The challenge is, like any investment, when to cash it in or this case eat it.
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I wasn't thinking about it from a prepper point of view (I already have about an extra month or so worth of food to tide me over any short emergencies). I was thinking about it more financially.
Would it be beneficial to invest a few hundred pounds now and temporary triple the amount of extra food stored then eat it all over the next winter/spring seasons rather than investing that same amount of cash elsewhere in some other financial asset? In percentage terms which is likely to return the highest monetary gain in the current situation?
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I think it would really benefit us to continually think from a prepper point of view from now on (if you don't already) Food is very important. My advice would be stock up as much as you can. A year is sensible and a supply of seeds. Then learn about wild foods and fishing, hunting and every other possible source of food (including insects) . For me, now is to the time to stop thinking in terms of money and start to think in terms of knowledge and resources. Most importantly I enjoy the learning process and empowering myself. I hope I have picked this thread up in context. Regardless, that was good and sound advice. DD x
I decided to bring forward my purchase of fertilizer (mainly organic but also some inorganic) to this week. Prices of these are going only one way, and once the current stock is bought up, the next lot will be higher prices. I will use it anyway, but by buying now I pay less. (Seeds (open pollinated) I had already, plus a friend gifted me with a box of veg seeds recently.)
That will enable me to sustain my veg growing for a while, and during that time improve my home-made compost and similar. The current challenge has been that on a rocky soggy hillside, a veg bed needs a level of input to get it going and into a self-sustaining cycle.
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That will enable me to sustain my veg growing for a while, and during that time improve my home-made compost and similar. The current challenge has been that on a rocky soggy hillside, a veg bed needs a level of input to get it going and into a self-sustaining cycle.
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I was talking to the manager of the riding school where I learnt. He tells me that he needs to pay a company to take away the mix of straw bedding and manure from mucking out.
When I got our first compost bin at this house, I was introduced to a woman who runs a livery yard who was very happy to let me take about a hundred litre bin filled with straw and manure, rather than pay by the kilo to have it carted away.
When I got our first compost bin at this house, I was introduced to a woman who runs a livery yard who was very happy to let me take about a hundred litre bin filled with straw and manure, rather than pay by the kilo to have it carted away.
We get people around here leaving free bags of horse manure to take away at their front gates. Brilliant stuff for the compost bin.
The problem with using horse and other manure these days is that it may be contaminated with long to lasting weed killers that can last for years in the garden and are not broken down by composting. https://www.rhs.org.uk/soil-composts-mulches/weedkiller-in-manure
That's the handy thing with having horses. You're never going to run out of fertilizer.
A couple of years a go I filled a bucket with manure and old leaves and left it for twelve months. The following year I put a pumpkin seed in there and it grew really well all on its own without any extra input from me.
Other than the occasional wormer mine are all organic and have been that way for at least fifteen years. On the occasions when they have their wormer I make a deliberate point of separating any poo produced over the next few days and throwing it as far down hill as possible well away from the rest of the field where it might contaminate it.
Great news if you know what they've been fed, and the grass/hay is organic. Sadly round here they've increasingly moving towards spraying weedkiller for fun.
All too common unfortunately. The farm above one of my fields uses chemical pesticides and I guess it probably drains via water down into that field.
The other meadows are all good and organic though.
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Golds worst week since 1983.
This is mostly caused by stock market traders getting margin calls on their shorts and scrambling for liquidity. They're being forced to sell whatever they can and as silver and gold were the best performers last year it's those ETFs (together with other metal ETFs and government bonds) which are at the top of many of their sell lists. There are probably a few traders rotating out of metals into oil and gas stocks at the moment too.
It's nothing to worry about in my opinion though. Very likely just a large but temporary blip that will be followed by a big bounce back. I just wish I has some spare cash to buy some but my budget is all spoken for right now.
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Is this a sign that NS&I are experiencing liquidity issues?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/b...savings-chaos-bereaved-families-short-change/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/b...savings-chaos-bereaved-families-short-change/
Is it not just a sign of another poorly run government department? Coupled with poor regulation and no accountability?
It could well be yes. The symptoms we're seeing fit both possibilities equally well.
Although both possibilities are not mutually exclusive either. It might be both.
LOL. Yeah right.Tick-Tock-Tick-Tock.
Getting closer.
My forecast outlook has not changed at all but the time frame for it most certainly has (my predictions often have a habit of being way too premature but ultimately still correct). It's looking far more likely that we'll have to wait for another two or three months longer now.
Patience isn't just what you need when there are too many witnesses present. It's also a virtue required when waiting for silver to move (again).
If you keep predicting something with shifting goalposts you’re bound to be correct eventually, seems a bit unfair to just keep extending the timeframe. You have to account for unexpected circumstances in predictions because unexpected circumstances always crop up. As Sir Terry Pratchett pointed out, million-to-one chances happen nine times out of ten.
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