Prepping for Brexit thread

Farway

DigForVictory wrote: »

It's wet in Lancashire just not as headline grabbing. The upside is even "buy it only when we need it" husband agrees a sack of spuds is a good idea, after I explained floods mean fewer spuds.

Now, where to find a thumping great sack, & where to store safe free of moth, rust, flooding, frost & vermin...

And check them regularly, it's not only apples that go mouldy & spoil the rest in storage

euronorris

Mine are still in the boot of the car lol. Mainly because I'm not strong enough to actually lug them into the allocated space in the garage, and DH had a bad back all last week. They are staying cool enough in there anyway.


Unfortunately, our choice for storage would be very limited. Our little 'coach house' is very well insulated, so gets very warm, very quickly, when the oven etc is on. Fresh potatoes can start sprouting pretty quickly in those conditions I've found.


In north somerset here, and also had plenty of rain and flooding in places, just not as monumental as up north. Though I did read that some farmers fields round here have been flooded, also affecting harvest. Must be so gutting!

DigForVictory

The car boot it will be, for a while!

Sometime in the past (Brexit is playing hob with my perception of time) we fretted at possible medication supplies running low or out. Then realised that was actually Normal, just not generally mentioned.
Today I see the Guardian have had sight of something which reinforces the background concern.

I am intrigued to know quite how you define "life saving medicines", as without tea I would not function, let alone anything on prescription.

<Must check tea stash...>

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Potatoes need dry, cool and dark as a storage place. We've put ours downstairs in an unheated store room with a tiny window (used to be the back of a garage) but the room for some reason has a carpet so it's dry, cool and dark but a couple I've pulled out have had tiny sprouts beginning even under those conditions and this is a sack of unwashed spuds straight from the farm shop so I will check them every week and use those that have started to sprout before I use the rest.

Farway

DigForVictory wrote: »

Sometime in the past (Brexit is playing hob with my perception of time) we fretted at possible medication supplies running low or out. Then realised that was actually Normal, just not generally mentioned.
Today I see the Guardian have had sight of something which reinforces the background concern.

FWIW "You and yours" on R4 lunchtime has phone in tomoorow on just this subject

ivyleaf

DfV Your mention of "moth" and "rust" had me racking my brains to remember why those words rang a bell. Eventually remembered the Longfellow poem "The Norman Baron" which i hadn't read for donkeys' years
"Moth and rust" are the final words in it. Thanks for that.

Sorry, total derail

DigForVictory

Ongoing derail (sorry!) I was thinking of my Granny's King James Bible reading and "But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt" - either way I shall shortly head off to read Longfellow.

On another unconnected thought, with all the heat we had (remember? As I wait for my fingers to return to pink from uncooperative purple...) & the discussion around global warming & can we really get malaria in the UK (currently only by lab mistake or souvenir from travel as I understand it), it seems we have the answers already handy! Yes, traditional family soup broths have anti-malarial properties! I just wish they'd included the traditional family recipes...

DigForVictory

Further derail (sorry)- hadn't read that Longfellow (frankly, OD'ed on Hiawatha um decades ago) & am thinking that's a Cracker!
But the good deed, through the ages
Living in historic pages,
Brighter grows and gleams immortal,
Unconsumed by moth or rust.

Tea stash fine, BTW but am now pondering traditional broth recipes. Not that I Anticipate malaria, but a colleague is felled with lurgy & just the suggestion of soup cheered his Hibernian soul.

euronorris

Germs have descended on our house yet again. DD had her pre-school boosters on Thursday, as well as the nasal flu vaccine, bless her. She was a bit snotty over the weekend, which is a common side effect of the flu vaccine, so I didn't think much of it. Until Sunday night, when it turned into croup. Bless her. Still, she wasn't going to miss nursery today. At my husband's suggestion she stay home, all I could hear was her shouting, indignantly, 'I AM NOT POORLY!'! lol, shortly followed by coughing!

ivyleaf

Aw euronorris, poor lamb! Did she stay home? My DD2 loved nursery so much that it used to be a real fight to get her to stay home when she was ill.

Glad you enjoyed the poem DfV I discovered it as a child. I forget where; possibly in one of the volumes of my brother's Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopaedia.