The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

3secondmemory

ziggy2004 said:

Back at work for 2 days this week which combined with all children being back at school has been hectic! Glad I am working from home today. 

Have been feeling the heat too and having a quiet cool house today is making a huge difference. 
I need to make some more masks as some of the children need to wear one on the school bus, so having a couple more spare would be good. 

Hoping to go bramble picking this weekend as I have seen some ready ones, we have plenty of other jams but OH prefers bramble for his porridge

Hope the heat down south gets better too! 

With rain forecast for the next 10 days, I’ve missed the best of the blackberries down here by the Hamble. It will be 21° every day so I need to get ready for my autumn planting. 

Bad health really put a spanner in the works for me this year – it’s so infuriating. I’d hoped to do some preserving as gifts for friends and family. 

It’s not too late to start a Rumptof though. Don’t correct me if I’m wrong but I believe that medicinal alcohol doesn’t count as weekly consumption
Don’t correct me if I’m wrong but I believe that medicinal alcohol doesn’t count as weekly consumption 😉😂😂🤪

Thriftygifty

I had to venture to M&S yesterday to collect what seems like the last 2 pairs of school trousers for DS on the planet, I seem to be spending more in delivery charges for his uniform than the actual clothing, I miss not being comfortable enough to take said small child into the required stores and leave with everything in one go, instead I have a porch full of parcels in various stages of decontamination and some in the kitchen which have passed quarantine protocol and now are ready to return to sender for various reasons, I do however seem to have his uniform for next year unintentionally as he is a size smaller than I thought, despite measuring him, granted this was with DH building tape measure as the children got hold of my little haberdashery one that's in a little reel with a button where it retracts and have broken it.  Must add to prep list!   

Our tomatoes have finally started to turn red which is exciting, I feel lock down has drastically adjusted my level of what now excites me.  The children and I picked a huge amount of runner beans, this is the third large qty with a few handfuls prior, I had intended to blanch and freeze however we seem to be having them for dinner every night, they don't make it to the freezer, which is good for my weight loss I guess, we have also harvested most of the broccoli which I am beyond happy about it actually growing we only had 6 heads though, however thanks to growing it our DS now eats broccoli.   

Greenglockenspiel

Mary and Si, you are probably both right. I store it out of light in a cupboard and use a metal bottle day-to-day for that reason (which has the additional benefit of keeping the water cold whilst out and about). But they are only 20p per 2L bottle so it won’t break the bank to get more I have a condition called PCOS which is linked to exposure to environmental toxins like BPA, so I do try to minimise my exposure where possible (eat a healthy diet, avoid cosmetics, buy organic etc).

Floss

Thriftygifty, the joy of growing one's own doubles when you have a success like that! 

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The evenings are starting to draw in aren't they? time to really start going through winter clothes and culling what doesn't warrant keeping any longer or using the items to make things for the home, I'm going to have a go at felting some jumpers on a hot wash to make some cushion covers and I'm going to see if I can use some of the felted pieces left over to make a couple of patchwork rugs for the kitchen which has a quarry tiled floor to go under the places we sit at table for meals and keep our feet a bit warmer  in the depths of winter rather than chuck everything into a clothing bank.

MingVase

I'm prepping now for things that might dry up or become scarce if a second wave of virus hits China this winter. So many things seem to come from there now. So far I've got on my list;

sewing needles and thread
elastic
various nuts bolts & screws
garden fertiliser and seeds

3secondmemory

MingVase said:

I'm prepping now for things that might dry up or become scarce if a second wave of virus hits China this winter. So many things seem to come from there now. So far I've got on my list;

sewing needles and thread
elastic
various nuts bolts & screws
garden fertiliser and seeds

I’m so glad I discovered Wilkos for nuts bolts and screws you can fill a small or large bag of hardware in there for £2.80 or £3.60 😃

MingVase

Wish we had one!

boultdj

It's seeds I'm on the hunt for.  Just got new quilts for both of us as the others were going religious on us.

GreyQueen

  I’ve been a habitual wombler of stray hardware since forever, it’s amazing how many screws end up discarded on city roads and pavements. I reckon that picking them up saves some poor soul a puncture and me a trip to the hardware store.