THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

[Deleted User]

Herm.....excuse moi but are you lot planning a 'jolly jaunt' in my absence WITHOUT including ME??? I don't know, I go off child wrangling for a few days and look what happens, you all get to go and play with those folks who don't dwell in this green and pleasant land and leave me behind, SWIZZ!!!


I have a weapon beyond compare, I'll borrow the Zebra child back again, he could be our mascot (if anyone was brave enough) and we could completely disarm vast ranks of 'forn' armies by just letting him go in and play, he's a devious wee rascal and when he turns on his little twinkly smile and says 'Please Oma' it's irresistible. We'd have the whole shebang so immersed in building things from lego it would be a 'bloodless coup' alright and the little pickle would get them making him oaty biscuits by the ton so rations would be fine (only if you like oaty biscuits though) his only requirement by way of sustenance would be a few cups of milk to go with them, and he has a couple of words of French so perhaps he could be the interpreter? WAIT FOR US!!!


Pretty chilly here today and I'm going to check stocks in the store room where the boiler happens by chance to be situated, so it will be warm woohoo!!!

Cappella

Good thinking MrsLW A hard oat biscuit in the hands of the zebra child could do incalculable damage to enemy morale too.

Oh yessss! Quartermistress definitely please GQ I love an official title. And an excellent opportunity to deal with the the honey glut too. Let me see now,
Honey sponge
Honey cake
Honey biscuits
Oat honey biscuits for the zebra child
Honey flapjacks
Honey flavoured spotted Richard
Stewed fruit and honey . . .
The opportunities for [STRIKE]feathering my own nest[/STRIKE] feeding our staunch chaps fresh local produce are so tempting I just can't refuse the post.

Wanders off to audit things and make lists. I will be some time . . .

AnimalTribe

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Any other ideas for keeping warm? Apart from adding layer 6 (my now massive fleece jacket) over the top so I'm roughly egg shaped - this was stupid levels of intolerable.

Apologies if this is out of context now, but I'm pages behind and I wanted to reply to Jojo as I too can't stand being cold.

Hand warmers (the gel kind with a metal button inside that you click) are fantastic for keeping you warm. In a pocket they will help keep your hands warm, but I put one in a sock and stuff it down the front of my shirt. They last for ages, and are reusable. Two pairs of socks keep you warmer than one. HTH

Nargleblast

Correct, AnimalTribe, layers of clothing keep out the cold, even double socks - but how do you get your shoes on?

Greyqueen - you have started something now with this invasion nonsense. We now have MrsLW threatening to bring Ezra along. I can just picture our enemies captured and tied up in the torture chamber, desperate to tell us everything..."Non! Anyzing...but please, not ze oaty biscuit...."

[Deleted User]

Too darned right Nargle BE AFRAID......very afraid mind you if you ever need a lego trojan horse building then he's your boy!!!

DigForVictory

GQ! You do not hand off the field marshal's baton that easily - this is all your idea, you're in charge Generalissimma! With Cappella as QM & Mrs.LW's Zebra lad as first contact diplomat, charmer in chief & Public Relations spokesperson (even if wielding a fearsome oaty biscuit & clutching Lego caltrops galore), my place is securely amongst the wheezers & dodgers identifying "new" aka culled from history memorable &/or painful ways with modern odds & bits left around. There will be no unconsidered trifles on Capella's watch, but I may have suggestions for what to do with any tinfoil dishes & other "oh it's just" oddments.

Jojo has introduced me to an unexpected weapon - the tweezers & rightly reminded us that the bodhran has a place in any social gathering be its intentions purely cultural (appropriation thereof) or otherwise.

Anyone endeavouring to confine the overtly armed contingent deserves all they get, although I think simple factual threats lack style. (To be completely fair, before the Commonwealth Games & the Olympics, Manchester's Customs developed a range of techniques to run as many searches and checks as possible whilst parading the athletes through the airport to welcoming applause - not least the high jumpers who were the only folk certain of how to manoeuvre their kit. Weaponry was flown into Farnborough and then delivered to an enhanced security Bisley. Often by several trucks full of beaming husky squaddies, on days when there were regimental rugby matches happening All Over The Place. All sorts of tackle was conveyed and concealed In Plain Sight. A lesson for us all, I think!)

In any party of 10 there will probably be someone with religious observances, someone desperate for a loo, likewise someone desperate for a cigarette & then the stress induced asthmatic emerges. Need I say this is a cocktail designed to see a single guard run ragged, trying to abide by the Geneva conventions & not quite realising that the desperately needed oxygen plus the smoker means those two have a flame thrower while the religious & the need-a-loo have drawn a detailed map of the surrounding area (possibly in lipstick on a hankie?) and the others have given all loose furniture a good once over for disassembly into blunt instruments (something has to roll the oaty biscuit mixture flat!)

I'm right alongside leaving massive French cultural icons right where they are. We can live without rallying points for disaffection, although anyone insisting we be nasty to the veiled can be sent to join their English counterparts - there are still a few lumps of rock off the Scillies aren't there? Dreadful for the environment of course but I think the wildlife will recover in a few hundred years. Should anyone feel we're all going a bit far, we can invite them to inspect that other French icon the guillotine (that we pipped them to it with the Halifax gibbet is something we need not mention) - several of us can knit with a suitably encouraging leer, I think?

I'm sure we all have a few family members we cherish & a few we do not, & I suggest we keep the latter [relatively] handy let the re-occupied nationals feel someone else's blood must be shed. I wonder how much use the Bastille might still be. (Always presuming you don't hanker to relocate that back to the green & pleasant lands, GQ? We've a perfectly effective Tower in London I believe, even if not currently under your control.)

There is a case to be made for being tolerable invaders by paying for things, (so long as we control the tax system). Let's impose a flat tax of 10% on everything we buy & 50% on everything we suspect? Should bump-start the new economy a charm.

thriftwizard - SAT count - OK that has Utterly Foxed Google for three pages, but that you might be released from hospital is excellent news so long as the supporting care package rates at least 98/100?!

mardatha

In view of the Auld Alliance I think I need to be on the other side

maryb

Umm, didn't they leave Bonnie Prince Charlie in the lurch?

mardatha

I can't remember. I was very young at the time.

DigForVictory

mardatha wrote: »

I can't remember. I was very young at the time.

<wheezing with laughter, here>
Don't take this cheerful mischief too seriously - we nearly invaded the borders of Scotland for the abandoned crofts a few weeks back. (That said, if I see the right one, I'll be in there with the lime mortar & dubious paperwork suggesting I've been there a while - but my skills with lime mortar are such that I do look worryingly as if I was exhumed only half an hour ago.)