What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12

[Frnc]

Having made a bit more space by moving the shelving rack from my bedroom into the prep room, I got the urge to try moving my bed 90°. Was a major operation, as I had to move a small book case, stuff that was under the bed, a small rack that my computer sits on, etc.

Been thinking about it for years. My computer monitor is my TV, which is on the chimney breast. The bed is now sideways to that instead of facing it. It works. I have more options than before. I can type in four or five different positions. Either lying on my back as before, sitting on the edge of the bed, or sitting further back, leaning back on my pillows. When I am lying on my back, I have a special cushion that raises my lower legs about 14". The width of the bed is a bit too short for that, but my bedside cabinet just happens to be the same height as the bed, so the cushion can overlap the bed and the cabinet.

Was a bit panicked when the bed got stuck at 45° between the chimney and the partition wall, where a corner of my room has been chopped out. This was done by the previous owner who turned the old bathroom into what is now the prep room, turning it from 2 to 3 bedrooms upstairs. The bathroom is a narrow slice off the front bedroom. My room has a corner missing in order to have the landing open up the the left, so the front bedroom could have a new doorway (the old doorway now being the bathroom door).

[bobble]

Went through my store cupboards and checked expiry dates. Planted up som broccoli and cauli seeds. Tidied up the kindling in the wood store

[bobble]

Went through my store cupboards and checked expiry dates. Planted up some broccoli and cauli seeds. Tidied up the kindling in the wood store

[Frnc]

UK is entering drought conditions.

[pseudonym]

Meh. I lived through 1976, now that was hot.

Best Summer ever.... I peeled for weeks

[GeeGee]

Meh. I lived through 1976, now that was hot.

Best Summer ever.... I peeled for weeks

I remember the standpipe at the end of the street and being sent with a bucket to get some water
Scorcher wasn't it
But two weeks of sun and we've been issued with a " maybe " water shortages if we don't play nice
After the 29 % rise this year on the rates a lot of people here are a bit miffed ....

[Frnc]

Water rates are disgusting. £39 up from about £25 a couple on years ago. And millions of sewage discharges into rivers and the sea.

[Adjee]

Pressure canned 72 jars of rabbit meat, made @ 10 kgs of rabbit sausages and meat balls, pressure canned 36 jars of dog/cat food, dehydrated 8 jars of onion leaf cuts along with various herbs from our first major harvest. Moved our first batch of broiler chickens outside and set the next batch in an incubator. Weighed the ducks and rabbits to gauge growth rate and slaughter time. Set another batch of goose and duck eggs in a separate incubator. Tomorrow I will set a batch of Orpington chicken eggs in a third incubator these will replace some of our older birds which we will dispatch for meat in the Autumn.

[mcprepper]

Pressure canned 72 jars of rabbit meat, made @ 10 kgs of rabbit sausages and meat balls, pressure canned 36 jars of dog/cat food, dehydrated 8 jars of onion leaf cuts along with various herbs from our first major harvest. Moved our first batch of broiler chickens outside and set the next batch in an incubator. Weighed the ducks and rabbits to gauge growth rate and slaughter time. Set another batch of goose and duck eggs in a separate incubator. Tomorrow I will set a batch of Orpington chicken eggs in a third incubator these will replace some of our older birds which we will dispatch for meat in the Autumn.

I always wonder what I’ve done with my day when I read your posts - your lifestyle sounds amazing (and hard work) but it gives me ideas for things to do/try on a smaller scale.

[Frnc]

Moved more junk into the prep room. I'll have to start calling it the junk room. Moved a chest of drawers in my room, and sort of regret that now. Had to sort loads of wires connecting my computer, TV and hifi. Could do with an electrician to tidy it all up. It was all hidden before I moved the bed. But all this might be temporary, if upstairs lodger moves out.

I had the idea that if I cleared part of my room, I could maybe start decorating, bit by bit, but my back was killing, just from picking stuff up, untangling wires etc.