Tuesday 21 September 2021

Winter is Coming

 So as we head into Autumn , we are greated with media stuffed full of your going to starve or your going to freeze . Good choices ?  Yes its annoying having to shop around to get what you want or waiting for the lucky dip that is your supermarket home delivery . But theres still plenty of food out there at the moment , its a tad disquieting to visit Farmfoods for your teabag multipack and a winters worth of wash powder amd find theres folks going full on doomsday apocalypse shopper but if you have a large family whats the alternatives , i think if your kids have left the nest its very easy to forget just how much teenagers eat if youve two or three its nightmare levels of consumption . Realistically making sure you have a couple of gallons of cooking oil and two or three sacks of spuds on stock isnt a bad idea also enough pasta for a small army and dont forget vacuum packed rice is near bloody immortal . I admit to having pack ratted a good few chicken UN ration packs , pre cooked and just chuck in with what ever sauce you can devise . Daughter came the other day and she couldnt find sugar to make jam . Im not jam making this year unless the urge takes me , the younger generation can learn ...lol  I think what im trying to say is that the older generation are less panicked by what goes on around us , we have the knowledge to make do and adapt and get by that we need to pass on to the younger generation so they dont become so stressed by our idiot media ...............Oh and on the no heat front , dont forget to buy half a dozen hot water bottles , fingerless gloves for everyone , lots of wooly slipper boots and rechargeable lighting or wind up torches ...ffs no candles , get your inner boy scout on , because winter is coming 

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  1. Tony's work colleague went shopping at a large Tesco near to where he lives last night and found several shelves stripped bare. He said he should have realised that something was wrong when he saw the pub car park full at 4pm. It's a bit deja vu though as didn't this happen at the start of the pandemic last year. Nobody starved and I bet a lot of spare bedrooms were well insulated with loo roll.

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    1. must admit the bog roll mountain was looking a bit sparse the other day so i added 2 packs this week

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  2. We lived on dole money for years when the kids were growing up as Tom was always ill and nobody would employ him. I went to jumbles for clothes and shopped around for cheap food. Non of us suffered and the kids will all tell you what a great childhood they had. We didn't have central heating or a car, we all had bikes so these scare mongering stories don't bother me. I know we can survive on very little.
    Sure you can as well.
    Briony
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    1. I think we just have a more "here we go again " attitude that comes with having done it all so many times

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  3. I will just wrap up warm and waddle around the house in loads of layers but I am a bit concerned about the mould on the walls-last year was the first time in nearly 40 years I noticed it x

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    1. i must admit that every winter i do a good baltic granny chic impression , but i really feel the cold

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