nickdutch wrote:Trying to learn everything that I can about stock market technical analysis prior to making some cautious trades.
My advice is to not do that. For small amounts (less than £10K), the commissions and spread will easily eat up any potential profits. Besides, Technical Analysis (in my opinion) is a lot of wishful thinking based on the human predilection to see patterns in everything - essentially the financial equivalent of predicting the future by looking at chicken entrails and this is especially true in a market as manipulated as the one we have now.
IMHO: for small amounts it would be better to buy junk silver coins on ebay and just sit on them. Pre 1920 UK silver coins are sterling silver (95%) and if you do the math and make careful purchases you can get them for a little over the spot price of the silver content. Or just put some money into BullionVault.com
Just a wee add on to the above about silver coins, pre-1920 are .925 silver and between 1920 and 1946 are .500 silver. Handy to have a few crowns etc lying about!
nickdutch wrote:..............Also i realized that i could place it on top of the kelley kettle pot stand and get another 2 L of water heated by the same stock of fuel thus meaning I could have 3 and 1/2 L of hot water instead of just 1 and 1/2.
Nearly enough for a bath then
Enough for two full washing up loads or enough for a complete body wash using a basin of hot water and that includes hair washing or enough for maybe 12 mugs of tea approximately (depending on mug size and how much you dilute it wit h cold water or milk after having adding the boiling water) OR enough hot water to do heat retention cooking for a group of four or more.
So, yea, actually quite impressive.
Wasn't TTP, I was serious about it being enough for a bath..... And maybe a mug of tea
Thats on what, a couple of handfuls of twigs ?
jennyjj01 wrote:"I'm not in the least bit worried because I'm prepared: Are you?"
Londonpreppy wrote: At its core all prepping is, is making sure you're not down to your last sheet of loo roll when you really need a poo.
Went for a walk in a different wood that I hadn't been in for a few years plenty of fallen branches but not much else. so I know where to get kindling from but wont bother going foraging there. On the plus side this is where the deer are
AREA's 5-6 and 4 Feet the original All Terrain Vehicle
New chicken enclosure is built next to fruit cage. Can now plant up fruit cage and keep chickens out. One of the chickens is broken of her broodiness and so the others have more peace when laying ! Some weeks there is no change in the routine of prepping but some times there a little change makes a huge difference. Next plan is to plant the hedge. Only have a modern sized garden but a hedge will give me some twigs as it will be kept trimmed back also using native wood so should be good for wild life.
I've been skipdiving recently - well, a skip, and the surrounding ground - a pub nearby has closed and is being repurposed. Which means lots of old and new roof tiles lying about - I've been collecting the big unbroken/slightly chipped pieces, and using them to solidify my border between the grass and the planting soil - I'd just been laying out sheets of cardboard over the winter, and something needed doing.
Also decluttering books - every time I buy a prepping book, I need to get rid of an old one - yesterday that meant scanning a few recipes from the Jamie Oliver Italian cooking book, and sticking it into the charity shop pile.
Garden centre visit this afternoon: an aubergine plant, a red pepper plant, some herbs and a lavender. This evening I've bought some seeds from The Real Seed catalogue (beetroot, salad onions, radishes, more herbs and some edible flowers). All things I will definitely eat/use. I'm starting small with plants in pots and containers to see if I can cultivate a green thumb before I branch out to anything more adventurous like applying for an allotment. Got to start somewhere
Le Mouse wrote:Garden centre visit this afternoon: an aubergine plant, a red pepper plant, some herbs and a lavender. This evening I've bought some seeds from The Real Seed catalogue (beetroot, salad onions, radishes, more herbs and some edible flowers). All things I will definitely eat/use. I'm starting small with plants in pots and containers to see if I can cultivate a green thumb before I branch out to anything more adventurous like applying for an allotment. Got to start somewhere
Have a look on your borough council allotment website, often they have a 'green patch' attached to them for people to join and just have a go.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain~anon
