Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?

morag1202

vivatifosi wrote: »

Arount these parts you can at times get wind up threads too;)

Would that be some kind of fishing reel? or perhaps part of a DIY appendectomy kit?

lostinrates

We also have wind up merchants and people easily wound up round these parts. Perhaps, in wind up stakes we are rather better prepard than average?

pinkteapot

We bought a huge hamper of choccies from Thorntons in their pre-Christmas sale and still have half of them left. That should see us through for a bit.

My other half has coeliac disease (gluten-free diet) and so gets staples such as bread and pasta on prescription. He gets a supply monthly so if armageddon comes at the right point during the month we'll have a freezer full of gluten-free bread. Though even during armageddon I'm not sure I'd want to eat it.

Davesnave

morag1202 wrote: »

You can get wind up radios too

I know. A friend of mine, now dead, had the idea long before they were available. Should have patented it.

Generali

Davesnave wrote: »

I know. A friend of mine, now dead, had the idea long before they were available. Should have patented it.

If I had a pound for every friend of mine that should have patented an idea I'd have two quid.

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

I know. A friend of mine, now dead, had the idea long before they were available. Should have patented it.

Everybody has ideas.... what makes money is taking those ideas through to a prototype, testing it and patenting it - at a price greater than many people earn in a lifetime.

That's why stuff doesn't get patented/invented, it's a heck of a long and expensive route between idea and article.

For years I've had a brilliant idea for blind people (about 30 years) .... and now there's some modern technology that'd take it closer to being very very easy to do.... but I won't do it as I don't have the muneh to get a prototype/patent .... it's just an idea.... and can now be done with an app I bet.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's why stuff doesn't get patented/invented, it's a heck of a long and expensive route between idea and article.

Or stuff gets into the clutches of a large company, who say, "We'll pay to develop this with you" and it never sees the light of day. Stops competitors selling it, though.

I have a patented plant. It cost £4k to patent it, plus an annual admin fee. A very famous nursery company put the money up front, but they've never done much with it. The costs haven't even been covered.

And lest anyone says, "Typical British business!" it's owned by Americans nowadays.

RenovationMan

lostinrates wrote: »

The thing we have instead of a septic tank produced drinking water from our urdure. Not sure i would test it if there were any other choice in the world, but....nice to know that we have our own water supply, if somewhat unconventional. After that we re reliant on the rain water caputrue system...now, we had the hose pumpinng tynat out for a few months .

Blimey LiR, are you typing this with numb fingers in a cold house, or have you been at the cooking sherry!

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

The thing we have instead of a septic tank produced drinking water from our ordure. Not sure I would test it if there were any other choice in the world, but....nice to know that we have our own water supply, if somewhat unconventional. After that we're reliant on the rain water capture system...Now, we had the hose pumping that out for a few months solid last year, and the year before, and still we have not seen the bottom. It refills to the top each time, so we should be ok........if we can boil the water. I think in the medium term self providence for firewood would be a problem. We have a few dozen leylandii in the barn for next winter, and three oak trees; the willows would be no good at all, and any thing else too weedy or too young.

RenovationMan wrote: »

Blimey LiR, are you typing this with numb fingers in a cold house, or have you been at the cooking sherry!

Looks fyne to me. Mast be your colputer plying up!