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by WomanOfTheWoods
Sun Jul 10, 2022 2:51 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9
Replies: 2108
Views: 113256

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

It's past 3.30pm and a Sunday,, and Summer. So I've a big glass of wine with ice cold mineral water. I feel I need some excuse to drink wine during the day! I just can't get rid of the Scottish Presbytarian work ethic thing despite never having been a Presbytarian :roll: I've all the windows wide o...
by WomanOfTheWoods
Sun Jul 10, 2022 2:50 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9
Replies: 2108
Views: 113256

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

It's past 3.30pm and a Sunday,, and Summer. So I've a big glass of wine with ice cold mineral water. I feel I need some excuse to drink wine during the day! I just can't get rid of the Scottish Presbytarian work ethic thing despite never having been a Presytarian :roll: I've all the windows wide ope...
by WomanOfTheWoods
Sun Jul 10, 2022 11:51 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9
Replies: 2108
Views: 113256

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

Today up on the North hill overlooking the sea it's a beautiful very sunny 16 degrees. And my family inland near Dufftown are basking at 22 degrees. We are having a Northern Heat Wave :D :D :D A rare event and a grand reason to down tools. Now all you folks in the South will be laughing at us weakli...
by WomanOfTheWoods
Fri Jul 08, 2022 8:36 pm
Forum: Homes and Retreats
Topic: Will More People Want To Live Off Grid,,,, and How Does this Sound
Replies: 10
Views: 836

Re: Will More People Want To Live Off Grid,,,, and How Does this Sound

Off grid- I think- has more than one facet. It can be the full- on Croft/ small holding etc. That’s great, and 25 years or so ago I could have gone for it. Indeed , I had an acre of land I rented in the village. I had a couple of huge polytunnels, couple of dozen fowls, and my beloved goats. It was...
by WomanOfTheWoods
Thu Jul 07, 2022 10:16 pm
Forum: Homes and Retreats
Topic: Will More People Want To Live Off Grid,,,, and How Does this Sound
Replies: 10
Views: 836

Re: Will More People Want To Live Off Grid,,,, and How Does this Sound

Your home sounds beautiful! We have planned to move to Scotland to a small place with a bit of land for the last couple of years, family issues have got in the way and husband is now blowing hot and cold about the idea as in we need to do this and that to the house to be able to sell it for a decen...
by WomanOfTheWoods
Thu Jul 07, 2022 10:10 pm
Forum: Homes and Retreats
Topic: Will More People Want To Live Off Grid,,,, and How Does this Sound
Replies: 10
Views: 836

Re: Will More People Want To Live Off Grid,,,, and How Does this Sound

WOTW - I may be singing to the choir here but have at "woofing" https://wwoof.org.uk/wwoofer/register A mate of mine has a permaculture farm here in aberdeenshire and uses a lot of people from them. They work in exchange for food, digs & experience/education. Personally I am fundament...
by WomanOfTheWoods
Thu Jul 07, 2022 10:39 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9
Replies: 2108
Views: 113256

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

It all depends on what one means by "work" Jansman. For me, work is a beautiful creative process which just so happens to pay well. And in times of uncertainty it makes sense for me to work more and earn more. For many people work is a grind. Something they feel they haveto do to keep a ro...
by WomanOfTheWoods
Wed Jul 06, 2022 4:48 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Wheat storage
Replies: 7
Views: 288

Re: Wheat storage

Check out The Provident Prepper on Youtube. He's cooking with wheat that's 31 years old and it hasn't killed him. He says the bread is delicious. :shock:
by WomanOfTheWoods
Wed Jul 06, 2022 4:43 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9
Replies: 2108
Views: 113256

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

From today, I'm increasing my work by an extra 21 hours per week. This isn't something I thought I would do and I already work full time. I had hoped to work on lots of outdoor projects on the croft during the Summer. I would far prefer to be outside. But, needs must, the devil drives. Now is the ti...
by WomanOfTheWoods
Wed Jul 06, 2022 3:34 pm
Forum: Homes and Retreats
Topic: Oooooo I Want This
Replies: 15
Views: 717

Re: Oooooo I Want This

diamond lil wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 3:36 pm You need family arzosah xxx stay there! :mrgreen:
That's why I moved back to the North diamond lil.
But Ireland was a huge temptation. The climate, the land, the houses.