What preps are you doing this week? Part 3.

[Yorkshire Andy]

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Welcome to my world amigo, apparently cushions are absolutely vital though.

Burst water main has left other half of town without water / brown water coming out the taps. This evening...

Mrs andy sat here smug now as after last time is was "her idea" to keep some bottled water.........

As last time I was using the sawyer mini as she didn't see the point of stashing a few 5l containers of water....


Chalk up one small win ...

. She now trusts the sawyer too after last time I drunk a pint of murky tap water and didn't suffer and so does her teenage son having used it when he sucked his camelbak dry in the lake district so wound up drinking steam water with no I'll effects but bottled water is easy if a little bulky and heavy but her been pregnant means she has to be very careful (not that our water has been affected

Tomorrow is winter prep her car day

[ukpreppergrrl]

I deliberately watched them that way round so I kind of enjoyed the new one without it 'spoiling' a classic. It's a bit DrWho in places, while the 1975 one I keep expecting to turn into a Hammer film.

Not so much practical advice, but it does allow me to think about a few things, like "why the h*ll do I live in a city"

I've just remembered its got the worst pack of 'wild dogs' ever mustered. One of the earlier ones if I recall. Worth a watch just for that.

***SPOILER ALERT**** ***SPOILER ALERT**** ***SPOILER ALERT****

My favourite was the packs of killer rats in London! I watched it, turned to the cats and in all earnestness informed them that come TEOTWAWKI they would be expected to protect the homestead! They just looked back at me and said "Meh" as cats do...

[Brambles]

I deliberately watched them that way round so I kind of enjoyed the new one without it 'spoiling' a classic. It's a bit DrWho in places, while the 1975 one I keep expecting to turn into a Hammer film.

Not so much practical advice, but it does allow me to think about a few things, like "why the h*ll do I live in a city"

I've just remembered its got the worst pack of 'wild dogs' ever mustered. One of the earlier ones if I recall. Worth a watch just for that.

***SPOILER ALERT**** ***SPOILER ALERT**** ***SPOILER ALERT****

My favourite was the packs of killer rats in London! I watched it, turned to the cats and in all earnestness informed them that come TEOTWAWKI they would be expected to protect the homestead! They just looked back at me and said "Meh" as cats do...

Mine blew me a raspberry then as he walked off gave me the Cat version of the finger; the flick of the tail. God I miss that Cat he was a total troll.

Our latest is still growing up so doesn't have the cycnism of the old Boy yet, but I'm sure he will 'grow into it'

[Arzosah]

Here's an interesting take on Hammer horror a zombie doll: http://www.craftfoxes.com/how_tos/class ... ng-pattern

[Deeps]

I deliberately watched them that way round so I kind of enjoyed the new one without it 'spoiling' a classic. It's a bit DrWho in places, while the 1975 one I keep expecting to turn into a Hammer film.

Not so much practical advice, but it does allow me to think about a few things, like "why the h*ll do I live in a city"

I've just remembered its got the worst pack of 'wild dogs' ever mustered. One of the earlier ones if I recall. Worth a watch just for that.

***SPOILER ALERT**** ***SPOILER ALERT**** ***SPOILER ALERT****

My favourite was the packs of killer rats in London! I watched it, turned to the cats and in all earnestness informed them that come TEOTWAWKI they would be expected to protect the homestead! They just looked back at me and said "Meh" as cats do...

Our lad is lethal, he's had a few rats and he's not a particularly big cat, he's even dragged a magpie home one time although he didn't manage to kill it, we had a magpie with missing tail feathers doing the rounds for a while. He's actually a really friendly cat, to both people and bizarrely other cats, he's got a few wee pals and he's not territorial with cats at all. Just guess work on my part but as he's a rescue I wonder if he ended up semi feral for a while, I know there's feral cats down the dockyard nearby and they tolerate each other way better than house moggies so in his formative years he might have done a a couple of 'team building exercises', we got him when he was about 6 months. He really doesn't like it when he see's us walk away from the house, he gets quite distressed although he doesn't bat an eyelid if we drive off so I don't know if he was left somewhere. I genuinely think he's influenced our dogs, they're retrievers but the boy especially is a real mouse hunter, they used to sit enthralled watching the cat 'play with his food' when they were puppies, I wouldn't have thought meeces are natural prey for 35KG dugs. We've always had a couple of moggies but we're down to one, I'm not sure how practical it would be to introduce another one into the mix, cats take time to adjust and with a couple of daft dugs in that mix it would be fraught with peril. Any advice appreciated if anyone has been through something similar.

[woodsman1]

woke up this morning to a flat tyre on the wife's car, thought id try the jack and wheel brace that came with the car. the jack struggled to lift the car but the worst was the wheel brace didn't fit the wheel nuts glad we wasn't miles from home so now the car is supplied with a spider and trolley jack lesson 1 never trust what you think came with the car lesson 2 chuck away the tiny car jack, lesson 3 next time let the wife change the wheel

[Jan Smits]

While the occasional brave cat may have a go I usually figure they're too fearty and the rats are best left to dogs.

Deeps: dunno, maybe ask the cat home folks when you go

I didn't get to the rat scene yet, there was a funny dog attack in the last episode I saw, sort of back of the head shot with ferocious growling, then you see its face and it's so cute just looking for its treat for sitting so nicely for so long. Heh, 70s telly. Love it.

[Deeps]

While the occasional brave cat may have a go I usually figure they're too fearty and the rats are best left to dogs.

Deeps: dunno, maybe ask the cat home folks when you go

I didn't get to the rat scene yet, there was a funny dog attack in the last episode I saw, sort of back of the head shot with ferocious growling, then you see its face and it's so cute just looking for its treat for sitting so nicely for so long. Heh, 70s telly. Love it.

Like I said, its been a few years but I've got it in my head that there were 5 or 6 assorted mutts and only a couple of them were of a decent size. I think the people were sat in a van with the 'hell hounds' growling away (well, dubbed on) as they were sat outside it, I've maybe exaggerated it to myself with the passage of time.

I can honestly say that our wee lad has done for a couple of rats, I was away for the first one but a neighbour had to get rid of the evidence because Her Maj wasn't up to it. The second, I was home for and I had to put it out of its misery because it was being used as a plaything. I was quite surprised myself, as I say, he's not a 'tough' cat, I've had a farm cat who was fearless and even when he was 17, he ruled our suburban scene. I got him from my brother when he moved house (and wifes), he was one of a pair of brothers and he was second fiddle, the pair of them were lethal, they even brought back a hare one time, through an open window apparently. I'm guessing they were all 'Serengeti' and one stalked the prey onto the other, cats can be pretty effective if they've done the right courses.

[gadgetguy]

Yesterday I stacked the eight cube of logs that were delivered and today I'm patching up the coal bunker for the 700kg of coal getting delivered tomorrow. That's us toasty for this winter.

[ukpreppergrrl]

I didn't get to the rat scene yet, there was a funny dog attack in the last episode I saw, sort of back of the head shot with ferocious growling, then you see its face and it's so cute just looking for its treat for sitting so nicely for so long. Heh, 70s telly. Love it.

I think the killer rats are in the second series. The rat special effects are quite reminiscent of The Trouble With Tribbles (Star Trek reference ). As you say, 70s telly! In many ways, though, I prefer it to today's ultra-realistic (aka "needlessly gory") CGI!!

Back on subject...I've booked to have a clay pigeon shooting lesson to introduce me shotguns.