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Drained a few litres out of each of the water butts this morning, to give a bit of expansion room if they freeze! It was 0 here last night and forecast to get a lot colder.

I also need to sort my water shortage preps, rotate some of the stored drinking water.

Hope everyone is coping with the cold!

A few more real-life practical preps this week. On the financial side, I've upped my pension contribution by .5%. I've also looked at my savings, we want to convert the conservatory into more of a permanent extension, we probably only have around half of what we expect it to cost, so we've plotted o...

Added a 3rd slimline water butt to the garden. I have 300 litres total capacity now for the garden. My plans are to only water the vegetables and fruit trees in an extended drought. It's also going to be used for other non-potable uses, washing etc. I'm also re-stocking my vehicle preps. I usually k...

Food preps this week. Purchased a 10kg bag of basmati rice, previous one has a 1/3 left in the bad. I also picked up another 3kg bag of pasta and stocked up on Yorkshire tea. I'm thinking that if milk does become scarce I'd make do with black tea. I do have a couple of cartons of UHT that should tid...

I too have gone crazy on the veg growing. I'm fighting the good fight in terms of preventing them from going leggy. My plan is to give tomato plants to family, as I did last year. I had enough lettuce to sink a ship and was pretty bored of it by the end of the summer haha. Also rotated some tinned t...

Ordered an external SSD to replace the T7 that died. I won't be repeating my experiments with using it with the phone, although I may have corrupted it earlier by forgetting to eject before inplugging. Anyway, this was pretty cheap so I snapped it up. 41% off reduced to £68. I like to have one to t...

I also realised I don't have any re-chargeable batteries, so bought a pack of Amazon Basics ones, they seem ok. Try LADDA AA cells from Ikea. They're great value eneloops. Rotated my water preps - I usually keep 75l of bottled water. A few are well past the Best before date, so I'll use those up to...

Financial, misc, food and water preps this week Plotted out my current retirement forecast and mortgage payments, I've been topping up my YBS Christmas E-Saver each payday, I always over spend at Christmas so hopefully this year it'll be less of a financial hit. I also realised I don't have any re-c...

Sorted the drawers in my Prep Room a bit. It's not all prep stuff in them. They are worn and they stick or fall off the wooden rails, a nightmare to open and close. Ordered some sticky labels so at least I only have to grapple with the right one (I never know which is which, especially as I rearran...

Sorted the drawers in my Prep Room a bit. It's not all prep stuff in them. They are worn and they stick or fall off the wooden rails, a nightmare to open and close. Ordered some sticky labels so at least I only have to grapple with the right one (I never know which is which, especially as I rearran...