Preparedness for when

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A little something for the evening...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/28/uk-interest-rates-savings-spend

And the comments on here about the woman on the news have been spot on. Honestly, there's no concept of the work it takes to keep the infrastructure going. And, if there are winds of the strength experienced this week, then half the time you have to get the trees out of the road before you can get to that problem. Not that things will stay fixed with the number of already damaged trees, just waiting for another breeze to bring them down.

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

You don't wait for something to get caught in the trap.

You get on with something else, and check back from time to time.

Yup, and if you're lucky, you'll get a bunny comprising of scrawny meat with a negative nutritonal value (as in, it'll strip more nutrients from your body to digest it than it'll provide).

I'd rather have a wood-pigeon. I can unzip a wood-pigeon in under 3 mins barehanded and have done so.

Bunnies and deer are crepuscular, which isn't a disease but a description of their habits of being active at dawn and dusk. Bunny habitats are cropped as finely as the best lawns and dotted with circular pellets of poo and lots of holes and shallow scrapes. Deer lay up in beds, commonly of bracken, during the day.

If you have to use a snare, it's reckoned to be helpful to rub your hands with something like woodash or green sappy plants to take the human scent away a bit, or you'll taint the snare and it may be avoided by the prey.

You'll also have to check on your snares regularly or some other carnivore may well get the prey before you do.

westcoastscot

Thanks Nuatha, not sure how that managed to sneak under my radar

WCS

Goldiegirl

Yalding is a well known flooding hot spot in Kent. The geography makes it very prone to flooding, as it's at the confluence of two rivers, and it's in a 'dip' of land.

What has gobsmacked me, is that some of them went ahead with their home purchases with no house insurance, as some of the properties are un insurable.

On the other hand, Yalding was flooded in 2000, and they were told it was a one in a hundred year event, yet 13 years later the same thing has happened. I imagine they feel aggrieved that there has been no improvement in the flood defences since 2000, and it clearly seems to be happening with some regularity now.

It's not Cameron,s fault, but that woman's rant seems to have helped in the short term, as most of the residents are now reconnected to the power network.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

If you have to use a snare, it's reckoned to be helpful to rub your hands with something like woodash or green sappy plants to take the human scent away a bit, or you'll taint the snare and it may be avoided by the prey.

Or wear gloves.

You'll also have to check on your snares regularly or some other carnivore may well get the prey before you do.

That's why you don't use a simple snare, but rather something that will take the prey well clear of the ground.

Not forgetting that a simple snare is only one method of trapping prey.

There are four basic techniques for trapping, namely strangle, dangle, tangle and mangle.

GreyQueen

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Yalding is a well known flooding hot spot in Kent. The geography makes it very prone to flooding, as it's at the confluence of two rivers, and it's in a 'dip' of land.

What has gobsmacked me, is that some of them went ahead with their home purchases with no house insurance, as some of the properties are un insurable.

On the other hand, Yalding was flooded in 2000, and they were told it was a one in a hundred year event, yet 13 years later the same thing has happened. I imagine they feel aggrieved that there has been no improvement in the flood defences since 2000, and it clearly seems to be happening with some regularity now.

It's not Cameron,s fault, but that woman's rant seems to have helped in the short term, as most of the residents are now reconnected to the power network.

I'd be a bit suspicious if primeministerial pressure had caused this to happen faster than it would have happened anyway; did they speed up Yalding's reconnection at the expense of some other village/ neighbourhood not under the media spotlight, by diverting resources to them?

ETA; Bob, I'd never use a mangle on anything I intended to eat, unless it was important to slide it into a pita-bread first. The thought of it ;p

nuatha

westcoastscot wrote: »

Thanks Nuatha, not sure how that managed to sneak under my radar

WCS

It didn't get a lot of media coverage, most of the UK were probably distracted by some fairly foul weather and the news was concentrating on the death of Nelson Mandela.
Even looking for a decent summary, the Irish Times was the only source the first 10 pages of google search threw up that was worth linking (lots to the draft proposal back in June). (I found far more coverage of Putin's parliamentary address)

Goldiegirl

GreyQueen wrote: »

I'd be a bit suspicious if primeministerial pressure had caused this to happen faster than it would have happened anyway; did they speed up Yalding's reconnection at the expense of some other village/ neighbourhood not under the media spotlight, by diverting resources to them?

ETA; Bob, I'd never use a mangle on anything I intended to eat, unless it was important to slide it into a pita-bread first. The thought of it ;p

On the local news, it seemed that Yalding was literally crawling with electric company vans today...... It certainly LOOKS suspicious!

Perplexed_Pineapple

GreyQueen wrote: »

Yup, and if you're lucky, you'll get a bunny comprising of scrawny meat with a negative nutritonal value (as in, it'll strip more nutrients from your body to digest it than it'll provide).

GQ, I'm pretty sure that's a myth, rabbit meat is low fat and low calorie for sure but you don't eat rabbit for those, but for the protein.. You would struggle to get enough calories to survive if you ate nothing but rabbit, but in a starvation scenario you use protein for energy so I think it would all help. It is very, very difficult to get the >2000 kcal/day that most people need from a wild foraging or hunter-gatherer type lifestyle without agriculture. Protein is expensive though, so the odd rabbit would supplement a subsistence diet nicely!

charlies-aunt

BigMummaF wrote: »

Am I the only one who finds the current crop of people being interviewed, as incredibly selfish in their anger?
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BMF - completely agree wi' thee!


Ooop North 'ere we are still mopping up and quietly getting on wi' it after the tidal surge of 5th December.

Dozens of people have lost their homes and everything they owned, power was off in some areas for days, a local farmer lost 150 of his rare breed sheep because he couldn't evacuate them in time (not for want of trying), one friend & her OH had to swim out in freezing water to their stranded horses and then swam them back to safety......


Many areas are still flooded and are still being pumped out 24/7 three weeks later.


It's tough going & Christmas has been grim for many families in the aftermath but thankfully no lives lost - and life carries on