Preparedness for when

Doveling

I think an awful lot of people are going to have to press their individual re-set button on to what will be their "normal".

But then isn't that an ongoing process anyway as we go through life? People adapt to circumstance; they may not like the situation they are in but learn to cope until they can find ways to manage better or circumstances change again.

You can always imagine what you would do given different scenarios, but until something actually happens to you, you never really know.
I think what I'm trying to say in a waffly way is just the old "where there's a will there's a way".
When I worked, I was consistently amazed and sometimes very humbled by the way in which my clients drew on their inner strength to struggle through adversity. People I thought most unlikely to cope were great whilst one's I thought would cope just seemed to crumble.
Those who are unable (or unwilling)to alter their mindset are the one's I feel will struggle the most.
I realise I am talking about individuals but then the parts make up the whole, don't they?

ginnyknit

Thank you Bubbs, am very interested in how people make their living spaces work. I really need to rationalise my house contents NOW! So will wander off in a minute and start again.

GQ do I get extra green points for never having flown? I do like the way you work things out and explain them. Of course everyone has their own opinion but I cannot think of an occassion when I have disagreed with you :j

Doveling you have hit the nail on the head there - having to change your mindset to cope with what life throws at you. Many on this thread have dealt, over the years, with mind boggling problems yet come out of it wiser and stronger and are very supportive to others for which I give thanks.

GreyQueen

Most definately extra green points, ginny.

I flew for the first time in my thirties and my tally is 2 longhaul (around the whole planet), 5 shorthaul (inside Europe), 2 within UK, one brief ascent to 12,000 ft to skydive, a 45 min helicopter ride and a hot air balloon ride.

That's a shocking amount of wasted hydrocarbons in pursuit of selfish pleasures and all my reducing, reusing and recycling before and since is a poor mitigation.

Most of the time I am purely on person-power, on foot or on my pushbike within a very small geographic area, mostly the bit of my city formerly contained by the city walls, which we outgrew centuries ago and of which very little remains.

I am enjoying some annual leave for the remainder of this week and am pottering. Well, dragging myself around like a dying slug as have a headcold, but you get the idea. Will potter out shortly for errands and then spend some much needed time on domestic re-organisation of my own.

I'm going to try a radical concept; that there will be nothing roosting on the paltry amount of work surfaces in my kitchen so I'll actually be able to work on them. Totally rad, I know, but a person has to try new stuff regualarly.

Onward!

AnimalTribe

Popping my head up for “Anyone got any ideas for courgettes/marrows?”

Marrow rum (takes 12 months to mature but it’s delicious)
Take one really ripe marrow and wipe clean. Cut off the stalk end and remove seeds and pith. Pack the cavity with Demerara sugar (a big marrow takes about 7lbs). Put the end of the marrow back and seal with tape. Hang the marrow over a jar but make sure the marrow doesn’t touch the bottom of the jar. After 2 or 3 weeks refill the marrow with more sugar. Leave for 6 or 7 weeks at which point the marrow/sugar liquid will have filled the jar. Bottle and cork loosely at first. After 12 months you will have something very like rum and it is scrummy. You may find you have to put a thin knitting needle through the base of the marrow to let the juice out, but this isn’t always necessary.

ginnyknit

Looks around for somewhere to hang a marrow.........:rotfl:

Well GQ as I havent used any airmiles and am 55 it cancels out some of yours - hope this helps However a hot air balloon ride is on my bucket list as is sky diving so you never know.

GreyQueen

ginnyknit wrote: »

Looks around for somewhere to hang a marrow.........:rotfl:

Well GQ as I havent used any airmiles and am 55 it cancels out some of yours - hope this helps However a hot air balloon ride is on my bucket list as is sky diving so you never know.

Thanks for the loaner. The chopper ride, sky-diving and the hot air ballooning were bucket lists items of mine, too. Not expecting to repeat any of them.

Can see from the snoozepapers that the banks have apparently sent lotsa banknotes out, in case there's a run on ATMs post tomorrow's vote in Scotland. I have a sense of unreality about the whole matter, of waiting for the other shoe to drop. We are indeed living in interesting times.

Have been putting some newly-purchased tins into the stores, and taking some previously purchased ones into the everyday food cupboard. Galling that red kidney beans now cost a 40-odd % more than they did in 2012. Should have bought more of them, dammit! Also commencing another stripy prangle (or cheaper imitation, this is an hasda stacker tube) candle made from scraps of wax from spent candles donated by various people. It keeps me amused, anyroad.

In the event of powercuts, I shall be glad to have the blessed things.

Righty, going out to take the temperature of local commerce (visiting shopkeeper friend, their business caters for a variety of types, including the tin hat brigade, interesting place to hang out for half an hour and have a cuppa. Then I shall extract some spondulicks from my bank account as a precautionary measure.

VJsmum

GreyQueen wrote: »

I flew for the first time in my thirties and my tally is 2 longhaul (around the whole planet), 5 shorthaul (inside Europe), 2 within UK, one brief ascent to 12,000 ft to skydive, a 45 min helicopter ride and a hot air balloon ride.

That's a shocking amount of wasted hydrocarbons in pursuit of selfish pleasures and all my reducing, reusing and recycling before and since is a poor mitigation.

:o:o

I couldn't even count up the number of times i have flown and places i have flown too - said in embarrassment not boast. I could have a go, but i would forget some. I have flown long haul twice in the last 12 months alone, without a multitude of shorthaul. I am set to do even more in a new role at work which will see me flying to Hong Kong, Singapore and Sri Lanka and, whilst i am excited at the opportunity, I am mindful of the pollution and wasteful use of resources. But - with the work stuff - if I don't do it, someone else definitely will. However, one of my tasks is to investigate teaching remotely (podcasts / skype etc), but the technology still doesn't seem to be quite up to the task at the moment.

I will need a lot of Ginny's to mitigate my carbon spend.

mardatha

VJsmum- don't feel ashamed for goddsake. What business is it of anybody's if you fly round and round the globe nonstop forever? It's your life pet and you enjoy it. the very politicians who go on about pollution all fly everywhere, you don't see Call me Dave sat on a donkey do you?
And the scares re the vote tomorrow are ludicrous. We've had so much scaremongering thrown at us this last few weeks, will serve them right if we all vote YES just to disassociate ourselves from these liars. And yes Oor Gordon was right up there in it

fuddle

I hope you stay with us Mar As you know I have family there and spent a lot of time in your lovely little place. I both admire and respect the Scots and think they are ever so brave and show such strength to get this opportunity without a life lost. I don't want to be separated from the Scottish folk but unfortunately I can see why you would want to be apart from us. My own family (SIL) is English and is voting yes. It feels like a stab in the back, even though her reasons are to secure her own future up there.

The conservatives knock at my new Southern door all the time, hear my accent then try it on to turn a Durham lass to their cause. Unfortunately for them I am a very opinionated person if pushed and can back up those opinions with history... and I am a miners granddaughter.

I guess what I am saying is we are damn lucky to live in a democratic society and ultimately we all have our views and wishes based on our life experiences and how life looks in terms of basic coping.

I am afraid that if Scotland say Yes Mar we won't have enough labour seats so can look forward to a conservative government forever more. Scotland's independence feels like a knock to democracy to me here. I am worried.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

was talking to my mother and step father yesterday, and AGAIN I told them they should have more food in etc, ( they do live within a stones throw of little shops) and my step dad laughed, and said I was exactly like his mother, prep for anything...


they have gas for heating and cooking etc, so I am a little bit concerned they haven't got any sort of back up for even heating water for a cuppa etc.. sooo I am going to buy them a camping gas cooker and some gas canisters, so BOB where is the cheapest to buy them at mo??


I normally do them a 'posh' sort of food hamper from Christmas, as I know they will use/eat it, so I might ad more tins to it, so at least I know they will have some sort of back up food..