THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

Doveling

I need to get out more.
My Kelly kettle has just arrived and I am beyond excited

No pooter again today, covering up for home improvements.
I can't understand why everywhere seems to look worse :rotfl:

Picnicking this evening at the open air theatre. Going to see Show of Hands. Last gig I went to was to see Bellowhead aaages ago so really looking forward to it

Have a good day y'all

thriftwizard

Oooh, Doveling, I'm envious! I adore Show Of Hands. Hope the weather holds up for you.

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all, just about caught up with everything that's been said since I was last on.
Can't remember who I need to thank for advice re waterbutt over flowing, but I finially got it emptied last night so have raised the height by putting another slab under it, will get a lower hole out in at the correct height (that will still match the level of the one in the pipe correctly with the butt being lifted)
I still had a major infestation of mozzie lava up to when I used the water up yesterday, is it the mozzy infestation that makes the water smell off, (it had a distinct something had died in there smell when Dh emptied the dregs out last night) I did try the suggested wu liquid but that just seems to give me frothy water when I filled the watering can. I local I got taking to who used to have an allotment suggested trying a slug of jayes fluid or Milton sterilising solution in there but I wasn't sure if that would kill the plants I water. I will get a piece of fine gauze netting and try to cover the top over with that.

milasavesmoney

BTI is an environmentally safe mosquito larva destroyer. It lasted about thirty days. Try Amazon to read about it.

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If you are brave enough to drive on the back roads - which are barely a car's width, you will, unsuprisingly, hardly meet with any traffic. If you do, it will usually be a local farmer who will give you 'the stare'.
It's the sort of place which features in many an American horror movie. You know the sort of thing - group of tourists arrives in a backwoods place and get picked off by the sinister looking locals one by one........ :eek:

When I was doing a 'Thelma and Louise' touring holidsy in the U.S. in 2007 with my oldest friend we too got lost, and couldn't find the main highway in the wilds of Washington State. We eventually found a roadside diner and decided to stop and ask.

Bearing in mind the two of us are small little old English ladies who wouldn't see 65 again it was a trifle worrying.

Outside the diner was a lot of large motorbikes.Deciding that there was no point in getting most lost we got out of the car and braved the place

When we opened the door the noise died to total silence :eek: Undaunted I asked the most hairy chap in the room ,rather nervously 'Excuse me could you help us please we have lost the large main road '

This chap stood up and I swear I only came to his lower ribs The deep gravelly voice growled out 'You Lost Ma'am'
'Ermm yes, just a bit' I gulped .

' Ok boys let's help these ladies find the road' and bless him we had a motorcade with two behind two in front and one either side of our car, huge hairy Hells Angels.:D
They were fasinated to think we had been touring so far from our own country, and we were treated with nothing but kindness

Although we did have to explain that we really weren't pals with HM Queen and Britain wasn't always shrouded in fog :rotfl:

Lovely chaps, if a little bit awsome ,if only that they seemed to be all very large and hairy. They made us follow them until we were on the right highway again, and all were waving in our mirrors as we drove away :rotfl:. We had nothing but kindness and interest from all the American folk we met.For some reason a lot seemed to think we came from Australia, and when we said 'No, we were from the UK they would say 'Are you sure ?'as though we wouldn't know :D fabulous holiday and so many happy memories.

grandma247

Jackie what a wonderful story. Kindness comes in all shapes and forms. Many bikers do a lot of charity work raising money for good causes.

I too approached some hairy bikers when I was a bit lost. I needed to be across the North Yorkshire Moors and had stopped in a little town for a break. I could not work out which road to take as the signs were not clear and they only seemed to show towns that I didn't want.

A load of students were in the square having lunch and they watched me walk straight up to the bikers and ask for directions. They had all gone quiet for some reason.

Not only did the men give me directions and marked my map but they warned me my phone probably wouldn't work up there so they hoped my car was ok. I knew that if anyone knew the roads then they would.They were very kind.

The students faces were a picture, I chuckled to myself walking back to the car. Maybe they thought a middle aged woman would be scared of bikers? They are just human beings like the rest of us.

DigForVictory

A biker at a table with food & pals is about as harmless as they can get on the spectrum, and bless them, they can be *hugely* generous & supportive. Dead right to pick the biggest - if even one decides to adopt you, the rest of the pack tend to swing into line. Delighted to hear your courage held up & you thus got the help you needed!

Doveling

We've always found if you want a fantastic breakfast, go to the place with all the motorbikes outside!

Music last night was excellent.:D

Our water butt has quite a tight fitting lid, would it still be worth putting a bit of washing up liquid in it?
There seem to be a lot more mozzies about this year. I wonder how the folks on the Eden project are coping with them. I remember being chewed to bits by the little blighters when we were up in that area.

Continuing with my prepping for the new improved me, I have sold most of my dresses and all of my heeled shoes. I've just kept two maxi dresses which I wore with flat sandals anyway. I can manage to walk without orthotics for short periods and distances, so they will be kept for "do's". No point hanging onto stuff - just needing to go with the flow and accept the need for changes

Sometimes I wonder which thread I should be on because the overlap is so great - I lurk on quite a few :rotfl:
I'm prepping, M.M &M'ing and also trying to Kondo (dismal failure!)
But it seems that everything I do is prepping for some aspect of my life - so I think I'll just stay put

GreyQueen

Hi Doveling, don't know what foot problems you have which require orthotics, but I have three common problems corrected by prescibed orthotics but have bought a pair of T eva sandals with contoured footbeds and am managing to wear them all day at work and walking around town without upsetting my shins. I was very pleased to find this out, maybe of interest to you?

mardatha

JackieO, most bikers are the salt of the earth. I eloped with a huge hairy biker at 16 - he's tall rather than huge now, and going bald lol but he's still one of the good guys Helps all the oldies on our wee street although he's 70 soon. And he's still got a bike.
Mila I've got a good pal in NM, she might be near you, I will ask her. She sends me loads of lovely pics of your fabulour sky.
On the prepping front, I think things are shifting under our feet right now. Suppliers are looking to change their sources after Brexit, and there's a lot of undercurrents. I expect things to get dearer as they always do in any unheaval..