Preparedness for when

Butterfly_Brain

jk0 wrote: »

I just came across this story of survival in Bosnia that might interest you folks. As a newby, I can't post links, but search for: One Year In Hell…Surviving a Full SHTF Collapse in Bosnia

http://www.survivallife.com/2013/05/02/some-things-are-never-lost-in-translation/

Butterfly_Brain

mardatha wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek: I not eatin anything that has ANTENNAE!

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BB I envy you the Red Kite, I first saw one in the south about 10 or 11 years ago on Binfield Common near Reading, very soon after the first release of captive bred birds. I couldn't believe the wingspan as it came along the hedgeline towards us. They are so beautiful and you can't mistake the 'Fishtail' can you. I love to see them spreading further out and it's the big joy to watch out for them when we're driving to see the girls and using the motorway as they both live in the South West. Always makes me sooooo excited to see them manouvering in the sky, lovely!!! Cheers Lyn.

MAR it's OK I have the solution to the antennae

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A pair of scissors!!!! Clever aren't I, Lyn xxx.

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Just received my super cheap, super lightweight, gas stove.

As the saying goes, "it does exactly what it says on the tin", at least it would if it had a tin.

Comes in a bright orange plastic box, measuring just 78mm x 53mm x 40mm, with a total weight (stove and box) of 115g.

Throw in a C100 gas cannister, and you have stove and fuel for less than 300g.

The stove (which also has Piezo ignition) cost just £5-11. :cool:

RAS

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

we also watched a red kite hovering in on its prey at a barbecue we were at on Saturday, who needs technology when you have beauty like that nearby

In the winter they hover over the allotments and park, but seem to prefer elsewhere in summer.

When I get the bus up to a town to the north I rate it by kites; the best was four each way. Lovely birds to watch soaring.

Coming back from Wales recently I saw behaviour I had never seen previously; a whole group was hovering a few feet above a recently mown field. When I exclaimed a fellow passenger explained that he could often tell which field had been mown by the kites' low hovering. They are searching for casulties (eek).

metherer

Bob, that sounds like a good deal. Do let us know how it works, once you test it.

The butterfly talk has reminded me - has anyone else seen a lot of dead bees around? I seem to see 3 or 4 dead on the pavement most days.

Albert Einstein said: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination … no more men!”

Food for thought. It is ok having seeds etc stored up, but would we be in a position to pollinate everything by hand??

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metherer wrote: »

Bob, that sounds like a good deal. Do let us know how it works, once you test it.

I've already tested it.

Piezo ignition lit it first click, and it has plenty of power.

Boiled 18oz of water, in my GSI cup (no lid), in under 4 minutes.

metherer

excellent boiling time. thanks for letting me know

elona

Bedsit Bob

CS is "charity shop" and it surprising how often they have new stuff with tag still on.

Had evening meal in garden as weather turned sunny and loaded up dishwasher so enjoying telly with feet up.

Scary thought about the bees and as dd who studied biological sciences remarked "We are on a fragile ecosystem" :eek:

GreyQueen

metherer wrote: »

Bob, that sounds like a good deal. Do let us know how it works, once you test it.

The butterfly talk has reminded me - has anyone else seen a lot of dead bees around? I seem to see 3 or 4 dead on the pavement most days.

Albert Einstein said: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination … no more men!”

Food for thought. It is ok having seeds etc stored up, but would we be in a position to pollinate everything by hand??

They have to hand-polinated the fruit trees in one part of China, at great difficulty, because they killed off all the bees and other polinating insects with pesticides. Think I saw it in the Nat Geo magazine at the Dr's one somewhere.

http://thebeephotographer.photoshelter.com/gallery/-/G0000M46TBQX4Odc/

Were the dead bees bumblers or honey bees? Worker honey bees live only 3 weeks once they're working so it may be that they've just worn out. I'm a nutjob and have been known to rescue bumblers in distress from pavements.

Once, in the city centre, I picked one up which was seconds away from being trampled; it seemed knackered. As there was a flower-seller nearby, I asked if I could put it into one of their flowers and they agreed without hesitation.

I once found a conked-out honey bee at the folks' place, moving but very weakly, and made up a few drops of sugar solution which I placed near her. She supped them up and flew away a few mins later. Dunno if she was just tired out or dying, but you can only do what you can do.

Been on my lottie picking broad beans, pollinated by my trusty winged pals. A tolerated trespassing Common Mallow is full of blossoms and full of bees, as are my sunflowers.

A passing lottie pal (pensioner geezer) demanded to know why I was growing sunflowers as you can't eat them, and I told him it was for the bees. A couple of years back, he was having to mist his runner beans to get the blossoms to set as he had no bees. I led him down to my runners, all of 50 meters away, which had 3 species of bumblers and honey bees on them at the time.

Bees are special. Hug a bee today, you know it makes sense.

I'e just ordered that book that Bedsit Bob mentioned, the 10 Billiion one by Stephen Emmott. Be a while but the library will get it in the end.

Bob, cs = charity shop. Sometimes also known as chazzers or charries. Glad to hear that bargains have been found. Isn't it satisfying to dress yourself well for pennies on the pound compared to what these things cost the original purchasers?

All together now; I'm just a Secondhand Rose, wearing secondhand clothes..........la la.