Preparedness for when

meme30

Sorry PAH both our A*da and S**nsbury's had lots of Basics in, so it looks like it's just you.:(

I have no idea about running a freezer from a solar panel Mar. We used to use an inverter (yes still got it!) because we were allowed to run a generator until 9pm only (noisy) then we would get 240v from 12v car batteries via an inverter. Using batteries this way draws down a lot of power very quickly and we would get about 2 1/2 hours of 240v from two car batteries linked together. This was continuous use ..ie TV.

mardatha

I don't think its feasible really without a big outlay/lot of faff which we wouldn't bother with. Just asking I had a neighbour for many year whose last house was a gamekeeper's cottage up in Braemar (tied house on an estate) and the elect there went off at 10pm so they used a genny. She hated it with a passion and put me off them for life .

westcoastscot

Hadn't realised the school book situation had been so dire for so long - I left school i 1975 and certainly don't recall not having books, and my children only attended school for early primary - we homeschooled after that.
How are you supposed to learn without books????
Agree CQ it certainly will set back a generation, and goes some way to explaining why I meet so many people with only basic literacy skills - I guess anyone not totally inspired to learn in childhood would be easily discouraged by lack of books etc.
WCS

grandma247

Anyone who wants to can find books and resources on the internet for homeschooling. I have a ton of mostly free stuff on a hard drive and on cds.

In reality not much is actually new when it comes to education so don't let this technological age fool you. You can get by without computers etc for a while if you have some stuff printed out when you have electricity.

You can also get printable games of all kinds on the net for different ages. I have card and board games that I made for ds3 and grandchildren and play them all the time with them.

I wonder where all the money goes that schools get for children then? I know a huge chunk is teachers wages but not all of it. They get something over £3000 for each child and I think it is more for secondry age.

Kittikins

Re: textbooks - i was at a grammar in the 1980's and my parents bought almost all my textbooks as we had to share otherwise, the only one I remember not needing to buy was Ancient Greek (only 4 of us in that class), must have cost a fortune!

Grandma247 - may I have a copy of your goodies if I send you some CDs please? I'm being made redundant and want to go back to uni to do teacher training next year, so am in the process of doing lots of reading and research and putting together resources, either for me to use as a teacher in the future or to use with my lovely DD in her schooling.

Popperwell

GreyQueen wrote: »

It's no wonder I have a bit of a thing about paper and stationery..............:o

I love paper and stationery but I probably have too much and it would last the rest of my life and if I downsize I might have to lose it:(so if I have to I'd rather try and give it away.

meme30 wrote: »

Sorry PAH both our A*da and S**nsbury's had lots of Basics in, so it looks like it's just you.:(

I think our local Tesco isn't bad for such items, I'm sure there will be more choice in a larger store but when I did visit rather larger branches of Asda nearby they seemed to low on basics. I did not get chance to see what Morrisons are like. But Aldi may take up the slack in my town when it opens.

Kittikins I hope your situation improves and that you can turn things around.

grandma247

Kittikins I will get back to you. I have brain fog today because there was so much noise here in the wee small hours.

GreyQueen

On the subject of preparedness and stationery, you can get small notebooks which are waterproof and can be written on with pencil or pen.

These can be a useful wee addition to a BOB or whatever we're calling them these days. I was horrified at the price they want for the in the outdoorsy shops (£6.99!) but you can get them for circa £2.50-£2.99 in Army Surplus places.

When we were in the woods with the Mad Bushcrafters (7 days and 6 nights of incessant rain and usually blowing a hoolie as well) I was coveting these things like crazy.

After all, if you have to write something down, you don't want your paper disintegrating or your ink bleeding into illegibility.

meme30

GreyQueen wrote: »

On the subject of preparedness and stationery, you can get small notebooks which are waterproof and can be written on with pencil or pen.

These can be a useful wee addition to a BOB or whatever we're calling them these days. I was horrified at the price they want for the in the outdoorsy shops (£6.99!) but you can get them for circa £2.50-£2.99 in Army Surplus places.

When we were in the woods with the Mad Bushcrafters (7 days and 6 nights of incessant rain and usually blowing a hoolie as well) I was coveting these things like crazy.

After all, if you have to write something down, you don't want your paper disintegrating or your ink bleeding into illegibility.

You make it very hard not to go into the Army and Navy shop! :rotfl: The problem is that I would want to buy everything!!:eek:

GreyQueen

meme30 wrote: »

You make it very hard not to go into the Army and Navy shop! :rotfl: The problem is that I would want to buy everything!!:eek:

My bad. Sorry.
I've discovered that my Army Surplus has new outdoorsy stuff as well as proper surplus and it's very good quality and very reasonably priced. Gawd help me, they've even got the Kelly Kettles...........:rotfl: