THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

mardatha

Kittie I'm really not trying to show off at all - but I saw that one coming! The minute a thing becomes the latest rage or fashion, you just know that one day there will be a shortage of it. In your next house just go for an open fireplace with a working chimney - and then you can burn whatever there is handy and that way stay warm xx
Karmacat my next door neighbour just came back from a week in a furnished cottage up near Aviemore. She says the main thing it was furnished with when they got there was mice. They had to spend the first half of the week getting rid of them Added to that it was damp!!!

Karmacat

mardatha wrote: »

Karmacat my next door neighbour just came back from a week in a furnished cottage up near Aviemore. She says the main thing it was furnished with when they got there was mice. They had to spend the first half of the week getting rid of them Added to that it was damp!!!

What a nightmare! Admittedly the house I'm staying at has quite a few mice in the brick shed outside the back door - its only one row of houses away from a lot of agricultural land - but its definitely not damp. But your friend was supposed to be on holiday too! Yuck.

Princess_kate

As always, I've returned to the board after hearing about the potential for bad weather. Will look back to find the old lists so I don't miss anything, worst case supplies can be used up but I see no harm in stocking up, ensuring the car is full of petrol etc.

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mardatha wrote: »

In your next house just go for an open fireplace with a working chimney - and then you can burn whatever there is handy and that way stay warm xx
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top of my list mar, that and as big a garden as I can find. Its the biomass power stations that are gobbling up wood and polluting as they go, cost us all billions. Don`t get me going about the biodigestor either, local good arable fields have been taken over by consortia of young financiers and all they grow now is food for the digestor. They grow it, cut it down and off it goes in wagons. The next crop is already sown and green, one after the other

Me being me, well I did the sums and because my house is so well insulated, it is cheaper for me to have lots of heaters on thermostats. 1 kwh pellet equivalent now costs 86 if it were 100% efficient

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on track for a white out, looks as though uk will be at a snow standstill. 5 thermostat heaters on yesterday and all over is pleasantly warm, don`t need them in sunny rooms. Warm house fabric will give me that head start

fuddle

I've been watching the excitement (snow watchers and wanters) about what the models are suggesting. It seems what they're showing at the moment hardly ever happens. There's caution and their enthusiasm dipped yesterday with a little bit of not so perfect storm model but it's up again this morning. I think, from what I can gather, there will be very cold temperatures next week, highly likely to be very cold day -temps. There will be snow but unsure where or how much. The south east is in the firing line along with the east coast but the chart I saw this morning suggests the whole country is right smack bang in the starting a of a perfect storm.

It's very interesting for a novice. This is something I'm going to learn more about because I would like to interpret models for my own prepping mind.

moneyistooshorttomention

Definition of prepping here for last couple of days has consisted of "If they reckon it's going from cold to extreme cold - and snow" then I decided it was best to get out there and do a bit of apres-winter (well - I can dream...:rotfl:) tidying up of my garden over the last couple of days before the weather got too cold again to even contemplate it.

So that garden tidying was nearly finished at end of yesterday...

Elona_2

I have just ordered a large vacuum flask so if there is a power cut I can have an already filled flask for hot drinks or sachet cups of soup etc. Might need to buy another hot water bottle and have a fancy pressure cooker on the way so I can cook things quickly and save energy and time.

Well stocked up with matches, candles and tealights and have a wind up torch in my bedside cabinet.

It will be interesting to see what happens here as we hardly ever get any snow.

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I do wonder what comes down in the rain sometimes, I haven`t cleaned my windows afer the last rain and where it was lashing the windows is covered, in parts only, by small viscous balls with a tail, looks the shape of tadpoles, like something was not properly dissolved. Maybe there is some truth in what the contrail theorists say. Are we being dosed to make us compliant? Who knows

thriftwizard

Forgive me if I take all the TV weather prognostications with a little tiny pinch of salt! I expect it will get cold, probably very cold, and many of you will see snow & possibly lots of it. But here? I remain to be convinced... not so very long ago, we've been down to -11!!!8451; at the local airport for several nights running in an easterly wind, and not one flake did we see.

But my mild scepticism doesn't mean we're not in the slightest bit prepared; we have solar lanterns, candles, matches, a variety of cooking solutions, plenty of logs (but can burn coal too if need be, there's half a sack still out in the shed) and enough food to see my small army through a few weeks if for some unaccountable reason the supermarket at the top of the road should run out. There are YakTraxs, plenty of woollies, suitable boots and salt for the driveway. And the family continue to laugh at me and hanker after minimalism...


ETA: for "-11!!!8451" please read "minus 11 degrees Centigrade"...