Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

Afternoon all.

Yeah cooking with floodwater, bet loads of peeps would have done that without counter-advice from the Department of the Bleedin' Obvious. What would concern me is that it's going to be very difficult to keep water splashes out of the home if you're paddling to and fro in wellies, what about splashes taking bacteria up in the air to be transmitted in aerosol form, what about bugs breeding as the water warms?

Those poor people, the Levels will be like a petri dish.:(

Been chucking it down here, I've been dodging the rain and thanking my lucky stars for waterproof jackets.

Yeah, I'd like to see the wool industry revived, but it was on the rocks for a long time, centuries, despite laws that people had to be buried in woollen shrouds and that you had to buy wool. It's been on the wane for a long time and synthetics and cotton are king, now. Read about the Aral Sea; http://www.columbia.edu/~tmt2120/introduction.htm that water is mostly going for cotton.

Cotton is an environmental catastophe. Used a staggering amount of all the irrigation and pesticides used on agriculture and we treat it almost as a throwaway item. Isn't a patch on wool, but a lot of people probably have never owned a woollen garment and don't know what they're missing. I mean, to handle a fine merino is a joy and a privilege.

Interesting about the reforestation in Spain. In 2011, I was in Tuscany and the mountains there are naturally covered by decidious woodland, particulary sweet chestnut and beech. Only they have been deforested for timber and to provide grazing land. We were walking above the Garfagnana Valley (sp?) and wending our way up through wonderful beechwoods. The trees were all about the same age and had all regenerated naturally in the previous 40 years after this particular area was fenced off from grazing and allowed to revert to what it should have been; woodland.

It was a magical place, and all had happened without human intervention, just removing our presence and our animals. I have seen wonderful regeneration in the Highlands where small areas have been fenced off from the deer who destroy the native seedling trees before they get a foothold.

We should have tree-covered hills at these latitudes. Heck, we should have a lot more trees full-stop. The local jays and squirrels keep planting oaks and walnuts on my allotment and it would revert to rough grassland, with scrub and then forest in succession, because that's what land wants to be.

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GQ I don't think there have ever before been times like these we live in. I think that we will have to completely rethink how we live and make the utmost of whatever is available to us as the climatic change and disruption continues and probably gets much worse (sorry if that sounds pessimistic!). I wouldn't be surprised to see very old ways being adopted or new ways being forged by necessity. I think every choice will be hard but there will be ways to overcome the difficulties that will present themselves. I think we'll have to take a long realistic look at what is and isn't possible to achieve and if wool will grow in the climate we inherit then wool will be a viable commodity and as such there will always be commercial opportunities to supply a need. Perhaps we'll end up like most of our forebears having one set of clothing for most of our lives and one more for marrying and burying us in? who knows?

thriftwizard

Perhaps we'll end up like most of our forebears having one set of clothing for most of our lives and one more for marrying and burying us in? who knows?

Wouldn't half solve a lot of storage problems, MrsLW! ;-)

Pollyjuice

siegemode wrote: »

The breadmaker was so bulky and to be honest the only good results I had from it was jam when I got YS fruit:rotfl: So that's boxed and in the spare room.

my kitchen.

You made jam in your bread maker? or am I just being gullable?

charlies-aunt

GreyQueen wrote: »

charlies-aunt, I'm confused. Know winter wheat is in, but surely the spuds haven't been planted this early? Or are they spuds still in the ground from last year? [ QUOTE]



A lot of fields are still stood in water & the ground is polluted by the sea /brackish water plus a thick layer of silt so the ground is going to need quite a time to "recover" because of the salinity - so the stuff that is in is brown anddead and the crops that should be going in can't be put in because the salinity will kill them IYSWIM!

Butterfly_Brain

jk0 wrote: »

Have you considered Coffee-Mate?

Be very careful because coffee mate is full of glucose and if you have a diabetic in the family it is worth knowing

grandma247

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

You use about 1 whole toilet roll per day? :eek:

There are often a lot of people visiting. I have 12 grandchildren lol.

grandma247

mardatha wrote: »

Grandma try spelling it Atholl brose

Thank you. The copy we are reading is appalling as far as spelling is concerned. I do have another,different one I discovered yesterday but we have nearly finished the book now. I will get rid of this copy when we have finished.

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I just had to come on mse today, I am just heartbroken watching the local news as ordinary people try to cope with the rising floodwaters. 150 homes were told to evacuate by a loudspeaker on a helicopter. Ordinary people like you and me in tears, they cannot cope, even with jobs like getting sandbags and getting stuff upstairs. A lady vicar was on tv and in tears, a farmer trying desperately to make some earthbanks before it is too late to save his cattle. Where the he** is the army? after all that media stuff, where are they? these people need co-ordinated manpower. I am near the levels but a 10 minute walk uphill and safe and away from the affected areas but it is making me tearful seeing these ordinary people, not rich but ordinary like you and me

I am looking around me and thinking that I couldn`t cope with all that either and tbh we in the uk should be thinking of using our money to help our own, not sending it abroad and not to build a high speed train that will only benefit the rich

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It was howling a gale, and persisting it down, earlier, but it's eased off now.

Still raining, but nowhere near as heavy.