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by daylen
Sun Jul 09, 2023 3:36 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Snails galore
Replies: 9
Views: 970

Re: Snails galore

Vitamin c wrote: Sun Jul 09, 2023 3:20 pm Eat them ,fried in garlic butter had them in belgum years ago ,very high in protein.
I've thought about eating them but I don't think they're worth the effort and I'm certainly not going to eat them every day! They're not tasty enough to me.
by daylen
Sun Jul 09, 2023 8:39 am
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Snails galore
Replies: 9
Views: 970

Snails galore

The main pest in our garden is the slug. We usually get a good deal of these with the odd snail for good measure. This year though we have been invaded by snails. Our garden is pretty small with probably around 20m2 of raised beds plus pots, but this year I'm collecting around 20-30 fully grown gard...
by daylen
Sat Jul 08, 2023 8:10 pm
Forum: Finance
Topic: Loans
Replies: 20
Views: 4200

Re: Loans

Amortization is complex but essentially each month you pay a 12th of 8.9% of the outstanding debt in interest, the rest of paid off the capital. Check out the amortization table here for a full breakdown - https://www.calculator.net/loan-calculator.html?cloanamount=7%2C500&cloanterm=5&cloant...
by daylen
Wed Jul 06, 2022 8:15 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Do You Feel We Are Heading For The Perfect Storm?
Replies: 91
Views: 4071

Re: Do You Feel We Are Heading For The Perfect Storm?

Cities are actually very good at what they do. Economies of scale and concentration of people resource allow for a much more rapid advancement of science, technology, commerce, arts, and so on. They're credited with a lot of improvements in our current way of life. Whether or not such rapid advancem...
by daylen
Sun May 22, 2022 8:59 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What are your thoughts?
Replies: 74
Views: 3159

Re: What are your thoughts?

I believe that this is where it hits the fan for many. The way I see it is that it's just about the line between the haves and have nots. For the last few decades, the line between having and not having has shifted massively towards the many. We've had a period of sustained and increasing prosperity...
by daylen
Mon May 02, 2022 10:27 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9
Replies: 2108
Views: 112094

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

I dono about anybody else but I get a real feeling of things getting serious and serious preppers moving up a gear. 100%. Whatever the cause, things will become much more expensive. I don't think we've hit the tipping point yet but I think this winter will be the point where the S hits the fan in r...
by daylen
Mon Apr 25, 2022 8:33 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Q4 Jack of all trades, master of none.
Replies: 37
Views: 1784

Re: Q4 Jack of all trades, master of none.

I can't see that the IT engineer skills would be any use but you never know. I think that IT skills would be really useful in a wide variety of situations. Setting up a local DNS server when regional/global ones fail but the internet is still working. In a wide ranging internet outage, getting a lo...
by daylen
Tue Feb 08, 2022 9:33 am
Forum: New Members Start Here
Topic: Hello everyone
Replies: 16
Views: 1204

Re: Hello everyone

Welcome British Red, good to have you here. I certainly learnt a lot from your posts in other forums. :)
by daylen
Mon Feb 07, 2022 11:53 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Bleach shortage?
Replies: 23
Views: 2662

Re: Bleach shortage?

We stocked up no problem from Sainsbury's last week. Didn't seem like there was any issues here. Based in Sheffield.
by daylen
Tue Jan 11, 2022 5:17 pm
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: Now More Than Ever..
Replies: 20
Views: 2301

Re: Now More Than Ever..

I've had the same thoughts about health. My sister waited over a year for an "urgent" and lifesaving operation!