What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

[GillyBee]

Maybe time to think about emergency alternatives to Calpol for if shortages continue and confirm they are safe with a friendly pharmacist?

For example: I can recall being a little lass when taken ill at my grandmother's. No child medicine in the house. I was fed half a crushed Disprin mixed into a spoonful of jam which was a novel treatment to my little self. This was the solution of someone born in 1900 so I am not advocating that anyone copies her but it did make me think.

1 adult paracetamol tablet is 500mg while Calpol is 120mg/5ml. So if a child is big enough for 2 teaspoons of Calpol, it would be the same as 1/2 of one crushed adult tablet. A pharmacist would be able to advise on whether or not this would be safe to use in the event of a no Calpol emergency and the knowledge might be a good prep.

[Nurseandy]

Went back to my new best gumtree friend and cleared out his coal bunker, maybe 4 hundredweight (four and a half dustbins full) for £55. That'll do me. Used the wife's car today after I'd dropped her off at the dentist, never noticed how clean it is (was) inside before.........

[Rusty74]

called into lidel on way home from work for a few bits and noticed as i walked in packs of 100 tealights for £3.99 so chucked a bag in the trolly,also called at a local farm shop from some pickling onions and vinegar so that's my job tonight getting them ready

[Frnc]

You just reminded me.
My lodgers know I'm a bit of a prepper. They've never taken the P, but not shown much interest. Spoke to one today about the corded landline I bought, and possibility of power cuts. Says he has a torch and some tea lights. So lodger 2's actually started prepping! A bit, anyway.

Looking at buying some monster door hangers so I can hang even more stuff on my bedroom door, or organise it better. Currently on one hook I have walking trousers with belt AND braces, winter trousers with belt and heavy duty braces, wind jacket, waterproof jacket with waterproof phone (clear) drybag, insulated jacket with hat and gloves in pockets, and a fleece. The hook is stong, but it's getting a bit crowded.

Researched more edible wild plants. 16 out of the 35 most commonly observed plants in the UK are are edible. Some of them the whole plant, some just one part. Included is oak because people do crush acorns and leach the tannins out, either through boiling or in lots of cold water (can take days and many water changes, some people put a bag in a stream). Important detail is never put hot acorns in cold water, as that binds the tannins.

[jansman]

After a run of very unusual illness for me, I am pretty much back into prepping. Picked up some fresh petrol today for the chainsaw. Whilst ill ,I was glad firewood was split and stacked for the next two years - well ten days sickness felt that long to me!

Picked up a load of scaffold netting to cover perennial cabbages. More .410 and 12 bore ammunition,an .22 air rifle slugs too. When or if the SHTF there will be a way to nail meat wildly ,on top of the domestic fowls and rabbits.I spent last year stocking up on fishing hooks and line to last a literal lifetime. This week I have to sort more treble hooks and 15lb mainline for pike fishing. Currently I have enough for the next ten years,but I need to double that.

I have 6 months of rabbit and fowl concentrate feed.It doesn’t last forever,so as it goes on,it will be kept so. We can ( if needed) feed with a 50/50 concentrate and ‘wartime ‘ feed . My rooftop is fine.30 years ago it was replaced with local slate. Unfortunately it is a ‘local’ sided slate. I have purchased a 100 slates at the right size for repair if needed. You never know.

Whilst poorly I got online and picked up another set of chimney/ drain rods and TWO more chimney brushes. The one I have will last another ten years easily,but I am thinking forwardly, as my girls may come back here to live. Fortunately, the new Son- In - Law is a local village lad,who can fish and shoot. Practical chap,and he is really a good member to The Family. He is a Farrier by trade ,so basically a blacksmith. Damned good welder too. Good shot too.

[Yorkshire Andy]

, the new Son- In - Law is a local village lad,who can fish and shoot. Practical chap,and he is really a good member to The Family. He is a Farrier by trade ,so basically a blacksmith. Damned good welder too. Good shot too.

Take it you approve of this one .

You don't realise how handy the ability to work with metal is, I class my self as DIY level but on seeing the welding of a engineer with his "welding ticket" from collage at work I upgraded my self to "DIY engineer" good god everywhere he welded it snapped it might have looked neat but there always no penetrating of the steel my welds are not pretty but they hold the dark art is thin metal be it car skin or small stuff last week little miss came home with her bike basket which had snapped of its mount... It's still on a week later

[jansman]

, the new Son- In - Law is a local village lad,who can fish and shoot. Practical chap,and he is really a good member to The Family. He is a Farrier by trade ,so basically a blacksmith. Damned good welder too. Good shot too.

Take it you approve of this one .

You don't realise how handy the ability to work with metal is, I class my self as DIY level but on seeing the welding of a engineer with his "welding ticket" from collage at work I upgraded my self to "DIY engineer" good god everywhere he welded it snapped it might have looked neat but there always no penetrating of the steel my welds are not pretty but they hold the dark art is thin metal be it car skin or small stuff last week little miss came home with her bike basket which had snapped of its mount... It's still on a week later

He’s a smashing lad My wife commented that for a lad in his early 30’s he is an unusual country chap. Turns out that I was at school with his dad, who happens to be a mechanic! Us two old boys have had a pint and a chat about the coming wedding! We both keep fowls too, so that’s handy for us.

[Yorkshire Andy]

, the new Son- In - Law is a local village lad,who can fish and shoot. Practical chap,and he is really a good member to The Family. He is a Farrier by trade ,so basically a blacksmith. Damned good welder too. Good shot too.

Take it you approve of this one .

You don't realise how handy the ability to work with metal is, I class my self as DIY level but on seeing the welding of a engineer with his "welding ticket" from collage at work I upgraded my self to "DIY engineer" good god everywhere he welded it snapped it might have looked neat but there always no penetrating of the steel my welds are not pretty but they hold the dark art is thin metal be it car skin or small stuff last week little miss came home with her bike basket which had snapped of its mount... It's still on a week later

He’s a smashing lad My wife commented that for a lad in his early 30’s he is an unusual country chap. Turns out that I was at school with his dad, who happens to be a mechanic! Us two old boys have had a pint and a chat about the coming wedding! We both keep fowls too, so that’s handy for us.

AHH someone to do that task you avoid... Fixing the car



Had a wet run of the hose lock porta shower tonight I take exception to the made in the UK branding it was in more bits than an airfix kit only bits that were assembled were the pump unit and the shower head itself.. .

Still. . Once assembled suppose it was assembled in Yorkshire by yours truly it's almost as bad as self service tills if I wanted to work for hose lock or Tesco I'd put a CV in

Filled with warm water .. note to self needs to be a bit hotter than comfortable shower temperature. As it soon cools in the tank / pipe / fine spray....

Anyway 5l was enough for me to have a good scrub and head / bit of hair wash it could do with a trigger lock but suppose it stops wasting water

Pumping is needed throughout first 1/4 or soo needs more pumping as there's not much air capacity till the water level drops

Water soon cools in the pipe whilst hair washing/ soaping up

But it works I got the grime from work off me

It's now stashed under the bed where it's safe from frost ....

[deckard]

One thing I've always wanted to try my hand at is welding. Just had to shell out a couple of hundred for welding on the wife's car and would love to have been able to have a go myself, I'm fine bolting things in and out, or cutting and tapping to fix things but welding well needs a good bit of practice before jumping in.

Was tempted to buy an arc welder the other week (before I noticed the rotten sills on my wife's car) but decided better of it.

[Yorkshire Andy]

One thing I've always wanted to try my hand at is welding. Just had to shell out a couple of hundred for welding on the wife's car and would love to have been able to have a go myself, I'm fine bolting things in and out, or cutting and tapping to fix things but welding well needs a good bit of practice before jumping in.

Was tempted to buy an arc welder the other week (before I noticed the rotten sills on my wife's car) but decided better of it.

You dodged a lot of agro doing that I tried that a few years ago even with a modern esab (good brand) arc inverter dc welder avd some fine rods I just made the hole bigger resorted to buying a basic Sealy mig a big bottle of gas and some 0.6mm wire... Bit of practice and off I went... It passed two Mots before we sold it on

It cost then about £300 for welder / gas / wire / LCD mask.....

It paid for itself on the Punto. Then the dewoo matiz was effectively a free repair (Punto garage quoted £400 ...) But on the matiz I run out of co2/ar gas on a Sunday nowhere open for gas..... Well I had a co2 extinguisher...

And I've uploaded the pictures back to front