Preparedness for when

westcoastscot

Mar/Jennie I do think you have to be careful burning a wood/coal combo - we have a lined chimney which is cleaned/checked twice a year. It is better to just burn smokeless coal but as we have a good cheap source of wood we use that as well. As I get less able i'll go over to just coal myself - ours is £18 a bag.
I love my stove :-)

westlothianlass

Hi all
Just realised I didnt have a decent first aid book (and its been a while since i did any first aid training) so have purchased one from the rainforest shop for 1p & p&P and its an up to date one:j :j,
( I have a feeling the zombie section might be a bit sparce though;)).
Feeling a bit of a twit as was reading your posts about fire bricks going ooh ahhh need those, and then saw pic doh we have them I just didn't know what they were:rotfl:, well you live and learn eh ladies and gents.

WLL x

Butterfly_Brain

Wilkinsons do a chimney cleaner for £1.30

ginnyknit

Zippy thats an excellent comment on pet food, they are part of the family and need to be considered, I only have cats and a rabbit at the mo but usually have a shed full of rescued rabbits and guinea pigs - I buy their food by the sack so would need to stock up. I have a few boxes of economy dried cat food which will keep the cats going and they will eat it if there is nothing else - Im lucky rescues usually are not fussy and I do try to keep all my animals on a variety of foods as I slipped up with a cat early on in my adult life and let it get addicted to a certain cat food and it was a rod for my own back. It different of course if they have medical issues or are working dogs.

2tonsils, very interesting to hear how you cope, although not good that you have to :eek: You sound very sensible and are giving me food for thought. Do you have friends who are not organised ? Im sure you see some people who are in a bad way?

I dearly wish the HA that rents us our house was more helpful and would let us open the fireplace up. They are terrible and are more concerned if you front garden is neat - just had a nasty letter as I hadnt trimmed the hedge and lawn - postage stamp size - I would be fined if its not done. E mailed a message to them that I cannot do much due to our situation, although the other day I took the shears to the hedge (cannot use power tools as they leave me with the shakes) and they will get some one to , grudgingly, do it for me next year. TBH I have far more on my mind than a straggly garden, its ok apart from that as I picked low maintenance plants. they will fine you if you dont toe the line - do they realise the world is falling apart out there :mad:

Confuzzled

westlothianlass wrote: »

Hi all
Just realised I didnt have a decent first aid book (and its been a while since i did any first aid training) so have purchased one from the rainforest shop for 1p & p&P and its an up to date one:j :j,
( I have a feeling the zombie section might be a bit sparce though;)).

i think that section is just a few lines

HOW TO SAVE ZOMBIE: they are beyond saving

HOW TO SAVE YOURSELF IF BITTEN/SCRATCHED BY ZOMBIE: Shoot self in head/bash with stone/have friend bash head etc




another book that's good to have other than the old standby the SAS survival guide is a fairly recent nurses guide to uk medicines. now these are for serious SHTF scenarios but i picked one up off ebay for a few quid, it's useful to know what kinds of medicine will help what kinds of common illnesses as well as any other info that might be needed in regard to using them. not all antibiotics for example, will work well for all kinds of infections. so if you had to raid a chemist or a hospital or peoples homes in a bug out, fall of civilisation sort of scenario knowing what to take is very important as we can't stock up on stuff like this legally in this country as far as i'm aware.

jeanniefaethecarse

Something I've found really handy in getting prepared for all sorts of things is this open-source mind mapping type tool. Hope it's not too ot to post.
My sis sent it me a couple of weeks ago and I put in headings like car, first aid kit- that type of things, and sub headings with eg. Car sub heading antifreeze, wipers, winter kit, that type of thing so I can see everything as a sort of spider diagram.
I find it easier to use than a list as I can see all the categories at the same time and skip between them as ideas strike me.

Confuzzled

jeanniefaethecarse wrote: »

Something I've found really handy in getting prepared for all sorts of things is this open-source mind mapping type tool. Hope it's not too ot to post.
My sis sent it me a couple of weeks ago and I put in headings like car, first aid kit- that type of things, and sub headings with eg. Car sub heading antifreeze, wipers, winter kit, that type of thing.
I find it easier to use than a list as I can see all the categories at the same time and skip between them.

actually that's a brilliant tool thank you for sharing, i home educate and i'm self employed and i can see this as also being useful for planning ahead for both of those areas as well as for emergency planning.

jeanniefaethecarse

Confuzzled I home educated too, my eldest daughter completely & my eldest son only went to school at 14. (The two youngest ones started at about half and three quarters of the way through primary school) I agree, it would be a very useful bit of open source software for HE as there's more to it than mind maps what with the planner etc. Glad you like it

skintscotslass

Confuzzled wrote: »

i think that section is just a few lines

HOW TO SAVE ZOMBIE: they are beyond saving

HOW TO SAVE YOURSELF IF BITTEN/SCRATCHED BY ZOMBIE: Shoot self in head/bash with stone/have friend bash head etc

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I wanna see Cockneys vs Zombies!!

jeanniefaethecarse

I'm really excited! We're in the process of buying the flat we've lived in for years, and not done anything with (because it's not been ours). It belonged to a relative who let it lie fallow for about 50 years, so obviously there's a lot to be done, but DH and I have been having a confab about what we wanted from our home and I put forward this idea...
It has a utility room where we keep the chest freezer, washing machine etc with a space under the stairs. This space under the stairs (which is a fair size) is now going to be my pantry/storecupboard! We just have to sort out lay-out, shelving, that type of thing. (all layout suggestions welcome)
It will make such a difference to my food-preparedness, as currently everything is stored around the house (AF cous cous and tins of tomatoes behind books in the bookcase???- please tell me someone else does this.... anyone???)
Just had to post, as I feel there may be some kindred spirits out there who will relate to my glee