Preparedness for when

fuddle

mardatha wrote: »

Fuddle, you would just have to get one and compare it with a fleecy acrylic one, then you'd see what I mean. Has to be wool though. Merino is non-itchy.

Thank you mar, ill look on deramores later. It's going to be a very slow process and cost an awful lot of money but its my hobby and I would love to work with real I am wool for a change.

Whether to knit or crochet, that is the question wanders off dreaming of cable blankets

GreyQueen

Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

Interesting. I guess the Polish government must have been pretty desparate to do this. Effectively they have maxed out their credit card and are now taking out a further loan to pay the interest. If I were a Polish public sector worker I would be very, very worried.

PP, one of my pals works for one of those big-name insurance companies. Interesting this broke on a Friday, isn't it? I shall try to get the skinny from pal next weekend when the implications have percolated down thru the company to the footsoldiers.

ZH has been posting for years about probable future confiscations of the US's 401(k) individual retirement savings accounts. And some of the commentators have been saying that they have/ will pull their savings out as they believe that a cash-strapped US Govt will do exactly that. Effectively, money which the government can get as easily is going to be too tempting for words.

I expect that their interference with the local govt pension scheme (I'm in it) will see it worth a lot less than expected. My contributions are a % of my p/t salary and are not a large enough sum to be gainfully-employed elsewhere atm. If I opted out of it, I would pay more in NI/tax, so I wouldn't make a pound for pound gain anyway, on a sum of money which is already too small to be usefully redeployed.

If there was more on the table, I would opt out.

When governments start confiscating the assets of trans-national companies, some of whom are already richer than some nation states, you know the S is hitting the F, big time. I don't think for a moment said companies will just rollover and take it, either.

I don't know if anyone here also reads this blog : http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-max=2013-03-22T12:58:00%2B01:00&max-results=7&start=6&by-date=false

It's all a good read but back-page to the entry from 04/02/13 to see what this man has done with his pension fund and his rationale.

ETA ragz, my 25 litre water carriers (rigid plastic ones) are 9 in wide x 15 tall so they don't take up too much room at all. Bear in mind no plastic containers should be sitting on bare concrete as the concrete degrades the plastic and will cause the container to fail. I have one sitting in a shopping bag under the living room table (with a dark pillowslip over the top to exclude the light) and another in the kitchen, plus lots of 2 litre bottles tucked here and there out of sight.

If I had a garage with storage space, I'd consider acquiring a pallet to stand them on, with a clean tarp over the top.

rachbc

fuddle wrote: »

Thank you mar, ill look on deramores later. It's going to be a very slow process and cost an awful lot of money but its my hobby and I would love to work with real I am wool for a change.

Whether to knit or crochet, that is the question wanders off dreaming of cable blankets

If you re looking for good value real fibre yarns Drops brand are fab - great prices and lovely quality - I do blankets in their wool and alpaca mix - light and warm and very reasonable compared to some. Check out Wool Warehouse and keep and eye out for bargains (they have regular sales) then stock up. I can't afford to spend the £100+ it would cost to make a blanket in Rowan or Debbie Bliss yarn usually but buying drops in the 30% sale makes it doable.

westcoastscot

Fuddle don't think of it as making a blanket - think lap quilt, then as you sit under it over the winter buy a ball here and there and add a couple of rows/rounds - it will soon grow to blanket size and hold so many memories. We have "blankets" that have had rounds added by visitors, by the kids, by wool given as gifts and saved from woolen garments - they really are treasures.

Right off to do some DIY - the water sounds like its running through the loo and not stopping!!
WCS

mardatha

I like Drops too Rach, but hadn't heard of the wool warehouse, will go over there and drool in a minute Alpaca makes me itch like hell but I add a strand into socks for the RV as it's so warm.

fuddle

Yeah I like that. My ongoing lap blanket I think for my first one it will be rounds. I crochet to relax and knitting is a challenge to me so I think for something so big, expensive and investment I should stick to what I know.

I've seen so many drops patterns on ravelry, had heard of them but figured they were overseas so out of my reach. I never looked into them closely. Thank you!

Right as an Wilko's and The Range £1.75 'wool' DK 4mm hooker can you help me choose something that will work for blankets?

http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/yarncomparisonchart.php

I will have to wait till Friday payday for a ball but very excited Mar you naughty naughty Scot you

ALIBOBSY

westcoastscot wrote: »

Bob liking your spoons/measuring thingy - wish we had poundland type shops here!!

We have a fantastic sunset here - really beautiful and brooding.

What a weird coincidence, we were sat on a beach at silverdale watching the sunset yesterday, was gorgeous. Need to get the photos downloaded as my Dad want to see them as he and his old best mate used to cycle as teens from Salford (what a trek can you imagine teens of today going that far)to camp at silverdale. Dads mate had a bit of a thing for the daughter of the local station master and he used to see her when they were there. So after the first time the SM used to arrange for them to stick their tents etc on the train in Manchester and he would take it off and hold it for them whilst they cycled up.

Dads friend ended up down under and it was only through Facebook they recently got back in touch. When they came over for a visit they both said how weird it was that they felt like it had only been a few weeks not decades and they felt like best mates again which I thought was lovely.

Ali x

daz378

thanks for the info on the water, live in a 2 bedroom high rise, so not spoiled for space... noticed fray bentos for a pound in iceland today , great prepp food(if you like FB) carbos and protein in a single tin... going to have an afternoon nap if i can diabetes making me tired and an attack of gout keeping me awake

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I think I need to take a rigid container to work with me.

I've jut been on the local farmers market, and blackberries are selling for 90p a punnet. :eek:

ALIBOBSY

ragz wrote: »

I sometimes wish we could just be left alone to be the tiny island we really are. Not trying to play empires and side with bullies like the US...

OH and I were chatting about this and tbh to the average peep like us does it make a damn bit of difference if we aren't seen as a political heavyweight?

I think if any big power wades in, in Syria they are on a hiding to nothing. For the normal people there will they be better off under a muslim brotherhood led leadership-I seriously doubt it, especially for all the non-muslims.

The US et al condemning chemical weapons is a joke, when you stop producing terrible weapons that kill and maim children all around the world and sell them to ANYONE who has the cash, then you might just be able to take the high ground.

Do the parents who lost children feel better because their child was "only" blown up or shot rather than gassed, of course not. Its all terrible and horrifying. I just can't see any outside intervention reducing the casualties.

The UN needs to concentrate on helping the refugees and putting political pressure on to try to end the war sooner. Otherwise we need to let what is in effect a civil war sort itself out. So many wars around the world, we cannot go in and sort them all out no matter how awful it is.

To be frank most of Europe and the US need to be concentrating on their financial issues. The politicians on both sides of the atlantic seem to want to ignore the fact that most of our economies are on a knife edge.

Ali x