Prepping for Brexit thread

Jazee

I need to do another check of prepping stocks and make a trip to farm foods for some bits. However in focusing mainly on food lately I've let toiletry stocks slip and last night discovered we have no toothpaste. This has never happened before in nearly 4 decades.

happydays89

Jazee wrote: »

I need to do another check of prepping stocks and make a trip to farm foods for some bits. However in focusing mainly on food lately I've let toiletry stocks slip and last night discovered we have no toothpaste. This has never happened before in nearly 4 decades.

I stocked up on toothpaste when I was in Homebargains. They had crest at 50p a tube all the other brands were well over a £1 for the same size.

DigForVictory

One of our godfathers has an additional use for his ceiling mounted airer. We made pasta, and happily extruded yards of tagliatelle, but it needed to dry.

A few sleeves of baking parchment & lo - pasta hanging from the ceiling. To add to the "Dig family near" feeling, there were clean socks on the far end.

His art teacher, knowing the lad's imagination, roared with laughter & then went very quiet when a slightly huffy inflection commenting on the bolognese revealed this was a Still Life...

unrecordings

GreyQueen wrote: »

Ohh, to have a ceiling high enough to accomodate a 'sheila maid' airer is an impossible dream in my tiny flat with its 8 ft 6 ceilings. Lucky you.

This is absolutely the best place to get pulley airers & replacement laths:

https://www.castinstyle.co.uk

We had two, one short one over the bath and one full size in the kitchen - very useful as you say with proper Victorian & Edwardian ceilings. We brought the bathroom one with us to the new house and put full size laths on it, but it didn't really work with the window arrangement, so it now lives in the workshop, and we got one of these wall mounting ones instead:

https://www.castinstyle.co.uk/product.php/311/sun-maid-clothes-airer

unrecordings

Jazee wrote: »

However in focusing mainly on food lately I've let toiletry stocks slip and last night discovered we have no toothpaste. This has never happened before in nearly 4 decades.

Bicarb, water & a little fresh mint ?

Jazee

unrecordings wrote: »

Bicarb, water & a little fresh mint ?

Absolutely, I can report my teeth are clean!

AndyCF

PasturesNew wrote: »

Breakfast this morning has been: 2 Walls sausages, 2 scrambled eggs and beans. Out of eggs now.

I've still got the minced beef pasty (39p) I picked up on Wednesday, I've still got spuds. I might have pasty, mash and beans later. Have to see what I fancy.

One local (midlands) shop sells a lot of cakes+bread and things. It is quite well known (think flying creatures you might see on a garden table) but they also do sausage rolls which are quite awesome, apart from the cost, ready to eat there and then. They also 'on demand' do something she called 'sausage bites' , I did try them once merely out of curisoity, what they are, are the sausage rolls cut in half so they were about an inch long, cooked again in an oven, to almost an inch of their lives, then sold cold/chilled. This sounds a bit grim but they were actually really nice. Got a bag of 5 or 6 bits of them for £1 a while back. Mentioning this as they have a reasonable pasty type range too and its much better I think than what you would get from one of the more country-wide outlets, but it does cost more. I only go in as a rare treat to myself.

You know, I am sure last year there was another well known brand offering something similar (ready to zap and eat) but I cannot see it now. Pretty sure the W's ones had two slightly different types too. Suprised the local supermarkets have not jumped onto this bandwagon with their own 'range' of ready to zap sausages just yet.

VoucherMan wrote: »

Wonderful things. Having ceilings over 8 foot high, and fond memories of the Maid in my grandmother's house, I bought one a few years ago when I got fed up trying to find place to stand regular airers.

Never a problem drying the washing now , and of course all the other benefits you mention.

unrecordings wrote: »

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Yes I'd not be without it to be honest. Only downside is the occasion when the cords break through wear and tear but I found using slightly more expensive cord paid for itself, the cheaper pack of it lasted about two years, the expensive one was twice the price however it is still there five/six years later, mind you its wearing through now so its worthwhile me changing it in the next month or three I think.

We had two, one short one over the bath and one full size in the kitchen - very useful as you say with proper Victorian & Edwardian ceilings. We brought the bathroom one with us to the new house and put full size laths on it, but it didn't really work with the window arrangement, so it now lives in the workshop, and we got one of these wall mounting ones instead:

The link you posted they do have the ceiling ones and they look quite similar.

The wall mounted ones are quite handy. The house is Victorian so it does explain it. Mind you the back of the kitchen where it is was originally the coal house area but most of them got knocked through (90% of them in the road from what I have seen) in the 50's so it is possible it was prior to that mounted further 'in' the kitchen area. I have seen 'marks' from another house in the road where they originally had one at some distant point too.

DigForVictory

When it comes to reliable cord in the home, that is even eco friendly(!), we go for linen. Been operating sash windows for decades successfully, just slightly trickier to source. We found of the online suppliers a b*ndage website bound-to-please was actually more affordable than other places, but some ISPs are more twitchy than others.

A pal posted a weblink from an online pharmacy about medication likely to be in finite supply and I was unsurprised to find it wouldn't load as the server is too busy.

So I hit Google "will brexit affect your prescriptions".
NHS England » Continuity of supply frequently asked questions

Royal pharmaceutical society - Google suggested I hop straight to What is a Serious Shortage Protocol? on their Brexit page.

The Guardian was robust Take a prescription drug? Here’s how Brexit could put you at risk. (Frankly, GreyQueen has explained the supply chain issue with admirably clarity & greater brevity already.)

And my own personal hobbyhorse, will I still get my anticonvulsants - seems the Epilepsy Society Trusts the Gubbyment. Not the first time I have sought their advice, thought about it, & thought 'Nope'. Interesting to see which meds are listed - the lad's yes, mine not.)


On the whole I trust the Royal Pharmaceutical site furthest both as they're updating steadily & they're clear that in a serious crunch my health will be in the local pharmacy's hands, and I will be issued pills but they that may not have been OK'ed by my GP for me. Not really what I wanted to hear but at least I can plan. (Yes, epilepsy is 'outside' this disaster plan, but my meds aren't on the Official List & I've worked through several of the the (listed) alternatives (with a Never Again outcome) & don't want to combine anxiety with trialling new meds.)

We shouldn't stockpile medication as it distorts present patterns? We shouldn't have so much substantial reason for doubt & concern then. Plus our "Nanny State" is getting distinctly Paternal - very few pragmatic women in Parliament & thus this board has plenty of us, reading, thinking, planning & preparing since we trust our Gubbyment & its Parliamentary Muppets less as the months pass.

unrecordings

AndyCF wrote: »

The link you posted they do have the ceiling ones and they look quite similar.
The wall mounted ones are quite handy.

Yep - Cast In Style is where we got our original ceiling mounted ones, but, they also do wall mounted. You can get cheaper, but the laths are planed to the correct size for the castings (or they were when I got them) so they feel a lot more solid and less wobbly

We have the wall mounted one in the conservatory with the extended laths at about 7' - very useful and unobtrusive

MingVase

I remember when every house had a pulley in the kitchen - I wonder now if the clothes smelled of dinner when you put them on