Preparedness for when

thriftwizard

We have a handful of Rotera lanterns that we take camping; they give a lovely gentle glow, much nicer than the over-bright solar LED lantern I also have! But as my kids are all technically adults now, I don't have (many) safety worries.

ravylesley

Nargleblast wrote: »

That is also my favourite cookery book, it's the one I go to first if I want to know how to cook anything. I make crab apple jelly every autumn using the recipe in that book and it always turns out beautiful.

The Readers Digest Cookery Year taught me how to cook when I married.I was just 18 at the time and my sister gave it to me,I too have used the crab apple jelly recipe and many others

elona

I have been meaning to post this for nearly two weeks and keep forgetting.

Friday night when DD had invited about four friends round and there were about nine or ten people in the house - all the lights went off. We checked neighbour's houses- all in darkness :eek:

Eventually found out the whole town was in a power cut which lasted nearly two hours.

DH desperate for a cuppa and finally fully appreciated the boiling water in the vacuum jug so we could have hot drinks.

The solar lights from I**a had been charging on the window sill and a cheer went up from all the girls when we carried a couple through so they could play board games.

It did bring home to me that our cordless phones did not work so may need to dig out an old fashioned handset. DH and DD's mobiles worked though.

DD's faces when they realised they could not get internet were a picture :rotfl:

I have not felt so pleased with myself since next door had work done and the water was cut off - DH flapping about wanting a cuppa and stunned when I took out a big cheap bottle of water and made tea.

nuatha

elona wrote: »

I have been meaning to post this for nearly two weeks and keep forgetting.

Friday night when DD had invited about four friends round and there were about nine or ten people in the house - all the lights went off. We checked neighbour's houses- all in darkness :eek:

Eventually found out the whole town was in a power cut which lasted nearly two hours.

DH desperate for a cuppa and finally fully appreciated the boiling water in the vacuum jug so we could have hot drinks.

The solar lights from I**a had been charging on the window sill and a cheer went up from all the girls when we carried a couple through so they could play board games.

It did bring home to me that our cordless phones did not work so may need to dig out an old fashioned handset. DH and DD's mobiles worked though.

DD's faces when they realised they could not get internet were a picture :rotfl:

I have not felt so pleased with myself since next door had work done and the water was cut off - DH flapping about wanting a cuppa and stunned when I took out a big cheap bottle of water and made tea.

Well done.
Simple, everyday preps to the rescue and no zombies in sight.
These are the major reasons I prep.

boultdj

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

GARDENING QUESTION this morning I noticed sparrows on top of the netted redcurrants, I've seen them around that area before and looking closer I realised they weren't on top of the net but actually under it. I've never known sparrows try to take unripe fruit before, the currants are still rock hard and bright green and not likely to attract blackbirds who will take not fruit until they go red. Anyone else got odd sparrow behaviour this year??? I managed to chase them out of a corner of the net that I propped up on a pole so they're OK. I think we're going to have to invest in a permanent fruit cage or we'll miss out on a harvest and the raspberries too, very strange behaviour and not something I've seen before!!!

Are you shore they were eating the fruit? Reason I ask is because OH thought the sparrows round us were after the fruit and it turned out to be the ant's and the greenfly they were after.hth

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Hi BOULT yes I'm sure they were taking the fruit, I wondered if it was insects but the fruit is missing all the tiny berries from the ends of the trusses and there is no dropped fruit on the ground. We've turned the redcurrant patch into a good immitation of Fort Knox now though and anchored all the nets down with tent pegs, let's see them get in NOW I say!!!!!

Frugalsod

nuatha wrote: »

Well done.
Simple, everyday preps to the rescue and no zombies in sight.
These are the major reasons I prep.

Same here. I am really only prepping for things that I expect to happen or will be so significant that changes will be thrust upon us. Power cuts are much more likely even if just over a small area because of a failure of a substation, but they are fortunately rare. I have only had one of those in the last 5 years.

I really need to sort out water storage as the building I am in has semi annual inspections which require the water being cut off for the day, but these are easily prepped for with just a jug and a vacuum flask as we are given notice.

The big events that I am mainly prepping for are another financial crisis which is more likely than TPTB are saying. It might mean wages are slashed Greek style and having to cope on a seriously reduced income. Within a year I will be debt free and so able to cope with a bug cut in income so that is my main prepping objective.

Housing for many will be problematic, unless you have a home without any debt attached. So if you are in the last few years of clearing that mortgage and you miss a payment the banks will be in like a shot to repossess you. Tenants will also have to move if their landlords have financial problems. Then the bank failures will lead to bail ins so seriously depleting many peoples accounts.

If these all happen at once add in civil unrest as well to the mixture. This is much more likely than people think, though they could be delayed for some time, through various extend and pretend policies by the banks and government but eventually they will fail and then problems will begin. So I do not plan on building up too high a level of savings instead preferring to use them for prepping.

boultdj

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Hi BOULT yes I'm sure they were taking the fruit, I wondered if it was insects but the fruit is missing all the tiny berries from the ends of the trusses and there is no dropped fruit on the ground. We've turned the redcurrant patch into a good immitation of Fort Knox now though and anchored all the nets down with tent pegs, let's see them get in NOW I say!!!!!

The little beggers! I'v now got a picture of sparrows with mask's on, trying to break in, think I need to get out more...........

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Yup, stealth sparrows that's what I've got!!!

Frugalsod

I suspect that the stealth sparrows are up very early and get the fruit before your eyes have adjusted to the sun rise?