What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

[GeeGee]

I used to adore pilchards in tomato sauce on toast. Sadly I can no longer eat the toast. Can anyone think of something else to act as the base for a layer of mashed pilchard?

Thin sliced toasted sweet potato .. cabbage leaves ..lettuce leaves ...rice cakes ... I know someone who eats them on doritos

[Yorkshire Andy]

Going to grab one of these on Thursday for the bathroom... Low level lighting with a increase of it sees movement then the bulb I've got in there can go in the chicken coup full time to try and trick the girls to lay a bit longer into winter

https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/diy-essentials ... ght/p54571

[pseudonym]

I used to adore pilchards in tomato sauce on toast. Sadly I can no longer eat the toast. Can anyone think of something else to act as the base for a layer of mashed pilchard?

Lettuce leaves, wrap it up like a spring roll.

[steptoe]

Going to grab one of these on Thursday for the bathroom... Low level lighting with a increase of it sees movement then the bulb I've got in there can go in the chicken coup full time to try and trick the girls to lay a bit longer into winter

https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/diy-essentials ... ght/p54571

Andy i had 3 of them and none lasted more than a few months , the one that has lasted by the same firm and from lidl is the one with the huge battery box , i do still have the box is came in and will try and find the model number but the one you link to well as i said mine lasted no more than 4 months max before either the panels fail or the charge circuit fails , i mix and matched bits to get them goingthen well in the end all failed , i did keep the solar panels in case i can add them to the wife's garden lights .

Ok hope that helps

[Le Mouse]

I haven't done much in the way of prep this week apart from topping up stocks of loo roll and noodles. I did my first aid at work last week and someone had a STREAMING cold which I've caught (I've tested a lot for covid!) and it's messing with my asthma big time. Since this summer has not been good for my lungs anyway, I feel a bit rubbish now. I'm keeping an eye on my peak flow reading (sort of OK), but I will try and get in the docs if it gets worse. I have my flu and covid jabs on Saturday so that could be fun, immune system wise. I hope I don't freak out the person with the needles with the level I'm coughing at the minute

[Yorkshire Andy]

Going to grab one of these on Thursday for the bathroom... Low level lighting with a increase of it sees movement then the bulb I've got in there can go in the chicken coup full time to try and trick the girls to lay a bit longer into winter

https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/diy-essentials ... ght/p54571

Andy i had 3 of them and none lasted more than a few months , the one that has lasted by the same firm and from lidl is the one with the huge battery box , i do still have the box is came in and will try and find the model number but the one you link to well as i said mine lasted no more than 4 months max before either the panels fail or the charge circuit fails , i mix and matched bits to get them goingthen well in the end all failed , i did keep the solar panels in case i can add them to the wife's garden lights .

Ok hope that helps

Thanks for that I've had 2 of their older versions for I'm guessing 6 years and they are still going strong they run on nimh àà rechargeable cells bar better rechargeable batteries they have stood up well the glass solar panel is a god send usually the first thing to fail on many is the solar panel goes yellow and brittle...

The lenses are going yellow slowly but still working thinking the greatest saviour is they are under the eves of the sheds so stay dry

[diamond lil]

Oh Mouse that's miserable - get better fast xx.

[steptoe]

I haven't done much in the way of prep this week apart from topping up stocks of loo roll and noodles. I did my first aid at work last week and someone had a STREAMING cold which I've caught (I've tested a lot for covid!) and it's messing with my asthma big time. Since this summer has not been good for my lungs anyway, I feel a bit rubbish now. I'm keeping an eye on my peak flow reading (sort of OK), but I will try and get in the docs if it gets worse. I have my flu and covid jabs on Saturday so that could be fun, immune system wise. I hope I don't freak out the person with the needles with the level I'm coughing at the minute

Have you tried taking elderberry syrup or even echinacea you can get that in tea form , i am stocking up on lots of herbal stuff this winter just in case .

Get well soon mouse nothing worse than a mouse with a runny nose

[Arzosah]

That's only yesterday you posted, Mouse, hope it's got a bit better by now, but its not long, after all!

I'm adminning like crazy. Went into my little town centre to lodge old £20 notes with my bank - legal deadline is only 8 days away, though apparently local branches of some banks, and the post office, will still exchange them. I didn't want to go through a special procedure though. I also reclaimed my foreign currency left over from my holiday - almost £300 - I over-catered, what with being a prepper and all Very glad to have that money accessible to me once again. A stash of money for emergencies is only useful if the money's legal tender, after all.

Also looking at rates of interest on a couple of savings accounts - I used to have a regular saver with the bank where I had my current account, and it was a decent rate, 2.5% or something, a couple of years ago. Looked at it this week, and they've taken it down to 0.49%!!! I should have switched ages ago Well, I'm doing it now - though I may wait a week and see if higher rate savings accounts turn up, since the bank rate's gone up **again**.

It's not conventional prepping, but it is important.

I'm also using a 12% off voucher for a big grocery shop on Saturday - buying booze for Christmas presents is about half of it. The rest is teabags, coffee, lots of toilet rolls, and any special offers I could lay my mitts on

[jansman]

This week I am reading about potential nuclear war, and other *hit that I cannot do anything about.

My youngest has come over for her birthday. Frankly,she’s on the bones of her ar*se economically right now. Preps? I have provided her and chap with : small crate of apples and pears, dried beans, salad and cabbage. All that from the garden. A dozen eggs too,and a rabbit. Her chap doesn’t understand’eating rabbits’ but daughter does! Some stuff from the freezer too.

They are concerned about power too. I supplied them with an LED lantern ,4x magnetic - fixing LED Lights and two Cree torches. And batteries. She had WARNING that it all be KEPT and READY for use. I even supplied batteries. Oh yes, and made sure she had paracetamol and adequate first aid.

Oh yes. I told my boss to stick his job RIGHT UP HIS …you know!

Can’t change nuclear war,but other stuff is easy.