Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Just sitting here thinking that I'd be the only person over the age of 12 who would break into the nearest sweetie shop if the SHTF :rotfl::rotfl:

I'm planning to kidnap my dentist and hold his services to ransom in a post-SHTF world.

Tell ya, a good dentist in your tribe will be worth a lot of barter goods.....................

katieclampet

Some good advice re getting other members on board. Might try the bag idea, without prefacing it with Bug Out!! Thanks

katie

ALIBOBSY

Sorry about your aunt Annie. Sounds like she is on the mend though.

BIL is going from strength to strength, he still is weak and can't stand or walk too far. But is managing to potter around and now is cooking for himself as he got sick of the ready meals SIL kept giving him.

OH says its like getting his "old" brother back now. Shows how much the drink effected his personality. He has a permanent stoma bag and is now diabetic so he will be effected permanently. But he is looking to return to work over the summer . He works in a shopping centre and they have said he can go in the office all the time now rather than doing the gates etc. So he will be able to sit down all day and potter around when he needs to move. TBH the company have been great with him.

Been loving the weather here, eating loads of salad leaves and herbs from the garden. My broadies look great really big and starting to form flowers. Got flowers on the strawberries and the fruit trees and bushes are dripping with blossoms. My peas are starting to flower and even have some courgettes and runner beans now in the ground and looking great. Potatos are getting bigger now as well. Been doing the slug run at night, not found many but there are a few less left in the garden now .

Went to a free compost thing run by the council today. It was due to start at 11, but when we arrived at 10.45 people were already loading up.

No offence to pensioners, but I have never seen a group of silver haired peeps move so fast ROFL. They were filling all sort of pots/boxes and bags. I saw an older lady who was 80 if she was a day crawling onto the heap and filling hessian shopping bags with her hands-we offered to help, but she just smiled and said she was fine.

We were in a minority under pension age I would say lol, but it was lovely to see so many people loving recycling and I assume gardeners-plenty of wellies and old fleeces around.

We estimate the amount we have would have costed easily £25-£30 in the shops. TBH no one was limiting what people took (they had said in the paper just 2 "bags" per person, but no bags were provided just a big heap dumped on a car park), but we didn't like to take too much as we felt it was only fair to let others get some.

The compost is from the recycling centre and comes from all the garden waste. Its lovely and fine and looks good enough to grow seeds in, but probably too fine to fill a raise bed on its own. All in all a real bargain-you can't beat free can you .

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

katieclampet wrote: »

Some good advice re getting other members on board. Might try the bag idea, without prefacing it with Bug Out!! Thanks

katie

What about just calling it an emergency bag? Makes it sound more like a back up plan should the worst happen-along the lines of a smoke detector or spare tyre.
My OH is sometime worse than me though, he loves his parafin lamps and fire pit in the garden and has plenty of the windup lights:T. Trouble is keeping him from spending too much on prepping.

Ali x

VJsmum

Glad to hear of the improvement in your BIL ali

My kelly kettle has arrived Big innit? I did buy the biggest but it's still bigger than anticipated. Gonna try it out later.

My shewee has also arrived I guess if the fire in the kettle gets too big, I could use the shewee to extinguish :eek:

Shame there's no snow to write my name in :rotfl:

pineapple

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

What about just calling it an emergency bag? Makes it sound more like a back up plan should the worst happen-along the lines of a smoke detector or spare tyre.

Excellent idea. I'm not over fond of the term anyway as I have no intention of bugging out - not under canvas anyway! I see the Urban Dictionary has it as 'British army slang' and to me it does have vaguely rambo-esque connotations

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Hi everyone, ALI nice to hear that your BIL is so improved, such good news and a weight off your shoulders yes? Nice too that his employers are being so accommodating with him , that is a lovely thing!!! Re pensioners and compost, I suspect that lots of older folks are also feeling the pinch if they have only small pensions and if they have the wherewithall to grow some of thier own food, even if it is in pots on a balcony they will be doing it more and more as this recession goes on, and good for them too!!!

VJsMUM enjoy the kelly kettle, the tea made outside with one of those is ambrosial, you'll see!!!!

My lot are convinced I'm barmy anyway but they can see some sense in having more in store than 3 days worth, even if they will find it difficult to make full meals from what they have in the cupboards, but at least they won't starve. Where they are enthusiastic is in the gardening even the DD who has a flat grows everything she can in pots and makes jam and preserves and her own bread and they both sew and knit well too. DD1 who now has a garden to play with has invested in fruit trees and bushes and has a fair sized greenhouse which is heaving with seedlings this year, good for they is how I feel, they will have a good future whatever happens!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

fuddle

Same here re: food stocks. Larger family accept why I have more in than an average family and that is because money has dried up on more than a few occasions and at least food isn't something I worry about funding.

The minute I mention BOBs or survival beyond candles in our homeit goes a bit pear shaped and understanding wanes. DH is a good, grounds bloke but when we moved he dismantled my BOB (held in a shopping trolley) and put everything in home stock.

I'm at the point where, living so close to a river and DH finding customers amongst M'boro's chemical plants and seeing W1lton's stack burning and smoking brightly of late it has made him think about emergency evactuation but only in terms of a couple of nights in a leisure centre. Still, that's a start and happily to report that the trolley will be in use again as the 'evac bag'.

D&DD

ooh I had a lovely day at the shops

Bargain alert Robert Dyas had 12 pack kilner seals @ £2 off so £1.99 a pack cheapest I've seen this year so I bought a few :cool:

They also had the cucamelons I wanted to try growing but refused to pay obscene amounts for few seeds £1.89 for 20 seeds so got a packet to try.
Also picked up the Kilner preserving kit for *drumroll* £4 Diddy colander,jam funnel,muslin,jam spoon and labels all of which will come in handy.

Then off to the 99p shop and I found packs of those vacuum roll bag things for packing,3 for 99p was worth a punt.
Gas for lighters and cobb lighter thing and a pack of disposable lighters.

Soo all in all a useful trip.

VJ'smum glad to hear your shopping arrived safely would be intrigued to know how you get on with them both!

Ali so pleased to hear BIL is chugging along nicely still

This wind is getting a bit silly here today now..hazards of living on an airfield I s'pose..:D

lovefullshelves

Ello, ooh its windy, my poor little plants that I put outside yesterday are all windswept and sad.
My teenage son is all for preperation, he is a zombie addict (like his mum:D ) and scenarios are more fun with a "what if a reanimation virus started to spread, what would you do?"
I tried that with my daughter and her partner, but they are past hope! All I got was it'll never happen.(Not just zombies, poweroutages, snow, storms, terrorism, government, job loss) Nothing bad happens here. Seems they never listen to the alternative news channels!
My OH just lets me get on with it. He thought I was weird when we first met, now he KNOWS I am!! He built me food shelves (full ones now!) He sorted out my rain water catchment:) Is trying to figure out rainwater flush for the toilet next! He has even started to look at solar indoor lights as he's figured we live somewhere that is likely to lose power, especially on nights like tonight. (trees touch the electric wires..zap, flash, darkness)