Preparedness for when

sorryImoved

Bedsit Bob you are priceless! Taught me what to do about unwanted solicitors !:rotfl:

sorryImoved

To clarify solicitors here in the US - One that solicits, especially one that seeks trade or contributions.

DawnW

anika wrote: »

Hi, I have been following this thread for ages and am hooked now! I have nothing to contribute as I don't prep. I want to everytime I read though!

Well, why not give it a go ? I will admit, some of the posters on here are real experts, but not all (certainly not me), and anyone can keep a bit of stored food in reserve for small shtf scenarios such as being poorly and not able to get to the shops for a few days, or bad weather disrupting supplies. A small bottled gas stove or similar, the kind you use for camping, is great so that you can still have a cuppa if there is a power cut, too. These things aren't hard, or expensive

You could also try growing a bit of your own food - herbs, beansprouts etc can be grown on windowsills if you don't have a garden . OK, they won't prevent starvation, but would make tinned food a bit more interesting if that is all you had access to for a few days.

nuatha

sorryImoved wrote: »

To clarify solicitors here in the US - One that solicits, especially one that seeks trade or contributions.

Whereas in the UK lawyers are solicitors, soliciting usually refers to approaching someone and offering services as or on behalf of a prostitute.
Given that most MPs are from the legal profession I'm sure they could have redefined the terms legally had they not been so appropriate.

GreyQueen

sorryImoved wrote: »

To clarify solicitors here in the US - One that solicits, especially one that seeks trade or contributions.

Lol, like the anecdote I read once from a British woman solicitor (aka lawyer) whose little daughter, when asked by a schoolteacher what her mother did, piped up Mummy solicits in Manchester!

Two countries, one (almost) shared language, sometimes cause for mutual bemusement and merriment. If it wasn't for the prevelence of US media we'd be even more baffled.

Was at archery last night, having missed last week's class due to pooter problems requiring the Wiz's expertise. Thought I would be all over the place but actually started to get pretty good. I'm shooting a form of long-bow called the American flat-bow, a 1920s-era update on the traditional long-bow and I like it a lot. Teach says I'm on the edge (of a sudden improvement) and I can see it on some shots. You aparently need to practise archery about 3 times a week to get really good. I won't be able to do that but I'll persist. It's great fun. And I had no idea about how many people there are who do, or have done, archery. I keep finding them. If SHTF, some people will have a head-start on the zombies, believe you me.

Archery is an interesting series of challenges, requiring very fine control of the smaller muscles and tendons in your arm and hands, and an understanding of the physics of the arrow's flight. Makes you realise what the ability to project force over distance would have meant, in terms of survivability, for our species.

I also asked Teach about those PVC pipe bows. He said you can make a bow out of anything which bends and a string, but some results will be better than others. Someone brought a home-made PVC pipe bow to class to shoot on the range and it was so-so until Teach gave him a proper bowstring to put on it, and suddenly it got a lot better.

Basic bowstrings are about £4 I think, as are basic arrows. A bow-string or two in your supplies?

Re feeling a little uncertain about prepping, it's a journey, not something you have to study for years before you become this mysterious creature called a Prepper. Heck, I live in a city centre in a tiny flat and am in deep envy of those with farms, holdings and the even most bijou of orchards.

Say you buy 10 bottles of 2 litre still water in the supermarket today. 17p each so outlay £1.70. You put them somewhere out of the light and not standing on a concrete floor. You keep them out of the light so they don't grow algae and off the concrete because you know concrete can degrade plastic when in physical contact.

You are now a prepper because you have covered a short-term loss of the most vital resource for the survival of a human bean. And you're probably better prepared than any 9 in 10 randomly-selected individuals.

Say that you also keep up with the laundry, wash the dishes before bed, and fill the kettle. You wake up with no water supply. It happens randomly. You aren't in a kitchen pickle and you still get to have your cuppa. Preptastic. You really wouldn't want to meet me without my morning caffeine fix.

Prepping is commonsense, really, and a lot of it relates to good housekeeping, good husbandry, gardening, make-do-and-mending. All very much with the purview of us Old-Stylers.

Anyway, that's my take on it, for what it's worth. And now I shall go have a fried egg sandwich, because I'm a classy lady and no mistake.

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

You are now a prepper because you have covered a short-term loss of the most vital resource for the survival of a human bean. And you're probably better prepared than any 9 in 10 randomly-selected individuals.

Say that you also keep up with the laundry, wash the dishes before bed, and fill the kettle. You wake up with no water supply. It happens randomly. You aren't in a kitchen pickle and you still get to have your cuppa. Preptastic. You really wouldn't want to meet me without my morning caffeine fix.

Prepping is commonsense, really, and a lot of it relates to good housekeeping, good husbandry, gardening, make-do-and-mending. All very much with the purview of us Old-Stylers.

Anyway, that's my take on it, for what it's worth. And now I shall go have a fried egg sandwich, because I'm a classy lady and no mistake.

Oeufs a la Anglais, served on Artisan Bread?

And that's one of the best descriptions of prepping I've seen.

GreyQueen

nuatha wrote: »

Oeufs a la Anglais, served on Artisan Bread?

And that's one of the best descriptions of prepping I've seen.

Well, YS bread a la Sainsbugs where I made out like a bandit on YS bargains after archery and had two lovely chats with YS-reducing people and oh-so-accidentally got the breakdown of exactly which times of the day they start discounting.

Beware smiley middle-aged ladies.....I was trained in intregation techniques by the citizen's advice bureau and you'd be surprised what the clever use of an open-ended question won't reveal.

Going to w*rk now ('scuse my Klatchian) GQ xx

D&DD

Morning my lovelies


I read with interest your adventures with the bow GQ the one time I ever tried archery I was a bit er..droopy for want of a better way of putting it lol I just couldn't get the thing to work!! If the zombies come I'll have to find me a crossbow


Anika welcome *waves as my smilies still don't work* there are a few of us who regularly monitor the more hardcore prep/info sites but we have found in the past when posting about outbreaks and stuff, that people who don't regularly read the thread but may happen to glance at it once in a while have been scared by posts about such matters so although we have one eye always on the news we don't always tend to post about things such as this all the time.


Me,I like to keep up with things so I think they should be posted but we have to strike a balance here on Old Style Hope that helps to explain things.


Off out to hospital today so not much will be getting done here,although I plan to go and shove some dough in to do while I'm gone in the breadmaker.I have apple and cinnamon flour from the Wessex mill today.I tried their malt loaf flour out as MrT has decided to stop having the cheapo malt loaf at my store and it's wonderful stuff.


I've also tried Belchedre oak smoked flour and that is really lovely makes a smashing loaf but very easy to sit and munch your way through wayyy too much lol.


SorryIMoved do you do any canning??


Right orf to weigh my bits out will catch up with you all later.


Have a great day all XX

mardatha

Ebola is way down my list of things to be scared of - flu is a much greater danger. But I do think how easy it would be for any epidemic to spread. I watched something on tv where they said plane seats are not cleaned between flights... you could catch anything from them, like fleas or hair lice

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sorryImoved wrote: »

Bedsit Bob you are priceless! Taught me what to do about unwanted solicitors ! :rotfl:

I thought people who were soliciting on the street, got arrested?