What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

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Yorkshire Andy wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:51 pm Screenshot_20230616-225035.png

Just under £30 for 100 batteries :mrgreen:
Spot on that ! If I pick that deal up today it will sort out the stock for Winter. Thanks.
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jansman wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:39 am
Yorkshire Andy wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:51 pm Screenshot_20230616-225035.png

Just under £30 for 100 batteries :mrgreen:
Spot on that ! If I pick that deal up today it will sort out the stock for Winter. Thanks.

Batteries came from here

https://www.batterystation.co.uk/


Used them a few times order that amount they seem to come next day even with the cheapest postage option guessing the weight means it's cheaper to use the couriers over royal mail
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Yorkshire Andy wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 6:01 am
jansman wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:39 am
Yorkshire Andy wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:51 pm Screenshot_20230616-225035.png

Just under £30 for 100 batteries :mrgreen:
Spot on that ! If I pick that deal up today it will sort out the stock for Winter. Thanks.

Batteries came from here

https://www.batterystation.co.uk/


Used them a few times order that amount they seem to come next day even with the cheapest postage option guessing the weight means it's cheaper to use the couriers over royal mail
That’ll do me. :D
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Robert Frost.

Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.

Me.
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Well operation stock up for winter has begun :lol:

On top of the jump pack and 50 ea AA and AAA

2xd cell batteries have gone up 50p per pack :o grabbed a pack today I use them for a few things so always keep a stock in

Another litre of lamp oil,

Found some little power banks in home bargains for 99p only good for micro usb or lightning but still 99p rechargeable too the little usb to micro is worth the price...



Got some fly strips for the kitchen door

Some more car shampoo it was covered in tree sap/ honeydew so got a good hot pressure wash a good soap and a scrub
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong ;)

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We have weather moving in it appears. So today,adaptability! I have jobs to do in the workshop. The first is most important- sort of prepping,as it is towards my health care - sorting fishing kit for tomorrow! :lol: I shall make the most of my favourite sport whilst possible. Fixing up a tackle trolley for my ten minute walk to the river. I do like a project. As I am not allowed to drive now,nor recommended to ride a bike,this will do the job. And all made for nowt!
After that I have to service my chainsaws. It sounds intense,but it is a simple task,but most important. At this point,when logs/ firewood come in,they are whacked and stacked immediately. Up until falling unwell,I reckon I had the best part of a full Winters worth of firewood unprocessed. That won’t happen now,although the lads are tending towards sorting it for me. And there’s a valuable lesson. Friends. Worth more than any money.Good lads all of them.
Whilst out shopping yesterday,I picked up replacement consumables for bench work. I’ll get that put into relevant containers today too.I can’t be doing with a job being needed to be done and nothing to do it with! One particular purchase was a simple one : 13 amp fuses. I was on my last one. Enough there now to last forever - and I mean forever.
More tea now,and sort a grocery delivery for mid week. Grocery shopping is not what we physically do when Mrs J is at work.
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Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.

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jansman wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:39 am
Yorkshire Andy wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:51 pm Screenshot_20230616-225035.png

Just under £30 for 100 batteries :mrgreen:
Spot on that ! If I pick that deal up today it will sort out the stock for Winter. Thanks.
Do you guys actually USE that quantity of AA cells? Cripes.
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Yorkshire Andy wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:40 pm
Found some little power banks in home bargains for 99p only good for micro usb or lightning but still 99p rechargeable too the little usb to micro is worth the price...
Power bank for a quid !!!!! I'm on me way. What can you buy for a quid?
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Anyone heavily into solar or domestic wind, check out residential vanadium flow batteries. Safer than lithium, 15,000 cycle, 25 year life, can fully discharge. Upfront costs a bit but over 25 years is cheap. I think these are quite new (though they were invented decades ago), they are being developed for national grids, and are starting to rival pumped hydro for storage, but a few companies are now making domestic models. Further info on the climate thread.
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Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

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jennyjj01 wrote: Sun Jun 18, 2023 9:03 am
jansman wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:39 am
Yorkshire Andy wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:51 pm Screenshot_20230616-225035.png

Just under £30 for 100 batteries :mrgreen:
Spot on that ! If I pick that deal up today it will sort out the stock for Winter. Thanks.
Do you guys actually USE that quantity of AA cells? Cripes.
Yeah! I have batteries ( disposable) with use by 2030. So lots of time for using stock. And better to have them now than when the lights go out and all the sheep run for them! Storage,storage,storage!

Changed a battery in a clock this morning,and those in my laser spirit level needed it too. So does my digital fishing weight scale .Every longest day and shortest day all the smoke and monoxide alarms are changed regardless. Our approach lighting is a big plus too. In fact at night on our landing and bathroom we rely on our battery lighting. It’s very efficient,always there( especially in emergency) and is plenty bright enough. The mains lighting is too harsh during a trip to the loo !
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.

Me.
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Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

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jennyjj01 wrote: Sun Jun 18, 2023 9:03 am
jansman wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:39 am
Yorkshire Andy wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:51 pm Screenshot_20230616-225035.png

Just under £30 for 100 batteries :mrgreen:
Spot on that ! If I pick that deal up today it will sort out the stock for Winter. Thanks.
Do you guys actually USE that quantity of AA cells? Cripes.
I've got kids :lol: from digital cameras to motorised toys to bike lights to torches smoke alarms ;)
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong ;)

Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine