THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

GreyQueen wrote: »

A lot of the stuff coming out of the EU sounds like the threats of a spouse in an abusive relationship.


You can't leave because I WON'T LET YOU. If you do leave YOU'LL NOT GET A PENNY OUT OF ME! and YOU'LL NEVER SEE THE CHILDREN AGAIN and YOU'LL STARVE BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SUPPORT YOURSELF. Etcetera etcetera etcetera.


I nearly choked on my tea, I was laughing so hard, when reading the the Irish president might not allow British craft to overfly Eire. Really?! Will he be sending up their airforce to escort a NewYork-bound airliner well out into the North Atlantic or just launching the surface-to-air missiles? :rotfl:

Were you listening to LBC this morning?! A caller made that exact comparison (abusive relationship EU/UK) plus also the radio host looked into the airforce Eire has... 2 helicopters and 2 planes, one of which hasn't flown since the 1960s :rotfl:

ziggy2004

I think it is quite abusive from both sides with no one wanting to give and it will be us caught in the middle.

My concerns about food are short term, because I know how easy it is for things to run out when there is a delay and people start panic buying. I would rather avoid that. Longer term of course we will continue to trade and to some extend it will be harder and to some extend it will be easier. The company I work for exports both to EU countries and to non EU countries, I have spoken to some of my EU based clients and they will still want the product even if it would cause a bit more work ( and would perhaps be a little more expensive)

mardatha

I know it won't be permanent but it will be chaos for a bit because this lot are totally bloody useless. And even if it all goes seamlessly then what's the harm in having nice full cupboards? March is a bad month to choose for a crisis in fresh fruit and veg is it not? We have nothing ready. Just prep anyway!
Re the Irish thing,the UK govt are threatening to box in Irish territorial waters and thus leave Irish fishermen high and dry so to speak. And they did that first - Ireland is just responding. So Ireland are not at fault here in any way.

maryb

Leo Varadkar isn't the one who gets my goat, it's Barnier suggesting that the UK can't collect tariffs because of the risk of fraud

This from an outfit that hasn't had its accounts signed off in decades

Am I the only one who thinks well you can just expletive off?

GreyQueen

r.a.i.n.b.o.w wrote: »

Were you listening to LBC this morning?! A caller made that exact comparison (abusive relationship EU/UK) plus also the radio host looked into the airforce Eire has... 2 helicopters and 2 planes, one of which hasn't flown since the 1960s :rotfl:

I don't even know what LBC is - TV or radio? I don't watch TV, haven't owned one for nearly 30 years and don't bother listening to the radio at all any more, used to listen to R4 but tired of the BBC's biases and the endless pestering of the TV Licensing crowd.


Nope, I can think of things like that all on my ownsome.


I find mainstream media pretty boring, it's much more interesting for me to watch and listen to what's going on IRL all around me.


I think I might have to stage a mini (nano?) trade embargolette of my very own. I buy K***Ygold butter. But the one I bought this week might well be the last, I shall buy English butter, might even see if the wholefood shoppe has some from a local dairy.



I hold a slight grudge against Eire as the country used an EU grant to entice the only decent employer of skilled labour (an engineering firm) from my hard-pressed hometown over to the Emerald Isle. Plus the gardai threatened to arrest me and my troupe of entertainers at the Rose of Tralee festival one year, despite us having a contract showing we'd been booked and paid for by the organisers............ :rotfl:


Heck, we were sometimes given the bent eye by the Plod in England, Scotland and Wales but no one ever threatened to arrest us before (I knew we shoulda left the rainbow stripey handknit jumpers at home, we wuz obviously asking for trouble).:D

maryb

GQ, Lidl butter is British and Red Tractor which means reasonable welfare standards and in particular that the cows are grazed at this time of year. And it's £1.45 as opposed to £1.90

Been stocking up a bit today as I think supermarkets will hike prices if a World Trade Organisation scenario looks likely. Bought enough Imperial Leather soap in Wilkos at 6 bars for the price of 4 to keep me clean for well past the transitional period. It's the only soap that doesn't bring me out in blotches

GreyQueen

Thanks, maryb, I shall bear that in mind. Not buying imports is onviously better for the environment and also for the balance of payments, too.

Living_proof

mardatha wrote: »

KC it's a rotator cuff tear, shoulder.
God kittie, my fingers are fine it's just this shoulder. I'd hate to never be able to knit again. It keeps me so sane..
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I had one about ten years ago now and even today I was getting a back massage and was told that I had problems in the scapula. I could hear the clicking as the masseuse operated on me! I did some physio shortly after it originally happened and found the exercise using the broom handle used like a loofah on the back worked miracles. I hope you find a miracle exercise for yourself!

mardatha

Got an appt for physio but not untl 19th Aug, also got an osteopath appt for the end of July LP - surely between them I will get sorted out. Right now its pure murder, the shoulder bone pings and clicks and twangs lol and the pain can make me hit the roof. Also worrying is the palm of my hand has gone numb with a horrible searing burning pain travelling down my arm into the hand.

Karmacat

Bleeping heck, Mar, thats horrible