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by Mad Scientist
Fri Dec 01, 2023 11:00 am
Forum: Homes and Retreats
Topic: House fire
Replies: 37
Views: 3338

Re: House fire

Really well done Andy for handling all that so well! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
by Mad Scientist
Sat Oct 14, 2023 10:45 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Look at the size of my marrow
Replies: 17
Views: 1004

Re: Look at the size of my marrow

Well done folks! Haven’t had that much luck this year. Foraged a bit. Got a few herbs and a tomato plant growing on the window sill. Definitely more work required next year.
by Mad Scientist
Thu Sep 28, 2023 10:16 pm
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: Medicine use by dates...
Replies: 5
Views: 647

Re: Medicine use by dates...

While some meds will keep for ages under the right conditions, others, like aspirin will degrade into other things because they’re slightly unstable and will not be the meds you started with. At best they’ll be harmless/useless, at worst a pretty different thing altogether.Chuck out anything 6 month...
by Mad Scientist
Wed Aug 02, 2023 12:29 pm
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: Eternal youth....
Replies: 3
Views: 357

Re: Eternal youth....

Ageing is a complex mixture of both accumulation of damage over a lifetime and programmed cell behaviour. I think we’ve got a looong way to go before any kind of age reversing treatment for humans as most studies are done on nematode worms, mice and suchlike. Drink plenty of fluids, healthy diet and...
by Mad Scientist
Wed Aug 02, 2023 12:16 pm
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: National drug shortage
Replies: 15
Views: 1232

Re: National drug shortage

Good work, Jenny!

Thanks for the heads up Vitamin C my friend’s elderly parents are on those I’ll warn her to order early. Seem to have no problem getting my stash of thyroxine thank goodness.
by Mad Scientist
Wed Jul 12, 2023 8:07 am
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Snails galore
Replies: 9
Views: 974

Re: Snails galore

Snails everywhere. My poor rhubarb has been decimated.
by Mad Scientist
Fri Jul 07, 2023 10:34 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Black pepper advice
Replies: 7
Views: 939

Re: Black pepper advice

Nicely done Vitamin C!
by Mad Scientist
Thu May 25, 2023 10:23 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: World rice shortages on way...
Replies: 9
Views: 780

Re: World rice shortages on way...

As climate change takes a good foothold, any country that becomes able to produce staple foods that were not able to before will battle with countries that are now less able to do so. Expect rice, wheat, tea and coffee to come from some pretty unusual places.
by Mad Scientist
Thu May 25, 2023 10:17 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Sunday dinner
Replies: 3
Views: 389

Re: Sunday dinner

Niiice!
by Mad Scientist
Wed May 17, 2023 12:51 pm
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: What type of person becomes a prepper
Replies: 8
Views: 1231

Re: What type of person becomes a prepper

We have to be self sufficient because we have almost no nearby family we can turn to. Plan for the future, save up as much as possible, plenty of tools, food and spare water. It’s kept us or bailed us out of trouble time and time again. Knowing there’s a prep for most of our possible problems lets m...