Preparedness for when

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Is anyone else feeling an inner urge to pick up those items they haven't yet aquired in the prepping supplies? I woke up today and just had that nagging little inner push from somewhere inside my prepping head that I'd better get on with the list PDQ!!! I'm not aware of anything extra on the radar as a perceived problem, but am becoming increasingly aware of the ongoing situation in Ukraine!!! Very odd, but I think I'll listen and act, Lyn xxx.

jk0

I think your 'anti-virus' should still work GQ, and scan for viruses. I think it's only the operating system itself that isn't supported by updates any longer, isn't it?

GreyQueen

Lyn, I feels it in me watter, I does.

I think that a financial collapse is imminent and a war in the former Soviet states would be too very convenient to blame that upon, plus all the nefariousness going on with international gas pipelines.

I think September is the peak risk. An awful lot of bad things happen in September, historically speaking.

Well, MSE (the anti virus not this site) is back to showing a red pavilion with 'X' but when you open it up, it tells me that my anti virus is up-to-date but my operating system isn't supported. Duh!

Wonder what woke it up to do something after 1 month of nothing but two irritating pop-ups each time the PC went on. The Wiz tried to stop that happening at my request but found that he couldn't as MSE had put a patch on it just before support ended to stop the warning being turned off - I just close it down manually each time.

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

Hey, shout-out to nuatha or any other techy person available.

My PC has Microsarft Security Essentials which has been giving me nothing but warning messages since XP stopped being supported over a month ago and I've been seeing nowt but a red pavilion icon on my task bar.

Just now, I noticed that it was doing it's spinny green thing and when I opened it up it's already updated my virus and spyware definitions and is now scanning (Monday morning was the set time I had set for scanning).

WHAT THE HELL?!

There was a very buggy update in April which caused an range of problems - generally slowing machines, some failing to boot and some failing to properly load MSE. There was also the hamfisted warnings about XP EOL.
The update issues were corrected in the last update and I suspect MS have decided on a gentler approach to those still running XP (in case they adopt Linux)

Of my three XP machines, one has run MSE normally throughout, one has had the angry red pavillion, but has still detected my test files (fake virii) (and is now updating - will get back to you in that one, the other is now running Avast Anti Virus which has been trouble free (so far)
HTH

nuatha

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Is anyone else feeling an inner urge to pick up those items they haven't yet aquired in the prepping supplies? I woke up today and just had that nagging little inner push from somewhere inside my prepping head that I'd better get on with the list PDQ!!! I'm not aware of anything extra on the radar as a perceived problem, but am becoming increasingly aware of the ongoing situation in Ukraine!!! Very odd, but I think I'll listen and act, Lyn xxx.

I remember a discussion with GQ and others about possible dates for financial SHTF and I suggested late May bank holiday as the likely date - its Memorial Day in the US.
I've no inside knowledge, but have been getting increasingly twitchy - whether its because of that "prediction" or other events who knows.

[Deleted User]

Thanks guys, I don't normally twitch and worry so really appreciate that some of you, whilst not actually twitching, might also have an awareness of the possibility of summat up!!!! Lyn xxx.

nuatha

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Thanks guys, I don't normally twitch and worry so really appreciate that some of you, whilst not actually twitching, might also have an awareness of the possibility of summat up!!!! Lyn xxx.

Best case scenario, we're twitching without cause, the preps are updated and holes filled in. No harm done.
In all other scenarios we're better prepped than we were.

D&DD

Morning all
At last we have a day without any winds! I'm going to be busy today clearing up broken plants The winds are my main adversary here when growing stuff but they usually strike earlier in the year and send my seeds flying,this year everything is loaded with fruit and much taller than usual so we got hit quite badly.At least theres still time to resow a lot of stuff.


Craigy it may be its too warm for the lettuce to germinate it tends to struggle when its over 70 degrees??


One of the blogs I have read they had a rack by the door all neatly stacked with their BOB's and supplies in boxes,I thought it was a great idea..then I thought about the amount of people who knock here to borrow stuff and decided against it,they're bad enough when it's hidden if I had it all out on display I'd be stripped!!


I'm stocking up on fuel for the Cobb this year as I've cleared a space in an outside box which is watertight.


I'm making some flavoured vinegars this week as my posh tarragon seems to have overwintered well.


Tesco has stopped doing their cheapo mint sauce and I keep missing AF's crucials one,they only have it in when I don't need anything else,so has anyone got a decent recipe for the stuff?? I have copious amounts of preserving books but there's not one we like in any of them! I don't mind jelly or sauce but the jellies I've tried are too sweet and the sauce is too vinegary lol so any suggestions welcome as my swiss mint is trying to take over the world...


Right orf to the garden to start the clear up,have a great day all XX

Charis

Possession wrote: »

Interesting water filter invention: http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pritchard_invents_a_water_filter?utm_campaign=&awesm=on.ted.com_d0BAL&utm_content=awesm-publisher&utm_source=direct-on.ted.com&utm_medium=on.ted.com-facebook-share

The first comment below the picture of the guy pouring his water made me realise it's unfeasible for most of the world even now.

Charis

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Isn't that just what the robber barons did back in the dark ages??? only then it was known as 'Holding to Ransome' wasn't it?

Thinking on learning old skills learning to drive a horse be it a cob in a gig/trap for transport or heavy horses to work the land would be a very useful skill to aquire, and if you have woodworking skills you could feasibly learn to make carts, cartwheels and agricultural implements too, if you learned to tan leather and work the resulting materials you could learn to make and maintain harness and saddles and boots. Basket making would be useful not only for gathering crops but for making fish traps, general storage and making creels, baby's cradles, cane chairs, learning to work with clay would give you bowls, plates, beakers, mugs, storage vessels, water carriers and also bread ovensand cooking pots. Learning to mine ore, process and smelt metals although much bigger as a learning area would give you raw materials to work into pots and pans, tools, weapons, horseshoes, even decorative things like jewellery and perhaps in the fullness of time the minting of coins, so leading to commerce. Blacksmithing skills to be able to make and maintain important tools etc would be very useful too. Brewing and all that entails would give safe drinking and also leavening for bread etc, I'm sure the list goes on and on .......

Indeed, there's a recent book on the subject. I posted the link a couple of weeks ago but in case anyone missed it here it is again. There is mention of what they did during the Bosnian war to produce electricity off grid. Just don't try his rehydration therapy in an emergency, those tablespoons of salt and sugar should be teaspoons. BTW the author thinks we will have a much better chance of continuing the human race if the cause of the SHTF is a virus that wipes out a goodly percentage of the population.

I'm hoping that the end times will be gradual, that we will start thinking 'remember when we used to be able to get..?' Back in the fifties the only kind of spaghetti I ever saw was in a tin and came in tomato sauce. The first 'supermarket' in our town was the size of a T*sco Metro but had everything we needed to fill the pantry. We had no fridge until I was nine and the one we had then was tiny. We can live without a lot of things, but not long without some kind of social structure. It's plain from last year's flooding on the Somerset Levels and the east coast of England that there is no longer a Civil Defence system in place.