Prepping for Brexit thread

tori.k

Before I bow out so I don't continue to disturb a peaceful thread.
Prepping is political any form of self-reliance is.
Sad to see that Kittie has been PPR there is nothing that's been overly controversial or seditious in this thread.

[Deleted User]

Why on earth would they PPR Kittie of all people?

I've just read her last post here and it refers to a PM from another poster questioning why she'd thanked someone else's post, which is not really on is it? I was told of one poster who has had several incarnations before the current one who did this PMing to another poster and when the second poster tried to fix things in a PM she was reported to the board guides and subsequently PPMd, it seems to be a pattern! It's sad if that's the case and not really fair!

maryb

I've just had a look at Kittie's recent posts on other threads as well and absolutely nothing that would warrant PPR. Hopefully it's just a temporary suspension to give the powers that be time look at what she said and then she'll be back

debtaghh

What's ppr?

I need to renew some passports, do you think it's worth doing before Brexit even though we aren't planning on going abroad?

maryb

Posting Privileges Revoked. ie suspension. She can still read but not post

lessonlearned

Just to add my support for Kittie.....she and I have become firm friends and I have never found her to be anything but helpful and supportive of others. Her advice is, at times, invaluable.

Moderators, if you are reading my post, then please do reconsider.

moneyistooshorttomention

I also can't see anything which warrants a PPR of Kittie.

So - fingers crossed it's only temporary.

zeupater

mumf wrote: »

You dont have to be an expert to realise that the weather will affect food supplies. Winter food stocks will have nothing to do with Brexit,'cos that dont start until the end of next March.Suppliers dont want to push prices up,as it makes them unpopular with customers.

Hi

Of course what's being grown at the moment will have an affect on food stocks & therefore prices well into Q2 next year ...

Around here farmers I talk to are saying that seed crop yield is already looking like being well over 10% down, possibly up to 50% in some cases, & the dry conditions necessitate feed supplements to grazing livestock, but still animals sent to market are underweight (so costs up & returns down) ...

Of course, as you say, the supply chain will tend to hold their prices down as long as they can (mainly forced by large supermarket retailers), but unless there's significant change in UK weather really soon or a production glut elsewhere then costs & prices will rise ... everything at the moment points to higher prices for cereal, livestock feed, milk & dairy products, meat etc well into next year, some of which (the majority?) will be blamed on supply & currency exchange uncertainty in the run-up to Brexit ...


Not all doom & gloom though ... I'm being told that potatoes, carrots and many other root crops look to be doing well ... but that's mainly down to keeping the irrigation system working!

Ourselves ... well the veg patch is effectively dead, so a write-off this year, the fruit trees shed most of their leaves weeks ago, with fruit being well undersized for this time of year. Raspberries, gooseberries struggled with no fruit, hardly any early cherries & absolutely no late ones, an no blackcurrants this year... but looking like a bumper yield on blackberries as brambles have shot-up everywhere! ... Brexit or not, we'll have a shortage of home-grown food for the remainder of this year & likely well into next & will have to source our stocks from elsewhere - locally, of course ...

HTH
Z

moneyistooshorttomention

Things are going to vary across the country though I'm guessing - as I know my blackcurrants (ie in my garden) have "gone great guns" this year and I can see I'm going to have to give yet another lot away.

The fruit trees are doing pretty okay and still got their leaves and I can see I'm going to have a surplus of plums for the first time this year.

Though it would be good if the green vegetables stopped shooting ahead too fast and going over.

zeupater

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Things are going to vary across the country though I'm guessing - as I know my blackcurrants (ie in my garden) have "gone great guns" this year and I can see I'm going to have to give yet another lot away.

The fruit trees are doing pretty okay and still got their leaves and I can see I'm going to have a surplus of plums for the first time this year.

Though it would be good if the green vegetables stopped shooting ahead too fast and going over.

Hi

We're on really sandy soil, most years it's great but it drains & dries very quickly ... all of the water butts are empty, the lawns are 'crunchy' & the only 'green' we have is where there are established deep roots ... our older fruit trees are suffering less than anything planted in the past 10-15 years so maybe the 'shock' of the current weather will spur the younger trees to expand their roots to search for what water is available & help crops in the future ... either that or there'll be a huge replacement bill early in 2020!

HTH
Z