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by diamond lil
Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:26 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 157
Views: 12793

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

I miss home grown tatties Andy, well done!
by diamond lil
Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:49 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 157
Views: 12793

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

Def with you JM on changing to easier ways. I keep thinking of how hard it was when the husband was ill and I was running the big coal stove and the propane cylinders for cooking, plus a very cold house up on a moor. Now its gas heating and cooking - proper "town" gas :mrgreen: - and costi...
by diamond lil
Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:03 pm
Forum: New Members Start Here
Topic: Been a long time
Replies: 4
Views: 187

Re: Been a long time

Hi :mrgreen:
by diamond lil
Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:13 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: My current prepping
Replies: 5
Views: 221

Re: My current prepping

We're doing the same stuff here - not with any huge urgency but because it makes sense to do it anyway, with our age and state of health. Plus it's just tidier! ;)
by diamond lil
Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:17 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 157
Views: 12793

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

Sleep propped up with pillows, don't lie down.
by diamond lil
Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:28 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Old fashioned or home cures
Replies: 3
Views: 124

Re: Old fashioned or home cures

I'm a great believer in old fashioned home remedies. I use brandy because I hate the smell of whisky, it's great with asprin for heatstroke - hubby used to get that on hot summer days. Also good for poorly tummies along with weak tea. I use local honey for all cuts and wounds, stops them getting inf...
by diamond lil
Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:36 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Anyone hunting or fishing these days?
Replies: 17
Views: 1243

Re: Anyone hunting or fishing these days?

We're on the Tweed. Try fishing anywhere without a very expensive permit and yur in big trouble. More bailiffs down there than midges :mrgreen:
by diamond lil
Sat Feb 10, 2024 10:04 am
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: N.H.S. views and experiences
Replies: 44
Views: 3710

Re: N.H.S. views and experiences

Well the ins and outs of political doings aren't the big thing for us here- our job is to find ways round them. Any ideas and "fixes" welcome - we've already had some good ones.
by diamond lil
Sat Feb 10, 2024 10:00 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Prepping when ill or infirm
Replies: 103
Views: 7709

Re: Prepping when ill or infirm

That's a very useful post- that really applies to me. I spend 90% of my time sat in a recliner :cry: thanks Gilly.
by diamond lil
Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:44 pm
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: N.H.S. views and experiences
Replies: 44
Views: 3710

Re: N.H.S. views and experiences

What you're saying is all true though Kiwififer, it's real, and we have to prep for reality but its not easy when it's health care going down the plughole is it :evil: