THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

pineapple

Thriftwizard, these must be difficult times. It depends on the situation of the particular hospital of course but there is a chance that even an inadequate care package on home turf might be better than a prolonged stay in hospital - if only from the patient morale point of view. Your Mum could of course discharge herself if she felt strongly enough. What does she feel about it? I don't know how bad things are, but have you looked at Hospice at Home
On a different note I hear there has been a 'chemical incident' at Sellafield. and the bomb squad has been called in to remove material. Not nuclear though, so move along, no danger, nothing to see here folks ...
It's just a normal windy wet day in Cumbria - maybe with a little extra oomph from Brian - and the possibility of added glow in the dark benefits from Sellafield.....

mardatha

I bet they would never admit to a nuclear incident at Sellafield. Even if you all start glowing in the dark pineapple!

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For the last three days, we've had filthy-wet weather round here.:(

DigForVictory

Most Scout jamborees would look a bit thoughtful at Brian, but the delight of Jamboree on the Radio/Jamboree on the Internet (JOTA-JOTI) is that so long as we've mains, we're good. I've spent several very happy hours chatting with scouts & guides of all ages in well over 15 countries and cheered on five of ours as they too jumped into digital waters and made friends (totalling easily over 80 countries when I left before teatime).

I did then have to come home, to drive son to poker night & there discovered that the rain was being channelled by the kerbs, so all speeds over 20 mph were distinctly unwise. Picked up pal one, was navigated past the cricket ground (up on a hill) to poker venue & then had to find my own way home - so of course ended up driving along the valley floor in the worst of the wet.

We all survived, but another time, I will make darn sure I have that emergency funds in cash taped into the car (I just assume I have my phone with me [bank card shoved in phone case] - boy do I feel a nidjut when it's at home charging!)

Happily one son away means less damage to the food stocks. Another son has volunteered to cook breakfast tomorrow & since he does a very toothsome porridge (he mixes steel cut oats, porridge oats & thumped grains of barley) which he then contaminates with sugar whereas I'll add nuts or fruit, that's a good start to the day planned.

There are a few wood gas burning stoves going here, and I have treated husband to his early Christmas present. It seems we are now to buy a specific sort of cat litter as fuel... (This would be better prep if we had a cat, but <shrug> the Right Present is as easily come by as hens' teeth!) The Zebra pot is splendid but not mandatory - YMMV!

Karmacat

ivyleaf wrote: »

There's a wedding at our church this lunchtime, I feel sorry for the bride and groom that the weather's like this but of course they'll still be getting married and that's the important thing

I went to a family wedding in the south of France a few years ago when there was 100 year rainfall - the groom had to carry the bride to the car, there was a couple of inches of standing water :eek: it looks good on the videos though :rotfl:

I had shopping to do yesterday, and got it done before the worst of the blows came through - and I didn't even get rained on :j

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DigForVictory

Query: Has anyone who has picked up a fruit & found it wasn't a fruit but a walnut? As if in doubt, Don't. Unless you have PPE, a drain that won't contaminate soil & a specific use for walnut stain.

A son was "just curious". He went an interesting blotch of black, brown, pink, white & sort of henna (mostly around the hands) & after I did a quick recce on the iPhone, I pretty much tethered him to a waterbutt that's near a land drain.

We scrubbed.

Soap - Nada.

(His idea) - the facial scrub stuff with bits in - paled him a bit but you still wouldn't let him eat at your table (his shirt has gone straight to the bucket for quickmatch solution - it'll not contaminate any honest rags)

Thin bleach (diluted) - some of the black went pink hurrah, and then further scrubbing.

This lad can be somewhat vain. The brillo pad was his next suggestion (vetoed - I know our local medics & so far the house rep is interesting but not vicious) but I did get the plastic scratchy backed foam pan scrub things & mixed up another cup of bleach solution.

All this as the rain is pelting down - me in my third best waterproofs & him with an unloved baseball cap, his good boots swapped out for turned out to be outgrown wellies & not quite weeping over his soon-to-be-lost shirt & trous.

The bleach eventually got most of the black red & then that washed to skin pink. He spent a meditative hour wearing cotton undertakers gloves (the sort you see TV historians handling artefacts in) to contain a layer of savlon & then moved back to fresh air & grousing as I wore marigolds to cut up his shirt.

Potassium nitrate (yes, the garden centre stuff) in solution soaked into natural fibre overnight & allowed to dry? Burns a dream. Next time your beloved folk annoy you severely, dress the Guy in their "castoffs" soaked in this - he'll go up alarmingly. Or you can cut bits, stash them in an altoids tin & have tinder that really catches a spark. This year in a recognisable fabric, ahem, but he'll be getting more natty threads for Christmas & is a growing lout anyway. Despite being scrubbed, bleached, and generally upbraided.

I've noted where the walnut tree is as we do occasionally want to dye wool or leather but the sideeffects of prepping the dye are a bit severe.

Were it on our land I'd add it onto the deeds - walnut wood is cherished by cabinetmakers & those who tinker with veneers but it's the tree you plant for your grandchildren & plan to die before their mothers realise just what its done to the good clothing...

ivyleaf

Karmacat wrote: »

I went to a family wedding in the south of France a few years ago when there was 100 year rainfall - the groom had to carry the bride to the car, there was a couple of inches of standing water :eek: it looks good on the videos though :rotfl:

I had shopping to do yesterday, and got it done before the worst of the blows came through - and I didn't even get rained on :j

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That's good, and the sun shone during the wedding although all the photos had to be taken on the altar steps rather than the steps outside The bride was radiant and everyone looked very happy.

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Still a bit windy here (too many tins of baked beans ), but the rain has pretty much gone.

jk0

Why are people already letting off fireworks every night, when it's still a fortnight to bonfire night?

DigForVictory

Because they can?

They're celebrating a wedding?

They've no small furry animals or anxious children to worry about, or anyone to remind them?