Preparedness for when

elaine241

Hi all
Re free kindle books I get the free daily books email which highlights free books in categories that you select, sci fi ,thrillers,crafts etc. The email gives you some of the free ones and you can click on a link to see all in that topic.

GQ I spat my tea again! Rat on a stick is the name I give unidentified buffet foods we get served at some of the meetings I go to in the pretence of working! In true be prepared style I pinched the tea bags/coffee etc for my car preps!

Frugalsod

nuatha wrote: »

Actually, producing physical cash out of nothing is what various governments have been doing for quite a while. Having real assets to back your money went when we came off the gold standard, now you just need to decide to print more notes - though the various banks don't need that much physical cash, since most transactions are nothing more than database entries.

It is the commercial banks that are the real printers of money. They do not have to have the actual money to back up their lending unless called for. The Government has generally being acting conventionally, in when it needs to spend more it borrows. Though right now the Bank of England has printed several hundred billion to bail out the banks. It is still the problems that the banks have created that are the problem not the spending of governments. In fact the spending of governments normally can be the counterweight to stop recessions becoming depressions. Yet current government policy is actually making this less effective.

short_bird

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

Sorry, all. Reflex action. Popped by to share this:
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/feb/18/eat-of-battle-worlds-armies-fed
as it might be useful for hints and tips for the bug out or bug in preps.

On the medication front: temperature control can be An Issue eg thyroid meds need to be kept cool.

Carpe Diem.

sb44

I just had a thought regarding deep snow, ie if the SHTF and we get snowfall similar to the USA (or at least 2 or 3' deep).

If snow were to settle for a while and is above air brick level (floor level not upstairs, god forbid! ), would it be better to dig the snow out to let the air bricks breath or just leave them covered?



:eek:

Sorry boss, I can't make it into work today.

Butterfly_Brain

6 months reprieve on data sharing, shame that it is not abandoned all together

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/04/nhs-admits-clearer-medical-records-sharing-scheme?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/18/nhs-delays-sharing-medical-records-care-data

Frugalsod

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Funnily enough that is exactly what one of the proposals is that is being looked at - smaller regional banks (like Germany) - with little of the casino banking held at National level.

Of course ............ its all a long way off but makes me think - if there is no need of "Lender of Last Resort" - is there any need for a Fiscal Union. Would instead make more sense to peg the Scottish Pound to Sterling instead.

But what do I know? Eh? Tell you what I do know - the Banking system we have right now isn't fit for purpose .... so why not look for a different way of doing things?

MG

If there was no lender of last resort then there would be more bank runs, as people feared getting their money back. Though the lender of last resort should have been abolished at the same time as all the bank deregulation. Since it became a one sided bet. Heads I win tails you lose for the banks. The lender of last resort is useful in a regulated banking market but is wrong in an unregulated market.

Butterfly_Brain

I found this great site on improvised army stoves in the two world wars, it has lots of ideas and recipes as well

http://joyoffieldrations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/improvised-cookers-british-army-wwi-and.html

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BB thanks for the heads up on the tins of sliced beef in gravy at poundland, got a couple for the store cupboard this morning also use by Dec 2016, good value. I visited Mr.Ts emporium today too and in the world foods aisle they had the jars of Polish Kielbasa Sausage on offer at £1.99p if anyone is interested, it's a good product and makes lovely pasta sauce, Lyn xxx.

Frugalsod

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I found this great site on improvised army stoves in the two world wars, it has lots of ideas and recipes as well

http://joyoffieldrations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/improvised-cookers-british-army-wwi-and.html

The fact that they were made from brick showed that they expected to be there a while.

pineapple

GQ I can't shake this image of you in a Maid Marion outfit. :eek:
Pineapple got a shock today when she tried to renew her car tax and realised her MOT was expired.
I simply forgot about it melud
Just back from garage clutching her bit of paper. Legal again - phew!