Preparedness for when

nuatha

westcoastscot wrote: »

PP and Hester sorry to hear about your troubles - Hester wanted to say also that I miss your blog.

Likewise on both accounts.

Ok, didn't realise my talking about dutch ovens was risque in anyway, and now GQ has asked and you've explained I STILL don't understand? someone gonnae explain?

for the record, my dutch oven is a cast iron casserole dish that makes lovely stews, roasts etc, which sits in my fireplace?How does that relate to a fart joke???? I know, I live a very sheltered life up here :rotfl: I asked my guys and they haven't heard that either, but maybe that's because for us its like making jokes about the kettle???? an everyday object??

WCS

I'd had to look it up. I presume the origin of the term comes from the idea that the duvet/blankets form an enclosed container to cook the recipient in the aroma - much like the pot cooks the meat in the juices and there aroma doesn't escape until the lid is lifted.

Until there was mention of such on this thread, I hadn't realised that there was any other interpretation of the term than cooking pot.

PP It may be worth getting a bodyshop's opinion on how repairable your car is. Frequently insurance companies will write off a car because their repairers are too expensive to make the repair economic. My previous car was written off for a dented rear door - I bought the salvage back off the insurance company (they reduced the cheque they paid me by £150) and got a door from a scrapyard for £40, and had it fitted for another £20.
Whether that is the case or not, do look around ebay and local papers to get an idea of what that model and year is selling for, as insurance companies tend to value cars less than they might, but may be persuaded to increase their valuation given evidence of local prices.
Hope you aren't feeling too stiff and sore this morning

Hard_Up_Hester

Thanks for all the good wishes.
PP, I hope you recover quickly.
Hester

ragz_2

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I got an email about a shtf scenario week and I have signed up for it, basically you are given a set of instructions to follow everyday, a different one for each day of the week and you have cope, it is supposed to show where your gaps are in your prepping, even DH is game.
Here is the link if any of you want to join in:
http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/7day/

Oooh now that's my kind of fun! Have signed up and will get hubby in on it too. You can read through the last few years ones to get an idea of what's involved.

ETA - which I have just done and now really need to up my stores of certain things! (Which, I guess, is the whole point of the exercise. I tend to see things as a contest and forget it is meant to be a learning exercise!)

pineapple

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I got an email about a shtf scenario week and I have signed up for it, basically you are given a set of instructions to follow everyday, a different one for each day of the week and you have cope, it is supposed to show where your gaps are in your prepping, even DH is game.
Here is the link if any of you want to join in:
http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/7day/

These days I'm more conscious than ever about privacy - especially anything to do with prepping etc. The preppers of today might well be regarded as the renegades of the future! :eek:
Possibly it's a futile gesture as everything can be accessed anyway but I still think it's a good idea to sign up to things like ghostery.
http://www.ghostery.com/ - which enables you not only to block trackers but lets you investigate trackers and their privacy policy on the sites you visit.
I'll put my tin foil hat away now :rotfl:
Cool site though.

ragz_2

pineapple wrote: »

These days I'm more conscious than ever about privacy - especially anything to do with prepping etc. The preppers of today might well be regarded as the renegades of the future! :eek:
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Or targets... Can just picture little maps with red pins in, locations of known preppers who 'they' can confiscate supplies from... (Tin hat here too please!)

mardatha

Thanks for that ghostery site, am off to have a nosey at that.
Our coalman said on Fri this is the time of year he dreads. Customers who haven't bought a lump of coal all summer suddenly feel cold and pick up the phone and order tons of it, to be delivered AT ONCE. He says it messes up his round and isn't fair to his regulars like us who order all year round.
Am doing an online shop for tins, salt and dry goods. Its like late Oct here, cold and windy and dull

ALIBOBSY

Spotted a trailer for a SHTF type drama that I thought might be right up the street of my fellow preppers on channel 4.

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/channel-4-to-air-what-if-cyber-attack-drama

Basically they are looking at the possible effects of a cyber attack taking down the power grid in the UK for 5 days-completely plausible situation as opposed to things like super volcanos, or the lights going out permanently from some weird unknown cause, et al.

Interestingly some parts are cut from real life footage of people in this situation-I wonder if any preppers will be shown lol.

Might be worth a watch.

Ali x

On the main Ch4 site shows as scheduled for Monday 9th September at 9pm.

GreyQueen

kiwiblue wrote: »

PP and Grey Queen we are in northern Horowhenua so have all the benefits of living on a smallholding plus access to fishing, shellfish gathering etc. From our land we look onto the Tararua Ranges which today have what is probably the last light covering of snow for the year. Climate is mild temperate, so can grow vegetables all year round.

Thanks forenlightening me about the "mass revolt" Grey Queen it certainly is great not to have to worrry about a TV license. I guess the powers the be decided it was just too hard to figure out who was daring to watch TV without a license.

Thanks for the link Butterfly Brain looks really interesting

I can see ya on my map; coastal above Wellington, southern tip of North Island, yes? I passed thru your area a decade ago on a bus going from Rotorua to Wellington. Can't recall too much as it but something about a welly-boot throwing capital and I ate a venison pie in a wide valley surrounded by herds of deer? Wide grassy valley with range of mountains (Tararua Range, I think we were on the 1).

Been to sleep a few times since then, lol.

How are you fixed for geothermal activity/ quakes/ other natural hazards in your area?

Today, I woke feeling like someone had run my battery down overnight. Have the snuffles from being sat alongside a snuffly person on a bus a few days back. Deep joy. A cold + pre-existing medical condition is usually enough to flatten me.

Soo, have decided not to go to the lottie but spend a gentle pottering day around the homestead, attending to various matters preptastic (I have the BOB out for an overhaul) and the Dark Arts (aka housework, pls don't tell on me).

Have got 4.5 months worth of life-saving meds in the BOB and another 2 months' worth at hand in a drawer, in a strong ziplock bag ready to grab & go oif necessary. All stored in date order and good til mid 2015. Plus complete change of clothes, several pairs undies and socks, warm layer, basic washbag, spare prescription glasses, documaents and misc like torches, survival shelter and a few other bits. And cash.

Most likely case here would be an evac if the block of flats caught fire. Happened about 20 years ago when someone did something stupid with their gas- blew the side of the building out and it caught fire just after midnight.

I'm rivetted by Jed Horne's book Breach of Faith about the hurricane which hit New Orleans and the events afterwards. It's a doorstop and I approached it a bit nervously in case it was dull read but this guy has you on the edge of your seat.

As well as my abiding disgust for how their own federal government and its agencies deliberately neglected to care for the people there, what brings it home is the sheer scale. A swathe of the US equal in area to the entire UK was affected. Mindblowing.

Lots of the casualties weren't caused by the hurricane or the flood, per se, but by exposure to 100 F + degrees of heat stuck in their own attics and on roofs of single story houses with no water or food. People died for want of medicines, for want of water, for the most stupid and unnecessary things, whilst the richest and most powerful nation on earth fiddled while Rome burned.

One man got himself out of the flood and out of the area because he had $900 at home. He needed $600 to get to relatives in Alabama and it took him a week.

Don't forget the cash, people. If there is a functional economy, and you need to sort yourself out with shelter and food having fled your own home, you will need quite a bit of the folding stuff and also change is a good idea.

ETA Mar, spose it wouldn't be kind of me to tell you it's 20 and sunny here? ;p My sofa can accomodate one not-very-big person if necesary......

mardatha

I'm not very big at all... have you got any cake?

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

I'm not very big at all... have you got any cake?

Yup. You'll have to be quick, tho; I've a McVities lemon cake and half of a jamaican ginger one (2 for £1 at Icelandia yesterday).

Shall I put the kettle on? If you start heading south now you can get here in about 7 hours, bar traffic.