so, when will you be starting stockpiling I wonder?

I have some old copper jugs in the attic, were promised to DD but she no longer wants them.
Would they be of any use?
It's a bit hot to go rooting around up there at the moment though

It would take about 50 copper jugs, Jalima, so yours would not go far towards it. You'll have to join the queue, I'm afraid.

Had a few afternoon GandTs .
Friends were a little surprised when they saw me collecting up the lemon pips.

The question is..
Do I plant the pips now or let them dry out?

Elegran Salt???
Will one have to use the sea salt evaporation method.

Chewbacca yep, that's the ones ?

You know these mines that will have to be resurrected in Cornwall? Will they be managed by that whatsisname in Poldark, by any chance?

Thanks for that link, varian.

Would it have been helpful to have been aware before the Brexit vote? Don't tell 'em, Pike.

Thanks from me, too, varian

I this:

On the plus side, we’ll still be in Eurovision.

But isn't that why lots of people voted Leave; because the nasty EU countries ganged up on us and wouldn't vote for us in Eurovision?

Blinko Yes, if he is not too busy making public information videos (example "How to go barechested in a heatwave without getting sunburnt nipples" with demonstration). Shall I send you an application form for employment under him?

Cherrytree There wil be renewed prosperity for the former salt-making towns where the salt pans will be renovated - Nantwich and Prestonpans will be thriving centres..

Actually we did meet someone just after the vote who toold us that he didn't know anything about the EU but he'd always believed that he ought to vote, but he didn't know which way to vote. Then, he said, he watched the Eurovision Song Contest and he could see that these bloody foreigners would't vote for us, so he decided, "that's it, I'm out"

His reason for voting leave was one of the more sensible ones we've heard.

Don't tell us that these folk all knew exactly what they were voting for - they did not.

Elegran, ooh, now there's a thought...

Will it make my gin too salty though ( the pickled lemons)
Am getting a bit worried about this, what with my hypertension!
Should I switch to drinking vodka?

Lemon, Vodka as exported by Comrade Putin? Shouldn't that be embargoed?

Can you get home-distilled British vodka? I believe you can make it from potatoes, so that wee still could be pressed into service..

Nothing the Remoaners like more than stirring up une

Posted too soon! Nothing Remoaners like more than stirring up unnecessary panic- it will be hilarious watching them go into US style survivalist mode!

Amazing that we got through the war with blockades and boats being blown up and still managed to survive, but withdrawing from the EU is apparently going to reek Amageddon like conditions. Maybe we could get some tips from World War II veterans who were part of the war effort on how best we can survive the potential catastrophe that will kick in next year so we don't end up eating our pets and then each other On an upside if fast food outlets were to close due to lack of supplies perhaps the general population would become healthier like those who lived through the 1940s

Isn’t Chase vodka U.K. based?(other brands may be available)
Also Black cow?

There you go-

Situated on England's West Dorset coast we produce the worlds only Pure Milk Vodka™ made entirely from the milk of grass grazed cows and nothing else

Has to be healthy too

Dig for Victory Terribull!

Has anyone become aware of shortages in relation to the massive holdups at the channel tunnel?
We are continuously being told how time critical it is for the turn around of lorries.
And yes I am aware of the direction the lorries are going in, I've done it enough times.
Back to fun times ladies, I'm enjoying the p... take of these imagined shortages.
The only thing I'm stocking up on is the Argan oil products from Poundland as it looks as if they're closing.

Indeed Jalima, I put it to my husband that maybe golf courses, such as his, should be put to better use growing cabbages, carrots and the like in preparation for D Day, we all need to make small sacrifices!

I always thought vodka was made from potatoes. (Pure milk??) We can do that, surely?

Good idea Terribull - turn it into allotments!

Possibly mark out narrow routes from each tee to the relevant hole, with al the rst of the golf courses given over to allottments? The only golfers allowed to play would have to be those who had earned certificates to prove that their aim is good enough to keep the ball within that narrow corridor, and not let it stray into the spuds and carrots on either side.

Even restricting play to certificate bearers, the allottment holders might have to wear crash helmets. As they would be cycling to and from their patch (no petrol!) they could keep on their cycling helmets.

How healthy they would be! Cycling, gardening, eating home-grown veg, dodging golf balls, chasing incompetent golfers with hoes and rakes . . .

and don't golf courses usually have a lake? Plenty of water to use on the veg during a drought.

I would DEFINITELY stockplile the public information videos Elegran foresees- be still my beating heart!❤️

Petra quote [ Has anyone become aware of shortages in relation to the massive holdups at the channel tunnel?
We are continuously being told how time critical it is for the turn around of lorries.] End quote

Petra, perhaps you should check out the below links in regard to the current shortages in Britains supermarkets. I have just included one link here but there are many other media reports on the situation should you care to Google that

The second link is in regard to the LGV driver shortage that has been building up in the road transport industry over a considerable period of time. I believe it is the driver situation that is in all probability the main reason for the current hostages on our supermarket shelves.

The situation with the Channel Tunnel was in regard to one European transport infrastructure that being rail. The vast majority of Heavy Goods vehicles use the cross-channel ferries for reasons of economy.

One thing to think on in regard to Brexit, that being Britain is nearly fifty thousand qualified truck drivers short at this point in time. In that, should vehicles begin to be held up at the ports, extra drivers will be needed to carry out journeys that those held up drivers will not be able to do. That will undoubtedly lead to an even greater shortage of drivers and the vicious circle continues to pick up pace.

Links start here:-
www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/food-shortages-supermarkets-customers-see-1836364

www.food-management.com/production/truck-driver-shortage-impacting-food-deliveries