THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

GreyQueen

maryb wrote: »

B*rstards!

:mad: Absolutely. The only upside of it was that she wasn't hurt, she didn't realise what had happened until after they'd gone.

I'm pretty streetwise as the estate I grew up in was nasty in the sixties and seventies and it's where my 'rents still live. Bizarrely, it's a lot better now with much less aggro, but I grew up learning not to leave anything alone for a second, in case someone offski'd with it, as they would given a chance.

It was excellent training for living in the middle of a huge city as a student. Many's a time I'd walk down the middle of a four lane street at 4 am in the morning wending my way home from a party. Being in the middle of a (deserted at that time of night) road enabled me to see any miscreants coming and work out which of the nasty-tricks-from-martial-arts-class I'd use if they tried anything.

You must imagine your 'umble correspondant in her yoof as a rangy nearly six footer in biker leather with a severe attitude problem and a volatile temper to match her fiery red hair. There is photographic evidence and one of my oldest friends who met me at a party nearly 30 years ago confessed I seriously scared him!

Nowadays, I'm turning silver-haired, limp slightly, and would still be prepared to give someone serious grief if they started something. If you can't run away quicky 'cos of a gammy hip, you have to stand your ground and fight.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

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I always close and lock the kitchen door when I'm here on my own if anyone I'm not expecting rings the front doorbell and a couple of years ago I found out why that was a REALLY good thing to do. Sunday morning and there was a bingley bong on the door while I was ironing in the summer when it was warm and I had the back door and the big windows in the lounge open to give some air flow and I locked both windows and the door and went to answer the door and there were two people there a lad in his perhaps early twenties and a girl slightly younger who offer something spurious as a reason for calling I can't remember what and tried to get me to come out of the porch and I wasn't having any of it at which point the third one another lad in his early 20s came running out of my neighbours garden and they all ran off, I think if I'd not locked up he would have been in the house and taking whatever he could find as they distracted me at the door. Teaches you to be vigilant does a thing like that!

GreyQueen

:T Bravo, Lyn, good for you.

I'm sloping offline now, bit of reading then an early night. My hipster toyboy has invited me to take a run out to a big bootsale in the sticks early tomorrow morning, woot woot!

Fingers crossed for preptastic bargains. I'd love a few more 10 litre water carriers, they store so neatly behind the sofa.

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Elona wrote: »

The cupboard beds were still around in the 1950's in Scotland in some places.

My father (born in 1923) was raised in a house with them.

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Does anyone know what are the legal issues should you find an abandoned and derelict property such as one of the cottages near Mar and it doesn't have a distinct owner you could buy it from? where would you go to find out? does property like that revert to the state and could they actually let you buy it if there is no actual owner? just interested.....

dND

maryb wrote: »

It always astonishes me how the French seem to prefer hermetically sealed rooms at night no matter what the temperature.

The windows are sealed during winter to try and keep the warmth - there are usually enough gaps in the walls and no insulation to give sufficient air circulation.
In summer it's to keep the mosquitoes out and being totally serious at the moment especially the tiger one, which is marching across France and on it's way to the UK

DigForVictory

Anther upside of being a prepping little old lady - folk will underestimate you sideways.

Love the mental image of two-handed grip on rolling pin. Plus the idea that if you can't run, you have to stand. Which is why I do try to putter through life avoiding that sort of situation. I so much prefer a battle of wits...

Witless, conceal this conversation from your Defence? Lest thought before action becomes apparent. "Mens rea" or premeditation is considered unhelpful to be able to prove... Although "I just happened to have a fire extinguisher" does seem splendidly innocuous.

mumf

"I saw something in the intruder's hand officer,and I feared for my safety.I grabbed the fire extinguisher in a split second of blind panic to defend myself in my home."

Not a pre meditated weapon,you see?

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mumf wrote: »

"I saw something in the intruder's hand officer, and I feared for my safety. I grabbed the fire extinguisher in a split second of blind panic to defend myself in my home."

Or, if you happen to be a livestock farmer:-

"I saw something in the intruder's hand officer, and I feared for my safety. I grabbed the cattle prod in a split second of blind panic to defend myself in my home."

GreyQueen

Back from booting (phew, wot a scorcher!) and have spent a lot.

£1 for a lovely green camping kettle (for my butane portable stove), £1 for a magnifying glass, 50p of a collapsable blanching basket, 10p for a mug and another 50p for a wire basket suitable for allotment duties/ fitting on a pushbike's rear carrier. £4.10 and lots of other lovely things seen and left for other people.

My young companion bought a cut-throat razor, a table cigarette lighter, two copper pots and a terrarium. And a spade, but that was for a relation.:rotfl:

It's over 20 c out there and climbing so I've decided to lay up at home (and fit in some housework), hit up a supermarket at YS time and then got to the allotment when it's cooler. Might seem a bit eccentric but I've already seen one older gentleman faint in the heat today.