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- Sun May 12, 2024 8:09 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
- Replies: 340
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Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
This domestic heating business is personal though. After all ,many people do have gas heating and that’s fair enough. It’s certainly been popular.Well for fifty years to now. In the fullness of time the UK will see gas gradually end as even now much is being brought in by ship as this is no longer l...
- Sat May 11, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
- Replies: 340
- Views: 21161
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Agreed on community Where i live its a decent area but the people on the street especially my neighbours are just downright awful Everyone hates each other all came about during covid where she reported him he reported her etc there was a mini riot people literally will not take in parcels wont eng...
- Sun May 05, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Long-term storage of meats and fish? What options?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 108
Re: Long-term storage of meats and fish? What options?
An interesting topic. As a professional butcher I have dried and stored meat in various ways, both farmed meats and wild meat. No problems and there are loads of recipes and methods. In our modern world though it’s an irony, as when the old style preservation was devised it was because of lack of re...
- Sat May 04, 2024 6:16 am
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Death by sheep
- Replies: 6
- Views: 228
Re: Death by sheep
My son worked on a farm when he was in high school. The farm manager ended up in hospital with several broken ribs after a cow attacked him - then rolled on him when he was on the ground. Cows are dangerous animals! I can remember many years ago when we were ironically catching foxes with our dogs ...
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:00 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
- Replies: 340
- Views: 21161
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
That sounds like a nice wee break you had. Preps here are to make huge changes to my expectations I think. Today we went to Peebles, lovely wee town we've been going to for donkey's years for the good boutiquey-type shops, loads of cafes and nice walks down by the river. We lasted two hours. It was...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:59 am
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
- Replies: 687
- Views: 40439
Re: Advice for a hopeless gardener
I am not convinced that is blight. I can't seen anything "fungal fluffy growth" and I have always seen at least a little of that with a bad/collapsed plant. All about blight here with pics. https://horticulture.co.uk/potatoes/blight/ While this is frost damage https://www.allotments4all.c...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:45 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
- Replies: 340
- Views: 21161
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
We don’t miss the solid fuels a bit! My best mate down the village is going the same way too. The both of us have physical problems,and coal and wood is just too much hassle now. Tell you one thing if the timber trade doesn't pick up soon there will be no "cheap" firewood this coming wint...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:51 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
- Replies: 340
- Views: 21161
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Andy I've had two dry sockets - you never forget that pain :shock: JM funny, we agree re solid fuel. Loved having coal for 40 years but don't miss it now at all. I'm pondering planting tatties. Only prob is that they would be on the shared path we blocked off due to nosy neighbour with screening - ...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
- Replies: 340
- Views: 21161
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Pleased to say I am still doing bits and pieces at home. The greenhouse is looking great. The tomatoes and spaghetti marrows in particular! Our ancient rhubarb plants are being processed a bit at a time. We make a rhubarb and garlic chutney of which we grow garlic too. A lovely product. Regarding ou...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Prepper -'lite' or full on survivalist
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4384
Re: Prepper -'lite' or full on survivalist
Full on Survivalists-Wow. Aren’t we all anyway? We get born,we learn,we earn,we get a place to live,some of us have children ,and life will carry on. As is the ‘animal’ way. Be it yourself or your pet dog,you fight to move forward. You are a survivor,regardless. The generation you may be born in and...