Preparedness for when

Kantankrus_Mare

We are just about to have a few days in London and admit that what is happening is playing on my mind somewhat.

Good luck with the freezer juggle. Know what you mean. I have brambles and elderberries and now some grapes that someone gave me for wine making filling my second freezer at the moment.

Im jealous at the sweetcorn as I had a go at baby sweetcorn this year with no joy so will be back to growing normal ones next year.

Karmacat

I'm still focussing on planting pot-bound plants into the ground, I reckon its still warm enough for that ... and this time, I'm washing the flowerpots as I go. One I did yesterday was an old clay flowerpot, and I reckon it was big enough to take part in the whole thing with evaporative cooling, so I'm especially chuffed with that one.

jk0

Bl**dy Cameron eh?

We are being asked to go to war again on the premise that the Iraqi government has asked for British & American help.

Well, they would, wouldn't they? They are the government we installed after we got rid of the last lot.

moneyistooshorttomention

jk0 wrote: »

Bl**dy Cameron eh?

We are being asked to go to war again on the premise that the Iraqi government has asked for British & American help.

Well, they would, wouldn't they? They are the government we installed after we got rid of the last lot.

Yet a'blimmin again...:(..and yep...I do think ISIS are evil on the one hand and its easy to "trace the roots back" to see why they came into existence on the other hand.

Can anyone tell me what was the last year Britain wasn't involved in some war or other (if not more than one at a time)? I have the vague idea that, if I'd been keeping track of them all, I might have to think back as far as the 1970s to when Britain was last "at peace". Which was that prescient well-known fiction book with a constant war going on?

Back to planting up the garden with more food and thinking "Well that took pretty much as long as I expected after moving to Back of Beyond before I began to start seeing the advantages of being rather more 'out of the way' somewhere where terrorists are most unlikely to attack. So I've had time to settle in here, as expected, before the next noticeable size war starts up". It sounds very cynical, I know, but it confirmed my judgement call about how long I had before :eek:. Sometimes, I would like to be proved wrong about these things...just once in a while...because it certainly doesn't give me any satisfaction at all to sit back and think "How many innocent people will get killed/injured/driven from their countries this time and how much money that we haven't got is going to be spent this time and what cuts are going to be lined-up to pay for it?":(

nuatha

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Can anyone tell me what was the last year Britain wasn't involved in some war or other (if not more than one at a time)? I have the vague idea that, if I'd been keeping track of them all, I might have to think back as far as the 1970s to when Britain was last "at peace". Which was that prescient well-known fiction book with a constant war going on?

If Wikipedia is to be believed 1997 and before that 1921- 1935. Though the Guardian has it that we still had troops deployed in Northern Ireland in 1997 and we had troops in action in Palestine throughout the '30s. So you're probably looking at the ten years before WW1 and following Tibet.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

As I have been told on here, DON'T PANIC!!!, But just be very cautious..


Its like Camerooon is Olibama's puppet...


There will def be a backlash to this... in one way or another...


My youngest was saying a few of them are going away for a weekend in a few weeks, so yep you guest it, I am like a headless chicken, telling him he cant go to London, or anywhere, where there is loads of people...

moneyistooshorttomention

nuatha wrote: »

If Wikipedia is to be believed 1997 and before that 1921- 1935. Though the Guardian has it that we still had troops deployed in Northern Ireland in 1997 and we had troops in action in Palestine throughout the '30s. So you're probably looking at the ten years before WW1 and following Tibet.

Thank you Nuatha.

I am counting "Northern Ireland and all that" as war...hence wondering whether I need to go back to the 1970s to find a time when Britain was "at peace" last.

What was that Wikipedia entry you saw? Have you got a link to it please?

Back into "self-evacuee" mode...as, in all honesty, I would have evacuated myself to "back of beyond" at some point during the few years in the lead-up to World War 2 where it was obvious (to some) that another Major Conflict was on the cards soon. I admit to having self-evacuated recently because I see the next Major Conflict as being on the cards at some point over the 5 year period after I self-evacuated.:(:(:(

Frugalsod

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I'm listening to the news in the background and becoming increasingly concerned about the likelihood of terrorist activities in this and other eorupean countries. Last night I was waiting to hear that DD was safely back from her choir trip to London and there was the news that Paris and a lot of France were on highest alert as there was information of imminent likelihood of attacks because France had joined in the airstrikes against Isis. That coupled with the Australian actions last week to prevent the killing of random citizens there and the killing of the french tourist in Algeria leave me with a hollow feeling inside. Not fear but so much anger that a 'human' can contemplate an action against another human being just because he/she exists. Such evil is incomprehensible to me! I'm not religious in any way but I cannot believe that any deity would need blood sacrifices in order to allow entry into an afterlife and certainly can't believe that there would be extra reward for such actions.

Personally the reality of being involved in any such terrorist incident is incredibly small. I lived and worked in London during the IRA bombing campaign, yet I never heard a thing even when they detonated the Canary Wharf truck bomb. The real odds of being personally impacted are very small, so IS/ISIS/ISIL or what ever we call them are containable should they ever return.

Russia is a much more of a serious threat but I doubt that even Putin could maintain public support if bombs started dropping across Russia.

nuatha

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Thank you Nuatha.

I am counting "Northern Ireland and all that" as war...hence wondering whether I need to go back to the 1970s to find a time when Britain was "at peace" last.

What was that Wikipedia entry you saw? Have you got a link to it please?

Wikipedia article and the Guardian article hence my saying you'd need to go back to the decade before WW1.

moneyistooshorttomention

nuatha wrote: »

Wikipedia article and the Guardian article hence my saying you'd need to go back to the decade before WW1.

Thank you. Depressing reading isn't it?

Now, as a comparison, do you fancy looking up equivalent links for conflicts Sweden and Switzerland have been involved in over the last 100 years?