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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:39 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
- Replies: 277
- Views: 18047
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
We are currently unprepping, well growing wise at least. We are spending quite a lot of time caring for/feeding and visiting our elderly parents and our youngest has just left home so we no longer have enough time or someone to water the crops whilst we recharge our batteries on holiday. We did have...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: Medical and Healthcare
- Topic: DIY dentistry
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1522
Re: DIY dentistry
I have an abscess and feel awful, the whole right side of my jaw is painful, my ear hurts, the throbbing is terrible and I have a headache. I felt it coming on yesterday took painkillers, did saltwater mouthwashes and phoned the dentist for an emergency appointment this morning. Got antibiotics than...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Gas canisters
- Replies: 11
- Views: 378
Re: Gas canisters
Out of interest where does one dispose of cannisters if they are rusting? Found some right at the back of our camping storage, I seem to recall inheriting them from someone. I am obviously not going to risk using them or disposing of them with the household waste. Will a recycling centre accept them...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:28 pm
- Forum: Homes and Retreats
- Topic: What temperature do you have your house.
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3238
Re: What temperature do you have your house.
We have used the oil heating very little this year. We tend to use it manually rather than setting the timer unless we know it is going to be very cold. We all leave the house fairly early so I cannot see the point in warming the house when nobody is going to benefit from it. We have log burners in ...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:20 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Old fashioned or home cures
- Replies: 3
- Views: 138
Re: Old fashioned or home cures
As a child with an upset stomach I was given a drop of whisky or brandy in hot water with a bit o sugar. That would likely be classed as a safeguarding issue these days. I tend to rely on a squeezed lemon with honey and hot water and a couple of paracetamol for colds. Inhaling steam for coughs. We s...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Power bank preps
- Replies: 10
- Views: 808
Re: Power bank preps
We have several, one in my EDC, one in husbands work van and a couple more. We also have one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/ALLPOWERS-Portable-Generator-Emergency-Technology/dp/B081DSC1HD/ref=sr_1_3?crid=T6A78S1BM76&keywords=allpowers&qid=1705791528&sprefix=allpowers%2Caps%2C139&s...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Prepping when ill or infirm
- Replies: 103
- Views: 7746
Re: Prepping when ill or infirm
A bit of a thought here, we were plagued by the inlaws and their never ending issues with light bulbs going, we eventually replaced the whole lot with LED's but never quite knew whether they were bayonet bulbs, screw ins, small or large fittings. Now we have sold their house and they are well looked...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
- Replies: 277
- Views: 18047
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
GeeGee it sounds like you are doing amazingly well, not too much longer until you are back up and running hopefully
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 10:51 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Cooking during power outage
- Replies: 76
- Views: 4898
Re: Cooking during power outage
I can knock out a pretty good stew on the woodburner and the tent woodburner too. We also have the calor gas camping stove and grill and the barbeque plus several other wood and gas cartridge camping stoves. We camped in -5C in the bell tent last year with the woodburner, properly fitted of course (...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
- Replies: 277
- Views: 18047
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
We had a load of logs delivered at the weekend, I dont like paying for wood but we can keep the house heated for longer with logs than we could if we just relied on the oil heating and people tend to get greedy and put the prices up when there is a demand such as when the weather gets colder. Also s...