THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

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We have a bedroom windowsill covered with pots and tiny seedlings, it won't be long before the back room has them too, I hope people viewing the house (if we EVER get some) will understand how important the process of raising plantlets is and will be tolerant of how it looks!

Cappella

MrsLW said

We have a bedroom windowsill covered with pots and tiny seedlings, it won't be long before the back room has them too,

We do too MrsLW. The builders were admiring our chillies (sp?) which are thriving and still cropping well in the front bedroom. Two of them have taken baby plants to grow on themselves.
SO the invasion begins.
Soon our chillies will have conquered the North West, and then the South will tremble . . .

Very, very happy here. NO foreign bodies in dogs stomach according to the scan and he seems to be keeping some chicken down. Hoping his op will not be necessary tomorrow.

jk0

Thought this story from Jersey might tickle you guys:



https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2018/04/04/the-purrrrfect-stowaway/

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ok, lots to read but later. More house info, yesterday I saw an over 55s home and decided, not for me. Today I lost my scaredness re a fixer upper, I have a company who would do it all, architects, surveyors, project manage etc. Tomorrow I am viewing a fixer upper a house, local enough, still access to the lanes, shop, bus etc, nice community

Seeing the property yesterday gave me ideas for the architect, to enable future proofing. At the moment, 3 beds and bathroom upstairs, downstairs shower room and 3 rooms and kitchen. I want kitchen/dining, study/crafting room, lounge with wood stove and 2 beds with one jack n jill ensuite bathroom plus a walk in wardrobe/store. Add to that lots of light and sun, conservatory and insulation, new ch and boiler and revamp the large garage to make garage/workshop. Re-vamp front and drive

As if that is not enough, I will employ landscape designers or a landscape architect to re-model the flat lawned garden, to make that good for me and oh yes I forgot to mention, it is 1/3 acre and I think I would love that house but won`t know until tomorrow

mardatha

Getting cabin fever up here, looking out at snow. Vertical snow and horizontal snow. Measured 5 inches in the garden and still gently floating down. I feel like going out looking for polar bears.

Karmacat

DigForVictory wrote: »

That's more than efficient, that's admirable! Says she who frankly hasn't managed it yet.
Nor am I holding my breath - I have had the garden ladders "reinstalled" in my room, just completely blocking one access route & thus my ability to get at Anything down that half of the room.

Still, the kitchen windowsill now has trays of (labelled!) cuttings, so while I'd love to play Tetris & can't, at least I got mud pies...

Aw, thanks DfV - I think its swings and roundabouts - I've got 4 pots of chives growing on a windowsill, that I've grown on from a supermarket pot, but I've not grown any seeds at all at this time of year - I know I don't have the skill, I'm so rubbish at watering, and its not something I'm going to focus on right now.

jk0 wrote: »

Thought this story from Jersey might tickle you guys:

https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2018/04/04/the-purrrrfect-stowaway/

Fantastic! Thanks for posting this what a clever mog!

Mar - just seen your post! I have no idea how you cope with snow for this long.

thriftwizard

GQ, could you persuade your friend to try Japanese Indigo instead? (Japanese Indigo) I believe it's quite easy to fail to grow, as the cutting she gave me keeled over almost as soon as I got it into our conservatory!

moneyistooshorttomention

jk0 wrote: »

Thought this story from Jersey might tickle you guys:



https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2018/04/04/the-purrrrfect-stowaway/

:rotfl::rotfl:But how frustrating not to be able to prove the cat had (officially speaking) not taken that daytrip at all and didn't have to go through all that palaver and expense to get back to where "he shouldn't have left in the first place" (ie in the same way as a cat that had come from there iyswim).

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he has a very angry face and I can see his tail twitching

jk0

Cat does look annoyed, doesn't he?

I'm wondering if he's weed on those van seats for revenge.