Prepping for Brexit thread

Primrose

I think those growing fresh vegetables on their allotments would do well to start raising security precautions with their allotment committees now. At least growing in your garden offers better security protection from theft.

Regarding availability if fresh salads, I often grow mine during winter from those living lettuce punnets sold in supermarkets. I just cover them with a cloche and generally they will survive the frosts. One won,t get a huge crop, but planted now they will grow slowly during the coming months and you get a lot of plants from one punnet. If you only have room for a few plants, large plastic mineral water bottles with the bottoms cut off make individual cloches with with a stick poked through the top hole to keep them in situ when it's windy.

Of course, those large solid white and red "ball" cabbages will keep for ages in the fridge and shredded and mixe d with some raw carrot or apple make a tasty fresh salad. It's a matter of experimenting with unusual combinations. Often they can work surprisingly well.

qwert_yuiop

GreyQueen wrote: »

My understanding is that 15% of our dairy products had to be exported to the EU and they had to import 15% of ours. A travestry of wasted energy and contributions towards air pollution driven ill-health and premature mortality.

A lot of this is due to short transit across the Irish border. Armagh milk goes to monaghan to be bottled. Cavan milk goes to Tyrone to make cheese and butter. This tariff free trade may be seriously disrupted.

Come on, admit it, folks - the EU is a fundamentally great idea.

Mr_Singleton

unrecordings wrote: »

I think someone forgot to add a smiley
Let's keep it civil, eh..?

When the Govt. in the 21st century UK is warning of potential food riots/civil unrest I'm not sure that are appropriate. What I do think appropriate is a discussion on the likely outcomes regardless of how unpalatable they are.

Having googled some facts on food riots I can assure you they are very UN-civil.

Primrose

[QUOTE=qwert yuiop;76265631

Come on, admit it, folks - the EU is a fundamentally great idea.[/QUOTE]

I think few of us would disagree that a European free trading area was an excellent idea and I suspect that was what many of the population signed up to many years ago.

It was what politicians and bureaucrats have done in our name over the years without public consultation since then which is causing the issue now.

When all this is finally done and dusted, if it causes the electorate to scrutinise what their politicians are doing in their name going forward and forces more people to take an interest in what's happening in parliament that may be no bad thing. Sadly, I suspect the current situation is putting people off rather than encouraging them to engage.

unrecordings

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

When the Govt. in the 21st century UK is warning of potential food riots/civil unrest I'm not sure that are appropriate. What I do think appropriate is a discussion on the likely outcomes regardless of how unpalatable they are.

Having googled some facts on food riots I can assure you they are very UN-civil.

That's me out then, back to the gardening forum

ben501

Sorry, but

Vegastare wrote: »

I bought 24 toilets at Tesco

:eek:


Even worse:p

Vegastare wrote: »

going to get more before the prices goes up. .

Here endith the toilet humour before I get into trouble.

maryb wrote: »

Why would there be rioting when even the worst case scenario in Yellowhammer doesn't envisage shortages?

I don't know about rioting, but have they mentioned panic buying? That I would expect, especially if the tabloids have anything to do with it.

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

Oh! Bless!!! Let's see how quickly a hungry, rioting mob can 'relieve' of your food.

What are you envisaging. Riots in the streets? Other than the extremists, surely all the sane people will be busy getting on with their lives.




As for milk and other dairy supplies, hopefully our milkmen (yes, there are at least 2 that service the local area) will get even more trade. Good for local business, and the environment. Not to mention it tastes better than supermarket stuff too.

fuddle

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

Oh! Bless!!! Let's see how quickly a hungry, rioting mob can 'relieve' of your food. What precautions sre you taking?

You assume I live surrounded by lots of people.

Your posting style says you'll be the type of person who'll be panicked enough to be right at the front of that hungry, rioting mob.

Feel free to reply with your worst insult, then I can ignore and move on to prepping talk. Much more interesting.

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Tiger trap outside the back door, Rottweiler kennelled outside the front door, mouse traps on all the window s, alligators in the pond, wilderbeast grazing the lawn and scariest of all thing ME indoors with a cast iron frying pan...c'mon then if you think you're hard enough!

Just keeping quiet on all and everything that I've done for years , being totally the same as everyone else enjoying camping holidays, and who on earth looks at a 70+ year old granny buying the odd tin of baked beans? stealth...….

euronorris

So....on the subject of medication! I have just been on a merry dance this lunchtime, to four different pharamacies to try and get a repeat prescription filled. Out of stock everywhere. The last pharamacist I saw was a small independent one who said he ordered from the 8 major suppliers in the south west, so if he can't get it, then it's highly unlikely anywhere else will be able to.


Have popped into GP surgery and requested an alternative. A little bit of googling suggests that this is a manufacturing issue and a much wider problem: https://www.mims.co.uk/contraceptive-shortages-reported-manufacturers/contraception/article/1594084


I don't mind sharing, as it's not really personal to me (well, I don't feel it is). It's a contraceptive - Norethisterone. So if any ladies here use it, or indeed use a HRT drug with it in it, you are likely to experience similar issues and therefore may wish to pre-emptively request an alternative from the GP before you request your repeat prescription. Or at least call some local pharmacies before trying to get it filled.

Primrose

This doesn't apply in Euronorris's case, but possibly time for those who are on hypertension /high blood pressure medication to take a serious look at their exercise/lifestyle regime, ask themselves if being overweight is contributing to their need for BP medication in the first case.

I realise in many instances other issues are at play in the need for medication to be prescribed in the first place, but as somebody in the United States once said to me "This is not a country where you can afford to be ill as medications and health care cost the earth" so perhaps there is another motive now, even if it's only a possible medication shortage scare, for people to be undertaking a serious heath check on their lifestyles.