What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

[jennyjj01]

[British Red]

Mrs J ,tripped over one of our terriers on Thursday night,and went face first into a door.I kid you not. She has broken her nose ,got eyes like a panda ,and bruising up her left side. Prepping tip: make sure you have plenty of painkillers in storage - I am glad we have!

The world will keep turning,I’m sure.

Oh God's she has my sympathies. I've busted my nose horribly in the past and it's not funny at all. I can highly recommend using a sinus rinse whilst it heals - it helps reduce swelling and wash out blood etc. No replacement for painkillers but it helped me

[Yorkshire Andy]

Sterimar spray

Today's chore was venture to the back of the cupboard under the stairs it was prepped a few years ago



for food storage but wound up like every cupboard and filled with the grown up name for poo.

Having a "soft" blackout night testing alternative lighting without scaring the kids the 11yo is doing ww2 at school so it's sinking in very rapidly about the Ukrainian situation the 4 yo is also uneasy about the war and the "German bombers"

[Arzosah]

jansman, so sorry to hear about your wife's broken nose! Such a sensitive area And yes to what the guys are suggesting, Sterimar is a really good sinus rinse. Co-codamol is fantastic too, natch.

[Arzosah]

I think in times like this we need to keep the head down and focus on our own wee patch of life, try and sort things for us and our families etc. If you start thinking in the wider term then its too worrying, and we can't help anyway.

I'm pretty upset at world events and struggling to ration my time watching the news. I don't know if it's selfish to consciously avoid being concerned at the terrible inhumanity of man, but what can we do? Not much point losing sleep and getting stress flare-ups, or hitting the bottle. To my mind, being a prepper is inherently selfish. We aspire to survive longer than our unprepared peers. It's a moral dilemma that can drive us nuts if we let it.

As Lil phrases it, focussing on the wee patch of our own life, when we can't help the larger picture, that's all we can do. And rationing our time watching the news is a very good idea - I'm struggling with that myself. I'm definitely keeping the live thread of a newspaper I quite like on one of my browser tabs, so I can check what I want to check, without gluing myself to the tv. Watching the tv about 3 times a day, or trying to.

It won't help the Ukrainians for us to wear ourselves out in that way, in any case. I can see why prepping might be thought to be selfish - I don't quite agree, in that I'm perfectly willing to share my goods and my knowledge to help my sister's kids survive. I'm working on a plotline for The Prepping Novel, if I ever get to write the dratted thing.

There's the motto of the environmental movement - think globally, act locally - yes. But thinking globally doesn't mean wallowing in the news, it's much savvier than that, exactly as you're implying. Stress flare-ups are *not* wanted.

[jansman]

Sterimar spray

Screenshot_20220226-205611.png



Today's chore was venture to the back of the cupboard under the stairs it was prepped a few years ago



for food storage but wound up like every cupboard and filled with the grown up name for poo.

IMG_20180511_191738940_2.jpg



Having a "soft" blackout night testing alternative lighting without scaring the kids the 11yo is doing ww2 at school so it's sinking in very rapidly about the Ukrainian situation the 4 yo is also uneasy about the war and the "German bombers"

The curriculum must be the same nationwide; my wife is a primary teacher,and has kids thinking we will suffer a WW2 blitz.I can remember when the NATO alllies went into Iraq and our ( then) young children were scared witless because of news reports.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Sterimar spray

Screenshot_20220226-205611.png



Today's chore was venture to the back of the cupboard under the stairs it was prepped a few years ago



for food storage but wound up like every cupboard and filled with the grown up name for poo.

IMG_20180511_191738940_2.jpg



Having a "soft" blackout night testing alternative lighting without scaring the kids the 11yo is doing ww2 at school so it's sinking in very rapidly about the Ukrainian situation the 4 yo is also uneasy about the war and the "German bombers"

The curriculum must be the same nationwide; my wife is a primary teacher,and has kids thinking we will suffer a WW2 blitz.I can remember when the NATO alllies went into Iraq and our ( then) young children were scared witless because of news reports.

I can remember pre gulf war 1 the RAF using this area as a training area as it's flat the warf at the other side of the river must have been a target or waypoint the tornadoes used to scream over the school on a very regular basis..

We've got through to the 4 yo that the German bombers are now on our team I mean who ever taught him the 10 German bombers in the air "football song" might have made a mistake school wasn't impressed it got him counting backwards though


Last night's lighting preps highlighted the China equivalent to the Phillips life lights don't last anywhere near as long as the Philips.. the Philips were still showing 3x power lights "full" after the China lights had shut down .. so much for the "at least 8 to 10 hours run time"

The only advantages are that the batteries are in the lamp heads so you can unplug it and place it anywhere at night .. and they have a PIR mode might be better on the traffic areas hallway and landing for example

[Le Mouse]

That is so true lil. Nothing we can do about the big stuff at all. I’ll be honest, right now I couldn’t give a flying **** about the rest of the world. My back is up to its usual tricks ,which is very debilitating,to say the least. More seriously though,Mrs J ,tripped over one of our terriers on Thursday night,and went face first into a door.I kid you not. She has broken her nose ,got eyes like a panda ,and bruising up her left side. Prepping tip: make sure you have plenty of painkillers in storage - I am glad we have!

The world will keep turning,I’m sure.

Get better soon the pair of you! Poor Mrs Jansman! My eyes are watering in solidarity!

[grenfell]

Just been and filled up 4x 25ltr Jerry cans with diesel. Just in case.

Been talking about this elsewhere. Our jerry cans are already full although ironically we have three vehicles none of which are currently on the road , one SORN , one undrivable and the other an mot fail but this didn't stop my wife asking if I'd kept the cans full.
Going back to buying fuel I've noticed longer than normal queues at the local petrol ststion . The question arose as to whether that is panic buying or buying shrewdly in the expectation that prices are going to jump upwards?

[grenfell]

We've got through to the 4 yo that the German bombers are now on our team I mean who ever taught him the 10 German bombers in the air "football song" might have made a mistake school wasn't impressed it got him counting backwards though

andy ,not heard that one , I assume that's along the lines of ten green bottles?
Best wishes to your wife Jansman. Dogs eh , I was at a customer's house yesterday and the dog decided to sleep on the little stairs between the hall and living room. They seem to have a knack of being awkward at times.