Prepping for Brexit thread

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Ha...... after tackling ironing the bedding for our kingsize bed, my eyes lit on a rarely opened cupboard.......big mistake.....I have been through the cupboard and wardrobe in the room I use as a sewing room. A lot of stuff has been thrown out, some went to the charity shop and what was left has been tidied away, I now have a shelf and the bottom of the wardrobe to stash some extra bits away. I found the gas ring in a case and also a gas fired lamp. I need to check that both of them work ok. I know exactly where they are and can put my hand on them in a minute.

I now need to see what extra things I need.

We do have an electric blanket on our bed, but some time ago I replaced our hot water bottles. I need to check they are ok. We have gas heating which of course uses electric for the pump. Each winter I make sure we have fleece blankets on the chairs in the sitting room and we can use the gas ring to boil the kettle I kept when we gave up caravanning. There is a patchwork quilt on our bed which we can pull up over the duvet as well.

PasturesNew

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.... I had some old towels which I cut up into squares and over locked the edges to be used should we run out of loo roll. They can be used and washed off put in a bucket to soak and then washed, dried and reused, beats newspaper every time!!

At the risk of sounding gross.... all you really need is clipped nails and a bucket of water. Rinse your hand in the bucket of water, tip the water down the loo

[Deleted User]

The romans used sponges on a stick soaked in vinegar, rigorously cleaned after use and then put back in the vinegar tub for the next person needing them.

mardatha

I always thought that would work MrsL, a nice squishy sponge and vinegar would clean it well.

cuddlymarm

A bit much information to wake up to guys. Eek.

Nargleblast

Bet it would sting your piles though!

On a trip out in India once I noticed bathrooms with hosepipes attached to the wall behind the toilet so you could hose yourself down afterwards. I couldn't see any means of drying yourself off afterwards, maybe you were supposed to shake it all about and drip dry? Shouldn't complain really, I visited some homes where the toilet area was literally a hole in the ground. Everything smelled clean despite this, the people were quite fastidious in their hygiene.

[Deleted User]

Sorry Cuddles, would have been worse though if anyone actually used the clipped nails process and admitted to it wouldn't it?

Buffythedebtslayer

cuddlymarm wrote: »

A bit much information to wake up to guys. Eek.

It took me a minute to work out what people where talking about!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

DryTheRain

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Ha...... after tackling ironing the bedding for our kingsize bed, my eyes lit on a rarely opened cupboard.......big mistake.....I have been through the cupboard and wardrobe in the room I use as a sewing room. A lot of stuff has been thrown out, some went to the charity shop and what was left has been tidied away, I now have a shelf and the bottom of the wardrobe to stash some extra bits away. I found the gas ring in a case and also a gas fired lamp. I need to check that both of them work ok. I know exactly where they are and can put my hand on them in a minute.

I now need to see what extra things I need.

We do have an electric blanket on our bed, but some time ago I replaced our hot water bottles. I need to check they are ok. We have gas heating which of course uses electric for the pump. Each winter I make sure we have fleece blankets on the chairs in the sitting room and we can use the gas ring to boil the kettle I kept when we gave up caravanning. There is a patchwork quilt on our bed which we can pull up over the duvet as well.

I was stressing madly the other day writing a horrid tribunal appeal, but after a very long sleep I've been puttering about clearing space for provisions, maybe it's another method of trying to restore order?

Either way I feel similarly pleased at having organised a couple of cupboards plus the drawer of dreams in the kitchen (you know the one!) so I can lay my hands on things easily.

My carer is around to help me this afternoon so we're going to experiment with some of the interesting things I've bought, veggie sausage mix, soy mince and dried onions, I suspect the sherry will prove a vital flavour enhancer too. Important to make sure it's alright

Will be sending my carer out for (more) loo rolls after reading recent comments!!!

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I see in the papers headlines this morning that the PM has called for her MPs to be 'Patriotic' but I have grave doubts that they will actually listen. I'm increasingly uncertain these days as to whether they are doing the job of representing their constituencies or whether some of them are actually following their own ideas at all costs and any cost rather than do as the population have asked them, whichever side of the vote any one of us actually decided to be. I think I've lost faith in the integrity of the whole bunch of them and in some cases the honesty as well. What I see and I'm NOT a politician, don't feel any affiliation to any of the current political parties but am a person who loves the UK and all it is in it's great diversity but who also loves some aspects of Europe having lived there for a few years, is manipulation of the facts, pursuit of ascendency of their own careers, complete disregard for the result of a national vote , no respect whatsoever for the party they are said to represent and much plotting of small groups who think their way is the right way possibly the only way. Result is stasis.....humiliation both here and in the rest of the world and who will ever believe in the UK ever again? For all their fine words, posturing and grand gestures of superiority we are now the laughing stock of the planet and for a great and basically good country in the past it's a very sad state of affairs to be in.