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by moominmama
Mon Jul 11, 2022 12:33 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9
Replies: 2108
Views: 113175

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

Harvested red gooseberries, blueberries, rhubarb and last of the peas, pumpkin and other plants doing well so will carry on with early morning watering. Made a delicious gooseberry crumble cake, and froze the rest of harvest (though calling my bowl of fruit a harvest is a bit of an exaggeration - bu...
by moominmama
Tue Jun 28, 2022 1:38 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Do You Feel We Are Heading For The Perfect Storm?
Replies: 91
Views: 4143

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

i really try not to think about it! but something always brings it to mind - we have 10 water butts but still run out of water in the summer... we are able to crop and grow fruit and veg for a much longer season than we used to have we were able to get son into a extra curricular activity that i am ...
by moominmama
Tue Jun 28, 2022 9:44 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9
Replies: 2108
Views: 113175

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

linking this to the posting 'Do You Feel We Are Heading For The Perfect Storm?' I am starting to think about 'longer' term preps as well as what I would classify as short to medium term preparing. short to medium terms prep - food, water, medicines, energy storage, growing our own food, etc. longer ...
by moominmama
Tue Jun 28, 2022 9:10 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Do You Feel We Are Heading For The Perfect Storm?
Replies: 91
Views: 4143

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

a colleague at work referred me to this clip, although fictional he is said it is the best, most concise and accurate list of what we face due to climate change. He is a really smart person, and works / researches along these lines, and discussed this in the context of why he and his partner are chi...
by moominmama
Tue Jun 07, 2022 11:13 am
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Tea
Replies: 9
Views: 547

Re: Tea

I tend to do reverse - Irish breakfast or Belfast brew loose leaf tea in mornings, and then Yorkshire tea bags throughout day to evening, and evening switch to honeybush. Suki tea were doing half price sale on large bags of loose leaf at start of year, got enough for 2 years at current usage levels ...
by moominmama
Tue Jun 07, 2022 9:57 am
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Tea
Replies: 9
Views: 547

Tea

Quick question, am stocking up on coffee, tea, etc. but space is becoming a real issue so looking into growing tea plant for longer term. Done fair bit of on line research, we are in South East so milder winters, and I already grow Blue Berry plants in pots very successfully (also acid loving). Ques...
by moominmama
Mon May 16, 2022 12:00 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: India export ban of wheat
Replies: 3
Views: 222

India export ban of wheat

Dear all, for those of you who have not already heard the news India has banned the export of wheat, I think it is safe to expect shortages and further (even more drastic) price increases. On a sad and depressing note as this appears to be due to drought conditions fueled by climate change I fear it...
by moominmama
Mon May 16, 2022 11:58 am
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: India export ban of wheat
Replies: 8
Views: 367

India export ban of wheat

Dear all, for those of you who have not already heard the news India has banned the export of wheat, I think it is safe to expect shortages and further (even more drastic) price increases. On a sad and depressing note as this appears to be due to drought conditions fueled by climate change I fear it...
by moominmama
Mon May 16, 2022 11:57 am
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: India export ban of wheat
Replies: 0
Views: 58

India export ban of wheat

Dear all, for those of you who have not already heard the news India has banned the export of wheat, I think it is safe to expect shortages and further (even more drastic) price increases. On a sad and depressing note as this appears to be due to drought conditions fueled by climate change I fear it...
by moominmama
Mon Jul 05, 2021 10:54 am
Forum: Finance
Topic: Sipp
Replies: 13
Views: 2192

Re: Sipp

so.....the long and short of it is that my money is 'trapped' in the Sipp. I can get a lump sum of it back when I am 57, and the remainder is a wait and see depending on the rules at that point in time. I am really not encouraged to save into a pension, other than my workplace, it is a very inflexib...