Prepping for Brexit thread

GreyQueen

Plus, a lot of imported fruits taste of nothing at all. I've given up buying the stone fruits as imports (peaches, nectarines, plums) or strawbs as they're just horrible wet mushy nothings which rot before they ripen.


Brexit will co-incide with British apples and pears being in full swing. Pass me a luvverly cox and the exotics can go hang.

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Oh YES...and lovely Bramleys baked with some raisins and brown sugar or plums in a crumble and pears and stilton. With those options grown here in the UK who needs imported strawberries anyway?

fuddle

Who knows what will happen. I'm tired of the prolonging of the agony now. DH said something last night about how we must not let the psychology of it all effect us. Life is still all about family and friends being together and surviving. We've been through worse than Brexit and we've been through what ultimately Brexit could cause a family in terms of lack of finances and loss of home. We survived, we worked through and became stronger people.

So while I'm not panicking or anything like that, the psychology of hearing rhetoric after rhetoric that is dirty play, that is spin and bolster, that is very much fact and you must listen - is starting to drive me bonkers. As they're playing their games, using us and our lives as pawns to prove their position so they get their own wish and scrabble up the career ladder, I shall be retreating from the whole mess, getting on with life as a prepper because I have a bit of ill health, we've a small mortgage to pay on one salary, we live on a windy hill that gets closed off in snow and my lights have a habit of flickering when it's windy! Life still is. Just keep your cupboards full, not for Brexit, just because it's sensible for life's own meanderings. It's always only ever about the love and care of your family and friends.

AndyCF

unrecordings wrote: »

Not to make anything of it but she might have had peripheral neuropathy - that's numbness in the extremities ie fingers, so the correct toilet roll is quite an important factor (we might have done this a good few pages ago). My chemo finally gave me peripheral neuropathy back at the start of the year, even things like the precise length of your fingernails can make a big difference between being able to get by and just having useless sausage fingers. It's hard to explain without experiencing it. I've a 5' tower of 'my brand' - that's close to 100 rolls of the stuff, not posh, but i 'know' it.

And if that fails, there's still the pressure washer...

lol @ pressure washer! :rotfl:

No I understand perfectly what you're saying here. It was I suspect not that though as when you saw the rest of the house / kitchen erm 'food stock' and stuff as well as their two cars (she mentioned something about 3 holidays as well actually) it was obvious that monies were not a big concern if at all. Each to their own though in that regard. It was almost as said in the post below she seemed really upset by the risk that said luxury brands of stuff might not be there for a while.

No ones ever said you'd have to buy one of the euro type bargain brands, there will probably/likely be well known brands still or at least supermarket ones too.

I just found it slightly odd. I don't want to sound terrible here but I half suspect they had always had an erm "luxury life" and the thought of this being effected in a tiny way was distressing. The holiday comment was actually the annoying one to me, but I'll resist posting that unless you wanted to know.

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Well I may be wrong but I don't think the sky will be falling for want of lettuce, strawberries and tomatoes in November do you?

Nail/Head.
I would suspect even if things went quite pear shaped (no pun intended) for a few weeks with supplies like that, aka "out of season bits" then they would still be there for those with monies just cost a lot more for a while, supply/demand.

Eventually things will even themselves out, regardless. People / suppliers in other countries want to sell to us and we do export a shedload of things and import less I think so its positive for us.

We ought to grow more here though anyway something that has been in sad decline since after the war I think ?

Primrose

I can see that any temporary shortage of fresh fruit and veg could lead to a temporary rise in demand for allotments, but this will not last very long as people actually start to realise that growing your own actually involves a lot of weeding, digging and continuous hard work !

One thing's for sure. After three years I'm growing weary of the whole issue now, as I suspect are the majority of the population, not only because it has prevented government focus on many other other important issues close to home which need to be addressed and resolved.

grunnie

I keep my cupboards and freezers full as i have osteoporosis and my back hurts. Last winter before i was diagnosed i was so much in pain i just couldn't get out to shop and relied on my store cupboards for everything. Strawberries rasps red white and black currants and now brambles are all in the freezer. My greenhouse tomatoes are beginning to ripen and had the first few sweetcorn and peppers . Outdoor tomatoes take longer to ripen as i am in the north of scotland. I grow 10 different types of potatoes so they last all year. Peas and beans are all in the freezer and turnips kale carrots leeks beetroot etc just stay in the ground till i need them. Apple trees have lots of fruit which i store in the garage and last till next year or longer.plums just don't grow for me and the birds seem to get the pears before me. Am i sorted for brexit i don't know this is just what i have done every year! But i have bought more tr and 2 tins of dried milk.

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I think the (metaphorical) knives will be honed to steely perfection in parliament this week and MPs currently serving (very odd word to use in connection with todays politicians) will be looking for opportunities to use them on friends and enemies alike as the words used by those MPs from both sides of the debate and from the two bigger parties representing a fair proportion of the population being interviewed on the news this morning seem to be beyond vitriolic and into hatred territory and this included two from the same party! One even described the current PM and cabinet as a 'cabal of elitists', how charming!

I feel there will and can be no happy outcome to the conundrum that is Brexit blood is running too high, testosterone levels (even amongst the females) are running much too high and the people who have been voted in to position as MPs to represent us in our home constituencies have lost sight of the job they are in situ to do which is to represent OUR views NOT their own. The pound is forecast to drop to 1 to 1 against the Euro and the world must be regarding the UK and the people who are in government here today as a complete laughing stock, a bunch of motley fools and who could blame them for having that opinion, it is one I am coming to hold myself.

I will do what I need to and what I can to keep us going through the chaos, I think it will ultimately be every man/woman for him/herself.

As has been said all that really matters is family and friends and being the best person you can to them regardless of the fact that 'Rome' is burning around our ears.

unrecordings

AndyCF wrote: »

lol @ pressure washer! :rotfl:

No I understand perfectly what you're saying here.

That documentary probably would have annoyed me too. I suppose luxury keeps a sense of normality alive in people, though in my own little world I don't care for luxury so much but I do demand quality

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One small ray of hope in amongst the aggressive infighting came on the news from the Beaconsfield Conservative Association whose spokeswoman when pushed said that because she and the association had a responsibility of governance that if the actions of the currently elected MP for their constituency endangered the Government then she was fairly certain that the Association would de-select that MP and that other Associations would do the same. One sane voice in the Tower of Babel!

Slinky

I'm not going mad, but I have bought in a few extras of things that we use regularly, plus some UHT milk just in case. I'll continue to ensure I build up stocks as we get nearer the end of October. If we need to use it, we do, if not it will be donated to a food bank in due course. Speaking with a friend yesterday she thought I was slightly dotty.



Listening to a florist on R5Live yesterday who said 'we're British, we'll cope, we coped in the war, etc etc'. We're living in different times, most of us are not those people. I thought to myself, you've never seen what some Brits will do on Black Friday for a cheap telly. Heaven help us if there are food shortages.



I have to say I envy a French neighbour who is off to her holiday home for 6 months from the end of October, I might try and hide in her suitcase.