Preparedness for when

D&DD

my neighbours are gonna love me! Annie will let you know how strongly they smell :eek: I'll try adding some sparingly to the compost bin to mature and I promise I won't try to make yoghurt with them Ginny lol Will keep you all posted on my experiments..

Sunshine thats a positive bonus then if OH is cooking,don't forget to get him watching the bakeoff you never know he might get a thing for it..

My wonderful elderly neighbour across the road has brought me in a whole carrier bag of tomatoes she couldn't eat from the garden,I'm gonna need some more recipes.
She doesn't eat pickle so think I'll dehydrate some for her and my other poorly neighbour as they do both like to cook.

Need to check my winter medicine preps are all in order I usually keep arnica cream in for bruises but I'm running low on it,I remember buying tincture of arnica but could only find some new fangled spray last time :rotfl:does the job still tho..
I like to have some lemon tea in too with a drop of honey in its great for a raspy throat when its cold.

Right need to have munchies back later XX

ooh 2T just seen your post before I went good luck hun!! XXX

2tonsils

You were talking of posties...you should have one like ours....the post office was closed and turned into a betting shop. We now get our post sometimes from the back of a car when the postman comes to the village. He doesn't come if its raining, or if its a pension day, and not on weekends, or Tuesday. He might remember your parcel from the post office or he might not. He puts all the ''foreign'' letters together and you have to sort them out and find your own.

Last week I could not find him but found his car full of post....he was hiding in the betting shop playing lotto....so I fished him out and made him go back to doing the post....to a round of applause from the locals who had all been waiting for him to finish his game LOL

He told me (in Greek of course) that if we bought a post box for outside he would put our mail in it....its been up for six months now and not one letter has ever gone into it...he keeps saying he has forgotten where we live...even though our house is on the main street where he parks to deliver parcels...if you are lucky!

fuddle

2tonsils, will other greeks get to know this kind of info at all?

GreyQueen

(((((Sunshine)))))))) that's a bit of bad luck on top of your shoulder problems. Such a good thing that you had preps in place and OH can rise to the challenge.

kittie wrote: »

dried cowpats :rotfl: :rotfl:

cheap cowpat logs

or

paint them, cheap presents, eg wall hangings, frisbees

or keep handy, good as ammunition

And if you are in the American tourist industry, you may varnish the droppings of various species, attach legs/ wings/ antenna/ googly eyes to imitate some other critter and persuade tourists part with their hard-earned. I believe one especially-lovely offering went by the name T u r d Bird.

RAS wrote: »

Old wattle and daub walls and cob building used to contain some dung as well as earth and straw. Do not think they add it these days.

Both need their feet keeping dry and water resistant coating (limewash at least). I have seen cob reduced to mud very quickly when un-roofed and the rain let in.

That's vey true. The cottage my parents rented as newlyweds was built in the earliest years of the 1600s out of lumps of clay on a stony plinth (sort of about 2 feet tall) and the outside of the walls rendered. It has pantiles now but by the pitch of it's roof and the age, would have been thatched originally.

The ceiling beams and wall beams are even older than the cottage, having clearly been cut and used elsewhere (probably an old farm building) and even showing adze marks. Place is Grade 2 listed these days but still as solid as a rock and has lasted 400 years and will probably see out another 200 unless something untoward happens. Wonder how many newbuilds will see 40 years' use, never mind 400?

So long as you keep the rendering on, and the head and footings dry, these old cottages can go on and on.

RAS wrote: »

I think that the postie can just leave it with whoever he thinks is safe.

Now DS and her neighbours all accept post for each other. In the snow, the van came to a halt on the "main road" (half a mile away) and thrust the post for the entire hamlet into the arms of the people house-sitting next door.

My neighbours here are OK except when they took a parcel in and went on honey moon the next day without giving me someone Chrissie present! Some of my previous neighbours would have flogged anything that anyone let them get their mitts on. As it was they would e in any open door or window and nick stuff in broad daylight.

Good neighbours are a joy and a treasure. My parents have them and have had them for 40 years. Bad neighbours, however, like the one who was about to climb in thru SuperGran's window when disturbed, are a major pest.

If any of my post ends up in my neighbours' hands, being as they are convicted thieves, liars and drug-dealers, I shall not be a happy bunny.

Hey, I've had another correspondence from those delighful people at TV Licensing. I haven't had a TV since the late 1980s. I'm ignoring them and hoping they'll send what it amuses them to call an enforcement officer round to my flat. I was carded by one of those 3 years ago and it was very stern and threatened to come back.

Yeah, you and whose army? No one ever came back. I suspect after not finding me at home the might have knocked at some of my neighbours' doors and been given the fright of their lives, bless their cotton socks. Even the Police come down here in fours.............:rotfl:

2tonsils

I spread the word locally as soon as I was tipped off but it will be on the main news tomorrow so everyone will know about the power cuts. What we won't know will be when its going to hit our area! That will make it very difficult unless you plan what to do in advance... I just realised there will be no banks or ATM machines while the power is off...

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2TONSILS - are the rolling powercuts going to be for a short time only or will this be the norm from now on? The reccomendation for cash for crisis situations is to try for coinage rather than notes as you are more likely to be able to trade if change is not needed. Try to keep in touch with us, but above all keep yourselves safe, in our thoughts, Cheers Lyn x.

2tonsils

Good question MrsLW.....it seems they are striking mainly because of the austerity measures and they will start as soon as they are submitted to parliament to be voted in (which is likely to be Monday). I can't see the measures being withdrawn so I am assuming its going to be a long drawn out situation. It's one of many things going on at the moment, in fact, too many to even list on here.

It's such a mess I can't see a way out of it except this government going down and another election. The troika are arguing with the EU and IMF and none have a solution to it. The Greek parliament are all arguing and 30 are currently being investigated for tax fraud so that has blown up as well. Meanwhile the people are still struggling to pay taxes and bills and waiting for decisions to be made.

The tourists are having a great time at the moment (long may it last!) but obviously they are going to be affected by 48 hour electric strikes! It is only about four weeks till the end of the season and we were all hoping it would be okay till then and not affect tourism.

I honestly can't see a solution to it all. All the money Greece has been loaned (they weren't actually GIVEN any) has gone back to the banks and creditors and none to the people or things like the health system which is bankrupt and hanging on by a thread. They will never be out of debt as the interest rates are so high and they keep robbing Peter to pay Paul.... you can't borrow your way out of debt!

Yet the sun is still hot, the beaches full and the place beautiful. Just hope we can get through all this and safely out the other side eventually, but its going to take years and years.

Thanks for all your concern everyone, we will be fine.....I am a survivor and a prepper!

D&DD

2T remind me how your water/sewers work out there? Would the powercuts affect tap water as it does over here or sewerage?
Good call on the having cash because of the ATM's, also shops will they be closing or open for business as cash only transactions?
I presume landlines will also be affected and if you have smoke alarms wired in to the mains may be worth putting in battery backup if possible..just trying to run through it in my head for you to cover all scenarios..

sophlowe45

hi 2 Tonsils do you remember me saying when I have internet back I would post a reply to your post 1971 about the rich Greek guy and friends wanting to buy the Greek debt.

I don't think you need a subscription to the FT to read this, have I said what an amazing paper it is.

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/05/30/1023031/greece-stuck-between-iran-and-Glencoe/


Given Greece’s desperation situation!it’s paying a substantial premium, just when it can least afford it.

Traders estimated the potential premium Glencore and Vitol is likely to be charging at 50 cents a barrel or more, which would result in an additional payment of at least $2.2 million per month

why would you sell the debt to someone on reasonable terms when there is huge amounts of profit to be made for some of the worlds most unethical companies?

sophlowe45

general reading on Greece


http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/tag/greece/

we need to get away from debt based economies to find a solution

what did Argentina do post default? I've never looked into it, but heard some people talking about Argentina a few days ago.

check out http://www.positivemoney.org.UK/ I am not saying this is the solution but there is lots of interesting information on the website for learning purposes.