Preparedness for when

Memory_Girl

greenbee wrote: »

Yes! (But remember, you're on a deadline )

Not until I have drunk my weight in tea I'm not :rotfl::rotfl:

Thank goodness I had started my Spring Cleaning cos it took only a few hours to put the letting room to rights yesterday .... and said lodger is snoring away as we speak!!

I ache all over through - should remember the Consultant said "build up gently"

BTW - Coconut Overnight Oats for brekkie in the thermal bag - just need to tweak the recipe a little as it was a bit rich (but delicious!)

MG

GreyQueen

thriftwizard wrote: »

Anyone else spotted this story this morning? Interesting...

Very worrying story.

I feel that there is a massive amount of denial among TPTB about the energy crisis. Seems that none of them can see past the end of their own nose and realise we need to be planning for generations ahead, not just thinking about what they'll say to get through the next election.

Provincial County is heavily-infested with ex-London NIMBYs who'd like to imagine that they're living in some idealised version of 19th century village life. The don't want wind turbines, they don't want solar panels, they don't want anyone else to have these things. And don't even get me started on how they hate the idea of affordable housing - they particularly don't want poor people anywhere near them. Some of my rellies have the invidious possition of being the last working class family in a particularly desirable village and it's pretty uncomfortable for them, they way their neighbours treat them.

I think we will be getting real before many more years have passed. And real may well mean rolling blackouts as the grid tries to cope, and a run on woodburner stoves and dramatic inflation of the prices of all forms of energy including firewood.

I'd say if anyone reading this owns their own home and has a woodburner/ multi-fuel stove and additional insulation in mind eventually, to go for it now rather than later. If there's a run on such things, prices and availability may well become difficult and the grubbyment will probably be drafting a 'woodburner tax' as soon as they see the writing on the wall.

Righty, need to go offline to head out for the day. Tootle pip, GQ xx

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Old guiding trick if you're cooking outside over any open flame is to lightly coat the outside of the pan you're using with washing up liquid, makes it much easier to get the sooty deposits off the outside without having to scrub afterwards.

We're ahead of the game then GQ as we are as insulated as it's possible to be and have had the woodburner for a few years now. We invest our combined winter fuel allowance in logs each year as well as never ever turning down free wood/garden trees/pallets and although we have to process a lot of it ourselves we still, at the end of the winter have 75% full cradles of wood and are continually looking for more. That's before we buy in any from a log company too!!! Can only be good but takes up space which luckily we have.

One thing I can do is to add more layers into the curtains to keep more warmth in the rooms, very achieveable with some cheap fleece blankets so that's my mission for the summer, finding the fleeces and adding them in before autumn.

He Who Knows has just phoned me from the river and he's heard the first Cuckoo of the year, in fact he saw it fly as he and the dog went onto the coast path, late this year, and I still haven't seen swifts or swallows which are normally here in mid April.

nuatha

thriftwizard wrote: »

Anyone else spotted this story this morning? Interesting...

A couple of years or so back, the UK predictions were around 25 years - I wonder what's changed.
Though I'm aware of several deep mines that were closed around here that had 70+ years of production left when they were closed.

GreyQueen wrote: »

Very worrying story.

I feel that there is a massive amount of denial among TPTB about the energy crisis. Seems that none of them can see past the end of their own nose and realise we need to be planning for generations ahead, not just thinking about what they'll say to get through the next election.

I've heard politicians deal with questions on the European elections, the Scottish independence vote and the next general election all at the same time - its more than there tiny minds can conceive of that their might be anything beyond summer 2015.

mardatha

I've got your swallows up here MrsL we got them early here.But we don't ever get swifts here.
I think anybody who invests in a woodburner needs to either have access to free/cheap wood...or else get a multiburner and stock up on coal. That way at least you have an option.

mardatha

Thriftwizard that report's nonsense - all the old miners will tell you we have 70 years of coal left, easily.

nuatha

mardatha wrote: »

Thriftwizard that report's nonsense - all the old miners will tell you we have 70 years of coal left, easily.

We might have, but there's no way to get it out of the ground. Once you let a deep mine flood, there's no going back.
I remember politicians saying that we'd be able to get it by opencasting - the pit they were talking about was already 4 miles out under the North Sea.

mardatha

Am sure they'd find a way Nuatha, if they had to.. or wanted to!

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MAR well done on the swallows, it must have been so wet and dismal down here that they came straight up to you!!! If I'm honest I'd have liked to join them occasionally in the early part of this year!!! Enjoy, Lyn xxx.

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Just ordered myself a Sawyer Squeeze Water Filter Kit, and a Duronic Hybrid Wind-Up, Solar & Rechargeable AM/FM Radio.


Thinking about the filter, it's a pity nobody has designed something similar, for desalinating seawater.

It'd be the ideal accessory, for including in life rafts.

BTW. Was just in my local £land, and they have run out of the 4x AA camping lanterns, but the 99p Store has them in.