THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

ziggy2004

Ouch GQ - this has reminded me to put the spare first aid kit back into the pantry as it is sitting upstairs atm.

We are south west of glasgow but nice and cool here today, could still do with a bit more rain as some of the herbs are wilting and the blaeberries that are out are tiny. We will go foraging next week but at this rate we will be lucky to get 2 jars of blaeberry jam.

I am off to the GP this morning to see if we can get any further with the pains I am having and have been having since baby 4 was born last year.

Then off to take MIL out for lunch for her birthday

Karmacat

GQ, yep, I did that on my last visit up north - on a fleshy part of the index finger of my most-used hand. I had to use a plaster for about two days, it kept bleeding, and it was *really* inconvenient!


Mar - just had a look at rotator cuff stuff from bupa and a website called shoulderdoc, they both emphasize overhead movement (as well as age-related ). What have you been doing!


ziggy - sorry the brexit nonsense affects you so directly two of my nephews are married to EU citizens, so I'm watching things fairly closely. I hope they *don't* descend to permits

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I was in £land earlier, and there was a hand-written notice, saying they were only accepting cash.

mardatha

KC been having odd twinges on both shoulders for some months but I fell and landed on the left one 3 weeks ago and it exploded lol. Couldn't move the arm at all for over a week and even now, movement is very limited and it's very sore. Like bad-toothache-verging-on-abcess pain.
I've got arthritis and osteoporosis as well and am probly crumbling to dust as we speak
I want to start stashing butter somehow. Will try and buy it every week and fill a freezer drawer with it. Does anybody else have fond memories of the EU butter mountain?

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I have frozen butter, just cut it up in the wrapper and in zip lock bags in the freezer. I still have a bit left from 11 months ago


I hurt my shoulder after I reached high for a too-heavy box, I don`t think I tore anything like Mar but heck it hurt and I couldn`t do much for a long time, months and I couldn`t knit, so I had to learn to keep my shoulders very still while using a circular needle in my lap and that worked but I haven`t been able to churn knitting ever since


I just saved a huge number of veggies off the allotment, stacks of cucs etc. I made 2 litres of juice, which I am cooling before I try and find some containers for freezing. Those plants are going to wear themselves out before long. I also took all bar 3-4 small leaves off each rhubarb plant, I think they have a better fighting chance if they don`t dehydrate. I really am in cba mode wrt my allotment just now, certainly not going all out weeding or watering.

Living_proof

kittie wrote: »

I eat quite a bit of vegan food but a meal at a time and mixed in with omnivore meals. Vegan food can be gorgeous.

I do make very refreshing cold green juices , using peeled cucs as my base. I don`t see why the juices don`t freeze, so will try that today and it is a good way to incorporate green chard as well as some tangy (ripe?) windfalls. mint and lemon. Thats me sorted, I will have a lot of cucs today, I know it

This is precisely what I am going to do Kittie with my own allotment produce, especially cucumbers incorporated into green smoothies and frozen in my new-to-me tall Beko freezer which arrived yesterday. I have a lot of the re-usable soup pouches which should do. My green chard has gone to seed, although I watered it avidly and covered in green netting to cool it a little. I have 8 cucumber plants planted when I was given them when I first took over the plot, so I am expecting a glut. Also I have at least 12 courgette plants, grown as ground cover, so this year I am going to try drying them as courgetti for later use. Apparently sprouted seeds give greater nutritional benefits when frozen, so they will get added to all sorts as well.

On the subject of what we might miss out on if we Crexit, think we will appreciate more the special-ness of imported produce and eat more seasonally as we did when we were young. These days one can buy anything 364 days of the year and we've become much too complacent!

Karmacat

mardatha wrote: »

KC been having odd twinges on both shoulders for some months but I fell and landed on the left one 3 weeks ago and it exploded lol. Couldn't move the arm at all for over a week and even now, movement is very limited and it's very sore. Like bad-toothache-verging-on-abcess pain.
I've got arthritis and osteoporosis as well and am probly crumbling to dust as we speak

Ow! Owowowow!


Although crumbling to dust probably won't hurt, it will be inconvenient for RV :kisses3:


Bits of me are crumbling, without a doubt, but the rest of me is exploding like a volcano, after a stroppy Customer So-Called-Service Assistant with the Post Office threatened to disconnect me for not understanding his accent ...

I want to start stashing butter somehow. Will try and buy it every week and fill a freezer drawer with it. Does anybody else have fond memories of the EU butter mountain?

I remember the mountains and the lakes My solution, tbh, is to have researched a few recipes that take *melted* butter and substitute vegetable/ sunflower oil etc.

GreyQueen

:mad: Most annoyed at the consequence of my carelessness with the tin can this morning (rushing to do chores before work). The cut is over a cm long and very deep and is still seeping blood intermittantly through its plaster. There have been a few of those over the course of the day.



Fortunately, it's just in the fleshy part of the thumb and not affecting the joint or the nailbed. Just explaining to Dad that all gardening is cancelled for the next several days as I'm not going anywhere near soil with a wound. He agrees with me.



It's pretty deep and will, from experience, take about 10 days to heal entirely but in about 5 days is should be sealed enough to be usable under a dressing and rubber gloves.


Not taking any chances as there are always rats around on the lotties and I'm not risking Weil's (with my pre-existing conditions it'd likely kill me) or any other infections.

mardatha

GQ you'd need tattoo artist/medical type gloves under gardening gloves.
Living proof - when we ate seasonally at least fruit etc tasted of something. Now we eat strawberries all year round and they might smell like strawberries but they don't taste of strawberries..

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

GQ you'd need tattoo artist/medical type gloves under gardening gloves.
Living proof - when we ate seasonally at least fruit etc tasted of something. Now we eat strawberries all year round and they might smell like strawberries but they don't taste of strawberries..

Yeah, that's the plan for next week's gardening, I have some thin disposable gloves for wearing underneath the regular gardening gloves.