THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

jk0

I'm just imagining that I would only need to take a photo of what's already in my house/garage to print outside to deter any burglars.

'Cluttery rubbishy stuff' sounds about right.

thriftwizard

Oh, I can out-"cluttery rubbishy stuff" anyone! Our garage door swings up to reveal all my stall infrastructure - folding plastic tables, folding shelves, pieces of clothing rail, a deconstructed projector screen (used to suspend & display kimonos on bamboo poles) and a vast quantity of "car boot-able" rubbish - "dead" stock from job-lots, old rugs, things that we as a household have outgrown or no longer need - so that anyone daft enough to lift the door in the first place would put it back down pretty sharpish in case they caused an avalanche!

The good stuff, of course, is behind all this - the freezer and the shelves full home-made jam & chutney! And quite often a clutch of fluffy bantams, too, sheltering from the rain.

GreyQueen

Aww, I love bantams, my grandma used to have them for the house eggs, the chicken eggs were raised for Sainsbugs, who sent a lorry around once a week to collect them from cottagers like her and take them to the depot for packing. This was back in the 1950s btw, the banties stayed into the 1960s.

One year grandma, a no-nonsense countrywoman, bought 6 goslings to raise for the Christmas market. Well, five to go to market and one for their Xmas dinner. The one reserved for household use must have had exceptional charm, because it was kept on as a pet for years......:rotfl:

Grinning to think of the confessions of clutteriness. I deliberately keep piles of clutter on a shelf under the window of my allotment shed. As you peer through the net curtain (a cut-off from the one in my living room) you can glimpse teetering piles of tatty plastic flowerpots and bits of string and suchlike. If you peer through the side of the shed door after having levered off the edgemost tongue-and-groove (been done thrice now :mad:) you can see a pile of buckets and carp and some handtools wrapped around with a chain. No villain has ever bothered to bust off the internal shed lock once they've seen the contents.

:eek: Had a bit of a moment last night, just before 23.30 - someone tried the handle of my brand-new door! How very dare they. I was awake but in bed and, if I'd had to get up and clock them one with the rolling pin, and then give a statement to the county's boys in blue, I would have been displeased in the extreme.

Perhaps the nitwit thought that, being uPVC-ish, meant I wouldn't have locked it from the inside. I was raised in a rather sketchy neighbourhood and we always did have the doors locked unless we were in the kitchen constantly, in which case the back door might be unlocked.

Random News; Wild Thing has gone back to being an outdoor cat (will be indoors again late Nov) and has shed her winter coat. She has taken at least one rat to our sure and certain knowledge and even The Queen of Sheba has killed one rat and one mouse. WT doesn't make any kind of fuss over her kills, you only know about it if you happen to see her with one. The Queen has a special look what I've caught! mew and brings them for inspection. Sometimes laying them on beds in the middle of the night. She seemed a tad disappointed that Dad didn't want to eat her rat.:rotfl:

mardatha

I'm sure somebody will have a nice recipe for stewed rat in pond water GQ.

DigForVictory

Not pond water - Rat Au Van was Baldrick's signature dish as I understand it?!(Vin depending on whether there was anything left after the last dinner party.) If you want could-be samphire, (or some handy nearby water weed) to lend verisimilitude now, Mrs LW's your lass.

Himself is pondering bending tin strip into a cutter so we can serve Rat-on-a-Stick to like-minded souls at events. My limited experience suggests the legs will burn or fall off, but I have a large bottle of ketchup in hopeful readiness.

GreyQueen

C.M.O.T Dibbler will be jealous, DforV!

DigForVictory

Got to figure out how to make it work first. Burnt Crunchy Bits belong to mines not rats...

I could do with CMOTD's cashflow though. Got to admire the serial entrepreneur & I've a sneaky feeling he's actually got a fair wodge prepped away in case Vetinari is hit with an unexpected lurgy. I mean, he could order elephant loads of stuff from monks - he's got credit somewhere, somehow!

ivyleaf

Oh GQ, that's scary about someone trying your door :eek: I hope it didn't keep you awake afterwards.
Your story about the goslings reminds me of one of my favourite Giles cartoons - the family in their garden with a magnificent turkey, evidently having been bought to fatten up for Christmas; everyone glaring at the mother of the family, the youngest daughter with her arms protectively round the turkey's neck if I remember rightly, and the mother's saying "All right, by a show of hands Sebastian gets a reprieve - one of you go to the shop and get five tins of corned beef."

Karmacat

Erm, I'm lost ... cmotd? Vetinari? Heeelp!

maryb

Guessing it's Discworld?