really old style living?

Hardup_Hester

Ok, you got me, I've had a bag of hubby's old teashirts upstairs for months thinking I might knit them into a bath mat, but after reading Katholicos's post, I've just got them out & started making myself some knickers, I may have to dye them as they are a mixture of colours, mainly yucky grey. I'll let you know how I get on.
I used to use old tea shirts to make sanitary towels, not for economy but I used to have problems with the bought ones as they brought me out in a rash.
Hester

seasalt_2

Well there's your answer Mardatha, you can grow it and sell it!

Alison_Funnell

mardatha wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/8021327/Britain-least-self-sufficient-in-food-since-1968.html
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very scarey reading ! :eek:

I was watching a programme on Eden today called Rebecca's Wild Farm about yealds and how to improve them.

Very interesting as it was question out dependancy on oil and it's products and uses for food production, transport etc.

ginnyknit

Well that was a very interesting read. I think I will sit and re read it all tomorrow when I am not so tired. Theres one thing that does stand out immeadiately though - Global warming is not a fallacy but a man made disaster. And we are all doing the right thing on here - boy scouts code - Be prepared. Im not being a scaremonger as I think most of you who know me realise, I research (like my buddy Mardatha) everything and I think hard before I comment.

ceridwen

Yep...no ostriches here on this thread.

It would also be useful to know any tips anyone has for dealing with the fear about this. Life is scarey anyways at the best of times - but knowing all this doesnt exactly help ones peace of mind:cool:. I've tried a few sessions of the "Heart and Soul" Transition Group meetings - ie the sub-group that caters for how are WE personally (the person/emotions sitting there inside our head and hearts) going to cope with the transition to a Post Peak Oil Society. Errr....I find them a bit "far-out" for me. I'm basically a very pragmatic/practical sorta person and thats what I want to concentrate on - so that sub-group isnt my scene personally.

So - I get into cooking/food preservation and I'm fine while I'm doing something "concrete". I go for long walks anywhere country-ish I can find - and again ..fine..;provided theres not hoards of people or their rubbish arround...but I cant keep walking and cooking constantly.

So - any comments from anyone else about how they deal with the fears about the sort of society we are transitioning towards welcome please..:)

mardatha

personally I think it a waste of energy to worry at all about things outwith our control. Always there are global fears & problems - in the 50s it was nuclear bombs; in the 60s it was the Russians or flying saucers; then we discovered we could worry ourselves sick with the ozone layer/extinction of many species/global warming/peak oil.
Why not just get up every morning and get on with life, and deal with problems and crisises (?) as and when they arise ? Watch the birds, the sky, the stars - last night the moon was awesome. There are many many magic things in this life & so many people fail to see them
God, that makes me sound like one of those happy clappy wee wannabee sunbeams . Does that sound like me? NOOOOOO!
I am content though, and content is what makes you happy. Not money, not holidays, not designer clothes. As my mum would have said (and did, very very often) go out and play and content yerself !:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

ceridwen

Sounds like cue for a song Mardatha..."if you're happy and you know it clap your hands. If you're happy and you know it clap your hands. If you're happy and you know it, happy and you know it, happy and you know it - clap your hands".:whistle::silenced:

Errr....slinks off...thinking "whoops ..shades of a Christian church I belonged to briefly WAY back....." Mardathas hair will turn grey again...

ChocClare

My mum was just saying the other day how worried she was when she was pregnant with my brother in 1963 because of the Cuban missile crisis. She said she and Daddy really thought the world was going to come to an end because nuclear war seemed such a very real possibility and what would happen to their baby (me) and their unborn baby (Simon). They were aged 26 and 23 respectively and were worried sick. I agree with Mardatha on this. Preparation is a good idea in terms of practical things but worrying only makes you ill. Psychiatrists say that most people who suffer from anxiety-related disorders worry about things that will never happen, and make themselves ill in the process.

Happy-clappy or not, sufficient unto the day are the evils thereof :T (did you like my happy-clappy smilie??!!)

mardatha

If I could be bothered to get off the couch, I'd do the wee happy clappy dance. But I cant, so I wont. :rotfl:
I was out a walk earlier and the hedges are full of those red berries that you see on the front of xmas cards - I cannot for the life of remember what theyre called :mad: If they last long enough then a vase full of them would make a gorgeous old style xmas table decoration.
If I had a table. :rotfl: a breakfast bar decoration hasnt got quite the same ambiance has it ...:D

ChocClare

um... holly?