The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Zentimes

Yes, MrsLurcher, I am getting quite worried and trying not to think too much about the possible consequences of all of the anger and indecision. This nation could be catapulted into civil unrest very, very quickly if the 'perfect Brexit storm' happens. Channeling my anxiety into more Brexit prepping!

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That's all we really practically can do isn't it? at least that way if it's problematic outside with luck we can stay safely indoors and out of sight of the madding crowds and hope it passes us by.

GreyQueen

After Mrs May's cuts to the police forces in her previous role, I doubt very much they can muster 10,000 [STRIKE]storm troopers [/STRIKE] err riot police.


My city's police officers are at full stretch on a bog standard Friday and Saturday night in Clubland, and a murder investigation or two running concurrently takes up a lot of resources, uniformed doing the spade work for the detectives.


It would be frighteningly easy for things to get out of control and very hard for TPTB to put a lid on it once it has. Which is something they ought to bear in mind when they faddle about on our shilling.

DigForVictory

GreyQueen wrote: »

It would be frighteningly easy for things to get out of control and very hard for TPTB to put a lid on it once it has.

Since the Muppets are getting up to all sorts inside the House (so much so a bunch of near nekkid climate change protestors barely rated a glance) they are setting the rest of the 'happy populace' a truly dreadful example.

So far in words, and miword the quality of discourse on some online fora has dropped to near American levels.

As you rightly observe, if the electorate (let alone the disenfranchised) don whatever the local equivalent of a gilet jaune might be & take up French-style street politics, I think a certain amount of working from home rather than commuting into a city centre is frankly only sensible.

(With my pot of tea, naturally. The revolution may begin without me, but I am going nowhere without a brew & even my family have learned from camping holiday observation that if I do not have a teapot to start with, I darn soon end up in serene possession.)

GreyQueen

:eek: I had a ghastly experience at YHA The Sill on Hadrian's Wall 9 months ago - the self-catering kitchen had precisely two of the teeny-tiniest steel teapots imaginable, inadequate even for one person.


I have never ever been at a YHA which did not have fleets of metal teapots including proper biggies. One woman (was it you, DforV?) had taken one look at the situation and gone into Hexham and got a big red china chazzer teapot, which she guarded zealously. Others looked on with envy. Me included. I went to Hexham chazzers too and there was no teapot there for me, wah.


When I next go hostelling, I shall take my second-best steel teapot with me. Gosh, hostelling has got very middle clarss, said kitchen had three garlic crushers and only one of the feeblest can openers imaginable.:rotfl:

DigForVictory

Not I, GQ, but clearly a woman after our hearts!
We were in a Scottish campsite & when I twigged what the missing ingredient was, I Took Steps. A holidaying Frenchman, upholding the Auld Alliance, sighed with reassurance the The English Eccentrics still existed as I bore a tray with pot and jug to the washing up point, tailed by a child with the rest of all the washing-up. The teapot took absolute precedence.

Youth Hosteling, eh? I may have to look into that. Clutching my teapot.

DigForVictory

This isn't quite prepping.
This weekend I'm off to get my NSRA Youth Proficiency Scheme Tutor's Diploma. Since it's taught to Scout leaders to teach the young, under Scout rules we may never shoot at anything other than an NSRA competition face.

So no shots at politicians, photos of teachers, photos of animals etc let alone real live breathing targets and with Scouts we use a chosen-to-be-anaemic air rifle calibre.

Still, I hope some skills are transferable...

We've been advised to bring packed lunches, as we train. Should I take a teapot?!

Pyxis

Well, thinking that I was more or less set for the retrenching, I tidied up one of my stock cupboards, and found that the flours were well out of date, and the pearl barley. I don't take chances with flour and grains in case of hidden moulds, so they're in the food waste bin.

Plus four jars of pesto and two tins of baked beans had gone past their dates, but I'll use those, as tins and jars are usually ok.

So, I'll have to stock up with more flour and a few more tins.


I'm not very good at cycling stock cupboard food, mainly because I have to be in the mood to eat it, and there are usually nicer things to eat, although I did go through a beans on toast phase a couple of months ago.
Plus I almost never bake. The flours are for the odd cheese sauce, once a year scones, but mainly for emergency use if the shops run out of bread!

I went through a making my own muesli phase at the end of last year, and so stocked up with cereals and nuts etc. Then after several weeks, I went off it. I still have a fairish bit of cereal and some nuts.

Maybe I should make flapjacks, as otherwise, I can see the nuts going rancid. So annoying.

GreyQueen

What a b*mmer, Pyxis.

Flours are relatively shortlived esp wholemeal but you can keep them in the freezer in placcy bags/ tubs, presupposing there is adequate freezer space. I lost several bags of delicious nutty stoneground organic windmill flour when a water leak from one flat up and one flat over caused damp in my kitchen cupboard. Have re-organised the kitchen so that cupboard only holds crocks/ things stored in glass jars with those rubber gaskets.

Re nuts, I keep mine in the fridge, they can also be frozen.

Been playing in the dirt on the allotment and have done a little shopping, adding a can of corned beef, to replace the one I opened today. Other than that, nothing preptastic to report.

DigForVictory

As a fan of corned beef, I also try to recycle the keys as if there is much more disheartening than having a can you can't get into (without additional tools) it usually involves wet clothing as well as hunger.