Preparedness for when

Solomon_Broad

I've been trying to read this thread in its entirety, but I've had to give up about 200 pages in. Lots of useful info, though, so I think I'm going to have to go through it all.

A thing that I've found useful recently is solar lights. I found that the ones we have, I think bought from £land or Wilko, have AA batteries in them, so it's easy to swap the batteries out. We had a power cut recently, and the lights from the garden were enough to light the bathroom (always useful to have light in there, I find ), the top and bottom of the stairs and 2 bedrooms. They'll even run on normal AA's, provided they have rechargeables put back in before they're put outside again.

I've been trying to get the 'rents to store more food in the house under the guise of "well, the cold weather is here now and while I've got the car we might as well take in 37 cans of baked beans...". My folks don't seem to see danger, though - a few weeks back I found my dad about the take the gas cooker apart. :eek: Any tips for getting people to understand?

Hollyberry

While I was reading blogs earlier, I saw this and thought I'd drop in the link to one of the US bloggers who talks about dealing with unexpected emergencies: http://www.backdoorsurvival.com/surviving-unexpected-emergency/. Some interesting points in the article about where you store things that could be at risk if you are flooded - too late for this week, but maybe worth thinking about for the future.

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Even in the village drivers these days seem to think that yellow lines and road markings are optional!!! Also the use of indicators seems to be an optional action to quite a lot of folks, along with speed limits and general observation of the highway code. Continual parking in the bus stop layby despite having an enormous yellow line right along the bay to use the cash machine, despite there being a usually half empty car park directly opposite the machine. The other bane of life is those who think it is fine to park ON the pavement, be they mums collecting kids from school, delivery vans, workmen doing jobs or many people involved in a building project they all park just far enough onto the pavement to make it impossible to pass on the inside of the vehicle thus pushing mums with pushchairs and dog walkers into the oncoming traffic on the road. The worse offenders are those who come to attend the courses at the maritime institute who park en masse on both sides of our fairly busy road, including on the pavement and it's only a matter of time before someone gets hurt. The councils solution, increasing the areas of double yell0w lines and pushing the institute pupils further out into increasingly small and unsuitable side roads!!! and don't get me started on those folks who think it's perfectly OK to park on double yellow lines outside shops here as long as they keep their engines running as they are then only waiting for someone!!! Where did common sense go to?

jk0

bluebag wrote: »

Hollyberry,

occasionally I indulge in pure torture and try high heeled shoes on that I have no hope of wearing (well dodgy joints) and no way could afford.

I put them all back and sigh a lot. A girl can always dream.

Yeah, best not smoke dodgy joints then try to walk in high heels.

bluebag

jk0 wrote: »

Yeah, best not smoke dodgy joints then try to walk in high heels.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Oh golly, I wish! Might be quite exciting!!!.

Sadly no, my days as a loose cannon are well and truly over. Slippers and a brew now.

jk0

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Even in the village drivers these days seem to think that yellow lines and road markings are optional!!! Also the use of indicators seems to be an optional action to quite a lot of folks, along with speed limits and general observation of the highway code. Continual parking in the bus stop layby despite having an enormous yellow line right along the bay to use the cash machine, despite there being a usually half empty car park directly opposite the machine. The other bane of life is those who think it is fine to park ON the pavement, be they mums collecting kids from school, delivery vans, workmen doing jobs or many people involved in a building project they all park just far enough onto the pavement to make it impossible to pass on the inside of the vehicle thus pushing mums with pushchairs and dog walkers into the oncoming traffic on the road. The worse offenders are those who come to attend the courses at the maritime institute who park en masse on both sides of our fairly busy road, including on the pavement and it's only a matter of time before someone gets hurt. The councils solution, increasing the areas of double yell0w lines and pushing the institute pupils further out into increasingly small and unsuitable side roads!!! and don't get me started on those folks who think it's perfectly OK to park on double yellow lines outside shops here as long as they keep their engines running as they are then only waiting for someone!!! Where did common sense go to?

Have you a camera phone Mrs L? You could post them on this website: (MSE won't allow the word. Search for 'youparklikea!!!!')

bluebag

Mrs LW,

Common sense isn't common at all. It requires people to learn it and take responsibility.

See, learning and responsibility in one sentence. Heretical.

Ain't never gonna happen.

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Sorry jkO I have a phone for a dinosaur, me, mine only makes and takes calls and texts and I even find that complicated some days!!!

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mardatha wrote: »

O god I love semolina.....

With a big squirt of strawberry syrup. :cool:

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charlies-aunt wrote: »

Bedsit Bob - those 99p store lanterns were an absolute godsend!

Glad you found them useful.

Have you noticed how utterly dark it gets outside, during a power cut?

You don't realise how much difference street lighting makes, until it's not on.