The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Nargleblast

Sounds like the wondercollie is also a sucker for big brown eyes!  I bet when you're not looking she's up and down the stairs like a tart's drawers! 

Serendipitious

Just nipped in to send good wishes to all the shielders as the period of shielding comes to an end. Hope you can begin to enjoy a little freedom now, and that you can overcome any apprehensions about going out and about. Small steps will help, and taking one thing at a time. x

3secondmemory

Serendipitious said:

Just nipped in to send good wishes to all the shielders as the period of shielding comes to an end. Hope you can begin to enjoy a little freedom now, and that you can overcome any apprehensions about going out and about. Small steps will help, and taking one thing at a time. x

I might go mad and walk down to the garden centre instead of having a few plants delivered 😃

I’m keeping a close eye on the weather because we are forecast temperatures of -1 early next week and possible snow! I’ll bring all my strawberries in because, although they overwintered nicely I have repotted 13 new runners from the original four plants. 

I’m taking and cutting the lawn at the back, a few metres at a time then in for a rest! I’m getting a bit more done every day. My therapist commented yesterday on the work that I’ve done in the front and the progress in clearing my hallway. I did the glass recycling last week, I hope to do the fabric reclamation this week and charity shops next week 🤞 i’ve got a huge load of car boot stuff – I hope those come back soon 

daz378

The last 3 days eyes have been stinging...and from tomorrow  8 shifts  on the run    still bought some eye spray and eye test booked for friday....been filling up  my tinned veg   cupboard   and using my xmas covid   cupboard  stock    especially   tins of curry. ..work in progress still in prepping mode

MingVase

Keep on prepping daz!

pollyanna_26

Do you have a problem with your eyes daz or could it be hayfever? I had to start my hayfever tablets a couple of months ago. It was the same last year so the season seems earlier now.

Thats a lot of shifts in a row. Take care.

pollyx

thriftwizard

I was sneezing fit to bust as we did our usual riverbank stroll today, and my eyes were soooo itchy - the blackthorn's blossoming like mad, the willows are catkin-ing, and there are early ornamental cherry trees out as well - pollen everywhere! Luckily, I don't suffer when the grass or the rape-seed are out in high summer, but March/April and October/November (fungi) I sniff & snivell like mad.

pollyanna_26

I've lost count of how many times I've said Hayfever I'm fine over the last year. It does help with social distancing though in a pandemic.

The grass and rape seed get me too. Farms up the road harvasting and I'm indoors.

There's marshland near too so the bitey things are coming here as the sun shines.

Sometimes I wonder why I bought a house here. However as the song says I was so much younger then I'm older than that now.

I don't have lawns but no doubt the mowers will be out over the Bank holidays. Local council have barely mown any of the municipal gardens so that's a relief..

pollyx

3secondmemory

pollyanna_26 said:

I've lost count of how many times I've said Hayfever I'm fine over the last year. It does help with social distancing though in a pandemic.

The grass and rape seed get me too. Farms up the road harvasting and I'm indoors.

There's marshland near too so the bitey things are coming here as the sun shines.

Sometimes I wonder why I bought a house here. However as the song says I was so much younger then I'm older than that now.

I don't have lawns but no doubt the mowers will be out over the Bank holidays. Local council have barely mown any of the municipal gardens so that's a relief..

pollyx

I rarely sneeze so I thought I was coming down with a cold until I realised it might be the early pollen. We have lots of catkins and you can already see the yellow flowers. Plus when I went to the bus stop, there was a layer of pollen on the perch rail. 

I tend to forget I’ve got my mask on when I get off the bus or come back from the corner shop which probably helps but when it’s a thick layer on everything, you can’t avoid sweeping it up on your clothes. 

We’ve already had the cutters around here - the daises were back the next day which is great for the bees but I got some early flowering plants yesterday to ‘help’. It was nice to wake up this morning and have something to look forward to - I was straight out to check the plants 😃 

MingVase

I'm another one who gets hayfever in Feb/March. Up here there is nothing out to cause it though and people all think I'm mad or imagining it but I've had it all my life.