Prepping for Brexit thread

short_bird

Anybody here with a chronic illness who needs certain meds on a daily basis?
How are you getting on with repeat prescriptions? Is anyone asking for prescriptions earlier than usual?

Primrose

I need three different types of eye drops night and morning for glaucoma. over the past year one of the brands keeps changing to a different supplier.every couple of months

Don,t know whether this is because the NHS keeps inviting new contracts from different manufacturers to keep costs competitive or whether it's in short supply so they have to shop around for it. Anyway, am fed up with the supplier for the last two months because the eye drop bottles are faulty. The dispensing aperture is permanently sealed up and I,ve had to bodge a hole in the nozzle which then dispenses about a week's eye drops in one session.

Have complained to pharmacy but they say I should check the bottle before I leave the pharmacy In future. Once its left their premises they can,t exchange medications even if the dispensing mechanism is faulty.

Jazee

I have medication. No problems yet getting any, I'm prescribed two months worth at a time, can't stock up. Supplier does keep changing though.

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I've just made a really tasty salad from leftovers in the fridge, some diced new potatoes, some cooked runner beans, half a red onion left from making some pasta sauce, a stick of celery, a chopped apple from the fruit bowl, a grated carrot from the allotment, a chopped gherkin from a jar in the fridge, a small courgette from the allotment and the dressing is a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise, a tablespoon each of white wine vinegar and lemon juice, some fresh chopped fennel leaves from the garden and some German mild mustard from a tube. Generous seasoning of black pepper and salt and Oh boy is it tasty.

I have the oven going too and have rescued a couple of ends of loaf and a stale roll by making a big baking dish of wartime bread pudding which will be finished in time to have some hot for pudding if we want it with some raspberries from the allotment or to have cold for a few days as cake.

tooldle

I have a chronic illness and take daily meds. My current prescription covers 28 days at a time. So far no delays, although the manufacturer has changed several times in the last few months. I don’t recall this happening previously and my illness goes back almost 30 years.
I use a wider variety of medications in the winter months. I can only wait and see what happens,
In my area of work (University Research), the picture is looking very gloomy indeed.

silverwhistle

DigForVictory wrote: »

I *miss* the villages annual flower & veg show. .

Last week I took on an allotment so went to the local village show on sunday. Local beer :-) (more than 2..) and purchased a 2019 jar of chilli and tomato salsa.. Think we're spoilt here on the south coast..



With my timing I'm obviously fully into the zeitgeist, even if I think leaving is an idea mainly popular with Putin and Trump.


Given the state of the overgrown plot I think hoping for too much produce next year would be foolish, but I was heartened to see a frog there today, and of such auspicious events is life made!

Well_Preserved

All the best with your allotment!, silverwhistle. I share one myself, and, seeing how quickly nature reclaims it, any advice I would tentatively offer would be to make sure you plant something in any small area you manage to clear - thinking shallots, leeks, winter brassicas at the moment maybe, or even green manure. My allotment partner has a habit of digging n leaving them bare for months and to be honest he may as well not have bothered!

And I tend to agree with your assessment of leaving, by the way!

bsuije

OK, so this may be a completely silly question, but in the case of food shortages in the UK, what's to stop someone from getting in the car / on the train / on the plane and heading across to France/Belgium/Netherlands, filling two suitcases full of food and bringing it back? :huh:

Admittedly, the cost will most likely be prohibitive over a long period of time, but would there be any other issues? Customs maybe?

Primrose

Well_Preserved wrote: »

. My allotment partner has a habit of digging n leaving them bare for months and to be honest he may as well not have bothered!

Perhaps not very practical but if you've gone to the trouble of digging a huge allotment plot and leaving it bare over winter, really the best thing you can to do save undoing all your hard work is to cover it all over with black plastic to prevent the weeds growing back again. But with plastic use now becoming a sin, I suppose cardboard might be an unsightly alternative but probably would,t last through a harsh winter and would need to be anchored down all over the place. Sadly nature always wins in the end!

fuddle

Short bird I have 6 months supply of one med, 3 months supply of the second and with my inhalers having been changed recently only really 2 weeks buffer of that but I have kept my 6 months supply of old inhaler for now as I figure something is better than nothing. I order mine online via the GP's surgery. They allow you to order a week early to get it in your hands on time just as you run out of old stock. I order a week early everytime, accruing a buffer.

I realise this won't help everyone but thought it worth sharing.