THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

thriftwizard

Cappella you are definitely a candidate for sainthood! Hope you can get home soon.

I think what the Daily Wail have picked up, with respect to Mt. Katla, is that a scientific paper has recently been published on the subject of her magma chamber recharging and an increase in CO2 emissions under the glacier where she sleeps. This would indicate that she will erupt again, sooner or later in geological time, may be next year, maybe in another 100 years. Volcanos don't do schedules, and scientists won't - indeed, can't - predict anything but a very imminent eruption. Another Icelandic giant, Öræfajökull, is possibly closer to erupting. Possibly, maybe tomorrow, maybe in 100 years... And some eruptions may cause problems for us - though more for the Icelanders - but most of them don't and we hardly hear about them.

That said, it's not impossible! Just the kind of thing my normal preps should see us through, though of course I'm quite a long way from Iceland compared to some of you!

GreyQueen

I saw that daily fail article and discounted it whilst thinking; At least this volcano has a name which is pronouncable and easy to spell - phew! Take that, Ekka-pota-kettle!


Minor Prepping Failure:


Had a slightly amusing wardrobe malfunction today on the lottie when my trouser button pinged off. Button recovered and now sewn back on, but I was hitchin' me britches for a while there.


I have now added a 1960s nappy pin into my wallet, to be deployed in a similar circ. Or usable for a number of other things, some of these 1960s nappy pins which were used on me and kid bruv have travelled the world with me.

maryb

Nappy pins make great stitch holders for small numbers of stitches where a full size holder would get in the way so I always have some in my knitting bag. I’ll pop one in my handbag as well. Good thinking Moriarty

ivyleaf

maryb wrote: »

Nappy pins make great stitch holders for small numbers of stitches where a full size holder would get in the way so I always have some in my knitting bag. I’ll pop one in my handbag as well. Good thinking Moriarty

Yes, I used to use them for that too

DigForVictory

And it's a very finicky airline that insists on wooden knitting needles, but if they do, expect nappy pin shenanigans. Although I'd probably deploy it in the trouser area & plead for compassion from the search lass... A long time ago us gels were expected to carry two little safety pins for sanitary usage!

VJsmum

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Argh. How (and when) did a moth get into my tin of oats? Just as well there were only a couple of portions left. It was the one thing I'd assumed was fine in the Great Disposal of Contaminated Foodstuffs Debacle.

I opened a lidly pack of oats the other day to find a few dead moths in it...:eek: and rather dusty looking oats. I probably should have taken them back but initially assumed it'd happened in my cupboard...

ivyleaf

Ugh, that's vile, VJsmum . I've never bough any oats from there, and now i'm sure I never will :eek:

Karmacat

Right, I'm on here for a rumination about gardens (and thinking particularly of Lyn, who's only just moved but already seems more settled in her house than I am in mine, and I've only been here 8 years.

Anyway, erm ...

I've been digging in the garden - several brambles have met their deaths, hurray. I also dug up the most enormous **bundle** of garlic bulbs and cloves, all mixed up together, and then all mixed up in the roots of lots of lady's mantle, alchemilla. It's my own attitude thats the problem if a plant wants to grow, unless its something like fireweed or couch grass, I'm very likely to let it grow, wherever it is.

That has to stop - its no good for a suburban wildlife garden, let alone a garden for a prepster! For a start, any alchemilla thats on the sunniest side of the garden is going to get dug up. It grows perfectly well on the shadier side, where fewer things will grow, so thats where it can stay.

I've always said I wanted just perennials in my garden, as a prepster. But there are some annuals and bulbs that I *do* want - garlic, and basil spring to mind.

Right now, I'm thinking of that bundle of garlic - it's cold at night right now, and I need to put it in a big pot to overwinter, I think, rather than putting it in the ground somewhere. Partly to keep an eye on it, partly because anywhere that doesn't have brambles has horsetail

Can I ask for feedback on what people have done? Your "policies", if you like, on what you keep where?

[Deleted User]

Would it be better if I didn't flag up what I see in the papers or on the news feed? I don't believe 99.9% of it but if there's just the tiniest outside shred of a chance of any of it coming to fruition I'd rather know in advance. If you'd rather I didn't post that's fine! it's rather what prepping IS though isn't it? rather than assuming that nothing will ever happen to the comfy lives we all enjoy.

Karmacat

Woah, Lyn, thats nothing to do with it, truly! I mentioned you, in a good way, as someone who sets to in their day to day life and gets things done! Truly, all I'm talking about right now is attitude to gardens. News has noffink to do with this at all - it's just, how do people decide what to grow, and where to put it, and when they should dig things up? The alchemilla, for instance, the young leaves are edible, so I let it grow all over the place. But it's incredibly prolific in my garden, it really takes over, and my rosemary has almost got drowned out, for instance. Gardening decisions! Tell me yours, especially in your new house