THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

mardatha wrote: »

Serial killer!

Too right!!

But the barstewards are like zombies, ya keeps killing them and they keeps comin' right back atcha.

At least I can take comfort that, back in the dinosaur era, horsetails were the size of large trees, not the small things you get now.

I have horsetails on the allotment and they've even followed me around Europe on my holibobs. There I was, ambling down a track in Tuscany, and they were growing in the ditch. Stopped for a packed luncheon on the saddle of a mountain, somewhere in the Sloevenian Alps and, what should I see in a bit of soggy ground?

Yup - horsetails!

I shall holiday in the Sahara next time, that'll fox 'em.

Just having a quick cuppa, have cooked, eaten and washed up a meal, made a flask, ironed some things from the washload I did before w*rk and am then pedalling off to cause fear and loathing in the green hell.

I may, if I feel particularly vicious, take a few swings at that bramble with the old mattock.;)

GQueen - Horsetail (we call it marestail here oddly) is a plague on our allotments BUT a handful of it scours grotty allotment plates and mugs very effectively. Maybe we could market it as a ‘ natural, organic pan scourer and make a fortune :rotfl:

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Tesco petrol stations are selling a 9 LED, Ultra Violet torch, for less than a fiver.

Useful for checking banknotes, Driving Licences etc., for forgeries.

Also handy for viewing UV pen markings on valuables.

Naturally I've bought one , and I'm well impressed with how bright it is. :cool:

Oh, and it also makes my Vaseline Glass bowl glow like crazy. :cool:

I've eyed those up on ebay several times - I don't think I have a Tesco petrol station nearby, but I'll watch out for it thanks Bob.

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Books posted this morning via snail mail! will be with you both in a while!

Thanks Mrs LW

My two sets of garden work went well, though I was really, really tired by late afternoon. Makes sense, really, as its proper navvying, but there was a lot that I therefore left undone in the house, which is already untidy enough Somewhat caught up this morning, but not really :cool:

I'm reading Snow, by Ryan Clifford atm - the second book, Thaw, was free, and this one was a whole 99p (oh, it still is. My swagbux vouchers paid for it) wondered if anyone else had read it? I haven't finished yet, so no spoilers! But the format is good - lots of individual stories building up, and some of them merging, I can tell who's who, and its well written, amazingly so, except that the guy uses an awful lot of exclamation marks. One at a time, true, but far, far too many. It seems to be his only fault, so I'll forgive that :rotfl:

Overheard an interesting comment from an acquaintance of my pal with the juntique shop; that there seem to a be lot of tatty foisty £20 notes suddenly around on the scene (he's a general dealer).

Suspicion is, that the Banque d'Mattresss et de Moquette is giving up some of its sequested holdings of rag-paper money ahead of the 2020 introduction of polymer notes.

Anyone else noticed this?