Preparedness for when

nuatha

daz378 wrote: »

i still have plenty of them old fashioned things called books , dont need plugging in and plenty of lighting options ... bought more batteries today... phase two operation clean flat... today its the kitchen... wish me luck im going in

ginnyknit wrote: »

daz if we dont hear from you in a few days send out a flare - you do have flares dont you...OMG what if you get lost at sea

Just how big is this kitchen :rotfl:

ALIBOBSY

My sympathies to pineapple I assume you are now healing ouch! Nice to see 2T is settling in to her new place and back to posting.

I suspect rather than and all out with power that we will get rolling power cuts like in the 70's so will need alternatives for cooking and lighting, but best to prep for the worst case.

Did anyone else watch the recent Simpsons episode where Homer became a prepper . I loved his false wall in the basement with all his preps hidden behind. As soon as it showed the line up of rucksacks me and OH were shouting bug out bags as Homer said the words to Marg :rotfl:.

I liked the idea on here about buying up old board games and jigsaws from CS for entertainment (someone on here posted this I think)and books never go out of fashion :T. Mind you I do love my kindle and would miss it once the charge went. Would also miss the internet far more than TV-that said watched a lot this week as love my tennis.

Garden is doing great, loads of pods on the peas/broadbeans and French beans-runners just flowering, plenty of green Toms just waiting to ripen, loads of salad leaves, spinach, chard and pak choi not to mention shed loads of herbs. My calabrese is forming nicely into heads and had the first few strawberries. So loving my garden.

OH's self employed and has been a lot busier the last month or so, so financially feeling better as well, BUT had some bad news about BIL.

After all that happened at the start of 2013 we were amazed when he went back to work at the start of June, but he seemed to be doing well. Then this week we find he hasn't changed his diet at all despite being on insulin and he had "a few larger shandies" on a long weekend away with SIL and her parents. TBH I would say they have alcohol problems as they took 13 bottles of wine with them for "after the on site bar shuts".

He had been going to the pub with his mates still and drinking alcohol free-we all said this was a bad idea and he should change his routines, but he wouldn't.

BIL also says he has had some "low alcohol wine", but to me 4% is still more than he should have. He is now talking as though he isn't an alcoholic and just needs to cut down and he will "be fine". TBH SIL won't have it if you refer to him as an alcoholic, and wouldn't even accept it from the Dr's in hospital.
Our conclusion is he is admitting some stuff to cover for the rest of his drinking.

Latest this week is his blood tests show a drop in Liver function and he needs surgery straight away to remove his gall bladder which has now failed. Given his previous operations this has to be open surgery not keyhole so major again and its clear he is drinking again. MIL sat and cried on the phone to OH as she just doesn't know what to do . I don't suppose you can help someone who won't be helped. Perhaps another spell in hospital might shake him up.

Ah well onwards and upwards.

Ali x

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ALI I add to the list a SOLAR CHARGER for recharging kindles and phones and I.Pods we have one, it really works well on the phones and His I.Pod have just asked him about the kindle and he says you'd probably have to top up the kindle every day but it would enable it to stay charged enough to be read. I think our small charger was well under £10 to buy. Cheers Lyn xxx.

siegemode

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

ALI I add to the list a SOLAR CHARGER for recharging kindles and phones and I.Pods we have one, it really works well on the phones and His I.Pod have just asked him about the kindle and he says you'd probably have to top up the kindle every day but it would enable it to stay charged enough to be read. I think our small charger was well under £10 to buy. Cheers Lyn xxx.

Can you tell us which solar charger you have please ? We've looked at loads but the reviews on them range from mixed to down right rubbish. Thanks

ALIBOBSY, So sad to hear about your bil. I fear that without the support from his wife and acceptance by them both that he is an alcoholic there is little anyone can do to help him. I have experience of this. I thought my oh was just a social drinker when we met and got together 12 yrs back and after falling in love discovered he was self medicating with the drink. 8 difficult years it took for him to accept that it would kill him and our relationship and that he was indeed an alcoholic. I had given up drink by this time just to stay in control of situations and the only way we coped and made it through was to stop socialising with anyone that drank. We never had any drink in and I would never drink either. He had to hit rock bottom first to realise things had to change and it wasn't pretty and quite traumatic for me. 4 years on and I am safe to have a bottle of wine and he has a alcohol free beer. I discovered Bavaria beer sold in most supermarkets and he is quite happy and feels much healthier.

In contrast bil sadly drunk himself to death. He too had used drink as a form of self medication to deal with things and knew the score as did sil, but sil wouldn't give up the drink (with which she also has problems now) and so it was a very unhappy ending and he was only 50.
I am sure that you all do what you can but as said, you can't help those that can't see a problem and are not willing to be helped. I wish you all well and hope that soon he will see the light. Big hugs to you all for trying.

boultdj

Carpet sweeper for us that have carpet's
Food flask as well as normal flask, useful for the one's who have to go to work during powercut's or who are looking after elderly/poorly relation's.
Water proof foot wear.......and lot's of sock's including bedsock's

thriftwizard

Also add: maps, particularly of local cities. Satnav would still work in a power cut, but not after an EMP. Before now I've been amazed by people in tears in our little town, because their satnav's stopped working & they have no idea at all where they are; some of them only lived a couple of streets away!

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SIEGEMODE we found the mobile charger on E.B*y last year when we had all the worry about DD2 being in Brooklyn during Hurricane Sandy and she hadn't got a charger with her. We got 2, one each. He Who Knows has just put in a search on Fleabay for 'solar mobile phone charger' and there is one on there exactly the same as ours for £11.95 and free postage, so the price has climbed up a bit since last year. There is no manufacturers name on the box it came in it just says VERSATILE SOLAR CHARGER on the outside, and it is marked Made in China on the papers inside. Sorry I can't be more help than that, hope it's enough, Cheers Lyn xxx.

siegemode

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

SIEGEMODE we found the mobile charger on E.B*y last year when we had all the worry about DD2 being in Brooklyn during Hurricane Sandy and she hadn't got a charger with her. We got 2, one each. He Who Knows has just put in a search on Fleabay for 'solar mobile phone charger' and there is one on there exactly the same as ours for £11.95 and free postage, so the price has climbed up a bit since last year. There is no manufacturers name on the box it came in it just says VERSATILE SOLAR CHARGER on the outside, and it is marked Made in China on the papers inside. Sorry I can't be more help than that, hope it's enough, Cheers Lyn xxx.

Thanks I'll have a look, it's one of those things at the top of my wish list.

GreyQueen

thriftwizard wrote: »

Also add: maps, particularly of local cities. Satnav would still work in a power cut, but not after an EMP. Before now I've been amazed by people in tears in our little town, because their satnav's stopped working & they have no idea at all where they are; some of them only lived a couple of streets away!

I must admit, when I first became aware of satnav, I thought Nah, that'll never catch on, people aren't that stupid.

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

Shows how misguided I was, huh? I unashamedly admit to adoring maps. Ordinance Surveys, A-Z, even little freebie streetmaps. I always want to have a map and also a spatial sense of where I am in relation to other things. It's as natural to me as breathing. I've loved them all my life, and my father before me. He has OS maps from just about everywhere he has ever visited.

In a SHTF situation, maps are going to be golden. Especially given the modern habit of tweaking road signs out in the countryside to send you thru/ past a particular village or town. If I'm walking or biking, I don't want to be sent the pretty way around, I want and need the shortest route from A to B.

Thinking of one particular B road I know where they've interferred with the signage as you go from the market town to the big village with the tourist attraction so that you drive a loop about 3 miles out of your way, to enter the village from the opposite direction (a mile from the edge on the far side and thus near the attraction and not taking traffic thru the village).

Fine, if you're in motorised transport. Not fine if you're pushbiking or walking and want the village not the attraction on its far periphery.

I don't need maps anywhere within a 15 mile radius of my hometown as I grew up biking all over those roads and I worked as a delivery driver for the best part of a year there as an adult and have gone all over the area. I loved the sense of being out and about and the fact that me and mine knew what was happening all over the area we covered. Or the bits that were visible from the road anyway.

I often encounter people in my neighbourhood who are trying to get into the centre which is all of 5 mins stroll away. They are ususally heading exactly 180 degrees away from it. You only have to look up to see where the middle is; even if you were a stranger in town, it's not rocket science to understand that the cathedral is likely to be in the middle of an ancient cathedral city, and if the middle it what you're after, look for that tall thing.......

siegemode

Hi,
Have found some ys salmon fillets that I froze on 10th April last year and I've got them defrosting on the side for tea. I'm a little unsure if they are ok to eat, what do you recon ?
They are in vacuum type packaging. I feel apprehensive and don't want to poison oh ! after all he's not insured and worth more to me alive

Thanks