The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Nargleblast

It was in the news recently about someone getting the virus second time and it being worse the second time round. We can't make assumptions, it is best to continue taking sensible precautions.
Just heard on the radio news - immunity diminishes within months.

elaine241

missychrissy said:

elaine241 said:

Well the worst has happened re my mother and father in law, they are both positive for Covid. FIL is very bad, can hardly stand and hasn't eaten anything for days. MIL was up, looking after FIL who has been in beds for days,  today but is only just going down with the virus. As I said before both are vulnerable, MIL has v bad lungs . We haven't told the kids as both have GCSE assessments most of next week and elder son has his tractor driving test. They will be besides themselves with worry but unable to do anything about it. As we are in Wales we know that a new lockdown is coming, although it hasn't formally been announced yet. One sons head of year seem to think it will be announced Tuesday and come into force from next Friday, after the assessments.

Sorry to hear your fil not well. I lost my appetite too and lost half a stone in the first week. I started to feel better on the 9th day and haven’t looked back since. I’m glad I’ve had it now as I don’t have to worry about passing it on or catching it.

FIL seems to be slowly getting  over the viral symptoms but has been left totally wiped out and literally unable to walk any further than the front door. MIL is in bed with the virus and only gets up for a few minutes a day. 
Lockdown as predicted is here and both my sons are home for the entire lockdown being in yr 9 and 10. Bizarrely all other school years are in after half term which doesn't seem to be logical! I am stocked up and only need to venture out once a week for groceries. Today we are having "a day trip" to the dentists!! We haven't been for months and months basically due to lock down and bad parenting!!
I am still trying to plant onions and garlic in the veg garden but rain has stopped play atm. The ones I have already planted have sprouted and grown a fair few inches. I have stored plenty of squash as all plants had a good year. I have left the potatoes in the ground as they store quite well there and I will sort something for them if frost threatens.
A big hit this year has been the crab apple and rosehip jelly I made along with the rose hip syrup. I can see me having to go on more foraging trips to pick more hips!

jamanda

You're lucky to get into the dentist.  My filling on my front tooth fell out 2 days after lockdown in March.  Still on waiting list.  If it breaks I'm going to be thankful for the masks.

Si_Clist

If you're reassured by the fact that the Nightingale hospitals have reappeared and are allegedly good to go again, bear in mind that according to news just in from a trusted source, there's very few if any staff for them apart from the management and the contract cleaners and labourers ...

elaine241

jamanda said:

You're lucky to get into the dentist.  My filling on my front tooth fell out 2 days after lockdown in March.  Still on waiting list.  If it breaks I'm going to be thankful for the masks.

Strangely our dentist seems to have appointments but we are private patients. Saying that the boys had check ups with me and they are nhs. I know a lot of dentists even private are very short of appointments. Ours, a husband and wife team, seem to have got on top of things as my other half had an appointment for a filling last week

thriftwizard

Went up to town this morning for a couple of bits, and was slightly amazed to find it a-buzz with the "news" that we're about to have a local lockdown imposed, which was faithfully reported to me in several different conversations. Came home to check various news sources, both national and local, and cannot find anything about it at all, though there is an article on one of the local sites reporting various MPs & councillors loudly denying the possibility. (Hmmm...) So off I trotted to look at the actual numbers, only to find a vast disparity between various sources. I'm none the wiser... hey-ho, if it happens, we'll cope. But it's astonishing how we've gone from one of the least-affected areas to (possibly) one of the most (apparently) in the space of a week or two.

Nargleblast

Thriftwizard, I am sure you will be informed by official sources in good time about any changes to the rules. I suspect social media putting two and two together to make five thousand.

thriftwizard

I think you're right, Nargleblast! The thing seems to be that our actual numbers are still pretty low, but they seem to be increasing rapidly since the students came back, so our rate of increase is high. The figures for the conurbation are twice those for the rest of us, but to be fair I'm only about quarter of a mile from the "border". Anyway, one way or another it has induced panic amongst the more-suggestible!

Nargleblast

I'm in a Tier 2 area, and it hasn't affected my life much. I can't speak for those in Tier 3 areas, but I am sure they are continuing to live their lives as best they can, adapting where necessary. That's all any of us can do.

thriftwizard

Feeling a little smug; our turkey's been raised in a local orchard by some young smallholding friends. It will be a good size; it will also be a good price, which is right & proper. I'm happy to save up all year for (moderate!) presents & a proper festive feast, although it will necessarily be somewhat dispersed this year, with the boys & partners attending in rotation & staying down at DS2's, if permitted at the time. We'll have as many of the trimmings as I think people will actually eat. Anything left over will be frozen for later reference, and stock & soup made from the bones in the usual fashion. I'm very happy to help support a new generation of farmers, albeit farming in a different way - they rent "unwanted" rough pasture & bits of big gardens that have got beyond their elderly owners, a kind of distributed farming - because we're going to need them. For many years we had whatever tough, dry large supermarket birds I could pick up on YS; now the pressure's eased a bit, it's my pleasure to do it properly. It won't cost any more than the birds at our local "posh" butchers, but I'll know I'm helping to support my sadly-deceased BF's grandchildren.