THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

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thriftwizard wrote: »

unlike stockpiling weapons & ammo; snippets of knowledge and practical skills are relatively easy & cheap to acquire.

Weapons and ammo needn't cost a fortune.

A fairly decent air rifle can be had for less than £100, a scope for less than £50, and the ammo is cheap as chips.

A couple of hundred quid would equip you with the tools to put a heck of a lot of meat on the table.

And, while you're waiting for Armageddon, you can have some fun/hone your skills in the back yard with it.

mardatha

I think that would really depend on what kind of back yard you have Bob ...

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Weapons and ammo needn't cost a fortune.

A fairly decent air rifle can be had for less than £100, a scope for less than £50, and the ammo is cheap as chips.

A couple of hundred quid would equip you with the tools to put a heck of a lot of meat on the table.

And, while you're waiting for Armageddon, you can have some fun/hone your skills in the back yard with it.

Yes. The local domestic pets and wildlife are regularly on the receiving end of people 'honing their skills' for the apocalypse. I've been shot at, too - which cost the shooter a lot of money in compensation, as the police tend to take a dim view of things that have been known to kill small children (including the toddler of somebody I went to school with).

You also have to ensure that your house and garden is large enough to not fall foul of the law regarding discharging a weapon within 50ft of the public highway.




I have discovered that most of my camping equipment has been lost or destroyed over the past ten months. Mainly because the OH managed to demolish both sets of poles in setting up the new tent by not reading the instructions, and I tried to ask where other things were to distract away from the desire to yell at him.

So, I had an unscheduled trip to the camping shop today.

I now have a three seasons XL sleeping bag (I'm not tall, but I'm wide and hate Mummy Bags/being restricted) instead of his suggested 'we could bring a couple of fleecy blankets'. I also have an inflatable single mattress because his idea was 'the ground will be soft enough' - if it's soft enough, we'll be in the process of sinking into it as per the bad guy in Grimpen Mire/The Hound of the Baskervilles. And it's too damn cold at night to be laying on the bottom of the tent with just a fleece blanket. It wouldn't be so bad had we not been at exactly the same festival two years in a row and he knows how cold it gets at night there.

I've also bought a new head torch, as my old one apparently 'fell to bits' the first time he touched it.

No boot socks on special offer today and my old ones were put in the tumble drier, mostly before I'd even worn them, because he'd 'borrowed' them. So will have to get some more - along with laces, as he took mine out of my boots and promptly lost them.

I'm now wondering what gave him the idea that taking my enamel mug without asking first (and losing it, along with my sleeping bag) was OK. Or taking my pack, losing the waterproof insert and then filling it with his stuff, including two pairs of shoes whilst wearing my other boots, suggesting I put my things in a carrier bag.


In short, I'm not happy - and we need to remember that Prepping includes allowing for utter morons destroying, losing or otherwise damaging your things/supplies/stock. The things he didn't know about - such as my mini Leatherman tool, the tick tools, my woolly hat, gloves and so on - are all perfectly where they were when I put them last year. As far as I was concerned, I had absolutely everything needed for a situation where we had to leave the house quickly without anywhere to stay. But apparently, not.


Heaven only knows what else is going on that he hasn't admitted to yet. But judging by the silence from the back garden, I'm expecting to have to go and buy a proper tent tomorrow morning instead of something I see as a plaything for a child.

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

I think that would really depend on what kind of back yard you have Bob ...

One of my (now ex) neighbours used to take potshots out of his window at various things such as buildings and the Posh Flats over the river.


I was at a community policing meeting one time, along with some other Shoeboxers, when several of the Poshers were ranting about the antics of some of my neighbours. Never imagining for a moment that I with my received pronunciaton and a few others from this block who are intelligent and who know how to conduct ourselves in Polite Society might be Shoeboxers sitting right beside them.


It was an obnoxious experience, frankly, and the class warrior in me felt like cheering when one of them declared they'd had their window broken by a pellet fired from the Towers. But I sometimes find an upside to a bad situation in ways which aren't entirely appropriate....... :rotfl:

Elona_2

JoJo

Not a camping situation but I had to hide all sorts of stuff from DH or else he would decide "we" are not using this and chuck it away!

My wardrobe ended up very well stocked (tea lights, collapsible water containers, water purification tablets, Kelly kettle, wind up torch, meds etc,)

Karmacat

GreyQueen wrote: »

I was at a community policing meeting one time, along with some other Shoeboxers, when several of the Poshers were ranting about the antics of some of my neighbours. Never imagining for a moment that I with my received pronunciaton and a few others from this block who are intelligent and who know how to conduct ourselves in Polite Society might be Shoeboxers sitting right beside them.

It was an obnoxious experience, frankly, and the class warrior in me felt like cheering when one of them declared they'd had their window broken by a pellet fired from the Towers. But I sometimes find an upside to a bad situation in ways which aren't entirely appropriate....... :rotfl:

I get like that sometimes

Instead of firing up my own little class war :rotfl: I used that energy on the garden - a piece of my two foot wide border, at the side of the house, hadn't been dug over or used in maybe two years, and I completely dug over a six foot length of it :j I'm probably going to be at a garden centre tomorrow, briefly, and if I can find any herbs I want, they're going in

It's right outside my back door, and I have a decision to make about the quince - its on a northern facing fence, which gets invaded by my neighbour's ivy as well. The quince gets half a dozen fruits a year (for taking up a lot of space, a lot a lot ) and I'm fed up of it. I don't know whether I could move it, or if I just have to hack it down, but it's really not doing me any good there. Plus sheltering underneath it were a baby rowan tree, three Japanese anemones, a sedge (all of which are weedlike in my garden) and a lot of annual weeds too.

Such a badly placed plant, its not *its* fault, but its really in the wrong place, and now I'm paying attention to what I want, I have to make some changes!

GreyQueen

Keep the rowan. I think in folklore it protects your home from witches. Or being struck by lightening? One of those things.


I have come over all unnecessary and am going to bed shortly. GQ x

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Both I think!

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Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

You also have to ensure that your house and garden is large enough to not fall foul of the law regarding discharging a weapon within 50ft of the public highway.

You left a bit off.

IF in consequence a user of the highway is injured, interrupted or endangered.

Provided the projectiles do not pass beyond the boundary of your premises, you are in the clear.

Cappella

Keep the rowan. I think in folklore it protects your home from witches. Or being struck by lightening? One of those things.

Plus you can make very tasty rowanberry jelly !!!128522;