The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Jazee

DH is in hospital which has completely upset normal routines and this morning I have run out of fresh milk, but have my dried milk in my stash to fall back on. Also can't emphasise enough how keeping cash handy is important. Mine came in useful for a 4am taxi back home.

Karmacat

Jazee, very sorry to hear that - a taxi home at 4am from a hospital, my word yes, thats so important to have the cash on you. I hope all goes well with your DH.

jk0

Now before fellow southerners take offence, know that I am also a southerner...


However, last week my family travelled to Skegness in Lincolnshire to visit my aunt. We stayed at the Premier Inn on Skegness sea front. I was only there two days, but in that time, at least three people started chatting to me in the lift. I thought, what a friendly place this is.


Back here in Reading, today I was clipping the hedge outside my house, and noticed a woman in her 60's sitting in the bus shelter right outside. I said 'hello', but she completely ignored me.


Now, I expect women to ignore me if they think I'm trying it on, but obviously that was not going on today. This is not the first time people of both sexes ignore my polite greetings here in Reading. In fact, it is more often than not.


I feel like moving up north!

Jazee

Jk0, I agree. Also a southerner now living up north but travelling back regularly for work. Can see thousands of people down south and no one makes eye contact. Get off the train at home and people chat in the cafes and on the bus etc.

I don't think people want to be that way, but are just more cautious down south.

mardatha

Even dour Scots talk on buses and at bus stops... I notice a slight difference here though, in that up here in the sticks we all talk to everybody. But in Edinburgh - the Big City - they do talk but only if I talk first.

grunnie

Everyone talks to everyone where I am and if you don't get an answer we know they haven't settled in yet. We have loads of folk move up here ( north of scotland) for the house prices, sea air,driving rain, freezing cold, snow did i mention peace and quiet! Sometimes too quiet. But the next time you meet the same people they are usually first to speak. But i will be moving south if god forbid we ever get independence - that is if you will have me.In the meantime the prepping continues. Planning a shop this pm.

cuddlymarm

We’re a very talkative lot here too. We’re a small seaside town but our average age is twenty years above the national average so people have time to chat. I lived in Reading for a while when OH worked down there though and people loved to chat in the shop that I worked but not in the street. Maybe it is a protective thing.
On the prepping front living for a few weeks with DS2 while our renovations are done has set him on the prepping path. No more shopping every day for him. He’s getting confident about cooking from scratch and using alternatives if he hasn’t got an ingredient so I’m feeling quite smug at the moment. Now if I can just get him to turn his heating down a bit, it’s like an oven at times. He’ll learn.

mardatha

Whyon earth would you want to move if we got Indy grunnie? I can't understand your thinking!

DigForVictory

Me, I'm a southern born economic migrant north & No Way would I go back south, even for a house. But then I like the North & as my son said dryly "the portions are bigger". (Lady mother a fully paid up member of portion control for health - not terribly good for hearts & minds of growing grandsons. Ah well.)

My [birthday present] new Chest Freezer is settling (label said it needs 24 hours before turning on!), but I have time booked, an Iceland voucher waiting & a specific savings pot yearning to get out of cash. (Someone mentioned the only beneficiaries of Brexit to date are the currency speculators - I reckon the shops haven't suffered too badly.)

grunnie

mardatha wrote: »

Whyon earth would you want to move if we got Indy grunnie? I can't understand your thinking!

It would be expensive. For people in jobs the tax would be so high.