Preparedness for when

mardatha

Ah yes WCS I could do that if I used house coal, ty. That's always a plan C.I do like plans lol

katep23

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

You should definitely have a stove top kettle, ideally all metal.

It'll double up for use on a gas hob, either domestic or camping.

Looks fab but would it work on an open fire burning coal and wood rather than a stove? Have seen some cast iron kettles for open fires but again it's just how they would work without a stove top to be placed on.

Karmacat

This bank stuff is worrying me now! I bank with HSBC ... and although I have other money (for my pension) they're my only current account, the only one I could actually get money from directly - everything else has to go to them first. I need another current account ...another thing to do once the tax bill is sorted. And can I please request that any problems with HSBC are delayed until I've paid it, because the money is sitting in my current account at the mo ...

JayneC

Has anyone seen 'The Shock Doctrine'?

The talk of water cannons and austerity riots brought it to mind. The thing is TPTB actually create a very scary and disorientating situation and as the general population is 'in shock' it goes about doing all sorts of things it wouldn't get away with under normal circumstances as people are scared and not thinking straight. Scary stuff and looking increasingly plausible as those in powerful positions get more and more desperate.

I did have all of my banking at HSBC but after the money laundering incident I switched my current account to a building society. The account is still open and running a small overdraft I also have a credit card (nearly paid), but the main thing is my mortgage. The interest rate is so low - 1.5% and I couldn't find anything to match it so I'm still there with that. Not sure what a bank collapse will mean for that. Will there be interest rate hikes d'ya reckon?

GreyQueen

katep23, I have a kettle almost identical to the one pictured for use on my gas stove, or the butane gas stove if the mains gas was to be off for some reason.

I don't know that any kettle is designed to sit into coals or logs. I imagine only a cast-iron one would handle the abuse.

When I was in the wild wet woods with the Mad Bushcrafters, they were using a metal tripod over the campfire with an old fashioned cooking pot (lidded) to boil the tea water. It was fetched out into mugs using a metal ladle. Worked really well.

It was an old fashioned enamelled cooking pot. One of my great-aunties had a set of saucepans just the same, black on outside, sort-of turquoise on the inside, very long handles and a pot-bellied shape to the pan bit.

This is the sort of thing;



I guess if you're hoping to use an open fireplace to cook on you'd need to look at installing something to hoist the kettle/ cooking pot above the flames. I'm sure I've seen cast-iron swivel type hooks for these in big old fireplaces.

Maybe a little research ahead of time?

ETA; JayneC, I think that interest rates would go a lot higher in a hurry. Remember how they shot up at the end of the eighties/ early nineties, went into double-figures and then up into the teens? I knew people who lost their homes then, and some others who went neg equity then and didn't get equity back until after 2000.

I really dread a banking collapse. Not because I have much money in the banking system; the end of the week it'll be all of £150. But because of the aggro with not being paid your wages in proper cash and having to go thru the banking system whether you want to, or not.

JayneC

On a more positive note I've been up to my allotment for the past couple of days and I think I have an admirer:o He's at least 20 years older than me and yesterday he offered to do a bit of digging for me as I've been battling with a patch of couch grass since the end of summer. He also pointed me to some free wood offcuts ( someone near to him was having decking built around their 'lodge'). Today I went back and he'd dug out about 4sq metres of couch grass for me (5 barrow loads!) and there were 3 more bags of wood for me. He then said I could have his old shed as he's building a new one from pallets (I have to confess it is quite impressive). Bless him:)

GreyQueen

Jealous! Your admirer clearly knows the way to a gardening woman's heart.

JayneC

Yeah GQ, I do remember those times and was caught up in it rather messily that time too:(

I do hope that I can avoid it this time.

Maybe I should just try to sell the house now? But then I'd have to make sure I got the money from it out before anything happened. It's a dilemma for sure. I think I'm just going to have to stick to my plan and hope it doesn't go completely t*ts up before then!

JayneC

GreyQueen wrote: »

Jealous! Your admirer clearly knows the way to a gardening woman's heart.

LOL:rotfl:

GreyQueen

We can only do our best, given the lack of functioning crystal balls in this neck of the woods, at least.

Be of stout heart, remember that fore-warned is fore-armed (and prolly four-candled, for all I know ).

Am heading off to read a murder mystery by Ann Cleeves, an author Mar tipped me off to; very good she is, too.

G'night and sweet dreams, folks. GQ xx