What Preps are you doing this week? Part 7.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Mouse, thats really interesting - I'm starting to wonder about it, I must say. Its a really long time since I've driven, though Luckily the increase in the traffic won't be too much of a problem if I do go for it - I learned to drive in London, around Old Street and Bayswater Please update what your decision will be.

Well I've put a deposit down I can't go see it until the weird car chain is complete - the 'former' owner still has it and is waiting for their new car so they can be swapped. Lockdown played a complicated game on the dealership
I only passed my test the day before work decided to send us all home, so I'm a bit wary about getting in another car, but it's an automatic so at least there's that! I keep thinking about how much more freedom I'll have with a car. It'll make my life a whole lot easier.

Ohh welcome to the road

Congratulations on passing the test


Few pointers

Obviously your car your the main driver... You must be the policy owner/ main driver etc BUT try adding a more experienced driver as a SECOND driver on the insurance often brings the price down... Years ago I added my dad as a second driver it knocked £100 off!

(Had one firm try getting arsey over a 19 yo adding his dad as a second driver..... "So my dad takes my car off the drive into the road to get his car out does he need to be insured to drive it" shut the bugger up


Get yourself a copy of road craft

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roadcraft-Poli ... 0117081876

Time to start looking at car preps

Check you get a locking wheel nut key (if it's got alloys). And o always want a spare wheel don't like the goo and pump kits...

[Le Mouse]

Ohh welcome to the road

Congratulations on passing the test


Few pointers

Obviously your car your the main driver... You must be the policy owner/ main driver etc BUT try adding a more experienced driver as a SECOND driver on the insurance often brings the price down... Years ago I added my dad as a second driver it knocked £100 off!

(Had one firm try getting arsey over a 19 yo adding his dad as a second driver..... "So my dad takes my car off the drive into the road to get his car out does he need to be insured to drive it" shut the bugger up


Get yourself a copy of road craft

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roadcraft-Poli ... 0117081876

Time to start looking at car preps

Check you get a locking wheel nut key (if it's got alloys). And o always want a spare wheel don't like the goo and pump kits...

That's a good idea about the second driver. I live with my aunt and uncle, so I could put my uncle on the insurance. That would make him happy actually because he could drive a car that isn't his van!

I already have Roadcraft. When I told my best friend and my brother about starting driving lessons, the next day two parcels arrived. One had the driving test book and the theory test book (best friend) and the other had Roadcraft (brother)

I have an ongoing list for a car kit...

[Yorkshire Andy]

I have an ongoing list for a car kit...

[diamond lil]

Great list there Andy! very em... exhaustive
My preps went into orbit this morning, realising that we have just 6 months to a no-deal B word.

[Le Mouse]

My preps went into orbit this morning, realising that we have just 6 months to a no-deal B word.

Yeah, the no-deal B word is very high up on the list of things that's causing me anxiety at the moment I have a day off on Friday. I'll be spending some of it seeing where gaps are in preps.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Great list there Andy! very em... exhaustive
My preps went into orbit this morning, realising that we have just 6 months to a no-deal B word.

I'm gearing up for that / lockdown 2... Added 10kg of rice (farm foods £12 in a mylar bag)

To suppliment the additional 3kg of pasta I got the other week

Mrs a returned with 12 boxes of kids "krave" breakfast cereal (50p per box! On offer )

Got some extra milk powder in and plan on a raid to the local corner shop who seem to like stocking sterilised milk in glass bottles that stuff kept me in tea at work over the initial panic buying chaos

Another 2x18 bog roll packs added £2.99 per 18 rolls! I'm guessing they ordered extra mid panic and now have a Wearhouse of stuck stock used to be £16 for 3 packs.....

(we went through it like mad when 5x of us was at home during furlough / lock down not been able to sit on the bog getting paid full rate / not using work bog roll was depressing )

That brings loo roll stock back upto about 130 rolls

The allotment has been a virtual write off this year... The long dry period nothing grew now the showers and rain it's weed city..... The winter sewn onions drowned, the spring sewn sets are doing naff all

Potatoes are ok tomatoes ok

Peas done nothing

Grrr


Rodent bait refreshed in the pantry and shed.

Need to grab another sack of spuds sometime soon might drag it out and get this year's fresh harvest though....

[diamond lil]

Great ideas there Andy. Up here it has been a decent year for growing veg, hot but not dry. Tatties are doing great but a few other things I had to give up on because of lack of space. A quarter of the garden empty, waiting for the husband to get family help organised to clear a base for a shed. Once (if ever) we get the shed then I'll be able to see what I'm doing.
Waiting for Ikea up here to get back to normal so I can get a Kallax unit, they're ideal for storage, get it all in one place and still looking good.
Stocks this week will be coffee beans I think, it's taking more and more to get up me and functioning

[GillyBee]

Hi Lil
Do you have a good coffee bean supplier in mind? We did stock up heavily on this a couple of months ago with 4 coffee heads in the house.
No cover = zombie apocalypse round here.

Am I OK to recommend Garroways for beans or is that against the rules?

[Arwen Thebard]

Nothing better than sitting in a nice warm greenhouse, trimming tomato plants, during a thunderstorm.

And then Mrs A turns up with mug of tea and it just got even better.

Turned out my first pot of spuds this morning. They had clearly laid over and had enough and we had a pretty good result given how small the tub was.

Small greenhouse windows are steamed up nicely being crammed full with chilies, peppers and melons.

Dirt under my nails and an aching back, lovely.

[jansman]

Currently gathering plastic buckets from the bakery at work. We chuck dozens away per week, and one type is one gallon volume , but rectangular, with a strong handle. They contained toffee cake filling stuff, and stack neatly on the shelves in the pantry and workshop. The round ones, I am giving to the owner of my local fishing tackle shop for storing bait. It means I don’t pay for my bait

Mrs J. is just cooking our dinner. New potatoes, peas and spinach from the garden. Chuck in some stored rice, and it’s a Preppers curry. Smells gorgeous! Better get a home brewed beer.