The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

MingVase said:

Yes you can use a camping stove inside. My cooker works on Propane. It's charcoal you can't use. I have a coal fired stove for heating and use LPG for cooking, have done for over 40 years. Been powercuts of a week here and we managed just fine.

Every tenancy agreement I have had since about 1994 has expressly forbidden the use or storage of gas canisters or stoves/heaters that run on it - or paraffin equivalents, whether a flat or a house.


Mind you, they've also all banned bonfires, incinerators or barbecues outside, too like that ever got listened to and the latest versions apparently forbid the use or installation of open fires or wood/pellet/etc burners.

Seems to be a small spike in diarrhoea and vomiting cases at the moment. Ironic, considering the handwashing advice.

And does nobody teach their children to blow their noses anymore? Half of the 'I feel sick' ones are wailing for their Mums to be called in between snurking great quantities of grot up and down into their stomachs.

Needless to say, I'm feeling rather queasy as well as a result.

prepareathome

I presume the towels are in case people have to self isolate so they want to ensure they have enough towels, facecloths etc for each person during the two weeks quarantine 

MingVase

JoJo this is a Housing Association house and they installed the stove and heating system as well as the cooker - although I bought that. They supplied the stove. It's common up here to have solid fuel heating or log burners in HA and council houses. But we will lose it soon I think. And then freeze our assets off with puddy electric heating that we can't afford...

pollyanna_26

prepareathome said:

I presume the towels are in case people have to self isolate so they want to ensure they have enough towels, facecloths etc for each person during the two weeks quarantine 

It's lovely to see you posting prepare at home. I've been trying to remember your user name for years. I remember the OS Chronic health thread you started years ago and often wondered how things are with you. I started a thread myself a long time after I saw you on here last having checked the thread was no longer in use. I need to get back to posting there. Winter is always quiet as not many have much energy to post but now dd has recovered from her latest bout of Norovirus followed by flu it's time I made the effort.

I started buying face cloths for cheap cleaning cloths a while ago . Wilkos sell cheap thick ones very cheaply and they do a good job. I can just chuck them in the machine with laundry sanitiser and give them a good hot wash.

ETA Fibro fog is alive and well. Cheap, cheap and cheaply sums it up

pollyx

pollyanna_26

Sorry I'm reading backwards through the posts It's a long time since I retired from teaching Jojo but many children favoured the wiping the nose on the sleeve method although rules were handkerchiefs. It wasn't and still isn't just children it's adults who don't seem to have any idea about basic hygiene. My immune suppressed dd wouldn't pick up constant infection if people considered others..

We'll have to go off grid Mar. Think of all the Bothies North of the Border and the hidden wooden buildings I spotted in the Highlands.

pollyx.

unrecordings

DigForVictory said:

Dear Gods, Un, you must have rattled when cornering!
What have you laid in for the nurture of Mrs.Un, since Fate has a nasty sense of humour that way?

Yup still do especially when scootering around Waitrose with my Dexamethasone powered shopping trolley. Not sure what you mean by nurturing though

unrecordings

thriftwizard said:

Clarifying what people are ordering/buying from DD1's supermarket that seems odd or misguided to me: heaps of towels & flannels (why did the spellchecker think I meant camels?!) & lots of air-fresheners & scented candles/reed diffusers. Vast quantities of crisps & chocolate bars, and energy drinks. I suppose they'll store well? But not exactly ace nutrition. Also "entertainment" items, mostly DVDs & games. Interesting...

Interesting. towels & flannels as they'll be regarded as disposable maybe. reed diffusers etc because of the effects of clickbait & fake news on worried minds. chocolate etc for a short hit of energy if this thing is going to floor you. dvds etc for when you're locked in the next room for two weeks - that's my guess

markin

MingVase said:

Yes you can use a camping stove inside. My cooker works on Propane. It's charcoal you can't use. I have a coal fired stove for heating and use LPG for cooking, have done for over 40 years. Been powercuts of a week here and we managed just fine.

Any room with an open flame should have a vent installed, so you have to crack open a window if you don't have vents.

And a co2 alarm would be an idea.

euronorris

We have quite a few towels anyway, as I prefer to have extra so one can be in the wash, one can be drying and one can be in use (for each of us), in the event of sick bugs. Same with bedding, especially for DD who still has night time accidents occasionally.

No idea about reed diffusers. However, I suspect the crisps and chocolate etc is because of the announcement that part of the plans will involve the supermarkets being reduced to essentials only if needs be. So people are buying extra treats now, so they dont have to go without if that happens.

I contemplated that myself, as I do so enjoy crisps. But I cant resist them if they are in the house, so it would never work. If I have to go without them for a while, it's not a bad thing.

markin

After seeing a pulse oxygen meter (Pulse oximetry) on Dr johns videos i did buy one. knowing if your oxygen in the blood has drop below 95% you will know its time to call someone, and not just a bad cold or Flu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyMiSUfZtyU

This one also has PI% which seems to be the strength of the pulse.

£23

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07BPJT7RM/ref=sspa_dk_detail_5?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B07BPJT7RM&pd_rd_w=TcYHK&pf_rd_p=f7d8b8a0-45de-4093-9f0d-ac0a766b3dcb&pd_rd_wg=FNgmn&pf_rd_r=WYFZW39DK1S1XCJ2T93B&pd_rd_r=0ee516a1-313d-45c2-aa03-ead5c73e80a3&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExWjBKR1hTOFAyWEdRJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUExMDMxNDY4MVU3Mkw4QldMQVdYRiZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwNjMxODQ5MldOVUs2N0oyTUEzSSZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2RldGFpbF90aGVtYXRpYyZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=