The Home Front meets Covid-19

Tiggywiggy12

If you have a local Age UK office they may be able to help with food parcels.  Our local office has lots of different parcels from an essentials box for £10 which has milk, yogurts, cheese, ham, butter, eggs and bread.  There is a fruit and veg box for £10.  A one person box for £25 which has all the above plus chicken breasts, sausages, sugar, tea, coffee, pasta, biscuits, crackers, cereal etc.  There is also a 2 person box for £45.  These are all delivered to the persons door.

basketcase

skogar said:

Nettle cordial is nice and easy to make. This is the recipe use. I must remember to get some out my parent's garden tomorrow when I take them their shopping.

https://www.eatweeds.co.uk/nettle-cordial-recipe

This reminds me of when I was a child.  We'd drive out to Heysham Village (in Lancashire) to a place which made and sold nettle beer.  I wonder if this is a similar recipe - it looks a lot redder.

basketcase

cornishchick said:

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needmoney said

basketcase said:

1.  Cut old cotton jumper into squares for more bleach 'wipes' - some temp, some to hem before use...

@basketcase , can I ask what solution you are using for your wipes please.

Hi - Sorry to take so long to get back.  I just get about 3/4 of a mug of water and add a squirt of thick bleach.  I read somewhere that it has to be thick bleach, rather than thin because it contains a surfectant which makes it more effective.  I was quite surprised to read that t doesn't have to be really strong to work.

I read on the CDC website it only needs to be a solution of 0.5 I think it was.. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/disinfecting-your-home.html

Hi cornishchick - that's a useful link.  Yes, as I said, I was quite (pleasantly) surprised by how weak the solution can be.

jinny

Does anyone know how i would get a pattern to sew scrubs for NHS staff.  You can use poly cotton sheets you need 3metres.  Ive looked on line and someone has a pdf pattern available. 

Pyxis

jinny said:

Does anyone know how i would get a pattern to sew scrubs for NHS staff.  You can use poly cotton sheets you need 3metres.  Ive looked on line and someone has a pdf pattern available. 

What a good idea.
Bear in mind that the material has to be washable at a high temperature......I think I heard the figure of 70degreesC mentioned somewhere.

jinny

Im not on facebook so eill ask son to look there are groups on there. I could ask my GP i saw her with scrubs on through the surgery door

skogar

Not tried making nettle beer - although it has similar ingredients. Its supposed to be nice - I do have  recipe in an old homebrewing book that we got from a charity shop years ago. The recipe I has does use brewing yeast as well. Found a few recipes for it on the internet. Also in season - rhubarb wine although that would take rather longer to be ready to drink but if you have a lot of rhubarb in the garden....

boultdj

Rhubarb wine is very nice.

basketcase

Can't say I'm usually a fan of rhubarb in any form at all, but I haven't actually tried rhubarb wine.

I was thinking of treats last night.  As I have a chocolate stash and some cornflakes I think I'll combine the two.  But...

My mother used to make what I think must have been a wartime recipe.  You could get a version in the shops, but she made her own.  It was called tobacco - very unPC, I know.  Dead simple, provided you don't mind not having any actual measurements!  Anyone else remember it?

Tobacco Recipe

Put some (I did say...) dessicated coconut into a paper bag

Add a little cocoa powder to coat the coconut

Add enough sugar to sweeten

Shake the bag to mix

basketcase

Tiggywiggy12 said:

If you have a local Age UK office they may be able to help with food parcels.  Our local office has lots of different parcels from an essentials box for £10 which has milk, yogurts, cheese, ham, butter, eggs and bread.  There is a fruit and veg box for £10.  A one person box for £25 which has all the above plus chicken breasts, sausages, sugar, tea, coffee, pasta, biscuits, crackers, cereal etc.  There is also a 2 person box for £45.  These are all delivered to the persons door.

Thanks for the info Tiggywinkle12 and welcome.  Those boxes sound really good.