THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

monnagran

We have 3, very up-market, terraced houses at right angles to our walled garden. One of the old lady-residents, Mrs Curtain-Twitcher, approached my DS2 and said, (I kid you not), "Will you please trim down the bush that grows by your wall. I can't see into your garden from my bedroom window."

DS came back, quick as a flash, "I'm so glad you mentioned that, I was thinking of cutting it down a bit. We have realised that we can't see into your bedroom window from our garden."

The bush grows unimpeded and my old-lady undies dry unobserved.

moneyistooshorttomention

:rotfl:That bush-trimming "request" would have just received a very puzzled look back from me and I'd probably have made the comment "But back gardens are supposed to be private". In this country they often arent (all those blimmin' windows often looking into them!) - but most of us know that that is how we want them:cool:

Much exercising of mind has gone on re my current garden in order to figure out how to deal with privacy issues as far as possible - coupled with frustration at how slowly most trees/bushes grow....

Wednesday2000

GreyQueen wrote: »

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

I was thinking about washing hung out on balconies the other day. I was on the train passing blocks of flats with small balconies (around the Bow area in London) and thinking that I wouldn't leave my underwear on display so close to a train with lots of passengers. It just seems wrong somehow.:rotfl:

fuddle

I only have a yard. One side I forever have my neighbour's head pop up over the wall (he stands on a stool!) the minute I open my back door. Needless to say that lovely wood store DH made will soon have a 'green roof' trough built by said DH to house a wild flower screen. I'm by no way ignorant but some days I would really love a quiet cuppa sat on my step.

The other side we are the highest point (goes downhill) but that will be trellissed so i can have a climber running along it... and i've figured out if DH makes me a series of tall wooden planters I can vertical garden after all. Lyn you told me there would be a way. Tall to raise out of the shade and to prevent pet rabbit nibbles.

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See? there is always a way if you look hard and think harder, enjoy your garden petal, grow, grow, grow!!! xxx.

mardatha

I don't bother hanging out knickers as they dry faster on the radiators anyway. But only the sheep would see them and I don't think they're really interested

DigForVictory

Until the farmer lets goats into the field & then your underwear is on the way to becoming upmarket yarn, milk & cheese, plus other outputs.

Most sheep aren't interested in our stuff unless they have a sudden mad yearning for salt. At which point even bootlaces become intriguing.

fuddle

I have had a very interesting conversation with a GP friend of mine from when I lived in Dorset. I don't think I have ever mentioned this but I have vitiligo. It's faint and in only one place but it's a very large patch running up my arm. My mam had vitiligo quite severely. When I mentioned this to my friend she had a bit of a light bulb moment. She suggested that vitiligo patients often have low stomach acid, high incidences of peptic ulcers (my mam died from bleeding to death from a ruptured ulcer while drinking heavily) and have gluten intolerances. My plan is to continue to take the PPI's for the next few days and then wean off like you all suggested. I am going to educate myself about vitiligo as I know very little about it aside from it being an autoimmune disease and also learn about gluten, low stomach acid and peptic ulcers, although that subject I might have to just leave for now.

I don't know if I will have the support of the GP to go down the route that I want to take this on just a bit of hunch and dubious hereditary connections with a long term alcoholic because we are dealing with heart and lung issues that still aren't resolved. I suspect I may have to just gradually alter my own diet a bit (which I'm doing anyway) until all is calmer but I am determined to get to the bottom of all this mess and if I have to put the ground work in myself then so be it. I'm a prepper!

mardatha

I think using diet is a lot better than drugs if at all possible, and experimenting is the way to go.

GreyQueen

Fuddle, you may want to ask your GP to test to anti-bodies against gluten. I presented to mine earlier this year after two weeks of 24/7 gut pain, pretty acute (as in catch-your-breath acute). Abdominal palpations revealed that the pain was originating from the small intestine (goes across your body just below your ribs).

I also have a history of IBS, particularly when stressed. It is apparently standard protocol for patients presenting with these symptoms to be tested for antibodies.

I am positive for them (TTG) in the expected range of a coelic keeping good compliance with a GF diet. According to my GP, I would almost certainly be revealed as a coelic if I re-introduced gluten into my diet for 8 weeks and had small intestine biopsy - this is the proper way for coelic diagnosis, not just blood test alone. Like about a third of people in my circs, I don't want to go that route, and am staying GF on a Mediterrean-style diet quite happily.

One remark; I love bread but it lowers my mood. Have no idea why.