Preparedness for when

COOLTRIKERCHICK

found this floating around the internet..


http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/10/04/cdc-un-forced-admit-ebola-airborne/


don't know if this I just somebody scaremongering, or if it is a possible..


when prepping I think it is always best to keep all theories as a possibility, so not to be caught out...

Doveling

Jayne C - De-lurking again to say I'd never heard of TTIP.
Just had a look on the 38 degrees site to find out more. Interesting and disturbing reading.
At present I'm carrying on prepping for loss of utilities, bad weather and possible Lovely hubs redundancy. Trying not to worry about things I will have no control over at all. Feeling a little vulnerable because of my lack of mobility. Maybe sitting thinking about life too much rather than getting on with it!

Frugalsod

This is about american banks but just as relevant here.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/10/bill-black-discusses-too-big-to-jail-on-bill-moyers.html

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Oh 'eck I've just had to pick all the outdoor tomatoes, overnight we've lost ALL the foliage and a few of the remaining tomatoes to blight. I'll be making green tomato chutney tomorrow!!!

thriftwizard

I think that TPTB have delegated all responsibility to a serious crisis to a non existent team. The vast majority of the public are really on their own, and I suspect that if there was a problem of any sorts it would only be once the press picks up on something that they will be motivated to do anything.

They will have outsourced responsibility to whoever came up with the cheapest quote and/or took the most influential people out to lunch. And if & when TS does HTF, they'll be able to point the finger of blame at them when nothing works as it should do, because corners have been cut, vital equipment is missing or won't work with the rest of the kit, they used the wrong grade of concrete, no-one foresaw THIS particular eventuality, the previous Govt. underspecified/overspent, etc. etc... In fact they'll spend most of their time trying to find someone to blame, as will the press. And yes, in the meantime, the poor victims will be left to get on with it as per usual!

Cynical, me...?

the_cake

Just been catching up with you all after ten days scaling our paper mountain, in fearful preparation for possible litigation. Legal expenses insurance is probably a prep some of us should have ... our solicitors have had to read the paper mountain to prepare a suitably punchy letter to send to our opponents: this has cost us (so far) £5,000! We have had to borrow it from OH's lovely, kind brother, but if t'other side decide to fight (which would be very silly of them) it could cost us a great deal more. I am scared, and very very angry that this situation is caused by the fraudulent dealings of someone in the company. It's just so wrong! On the upside, we have never been better prepared for winter, as between grappling with the paperwork we have both been doing stuff to take our minds off the stress, so we have finished painting the outside of the house, cleared out the guttering and drains, picked and processed all the fruit (the neighbour's windfall apples are on ongoing task: gorgeous stewed with a little orange rind), mended the fencing, cut the hedge and planted winter flowering violas and pansies to keep us cheerful. Next week I will plant some bulbs and wallflowers. I also want to make a list of our stores and move them around to be more easily accessible and a bit less of a collapsible heap. Oh, and we have a comfortingly full log store, which is lucky as the woodburner is the only heating we have! The car has been serviced, we have some cheering DVDs from the charity shops and some distracting books. Our loins are girded for whatever - but I still wake up in a sweat of anxiety at 3.00 a.m. most mornings..... hey ho. I do know how very, very lucky we are to live in a peaceful and beautiful place, to be healthy and very happy together. My heart goes out to those battling illness and much more real fears. Love all round, xx the cake xx

jk0

the_cake wrote: »

Just been catching up with you all after ten days scaling our paper mountain, in fearful preparation for possible litigation. Legal expenses insurance is probably a prep some of us should have ... our solicitors have had to read the paper mountain to prepare a suitably punchy letter to send to our opponents: this has cost us (so far) £5,000!

£5k already? Crikey, are you sure this job is worth all this expense and hassle?

Did you mean you have legal insurance, or now wish you did?

Have you considered the possibility of the other side's costs being awarded if you lose? I'm not sure that those are covered by insurance.

GreyQueen

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Oh 'eck I've just had to pick all the outdoor tomatoes, overnight we've lost ALL the foliage and a few of the remaining tomatoes to blight. I'll be making green tomato chutney tomorrow!!!

Was it definately blight? We had a touch of frost here, couldn't have been that, possibly?

((((((the cake)))))) sounds like a nightmare to me. A barrister of my acquaintance told me that bombarding the other side with paperwork is an old strategy - as in giving them stacks of it several feet tall. Designed to demoralise and obfusticate. May your loins be girded and your resolve firm.

I have been engaging with the very basics, have been functioning as my very own piece of earthmoving equipment, having demolished one-quarter of The Alpine Carrot Bed.

Now, lest gardeners amongst you be scratching your heads, I should explain that this part of the plot was given that nickname by my dear Dad, because it is a raised embankment and I grew carrots on it. For the last two years it has grown couch grass and horsetails and nettles and other horrors. There's a small bramble in there, too.

When I tool on my plot, it was very lopsided, due to many years of bad culitvation. I didn't get to the embankment until Year 2, when I cleared it and planted two parallel rows of spuds on it. Tell ya, if you have 2 x 30 m rows of spuds, people sit up and take notice. Once they were harvested, I raked the soil sideways over the plot, thus levelling the ground. Apart from one section about 2 m long which was beside a strawberry bed at the time and couldn't be raked over until that had moved.

It looked a bit like a grave and if people passed comment I would joke that is where I planted my annoying neighbours........:rotfl:with courgettes on top, as you do.

But the Alpine Carrot Bed couldn't be dragged sideways until the adjacent area, nicknamed The Rough, was cleared, which I did last autumn and winter, grew spuds on it, and it is temporarily the bonfire ground. I have dug out and then raked over a 2 m long bit of the Carrot Bed onto The Rough. Swear I must have moved about 1.5 tonnes of soil today and my muscles are complaining vigourously.

Only about another 6 m left to do. *groan*

I have found one toad (middling size), several nails of different sizes, bits of glass and bits of china (willow pattern and plain white today). Not a whiff of buried treasure, alas and alack. Unless horsetail roots suddenly become valuable, in which case I am one wealthy wumman.

jk0

GreyQueen wrote: »

((((((the cake)))))) sounds like a nightmare to me. A barrister of my acquaintance told me that bombarding the other side with paperwork is an old strategy - as in giving them stacks of it several feet tall. Designed to demoralise and obfusticate. May your loins be girded and your resolve firm.

That's interesting GQ. I have a little litigation of my own in process at the FTT. The freehold of one of my flats was recently sold to a firm in London, and they have put the service charge up from £470 pa to £1738.

They just sent me an envelope full of cr*p about half an inch thick which I will have to photostat 5 times for the tribunal.

GreyQueen

The barrister also said that it's usual to give some poor trainee the stacks on Friday afternoon with a breezy instruction to read them all and provide a one page summary for the barrister by Monday..........

Wasn't there some dramatist in Ancient Athens who had a crowd-pleasing exhortation in one of his comedies to the effect of let's kill all the lawyers?

But you can't kill my pal the solicitor. She's too good a cook to die young.