Preparedness for when

RAS

elona wrote: »

It did bring home to me that our cordless phones did not work so may need to dig out an old fashioned handset.

One of the lesson for house-sitting was where the handset was kept and into which socket it was to be plugged (three extension sockets).

of course they never tell you this when you buy the things........

jk0

This is an interesting article linked to on PP today:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/06/140605-pigs-plastic-sperm-endocrine-disruptor-infertility-science/

I recently bought a 25 year old (unused) kettle on Ebay as all modern ones seem to have plastic in contact with the water, for just this reason.

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Anyone seen this?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2661895/Dont-squeamish-says-author-killed-wild-rabbit-tea-Jeanette-Winterson-says-meat-eaters-need-realise-animals-dont-drop-sky.html

Perplexed_Pineapple

Evening all. Still trying to catch up with the thread after a few weeks crazily busy RL but spotted this that might be of interest:
http://www.nature.com/news/present-danger-1.15414?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20140619
Food for thought....

Frugalsod

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Anyone seen this?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2661895/Dont-squeamish-says-author-killed-wild-rabbit-tea-Jeanette-Winterson-says-meat-eaters-need-realise-animals-dont-drop-sky.html

I have to agree with her. While I like my meat I am very detached from it as a fluffy bunny rabbit, or what ever else it was prior to it ending up in my freezer or on my plate. In some respects I deliberately do this otherwise I would easily become a vegetarian if I gave it much thought.

GreyQueen

The Twittersphere is full of nitwits and there's nothing wrong with eating a bunny. I expect most of the idjits bleating about the poor lickle wabbit were happy to eat farmed meat packaged in plastic from the supermarket, with the cognitive dissonance that they have actually eaten a living creature that someone else killed.

But Winterston is a clever woman and I think she knew very well that she was being provocative. and I speak as someone who's read and enjoyed some of her novels.

Frugalsod

While pandemics are a problem, identifying what is likely to cause problems is very hard. The same applies to what flu vaccine to distribute well ahead of its break out.

I was watching the news today about the flooding in Bulgaria and think that this is much more of a problem here for those in flood prone areas. I suspect that with the climate changing wet summers will make flooding more problematic. I am fortunate in that I do not live in a flood prone area but this is probably the highest risk for many on this thread.

craigywv

Gq, we just enrolled my son for summer scheme in leisure center for a few weeks one of the activities is archery he so excited about this , convinced he will be darryl from the walking dead crossbow at the ready!.............i think its more aiming at target board he thinks zombies! Oh to be 10 yrs old! Anyway i glad he doing it, also his scout team doing a forraging weekend next week , catch it....eat it,,he prob come back starving as his last goldfish that died had a memorial service complete with a hymn as he was near struck dumb that oh was putting "big eyes black" down the toilet.............should be interesting to see how this pans out.xxx

jk0

craigywv wrote: »

Gq, we just enrolled my son for summer scheme in leisure center for a few weeks one of the activities is archery he so excited about this , convinced he will be darryl from the walking dead crossbow at the ready!.............i think its more aiming at target board he thinks zombies! Oh to be 10 yrs old! Anyway i glad he doing it, also his scout team doing a forraging weekend next week , catch it....eat it,,he prob come back starving as his last goldfish that died had a memorial service complete with a hymn as he was near struck dumb that oh was putting "big eyes black" down the toilet.............should be interesting to see how this pans out.xxx

That reminds me of the true story of the little boy who was burying his pet mouse. His Dad asked if he wanted to say a prayer.

'No Dad', he said, 'We say a prayer for mice every day at school.'

'Oh, what prayer's that?' said his dad.

Son replied:

'Gentle Jesus, meek and mild,
Look upon a little child;
Pity mice implicitly'

GreyQueen

craigyw, your boy will love it. Archers are a bit sniffy about crossbows because they're considered too easy to use, whereas other bows require a lot more skill (it's all in the stillness, in being able to NOT make random movements of either hand which will foul the release and send the arrow all over the place). Are you sure he'll be using crossbows as most clubs won't give them houseroom.

There are a fair few lads and lassies at our class the same age as your boy, and they're visibly loving it.

In ye olden days, they started to train boys to be archers from 7, building up their strength and skill over time. To the point where some skeletons have been identified as being of archers due to the stronger arm and shoulder on one side..........:rotfl:

I love the archane elegance of archery, it's a deeply-satisfying pastime. And the ability to send pointy things over distance with force may have some possible application in a future low-tech world; if we were gardening against starvation, we'd all be doing a Winterston against the bunnies in earnest.

Am off w*rk today so will be doing some errands and refilling one of my big water carriers (they're done every 3 months and the water goes into the bath-tub, hot added then a GQ added later).

Am also going to head down the road with a donation bag, rummage in a few chazzers and see if anything preptastic has to come home with me.

Laters, GQ xx

PS, just had my annual gas safety inspection done this morning; don't forget such things, plus eyetests and dental check-ups are preptastic, too.