Preparedness for when

short_bird

Perfect assessment of the situation, GQ.

grandma247

Yes! thank you GQ.

MrHarris

As suspicious as the Nail Gun death sounds. Perhaps this dudes death will involve an accidental shaving accident where he tried to shave with a Machete and miscalculated. lol

http://www.silverdoctors.com/another-jpmorgan-banker-found-dead-at-37/

pineapple

grandma247 wrote: »

Look out for one of those chocolate heating things (forgotten what they call them) in a charity shop

A chocolate tea pot?
Sorry.....:rotfl:

ALIBOBSY

Had a good mornings shop. Lidl are doing a special sized passata tub (1kg instead of 500g) for 59p (normal size around 33p ish), my roses lemon marmalade I love is one 2 for £2 at lidl as well and they had hein soups at 50p a tin.

Then nipped in Asda and spotted these wind up torches
http://direct.asda.com/Status-Wind-Up-Torch/001127867,default,pd.html

at only 75p each. Got 4 and had to do the understairs dark cupboard test. They are suprisingly bright so a bargain for the price.

DD3 got a barbie and car for £1.77 in the CS and then stocked up on veggies at the farmshop. Got a massive net of carrots for £1.69 and a sack of local spuds for £4.90, bargain.

Always nice to get stocked up lol. Was assuming we would get a power cut in the high winds so got out torches and candles ready, had my new wind up radio as recommended by BB to hand and cards etc to entertain the kids. Then nothing happened.

Feel lucky really, the wind really howled around and we lost another 4 panels from the GH on top of the 2 that went last time, but only one broke at the corner so the others are salvageble and it can be repaired. A couple of hanging baskets are down, but can be rehung later and one panel that was already cracked and repaired needed nailing back together. Nothing really compared to others problems.

Hope all you preppers survived intact.

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

daz378 wrote: »

there is another aspect of the floods that is starting to emerge on program mes like the daily politics ....is food security a lot of farmers crops are write offs......what aggregate price effect this may have on the supply of food in the uk.... yet more reasons to carry on prepping

Some of the farmers fields around here aren't flooded, nor are in the flood areas, BUT even here there has been so much rain that crops are rotting. Seen piles of swedes and simular root veggies dug up and rotting in piles..

Ali x

fuddle

pineapple wrote: »

A chocolate tea pot?
Sorry.....:rotfl:

Are they much use.

Nodding away to your wise words again preppers. I've sky news on as much as I can and between that and here I'm getting in a right tizzy. Still, what 2 years on, I'm not confident with my preps and where the ones I do have are stored. So many possible SHTF possibilities right now that all of a sudden I feel pressured.

I started thinking there wasn't much risk of a SHTF situation reeeeeelly and now I could face umpteen difficult situations as soon as tomorrow.

If anything comes out of these difficult years, I hope it's the realisation that we need a community to pull together and look no further for help and support and that we really should prep and take responsibility for our little part of the world.

daz378

for those that worry ......their prepps aren't extensive enough...your still ahead of the majority of the population...i live in a small flat and only a few weeks of prepps ... but its better than nothing....try not to let fears for the future....hinder your outlook on the present....off to look in shops ... for bits and bobs....stay safe

Cheapskate

Fuddle, you're exactly right! Nice to see you again, BTW

We've been very lucky in this awful weather, just a fence panel hanging off, all my pots of herbs vanished, and mum has had a fence panel come off completely, nothing on the grand scale of things.

A xo

ALIBOBSY

ragz wrote: »

Glad someone else noticed... I overheard this advert earlier and did think it sounded far too good to be true. I am getting very cynical...

Today my sons came home from school with leaflets about school milk, having had a special [STRIKE]promotional event[/STRIKE] educational assembly on the subject. After reception class, where milk is free, you can pay for your child to have milk at school through this 'EU subsidised' school milk scheme, delivered by a company called 'Cool Milk'. At 22p per day for 1/3 of a pint. I can't exactly work out what the subsidy is meant to do, because this is not cheaper than me providing milk at home... so I have emailed them to find out more about it... I have suspicions it is just another way businesses benefit from so called 'subsidies'. There was a smarmy and rich looking doctor on the back of the [STRIKE]propaganda[/STRIKE] information leaflet, which extolled the virtues and benefits of milk (of which they then only supply in semi-skimmed because of the fat!).

I had a little rant on facebook but few people seemed concerned by this so I think I may be getting a little too 'tin-hatty' for my normal friends...

Our school moved over from the milk being supplied by LCC to using the cool milke scheme, it was always semi skimmed milk here and we paid £6 a half term to LCC for it anyway. Cool milk here charges 19p a day so works out about the same as we paid under the old scheme, its just it has to be paid online.

The only advantage seems to be you can go on and off the milk as you choose. DD2 sometimes wants milk at school then goes through a phaze of not wanting it. She hasn't had any since before crimbo and wants to restart so I can pay this week and she will go back on for after half term-I think you have to pay by the tue afternoon of one week to get it set up for the following week.

TBH we go through pints of milk at home, they all love it so I treat is as a little extra treat for her. If she wants it great, if not thats fine too.

I suppose it depends how much milk costs at school already-or if the ones in your area do milk at the moment. Yes milk at home is cheaper, but difficult to get to the kids and for it to be kept cool. The cool milk stuff comes in mini bottles in big packs delivered to the front door of the school, then gets put in a fridge to keep cool until being handed out later on.

Ali x