In 1973, steel strike, 3 day week, the papers announced an oil shortage - there were people in the SM buying trolley loads of cooking oil! Papers meant petrol oil.
You can use cooking oil in some diesel engines
Quite a few people do, when the fuel went up years ago they were emptying the SM shelves. I didn’t quite believe it until I saw the owner of a camper van fill his tank in morrisons car park.
I hope he informed Revenue and Customs and forwarded the relevant duty ???
I've found curly kale here but only in markets, not SMs. Never seen purple sprouting or tender stemmed broccoli so I'll be sowing some this spring.
Grow my own butternuts and cavolo nero and it looks like I'll have to grow pak choi and spring onions if I don't want to do trips to La Roche-s-Y to the Asian shop. Red chilies too. The only ones I can get here are volcanic - scotch bonnet types - and they're not always available.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Good for you, @Hampshire_Hog. Unfortunately not everyone can do the same... the majority of houses in my town have no garden, and most fishing is privately owned - plus most of us don't own a gun, thank goodness. Foraging, yes - but not a lot to be found in winter...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
We've got toilet roll, tinned fruit and veg, frozen veg and fruit, kitchen towel, table sauces like tomato ketchup and brown sauce, baked beans, tinned tomatoes, cerieal like shredded wheat, porridge oats. Anything that's made abroad, or not sure where it's come from.
It will take years for this country to grow our own. People haven't got big gardens these days and newly built houses haven't got a lot of garden. To grow fruit and veg all year round have to have a lot of glass houses, where will they go? On land where houses should be built?. On land where should have cattle?
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"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Grow my own butternuts and cavolo nero and it looks like I'll have to grow pak choi and spring onions if I don't want to do trips to La Roche-s-Y to the Asian shop. Red chilies too. The only ones I can get here are volcanic - scotch bonnet types - and they're not always available.
It will take years for this country to grow our own. People haven't got big gardens these days and newly built houses haven't got a lot of garden.
To grow fruit and veg all year round have to have a lot of glass houses, where will they go? On land where houses should be built?. On land where should have cattle?
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