I've been mostly sowing seeds and I bought an electric propagator , it doesnt seem very warm and i suspect i'll end up wanting a higher end one. Sowed the peppers and aubergines a bit late but its better than not doing them at all I hope.
Keeping on with the gardening and home repairs that are cropping up. Opened the back door last weekend, the kitchen drain was completely blocked and flooded the back path. Thankfully it was just silted up as its not well designed being a surface drain as well as a kitchen drain but it took me all morning to bail the water out and get my hand down the drain to get the silt out. That needs to be added to routine maintenance with some kind of fix put in as well. I think last time I did it I was pregnant with child 1, there wasn't a flood I was just doing lots of nesting and that involved checking drains.... nearly 8 years ago so it's not too bad.
Adjusting to working more and keeping home life ticking over and doing a bit every day in the garden.
I'm wrestling with wanting to save money and wanting to buy preps such as radios and power banks, got to pay some stuff off first though
What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
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Spent the day cancelling appointments my Doctor made without my consultation 
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
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Now they know how I feel when I want an appointment asap
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Hooks I ordered won't work. Nearly smashed the glass trying it out. It would break the glass and slip off.
I'm tempted to just buy a lenth of rope, tie it round the end of my bed and clip to that. I suppose the bed could slide towards the window, but it wouldn't be instant. I'd get down quicker anyway!
Sending things back to Amazon is getting easier. Post office are collecting it. No charge, and no printer required. The other option was drop off, and the post office options didn't tally with Amazon's, so that was not really happening. Luckily I scrolled down and saw collections.
Speaking of which, our council have changed visitors' permits to virtual. Took some figuring out, and they rejected my bank statement, but luckily my new printer has a scanner, so I used the water bill.
I'm tempted to just buy a lenth of rope, tie it round the end of my bed and clip to that. I suppose the bed could slide towards the window, but it wouldn't be instant. I'd get down quicker anyway!
Sending things back to Amazon is getting easier. Post office are collecting it. No charge, and no printer required. The other option was drop off, and the post office options didn't tally with Amazon's, so that was not really happening. Luckily I scrolled down and saw collections.
Speaking of which, our council have changed visitors' permits to virtual. Took some figuring out, and they rejected my bank statement, but luckily my new printer has a scanner, so I used the water bill.
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
I popped to Aldi to buy some tinned Pomodorino tomatoes because of the coming tomato shortage, and I read a lot of reviews which suggested they were the best on the market of the tinned variety
https://www.atlantesrl.it/en/tomato-mar ... ces%20down.
Once I was in there, there were so many gaps on the shelves in general that I had a bit of a 'prepper wobble' and £110 later...
I ended up with two slabs of the tomatoes, a slab of passata, a slab of 'stir through tomato and olive pasta sauce' and a lot of other prepping supplies, including 4kg of Scottish rolled oats, at 99p per kg, and some white rice which was 50p per kg. I even managed to pack everything while the lady on the checkout was scanning the items.
I'm going to be putting a lot more stuff up in mylar in the next few weeks once I've got some new oxygen aborbers. I'm feeling incredibly unsettled about what's going on globally and I think it's only going to get worse.
Just as an aside - I've been using an app called 'Trolley' lately to compare supermarket prices.
Just as another aside - the price of mylar and oxygen absorbers has gone through the roof.
https://www.atlantesrl.it/en/tomato-mar ... ces%20down.
Once I was in there, there were so many gaps on the shelves in general that I had a bit of a 'prepper wobble' and £110 later...
I ended up with two slabs of the tomatoes, a slab of passata, a slab of 'stir through tomato and olive pasta sauce' and a lot of other prepping supplies, including 4kg of Scottish rolled oats, at 99p per kg, and some white rice which was 50p per kg. I even managed to pack everything while the lady on the checkout was scanning the items.
I'm going to be putting a lot more stuff up in mylar in the next few weeks once I've got some new oxygen aborbers. I'm feeling incredibly unsettled about what's going on globally and I think it's only going to get worse.
Just as an aside - I've been using an app called 'Trolley' lately to compare supermarket prices.
Just as another aside - the price of mylar and oxygen absorbers has gone through the roof.
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Not a wobble, a tactical restock
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
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Been trying to get a gardener. One came round today. Said he'd get me a quote. But I have a feeling he's not interested.
Got this massive ivy to trim. It's about 20ft high now. It grew out of my garden, up the wall, up the back of a disused garage/shed in the school behind my house, and over next door's shed. Realised I need to liaise with the school, next door, and their landlord. School said they might chip in. It stops the spiky anti-burglar bushes I planted getting light. They didn't grow much last year. Also stops them getting rain water.
Got this massive ivy to trim. It's about 20ft high now. It grew out of my garden, up the wall, up the back of a disused garage/shed in the school behind my house, and over next door's shed. Realised I need to liaise with the school, next door, and their landlord. School said they might chip in. It stops the spiky anti-burglar bushes I planted getting light. They didn't grow much last year. Also stops them getting rain water.
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That's interesting, itsy - I only get supermarket deliveries, I don't often go in myself, so I couldn't tell you what our shelves are like down here (though I did pick up a JL delivery at Waitrose recently, and the shelves weren't the fullest I've ever seen
). My usual delivery is from Asda, and I'd got used to 10-15% not being available. Just had an order on Tuesday, and there was nothing out of stock, and only one substitution, and since that was frozen tropical fruit mix substituted for frozen mango, it wasn't particularly perturbing Because of the "expecting cancellations" thing, I now have a *lot* of toilet paper. A lot, a lot ...