Preparedness for when

jk0

How long before this guy gets 'suicided'?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2554875/Barclays-account-details-sale-gold-27-000-files-leaked.html

GreyQueen

ragz wrote: »

This is how I have done every one of my kids' parties so far! I even have layers in my pass the parcel that don't have a prize in!

On a prepping note... hubby filled up the water carriers from the caravan and put them under the stairs, this was months ago so I reckon we need to get them out and change the water (we didn't treat the containers or the water)... what can I use the water for and should I treat the containers with something? We use them pretty fast while caravanning so it's never really been an issue.

ragz, of my three large water carriers, two were bought used at a bootsale. No question that they needed treating as one of them had a bit of green water sloshing about at the bottom! It was at the end of summer and I guess someone was thinking about giving up the camping.

Anyway, I digress. I cleaned the outside with cream cleanser and rinsed the inside and then followed the directions for sterilising water containers with Milton Liquid which is two half-capfuls per 5 litres of water. I just refilled them a litre at a time from a jug, and let stand overnight before pouring away. I also submerged the plastic caps to the containers in a Milton solution overnight.

Rinse thoroughly, then refill with fresh water. I'm changing my containers every 3 months. Now I know the water is clean, I empty it into the tub and add hot and bathe in it - nowt wasted here. I have a diary note of when they come due for a refilling and this is backed up by a strip of masking tape on the top on the container itself with the fill date written on it.

I don't treat the water that goes into the clean container as it comes out of the tap chlorinated and I figure it should be OK. If yours went in untreated to untreated containers, I'd pour it away now or use it for cleaning the car or scrubbing something outside, if possible.

Urghh, went to bed at 9.30 last night, completely exhausted. Slept well until about 5 am and got up just before 6 to nip down the row in a coat over my jammies to check my bike shed. Untampered with. I was having an image of finding it broken into again on my way into work.

I can't keep the bike in the hall because said hall is only 75cm wide and has 7 door in its approx 3 meter length. It also has a standarad 8 ' 6" ceiling so no space to mount a bike up on the wall unless I intend to crawl under it. At the moment it's in the living room but that isn't sustainable long term. It'll have to go back into the shed but I'll leave it indoors as long as possible, to soothe my anxiety.

This is the trouble with crime. The £££s and pence may be neglible but the stress and anxiety take a heavy toll. And they'll not be caught and if they do, no biggie, slap on the wrist of a suspended sentence and a £15 'victim surcharge' and justice has been seen to be done - bah!

I have just emailed the allotment officer. Not that I expect them to be reading work emails at silly o'clock but so that they'll see it first thing. Hope that they can go to our site, take note of which plots still have sheds hanging open and let the plotholders know. I feel bad that I can't do more and wish I'd climbed over my back fence into my neighbour's plot on Saturday and jammed his shed door closed with some wood. When we went up there yesterday afternoon, the wind had obviously caught the shed and has wrenched the end off completely. It's one of those very small 6 x 4 sheds and the door made up 90% of the end of the shed.............

Woulda, shoulda, coulda *sigh*

Ach well, another day another dolour, as a dead American president once said...............:rotfl:I'm about to make bread rolls because I'm a hardcore old styler.

paidinchickens

Morning everyone.

Our Council are deciding today how much to put the Council tax up today. Out of all the people I know not one of them has had a pay rise and some have had their pay frozen and hours cut.

What annoys me the most is their buffet lunch brought in for the meetings when everyone else has a blumin packed lunch.

Stitches out for Pooch number four today and I'm glad as she's been on lead walks for 10 days and she's driving us all bonkers!!!

PiCx

GreyQueen

paidinchickens wrote: »

Morning everyone.

Our Council are deciding today how much to put the Council tax up today. Out of all the people I know not one of them has had a pay rise and some have had their pay frozen and hours cut.

What annoys me the most is their buffet lunch brought in for the meetings when everyone else has a blumin packed lunch.

Stitches out for Pooch number four today and I'm glad as she's been on lead walks for 10 days and she's driving us all bonkers!!!

PiCx

It's been many a long year since our councillors had sarnies provided for them for meetings but, back when they did, occaionally they'd be leftovers given to my dept afterwards - mostly rather dried-out and curly, but on a low salary grade we weren't picky and wolfed them down. It did feel a bit upstairs, downstairs, tho.:rotfl:

I guess our CT rate decision will be made soon as the CT bills are printed at the beginning of March. The increase last year was so tiny that it was barely perceptable, hope something similar happens this year. I already work one month a year just to have enough net income to pay the bliddy thing.:(

I'm more concerned about the increase in my council flat's rent. It's gone up 50% in the last 7 years whereas for most of those I had nil pay increases and on the two years (5 years apart lol) that I did get pay increases it worked out about £1.50 per week as opposed to another £40-£50 a month on the rent. Rent increases are set by central grubbyment and they have said they want council rents to be 80% of private rents and will jack them up until they get there.

Yeah, right, you let private rents float free so that they respond to a market of artificial scarcity (controlling building), and then jack up the affordable rents to meet them, whilst drawing a very low base under wages. Which part of affordable housing did you not understand?

Spiteful rich people in grubbyment, I hates you, I does, I hates you.

Glad to hear the pooch will be de-stitched today.

Flat is smelling very homely atm with bread rolls proving. It's the windmiller's flour from the farmers' mkt which visits Nan's village once a month. I get the folks to buy it on my behalf a few times a year in 5 kg bags. Lovely stoneground wholemeal and proper tasty, plus you have the satisfaction of supporting a heritage site. They've been milling there, water and then wind, since before Domesday.

Hollyberry

GQ It strikes me perhaps the only benefit of the lottie situation is that all you lottie holders might get to know one another better as a result. Maybe a few kindred spirits amongst you? Harumphing here with indignation on your behalf, and hoping things calm down.

Like most people, I guess, we have fencing repairs to do - two panels down now, and although they are my neighbour's "side", I suspect if anything is going to be done about it, it will be by us. Fortunately it's nothing serious. Hope you are doing ok greenbee - you sound, as ever, very well prepped.

I found out at the end of last week that I need a couple of eye operations (one urgent) so I may be in lurk mode for a little while. We are, of course, well stocked, and I have a new log guy to call, so hopefully we'll be nice and snug soon.

siegemode I agree completely about the restorative power of music. OH took me to Bristol to see Graham Parker and the Rumour late last year, so I revisited all my teenage memories there and then with a load of other fortyandfiftysomethings. jk0 Never really been into country, but I do love Nashville - one of the few remaining pleasures of TV.

greenbee

I'm hoping I'm well prepared, but who knows? I've just put a couple of cones out in the road in an attempt to slow the traffic down, but it doesn't appear to have had much of an impact. And reported to the council so that they put some kind of traffic calming in place.

Downstairs toilet was burping this morning, so I've been round and spoken to the neighbours I share the sewage treatement system with. One of them is going to call the engineers for advice. The drains aren't backing up as far as we can tell (I'm not going out lifting drain covers, but on neighbour has!), so it may just be pressure causing the problem as the ground water level is now at erm... ground level and so there isn't much room for stuff to soak away.

I think I might want to invest in some polymer sandbags to stuff down the toilet, just in case!

Another neighbour is coming over shortly so we can work out how much sand and how many sandbags we need to order (I suspect filled sandbags may all be gone by now) to keep us all secure.

Lucky I'm working a late shift today!

S_Wales_Saver

Well, info for those of us in the Principality.

Re the health data upload. I have been assured by my surgery this morning that this does not apply to Wales....(at the moment???)

The news does talk about England in this context, but as GQ says there tends to be a habit of reporting England and meaning either England and Wales or even the whole of the uk.

I will be looking and listening for more info and scrutinising my junk mail from now on. Health matters in Wales do tend to take a different tack, eg prescription charges so perhaps we won't be 'data-mined'. The only health data that has been shared in Wales is purely for the use of health professionals, which I see as logical.

westlothianlass

Hi All,
Haven't been able to post over the last few days, but have been keeping up, and have been furious on your behalf GQ.

JKO I love country music ,but haven't managed to catch Nashville sadly.

I had some family and other people over at the weekend for a family members b'day celebration, but i felt a bit strange afterwards. I felt like i was from a parallel universe, observing peeps talking about buying crap, or the must have piece of plastic.
It left me feeling quite overwhelmed at how little some people pay attention to environmental or political stuff:(. So I took myself off and had a trawl on here and other sites online to get my fix of normal peeps (thats you lot incase you didn't recognise the title:rotfl:).

Right i better go and complete some work, catch you later my lovely online peeps.

WLL X

auntymabel

Some further info re the NHS data issue and a Facebook petition to Jeremy Hunt for those who would like to sign.

Extract:

The government claims that individuals won’t be able to be identified. However, many experts have warned that under the current plans, we could easily be singled out through simple cross-referencing of other databases -- especially if you have a rare or unusual condition.

Also has some interesting links.

Sorry to hear about your lottie. Makes you think very violent thoughts towards those responsible. It;s all so pointless.

Shropshirelass

Hi everyone :wave:, have been lurking while short of time to post, takes me some time to keep up to date with this brilliant community.

Sympathy, warm (and dry) wishes to all suffering this weather - probably all of us in some way. We had an hour or so of snow this morning, but seems to be reverting to drizzly rain now - don't know what would happen if we got a serious snow cover on top of this freezing mud. Ground water ground level here too, growing pools in any fields with low areas, road surface water everywhere, fools driving too fast and causing spray which obscures other drivers vision and soaks pedestrians.


Quite a few car fires causing roads to be blocked in last few days, wonder if they might be due to wet electrics in cars that have driven through deep water?

As well as serious flooding of houses and streets of shops, it looks as if storm damage has destroyed sea walls, coastal roads and parking areas all along large stretches of Welsh coast. Media not reporting this, TPTB in denial of need for any costly action, probably delighted to avoid mention, and responsibility. Is it my paranoid imagination, or do we only get a reaction to a problem if the media can easily make a convenient story out of it.

Sorry to hear of your troubles GQ. DS keeps his bike chained on hooks on the wall outside his flat (he has end flat so no-one passes by), at least he might hear if anyone attempts to meddle. DD kept her bike chained up while at work, had the un-chained wheel stolen. Very upsetting, people seem to get attached to their bike, perhaps like your trusty steed. Also devastating to think lottie under attack from these idiots, bad enough getting weather damage, have to accept as 'act of God', but mindless damage by crims is hard.

In last few weeks we have had problems here with access to money via ATMs, on several different occasions :eek: Got a scam email on Saturday re: Tesco club card - asking for my details to be confirmed on line - I don't think so :rotfl:I was also surprised to be approached by a beggar, standing next to the ATM outside the bank. This is a small market town, never seen that before. He was not local - so don't suppose he would get any help from newly opened Food Bank. Upsetting to think someone can be so desperate. All due to changing times, expecting more of these problems, and only hope we can keep wise and keep on top of situation.

Glad I have kept up with the preps, times like these you never know when or why they may be needed.