What preps are you doing this week? Part 3.

[sniper 55]

I had the car brakes serviced, and while waiting I ended up buying three small pocket knives and some spare goggles and dustmasks (on offer locally) not bad for around a tenner. (not counting the car)

[ForgeCorvus]

Started a button tin.... Amazing just how many I had kicking around in odd jars and paper bags

Am I getting old??

[munchh]

Started a button tin.... Amazing just how many I had kicking around in odd jars and paper bags

Am I getting old??

What do you mean getting!

[Decaff]

Started a button tin.... Amazing just how many I had kicking around in odd jars and paper bags

Am I getting old??

when you get to the stage of cutting them off old clothes, you're oldER.

[nickdutch]

Ordered myself a small electric folding bike that's gonna look totally stupid but will be great for my part public transport lifestyle. Its the "A Bike Electric" by Sinclair (yep, that one!) and it folds down pretty darned small.

Their website is at http://www.a-bike.co.uk and yes I got mine off ebay at half price which is one of my favourite prices

prep for what? getting about and not knackering myself and turning up to places all sweaty. My ancient mountain bike is still the best for the shopping loads and for worse conditions, but the little electric, when it arrives will be good for most other trips and going between bus and train stops.

And I have also started health plans with both simplyhealth.co.uk and benenden.co.uk so that I can actually get treatment when needed. My diet has moved to a high raw plant based diet (but still with some meat and fish occasionally) to increase general health to make calamities less likely.

[sniper 55]

Ordered myself a small electric folding bike that's gonna look totally stupid but will be great for my part public transport lifestyle. Its the "A Bike Electric" by Sinclair (yep, that one!) and it folds down pretty darned small.

Their website is at http://www.a-bike.co.uk and yes I got mine off ebay at half price which is one of my favourite prices

prep for what? getting about and not knackering myself and turning up to places all sweaty. My ancient mountain bike is still the best for the shopping loads and for worse conditions, but the little electric, when it arrives will be good for most other trips and going between bus and train stops.

And I have also started health plans with both simplyhealth.co.uk and benenden.co.uk so that I can actually get treatment when needed. My diet has moved to a high raw plant based diet (but still with some meat and fish occasionally) to increase general health to make calamities less likely.

What sort of range has it got?

[Yorkshire Andy]

Well Friday night was interesting... home from work cars washed few other odds and ends sorted and scraped myself clean in the shower... just got settled down in the living room and the lights went out (little one immediately starts crying ((scared of the dark)) so mobile phone out and gave it to her with the torch turned on.. that was her happy.. opened electric cupboard door Led bulkhead emergency light throwing more light about downstairs through into the kitchen led push lights put on as I went... Dad was already down workshop grinning like a school kid wheeling the generator out of there and the hook up lead to run a extension lead into the house.... LED light in there also doing its emergency lighting duty letting us see what we are doing..

few mins later few lights plugged in (with led bulbs) lit the stairs , living room and kitchen and a rechargeable LED floodlight in the back garden so we could keep and eye on the generator


we were the only house around with power... bar a mate who has 2 big combine harvester batteries and a 2kw inverter...... power was off for about 2 hours so was a good little test..

little one was happily glued too the tv with candles lit (my mothers logic knows no bounds but least it made us look from the front like most other houses down the street



Got chatting to the woman in the supermarket after the event (that end of town kept power) they had sold out of torches and nearly all common batteries and candles.......

she was telling me (she knows our family goes camping and she goes caravanning) that her husband had gone out to their caravan to make a cup of tea only to find they had run out of gas...... pointed her in the direction of a local gas supplier that's cheaper than the bigger national brands so she was happy..

[jansman]

Today I am pricking out leeks, peppers and sowing tomatoes. Tomorrow I am fetching my new stock of poultry. The last batch were four years old and not productive for the last few months. The chap I have always bought from for the last twenty odd years has retired now. He had a unit for rearing the standard brown hens for the battery market, damn good birds too. Looking around for a new supply, I found it hard to find this breed.since fowl keeping became trendy it seems everyone is rearing the 'old' breeds as they look pretty. Mind you, if they can make money out of it I don't blame them!

So I have located a smallholder who has some pullets ready. I am fed up buying eggs!

The rabbits are doing well, and I am selling every single kit to a garden centre near me that has a ' Pets Corner'.I get £8 each, but they have a waiting list at £25 a pop!!! Mind you, I do get my feed at cost prices into that deal.

A other cup of tea, and off to the greenhouses...

[Deeps]

An overdue trip to Costco to replenish bog roll amongst other stuff, I was getting twitchy because we were down to our last million rolls Maybe a slight exaggeration but there were a few things I wanted to top up so glad we've done it. Now its a well earned afternoon watching football and drinking dirty beer, the sport of kings. As of tomorrow, back to the dehydrating of both onions and garlic and also the next phase of organising the garage....again, its getting pretty disorganised....again. I've also made a few purchases on ebay, AAA to AA battery converters and a number of waterproof compression sacks as I seem to be using them as grab bags.

[featherstick]

Started a button tin.... Amazing just how many I had kicking around in odd jars and paper bags

Am I getting old??

when you get to the stage of cutting them off old clothes, you're oldER.

I just did that this evening for the first time ever. Another milestone passed.