Preparedness for when

VJsmum

boultdj wrote: »

:DBest laught of the day, and I salute:beer: the venrable bard's GQ & MrsLW, and wait to see what other pearl's join the tales of post SHTF life

Ah, marking, it brings out the poet in us all. Never one to shirk from a challenge


When the brown stuff hits the fan, you know what you must do

Drain down all the pipework and don’t try to flush the loo

It’s time to get your candles out and fill your lamps with oil

Dig out the Kelly kettle, get some water on to boil



Your old fridge freezer’s no good now, it’s time to get the cans

Baked beans and soup, some pasta too, and shove them in some pans

That tuna tin with cardboard in will make a handy cooker

I’m rather glad i made it now, though it’s not such a looker



My charged – up kindle’s going strong, i’m reading lots of books

At other times i’m turning can ring pulls into fish hooks

I suppose i’ll dig the garden, get it ready for some seed

But i’m missing MSE and all the lovely threads to read



The first few days will be quite fun, you’ll soon get in the swing”

“What larks” we’ll say, “what jolly japes” until the rot sets in

“Baked beans again” the groan goes out, “thank god we’ve got some mustard”

“I’m guessing what’s to follow is sponge pudding with some custard?”



I’ll be glad i’ve got the loo roll, it’s a handy thing to trade

And i’m keeping nice and snugly with the scrappy quilt I made

Your jewellery isn’t much use, nor your fine designer gear

Or your matching chair and sofa that won’t be paid off till next year.



You mocked my knitted cardi and my clothes bought second hand

And my cracked unvarnished nails caused by digging up my land

When I said I was a prepper, oh my goodness you did laugh

But post – apocalypse I find I’m better off by half

GreyQueen

jk0 wrote: »

My tenant has now been in the hotel for five nights, so today I was expecting him to go home.

I just got a call from 'Housing Aid' at the council saying he has contacted them saying that the place is unfit to go back to. The woman suggested she was going to send environmental health round to view the place. I told her to go for it.

Be not afreard, lots of people try it on with councils and an EH officer won't lambast you because your tenant thinks the place is unfit; if it needs time for remedials like de-humidifiers to work, they'll perfectly well understand, and they may even be a source of useful information about how best to dry out your flats.

If your tenant has gone to the homelessness side of the council, they will have to investigate whether his home really is uninhabitable but they won't just take his word for it. It may well be that he is trying to parlay the situation into preferential treatment on the housing list.

Some people are owed a "duty of care" by the local authority if they become homeless but, if the person is working, non-disabled and not having sole custody of dependant children, that duty can be discharged fairly simply by giving advice.

Sometimes that advice is; here's a list of letting agents, go get yourself another private rented home.

Just come off the phone with Mum and Dad and they're giving some money towards helping the East Coast flood victims, which makes me feel quietly proud of them. They donated for the Phillipines so feel that they should do some for our own, although it is a little less money.

Having some souper soup (sorry!) for supper, which I rustled up from random veg yestereve, between posting nonsense here and reading prepper and newspaper websites. Chief ingredient was a broccoli stalk. A liquidiser is a great asset in making odd combinations of vegetable matter into a gour-may soup, I find.

:T VJsMum; you've excelled yourself with that pome as ususal. I'm in awe of people who can poetise at the drop of a hat as it's not one of my few talents.

jk0

Thanks so much GQ. I knew you'd have sensible advice.

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VJsMUM we're going to have to change your CRAPROLLZ title to APOCALYPTIC POET LAUREATE, that's a cracker!!!

GreyQueen

jk0 wrote: »

Thanks so much GQ. I knew you'd have sensible advice.

My pleasure.

You don't come across as a slumlord and I expect that your flats are pretty decent. I've enountered some right barstewards as private landlords in my personal past, but I'm not into the lazy thinking which tars all private landlords with the same brush.

EH officers aren't hired to scare the living daylights out of Joe Public, their job is to enforce some pretty basic standards and they'd rather work with a landlord (or other type of individual) than against them. Things only get really ugly if a landlord has turned a home into a menace to health and safety and won't do the remedial works necessary to bring stuff up to scratch.

Homelessness officers assume that people are lying to them 100% of the time anyway (based on previous experiences), so what your tenant says and what they will take from the EH officer will likely be very different things. Floods do a lot of damage but it's less than something like a catastrophic fire or building collapse, in which case a tenant may be left with the clothes on their back and the contents of their handbag or manly rucksack, delete as applicable.

Butterfly_Brain

VJsmum wrote: »

Ah, marking, it brings out the poet in us all. Never one to shirk from a challenge


When the brown stuff hits the fan, you know what you must do

Drain down all the pipework and don’t try to flush the loo

It’s time to get your candles out and fill your lamps with oil

Dig out the Kelly kettle, get some water on to boil



Your old fridge freezer’s no good now, it’s time to get the cans

Baked beans and soup, some pasta too, and shove them in some pans

That tuna tin with cardboard in will make a handy cooker

I’m rather glad i made it now, though it’s not such a looker



My charged – up kindle’s going strong, i’m reading lots of books

At other times i’m turning can ring pulls into fish hooks

I suppose i’ll dig the garden, get it ready for some seed

But i’m missing MSE and all the lovely threads to read



The first few days will be quite fun, you’ll soon get in the swing”

“What larks” we’ll say, “what jolly japes” until the rot sets in

“Baked beans again” the groan goes out, “thank god we’ve got some mustard”

“I’m guessing what’s to follow is sponge pudding with some custard?”



I’ll be glad i’ve got the loo roll, it’s a handy thing to trade

And i’m keeping nice and snugly with the scrappy quilt I made

Your jewellery isn’t much use, nor your fine designer gear

Or your matching chair and sofa that won’t be paid off till next year.



You mocked my knitted cardi and my clothes bought second hand

And my cracked unvarnished nails caused by digging up my land

When I said I was a prepper, oh my goodness you did laugh

But post – apocalypse I find I’m better off by half

Brilliant :T
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Hard_Up_Hester

GQ, Mrs LW & VJsMum, wonderful, just wonderful.
Many year ago I lived in Bristol & traveled to Yate regularly, by one of the roundabouts was a field that flooded regularly I was astounded when the built some 'executive homes' on the field, I did wonder if 'executives' were more waterproof than the rest of us.
More recently I lived in Wokingham & was equally astounded when they built a large cinema on a piece of riverside land that was designated flood plain. They built the cinema atop many flights of steps, but some folk were bemused to find their cars floating when the exited the cinema!
Hester

craigywv

been reading today that land lords are planning on not accepting people on benefits to rent their property to. as 1 in 5 did not get their rent . now I don't know if this is in the area where they have been testing the universal credit out as it was mentioned. but will this not make a lot of people homeless or at least unable to get homes. explain to me please GQ as your the all seeing eye and font of all knowledge xxx thank-you

katep23

Hester, is that the cinema next to the park and ride? They opened that car park when very heavy rain was due and were surprised when all cars got trashed :cool:

I used to work in Slough and the road I worked on was prone to flash flooding in heavy rain. We would look out the windows in wonder at the idiots who thought they could drive through it and then got stuck (including one police car!)

One afternoon we saw a couple of particularly enterprising teenagers who, having already been soaked, decided to capitalise on the situation and were charging the stranded motorists to push them through the flood water to safety :T

elaine241

Hello All

Minor SHTF for me raging ear ache from wax and possible infection! Been trying to clear it up with Olive oil and the stuff that fizzes in your ear but to no avail! Given up and gone to quack who presecribed antibionics! first for many many years. Just wondering what I would do if there wasnt a docs! Spent day moping around taking pain killers and with a hot water bottle stuck to my ear, a pink fluffy bunny!

With regard to landlord not taking on benfits claimants tbh in some instances I dont blame them! They trialled Universal Credit in our area and rent arrears to housing associations went up 60% :shocked:. I have just rented out a cottage, via the new bond scheme to a previously homeless man, with some trepidation it must be said. He moves in beginning of January and I am hoping for the best!

Haven't done any prepping due to raging three day earache!It is amazing how the constant pain and dizziness makes your productivity fall off a cliff, all i have managed is the basics in the house and to feed the ducks, chooks and horses. They only got a brief check, still breathing, two/four legs, head & tail! The sheep have had to lump it today, too ill and dizzy to ride a quad up a mountain to check them, if one of them has died it will still be dead in the morning!
Really glad I have my stores as driving to the docs was scary and its just down the hill, couldnt face driving any distance as my concentration was pretty poor. Now Im on anti bionics and pain killers Im zonked and would be dangerous to drive (even more than usual!).

I'm frustrated as this illness seems to coincide with good weather where i could get into the veg patch have a good clear up, dig over and harvest whats left.

Had to consol myself with downloading free prepper and post apocalyptic books from Amaz*n to my kindle, quite a few freebies not sure how good they are.

Anyway going to crawl to bed with my kindle as I am very bad company when ill and in pain, think bear with a sore head at the wrong time of the month and you are half way there! :rotfl: