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  1. Disabled Preppers

    Tick removal

    @Woody girl yes i fully agree on antibiotics , the wife and i have to be careful with them and me most of all no matter the strength they give me well lets say i never leave home or the bathroom for days . The reason i am stocking the creams and pain killing creams is in the event of a S.hT.f...
  2. Disabled Preppers

    Tick removal

    @Woody girl yes living alone can be hard like yo say no one to check you over and some ticks can be tiny , may be a full length mirror on a door in the bathroom or a room you feel ok to wander naked and then just shine a torch on the bdy and turn slowly hoping you spot the little 8uggers , but...
  3. Disabled Preppers

    Where are the butterflies?

    Hi your so right on the maggies i hate them , we do have a fair few but between my neighbour and i we tend to keep them away as someone is always in the gardens at this time of year , the tree rats as i call squirrels make me so mad i know we all have to live but there is so much food in our...
  4. Disabled Preppers

    Where are the butterflies?

    Yes ladybird larve are not cheap years ago i brought some when we had the allotment and i wanted more in the greenhouse we had there . I wish we could post them but i always worry about the little monkies in the post if they get delayed , when the hot weather comes back i will go down to the...
  5. Disabled Preppers

    What are you growing?

    @Woody girl wow your working hard , i have taken a day out today to rest as been trying to fit and hang a new soild garage door to the rear of the store area and making it more secure if you understand , it has taken it out of me due to the health and the heat and i have to watch asking the wife...
  6. Disabled Preppers

    Where are the butterflies?

    Wow we have loads of ladybirds , and i was doing some trimming the other day and came in with 3 small larve running round me me , my wife and i use to collect them and put them on plants that needed the help the garden is infested with them now days i do still collect some and take them in the...
  7. Disabled Preppers

    Dramatic heart rot in a tree

    @Woody girl thanks for letting me know what it is , i do have char but again i am a addict of fatwood . Oh my dad over the years did some mad stuff lol and i guess that was where i got my wreckless streak , hence no hard hat and wearing flip flops on site , i learnt the hard lesson after a brick...
  8. Disabled Preppers

    What are you preserving?

    Well today has been a sort of day of rest pushed the body to hard the other day but today i managed to collect a huge amount of chive , bay and sage and basil for the dehydrator , i know people say use fresh and we do have it in the winter in the tunnel but i want to add some to my dry goods...
  9. Disabled Preppers

    Where are the butterflies?

    @Broch yes i am the same as you but mine well lets say they said i am close to a epipen type , i use to get stung as a kid and nothing but normal but i once worked on the famr in the summer got hit by what they think was a hornet and after that well i was unlucky , i got stuck on my arm by a...
  10. Disabled Preppers

    Tick removal

    I am not sure off a human but my mate had a python a big one yup not a snake fan me or the wife lol (no rude jokes lol) so he asked my wife one day to hold a bag as he had a shop it was a money bag she things money until he goes to the car comes back with a large tank , yup puts the tank down...
  11. Disabled Preppers

    Where are the butterflies?

    My budlia is not out yet but most times we have lots of butterlies but out front i have a huge lavender headge and i know i moan about having to cut it clean it and so on but you rub near it the smell omg and it has got bigger each year even after a hard hard cut back last year this year it is...
  12. Disabled Preppers

    Dramatic heart rot in a tree

    I have a few funny stories on tree felling as kids but the best and this points pout why you should always get the right man for the job . My dads mate had a huge garden and some huge pine trees and one was close to the house and this is the late 70's he asked dad could he chop it down , my dad...
  13. Disabled Preppers

    Homemade Fatwood

    Hi does anyone else make their own fatwood (no rude jokes please) , back during the pandemic it went sky high in price so i figured ok sod it i make my own , i got a bottle of pure gum trups it must be pure not a thinned stuff or white spirit , to that i added some pine rosin or pine sap , i...
  14. Disabled Preppers

    Foodsaver Vacuum Sealer

    A little follow on to the foodsaver , it is the best vacuum sealer we have ever had and we had a couple before this one ,i will save we used some of the cheaper rolls of bags we had for the older machine and these punctured with the foodsaver it sucked the product so tight the thin bags had...
  15. Disabled Preppers

    What are you growing?

    Well i brought the rian the wife tells me , i got my shorts out and my comfy chair in the garden most times i make do with the garden benchs we have around or a plastic chair dragged round so i can sit , lol it has been raining hard here stopped now but i will say the 1500lt rain barrel i have...
  16. Disabled Preppers

    Foodsaver Vacuum Sealer

    Ok all i have pictures of the one we have and would like to add them but not sure how yet i will edit if i can . The Vacuum sealer is a god send , we had purchased a cheap one many years ago and sealed loads of food and when we opened the buckets found most had popped the seals so lost the food...
  17. Disabled Preppers

    Lovely noodles

    Ok we love to cook from scratch due to knowing what goes in to the meal , we have been looking at trying the freeze dried market more but today it was a rush meal due to me wanting to get in the garden , so the review is of . Mama rice noodles and we want to say they are lovely , first all i did...
  18. Disabled Preppers

    What are you growing?

    Hi woody this is not a what i am growing it is a tip we used at our allotment as our name says being disabled i use to sometimes be bed our sofa bound for days or weeks we brouth the spikes that fit on water bottle and use to save 2 litre bottles push them in along rows or trenches this means we...
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    What are you currently reading?

    We are always reading books i download and save to my EMP laptop box and we also love a real world book as in the event the world goes to hell in a handcart books will be our light in the darkness , on that note we have loads of books on medical herbs and food plants and foraging books but i...
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    What Food Combo's Do You Eat That Others Think Are Weird

    Yup that is true the chicken feet but cooked over and open fire they are a treat and lovely to gnaw on . Well last night i knocked up a sort of chicken left over chinese sweet and sour , i will say i added a 60g portion of mixed dried veg to the rice , i soaked it in a jam jar first then once...