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by PreppingPingu
Thu Jul 05, 2012 5:38 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: What's eating my seeds?!
Replies: 9
Views: 1109

Re: What's eating my seeds?!

Arh well I am glad I am not alone. *pokes tongue out at the-great-nothing in jest* I have got some raspberries and my 5 blueberry bushes are doing fine for a first year. At least I'll get some vitamin c if nothing else! As my food production is poor, I have been cutting grass, weeding and sorting sh...
by PreppingPingu
Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:07 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: What's eating my seeds?!
Replies: 9
Views: 1109

What's eating my seeds?!

Well, I planted in my new allotment some parsnips, carrots and beetroots. None sprouted. :evil: Now I don't even think anything sprouted and got then eaten, it just never sprouted in the first place. The ground is full and I mean FULL of ants - the little whatsits are everywhere. Do they run off wit...
by PreppingPingu
Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:48 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Seafood delight
Replies: 7
Views: 959

Re: Seafood delight

In bygone times our hunter-gather ancestors used the sea and the shoreline as a main source of food! The archeaological record is full of camp fires and midden piles of sells all around our current shores and in the drowned shorelines from before the last iceage melt. Just be careful of our nasty mo...
by PreppingPingu
Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:38 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Strategy and the black swan
Replies: 12
Views: 2258

Re: Strategy and the black swan

Very interesting and thought provoking thread! "do you really want to survive and more importantly what are you prepared to lose to do so?" I don't think I would truely know until I was in a situation. I'd like to think I know how strong minded, positive etc I would be but I am not sure if...
by PreppingPingu
Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:28 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: One good reason to prep
Replies: 44
Views: 5797

Re: One good reason to prep

Sorry about the off topic *looks sheepish* but that was my one good reason to prep ;)
by PreppingPingu
Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:33 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: One good reason to prep
Replies: 44
Views: 5797

Re: One good reason to prep

Hubby has been re employed *cheer* so now I guess I better re stock the stuff that I have been using over the last month. Re stock the freezer's meal odds and ends, restock the tinned meals, get another large jar of coffee and large bag of sugar to replace those that I broke into this month. Glad to...
by PreppingPingu
Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:20 pm
Forum: New Members Start Here
Topic: Hi from hampshire
Replies: 7
Views: 858

Re: Hi from hampshire

Hello and Welcome :)
by PreppingPingu
Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:26 am
Forum: Water
Topic: Carton Water
Replies: 7
Views: 1964

Re: Carton Water

I store my water in the bottles they came in and Camping water containers filled with tap water, and as gnole said, tap water is that cheap that you can empty and refill them (or rotate them)regularly if you are worried. I go camping a lot and have some fold-flat-for-storage plastic camping water c...
by PreppingPingu
Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:40 pm
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: what do you crave?
Replies: 18
Views: 5621

Re: what do you crave?

Chocolate , more chocolate with a side helping of chocolate and a nice bit of chocolate for desert .... :lol: Seriously, as girlie - there are times when a girl just gotta have a bit of chocolate. I would really crave that little fix of cocoa beans and diary in a shtf situation - on a monthly timeta...
by PreppingPingu
Fri May 25, 2012 6:41 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: One good reason to prep
Replies: 44
Views: 5797

Re: One good reason to prep

Thanks for your concern-you know of these things. :D Ditto :) and sorry to you others are in the same boat. But it does breed new opportunities so who knows what is round the corner. Like I said, I am just glad that I have been squirrelling away a few things over the last few months and freezing do...