go out and buy your candles

Cleaver

honeypopper wrote: »

My friend has a candle factory and business is booming. Maybe people are stocking up.

My friend has a candle factory too and he said business is on fire at the moment. Maybe people are at the end of their wick with electricity.

ceridwen

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have a wind up LED torch .... if there's no leccy I'll be sleeping. There's only so much fun you can have home alone with a wind up torch (wind for 1 minute, light for 20 minutes). I can only do 2 shadow puppets... I'd be bored after 4 minutes.

Got a wind-up radio then Pastures? If so - you could listen to something of a bit more "intellectual" variety on Radio 4.

Think I'm sorted somehows:
- wind-up lantern - check
- wind-up torch - check
- wind-up radio - check
- camping gaz hotplate - check
- camping gaz fire - check
- Kelly Kettle - check

"gaz" canisters and loadsa loadsa candles/matches - check

SingleSue

We have huge candles ready for any power cuts....they have come in handy in the recent past.

If the worse did happen, I would get my old camping stove out of the loft and cook on there....plus if it continued, find an old car battery and hook up our camping light too!

I always knew there was a reason my parents took us on camping holidays (which I continued into adult life before children)....it was to be able to cope in crisis times! :rotfl:

Davesnave

The cuts of the 70s were in the winter when nights were long and cold. If they strike now, everyone will just sit around their chimeneas, gas patio heaters or whatever, drink a few extra glasses of wine and think up other ways to increase their carbon boot mark.

Jonbvn

At last - some use for the tin-foil hats!

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

PasturesNew wrote: »

I remember the power cuts of the 70s. The schedule of when you were going to be without electricity was published in the local paper. We would have toast for tea, cooked over the fire using a toasting fork.

Not many people with open fires these days.

It was good fun though.
It was amazing what you learned to cook on a little primus stove and the candlelight was very romantic.Our youngest daughter's proof of that.
I'm always well prepared for any power cuts but I doubt we'll get any.

Generali

Jonbvn wrote: »

At last - some use for the tin-foil hats!

You can drink your cup-a-soup out of it!

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Some dumb person is bound to have a solid fuel BBQ in their house

kennyboy66_2

The sun rises at about 4:30am at the moment and sets at about 9:45pm.



Why do I need candles ?

Harry_Powell

They have some solar garden lights on special in the local petrol station, if they're anything like those my parents have, they'll give out about as much light as a birthday cake candle. I suppose if I held a book really close to the light, I'd just about manage to discern that the book was written in English.

My armageddon preparations are sadly lacking compared with some of you guys. Thank god I found this part of MSE. I'm out shopping for camping gear this evening!!