THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

mardatha

I wouldn't know how to start MrsL! my daughter would though.

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First identify which end is the front.......xxx.

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

First identify which end is the front.......xxx.

Which is easy, given what (and how much) comes out of the back.

Cheapskate

Backtracking to Fuddle's post (and others') abut heartburn/acid reflux/GORD, I've had chronic heartburn for years, mechanical weakness that runs in the family. Earlier this year, I had a really bad spell with it, almost convinced I was having a heart attack! After GP apps, got referred to hospital and had to have an endoscopy - bl00dy awful experience! Result - hiatus hernia, healing stomach ulcers, and Barrett's oesophagus, and got to take PPI's on top of AD's! I was really concerned because my maternal grandad died of oesophageal cancer, and he had acid reflux all his life, and Barrett's leads to it. Just have to take the pills, eat an drink more cautiously, and not eat too late at night (which I can't do anyway).

A xo

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Knowledge is power, peace of mind and if applied correctly hopefully survival for you and your loved ones. You can have all the books, all the gadgets and all the theories tucked away just in case BUT real practical knowledge that your hands, feet and head CAN do all the things that need to be done only comes by doing them first hand. How many folks here can actually catch a rabbit, kill it humanely, paunch it, skin it, clean it, make the fire and cook it and then eat it? not to mention tanning the skin for future warmth. Easy to THINK you can by watching a you tube video, might not be quite so easy when presented with a live bunny!

VJsmum

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

The wheelbarrow 'thing' was a joke! the very last thing we'd all be worrying about during and after any disaster that called for whatever prepping we've got in place would be how much our car insurance cost and how often we changed cars!

Oops sorry . Thing is, I have seen people use them :rotfl:

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'S'alright, it wasn't a very funny joke my friend! I have a very alternative sense of humour! xxx.

Karmacat

Just catching up ... there's lots on here! I love the cuppa tea for the lost, thats brilliant.

Also the cart - I have an addition for that, the old-lady-shopping-trolleys (I have one, I promise) are **very** sturdily built, I've taken the bag off mine sometimes and it happily carried 90 litre bags of bark chippings up a little hill.

GreyQueen

I'm on the hunt for a proper OPSEC old lady trolley. Four wheeler, with those double buggy-style wheel onna front and in tartan. Sooo bad it's brilliantly good.

I was biking around today and passing blocks of flats in the unsmart part of the city where the GQ allotment is to be found. Blocks which, unlike my own beloved Shoebox Towers, have balconies.

Balconies with laundry lines (i.e. most of them) are pretty much a giveaway as to the makeup of the household within. Lots of small size bright pink clothes? Young girl child in residence. Hi viz working man clothes? Manual worker. Over the shoulder boulder holders in shocking pink, tangerine, purple etc etc? Woman who is (or imagines herself to be) a hottie.

Your laundry line can tell passers-by a lot about your household and balcony laundry-lines are shouting it from (above) the roof-tops

fuddle

Absolutely no underwear from my household goes on the line. Crumbs the mere thought of my mammary butress on show has me recoiling in horror but I often think that the old couple next door are advertising that they are of age with their choice of underwear that they have on show.

My shopping trolley is about 5 or 6 years old and has been in retirement for a good while i.e. hardly used, since a time when I lived miles from a wholesale butchers and would walk for bargains. It's now needed again now as I have a lidl next to DDs school but it's kaput. Buy cheap buy twice! I need to save for a rolls royce version. Loving the tartan GQ