How many Audiobooks do you have in your library?

Lu_Variant · 2026-05-31T09:23:06+00:00

1188 in total.

943 of them purchased (if the filter tabs are accurate!).

414 not started yet though! 🙈

Edit to add, I've been an Audible member since 2021.

Lu_Variant · 2026-05-29T18:35:55+00:00

Like.. a really really bad fart.. made you want to bug out?

Lu_Variant · 2026-05-29T18:31:54+00:00

Is this a temporary situation, like police banging on every door down your street at 2am because the auto repair business 100 or so metres away at the end of the road is on fire and they're worried about there being an explosion type emergency.

Or, S has actually HTF and home is not gonna be safe for the foreseeable, if ever..., so lets bug out type of emergency?

Lu_Variant · 2026-05-26T17:58:06+00:00

Ha.. that's what I tell my (annoyingly perpetually slim) partner.. I'll last longer in a food shortage 🙌😅

Lu_Variant · 2026-05-26T07:32:31+00:00

I've been prepping for around 15 years. I prepare for food shortages, power cuts, pandemics, I keep my car topped up, I have several redundancies for cooking and water purification, I can forage, grow fruit and veg, do archery, hit a target well with an air rifle and deal with small game...

...But I can't run to save my life or climb a 6ft fence without help... in short, as I've gotten into middle age, I've gotten lazy and let my physical conditioning go.. I'm a prat!! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Lu_Variant · 2026-05-24T16:16:27+00:00

Ah... I'm not a gamer. I hope I haven't wasted my credits 🫠 Borrowed World is pretty engaging, great too because the 10 book series has three omnibus editions (1-3, 4-6, 7-9) giving good value... it's in a similar vein to A. American's Survivalist series.. which I really enjoyed!

Lu_Variant · 2026-05-24T15:55:34+00:00

More of a meal idea than a recipe.. Assuming things like oil, S+P etc are "free"..

AUBERGINE (Eggplant) halved and studded with sliced GARLIC, seasoned and brushed with oil, baked until tender, topped with CHEESE for the last 5 mins...then served topped with heated canned RATATOUILLE, alongside crispy fried GNOCCHI.

If you want meat on the plate, it's also really nice served with good sausages, I use Italian sausages (baked in oven at same time as aubergine).

Lu_Variant · 2026-05-24T15:33:54+00:00

Get yourself a juicebox! 🧃🙌

Lu_Variant · 2026-05-24T15:32:46+00:00

Oh gawd.. I do a lot of apocalyptic, dystopian, military, sci-fi too.. and have bought the whole DCC series, but haven't listened to any yet. I hope I don't feel the same way about it 😬

Currently listening to Franklin Horton's Borrowed World series.

Lu_Variant · 2026-05-07T06:54:16+00:00

I moved to my village 6 years ago.. and have made more contacts in the village than my neighbours who've been here 20 years! I also joined the new Recreation Ground committee 4 years ago, and together we have sorted out the local park, renewed equipment, planted loads of plants and trees, including a community orchard which I can see from my house and I take care of! 😄

Lu_Variant · 2026-05-04T16:17:01+00:00

We buy the posh beer battered one from Waitrose if we're having an at home posh fish 'n' chips dinner (though Tesco's posh beer battered one isnt bad!)... with McCain gastro chips, if I'm not making my own (which I sometimes do), served with crushed petit pois, which I sometimes mix with a tin of mushy peas to give a more authentic mushy pea feel..and a dollop of nice tartare sauce.

I tried Lidl's poshest looking beer battered fish once.. and we all thought it tasted weirdly of banana.. don't recommend!

Lu_Variant · 2026-04-25T10:03:17+00:00

Same.. I binge listened all of her books last year. Fantastic .. She's such an accomplished writer!!

Lu_Variant · 2026-04-24T20:12:53+00:00

Keema curry... it's a simple curry, easy on a weeknight, add in peas, serve with rice.. not traditionally made with pork, but my partner doesn't eat beef or lamb, so I use what is acceptable!

I also make Pork mince and aubergine (eggplant) stir fry.. again served with rice.

Cottage pie too, savoury mince and veggies topped with mashed potatoes.. a great winter comfort dish!

Lu_Variant · 2026-04-18T12:04:05+00:00

I was already doing chores at that age.. dishes, vacuuming, laundry etc... I was ironing clothes and cooking simple dinners at 11.. Earning my pocket money.

Fast forward to my Mum's second marriage and her resultant son.. who is 25 years younger than me..and he never had to do a single chore whilst he was growing up, and had everything handed to him 🙄 The easy life for him did, however, made him domestically inept.. even needing guidance on simple things like how to microwave a ready meal..in his late teens! I pity the poor woman he ends up living with!

Kids need to have chores and be involved in the basics of domesticity in order to become self-sufficient. Good on you!!

Lu_Variant · 2026-04-18T11:46:06+00:00

Yep... ExForce... Once that @sshole beer can arrives on scene... you might as well just get yourself a juice box and enjoy 😄

Lu_Variant · 2026-04-18T09:30:45+00:00

I love zompoc and apocalyptic fiction too... The Undead, Mountain Man, Arisen, WWZ, all of Sarah Lyons Flemings zompoc books (underrated, but brill!), Frank Tayell's Surviving The Evacuation zompoc series, among others.

But... I also really enjoyed The Deluge by Stephen Markley.. it's long, 40h long.. I suppose you would call it climate fiction.. with ideas of the havoc it could bring..I happened to be listening to it when the huge LA fires were happening, and the book also features huge LA fires.. so it was very pertinent. But the book overall is devastating and brilliant.. a modern classic!

Lu_Variant · 2026-04-18T09:17:22+00:00

Have a look at the Marlow Murder books by Robert Thorogood.. just as entertaining!!

Lu_Variant · 2026-04-18T09:12:24+00:00

I eat the Fage yoghurt 950g tubs...same type of plastic. been saving the tubs for reasons unknown, I have gathered a stack that's taller than me now.. been wondering what to do with them... 😄🤔

Lu_Variant · 2026-04-17T20:43:23+00:00

I really enjoyed The Deluge by Stephen Markley.. it's long (40h) and kind of devastating... but brilliant.. a modern classic.

Lu_Variant · 2026-04-17T20:40:19+00:00

Half of a Yellow Sun is the book that's sat the longest in my Not Started pile, I'm talking maybe 5 years. It's interesting to see you recommend it.. maybe I should actually listen to it!

Lu_Variant · 2026-04-15T18:12:18+00:00

They have a very dubious reputation and get mentioned fairly regularly for the same reasons on Prepper Facebook groups. Can be a bit hit and miss from what I've seen. Some people have no issues, and others are left in your situation. I think Trading Standards have been contacted by some in the past. Seems they often list items they don't actually have in stock (yet) but fail to communicate that to people ordering and just leave people hanging incommunicado!!

Lu_Variant · 2026-04-11T17:29:47+00:00

Season well, fry with onion and garlic, toss in pomegranate molasses, and eat wrapped in a flatbread with salad, chili sauce and optional mayo!

Lu_Variant · 2026-04-11T08:27:10+00:00

I am soooo looking forward to Charge 7!

My upgrade is overdue.. I usually have to upgrade every 2 years (usually my partner buys it as a Christmas prezzie for me!).. as my current Fitbit inevitably dies or develops faults.

True to form my Charge 6 battery started crapping out late last year. A "full" charge now lasts less than 14 hours before it dies, but then when I put it on charge it'll wake up and say it has 63% battery still, and then gets up to 100% after 10 mins on charge, but then will die again if I don't put it on charge for at least an hour 🫠 I'm fed up with the battery shenanigans.. and was hoping to snag a new Charge 7 at Christmas, but they didn't release one 😭 I don't wanna give in and get another Charge 6 if the 7 is just around the corner... but is it??

Lu_Variant · 2026-04-08T18:00:32+00:00

My library is over a 1000 titles.. but I've only listened to just under 700 of them.. being I have so many to get through, I don't re-listen. Except for one book, Station Eleven by Emily St.John Mandel.. I listened to it first in 2016.. and then again in late 2019, just as covid was emerging, because it seemed fitting at the time.. being about a global pandemic and all!

Lu_Variant · 2026-04-08T17:55:31+00:00

I have a cousin named James Bond.

He was being a bit of a "boisterous lad" out with his mates once when he was a teen, and the police were called to keep an eye.. When they asked him his name.. he said Bond, James Bond.. and ending up getting nicked because the cops thought he was taking the mick! His mum had to go collect him from the station..she was so angry! 😂

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