Preparedness for when

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I'm glad I'm not the only one CHARIS, I've been known to drool over a perfectly preserved cruck framed house, and the sight of wattle and daub under thatch is enough to bring a tear to my eyes. Best though are those massive hearths with the chimney crane and the three footed cauldron and being able to sit beside one on a cold winters day in the warm beside a fire on an old bench and enjoy that feeling of wellbeing that the original inhabitants must have felt too!!!

Butterfly_Brain

daz378 wrote: »

Id like to think that the TPTB have some kind of plan for peak oil transition, the emergence albeit slowly of hybrid cars, for instance, but...how resilient is it? would it survive major economic, environmental disaster.....? therein lies the real danger

I don't think that they have sorted alternatives, but you can bet that they have got a plan in place such as using the army for the riots that will inevitably follow

Butterfly_Brain

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

For me the hardest deprivation if the power grid should fail would not be no lighting, we've got that covered, not be no heating, we've got that covered too nor even not being able to access information as I've got small...... well, medium library of books covering amost of the things I'd need to know, it WOULD be not being able to communicate with you guys, although I'd still know you were there and doing the same things as we were. I'd miss the support and the company and inventiveness and stoicism that is this thread, I'd miss the being able to toss ideas into the collective and ask questions and share the humour and that feeling of belonging which I have whenever I'm here. So I guess it's a big thank you to all of you and much hoping we NEVER lose the power supply!!!

I totally agree, that is the only thing that I would miss
the camaraderie and the friends on this board.

We are planning a trip to Chiltern open museum this year it has exhibits of all sorts of different ages, a working farm an iron age round house, up to a nissen hut.
We went years ago but I have always wanted to go back.

RAS

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

The place in the world that I have felt the most empathy with MAR is a sunken stoneage roundhouse the remains of which are at Skarra Bray on mainland Orkney.

Amongst my favourite places are Borg http://www.lofotr.no/ with really good exhibitions by craftworkers; the cheif who "owned" that was amongst the first to sail south to Iceland.

And I spent a sunny afternoon sitting in the front doorway looking westwards over the sea at the Knap of Howar http://www.papawestray.co.uk/papay/pw_official8.html The wind came from the East that day. Brr...

short_bird

This is interesting... Darned if you do, darned if you don't...

jk0

short_bird wrote: »

This is interesting... Darned if you do, darned if you don't...

Oh, yeah, that's very true. I don't think any of my friends that I have tried to get to prepare have done any at all. It's hard enough with family.

I certainly won't be giving food away if SHTF. No-one knows what I have stored away. I think anyone who has been to boarding school appreciates what a***holes people can be if they know you have something that they don't.

2tonsils

Just a quick update...after believing a 30 day wall to wall sunshine weather report for Corfu we have now got really bad storms popping up out of nowhere. One minute my washing was in my arms ready to take in off the patio and the next minute a sudden gust of wind spread it all over the floor and nearly bowled me over. Within minutes we had hail, torrential rain and thunder and lightning. Then the sun was out again and it was glorious!

Have just unplugged everything and closed the shutters as we have a storm from hell bearing down on us from the sea....I feel so sorry for the tourists who would have believed the forecast as well. Hope the storms in the UK miss you all...... off on the balcony to watch the lightning!

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Today on the BBc news was a very exciting item that made me sigh a sigh of relief. Near to Plymouth is a large deposit of Tungsten bearing ore, apparently one of the largest in the world and up until now it hasn't been economical to mine for it, it was mined years ago but it's been imported since then, up until now!!! Now they are re-opening the mines and going to supply manufacturers of batteries and steel makers in this country and I wonder if there will be an export market too??? This is a page turner isn't it? if it's economical to mine again for metals as they are available here in the UK I wonder what else will be in the pipeline and I wonder if there are enough experienced miners left to do the mining???

RAS I've just logged in to the Lofotr site and that's the longhouse the picture was of in the exhibition, it's wonderful. I've just shown He Who Knows the photos and he and DD1 are already planning a trip to Norway next summer and will definately go to the Lofotons on the Hertigruten boat and visit, I'm soooooo jealous, Thank you so much for the link.

Frugalsod

jk0 wrote: »

Oh, yeah, that's very true. I don't think any of my friends that I have tried to get to prepare have done any at all. It's hard enough with family.

I certainly won't be giving food away if SHTF. No-one knows what I have stored away. I think anyone who has been to boarding school appreciates what a***holes people can be if they know you have something that they don't.

In the US there has apparently been a surge in gun sales recently. Some might be because they have a black "muslim" president, but many can probably see the way things are going in terms of the economy and so are prepping for that. There was also a similar warning on a youtube channel I watch, about not getting killed over your preparations.

Though while I think that the economy may collapse putting extreme pressure on the structure of society it has happened many times in many places before, so we might all find things getting a lot more expensive, rather than total collapse of society. So I my plans to stock up and prep are more towards the stresses of that. If I can get my cost of living down then if and when incomes collapse I will be impacted as late as possible. I think that the police having to deal with millions of others in extreme hardship might mean more unpredictable changes. Also owning your home outright might not be an absolute bonus if property rights were to ever become an issue. I know people who never got their castles back after the Russians took over in Hungary. So anything tied to a specific location might be lost as well. So I am thinking of a more flexible option in case of mass migration.

Frugalsod

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Today on the BBc news was a very exciting item that made me sigh a sigh of relief. Near to Plymouth is a large deposit of Tungsten bearing ore, apparently one of the largest in the world and up until now it hasn't been economical to mine for it, it was mined years ago but it's been imported since then, up until now!!! Now they are re-opening the mines and going to supply manufacturers of batteries and steel makers in this country and I wonder if there will be an export market too??? This is a page turner isn't it? if it's economical to mine again for metals as they are available here in the UK I wonder what else will be in the pipeline and I wonder if there are enough experienced miners left to do the mining???

I suspect that there are. Though if it had been in Cornwall I wonder if that would have sparked more talk of Cornish independence? :rotfl: