Prepping for Brexit thread

Blue_Doggy

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I wonder if we'll look back at these turbulent and divided days in a few years time and wonder what on earth all the confusion and blame and rage was all about? I can usually make an educated guess as to how our lives will be as the years go on but today, in this climate of uncertainty and infighting between not just the members of parliament but the whole nation I am staring at a blank wall and cannot see through it, round it, over or under it and I have no idea what is going to happen now or in the future. It's unsettling at its mildest and infuriating as there seems to be no ending in sight and no individual or group seems capable of making a decision that will move us forward. It's an unseemly scrabble for an unknown future and I don't like it one tiny bit!

Dear Mrs Lurcherwalker, I can’t just read this and run. You are usually such a positive, caring and cheerful person, I hope you are feeling a bit more like yourself this morning.

I agree with every word you’ve written in this post. The rifts in our society are deep and I think will take a long time to heal (I very much hope I’m wrong).

In the meanwhile, I think you are doing absolutely the right thing in making discreet preparations and using all your resources to care for yourself and those you love.

For myself, I’m practicing recipes and ideas from my mum’s wartime cookery books and prewar household encyclopaedia, as well as clearing the sunniest side of my garden for serious fruit and veg growing (more than just my usual tomatoes, scarlet runners and courgettes).

Just trying to source hatch-battens, oiling the hinges of said hatches, and hoping just to live a very quiet life until the storm blows itself out.

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Bless you, thank you for such a kind and caring post and some of the most down to earth words I've seen written in quite some time M'dear. I'm not down or distressed over this whole sad and frustrating affair I am genuinely at a loss to understand it and can for the first time in my life NOT see a way to end it either way the options fall. I shall of course keep on preparing for any and every possibility to the best of my ability. If I had to identify an emotion that shades the whole of the last three roiling and unsettled years it would be sadness as much as anything that overrides the bewilderment I feel over the behaviour of both the officials in our own Government (changing as they have been) and those officials who make the same level of decisions in the European Union. I am no politician all I am is the Granny in the street who wants as good a life for my family and grandchildren as I have been fortunate to have myself and at this point in time and politics I am blind and couldn't begin to predict the next minute let alone the rest of our lives. If I could do anything to change how life is I would but I know it's out of my hands and I'm not terribly good at waiting for someone else to make what might not be the right decision for me.

I'm not unhappy lovey, I'm strong in the knowledge that whatever happens I'll still be able to make us as good a life as is possible whatever we find if we reach daylight again out of this tunnel and I'm even looking forward to the adventure that life might become if it changes from the abundant over the top lives we've been living of late, I too have a shelf of wartime cook books to refer to and have an awful lot of 'how to's' rattling round in my memory that will undoubtedly be useful to help us cope.

I hope you manage to keep prepping and growing and practising skills, learning new ones and as someone said to me more years ago than I can remember 'just keep treading water and don't forget to breathe, one day you'll reach dry land' see you on the other side eh?

gfplux

I can see one positive out of prepping for B day.
We are all learning a little more about our consumption. How long a tin of hairspray or shaving cream lasts might not appear important but when used to bulk buy or not is useful information.
There are future savings to be had by knowing how many tins, sprays, boxes or jars of something you consume in a year.

DigForVictory

I see Blue Doggy has already worded it splendidly but here's another perspective?

Hang on tight! Worry not that the crystal ball is a bit murky & focus on some things that will certainly happen - like your lovely daughters both round with anticipation. Here you have good grounds to guess how things will happen, and please, do not let the shenanigans of assorted Parliamentary Muppets take your eye off the future delights to come? Indeed, please, check your dinosaurs & trial a few in a single bed so you can see clearly what the Zebra child will delight in?

Look at your freezer and beam (you lucky woman) at all safely gathered & space for more and all the delight and fruits of the earth in their season you will be enjoying when you choose, regardless of what the idiots are up to.

I do not advocate retail therapy for despondency but just hold that farmfoods leaflet and & count over all the things you have sorted so far, that are there, definite, tangible, certain.

If we could see into the future we might know how things pan out & we might disrupt it. Trust that it is unrolling somehow, even if some of it is ineffable & right like the birth of a child & some of it is uncertain and possibly awry - and we can do nothing but ensure we have done all we can and then hope.

gfplux is also spot on in reminding us that knowing what we use & how long it lasts is information we might not have bothered with before but are the better for knowing.

I too have war cookery books, and know not to serve Lord Woolton's Pie to the chaps without a much 'stronger' gravy. They ate the first one, "not to hurt Lord Woolton's feelings" (or mine, too much), but were clear there was scope for improvement! Marmite alone didn't cut it - I might add mushrooms...

ETA Ah yes, I planned to post a sign I saw driving in - which combined the usual terse with bone dry yet courteous "FREIGHT TO EU PAPERS MAY CHANGE 1 NOV PLEASE CHECK"

euronorris

Make sure your cold and flu remedies are well stocked. Says she who has woken up to a cold that DD has brought home from nursery. Thankfully still had plenty in stock, but will top up at lunchtime with more to ensure the stocks don't dwindle.


Aahhh--choo!

AndyCF

euronorris wrote: »

Make sure your cold and flu remedies are well stocked. Says she who has woken up to a cold that DD has brought home from nursery. Thankfully still had plenty in stock, but will top up at lunchtime with more to ensure the stocks don't dwindle.


Aahhh--choo!

I tend to keep either one of those liquid cold/flu rememdies in (they actually changed the flavour/taste of this a year or two ago I think, its not as nice but its medicine so it does not matter if it tastes yuk I suppose) , as if you shop around you can usually get one with a year or so 'use by' date rather than a couple of months it seems.

Its either that or a sachet of those lemon powders, I actually have a pack of these when I thought I was coming down with something a couple of months ago, simply as I did not have enough pennies on me to get the liquid remedy but enough change left (my own fault I'd been in the supermarket first!) to get a small pack of these. Was pleasing to see the date on them was a good year.

I don't keep any real medicines in though Apart from one of the above and a small pack of dissoluble paracetamol and a small pack of plasters. The para tends to expire (hence it is always a small pack) before I have got through them!

euronorris

AndyCF wrote: »

I tend to keep either one of those liquid cold/flu rememdies in (they actually changed the flavour/taste of this a year or two ago I think, its not as nice but its medicine so it does not matter if it tastes yuk I suppose) , as if you shop around you can usually get one with a year or so 'use by' date rather than a couple of months it seems.

Its either that or a sachet of those lemon powders, I actually have a pack of these when I thought I was coming down with something a couple of months ago, simply as I did not have enough pennies on me to get the liquid remedy but enough change left (my own fault I'd been in the supermarket first!) to get a small pack of these. Was pleasing to see the date on them was a good year.

I don't keep any real medicines in though Apart from one of the above and a small pack of dissoluble paracetamol and a small pack of plasters. The para tends to expire (hence it is always a small pack) before I have got through them!

I don't do the liquid ones for DH and I as paracetamol upsets his stomach. So I buy paracetamol and decongestant separately, as well as ibuprofen, so he can take the decongestant as and when he needs it, and supplement with ibuprofen if required. I did have some of the powdered sachets left over from the last time I was ill though, so that was a nice surprise!


Our medicine cupboard is well stocked. 3 years old are pretty apt at catching all manner of things, and injuring themselves on seemingly 'safe' objects (she cut herself on the edge of the paddling pool a couple weeks back! How do you even do that?!). Plus, I'm pretty accident prone myself. So have stocks to deal with small cuts and grazes, larger (but no stitches required) cuts, minor burns, acid reflux, dizziness (had labrynthitis last year - was awful!), rashes, bites, stings, diarrhoea and rehydration sachets. All have been required at least once in the last 12 months by at least one of us. lol

nannywindow

I just wanted to pop in to say thank you to such a lovely bunch of sensible, responsible people and who are all an inspiration and a breath of fresh air :A. ( Unlike TPTB which are all distasteful, disgraceful and churlish IMO ).
I am slowly and quietly preparing for whatever comes in the future and it's great to read this thread and think " Oh that's a good idea or that's food for thought.". I have bought some mr mash (thanks to Mrs L for mentioning that ) extra sweetener ( DH is a diabetic as well as the C and he likes a brand that is not the norm....... typical !). I have also upped the tinned goods, which will be used at some time or other.
Dig for Victory I too shall hold the Ffoods leaflet aloft and wave it in the face of adversity

Slinky

Seeing the mention of the hurricane reminds me, headline on the Daily Star (not that I read it, saw it on a news stand) yesterday was that The Beast from the East will be returning in January/February. So that's something to look forward to.......... if you believe anybody can accurately predict the weather that far ahead.

Primrose

I keep looking at the protests in Parliament, on Westminster Green and other places and wondering what the silent majority are really thinking about all this. Probably keeping their powder dry if sensible, quietly making whatever preparations they feel comfortable with making for protecting themselves and their families and keeping their opinions to themselves.

I have no idea how this business is going to end......if it ever does. I think we just have to prepare and keep our heads down until things evolve. But meanwhile here we are enjoying some glorious sunshine and a mini Indian Summer so let's not forget that there are still free enjoyable pleasures in life and make the most of them.

Now back to preserving more home grown tomatoes. We've had such a good crop this summer we haven,t needed to stock up on any tins of them!