Preparedness for when

daftmummy

I fill my kettle at night before bed and boil it as a habit from when kids were babies due to making sure water was available for bottles if needed ( I did breastfeed but wasn't enough and due to medication change had to stop ) Now its due to the need of Yorkshire tea!

waving from under the mountain of washing from camping! things aren't good at the moment. Hubby van insurance is due and the work is so up and down when he does get money everything goes on bills. Its the only job he knows but said he was so fed up as why did he work and we seem worse of. I feel bad as I'm on esa and would find working difficult ( had a medical assessment end of last year and was reassessed recently and was sent letter within week I was put in support group due to health ) I'm a lot better than I was but still have issues that effect me everyday. I'm positive I will go back to work but with the state of the shortage of jobs and more people to pick the cream of the crop doubt than someone with my issues and medical history will be first in line. Just feel bad as I'm not working and everything is on hubby's shoulders and I used to earn twice as much as him:o On paper we seem ok but everything is tight or is it just me? or is it that we are not putting everything on plastic? I have plenty of food in stock. have sorted kids school uniforms from special offers/sales and hand me downs. Just need to get the odd bits.

Christmas season starts when the kids go back along with blackberry picking and jam/chuntey making. I'm just feeling guilty for not working so sorry for vent but when hubby is worried its the time to worry!

On the subject of water need to restock as due to hot weather my stash was used on days out and when we went out. Camping has refocused what would we do if we were without electric and what meals could you make up on one ring from my gas stove. Electric for entertaining kids isn't a issue as nearly all their toys work without batteries powered by imagination! hot choc is under 50p at the moment and is a staple in our house during extreme weather aka winter! always seems to jump up in price whenever it goes cold.

Have winter clothes and coats from last year still fit. So that's one thing I don't need to worry about. Just need to take a breath and stop worrying but so want to cry as I feel so sorry for hubby.

[Deleted User]

I'm old enough to remember only one person in our street having a telephone land line, and you could get through to the operator for long distance calls and she'd make the connection for you. The rare occasions that needed a phone call were made from a call box for the princely sum of 4d not 4p !!! We had TV from the mid 50s but I can remember it only being the BBC channel and no daytime TV and shut down at 11 pm. We listened to the radio, we read, did jigsaws, read books, knitted, sewed, did homework, had friends in to play board games I don't remember feeling bored or hard done by. It would certainly be inconvenient not to have all the gadgetry we are used to and for the younger part of the population it would most definately be deprivation and hardship, but we'd all adapt, there would be no choice and the younger children would never know the instantly accessible world we have at our fingertips today. It would not be the end of the world, we would have to adapt to what was available, it might even do us good in so far as we'd have to interact with real people every day and not be welded to our mobiles, laptops, tablets etc, just a thought, Cheers Lyn xxx.

[Deleted User]

daftmummy wrote: »

Camping has refocused what would we do if we were without electric and what meals could you make up on one ring from my gas stove.

With a bit of ingenuity, it's surprising what you can do.

For example, some foods can be cooked, then thrown in with other food, as that is being cooked.

Sausage and beans for instance. Fry the sausages, drain and throw into the saucepan, with the beans.

Alternatively, use a plate in place of the saucepan lid, and put cooked items onto the plate, to stay warm.

Alternatively, do what I did, and invest in two single burners camping stoves.

short_bird

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I'm old enough to remember only one person in our street having a telephone land line, and you could get through to the operator for long distance calls and she'd make the connection for you. The rare occasions that needed a phone call were made from a call box for the princely sum of 4d not 4p !!!

Press button B :rotfl:

[Deleted User]

SHORTBIRD we used to do that on the way home from school every day, just in case someone had left the unused pennies behind, and sometimes they had!!!

boultdj

elaine373 wrote: »

Things will get tighter for us as I am about go embark on a nursing degree and husband is out of work ATM, so I will check today that I have applied for everything that I am entitled to with student finance

Good luck with the course, we need all the nurse's we can get, and check with the council, you might be able to get a bit extra knocked off the council tax,only reason I'm surgesting that is 'cause of young 'un's at work got a % knocked off for doing nurse training even though both of them worked.hth.

mardatha

Alibobsy yes, I love OS. I live in a place where all the neighbours can do stuff like that. I was thinking after my day oot on saturday - talking to a lady who was using her spinningwheel and I said something about how slow my spindle would be to knit anything sizeable. She said not at all - because with a spindle you can spin all day. It goes with you, in your pocket and the fleece up your sleeve. I was thinking how they seemed to get a hell of a lot more done in those days than we do now.

[Deleted User]

In times gone by MAR it was the norm for ladies to go visiting in the afternoon and take thier spinning, sewing or knitting with them to each others houses to sit and natter and have a brew, some things are timeless eh? Lyn xxx,

homesteadchick

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

In times gone by MAR it was the norm for ladies to go visiting in the afternoon and take thier spinning, sewing or knitting with them to each others houses to sit and natter and have a brew, some things are timeless eh? Lyn xxx,

I would love that! Most of my friends however, although they like and love me, think I'm off my rocker..

BessieBooBoo

Hello all

If off your rocker means you like to think ahead more than other people do, then count me in!

FYI I have asked 'DOT' about their emergency planning (on the new House of Commons forum). Not sure how to link it, so, you will have to look at the main forum index for HOC Q&A.

Their reply is ok, but, their reports are v. long.... however, another poster has provided easier links as local examples. Not sure how useful these are to the ordinary people, but, guess it shows willing that they have set something up.

HTH

BBB