The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

daz378

Woke up this morning  with my covid  app saying I have to isolate for 2 days....luckily have a pcr test at home..but can't post it till Wednesday  will also do a quick  test   on Wednesday....but due in work Thursday morning....being a carer     wonder if they will let me go in on the strength of a negative quick test or have to wait for pcr result?

euronorris

Thanks all. Yesterday was mostly OK, controlled pain with calpol and calprofen. But overnight last night, her temp went up to 39.3C and she woke up not being able to hear well. Have seen our own GP this morning. Interestingly, her left ear has improved, but it is her right that is now problematic and so she has a course of antibiotics. That should sort it out we hope.

Floss

daz378 said:

Woke up this morning  with my covid  app saying I have to isolate for 2 days....luckily have a pcr test at home..but can't post it till Wednesday  will also do a quick  test   on Wednesday....but due in work Thursday morning....being a carer     wonder if they will let me go in on the strength of a negative quick test or have to wait for pcr result?

@daz378 maybe you should go to a testing centre on Wednesday morning, and could you swap to work Thursday night so you have your test result?

DigForVictory

Which of us took a Mah Jongg game & one year a cigar box spinning wheel? Where customs, penny finally dropping, cheered ‘sleeping beauty’ onwards to the family holiday? Dashed nearly bought mag Jongg deck on the strength of that, but the chaps wouldn’t contemplate it…
I have a roll of freezer bags in my car door - the travel sicker seems to have grown out if it but you only ever wander past a thick patch of fruit bushes when there’s nothing to put them in… Also, he’s taken up alcohol. Why risk it?!

thriftwizard

DigForVictory said:

Which of us took a Mah Jongg game & one year a cigar box spinning wheel? Where customs, penny finally dropping, cheered ‘sleeping beauty’ onwards to the family holiday? Dashed nearly bought mag Jongg deck on the strength of that, but the chaps wouldn’t contemplate it…
I have a roll of freezer bags in my car door - the travel sicker seems to have grown out if it but you only ever wander past a thick patch of fruit bushes when there’s nothing to put them in… Also, he’s taken up alcohol. Why risk it?!

That would be me! The "rueca de hilar" was as part of the Tour de Fleece, a game we Ravellers play at a certain time of year... and we always take a Mah Jongg set!

Re the plastic bags, one used to be able to just pick up a discarded/fallen-off-the-bin-lorry bag when one came across an unexpected walnut tree whilst out blackberrying. But thankfully those days are gone now...

jk0

thriftwizard said:

It's amazing how much stuff you need when travelling with small children! But it does get easier... I got to the stage of letting them pack for themselves fairly quickly, just doing a cursory check that they had the basics & anything they considered vitally important - often not what I'd have thought important, but what do parents know?! The two vital things for me to make sure we had were the tin-&-bottle-opener, and some washing powder; most of mine came out in a rash at the merest whiff of "ordinary" washing powder, & "sensitive" varieties can sometimes be quite hard to track down when off the beaten track, so I took the precaution of always taking some (not a whole box, just a couple of washes-worth) with us. Sometimes it wasn't needed at all, but sometimes we'd produced the first load of washing before we'd even arrived at our destination, as they weren't the best travellers.

I still take the bottle opener, and always have a sharp knife, decent scissors and loo roll in the van too. Old habits die hard! But they often come in useful, under all sorts of circumstances.

Anyone seen Peter Kay's story about his Dad taking washing powder on holiday? (1 minute 40)

https://youtu.be/xfXg5BGXw-w?t=100

pollyanna_26

Thanks for the Peter Kay JKO. He's someone who brightens the dullest day even though most of us know every word of his sketches.

pollyx

Living_proof

Emson stove top convection oven - has anyone come across one of these? They act as an oven but are used on a camping or gas stove, or a hot plate. I bought a brand new one in a charity shop yesterday and think it may be useful in the campervan if we have no hook-up. The instruction booklet is impossible to read, the font used is so small and the print quality poor. We have a Remoska for where we get hook-up and I am hoping the Emson stove is going to be as useful.

newlywed

No idea but try here:
http://terkeyrenra.ddns.net/279673.html if you want to download the manual for your pc

halfamo

maybe the omnia oven instructions would work?? look on youtube