Preparedness for when

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Is the gas supply looking more, or less, secure?

paidinchickens

Secure in my house Bob as I've had mushy peas with my dinner

PiC x

D&DD

Does anyone know how long bees live for?? I've been having a running argument with my lot that its the same one who visits us (or am I going to be embarrassed..) He always buzzes round our back door in the same spot.


Mar sorry hun I thought the whole country was basking in the sun today should we send some sweeties to alleviate your suffering??I'd send a few burgers but they wouldn't be nice by the time they arrived...

ALIBOBSY

Anyone else watching countryfile, lovely bit about how farmers from all over the country have rallied to help farmers in the flooded area. Brought a lump to the throat and the old farmer with his flooding was almost wiping a tear when he said how wonderful fellow farmers had been.

Maybe with people like that around at least agriculture will be able to make the transition to an oil less world easier than other businesses.

One positive is its likely in a more frugal oil less world jobs like bankers and the miriad of pointless office non jobs that have sprung up in the last few decades, will be long gone

OH just came in from a little bargain hunt with a couple of knocked down breads and some everyday value teabags that were on offer at 27p a box of 80 bags

Ali x

Edit-think the value teabags are normally around that price, but OH insists the shelf said reduced lol.

Jazee

GreyQueen, I have seen a bumble bee today too, but haven't planted my potatoes yet.

AliBobsy, what will I do if they take away my pointless little office job? I'm not really skilled at anything else!

Sunny here today but oh so cold because of the wind.

GreyQueen

Jazee wrote: »

GreyQueen, I have seen a bumble bee today too, but haven't planted my potatoes yet.

AliBobsy, what will I do if they take away my pointless little office job? I'm not really skilled at anything else!

Sunny here today but oh so cold because of the wind.

I work in a call centre, so guess I'm also what could be called Office Fauna.

But we are all more than our job descriptions. You obviously garden, too, and there will be plenty of gardening in the future. Those of us who are already proficient will be needed to keep people fed and to pass on the skills. Small persons will have to be trained when potatoes do not come in placcy bags from the supermarkets.

:cool: Hmmm, I can hit things with arrows, knit, sew, make rugs from rags and scrap yarn, cook (ish), spin with a drop spindle if you want an interestingly slubby yarn and perform elementary woodwork procedures. I can also make fires, turn dead woodpigeons inside out with my bare hands and identify several species of deer by their tracks. Come the apocalypse, I shall be tooling up with my bow and arrows and picking on something manageable in the venison line (muntjac, prolly).

Plus animals and small children seem to like me. And I can make people laugh. This may be useful if TSHTF.

Nah, I think anyone savvy enough to be on MSE Old Style will probably be just fine. We are the M'sing, remember, so wear your pinny and safety pin with pride.

Jazee

Thanks for that GreyQueen. For the outdoorsie fire making kind of stuff, I will keep DD with me. She can do all that being a scout kind of person stuff. (Couldn't sew her own badges on the shirt though!).

Cheapskate

Evening peeps, had a few days MIA, but think I've caught up with you all now!

GQ, on the pinny front, I have, in fact, been tootling around t'interweb looking for patterns for pinnies to make as gifts for folk in the family - do I get extra points for making as well as wearing?

My experiences range from working on a psychiatric lock up ward, to engineering firms, local grubbymint, retail, and some even odder, and life skills include basic archery taught by dad, ability to identify a reasonable range of edible wild plants, can make a meal from virtually nowt, sew, learning to knit and crochet again, can grow some edible stuff.... Not as skilled as most on here, but slowly getting there!

A xo

jk0

Remember we were talking about pension ages the other day folks?

It's even worse than I thought:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ibcORs4I4

Butterfly_Brain

paidinchickens wrote: »

I've never had tins go rusty on me..........how old were your tins? :eek::rotfl:


PiC x

Still had 12 months date code on them maybe they are using cheaper tin, I have never had it happen to me before either