Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

1Tonsil wrote: »

I am getting messages about various places in the UK getting sudden storms and there are reports of funnel clouds in some places ( like a tornado that does not touch down)

Britain gets more tornadoes per square mile than anywhere else in the world including the US. Though ours are much weaker than the ones in the US.

1Tonsil wrote: »

The Russians and Greeks have not reached a compromise on the cancelled fruit orders, so 12,000 tons of rotting fruit is on its way back to Greece and another 13,000 tons is rotting on the trees unpicked. It is scandalous waste of good food. I paid 66 cents a kilo at the shop for Nectarines and they can't sell them off at that price. I am thinking of putting some in honey syrup and freezing them. Any other suggestions?

Dehydrate, canning and make jams and marmalades. Freeze as well if you have the space.

thriftwizard

We've had a bothersome thing to cope with, the last couple of days, and it's highlighted something interesting. One of our 12 y.o. "students" mislaid his "handy" (mobile) on Tuesday evening. He thought he'd left it on their coach, which, when we rang the trip leaders (a bunch of language students & recent graduates) was already locked up for the night. So he trotted off again yesterday, and I didn't hear anything further until they came back at 10pm last night, still without the phone. Which is a recent, high-end Samsung. Some of the other students had told him that he'd left it on a wall outside the supermarket in the centre of town... :eek:

Ooooer. But this is a pleasant little semi-rural market town, and most people are still pretty much honest so I didn't want to panic the lad and sent him to bed with a reassurance that it would have been handed in. And luckily, it emerged this morning, a phone matching the description was handed in to the PCSO patrol within minutes of the incident. But before we could retrieve it, we needed to tell the constabulary the IMEI number, which is a hard-coded number inside the phone, virtually the only thing about a mobile that can't be changed within minutes of it falling into the wrong hands. Needless to say, the poor little lad had no clue what it was, never mind where he would have been able to find it. His parents are hospital doctors & would have been at work, and the students go home on Saturday; we needed to retrieve the phone before it goes into the "lost property" transit system to emerge, sometimes weeks later, at the local police HQ.

Luckily I managed to catch & speak to one of the trip leaders in person; she managed to contact his network & they gave us the IMEI number. We'll be picking the dratted thing up at 5.30 when it's our turn to have the lone bobby in this part of the county for an hour or so. But it just goes to show; if your kids are are trotting off to strange parts of the world & relying on their mobiles to stay in contact, make sure they have a note of, or know how to get hold of, their IMEI numbers, not just their phone numbers & access codes!

nuatha

thriftwizard wrote: »

But it just goes to show; if your kids are are trotting off to strange parts of the world & relying on their mobiles to stay in contact, make sure they have a note of, or know how to get hold of, their IMEI numbers, not just their phone numbers & access codes!

The IMEI can usually be obtained by typing * # 06 # into your phone.
It is frequently on a label under the battery.
HTH

mrsmortenharket

nuatha wrote: »

The IMEI can usually be obtained by typing * # 06 # into your phone.
It is frequently on a label under the battery.
HTH

Wow Nuatha, that's a brilliant tip.
Thank to.

thriftwizard

It's also usually on a label on or in the box your phone originally came in. Not much use to you if you threw it straight away like most people do! Thanks for that tip, Nuatha.

GreyQueen

mrsmortenharket wrote: »

Wow Nuatha, that's a brilliant tip.
Thank to.

Wow, that's a great tip. I just got the serial number off my phone. Not that I think I'm in much danger of being robbed off a bare-bones N0kia, but it still could be useful. I shall store that tip away for the future, too.

It's amazing how want of a tiny bit of easily-obtainable-at-the-right-time information can cause a lot of aggravation and even monetary loss later. Good to take any numbers off bicycles and appliances etc before some villian runs off with them.

I now have a very heavy-duty Marathon tyre on the back of the Pashley so glad that errand has been accomplished. Got pretty wet in the doing off it, though, been a day of intemittant downpours and thunder with it.

Been thinking about how fast things would go wrong if there was a mahoosive scandal about bail-ins at a British bank. If people lost their nerves, there would be a run and TPTB would have to instigate a bank holiday and capital controls. As it is, daily limits on cash withdrawals would limit how fast you could access your money even if everything wasn't going badly wrong. Sobering thoughts. I'm positioning myself for miminum risk, but I still wouldn't want it to happen.

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Is there a lower limit, under which you wouldn't have any money seized?

jk0

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Is there a lower limit, under which you wouldn't have any money seized?

It's meant to be £85,000.

However, if they are stealing money from all banks, I wonder if they may be tempted to add up what you have in all your accounts, and take anything over the £85k.

mrsmortenharket

So if youve got under £85K they won't take anything.

I'm ok then!

I am considering withdrawing our money each month. Husband would probably have heart failure though.

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jk0 wrote: »

It's meant to be £85,000.

That's not a problem for me, as I'm under that, by at least £80,000.