit etc. dry goods that will keep, we have enough tins and spices to see us through to the new year and the freezers have good stores too.

Given that the floods in Texas have closed oil refineries albeit temporarily, there is the suggestion of petrol prices rising here in the UK so it might be sensible to fill tanks now? Given the uncertainty too with the escalating aggression from N. Korea and the USA doing a review of stocks and maybe get in anything that you lack now before it becomes either too expensive or not available at all.