Preparedness for when

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They had one glorious day a few years back called 'A Storm of Arrows' and had re enactors from all periods using appropriate bows right up to modern competition bows and skilled modern archers and the Longbow shot the whole lot of them out of the water both for distance and accuracy. They all lined up on a ridge and gave it their best shot, long live the long bow that's all I can say ..... Oh and I'd rather not be in the way of the arrow that comes from it, it went right through the target and out the other side!!! Yikes!!!

Perplexed_Pineapple

Mrs LW I love the sound of your local courses, some seriously useful skills to develop by the sound of it. I had this thought though about the longbow course: "Starting from a single stave of laminated timber" - I would have though that laminating the timber would be the trickiest bit and once you had that off pat the actual carving of the bow would be relatively straightforward.
A hard frost tonight, does anyone know whether leeks survive being covered by half an inch of ice? I'm new to this leek growing business.
The Ebola thing, it sounds as though it was caught in Africa, I don't think there's any need to panic about it. Once we have confirmed transmission in the UK, that will be another story. Poor Glaswegians though, don't seem to have much luck at this time of year, last year that helicopter crashing into that pub, this year the bin lorry and now this. Lots of small scale SHTF stuff you can't really prepare for, although if you are caught on the periphery then being fit and active and a knowledge of first aid would come in handy.

GreyQueen

Leeks should be just fine, PP, and parsnips positively thrive with a frost, it brings out the sweetness a treat.

Perplexed_Pineapple

Ah, thanks GQ, I might have known you would have leeky wisdom to offer
Bedsit Bob, a few floaty bits of milk in the tea are ok, I think, I judge milk by the smell, if it smells ok it's useable.

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The guy who invented the USB pen drive has passed away.

At his funeral, the coffin was put into the grave, then lifted out, turned over, and put back in again.

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

The guy who invented the USB pen drive has passed away.

At his funeral, the coffin was put into the grave, then lifted out, turned over, and put back in again.

You think that's bad?

When Mr Tupper, inventor of Tupperware, passed away, he was sealed in one of his patented plasticwares and it was burped thrice before the final internment.

nuatha

Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

"Starting from a single stave of laminated timber" - I would have though that laminating the timber would be the trickiest bit and once you had that off pat the actual carving of the bow would be relatively straightforward.

Laminating your timber is fairly straight forward, choosing the timbers to laminate less so. Tillering and tuning the bow tends to be where it goes wrong at least that was my experience.

Frugalsod

jk0 wrote: »

Cripe. In view of that, I just paid my income tax that's due at the end of January. I'd hate to still have to pay it after my account was 'bailed-in'.

Chances are that you would, but you could also re do your accounts and add in a 100% loss on bank balances and then ask for a tax refund. There would be a lot of people hit but it will be the small businesses that are hit hardest. How would you pay creditors or employees? It would then very rapidly hit companies that might have avoided any financial problems up to that point.

I think French and German banks are big investors in Greece so they could start to look a lot more wobbly. Though I have not had any confidence in French banks for several years. The Germans only need a big default to expose how weak Germany really is. With Deutsche Bank's CDS exposure more than 15 times the German economy it does not take many defaults of counterparties to put Germany back into range of a serious depression.

Frugalsod

GreyQueen wrote: »

You think that's bad?

When Mr Tupper, inventor of Tupperware, passed away, he was sealed in one of his patented plasticwares and it was burped thrice before the final internment.

Well when the man who invented the Hocky-Cocky died they had no end of problems getting him in the coffin. First his right hand in but it came out then his left hand with similar problems and his legs kept coming out when they put them in. In out in out.

GreyQueen

:T Y'know, we're none of us cooking on a full set of pans here, are we?