Preparedness for when

fuddle

Off to find the thread Lyn even better to know I can make one Thanks.

VJsmum I cannot believe it is a year since you last posted about being at Glastonbury! Enjoy

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FUDDLE have a look on you tube too there are some useful tutorials on there about size and construction of both thermal bags and also square thermal boxes.

elona

Memory Girls thread has some pictures showing construction and Mooloo also posted pictures and has made a square boxy one as well as circular ones.

A****n sells them for £59 (one goes to a poor family on buyer's behalf) and Mooloo has been sewing some for people to their own designs at about half the price. I will need to hand sew mine so need to get started.

MrsL

You described it much better than I could have. Worried I will make a mess of it but actually it is a learning curve so should not overthink it and just get on with it.

GreyQueen

Nice one, short-bird.

Now, I shuffled offline to read my book last night (The Fall of The Roman Empire; a new history by Peter Heather) and he is writing on pps 64-65 about how the oversized empire needed an oversized army and I was hearing Mark Twain in my head about history not repeating itself but how it does rhyme.

*****The fiscal response of the third century emperors to the onset of crisis was to lay claim to all existing sources of revenue. Sometime in the 240s-260s, first of all, long-establised city revenues - the proceed of endowments, local tolls and taxes - were confiscated by the state......

This was not enough, however , to cover the entire cost of the new army, and in the late third century emperors also persued two further strategies. First, they debased the coinage, reducing the silver content of the denarii with which the army was customarily paid. Those of Gallienus (reigned 253-68), for example, were essentially copper coins containing less than 5 % silver. This strategy produced more coins, but the inevitable result was massive inflation. Diocletian's Prices Edict of AD 301 fixed the price of a measure of wheat, which in the second century had cost about half a denarius, at no less than a hundred of the new, debased denarii. Comparative evidence suggests that you have about a month before merchants realised that the new coins are even worse than the old ones and put the prices up, so each debasement bought hard-pressed emperors a brief breathing space. Debasement and price-fixing were no long term solution, since merchants just took their goods off the shelves and operated a black market instead. In the longer term, the only remedy was to extract a greater proportion of the Empire's wealth - its Gross Imperial Product - via taxation.****

I darned near inhaled tea when I read that. Switch UK or US government for the Emperor, and denarii for either US dollars or sterling, and you could just about repeat that, with no edits, the best part of two thousand years later.

Ain't nothing new under the sun. And the bloated bureacracy grew and grew and grew, and they will be the last to secede power and wealth in any era.

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

as starting the day, any day, without a cuppa is UNTHINKABLE!!!!!

Hence why I have two of these.

and one of these.

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

We've a little solar charger for the phones that just sits on the windowsill and also in car chargers so we can keep in touch with the girls and family as long as the phone grid stays active.

I have a Camelion Charger.

It's a two in one device, in that it will charge AA or AAA batteries and charge a mobile phone, or indeed any device (eg MP3 player) which can be charged from a USB socket.

I also have a 2 port USB cigarette lighter adaptor, and a 5 plug USB phone charger lead.

grumswifie

Bedsit Bob,

I am wondering about buying one of these chargers but can l ask a daft question? Does it charge normal batteries, ie non-rechargable ones? Could l recharge an ipad with it? Making use of any free scottish sunshine is very appealing!

Thanks in advance

daz378

went to maplinies on wed .... bought a 10000 Ma Hm (whatever unit of leccy that is) called a powerbank ... for the moment though will have to charge it through my Lappy.... but im sure you can buy usb/housesocket chargers...powerbank was 30 quid..... going to order sawyer water filtration bottle next.... 12 hour shift ... moving handling course where i looked like norman wisdom trying to practice hoisting my fellow colleagues...who are much more experienced than me at this aspect of care..... due to my client being able..bodied, i dont get much practice..... then on to look after said gentlemen for rest of shift

muffin_man_7

daz378 wrote: »

went to maplinies on wed .... bought a 10000 Ma Hm (whatever unit of leccy that is) called a powerbank ... for the moment though will have to charge it through my Lappy.... but im sure you can buy usb/housesocket chargers...powerbank was 30 quid..... going to order sawyer water filtration bottle next.... 12 hour shift ... moving handling course where i looked like norman wisdom trying to practice hoisting my fellow colleagues...who are much more experienced than me at this aspect of care..... due to my client being able..bodied, i dont get much practice..... then on to look after said gentlemen for rest of shift

You could of got two from aldi for that price
My son got a power bank from aldi for
£14.99
12000mah
Output1asv
3xusb ports
LED power status to show how much charge is left


Hes hooking it up to his solar panels or batteries hes already charged ill find out
If its good next time i see him

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hi,


there was a book that someone on here said was a good read, bit I cant remember what it was called lol... think it was something about a world without oil??


I have managed to work out how this flipping new laptop works ( had it before Christmas lol) and there is a kindle thing on it..


been too hot to prep/get wood ready for winter.. so once it cools down a bit we will be back on to splitting and storing our wood..