Preparedness for when

vanoonoo

hi everyone - safely back from hols - I hope you are all safe and well. I have a lot to catchup on here in RL and on the boards but hope to do so over the weekend as back to work on monday x

D&DD

Sorting through my food storage and making menu plans will be back later to catch up if the couscous mountain doesn't get me first
Noo great to see you back safely XX

ALIBOBSY

mardatha wrote: »

If anybody in here is trying to join UKP. we've had to disable new join-ups temporarily cos we couldn't keep up. We had over 100 in two days and are now at over 1000 members (we started with 27). Unfortunately an awful lot of them are eejits LOL and I expect they will post a few times then vanish back into the pub, the bookies or the woodwork

Arh that explains it then. Went to UKP from this thread, and couldn't spot where to register. Thought I was being dumb rofl. Will register once things settle down.

Ali x

luxor4t

Spotted head torches in Home Bargains today, £1.49. In my local branch they were by the fishing stuff, near some mini binoculars.
HTH

valk_scot

I picked up a third cat carrier at a jumble sale today for £2. I was quite pleased about that, two big adult cats and a lanky kitten don't really fit into two cat carriers in the event of an emergency do they? The cat carriers live under the dining table at the back against the wall with blankets inside them and the doors open, sometimes the cats will go in there to sleep. There's a sturdy bag next to them with three days worth of food, some disposable plastic bowls, a bottle of water, an old tinfoil tray from last year's turkey and enough cat litter to fill it plus a couple of nappy bags for poo disposal. All their details of chips, photos and all the rest are accessable online. Oh, and the carriers have our name, postcode and phone nos inside.

I'm not looking forwards to ever having to evacuate them though! A friend of mine had a ten minute warning to evacuate her house due to flooding, four cats and one carrier. She basically stuffed the three cats she could find into this single carrier (I'd have liked to have seen that!), grabbed her own bag and ran. She stayed with a friend so the three cats didn't have to stay in such close confines but she worried for four days about the one she couldn't find and had to leave. When she got home though there he was sitting on the doorstep looking distinctly peed off and where was dinner if you don't mind?

Actually I can't quite see me carrying three cats, their bag and my own bag come to think of it. I've still got the old kiddy trailer to pull behind my bike though. Maybe I should dust that off and keep it somewhere accessible?

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VAL - Dust off the trailer, that is such a sensible idea and much easier on you than trying to carry everything, have a trial run and work out a packing plan, much better than trying to figure it out in the dark or under pressure Cheers Lyn x.

rachbc

2tonsils posting about parents buying battery night lights reminded me that when we go camping I take glo sticks for my daughter - 1 lit at night gives a enough night for a comforting glow all night without needing batteries etc. They don't give enough light to do anything much by but are safe powerless option for kids/ outside - work when wet/ in the wind etc. I got a pack of ten in £1 shop

valk_scot

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

VAL - Dust off the trailer, that is such a sensible idea and much easier on you than trying to carry everything, have a trial run and work out a packing plan, much better than trying to figure it out in the dark or under pressure Cheers Lyn x.

Packing plan? Open up sides, click bolts into place, place cat carriers inside, my bag in fourth quarter, shove their bag in rear luggage space, pull bike and trailer out onto road, click coupling onto bike. I've done that so many times with two struggling toddlers and a full shop from Asda in the past I could do it in my sleep tbh. That trailer and bike combo was my main form of transport till the combined weight exceeded 100lbs, I didn't get a car till DS1 was 4. I was really fit back then, sigh.....

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MrsLW speaks from a position of inexperience as to the packing of trailers, not really trying to teach grandma to suck eggs, Sorry VAL - I'm a numpty I should have known you of all people would have it cracked!!!!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

fuddle

rachbc wrote: »

2tonsils posting about parents buying battery night lights reminded me that when we go camping I take glo sticks for my daughter - 1 lit at night gives a enough night for a comforting glow all night without needing batteries etc. They don't give enough light to do anything much by but are safe powerless option for kids/ outside - work when wet/ in the wind etc. I got a pack of ten in £1 shop

Thank you. I like this idea for the girls if we were to lose power of a night. They could have one of these to help them get to our room or the toilet. I could also just have one sat itn the corner of the room to give off a reassuring glow if they were worried about having no power, while keeping the fun element.