Preparedness for when

Possession

GQ, what a load of ****s. Hope you've managed to sort the locks and get to your party.

GreyQueen

maryb wrote: »

GQ I'm so mad on your behalf. Is there anyway you can rig up a mouse trap that would catch prying fingers? Don't see how anyone could say there was any harm in that because after all, these sheds are prone to infestations of pests, aren't they?

I was contemplating a spring-loaded cross-bow but murder may be a slightly excessive degree of response. I'm all for several days in the stocks and Hard Labour instead of lolling around in yer cell.

My folks' have just gone home, bless their lovely souls. I have a new hasp and padlock on the shed and the Pashley is actually in the living room with me right now. Paranoid, moi? :rotfl:I wanted to use its second, longer chain to chain the front end to the rack whilst the back end is chained to the wall bracket but they'd swiped that out of the bike basket. So I'm down a meter long welded link chain and a whopping padlock and have already just spent shy of £20 on the replacement hasp and padlock. Will keep the P indoors for a while, or at least until I have replaced the big chain.

The local hardware is doing pretty well out of it. I will try to claim on my contents insurance.

We flitted briefly up to the allotmentino to mend the shed door again and there are several sheds still flapping open. I shall call the lottie officer tomoz and suggest they go up there, note which sheds are open and ring the plot-holders. I'd let people know but mostly I only know people by first name and have no way of getting in touch with them.

I'm completely exhausted and p'd off. However much time has this wasted of mine, and my family's today? And mine yesterday? Taken up the whole bliddy weekend, I'm tired not rested. Ach well, these things pass. I'd like to get a firm hold of my (formerly my) welded steel chain and smack the free-end around the thieving little scumbag's heid.

Anyway, thank you for all your righteous indignation on my behalf and moving on - any news of greenbee in the flood zone?

GreyQueen

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

This is intensely worrying
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/supreme-court-justice-confirms-american-internment-camps-will-happen-again-it-is-the-reality_02042014

The ZH posters have been referring to Fema camps for a long time. And a thing to remember about the imprisonment of Japanese Americans as enemy aliens during WW2 is that not just their liberty was taken but their property. And their property wasn't returned to them afterwards.

Great wheeze against a group, isn't it? And the shedloads of bullets the DHS has been buying up in the USA. Obviously planning for major civil insurrections to be fought against civilians on US soil. What will they do, decide anyone who needs state support will have to be chipped and reside in a FEMA camp? Will you be a state labourer on a subsistence food ration or a criminal trying to live free outside the system? Seems like dystopian fiction is becoming fact as we watch..........

GQ's predictions for spring fashion is that tin hats will be worn.....

mags50_2

Pollyjuice wrote: »

The stew sounds good but I hate to think how long it took to pick out all that rice from the wood buring stove . Just think of all those sooty bits, but I suppose the carbon is good for your stomach lining, haha.

Cheeky Yorkshire person :rotfl::rotfl:

I'm a yellabelly meself

It was all tucked up in the oven on the side of me wood burning stove which also has a couple of hot plates on the top...saves loads on electric for cooking and keeps us warm.

BTW I love your signature...I could never remember the last couple of lines so thank you :T

thriftwizard

And the shedloads of bullets the DHS has been buying up in the USA. Obviously planning for major civil insurrections to be fought against civilians on US soil.

There's always the thought that they might be preparing to - errm, borrow? - the Alberta oilfields, and any other Canadian property that might take their fancy. As the South & West get drier and less habitable, the vast green forests of the North might seem rather inviting. Not to mention other resources...

greenbee

So sorry to hear about your bike shed GQ. You're right to keep your bike indoors (thank goodness you frequent the hoaders' thread or you might not have had the space )

We have a very low crime rate here, but again, it is mostly bikes or powertools that they are after.

As you say, thank goodness for family. My cousin came over today with 20 bags of builders' sand that he'd managed to locate at a DIY store (builders' merchants who have actual sand and sandbags are closed on Sundays) and a pack of hydrosnakes. By the time he got here I'd sorted out all the shelves in the garage which were very disorganised due to lots of visiting helpers and nothing ever being put away properly!

I sorted through all the tat (OK, so there is one washing up bowl full of random bits left to go), took all the stuff that lives in my car out of it, put the seats down and loaded up the recycling, some old sofa cushions and covers and various bits of chipboard and skirting.

Shelves were sorted out so that as much as possible was as high as possible, especially petrol/chemicals.

All the new Ik*@ stuff due to go into the utility room has been moved indoors ready for fitting. The ancient and threadbare oriental carpet that was in the garage (I have several in the house!) has been moved to the unused bedroom. The ones in the house may join them if things keep going as they are.

We used old shelves to make a platform for the plugged-in freezer (the other one will have to fend for itself). Hydrosnakes were positioned round the boiler. More old shelves were put up in the rafters and lots of stuff put away up there. An old sofa was put in the back of cousin's van to go to the tip.

The lawnmower and log splitter are up on top of the garden furniture.

Then we sandbagged across the front of the garage, and have a pile next to the door I'm still using.

Finally I took the nails out of a whole lot of bits of batten, sawed them up and put them in the kindling bin.

All my seasoned logs are indoors, only kindling and coal are outside, in old plastic dustbins.

It's unlikely that the water will get into the garage, and even less likely that it will get into the house, but I need to be sensible. So tonight I will keep on pottering - getting laundry washed and dried, and moving food upstairs (water is already there - if I can get out tomorrow morning I will go and get more).

Thanks for the reminder about food GQ. I'll take the portable gas hob and spare cylinder upstairs, and make sure that all my gadgets and torches are kept charged. I have a powerock emergency charger which has done really well in powercuts, so will give that a boost too.

Guess I'd better get back to moving stuff ALthough I'm might light a fire first...

GreyQueen

Very little would surprise me, frankly. I think the sooner peak oil takes out the continental-spanning superstate the better. But its death-throes will be ugly. Gawdelp anyone sitting on oil reserves when the USA wants them as I'm sure they'll use their military might to ensure that they'll be the last to go short.

Righty, going to lie in a bubblebath. I need to soothe myself down a bit. If I was a cat I'd be doing stress-grooming right now. I've even brought the Pashley indoors (wave at Princess, she's just to the left of my monitor). Actually, if you're looking out, the bike will be to your right looking across the interwebs.

Frugalsod

Cheapskate wrote: »

http://www.mynewoldschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/prepping-matrix-ver-1.pdf

Saw this on p!nterest, fascinating diagram/schematic about all sorts of prepping. US site, but you could pick out what suits you. Didn't realise p!nterest had stuff like this, I use it for crafts, cooking, etc!:D

A xo

A lot will not be relevant to us in the UK, but it is a good guide as to what to consider.

jk0

GreyQueen wrote: »

I was contemplating a spring-loaded cross-bow but murder may be a slightly excessive degree of response. I'm all for several days in the stocks and Hard Labour instead of lolling around in yer cell.

My folks' have just gone home, bless their lovely souls. I have a new hasp and padlock on the shed and the Pashley is actually in the living room with me right now. Paranoid, moi? :rotfl:I wanted to use its second, longer chain to chain the front end to the rack whilst the back end is chained to the wall bracket but they'd swiped that out of the bike basket. So I'm down a meter long welded link chain and a whopping padlock and have already just spent shy of £20 on the replacement hasp and padlock. Will keep the P indoors for a while, or at least until I have replaced the big chain.

The local hardware is doing pretty well out of it. I will try to claim on my contents insurance.

We flitted briefly up to the allotmentino to mend the shed door again and there are several sheds still flapping open. I shall call the lottie officer tomoz and suggest they go up there, note which sheds are open and ring the plot-holders. I'd let people know but mostly I only know people by first name and have no way of getting in touch with them.

I'm completely exhausted and p'd off. However much time has this wasted of mine, and my family's today? And mine yesterday? Taken up the whole bliddy weekend, I'm tired not rested. Ach well, these things pass. I'd like to get a firm hold of my (formerly my) welded steel chain and smack the free-end around the thieving little scumbag's heid.

Anyway, thank you for all your righteous indignation on my behalf and moving on - any news of greenbee in the flood zone?

Hey GQ,

I was searching on Amazon and came across these items:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Security-932-Automatically-photographs-movement/dp/B0053GBCLC/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t

Would those be any good to put on a shelf in your shed, or bike shed?

The other thing that occured to me, regarding your bike shed, is have you considered a cordless alarm for it, something like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Friedland-Wireless-Intruder-Burglar-Security/dp/B008E5F2GA/ref=pd_sim_sbs_diy_1

Assuming it's not too great a distance, you could have the contacts on your bike shed, and the alarm base station in your flat.

thriftwizard

Wishing you a relaxing bubble bath (now, that's a post-shtf trade goods idea) and a glass of bracing cyber-vino, GQ. Good to hear your Princess is safe; I have a friend who keeps hers hung upside-down on big hooks high up in the hallway of her pretty-minuscule flat, where it doesn't quite poke anyone in the eye. Not one visitor has ever thought it odd, apart from one mental health "professional" who presumably lives in the kind of place that thugs can't get into. She dries underwear & skeins of handspun yarn on the handlebars & pedals.