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  • fuddle
    fuddle Posts: 6,823 Forumite
    Must have Mar, must have :D

    I missed Tudor Monastery Farm last night so will be sitting down to catch up later - thanks for mentioning it! :)
  • Karmacat
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    Hollyberry wrote: »
    I've also just finished Free Falling by Susan Kiernan Lewis, currently free for Kindle. This is a post-nuclear EMP scenario with an American family holidaying in the wilds of Ireland at the time of the attack. There are two further books in the series (neither free, sadly) and I've just started the second. It has a lovely sense of location in that you can almost taste the countryside, although it's not one of those SHTF novels that is heavy on knowledge sharing (in other words, you won't learn much you don't already know). Worth a read, nevertheless.
    Thanks for that! I've just picked it up now, and its still free.
    mardatha wrote: »
    I'm another one who was thinking the news isn't really news any more. ....

    Watched the Tudor Monastery Farm christmas last night on iPlayer and it was magic, I love how they do everything by hand.....

    Another one agreeing about the "news". Thanks for the reminder about the Christmas edition - haven't seen that, I wondered at the time why they stopped it at Michaelmas, now I know :D

    House maintenance as a prep - sigh - I have water seeping through the walls on the exposed side of the house :eek: I think a major effort at repointing, and chopping down a trellis and an old rose bush, is going to be a priority in the New Year.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • pineapple
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    mardatha wrote: »
    On Sky you get a few major stories that they do to death and they totally ignore other stuff - plus to Sky News Scotland doesn't exist. We can have snowmageddon with force 12 gales and at the very end of a paragraph Sky will tack on "and wintry in Scotland".
    Face it - you are not in southern UK. We must reserve all our concern for the tender souls down there.
    We know that in the land of haggis and deep fried mars bars, Scots are made of sterner stuff :rotfl:
  • pineapple
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    Karmacat wrote: »
    House maintenance as a prep - sigh - I have water seeping through the walls on the exposed side of the house :eek: I think a major effort at repointing, and chopping down a trellis and an old rose bush, is going to be a priority in the New Year.
    I'm retired and on a low income. And though I should count myself lucky to have my little cottage (and it is little) bought and paid for, it's an old property and the expenses are never ending and worrying.
    I do sort of envy the woman down the lane who lives in a beautiful barn conversion. She gets HB towards the rent and say the roof leaks or the boiler explodes - she simply picks up the 'phone and speaks to the landlord. :mad:
  • BigMummaF
    BigMummaF Posts: 4,281 Forumite
    fuddle wrote: »
    Me too westcoastscot . I'm going to be kinder to myself and stick to it :)

    Im after your help if you can preppers? I would like a torch that is small enough to fit on my keys but powerful enough to lead the way, find my car lock, enough to see addresses on my rounds and to enter exterior safe codes. I know it's a tall order but thought I'd ask. It basically has to fit in a fleece jacket pocket.

    Another here who needs to keep a bit of care for herself :o if only to be fit enough to look after the others...

    Have you considered a head torch Fuddle? The one I have is on a kinda bungee headband, so it rolls up to the size of the actual lens; mine is about 3"x2"x2" so will fit in your pocket & has 3 white light settings & a red one too. I use it mostly for reading in bed, cuz I wriggle around so much I don't always benefit from the bedside lamp :oThese are similar to the one I've got.

    Hope you have fun today GQ; if nothing else you're being kept warm by their heating, & presumably being waited on with hot drinks & a morsel or two :) I drive my family scatty with how I automatically find a benefit to most negative situations :rotfl: but I can't help it...I wouldn't say I'm either an optimist or a pessimist, I just find something that will be a plus.

    I'd love to keep ledgers & start off enthusiastically, :o & it doesn't help that when I try to update them, the others are moaning about the time I spend doing 'silly stuff' :mad: so that's something to look forward to when I eventually only have myself to think about.
    My prepping this year is going to include a serious plan of action, should I be called to the Great Chatroom in the Sky. I have no life insurance & fear, if I begin a savings a/c for the event, The Offspring wouldn't be able to access it without it being a specific commercial Plan. I don't want nor can afford to commit to something like that, so..ideas please? I loathe to think the children will have to fund my farewell, & Time is definitely not going to wait till I marry a multi-millionaire! Not saying I'm poorly, but it is still the only outcome of which any of us can be assured. Appy Noo Yer :rotfl:
    Full time Carer for Mum; harassed mother of three;
    loving & loved by two 4-legged babies.

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    edited 2 January 2014 at 12:16PM
    Oi PINEAPPLE I'm a southern dweller and I don't think in several lifetimes I'd describe me or him as a tender soul!!! neither would anyone else if survival was a requirement. Tough as old boots are we, and just as annoyed at the complete lack of 'NEWS' on any of the TV channels and the absence of accurate weather event predictions. I hate all the weather hype with the amber warnings etc. It's good to be able to batten down the hatches if there is a really big blow coming through and lessen the potential for damage but the continual 'Oh it's going to be a REALLY big storm we think, perhaps, in some areas, but we're not quite sure where exactly etc. etc. etc. is driving me to distraction!!! and the news with the continual playing of a few minutes of the same film clip for hours on end when there is a happening is doing the same. Having said that, we have a lovely and very effective button on our TV, it says OFF!!! Lyn xxx.

    BIGMUMMA why not just start putting a £2 coin in a jar every week and when it gets to be £10, exchange the coins for a note (easier to store long term) and build up your fund that way. Over the years you'll save enough to be able if you so choose to pre pay your own funeral expenses. I know this is a step too far for lots of folks to contemplate, but it's a practical solution to the problem. My brothers inlaws have gone a step further than that and actually walked round, chosen where and paid for their plots in the local churchyard!!! all for the same reason, so as not to leave the responsibility of payment to their daughter and son in law!!! Lyn xxx.
  • fuddle
    fuddle Posts: 6,823 Forumite
    There's some pretty hardy northerners living in the south ;)

    I've seen horrid weather in the North East and experienced some of the weather that Western Scotland can throw at you. In the South's defence these storms recently have surpassed anything I have seen. It's been constant and devastating. The South is heavily populated. So many people down here are effected in any locality. I'm not used to that.

    The softy Southerners have impressed me in their attitude to just getting on and getting over this - I don't think they're any different than up north ;)
  • Torches still lit, but nowhere near as bright, as when I first switched them on.

    I don't think they are going to last, anywhere near as long, as the collapsible lanterns.
  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    People are people, wherever they are and whatever colour they are. The only differences are the ones they have been taught. You get good folk bad folk and indifferent folk lol and to me that's the three races of the world. I appreciate there's a hell of a lot more people doon south but I still need a weather forecast up here :D:D
    Do you not think we will come full circle though? that after too many easy years some people - the wiser ones or more thoughtful ones - will decide enough is enough and go back to OS ways voluntarily? Many of us are doing that.
  • fuddle
    fuddle Posts: 6,823 Forumite
    edited 2 January 2014 at 1:38PM
    We certainly do Mar. The weather is the crux of the happy, the sad, the good, the bad, the successful and the unsuccessful - we all depend on it. Mar even the Southerners weren't informed of the severity of it last night really - old news and not very interesting I suspect. It's only because I'm a panicky arris and a nervous driver (and being a prepper of course ;) ) that I knew where to look and just as importantly - that I should look!

    You've known me for years now Mar, I scrabble about daily trying to find OS titbits in order to learn and I so agree that OS has to be the only way in which to survive without modern day progresses. Much of the disruption here has been down to power cuts, and prolonged at that. Ok, so homes etc have it really tough heating, lighting and food but it's further than that as traffic lights go down = traffic build up and gridlock situations at very complex newly built roundabout that rely on lights to function effectively. Shops can't sell, people can't buy even with cash in their pockets as the till won't work. Just a couple of things I've found out recently and I'm shocked that there is just no back up plan, no back up power. No electric? No way! It's a silly situation to get ourselves Into I think.
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