That is about right. I have a shoe rack, but it stops the front door opening fully. It's gonna have to do.ForgeCorvus wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 5:57 pmJunkman good, Gardener useless, shoe cupboard meh.... That about right?Frnc wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 8:02 am Had a delivery of plants yesterday. Hope they don't get nicked. They are all in pots in the front garden. Most will probably stay in pots. Some might get put in the ground eventually. My tree is doing great.
Built a flat pack shoe cupboard and it is useless. Supposed to hold 12 pairs. Holds 4-5 pairs of trainers.
Just done three Time Machine backups. Only takes about 5 minutes for each one. This updates a backup of my whole computer. Of course important stuff is also in iCloud.
Told my gardener I no longer need gardening. Not only did he chop down all the bottom half of my honeysuckle, he mixed plastic and metal with the green waste, so I had to sort five large bags. Got two in the green bin. Got the rest collected with some other junk. Had a load of rubbish collected. Fully licensed. Only charged me £20.
We recently got a double decker shoe cupboard from wayfare..... It holds Herselfs shoes
What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Had uncooked porridge for breakfast. I used to have it as a kid sometimes. Quaker oats work best as they are soft. Add whole milk and a bit of sweetener, I used stevia. It's not bad. In a grid down it would be ok, you could use dried milk. Oats take up less room than cornflakes or rice pops and are more nutritious.
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Not exactly prepping, but got to keep the place decent. Repotted a new bamboo that's already tall, into an old terracotta pot. It will probably stay in that permanently.
Put up a new picture near the front door.
Honeysuckle is 99% dead, but there are a couple of bits that have survived, so hopefully they will grow. The rest, I'll thin out with pruning shears.
Put up a new picture near the front door.
Honeysuckle is 99% dead, but there are a couple of bits that have survived, so hopefully they will grow. The rest, I'll thin out with pruning shears.
-
Yorkshire Andy
- Posts: 9888
- Joined: Thu Oct 03, 2013 4:06 pm
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Picked up 5x rubber half masks in home bargains £2.99 each
Small medium so not a good fit on me but teenagers / smaller people ideal ...
Filters in them alone are £17 at screwfix.com
P3 so top level filtration virus / bacteria/ radioactive dust / asbestos
Small medium so not a good fit on me but teenagers / smaller people ideal ...
Filters in them alone are £17 at screwfix.com
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong 
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Ordered another Feuerhand 276 from a prepper site mentioned on here recently and saved myself £7 compared to my last purchase, plus delivery was almost free with the Easter discount. Spent an extra few £ on my fortnightly top up food shops to buy a few extra tins for the stores. Like many others I have been trying to keep my food shops as low cost as possible for a while, but not having a few bits to put aside is making me twitchy.
Growing old disgracefully!
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Just had a prep meal. Spice Tailor Rustic Rogan Josh. Pre-cooked some cauliflower and carrots, then added them to the mix. This will do two meals. Long life naan bread. Total cost only just over £2 meal. I give it 10/10. Delish! NB the naans only have about 3 months shelf life. Curry has a year or two. You don't imagine long life being this good, but it is. You get a packet of real whole spices seeds, leaves and pods to fry at the start. Then a packet of sauce and a packet of mashed cashew nuts. Low oxalate diet on hold for two days.
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
A portion of my work is garden maintenance and it seems quite common to find inappropriate things in the garden waste bin. Some people seem to think if a thing is in the garden it can go in the bin. Dead pot plants in plastic pots seems to be the most common along with cellophane and even garden ornaments. The flip side of this is that because we pay for the garden waste bin some people will put theirs in the general waste bin.Frnc wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 8:02 am Told my gardener I no longer need gardening. Not only did he chop down all the bottom half of my honeysuckle, he mixed plastic and metal with the green waste, so I had to sort five large bags. Got two in the green bin. Got the rest collected with some other junk. Had a load of rubbish collected. Fully licensed. Only charged me £20.
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Delivered today, two meals missing not a happy chappy but I'll give the bloke the benefit as he just got back off holiday. Left him a message so will see what happens, never had problems in the last 3 years with him so.
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Great customer service, replied, apologised and sending them out on Tuesday no questions asked.
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Ordered a printout of my evacuation plan. Saves me buying a colour ink cartridge. Cost about 50p a page plus postage. It's also a list of what's where, with some stuff rotated for winter and summer. Of course I might not have time to use it, but if I had time, obviously I would. A lot of it is obvious stuff, but you could forget. Airline pilots have checklists for takeoff, landing, and various emergencies.