Preparedness for when

Jazee

I agree about larger screens being better for those with failing eyesight. I also have a separate larger screen for the PC as I can't see the one on the laptop clearly enough.

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We've a large screen TV and it has made such a difference particularly when we watch sport, the moving dots turned into people as our old TV was a little 28" one and we were having to move closer as our eyesight got worse. Much better now as we can sit in our favourite chairs and still see the screen perfectly well, reading glasses needed these days too. That's something I'm going to invest in while the prices are still affordable, at the moment we only need the lowest magnification ones but I'm going to get one each for both of us of the increasingly higher magnification pairs for the future as part of my prepping, it won't cost a fortune but will ensure that we can still read and do anything that needs close work in the future should there be problems that mean the opticians aren't there for us!!!

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I've got one of these, which I use with my Medion Notebook.

15.5" Widescreen.

Cost me £15. :cool:

mardatha

Can you get wee polytunnels just for cabbage? Anything big will get torn by the wind or blown away. The weeds are just starting to come through up here so the soil must be warming up, and I need to start sorting out what I'm doing. Tatties go in end of this month. RV is toiling with the amount of grass we have and the 2 mowers always seem to have some sort of problem. Petrol pouring out of one and the pullstart burst on the other one. I wish he would just get rid of the damn grass lol

craigywv

mardatha wrote: »

Can you get wee polytunnels just for cabbage? Anything big will get torn by the wind or blown away. The weeds are just starting to come through up here so the soil must be warming up, and I need to start sorting out what I'm doing. Tatties go in end of this month. RV is toiling with the amount of grass we have and the 2 mowers always seem to have some sort of problem. Petrol pouring out of one and the pullstart burst on the other one. I wish he would just get rid of the damn grass lol

MAR..hi, our home bargains have mimi poly tunnels they would accommodate cabbages ,lettuces etc they were approx. 3-5 quid maybe not much more have a look they might even be cheaper hth.

D&DD

Morning preppers!
Mar yes they do do smaller ones or you can just leave a longer one 'pleated' and pegged together for when you need it




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I was trying to work out
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ArthriticOldThing

Morning all. All this gardening talk makes me jealous. I haven't even a window box but am hoping to get a bit of growing stuff on veranda now work is finished.


I have to admit to a serious failing of preps - ran out of TP except for one in use. Had to dash out and restock. AOT hangs head in shame!!!! Do I lose my tin hat?:rotfl::rotfl:

ALIBOBSY

Frugalsod wrote: »

You can have a higher standard of living with falling prices as long as your wages fall more slowly. The same in reverse. Your wages need to rise faster than inflation. The government is getting nervous about deflation because it will mean ultimately that their entire policy of asset prices rising and fooling people that they are wealthier will come unstuck. If house prices are rising fast you might be wealthier but you cannot spend that wealth unless you can find a way to extract that additional wealth via equity release. The problem with that idea is that interest rates can only really go up from here and so you are looking at much lower disposable incomes once that process starts.

Though with fewer people actually being able to get on the housing ladder thanks to falling or stagnant wages and house prices going up so locking them out. I suspect that 125% mortgages will become acceptable again as the only way of getting buyers back into the market.

The only way a correction can be avoided is to adopt permanently low interest rates That will eventually destroy the pensions industry. They will either require a much higher level of pension contribution to cover the falling returns to ensure that your pension is adequate to cover you in retirement or your pension is so small that you can never afford to retire.

So we will continue to pay for bank bailouts for decades one way or another. The process might be so slow that no one really notices that things are continuing to deteriorate.

TBH this is the way I think things will go in a post peak oil world, it will be a slow fall to the bottom not a big crash, I think the archdruid report sums it up as the "slow descent". There will be a few rises and falls as we go of course.

Already jobs are starting to come back to this country as production costs abroad as well as the transporting back here rise-partly due to oil costs also rising. I also think there will be a rise in local businesses as the cost of oil effects the ability of the big stores to undercut local production, I reckon if you have the cash now is a good time to get into local food or wood production-ideally we would love to have some land and run a market garden/copicing business.

Overall though oil price rises will push the costs of pretty much everything up and up until companies and governments understand they need to move away from oil usage.

The rats at the top will keep scrabbling around trying to hold on to the life they have currently and meanwhile the rest of the population will slide down the slope. Those that move towards self sufficiency and embrace the changes will do the best, those that stick their heads in the sand and won't accept that things will have to change will do the worst. But like the poor old frog in the pot of water I think the slow changes will mean the sort of doomsday situation as per films and TV is unlikely. There may well be some riots in inner city areas, but all out chaos everywhere with normality one day, lawlessness the next I think is unlikely.

Ali x

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AOT no most certainly not, howsomever, if you made a slight modification to your tin hat and attached a spike to the top of it you could always keep an extra roll of TP speared to the top of your hat for just such an emergency!!! Simples yes???

Frugalsod

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Will do frugal I only wanted to give them a whirl as there was an article in one of my kitchen garden mags about a vegan couple who grow this and have had great success. They make quite a pretty plant too so that's a bonus!


I'm still in shock the price of all the veg plants this year I thought it was just my local posh garden centre at first but they're all at it!! If anyone needs seeds try out moreveg they do smaller packs for littley gardens like mine and their seeds are very cheap.Great service too

I am trying to find Quinoa recipes but so far am using it as a cous cous alternative.