The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

daz378

Im on a 8 am 2pm  tomorrow   waiting for the inevitable arguments on the bus..when people try to board without masks....might dip my  toe into window sill pot  gardening     from my 16th floor flat   will research online  cherry tomotoes     parsley    will get a couple more masks tomorrow....stay safe

annieb64

We had to wear the navy blue knickers too. Don't  remember a knicker inspection  but we did have to kneel on the floor  to have the length of our skirts checked.  We also used to have a piece of elastic on our summer hats to stop them blowing  off.
I've made a few masks. Since I wear glasses I find the ones with ties are easier to wear . Elastic behind the ears gets in the way of the ear piece of my glasses. Somebody who wears a hearing aid said she had a similar problem.

euronorris

We were still tucking skirts into our knickers, to do headstands, when I was at primary school in the 80s. And there were some god awful PE knickers still knocking around, though thankfully were being phased out in favour of shorts. I understand most schools now have playsuit type summer 'dresses' for the girls if they want. One of my niece's has one as she loves to throw herself around lol.

As for trousers at school. I started a petition at my secondary school, to allow girls to be able to wear shorts in summer, and trousers in winter. I finally won the battle......at the end of the year that I left! Hahaha still, it was brought into effect for students from the next school year.

greenbee

I remember my mum buying me dressed with matching knickers! At school we had to wear navy knickers OVER our white knickers, and as our tunics had no pockets, we kept our hankies in our navy knickers... 

My niece wears cotton shorts under her dresses at school, as she spends most of her time upside down. I was looking for something similar myself!

maryb

I've just discovered I'm a Collapsologiste..  Doesn't that sound exotically French?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/14/french-flock-philosophy-collapsology-amid-coronavirus-crisis/

elaine241

Hello All
I have been awol for a few days, just catching up with jobs and avoiding keyboards, FB and the news, it all got too much and the world seemed to have gone mad!!
How come we can add pictures to our posts? Have we always been able to and I am just dull? or is it a new thing? I can feel a lot of veg garden posts with pictures coming our way.
My eldest son managed to convince me it was fathers day on Sunday just gone( which it bl**dy wasnt!!)   and I had not thought about any food etc so we did an extra trip to the local Tescos. Son is 15 and about 6' tall and a rugby player but it was quite strange to see him have a minor melt down in the car park not wanting to go into the shop! He has not been near shops etc since well before lock down and was very anxious about going into a supermarket with people not wearing gloves and masks. He sprayed antiviral on himself, refused to touch a thing and wanted to get in and out as fast as possible. I had mask, gloves etc as I have now got used to this form of shopping. Once safely back in the car, sprayed liberally again, he breathed a large sigh of relief. It was very eye opening to realise how it affected him , something I hadn't thought about.
I must now confess to a crime which is so out of character for me! I hope fellow preppers you will see the reasoning behind my theft and forgive me!! I was in our local Lidl, and noticed a big pack of face masks just chucked on the side where you pack away your shopping. I asked one of the staff members I know well why they were there and he said they were for the staff but no one had wanted to use them and they had been there for a week or so. I said can I have them and he replied "I didn't see anything", so I took them!! They are the disposable type and about 150 in the pack. I felt a little guilty but tbh not that guilty as I will share my ill gotten gains with people who will appreciate them.

thriftwizard

Elaine, I just clicked on the picture icon (mountains & sun) above & followed the prompts to upload a pic.

Not wishing to spread panic at all, but various friends who work in assorted different healthcare settings are telling me they've been recently warned to be on standby for a possible second peak in September. So I shan't be letting my preps drop... time to actually buy that new freezer and re-stock, pile up the long-dated tins & packets, & keep the loo rolls rolling... forewarned is forearmed. But do remember that word "possible" & remember that theoretically anything is possible.

Living_proof

Thank you everyone for your mask suggestions - I will have to find the sewing machine and get creative. 

Thriftwizard, I feel sure you are right, even if the second waves are more like regional ripples. We were out over the weekend and it was as though nothing had ever happened - people milling about, chatting, maybe half a metre apart at most. Now more people will be moving about in the community, at work, in schools and shops there's bound to be new cases. I absolutely dread another lockdown as it doesn't suit my mental make-up at all but I would say I am pretty well prepared even in the old normal times in terms of food and household goods. What I lack is any motivation.

Onebrokelady

Thriftygifty said:

GaleSF63 said:

Onebrokelady said:

Please just be very careful when using water from a washing machine, wash powder and liquid is really dangerous to animals. When I moved into this house I didn't realise the water from the washing machine was draining out into an open drain, this drain was blocked so the water from the machine overflowed to the border under the window. My dog went out and decided to drink some and it killed him. We took him to the vet and they tried to save him but the detergent had literally burnt through his oesophagus and he died the next day, this was 20 ish years ago and I had no idea it was so dangerous, even one mouthful is enough to kill a large dog 😢😢

That's awful, I'm so sorry.

It makes me wonder about floor detergents - a dog or cat could walk over a wet floor and then lick its paws. 

We don't have a dog, however that was my concern using cleaning products on the floor when our children were in the crawling phase, we have a steam mop now. 

Your right to be worried, ingesting washing liquid/powder would be lethal to a child 

Si_Clist

Sorry but I have to get this off my chest ...

There I was up at the allotment the other day diligently weeding away and delighting in the fact that nobody else had turned up yet when alas up comes Mrs Peter (as in PITA), the site know-it-all and bore.  Long story short, yes, that rhubarb on the path near my bike was mine, yes there was lot lot of it, bottle it, no I didn't see that program on the telly about preserving etc etc.  The gist of it was that preserving stuff in anything other than proper preserving jars, using new lids, was guaranteed to kill us sooner or later. 

So ... just in case anybody here saw "that program" (whatever it was) and was put off the idea of preserving by it, here's a picture of some of that rhubarb, bottled a couple of days ago in wombled jars, using wombled lids.  Given that we've been doing this for years, we'll be very surprised if it kills us.

Now here's a picture of some of last year's apple slices and some of last year's damsons.  Note the wombled jars.  We ate the last of those yesterday, and we're not dead yet.

And finally, here's this morning's batch of strawberry jam.  The green label on the "Harvin" lid actually says "Bramble 7.8.15" ...

BTW, the part jar on the left goes in the fridge when it's cold and we eat that sooner or later.  Unless the jar's full, it won't seal properly so doesn't keep all that long.

Finally, please note that we only use wombled jars and lids for bottling fruit: the veg goes in Kilner jars.  (Yes we do re-use the metal lids if they pass inspection, but if in doubt we chuck them out.)

I will now shut up about bottling stuff