Preparedness for when

pennib

Anyone got any ideas for courgettes/marrows? I have tonnes, literally! and my lot dont particularly like them. Anyone tried marrow wine? is it gut rot?:eek:

Elaine[/QUOTE]

Funny you should say that, was having a convo with dd and she was going to be making courgette sphaghetti! She got this little machine which turns it like a pencil sharpener and then you steam it. I believe she was going to add some spice for flavouring. Can be used with carrots as well. Lots of recipies on pint*rest

GreyQueen

fuddle wrote: »

I see it more of a 'they' will sort it out because I have been looked after all my life, have come to expect a fall guy, have learned that my demands will be listened to and that I don't need to look after myself because 'they' should as there's a fund for that, a rule for this and a litigation or compensation for failure to do.

Smells of the saying 'Heads will roll!'

Some of us are lucky to have smelled the coffee through life experience.

:T You've got a wise head on young shoulders, fuddle. A lot of peeps don't see it the same way. If the SHTF in a really really major way (and I hope not to see it, btw, for all our sakes) there will be a great number of people whose passivity instead of any productive action will be accompanied by major griping and complaining.

Trouble is, the rest of us will be busily shifting for ourselves and there will be a limited audience, and very limited patience, for all this guff. I wonder how long people will sit waiting for the cavalry to arrive before they realise that help isn't coming in a timely manner, or coming at all?

jk0

I mentioned a few months ago the time back in 2009 I had to walk home 4 miles in the snow from a BTL I was working on. This was due to my car being stuck, and all the buses stopped running.

When I was about half a mile from home, (& the snow about 6" deep) I saw a neighbour getting in his car about to go out.

I warned him that all the roads were gridlocked, and that I had to abandon my car. He said his kids had rung him from Reading to pick them up, as the buses weren't running, so he had to go.

Silly man. The kids would have got home quicker walking as I had, but I bet they wouldn't want to do that.

kezlou

Shudders remembering marrow wine and marrow custard.

Vowed never again


Were used to power cuts and the council being useless. My mother used to say everything we fine as long as you have tea Lol

Just never ever going to get into a situation like we did about four or five year ago.

When i was growing up we just lit the gas fire and played board games. We do the same now with our children.

GreyQueen

Yeah, sometimes people aren't willing to be mentally flexible and change their ways of doing things when the weather is inclement. It's admirable in some ways, but not when it shades into stupidity.

I was living away from home at 16 and living 500 + miles from home at 18. Had lots to deal with inc near-homelessness at one point. No point in going to a call box and bleating for help to my parents; they were the best part of a day's travel away and couldn't just throw money at the problem to bail me out.

Mostly, I just got on with it, learned some valuable life lessons, was rather uncomfortable and cold some of the time, and generally grew up.

One thing I was always taught is that if you get yourself somewhere, you have to plan to get yourself home again, and have a plan B and plan C in place. Mum's Taxi wasn't part of my growing up experience.

fuddle

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Get yourself a good thick (say 15 TOG) duvet.

That way, you can always take to your bed, or even rap it around yourself, to stay warm.

That, and plenty of warm drinks (courtesy of the camping stove), should keep you comfortably warm.

If it gets really bad, you can always fill a HWB, again courtesy of the camping stove.

I'm obsessed with blankets :rotfl:

I have loads of ideas should SHTF on a large scale - tent in living room for all 4 of us etc

This was a back up for a non emergency situation - more of an inconvenience situation really. I mean I would hazard a guess at the calor heaters not lasting any more than 100 hours anyway.

Cannat blame a lass prepping for a SHTwall situation rather than the fan can you?

You have alerted me to checking for HWB perishings though :eek: so thanks for that

kezlou

Snap GQ, that was me.

My mother used to say to me you got yourself there you can get yourself back.
So now generally I will always have a back up plan.
Self centred but certainly had to grow up fast. Especially being 13 yrs and how to get home 100 miles away.

But I did it and my boys know how to get home from school, town centre. Know the address etc carry spare cash for emergencies

My dad though will us in any situation and we the same with him.

GreyQueen

Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that you've reached adulthood when you don't discuss some things with your parents because they can't do anything about it, and it'd only worry them. Normally, this happens in your late teens.

I didn't tell Mum, a breast cancer survivor, when I had a dodgy mammogram earlier this year (false alarm, thankfully). If it had been cancer, time enough to tell her then, otherwise only cruelty to worry someone who loves you unnecessarily, IMO.

fuddle, have you thought about getting some of those stoneware HWB? I'm getting the next one I see in a chazzer at a sensible price, and will practice with it when the weather is cold. No rubber to perish - these things would be true treasures post-trouble.

There are other traditional ways of taking the chill off the bed, such as heating little cloth bags of wheat on the top of the stove (natural fibres only, obvs) and heating up stones to wrap in cloth. Not all stones are heatable, so do be careful about that as some would explode. And never forget that a warm hat worn to bed will keep you very warm and I speak as a person who can't sleep if her feet are cold.

greenbee

fuddle wrote: »

What is an essential trip in dire circumstances? Getting from house to house to help someone get to the toilet is high up on my priority if I'm rota'd to be there. Others may feel I am clogging up the county's roads in doing something so trivial.

That's why other people need to keep OFF the roads and avoid clogging them up so you can't get to work. My brother is a GP, and therefore really should go into work, but a few years ago couldn't - not because of the snow (he has an appropriate car given his line of work) but because of abandoned cars blocking the road.

My SIL was sensible and stayed in her office. Luckily her sleeping bag was in the car and she had snacks in her draw. She kept a few more supplies after that!

As I work from home, I generally just hole up and hope that the broadband and electricity both keep going. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

greenbee

GreyQueen wrote: »

And never forget that a warm hat worn to bed will keep you very warm and I speak as a person who can't sleep if her feet are cold.

I lived in a caravan for a while, the hat (with a fleece hood over it) was essential once the temperatures really dropped. After all, it isn't much more than a tin can...