THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

fuddle

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Having just said that and I spotted a Facebook post put up today on a local one and the replies to it. Initial post was helpful - and all except one reply was "thanks for the help". I have no idea what that one reply said as I didnt understand it (Google Translate is pretty useless anyway) - so just left it thanked every post before it and every post after it.

I've only just realised that you probably have to read a lot of Welsh money. How does that work for you? I think it would be something that would have me on edge.

Nargleblast wrote: »

Facebook is handy when used correctly. My OH has a nephew whose wife died suddenly from a stroke (only 40 something, tragic) some years ago. Her mother and sister got hold of a copy of her death certificate and posted it on FB. Needless to say, the grieving widower promptly cut all contact with them. People can be such plankton sometimes.

How crass. My aunty (mam's drinking partner :mad:) whom I haven't spoken to for a long, long time was telling my other aunty (my dad's sister who I also, at that point, hadn't spoken to for a long time) what was on my Mam's death cert while I was throwing earth into where mam was laid to rest - the same place as my dad. My poor aunty would have only been thinking about her brother and what used to be and had to deal with that. She's lucky it was only my sister who had heard her because if it was me I would have expelled all my emotion in her direction.

mardatha wrote: »

I'm staying warm and cosy inside because the snow's too deep to walk outside lol. My youngest son phoned and said can dad walk down to the main road and meet me, I'm parked at the bus stop. RV staggered off through the snow and found son waiting with milk and bread! Took the milk with thanks. Son lives 20 miles over the back road through the hills which is closed with deep drifts, and had driven miles round the long way to bring this to us, He has a 4x4. MY TEA IS SAFE!

What a canny son you have there! Drink up! In all seriousness, I know you're stocked up but are you stocked up enough you need a pet cow

monnagran

All this talk about the excellent properties of wool reminds me of a poem handed to me by the tower captain when I started bell ringing.

A ringer of quite high renown on one young lady oft would frown,
Because she found it quite a riddle to bridge the gap around her middle.
"If she should come apart again, I'll set my bell," he would complain.
Indeed the problem used to stump her, until she bought a long wool jumper.
She knows now, if you have to pull
There is no substitute for wool.

Anyone remember that advert?

I got the message.

DigForVictory

Love that monnagran!
Am myself covered in wool from gulp to fart (ah offspring - ever with the vividly descriptive phrase) - and contemplating hunting merino undertrous as whilst from ankles down I swathed in more sheep, the gap is in mere cotton & I'm feeling it. Love Jacob - glorious colour potential and wonderfully historically nonspecific.

Fb to post a death certificate? That is really not quite the article, is it?! I mean, Fb is dreadful for the black bordered stuff, but with a bit of effort it is possible. The official chit though.... (I have given it up for Lent & may just continue, but how else am I to keep in touch with little Canadian cousin?)

Tea? Miword yes, bonus points that son for proper use of a 4x4 - keeping mum in milk for tea. I shall cite him in my examples of virtue for mothers day... I have a stash of tea (nearly my height, my coop & I have a very cordial relationship) and enough crockery to not need to wash up for days (but I have a specific bucket I'm fond of).

moneyistooshorttomention

fuddle wrote: »

I've only just realised that you probably have to read a lot of Welsh money. How does that work for you? I think it would be something that would have me on edge.

It doesn't - ie work for me. It is frustrating. Most things are duly in the language we will all understand (ie English). Some things are in both languages - and it is a faff reading straight past it to find what I want to read.

Welsh people find it too - and I've had various Welsh people complaining to me that there've been times where they've been told they're not Welsh because they don't speak the language. Of course - they blimmin' are. If father is Welsh and mother is Welsh - then they are too - whether they speak the language or no. So I think they get a lot more upset about "comments" than I do (as I'm not Welsh anyway). It must be really galling for them and I sympathise.

It does set me on edge the odd time where someone (eg one of the local newspapers or a comment on a Facebook page) has been put in Welsh and I have no idea what it says. I shrug most of the time when I can't read something - but there are times where I'm thinking some not-very-polite comments about things where it's obvious there hasn't been any concern to make sure everyone could understand it - and, correspondingly, many of us can't. T'aint good manners to block someone out of a conversation or something imo.

It usually strikes me most I think when something I've been at has been totally 100% in English only and I've not heard anything at all in Welsh - and it only tends to occur to me afterwards that my shoulders have been down/feeling more relaxed. It didnt strike me as normal-for-me at the time - but, when I analyse afterwards as to why I felt more relaxed/normal at an event - I realise that was part of why I did.

The other thing that puts me "on edge" is when the odd (brave or foolhardy - take your pick) person tells me in as authoritative a tone of voice as they can muster that I should learn it/I'm "wrong" and doesn't even have the courtesy to add "in my opinion of course":cool:. The odd stranger still tries saying it - but it happens less often than it did - as word gets round there's a good chance they'll land up getting a mouthful back from me for trying to tell me how to lead my life (when I don't tell them how to lead theirs....). But I won't give them the blazing row I have the feeling they're after - when trying to order me around. I've decided best tactics is quick/firm response and end of conversation, followed by walking off if need be.

I know a lot of people actually lie when confronted with this sort of comment and say things like "I'm sorry...I find languages so difficult and/or can't manage to find the time to" or words to that effect. I don't lie/won't apologise for doing nothing wrong - I just say I'm not going to.

thriftwizard

The Beast is slowly retreating here. I'm not far from the incidents that made the headlines; the 12-mile 10.5 hr traffic jam in the New Forest and the poor souls stuck overnight on the trains; we didn't get away lightly in the end. This morning, the going was absolutely treacherous, with thick, smooth ice covering about 8" of snow. But the water I put out for the birds (both wild & domesticated) didn't freeze straight away like it did yesterday & the back pond was clearly melting by dusk.

I was talking to a neighbour who popped in for a cuppa; she was gobsmacked by how badly they'd been caught out. Just enough logs for one evening, no bread or milk & no chance of nipping to T8sco in the car (the corner shop simply didn't occur to them) nothing to hang over their draughty front door, which the snow was blowing right round & piling up on the doormat. Hopefully a number of people will see this as a wake-up call, as she does now. We've sailed straight through; I could go for another week before needing anything much, and that's only because it hit before I'd done my monthly non-perishables stock-up after payday.

BUT, and it's a big but, Mum's carers have been - still are - unable to get through to her. She has emergency cover, and luckily she's in a good patch physically & is coping. I'd stocked her groceries up before it went too far downhill. But it could have been very different and probably has been for a lot of the elderly & vulnerable, especially those who live rurally. This system, which relies on split-second timing for the poor carers to get from A to B, often miles apart, simply doesn't work when the going gets tough. Another thing to ponder...

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Have missed most of the snow drama, with a drama of my own.

I've been in and out of hospital, with Gastroenteritis.

fuddle

Bob I'm sorry to read that. How are you doing now? Dare I ask if you had a hospital bag ready.

I'm a bit worried about kittie. I haven't read a post from her all day and I'm sure she is in the middle of the southern red warning yesterday.

Bigjenny

kittie posted earlier on the Cooking for One thread that she has been snowed in for 2 days

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fuddle wrote: »

How are you doing now?

Not great. I've still got sporadic diarrhoea, and a sore stomach.

Going to be off work for at least another 5 days.

Dare I ask if you had a hospital bag ready.

Unfortunately no. Had to crawl around from room to room, stuffing what I needed into my pockets, while waiting for the ambulance.

On the third ambulance trip, I forgot my mobile, and have been incommunicado for the last 48 hours.

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oh Bob, I hope you are safe and warm now and feeling better. No you are not, cross posted. Dare I say it but plain white rice is what you need to be getting down. A tsp at a time

Yes BJ but its going to be a lot shorter than 2010, six weeks then. I am warm, cosy, well fed, electricity is working but, big but, I had too many sweet nibbles in the house and cabin fever has made me nab the sweet nibbles when I don`t need them. Something inside me says `go on, eat it`. So all that cycling is undone, drat. I won`t be weighing myself for quite some time :cool:

Fuddle I was thinking about you all day, glad to see you posting

Elderly neighbour cleared a 12" wide path so he could get out to his garage to fetch some fuel. He was back pronto but that path is now glistening with ice and more dangerous than snow. Its all about prepping, doh I didn`t want to keep repeating stuff to them. My fuel is stashed in my house, ready to use but I am not using it because the air vent will be completely covered and my electric prepped heaters are holding their own and working fine