THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

[Deleted User]

Thanks juliettet. Did you use a local obliging fitter or did you need a fitter plus a carpenter? I have plenty of rugs, already rolled up for moving.


yes you need to plan ahead for comfrey but bocking 14 has not moved away from its small rectangular site in 8 years. I am hoping to chop some roots out to transplant.

[Deleted User]

I wonder if we should factor into our preparations the increasing bitterness between those folks who voted to leave and those who voted to stay in the referendum to leave the EU (Brexit)? I'm picking up a great deal of bitter recriminations on a couple of threads and get the distinct feeling that folk would like a scapegoat or many scapegoats to heap their ire upon for exercising their right to vote as they saw fit.

This country is a Democracy as far as I know and the right to vote was hard won by some courageous men and women but as far as I know that right also applies to how your conscience dictates that you vote as an individual? I see many toys being thrown out of prams as part of the tantrum some of the less elderly participants seem to be goading themselves into. It won't help sort out anything if we get involved in a blame game, what we need is solidarity of purpose in making sure of a future that is good for all of us whatever the outcome of Brexit!

OK lecture over, I hate it when folks are at odds!

jk0

juliettet wrote: »

Yes Kittie, I asked for the skirtings to be removed. Looks swish. When I replace upstairs that will be the same. Present laminate upstairs (Homebase) looks ok with the beading but I much prefer the clean lines downstairs. I dont have a lot of traffic just me and the cats most of the time but love the quickstep. Meant to say that I do have washable rugs down too in Winter to cosy it up a little. They need to be washable as cats like a nice clean rug to throw up on!

I removed skirtings to install laminate when I was renovating a property some years ago, but found it a lot of work. Do you not need to redecorate afterwards?

Cappella

Has anyone else read this?
It seems to support a lot of concerns about deal/no deal Brexit.
https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2018/jul/12/a-no-deal-brexit-survival-guide-what-food-to-stockpile?__twitter_impression=true
Better check our stockpiles people.

Living_proof

juliettet wrote: »

Kittie, I have Quick Step in my lounge. The classic oak. Looks as good now as it was laid 8 years ago. I think it is all in the fitting. I will replace all my upstairs with this in time.

I too have this throughout downstairs and I am very pleased with it. Very warm and totally forgiving!

Living_proof

Cappella wrote: »

Has anyone else read this?
It seems to support a lot of concerns about deal/no deal Brexit.
https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2018/jul/12/a-no-deal-brexit-survival-guide-what-food-to-stockpile?__twitter_impression=true
Better check our stockpiles people.

I read it this morning and came to the conclusion that most of us will probably already keep a stock of most of the items without actually stockpiling it. I may well order some Seeds from Italy now in good time for next spring, just in case! We will just have to go back to life as I remember it as a child - seasonal food with oranges (in special tissue paper) and bananas specially imported. It might be that we will have to go and pick our own of course if there is no willing labour available to do so!

mardatha

I agree. We lived for a long time without being in the EU and we can go back to that - just maybe a bit of a messy bit in the middle.

[Deleted User]

There will most definitely still be life after Brexit!

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

I agree. We lived for a long time without being in the EU and we can go back to that - just maybe a bit of a messy bit in the middle.

We were in the Hanseatic League for several centuries, it was still just about going in the seventeeenth century. Imagine the feelings when something nearly 700 years old withered away....... the current brouhaha is but a storm in a teacup in the great sweep of history.

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I'm beginning to think reincarnation is more than a myth and that there are dark and malevolent souls that from time to time recycle into this world to carry on the chaos and destruction from where they left off when they last died, it's just a thought but there might just be some evidence of it working currently.....Poor Donald, if his comment yesterday that the 'Britons' loved him had any validity then the news coverage of his interview with the Sun journalist yesterday has done far more to change that as an accurate statement of fact than anything else he's ever done!