What Preps are you doing this week

[nickdutch]

Got myself some balls of jute string from 99p Stores to help me make fire lighters (with candle wax) and will be popping into wilkinsons to get some cheap candles soon to melt down to make the fire lighters (and I may even use some as candles!). Weather is to be good on Wednesday so making more fuel bricks from papier mache is in order tonight and tomorrow night (as well as getting the washing and drying done). The bricks that I have made so far are drying out nicely but are still a fair way away from being usable in the kelley kettle or wood gas stove.

It feels good to not throw away energy (envelopes with the windows torn out of them, toothpaste cardboard packaging, cerial packets, till receipts, bank statements I don't need anymore etc.).

Then it will be a question of stockpile them or use them, and when is using them a piece of self education and when is it fun and I am just making up an excuse to play ?

I think I will be stockpiling them over a long time.

[mushroom]

Having lived with a TV which has taken 20 mins for the picture to appear (no exaggeration!) for the last 6 months - today we got a new TV What's great is that it's a SMART TV, which means you can watch YouTube on the tele! I can watch Prepper films until my heart's content!! (Just watched a great clip on BOBs and I could actually see each item!!)

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A new book arrived today, 'the pocket doctor', aimed at people traveling and has done good advice on dealing with injuries and problems a little beyond a first aid book, this will go in the BOB for quick revision and useful recreational reading but I'm looking for something that goes much further for the bookshelf.

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[nickdutch]

Had a dentist appointment, agreed to be put forward to a specialist and to be put down for a possible six months worth of treatment (some of which will be painful) to do more restorative work on my appalling dentistry. Agreed to go ahead and get in done now as I am sure it will be harder when I am older, in case things go downhill for me in a few years time and there is any move towards NHS privatization.

[Le Mouse]

Last night I had a last trog to IKEA before I move (won't be able to get to a branch easily from where I'm moving to) and bought a load of candles and tealights to top up my stocks.

[ExCopKent]

Been hitting Amazon too much recently. Have a couple of clever and pretty well made electric wind-up torch / lanterns. Handy as taking the Stepson 'camping' to learn some bushcraft skills shortly.

Have been looking at really classy survival knife called a 'Parry Blade' made by Skorpion knives, but it costs a bundle! Would be a great addition to my BOB though Anyone come across one of these before?

Got a great deal on some 23 litre plastic water containers. £4 each and they seem sturdy enough.

Getting increasingly hard to hide my kit from the Wife who doesn't get it at all!

Am getting back in to archery as well to supplement the air rifle and catapult tucked in the garage. Have dusted off a compound bow I bought years ago and didn't have enough time to get proficient with.. Clearly hunting options are important, but if TSHTF then a bow is a better visual deterrent than a blade I think.

[mogs]

I have been very busy in the garden, now growing nicely I have, peas, carrotts, tomatoes, potatoes, sweetcorn, rasberries, pears, kumquats, chives, basil, corriander, parsley and mushrooms.

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my babies!

[mogs]

Oh and how could I forget... Strawberries, my favorite!

[iceprep]

Not being doing my preps of late as my little boy ad been in hospital for the second time in as many weeks.

New items I'm adding to my preps are the Heinz Tear and stir soups. Easier to store than cans and taste almost as good, I believe some of them can be classed as 1 of your 5 a day.

Also picked up a few boxes of Kellogg multigrain cereal bars.

And lots more bottled water. I think I have about 60 litres of bottle water so far.

[Brambles]

I have been very busy in the garden, now growing nicely I have, peas, carrotts, tomatoes, potatoes, sweetcorn, rasberries, pears, kumquats, chives, basil, corriander, parsley and mushrooms.

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my babies!

Crikey! You're brave! I haven't put my toms, sweetcorn, basil and squashes out yet, the soils still too cold, and we're due a frost or two next couple of days.