Preparedness for when

maryb

Just in case you were starting to feel cheerful
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/9549045/Get-ready-for-an-autumn-hurricane-as-Israel-plots-its-Iranian-strike.html

Disruption to oil supplies AND runaway inflation. It really will be deja vu all over again:rotfl: :eek:

D&DD

Busy here atm and been thrown out the garden to smoke so grumpy as hell Its no bad thing as I've cut down a lot with the aim of packing up *again* so at least I'll be able to run from the zombies if my dodgy knee and back don't give out first :rotfl:

Will be in later to catch up *or sat in the greenhouse with the laptop...sulking*

Softstuff, keep going please, very interesting!

Have a great day all XX

Fruball

I'm loving Softstuffs posts too My nosey side wants to know how you ended up living there... Altho I think I can guess :rotfl:

It does sound like an adventure and an interesting experience altho I would rather read about yours than do it myself lol

Softstuff

Fruball wrote: »

I'm loving Softstuffs posts too My nosey side wants to know how you ended up living there... Altho I think I can guess :rotfl:

It does sound like an adventure and an interesting experience altho I would rather read about yours than do it myself lol

I might have known you'd be the nosiest

It was thanks to my ex-husband. He was a Turk.
In the literal and figurative senses.....

I loved living there, and would have happily stayed, but he was after other stuff as became evident subsequently!

I've had far more adventure than my homely exterior belies. But that's not a story for this thread :rotfl:

I learned to speak and understand Turkish simply because I had to, if you're in a room with a dozen Turkish women looking at you like you're an interesting lab specimen you have to be quick or you're a goner. I recall one mother who didn't know I could understand her, telling her son to be quiet or the English lady would eat him. He kept playing up, so she threatened him again. On the third occasion he played up I held his arm up and said "tuz varmı?", which is "do you have any salt?". The women collapsed laughing and the son never made a peep after that.

I realise that had nothing to do with preparedness, but I just wanted to share it anyway.

Fruball

Softstuff wrote: »

I might have known you'd be the nosiest

It was thanks to my ex-husband. He was a Turk.
In the literal and figurative senses.....

I loved living there, and would have happily stayed, but he was after other stuff as became evident subsequently!

I've had far more adventure than my homely exterior belies. But that's not a story for this thread :rotfl:

I learned to speak and understand Turkish simply because I had to, if you're in a room with a dozen Turkish women looking at you like you're an interesting lab specimen you have to be quick or you're a goner. I recall one mother who didn't know I could understand her, telling her son to be quiet or the English lady would eat him. He kept playing up, so she threatened him again. On the third occasion he played up I held his arm up and said "tuz varmı?", which is "do you have any salt?". The women collapsed laughing and the son never made a peep after that.

I realise that had nothing to do with preparedness, but I just wanted to share it anyway.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Brilliant!

annie123

Extreme Weather Preparedness

http://www.wunderground.com/prepare/

OK, so in London I'm unlikely to have a tsunami, earthquake or volcano erupt but it does have winter weather and storm sections.

ginnyknit

As an avid watcher of disaster movies - they are so funny - you never know Annie, a volcano could pop up in Piccadilly circus and Tommy Lee Jones would have to come and save you - that would be quite acceptable for me :T My kids take the mickey out of me for watching all those third rate 'the worlds going to end tomorrow unless we listen to that guy we think is crazy' movies.

Softstuff am loving hearing about your adventures its not at all boring, what we have lived through makes us stronger and who we are. 'Pinny wearing, scarf topped, rolling pin carrying women with para cord bracelets' Now we need to invent a survival kit that fits neatly in a pinny pocket...wanders off to find that baccy tin.....

Fruball

Is the Preppers programme on Nat Geo atm? If so, what day and time please?

jeanniefaethecarse

To be honest, I'm prepping against inflation/hyperinflation/fuel shortages-or the costs thereof. I can well remember my mum coming home from the shops in the 70s with goods that had several price stickers on them, each one showing an increased price. Power cuts were absolutely normal! If my mum and dad hadn't prepared, we definitely would have been worse off than we were. I think both their experiences during the war helped them, and I can remember mum "helping out" some of her younger neighbours for whom high prices, fuel shortages and austerity simply hadn't existed in their lives before and therefore had no idea how to eek out the family budget.
I work part time in a care home. We have a reminiscences group there that I sit in on with the residents. It's very enlightening to hear their stories of times gone by, both hard times and good ones. I have to say that these stories have formed my own attitude a lot. We have a collection of local newspapers from the 1920's onwards, just the local town one, which jogs peoples memories, that type of thing. I've been looking at a lot of them during my breaks, especially the ones from the 2nd ww era. I found myself looking at the adverts with modern-day hindsight, "For goodness sake BUY those stockings now before they go on the ration"! That type of thing!
So many of our residents have said that they never thought it would get so bad during those times. It truly is food for thought, and, as I said, is an impetus to me to prepare.

Popperwell

Fruball wrote: »

Is the Preppers programme on Nat Geo atm? If so, what day and time please?

It is but not sure of the times it airs but I hear it can be found on You Tube...