THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

mardatha

Love it :D

short_bird

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/21/sweden-distributes-be-prepared-for-war-cyber-terror-attack-leaflet-to-every-home

mardatha

Ooooo now isn't this interesting?? Hmm!

ivyleaf

cornishchick How lovely to "see" you! i hope you'll stay around, we've missed you. That was a very sensible list. Piano indeed but perhaps your colleague felt it would be helpful for entertainment, and the world would indeed be a sadder place without music.

short_bird It does at least sound a more useful leaflet than the "Protect and Survive" one we had through the letterbox years ago. Worrying though.

AnimalTribe

I was given a rabbit catching gizmo about 5 years ago. It's really easy to use - no need for a scope, no complicated catches or levers to set. The only problem I've had over the last 5 years is retrieving rabbits from it when they haven't been killed outright. It's one of the smallest of it's type I've ever seen on the market, but it can handle very large rabbits. Apparently Gizmo is of the top 10 most popular cat names. My Gizmo is a tiny little fella, but his catch rate is phenomenal and his purr sounds like a tractor. It's a pity I'm a vegetarian.

DigForVictory

I love the last line of that pamphlet
"we will never give up. All information to the effect that resistance is to cease is false."

Somehow, I rather feel any British Resistance would operate on very similar principles.

It's thoughtful of them to warn the young that In The Event there may be a lack of mobile phones. As we'll be considering a Survival Kit in Scouts soon, I wonder how many will have read this leaflet, or of it?! (And whomever volunteers to carry the piano is excused all washing up chores. Music is important!)

Cornishchick - Very good to "see" you!

mardatha

Thankfully I've got a nice new shiny fridge freezer that should work for a while, but this morning the RV and I were wondering if we could live and cope without a F/F now. My mum never had one all her life and she died in 1985, but she lived in a village with a shop round the corner, I don't. Does anybody here live without one - or have you got a plan to cover the eventuality of not having one?

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It's called a larder on a north facing wall in the coolest corner of the kitchen with a mesh window to keep open and a marble cooler shelf for perishables and rather than freezing everything we'll have to bottle fruit, dry veg and salt/brine/pickle whatever is preservable and make jam! was always done that way for eons before electricity. There is the root cellar and clamps for spuds and root veg, a cool loft for apples and pears and seasonal eating the rest of the time, we'd be OK!

mardatha

What about meat MrsL? This is what we were wondering about. There's a limit on how long I'd want to live on tins of corned beef..

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A meat safe and a brine barrel, meat safe is kept outside in the shade and in a breeze and has tiny perforation zinc mesh sides and doors and keeps the meat fresh for a couple of days and insects off and animals out as it has a lockable door, or a zeer pot which is 2 x large terracotta pots (one slightly smaller than the other) and you nestle the smaller one inside the larger one on about 1" of sand and fill the sides with sand too, keep the sand wet (have to check a couple of times a day and top it up with water) cover the top with a damp cloth and keep it in the shade on the breezy side of the house and it actually chills things. A brine barrel will let you keep things for a few weeks look up the 'how to' online, smoking meat and fish increases the keeping capacity too and drying fish outside on racks is as old as time. Other than that it was always traditional to eat fresh meat from the first lambs in the spring until you had to feed older animals in the autumn and the grass stopped being enough when you'd send the pig to slaughter and make bacon, sausages, ham etc all of which can be hung up to dry and keep and in the winter it would be traditional to eat cheese made from the milkings from spring to autumn which ought to have matured by the start of the colder weather. Dried pulses and cereals and we're into pottage time! We'd still be OK pet!

I've just read the list of things to have in store from the Swedish pamphlet and it's stock standard what any prepper will have already, the suggestions for keeping warm and keeping clean are also standard prepping ways anyhow and the list of usefuls is also only what would be a preppers list including small denomination money, wet wipes, lists of phone numbers, wind up radios, solar /wind up torches and matches etc.