Prepping for Brexit thread

DigForVictory

Ohhh - great drawn out breath of finally gets it! Sorry - my knowledge of tea-leaf reading comes straight from Terry Pratchett (ah Nanny Ogg & Mrs Nitt's tea leaves, and of course Granny Weatherwax reading for Mrs.Whitlow) where the witches largely don't bother with tealeaf reading as they don't think it works. (As if that ever stopped Granny...)

As for

swirling fabrics with too much eye make up

that would be the dress code for some of my colleagues who are black coffee and several cigarettes admitted to types! What they get up to at the weekend is considered far too racy for the teapoint, & fair enough.

DryTheRain, next time a Mormon comes knocking, invite them in for a cup of herbal tea, a glass of milk or water (they eschew caffeine on religious grounds) & get them to explain food storage to you? Their faith requires them to have three months worth of food & water, so get them to share some practical tips? As you'll be on the same page about the sheer reassurance of knowing that no matter what happens, you can still eat & drink despite severe weather, sudden unemployment & other hiccups. You may find they are so thankful to be treated with courtesy (& not pestered about their sex lives or politics) that they share the really why didn't I think of that insights! A tactful 'so sorry but I have a dental appointment' or whatever at Q sets a timeframe of expectation but in that time, take notes!

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Does it count if you only ever wear jeans and a T shirt with a fleece and only use tea leaves for going on the compost heap?

Drytherain well done on getting to the point where you don't feel so worried over your future because you're prepared for untoward happenings. People are patronisingly scathing about prepping in many cases and tend to regard folks like us as eccentric to the point of lunatic fringe.....but come the crunch we'll be the ones with the tea bags and candles and they'll be the ones without! I think being a little forward looking, a little forward planning and prepared for the vagaries of life (many and diverse) for whatever reason is a better place than being on catch up after the event (whatever the event might be). Personal point of view and not a reflection on anyone else! xxx.

DigForVictory

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Does it count if you only ever wear jeans and a T shirt with a fleece and only use tea leaves for going on the compost heap?

There's a dress code?! Dear me.

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

tend to regard folks like us as eccentric to the point of lunatic fringe

And they may need their perspective rebalancing - my son had a medics appointment today & managed to get lost, visiting the gynecology department, the maternity unit & the morgue before finding where he was *supposed* to be.
Another son "just wants to be normal" - and we howl with laughter (& frustration) that as child of two cheerful eccentrics, he has such Limited Ambitions, let alone the fact that we certainly didn't try to raise him to abide by all those restrictive shibboleths but if engineering calls, who are we to argue?

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Normal is sooooooooo boring! talk him out of that one tout suite! poor boy obviously hasn't been dragged up enough mountains yet, sat on white sand beaches and sung to seals who will sing back or had the joys of a hot chocolate on top of a mountain at the top end of Sweden under the midnight sun. I absolve him of not making cook fires in the back garden as I'm sure you do that but normal, get him a hot air balloon flight or a paragliding experience, get him into flint knapping and make his own hand axe, take him to Iceland and go whale watching and drive round the whole island and get him to realise that 'normal' is tame whereas looking at the possibilities that exist is abnormal BUT a whole lot more funnnnnnn!


My next big one on the bucket list is to go to the Lofoten Islands off the Norwegian coast to Lofotor which is a Viking settlement where they have a fully functioning long house staffed by re-enactors and they have a real Longship without an engine and they let people row her out into the Fjiord and back.....guess what I want to do.....and I'm definitely NOT normal by 2019 standards but I get a whole lot more adventures than most people get in a lifetime.....

DigForVictory

He has flint knapped & has outgrown the leather apron we shaped for him.
He's taken & worn & carried full AngloSaxon kit (linen, wool decorated with tablet woven braid, mail shirt, leather turnshoes etc etc) into school for one day a year for several years at his history teacher's request (one year with false beard!) - and despite the seax etc not had a cheep of trouble with mucking about & 'knife crime' as he's been absolutely up front about any idiots & It All Goes Home & noone sees it again. (Pretty much a direct house quote.)
He's not only been hauled up mountains, he actively seeks them out for conquest, but I may suggest finding seals & singing back to them sometime. When he's being particularly irritatingly narrow-minded, I think.

I absolutely agree - being normal is for some reason choosing to live a life within self constructed walls. Whereas I tend to respond badly to "you can't do that" (other than on the range & other may endanger other innocent bystanders situations).

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In that case M'dear it's just a passing phase and he'll grow out of it eventually after all no one actually chooses boredom and conventionality on purpose do they? I wish him many very exciting adventures, large and strong wings to fly on and a strong homing instinct when he feels he'd like to come and share his stories with you and his Papa!

Shropshirelass

MrsL I just had to thank you for reminding me that the most beautiful thing I have ever seen is the Viking ship in the museum at Oslo. I must have antecedents who came over on longboats, but I had a bad case of collywobbles/deja vue and a strange calm feeling of 'now I've seen this I can be happy'.

Quite weird as DNA suggests that, after painting their cave walls, my ancestors walked from Spain, crossed Dogger Bank before it submerged, and apparently couldn't get back.

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The biggest longship I've ever seen was in the museum in Gothenburg, it's end to end of a huge long gallery and Oh my word, sooooo beautiful and I too had that feeling of 'completing a circle' and contentment. It was odd but lovely being in Gothenburg because we have the same face as most of the women there, DD1 and I spent the week walking into shops and being spoken to in Swedish by the assistants who were bemused that we weren't actually Swedish. It was like looking into a mirror everywhere and felt like home, like putting on a glove as the place fitted us so perfectly.

gettingtheresometime

Talking of Viking long boats I am, after many many years of wanting to go, going to Up Helly Aa in the Shetlands next year.

Can't wait

kah22

Many years ago a friend of mine owned a reasonably successful cafe and he was a bit of a prankster. Anyway for two or three days he gathered up all the used tea bags, took them home and hung them out to dry in an effort to get a rise from his wife. Imagine the scene when the wife arrived home with one of her posh friends! 😄

Anyway it set me to thinking that maybe we should be hanging up our old tea bags, after all prisoners in concentration camps used their tea leaves on more than one occasion.

We are after all at war with 27 other countries !