ojiu0u4 wrote:well in part it provides an interesting wrapper for the typical health based New year resolutions about smoking drinking diet and exercise
And secondarily, despite being long term smoker and pub goer, that both tobacco and alcohol are excluded from all my personal prep strategy.... I have various sterilization methods in first aid kit and lots of chocolate, coffee and sugar for trade none of which I eat. I don't really see it being practical or cost effective to hold 90x £8 for just three months smokes let alone any alcohol on top, for both that could be over 1400, so expensive and bulky and not really providing a positive impact. I figure in any short event out to three months I simply suck it up and quit, and in any long term shtf won't have enough anyway so it's easier to quit and not try to feed the nicotine monster. I can see they could have some trading value shtf, but figure luxuries like choclate dried fruit coffee sugar and multi vitamins may provide more bang for my buck in prep investment down stream plus are less weighty and bulky.
So that is why I have deliberately not stocked up on smokes and beer because I would not be doing that normally.
You have just reminded me one of the many reasons I am a non smoker these days. Eight quid a day on burning bracken...... scary! And as I have been off beer for 11 years, it really scared me how much a pint now costs at a wetherspoons. £3 for a cheap one! That would mean that a session could have set me back near £60 at the rate I used to get through it in a night.
Keep at the new program man.
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Yorkshire Andy wrote:I thought distilled water was toxic as in it stripped the body of minerals and salts?
I don't really see how that can happen, or indeed what is it about tap water or bottled water that can reverse the damage done by water in its pure state with all its bacteria and chemicals.
Its water. The stuff we are made of and its pure.
People say all manner of things and there is plenty of bad science that we all seem to have accepted as being accepted normal science from what i can see.
If I use the machine every day and my bones crumble and I turn into a blob I will be happy to document the process on this forum
Is the issue that you remove beneficial minerals as well as the nasty stuff? I guess, if you are getting all of your vits and minerals through a balanced diet it would not be an issue, whereas it maybe more of an issue for people who don't eat very well.
Hasty
Yep, thats the thinking. These days as a "prep" or whateveryouwanttocallit, I am having a lot of healthy vegetables. I aint perfect with my diet, but I am doing better than I used to and I feel much better as a result. The thinking is that if I look after my body more thats one less thing to go belly up and I sure don't feel depressed this winter unlike winters gone past. Healthy foods are.... well..... good for you and it shows it in the energy, clarity of thought and general results.
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nickdutch wrote:it really scared me how much a pint now costs at a wetherspoons. £3 for a cheap one! That would mean that a session could have set me back near £60 at the rate I used to get through it in a night
£60 , that would be 20 pints at £3 a pint! I rarely have more than a couple , six and I'm likely to be knelt at the toilet with very little recollection of the night. I don't know wether to compliment you on your obviously very resilient metabolism or on ability to kick such a habit.
Picked up a prefabricated chicken house/run today. I normally build my own housing, but tbh, I don't have the time and inclination. The cost of building it myself would have exceeded the cost of the prefab.
Just finished reading 'Square Foot Gardening' by Mel Bartholemew. I have set up two square foot beds (two more) as the results into experimental one were rather impressive last year. As there are only two of us here most of the time now these beds will supply us with a variety of veg. without too much glut.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Recently acquired a few acres of 6 year old woodland, very wet and swampy, but its out of the way, so have spent this week building a track into it, weather permitting that is.
Just started waterproofing some of my outdoor clothes and walking boots ready for the
Hills hopefully snow too. Checked All my hill walking gear first aid and safety gear.
BOB next on the list.
