Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

I think this grubbyment of former public schoolboys would have forty-fits to confront an equivalent of the Winter of Discontent. I'm old enough to remember it pretty well. If you added bitter weather to rolling powercuts, rising prices for everything, more and more security measures and clampdowns and the whole thing could get very ugly.

Those who went through the 1970s weren't at all unaccustomed to hardships, but what do you think would be the mental state of someone who thinks that the end of the world is nigh if they can't straighten their hair or charge their idiot-phones? People who have never in their lives been inconvenienced by power outages or shortages of goods in the shops will have a rude awakening. And they won't be happy and Someone Will Have to Be Blamed.

As a precaution, I removed some more money from da bank. Better in my hands than in theirs. And intend to be at a carboot first thing tomorrow, shopping for preptastic things.

Witless

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

If this does look like escalating, I'd suggest a trip (sooner rather than later) to B&M, ....or spare cartridges (for those who already have a stove), because, if they cut off the gas supply, you are sure going to need them.

How long do you reckon one cylinder would last?

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What a great shame it is that all those 'picturesque village' dwellers said NO to wind turbines and solar farms and tidal generators etc. because our green and pleasant (and in the near future to be shivering with the cold) land wouldn't look nearly so pretty with all those horrible electricity generating technologies in it..... shame!!!!!

jk0

Witless wrote: »

How long do you reckon one cylinder would last?

I believe it's 70 minutes on 'max'.

GreyQueen

They're up in arms about proposed solar fields here, Lyn. Despite the land in question being p-poor for agriculture. Because they didn't have solar panels in Ye Olden Days, so we mustn't have them now. We should probably be using horses and haywains, too, because it's more picturesque and quieter, and they came to the countryside for the quiet life.

I'd like to ask these refuseniks if their darling country cottages have internal plumbing? Or electricity? Or are connected to telecoms services? Because it's all totally inauthentic, and if they had the power of their convictions (pun intended) they'd disconnect from the grid and live a proper old style country life.

If I ruled the world, I'd take their names and addresses and arrange for them to lose their power at the first sign of trouble.:p

Have been out walking and foraging for YS bargains. It's wickedly hot here atm, just shy of 30 celcius. Too darned hot for this late in the evening. Don't think I shall be getting a lot of sleep tonight.

Butterfly_Brain

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I've only ever had 2 precog dreams in my life, the first was the night before Lockerbie and I was standing on a hill looking down on fires in the dark and when I came home from WI late on the evening it happened I saw exactly that vision on the TV screen, the other more frightening dream was the day before the Fred and Rosemary West murders were disclosed, and I was cutting up people and hiding them in the walls and the cellar and knew that no one knew about it, that was the most distressing thing I've ever encountered and I still feel the darkness when I remember it.

This latest atrocity with the Malaysian plane shot down over Ukraine is barbaric and calculated to throw real fear into anyone who is contemplating flying to any destination, we can't allow these vile and soul less people to have any hold over us in any way, we must keep life normal and not stop doing anything we would normally do including taking a flight in a plane. Give them control over even that one thing and they've won a victory over mankind and that would be the worse thing possible, to make them believe they have power and significance instead of being bestial and wicked beings (I hesitate to call them people) who can perpetrate such a wicked thing deserve to become pariahs and outcasts from the rest of humankind and hopefully suffer the consequences of thier hideous actions.

mardatha wrote: »

I had Lockerbie too MrsL.
RAS thanks for that I will look into Mizuna and Lambs Lettuce.
EDITED ; o god scrub the LL, it looks disgusting!!

I had the Twin towers, it was as if it was night time, the first plane came in from the right and the second from the left. I had that dream for three weeks

I also dreamt of Gabrielle Giffords shooting and the fact that children were shot as well as a female senator and I saw a little girl with long brown hair. It looked like everyone was on a beach having fun (Tuscon Arizona) and there was a whale (which is a bad omen)

Witless

jk0 wrote: »

I believe it's 70 minutes on 'max'.

In other words ... about a day ... hopefully.

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GQ I had the journey from Hades back from DD this afternoon the train was full to capacity, the air con wasn't working in any of the carriages, the trolley service had run out of drinks before it reached the front carriage (where I was sitting) and despite an announcement from the train manager that they would be taking on bottles of water for everyone on board at Salisbury when I got off some stations after that nothing had happened. I was waiting to get off when the trolley guy came into the front compartment with doors and was drinking slightly stale milk with ice cubes as he'd been on the train since it left Wales and there was nothing else for him either.... NOT GOOD!!!!! So I'm sitting here having had as cold a bath as I can take and rehydrating but can't face food tonight!!!

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Witless wrote: »

How long do you reckon one cylinder would last?

On full power, about 1.5 hours.

I did an experiment a while back, to determine how much water you could boil, on one cylinder.

I figured it would more closely resemble a RL situation, than merely knowing how long a cylinder will run for.

It comes out at about 11 Litres.

GreyQueen

Yeah, depending on what you were doing. A brew-up wouldn't be something to undertake lightly.

It's always worth factoring in the possible unavailability of fuel into your food preps; what can always be eaten cold, what can be eaten cold at a pinch. Do you have a garden, and if so, could you look at a firepit/ tripod/ kettle or cooking pot rig? Have you got a BBQ, gas or charcoal? There are outdoor ovens, MrsLW has one, think called the Ozpig? And never forget the old staple of cooking in foil packets in a camp fire, or over one. If you have cast-iron cookware, you can cook on open flames, indoors and out.

Whilst the weather is still so dry, I plan to gather up twigs into neat bundles and store them against the need to run the kelly kettle, already have a stash of pine cones. These things in place can take time, but think how great it'd be to have a cuppa when you otherwise couldn't.