Preparedness for when

ALIBOBSY

Frugalsod wrote: »

I think a bicycle is also a great alternative. I really should look into getting a bike again. Also once you have bought one very frugal to use.

I have thought those rikshaw type affairs with a closed box on the back could start to get more use for local deliveries and businesses.

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Actually, it is the Chernobyl Medal.

It was awarded to the "Liquidators" (all 800,000 or so), who worked on the clean up, after the reactor explosion.

Sadly I wonder how many of those people are still alive now . I recall reading how the initial firefighters that went in KNEW they would more than likely die shortly afterwards, but did it to save others.

Meanwhile the ones in Japan are still pouring out radiation.

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

Possession wrote: »

Wow I've just got 48 boxed small kilner jars for £35 on my local Facebook site. I guess I have some serious prepping to do ...

What a bargain enjoy yourself :T

Ali x

Memory_Girl

Elantan can talk you through what to do .............. see what she made today:D




and she has gone home with two of these:



So I am thinking she is pretty much set for the whole zombie invasion set to happen over the Bank Holiday weekend - cos it WILL happen on a Bank Holiday Weekend won't it??

MG

GreyQueen

Here's a thought;




How adaptable are we feeling at the moment?

D&DD

Evening all been a tad busy planting out and trying to attack my frozen fruit mountain still!! I made the most lush loganberry and gooseberry jam and now need to wait for this years goosegogs to make some more..


Been reading with interest about the volcanoes/nuclear stuff and sealing yourself in places.I recommend BBC's docudrama Supervolcano as a reasonably realistic look at what would happen if a big one went up.It used to be on utube




Regards to sealing in etc I have the means for this as we are near to a few industrial estates and have had two chemical fires since we lived here where we had to stay indoors so I got plastic door curtains and duct tape added in to my preps..BUT has anyone seen the film Right At Your Door??? Excellent film about a chemical weapon?dirty bomb attack but raises so many questions as to what the right thing to do would be..worth a watch
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458367/?ref_=nv_sr_1


Bob glad you got round to reading it its very thought provoking isn't it?? I might re-read it again.

ALIBOBSY

VJsmum wrote: »

My senior nurse SiL swears by flat full sugar lemonade. It only needs to be flat so drinking it doesn't make you sick.

I have just returned from overseas, and stopped over in Amsterdam yesterday, where everyone cycles. And it struck me that they weren't Cyclists either. No flash bikes, just rather rickety "sit up and beg" types, no Lycra.

My Gran and then my Mum always gave us lemonade when sick, if no flat available then a spoon of sugar on a metal spoon to keep stiring with to reduce the fizz. I know thats alot of sugar, but if you are sick getting some energy into you is what matters.

Ali x

GreyQueen

MG, things tend to happen on Bank Holidays. Clothes rationing was sprung on us Brits over Whitsun BH (replaced by Late Spring Bank Hol).

I would suggest being cash-rich and bank account lite, going into any BH weekend. Just in case some of TPTB have a cunning plan to cyprus us.

maryb

GreyQueen wrote: »

Here's a thought;




How adaptable are we feeling at the moment?

If I had to say one thing I am OK at, it's enduring. And I don't say that as if it's anything admirable or heroic. In fact, I think it's rather passive and very small on the scale of virtues. But it has seen me through some very stressful times and out the other side

nuatha

maryb wrote: »

If I had to say one thing I am OK at, it's enduring. And I don't say that as if it's anything admirable or heroic. In fact, I think it's rather passive and very small on the scale of virtues. But it has seen me through some very stressful times and out the other side

Stubborn is by far my favourite virtue.
Adaptable I can do, thinking outside the box is not unknown but stubborn has kept me going though all sorts of brown stuff.
(other people have referred to it as pig headed, thick and stupid - I'm not disagreeing)