THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

DigForVictory

Recall that preparation for appeasing fellow meeting sufferers? On promotion in Asda, £1.25 for a box of 8 sachets, a Seasonal Edition "Nescafe Gold Caramelised Almond & Vanilla Latte Sachets" & other glossy exotics are also available. Three of my colleagues took on a "someone cares!" expression, and two were coaxed into taking a sachet back for later...

Bribery. Sometimes the grappling hook that lets you stay onboard...

GreyQueen

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

I'm in the process of (gradually!) upgrading to a flock of specialist herding bees.

Well, it makes sense, what with Miele being Italian for 'honey'...

Heh, never knew that, and there's me owning a Miele fridge since 2012.


DforV, being the warm fuzzy presence with the treaty comestibles is a good tactic. A wumman I used to know had a midlife baby and ended up living as a lone parent in a boat on a commercial wharf. Long story short, she always used to keep a bottle of whiskey and was a regular agony aunt/ sounding board when various fellers working on the wharf felt the need to unburden themselves of various woes over a glass or two.


This investment in time and strong likker paid off with multiple favours extended to her, a watchful eyes on her boat and her callers and, when !!!!!! ex turned up and tried to steal the boat, and the police would do nothing, a heavy-handed threat which saw him offski never to be heard of again.

mardatha

It's wet and horrible today I'm just not looking out the back. If my poor washing machine & cooker are out there in it then I don't want to know. But the front grass is now enhanced by a herd of tables and worktops and saws.

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We've got the beginning of the second great flood here today, the showers are overwhelming our gutters and turning them into waterfalls and the noise on the conservatory roof when they're heaviest is like being in a bass drum! Have you finished knitting that Ark yet Mar? I think we may need it.


The stove is being installed and the slate hearth is already down, very noisy so I've been shut in the kitchen with my recipe books for half the morning starting to plan Christmas food. Trying to keep it simple specially when the family are here en-masse for the weekend before Christmas.

It will be a great relief to have the stove here and working, I've missed the old one for the past couple of colder weeks, radiators just don't give the right kind of heat and I'm looking forward to being able to light the stove at the coldest part of the afternoon and snuggle up! It will give me, for the first time, a cooking surface to keep a kettle on all the time it's lit and to finish a casserole/stew on that I've started in the kitchen on the hob. Also to make the soda bread that works so well in the rectangular mess tins to go with it. I shall feel safer in the knowledge that power cuts can't leave us cold and uncomfortable from now on.

fuddle

MrsL please will you share your stove cooking escapades when you you do them?

Ladies I can taste the stove and kitchen dust from here!

We were supposed to get a day of rain but it looks like it's been called off as nothing other than a bit of drizzle. It's so dark though. I've had the lamp on all day.

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Certainly will, It will be experimental and there will be failures but it will be good to learn what does and doesn't work.

Karmacat

Wow - here's to the building work for both of you being finished pronto! I had a little bit done this time last year, and it was **agony**! Your herd of workmen's tools sounds like quite the addition, Mar!


The only prepping I'm doing - apart from never ending tidying - is building community, re-joining a U3A group I investigated last year. I have a couple of plans though:
1. All my first aid kit is on the first floor, and somebody mentioned having some with the gardening stuff, gardening being the most likely activity to cause pain and injury on my property so I've emptied a big plastic bucket (about 30 years old, it originally held popcorn, weirdly). That will be my emergency first aid kit for gardening.
2. the conversation we had on here about microgreens has stuck with me. I have a big 5 litre stainless steel cauldron (cs buy, £3) that hardly ever gets used, I'm going to put the stuff I'm collecting for microgreens in there - plastic pots from the supermarket, that sort of thing) and seeds to try. Stuff I've bought, and stuff I've been collecting from the garden. We'll see.

Suffolksue

Thank you all,been away for the weekend with the U3A ,lots of help when needed for OH ( and gentle ribbing too!)
Can't quote but Dig for Victory ,we do see a lot of our friends ,but unlikely to be anymore geriatric booze cruises as one half of the couple died suddenly in Feb .and OH not fit anymore
Prepped some mince pies today ,much too early as they've nearly all been tested by OH ,apparantly for Quality Control .
I wish my imagination could keep up with yours !
Thankyou all

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We have lift off! and a wonderfully cosy lounge I'm warm for the first time in a while, 'tis a beautiful stove!

thriftwizard

Any chance of a pic, MrsLW?

Bucketing down for most of the day here, too. Not that it matters to me; apart from feeding the chickens, I'm not doing a lot of outdoorsing yet. Feeling pretty good, but still tiring fairly easily; that said I was up to cooking cottage pie for tea so it's not all faintheartedness. My preps have stood us in good stead and so far this month the Offspring & OH have only had to spend about £30 on extra groceries.

Too warm to light the stove this evening down here! But the heating has come on, which is finishing off drying the washing that we put out yesterday. And keeping the resident felines in warm spots when I'm not reclining elegantly. Or at all, in fact...