Practiced making a rice flour bread today. Am (probably) going to get some kinda hand powered grinder soon so that i can make my own rice flour from tesco value cheap rice and with no mains energy expense.
Also done some window shopping in a local craft shop that I hadn't been in before. it has the cutting mats with measurements and the circular cutters that I will need for making slingshot bands, but no leather for pouches dammit!
But at least I am aware of where I need to go to get what I want.
What Preps are you doing this week
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TwoDo
Re: What Preps are you doing this week
Maybe you could go to a charity shop and get an old leather handbag. I'd bet the leather in those should be thin and supple enough.nickdutch wrote:Also done some window shopping in a local craft shop that I hadn't been in before. it has the cutting mats with measurements and the circular cutters that I will need for making slingshot bands, but no leather for pouches dammit!
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Thats a good idea! Or what about chammy leathers?
Own preps:
- decluttering the desk **face pales in horror**
- lots and lots and lots of financial prepping this week - getting money that big organisations owe me, getting the correct address on stuff, setting up new accounts that pay interest as much as I can get above the rate of inflation and still have the correct-for-me level of access.
- bought a solar battery charger. Annoyingly, I can't even open it up - either I'm too scared of breaking it, or there's something wrong, so I'm out to the shops first thing tomorrow.
Own preps:
- decluttering the desk **face pales in horror**
- lots and lots and lots of financial prepping this week - getting money that big organisations owe me, getting the correct address on stuff, setting up new accounts that pay interest as much as I can get above the rate of inflation and still have the correct-for-me level of access.
- bought a solar battery charger. Annoyingly, I can't even open it up - either I'm too scared of breaking it, or there's something wrong, so I'm out to the shops first thing tomorrow.
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chammy leathers ire too thin. You need something sturdy for a slingshot pouch. Some say that a traditional material was the tongue of a boot. That would make sense as the longest lasting pouches I have used have been approx shoe leather quality.Arzosah wrote:Thats a good idea! Or what about chammy leathers?
Own preps:
- decluttering the desk **face pales in horror**
- lots and lots and lots of financial prepping this week - getting money that big organisations owe me, getting the correct address on stuff, setting up new accounts that pay interest as much as I can get above the rate of inflation and still have the correct-for-me level of access.
- bought a solar battery charger. Annoyingly, I can't even open it up - either I'm too scared of breaking it, or there's something wrong, so I'm out to the shops first thing tomorrow.
Your post has also reminded me to tell everyone of my most recent "prep" which is to go through the process of increasing my credit rating. Getting a report from Equifax soon (cheaper than experian).
reperio a solutio
Resident and Co-Ordinator of AREA 2
Area 2 = Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Bucks
Resident and Co-Ordinator of AREA 2
Area 2 = Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Bucks
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Our Gamekeeper catapults arrived today we bought 5 different ones to test 1 will be spare, we will go out to play on sunday. 
I have a strategy, it's not written in stone, nor can it be, this scenario has too many variables, everything about it depends on those variables, being specific is not possible.
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Nick, I'm glad my post jogged your memory - but in case you haven't gone ahead and done it yet, do check out moneysavingexpert, and find a way to get a free trial of one of the credit reference agencies, then cancel before the free trial's up. You have to be good with remembering to cancel, to do things like that, but its all the more money you can put by for preps!
Prepwise - got bored with sitting at the computer, so I went out and prepped some biiiiig plantpots I've inherited (a foot across, and more than that deep) - putting gravel and whatnot in the bottom for drainage, I'll use them for rootcrops next year, I really don't like the whole cat pee thing that some parts of my garden have got going on
And then I took a walk out to an area I'd never been before - out in the maize fields and everything, in half an hour, amazing stuff. Learning the route in case I need to bug out to my sister's.
Prepwise - got bored with sitting at the computer, so I went out and prepped some biiiiig plantpots I've inherited (a foot across, and more than that deep) - putting gravel and whatnot in the bottom for drainage, I'll use them for rootcrops next year, I really don't like the whole cat pee thing that some parts of my garden have got going on
And then I took a walk out to an area I'd never been before - out in the maize fields and everything, in half an hour, amazing stuff. Learning the route in case I need to bug out to my sister's.
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thecrock
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can't eat without water....lolBlackwidow wrote:- I have just done 24 x 1 Litre Canning Jars with Chicken. Just waiting for more jars to arrive, to do more canning....
- Also thinking about buying a food dehydrator.... any suggestions? are they any good? is it worth the money/hassle?
- Have been thinking about getting an IBC for water storage...
I probably now have enough food to last my family (2 adults and 2 small children) for up to 6 months, but only enough water for 1 month....
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firepower
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Just bought a 300tdi Discovery 3 door, my current Land Rover does 12.5mpg, this one does 28 
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preppingsu
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Have taken delivery of my new car this week. Not quite the big 4x4 I really wanted but will do the job to get to and from work for minimal fuel cost. Came with its own small emergency kit, including hi-viz vest, warning triangle, small 1st aid kit, car hammer/seat belt cutter, accident reporting kit (hopefully will never have to use this).
Have now added my own winter kit which has filled the tiny, tiny boot space!! ( no my kit is not too big, it is a very small boot!).
Have added to my water preps, another 10l.
Mylared some flour, milk powder, rice, porridge oats and sugar.
Bought a £3.00 sack of horse carrots from countrywide which will end up in my freezer
Purchased a new freezer ready for my pork ( pigs soon too be slaughter so will update that thread as we will be smoking bacon, curing and air drying ham etc).
Started to hint about the dehydrator I want for Christmas and other prepping items!
Have now added my own winter kit which has filled the tiny, tiny boot space!! ( no my kit is not too big, it is a very small boot!).
Have added to my water preps, another 10l.
Mylared some flour, milk powder, rice, porridge oats and sugar.
Bought a £3.00 sack of horse carrots from countrywide which will end up in my freezer
Purchased a new freezer ready for my pork ( pigs soon too be slaughter so will update that thread as we will be smoking bacon, curing and air drying ham etc).
Started to hint about the dehydrator I want for Christmas and other prepping items!
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JamesMR
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Got 5 lots of 5 Litre bottles of mineral water from Asda to store in the shed, will probably freeze with the up coming winter, anyone know if this will diminish it's life? Should be good for years anyway.