Preparedness for when

Good to have you on board siegemode, look forward to sharing ideas.

dazi thanks for the link, every bit helps.

ginnyknit wrote: »

Good to have you on board siegemode, look forward to sharing ideas.

Thanks
Other things that concern my are the emp threat and heath and medical stuff.
I see people are stocking up with loo rolls etc I have packs of wet wipes and get anxious if we go below 75 loo rolls :rotfl:
I have books on food for free and survival but without my reading glasses and magnifying glass I have probs with the print !

:hello:Hello and welcome, siegemode, glad to have you posting and hope that many more lurkers will come out to play.

It's interesting (well, it interests me, anyway ) to savour the mood of the times, as it were, that zeitgeisty thingummy wotsit, as media-types are wont to call it.

It seems to me that the mood of the times is one of nagging anxiety and retrenchment. We've had a long time of rising costs outstripping real incomes, whether those incomes are wages, pensions, benefits or a pot pourri of all of them.

Nitwits on the news can say that grocery price inflation is up by X% (usually under 10%) but every observant person who shops knows that some things are more than double the price they were a couple of years back.

So, we cut our coat according to our cloth, and go downbrand in true MSE style, and still find that even modest basics and tiddly little treats are going up 20-50% from one day to another. Prices flicker up and down like fireflies, and I find myself leaping on a bargain with glee only to stop and recall that, not very long ago, what now seems like a fantastic deal was the everyday price.

I mean, I know transportation and energy costs have gone up but why the heck has a 10-pack of Floralys t.p. leapt from £1.27 to £1.89 in a year? Anyone in the t.p. business present? Because I'd surely love to know.

We live in times where the everyday stuff is becoming costly, where are incomes are static or even falling, where employment is precarious and its T & Cs parlous. It's looking a lot like the bad old days and I really don't want to do the 1970s again. Fer cryin' out loud, it was bad enough the first time around.:(

To cap it all, our respective Gubments are unblushing about having our worst interests at heart, and are acting with malice-aforethought towards large sections of society. And I feel it's only a matter of time before they come for the rest.

Not surprising that a sensitive person would feel anxious about the future, wanting to protect themselves, and their loved ones, whether those are a circle of friends and neighbours and/ or your own relatives. Plenty of anxious mums and dads, and grannies and grandads, out there in RL.

Sooo, prepping is the mood of the moment, to try to cover ourselves against some of the predicatable woes. And, if some people feel that there is a great and beneficent Them out there, a BigDaddy or SuperMum, who will ride to the rescue in their hour of need..................

I envy you. Seriously. Because I don't feel safe and protected in that way and think it would be great (in a way) to be so oblivious of potential harm.

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OK, the evening essay endeth here.....:rotfl:

Is anyone else here registered with the Environment Agency Floodline alerts? And, if you are, are they bombarding you with emails and automated phone messages to check that your contact details are up-to-date and that you've made a floodplan?

I've been with them for a couple of years and never heard a peep from them and there's all this stuff all of a sudden. Makes me wonder if the EA are bracing for serious winter flooding are trying to get us registered persons to up our game?

Be interested to hear anyone else's experiences.

Gonna have supper shortly and then will play with the scanner to get some more receipts etc onto file then onto removable storage, which shall be removed to somewhere about 200 ft higher above sea-level and a lot further from a river than my pint-sized pleasure palace.

Laters, GQ xx