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by GillyBee
Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:23 pm
Forum: New Members Start Here
Topic: I am back for a while
Replies: 19
Views: 1481

Re: I am back for a while

Welcome back. It is so good to hear your news. Hope you dont think the forum has gone too far downhill without you to keep us all on the straight and narrow :D . (TBH I have nothing but respect for all our moderators.)
by GillyBee
Tue Dec 12, 2023 7:43 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Help! Moving to London!
Replies: 7
Views: 545

Re: Help! Moving to London!

Some good sized plastic bags in the EDC - big enough to catch vomit or use as an emergency potty if on trains/tube. Much nicer for everyone in the compartment if the person looking green has a bag to hurl into instead of the floor. Likewise if the train is stationary for 6 hours with no way to get o...
by GillyBee
Sun Dec 10, 2023 8:28 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Help! Moving to London!
Replies: 7
Views: 545

Re: Help! Moving to London!

Londoner here. Prepping Su has it right. If you need to commute you need the "A" route, the "B" route, the "C" route, the "D" route and the "E" route. They will all get used. I used to work in Central London. I ensured I had cash for a cheapish hotel...
by GillyBee
Thu Dec 07, 2023 6:04 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Oh no I forgot my beetroot
Replies: 2
Views: 308

Re: Oh no I forgot my beetroot

If they are still in the ground come spring you could cut the leaves and use them as cooked greens. Beetroot is a close relative of Swiss Chard.
by GillyBee
Sun Dec 03, 2023 8:48 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99759

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

The wife has been granted an allotment, half a plot. It looks a bit neglected, will probably result in some labour from me in the new year. Not sure what we're going to plant yet, spuds and courgettes did well in our garden, peas and runner beans too. Suggestions, tips and advice more than welcome!...
by GillyBee
Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:17 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99759

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

Meanwhile I was pretty much thrown out of both classes for being a "know it all" because my step-mum had decided I was going to do it her way or the highway and it was easier to disagree with the teacher than with her when products of lessons came home. As long as you can stand the Texan a...
by GillyBee
Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:24 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99759

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

Very impressed by the spec of that water mist one. Mine is due to arrive today.
by GillyBee
Sun Nov 19, 2023 12:41 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Value Range foods compared
Replies: 301
Views: 14054

Re: Value Range foods compared

I put dried mushroom into my stock mix. It goves a good umami boost to almost everything - so yes we put mushrums in our Ragu. Our holy trinity of veg that goes into almost everything is finely diced onion, carrot and celery. It adds lots of flavour and is fried to translucent before anything else i...
by GillyBee
Sun Nov 19, 2023 12:38 pm
Forum: Homes and Retreats
Topic: House fire
Replies: 37
Views: 3338

Re: House fire

Wow. A very real test of preps. without them and your training and cool headedness it could have been so much worse. I am sure we would not have done so well. What did the FB have to say about how you handled things?
by GillyBee
Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:44 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Prepper -'lite' or full on survivalist
Replies: 27
Views: 3928

Re: Prepper -'lite' or full on survivalist

Prepper-Lite for us too. We do not have enough health or land on our side to go full prepper or survivalist. If SHTF big time I doubt either of us has the physicality needed to last long. We prep for bumps in the road and if needed, the ability to live in a much simpler society and hopefully be view...