What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

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Done most of my winter rotation. Clothes on the prep room rack I might want for a quick exit. Most of it stays there all year now anyway, but I brought the winter stuff to the front, as nights are getting colder. Also a couple of items get switched from my Emergency Grab Bag.
Charging my bike lights.
Sorted my bike wear. It's still shorts weather, but my short finger gloves and summer skull caps went into the wash for winter storage, and slightly warmer gloves and caps are in my pannier.
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Frnc wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 10:27 am Done most of my winter rotation. Clothes on the prep room rack I might want for a quick exit. Most of it stays there all year now anyway, but I brought the winter stuff to the front, as nights are getting colder. Also a couple of items get switched from my Emergency Grab Bag.
Charging my bike lights.
Sorted my bike wear. It's still shorts weather, but my short finger gloves and summer skull caps went into the wash for winter storage, and slightly warmer gloves and caps are in my pannier.
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Winter bike kit in Aldi Thursday
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong ;)

Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Yorkshire Andy wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 2:30 pm
Frnc wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 10:27 am Done most of my winter rotation. Clothes on the prep room rack I might want for a quick exit. Most of it stays there all year now anyway, but I brought the winter stuff to the front, as nights are getting colder. Also a couple of items get switched from my Emergency Grab Bag.
Charging my bike lights.
Sorted my bike wear. It's still shorts weather, but my short finger gloves and summer skull caps went into the wash for winter storage, and slightly warmer gloves and caps are in my pannier.
https://www.aldi.co.uk/c/specialbuys/da ... talCount=0


Winter bike kit in Aldi Thursday
Cheers Andy. Some bargains there.
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Got a olight javlot mini torch tiny little thing... it's rated to have a 600m spotlight well it probably does just had it to the allotment and took a walk to the council rec which corner to corner is about 150 meters using Google maps to measure it ... back fence lit up like daylight :mrgreen:
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong ;)

Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Absent from the forum because of a family bereavement - I knew about inquests etc informally, but learning in more detail :( and I can't visit because I'm catsitting from Sunday. Working on bits of projects, both prepping and not, to pass the time, but only things I can abandon instantly if needed. And my go-bag has never been so important.
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Sorry for your loss.
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
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I bit the bullet.

Yes I know other power generators do more, but I have invested in previous Jackery's and have their solar panel system which is all compatible so I can mix and match.

Behold the Jackery 2000 plus

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and it's expandable 2000 battery system.

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I can add another 4 batteries to this system to bring it up to 12Kw :twisted:

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Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
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pseudonym wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2023 12:17 pm Sorry for your loss.
Thank you pseudonym. She was so young (to me), its really got me thinking about prepping for individual catastrophes, not just society-wide ones.
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pseudonym wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2023 12:26 pm I bit the bullet.

Yes I know other power generators do more, but I have invested in previous Jackery's and have their solar panel system which is all compatible so I can mix and match.

Behold the Jackery 2000 plus

I can add another 4 batteries to this system to bring it up to 12Kw :twisted:
Oh I like that! Mixing and matching too, that's worth a lot for peace of mind and interchangeability.
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Nothing like that chez mois, skint. Doing my annual NiMH AAA recharging. Got 5 lots of 4 to do. I do have another charger but can't be bothered digging it out. First lot only took about 20 minutes. Swapped them with the head torch ones and got those charging now. Got another 6 ready to go into the motion lights.

My AAs all get rotated in my keyboard and trackpad, so they are all used and charged regularly, with 10 charged ready to use and 4 in use.

Checked my anti-intruder bushes. They don't need watering. One is struggling for light, but not much I can do about that.

Did one 10 l water rotation, plus the EGB 1 litre. Got two more 10 litres to do. Milton tabs expire in Dec so I put some on my Sains shopping list as they are 70p off. I always do a re-steralisation each time I swap the water, just in case it started to go manky.

Got the IHD for the boiler out of the cellar. It still works in my room. The edf app doesn't show energy use at the moment, and they won't say when it will. I don't anticipate turning the heating on before November. My gas use at the moment is actually about 50% standing charge. That's about 23p a day for 3 adults, showers and washing up plus about 23p standing charge. Electricity's about £1.80 a day.