What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

[steptoe]

I just feel that everybody would be looking at me, you know? - wondering what was wrong with my legs etc. The main prob is arthritis and ME. I get so tired I just need to sit down right now and because I can't really sit on the pavement, I stay at home and send the husband to the shop instead

Honest lil we have all been there , you get in that chair and start whizzing you will wonder why you waited . the wife and i have 2 and we keep saying on a quiet evening we are goignto go to sainsburys and have a race lol can you see it on the news lol.

Honest you do feel like poeple are looking at you but thye are not , my worst was when i was in a wheel chair and the wife was psuhing round down london when i was in queens square hospital people us to tal kto her over me like awww it must be hard for you whats wrong with him and then you would get this voice go i am in a wheelchair not fing deaf and dumb

I kid you not one major hotel that we went to book the wife in to stay while i was in hospital the staff spoke to her over me like oh would he like a drink or anything i replied yes and if you throw a stick and whistle i will roll over and you can rub my tummy , i will say they did givethe wife 2 free nights stay with full english brekkie and she was so worried about me she could not eat it came in telling me all the nice stuff in the breakfast line up now bare in mind the food in the hospital was evil i mean terrible , i nearly got off the ebd and kicked her in the backside lol

[GillyBee]

Lil: I think the electric wheelchair would get less stares than sitting on the pavement . So far Mr GB been OK with just a shooting stick to perch on but I can see that if things go downhill, he would end up in the wheelchair/scooter world. Better that, than stuck at home being bored.

[Frnc]

Wasted hours trying to get Apple Numbers to update/sync with iCloud. I use it a lot for prep stuff. Eventually I cracked it, in two stages. Quitting my VPN and deselecting Numbers in Icloud Drive in Settings. First time it uploaded to iCloud and made an archive folder. Second time it downloaded back from iCloud. At one point I also signed out of iCloud, and that's when the Archive folder was created.

In the past a reboot worked, but that wasn't working. Anyway, now I have an archive folder as a backup, which is cool.

[jansman]

As much my energy allows right now , I am cutting firewood like a machine.Got stacks. I’m getting close to completing that now. I don’t want to be doing it later this year,and certainly not come Autumn, as I may not be up to it to be frank. My garden is organised and pretty maintenance free too now. Beds with perennial onions,artichokes,cabbages,Good King Henry spinach. fruit trees and bushes are there,so all that will grow. Done. The only sowing will be squashes ,a few tomatoes ( Mrs J has asked ) and one bed with runner beans. It’s all surrounded by weed suppression. All pots and containers have been dumped. Too much work is that!

Workshop cleared of rubbish now. The lads can help themselves easily to use kit,benches and fixings. I have lots of fixings.

The main job this week now is dismantling the hen house. It’s a good bit of kit,but it won’t get moved out,as the access is not wide enough for donation to a hen owner. It’ll just be smashed and shoved in a woodpile!

[diamond lil]

Shed coming on wednesday. Nearly killed meself helping husband to lift heavy ceramic planters out of the way. Hellish crippling pain in back so I won't be trying that one again. Need to get the sons down here a bit more to help us I think.

[Ara]

Ordered a greenhouse today despite there still being snow on the ground. It will be delivered in a few weeks to give us time to prepare the base. I bet the base isn't ready in time as we take a loooooong time to do anything. Nothing changes there, it took us ages to do things when we were both in the prime of health.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Shed coming on wednesday. Nearly killed meself helping husband to lift heavy ceramic planters out of the way. Hellish crippling pain in back so I won't be trying that one again. Need to get the sons down here a bit more to help us I think.

If the guys coming to erect it are ok a big steaming mug of tea and some good biscuits they will move a few planters especially if you turn on the old lady charm

[Rusty74]

more for camping than prepping,though it can be used for prepping but bought myself a new meths burning stove and two spare ferro rods(was buy one get one free in the mountain warehouse shop)

[Kiwififer]

Ignore, I’ve posted this before. It was just a question about sleeping bags

[diamond lil]

If the guys coming to erect it are ok a big steaming mug of tea and some good biscuits they will move a few planters especially if you turn on the old lady charm

Hmm. I dont think I'm that kind of old lady. More yer batty as a nutcake OL really