The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

GreyQueen wrote: »

Jo Jo, chard send up flowering spikes in summer, little green flowers which look like nothing. Plants often end up 5-6 ft tall once the flowerheads are on them and so gnarly that you need a mattock to dig them up.


Have been YS hunting just now in marcus and spencius, managing to luck onto the 90% off point. You have to be quick, but it's a rainy night and I think some of the competition had stayed indoors.


Heh! YS-ing is no sport for the faint of heart.:rotfl:

Had several of those in the garden this summer and left them to get on with it .

I can but hope!

GreyQueen

If they're anything like mine they'll come up every few centimetres, you'll have chardlings every which way!

mardatha

TY nargle. I don't think they'd last until the oil got hot.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Pigeon Wrangling again this afternoon. My audience this time (not realised until after I'd put a kid straight about their evolutionary niche/place in the food web/how amazing they are/how ridiculous he was being whilst in the midst of scaling tables to throw a blanket over the poor thing for rerelease/muttering nice words to said flying rat) was the big boss.

If they didn't leave food littered about and doors open, they wouldn't have the problem. And I wouldn't be entertaining all and sundry whilst gaining a reputation as the Animal Person.

daz378

not posted for a while , but i consider this forum of likeminded souls my home on the web. not been actively prepping the last few months but recently have stepped up due to trade wars, brexit etc but on a more personal scale used to a council carer but now we are a community integrated company and the contract runs out 2020 i will hopefully keep my job.... but you never know so when i go shopping i buy what i need but also couple of tins of veg or beans and toilet rolls....etc ive quite a good stock of batteries aa and aaa s mainly im sure i remember vaguely you can get somekind of adapter to charge a phone etc if dont have a power supply available ..... i will look into it ...... you all take care

GreyQueen

Lovely to 'see' you again, daz.

I'm adding a few bits and bobs to the storecupboard and ramping up production on the allotments (have one full-size and one half-size plot, the latter only since March, they are side-by-side).


I think it's good to maintain a degree of flexibility, one never knows how things will pan out re employment etc but one can bet on having to eat, regardless.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

GreyQueen wrote: »

Lovely to 'see' you again, daz.

I'm adding a few bits and bobs to the storecupboard and ramping up production on the allotments (have one full-size and one half-size plot, the latter only since March, they are side-by-side).


I think it's good to maintain a degree of flexibility, one never knows how things will pan out re employment etc but one can bet on having to eat, regardless.

Let's face it, if things go t-up, I'm gonna be great at sourcing protein.

GreyQueen

I was shown how to field dress a pigeon barehanded in about 90 seconds by mad bushcrafters in the wilds of the Lake District. Then I did it myself. And made a pigeon pie.


The technique works on all birds except waterfowl and can be shared on request.

daz378

I've put the forums on my tablet now as I hardly use my laptop , so will pop in a bit more.....off to my mates pub now for a bit of karaoke...great therapy for me....but the poor customers��

Karmacat

GreyQueen wrote: »

I was shown how to field dress a pigeon barehanded in about 90 seconds by mad bushcrafters in the wilds of the Lake District. Then I did it myself. And made a pigeon pie.

The technique works on all birds except waterfowl and can be shared on request.

Even as a vegetarian, I'd find that interesting, GQ

daz378 wrote: »

I've put the forums on my tablet now as I hardly use my laptop , so will pop in a bit more.....off to my mates pub now for a bit of karaoke...great therapy for me....but the poor customers��

Hello Daz! Good idea about the forums if your tablet can manage it - my kindle could for a while, but its too old now.

I'm *still* working on the laurel hedge, though I gave myself a break today, went to a local village with my sister, found a couple of local food shops I didn't know about. Strengthening bonds with neighbours too, and like Daz, I'm stocking up a bit more (actually, I'm tidying more, I can't fit more food in the house if I don't rationalise and tidy like crazy).