What preps are you doing this week? part 2.

[junmist]

brought a new touch BUT made sure this time that it was run by battery's that I already had

[Briggs 2.0]

Putting house up for sale with a view to moving somewhere even more remote with more edible produce potential.

[Deeps]

Putting house up for sale with a view to moving somewhere even more remote with more edible produce potential.

I'm 'well jel', we talked about it a good few years back and Her Maj seemed up for it in theory, when I started the ball rolling she put the kibosh on it. Still a bit of a fantasy for me, we're very suburban at the moment but for a non prepper situation its pretty perfect. Handy for the supermarkets too.

[Brambles]

Well, believe it or not, I gave up a preppers paradise a few years ago. It was off the beaten track, on the outskirts of a small hamlet, no mains sewage, open fireplaces, huge garden, surrounded by farmland and woods. Perfect you might think.....
It also leaked heat heat like a seive, the septic tank never worked properly and needed emptying twice a year, I had to import topsoil to make a veg garden, no buses and no shops or facilities within 3 miles and even worse, no pub!
I am relieved to get back to the edge of civilisation with all the associated amenities. For me, I reached an age where those ameneties, public teansport and accessible healthcare became more important than having room for a few chooks and no near neighbours.
Since I moved here, I'm at least £1500 a year better off, my health is better and I grow more on my allotment than I ever did in the garden and I have a job.

Just saying, sometimes what you think may be the perfect life isn't necessarily right at a point in time.

[Deeps]

Well, believe it or not, I gave up a preppers paradise a few years ago. It was off the beaten track, on the outskirts of a small hamlet, no mains sewage, open fireplaces, huge garden, surrounded by farmland and woods. Perfect you might think.....
It also leaked heat heat like a seive, the septic tank never worked properly and needed emptying twice a year, I had to import topsoil to make a veg garden, no buses and no shops or facilities within 3 miles and even worse, no pub!
I am relieved to get back to the edge of civilisation with all the associated amenities. For me, I reached an age where those ameneties, public teansport and accessible healthcare became more important than having room for a few chooks and no near neighbours.
Since I moved here, I'm at least £1500 a year better off, my health is better and I grow more on my allotment than I ever did in the garden and I have a job.

Just saying, sometimes what you think may be the perfect life isn't necessarily right at a point in time.

You make a very good point Brambles, the idyll might not be what you fantasise it is, especially the lack of a boozer. The aging process is a bit of a bugger too, my various 'war wounds' are catching up with me, arthritic elbow and dodgy ribs are making themselves known to me sometimes. I suppose if money isn't an issue then problems can be overcome but for most of us money is a governing factor in our lives.

I've got a nice toasty new(ish) build that's designed for modern living, we've got more bogs than people in our house, not exactly how I grew up, its great but we've got neighbours, absolutely nothing wrong with them but my escape fantasy involves no neighbours and enough land to grow the veg and keep the chooks, I know it probably won't happen though and that's fine, life's pretty sweet and I guess you can't always get everything you want. Doesn't stop you dreaming though.

[Brambles]

Well, believe it or not, I gave up a preppers paradise a few years ago. It was off the beaten track, on the outskirts of a small hamlet, no mains sewage, open fireplaces, huge garden, surrounded by farmland and woods. Perfect you might think.....
It also leaked heat heat like a seive, the septic tank never worked properly and needed emptying twice a year, I had to import topsoil to make a veg garden, no buses and no shops or facilities within 3 miles and even worse, no pub!
I am relieved to get back to the edge of civilisation with all the associated amenities. For me, I reached an age where those ameneties, public teansport and accessible healthcare became more important than having room for a few chooks and no near neighbours.
Since I moved here, I'm at least £1500 a year better off, my health is better and I grow more on my allotment than I ever did in the garden and I have a job.

Just saying, sometimes what you think may be the perfect life isn't necessarily right at a point in time.

You make a very good point Brambles, the idyll might not be what you fantasise it is, especially the lack of a boozer. The aging process is a bit of a bugger too, my various 'war wounds' are catching up with me, arthritic elbow and dodgy ribs are making themselves known to me sometimes. I suppose if money isn't an issue then problems can be overcome but for most of us money is a governing factor in our lives.

I've got a nice toasty new(ish) build that's designed for modern living, we've got more bogs than people in our house, not exactly how I grew up, its great but we've got neighbours, absolutely nothing wrong with them but my escape fantasy involves no neighbours and enough land to grow the veg and keep the chooks, I know it probably won't happen though and that's fine, life's pretty sweet and I guess you can't always get everything you want. Doesn't stop you dreaming though.

No it doesn't. My dream is a few acres of mainly woodland with river frontage and access to the sea and ameneties by boat. Will It ever happen? Definitely not, but it's a nice fantasy.

[Arzosah]

I'd love my own woodland! I won't get to the idealised prepping retreat unless my premium bond comes up, and even then it won't be the isolated variety, I'm too old for that to work for me. But detached, with a brick garage and brick garden walls, would suit me very well

Preps right now ... working hard on learning how to harvest stuff from my garden, and foraging fruit too (lots of cherries round here, I used my little cherry stoner for the first time yesterday!) ... upping the food stocks too, from the supermarkets, and making sure I got the best deal (Asda, in a £1 delivery timeslot) ... and starting to rejig my online presence to up my game on 2nd and 3rd income streams (3rd isn't actually working yet, and 2nd is pennies only, but I'm hopeful ).

[Decaff]

Went to farm shop and got cherries, strawberries, pineapples, donut peaches, carrots, onions and peppers, some frozen, some in the fridge and some on the dehydrator.

[DustyDog]

Dunno if this can be classed as prepping but, after not using it for a few years, have brought out my old compound bow, dusted off the arrows etc and started to shoot again, there have been many threads on using one for self defense etc, but i spose it cant do any harm having it and should TSHTF there are many rabbits etc around here for a bit of bunny boiling (or roasting).

On a more prepping not, upped my tins of food and looking at getting some plastic containers for dry food storage.

[CynicalSurvival]

Hey all, not posted on this thread for a while... On the above point about moving away from the remote 'ideal', I can identify with that - I have made a compromise, living in a large village with community around us, could do with a larger garden but it is close enough to wilderness and forage to make up for that. And it's affordable.

We have just had a woodburner installed which was a huge item on the wishlist for me - not cheap, but pretty much guaranteed heat with the option to cook and boil water if grid-based gas supplies ever fail. Also been stocking up on meds, and making arrangements to invest in a new bike.