Preparedness for when

BitterAndTwisted

GQ I hope the electricians do a better job of your flat than they did of mine. "On the cheap" doesn't begin to cover it. Oh yes, I have more sockets than I did before BUT the batardos have run some of the cables on the walls with carpy ill-fitted trunking over the top rather than being chased as they were before. It's a bleddy eyesore and I am most unhappy. Still, I'm only a lowly council tenant so I should be grateful, really.

GreyQueen

I'm council, too. Council policy at this end is that they would like you to have cabling chased in, but if the tenant doesn't want it done, they won't force the issue and you can have mini-trunking. The sparkie who assessed my flat was speaking as if they need to do neither, here, that they can feed the cabling through the walls. I confess myself confuzzled but should know more after next Friday's visit. I shall have a list of questions pre-prepared.

I am dining tonight on half-a-FB pie, with carrots, asparagus and spuds. That'll be one less in the pie mountain.:rotfl:

happydays89

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I think it's a cordless Dyson vacuum cleaner, and frankly I'm jealous!!! We have a big Dyson Animal that is built like a carthorse and weighs about the same when you drag it upstairs to clean!!!

Yesterday I added a 20 litre solar shower to the preps kit, not only for showers though, if the power is out for a long time it will give us hot water to wash us, up and clothes as well as giving us a shower £5 in Wilkos didn't seem a great deal to part with for a useful item. It can live on the summerhouse roof when we need to heat water, the solar panels on my neighbours roof are angled that way so I reckon that will be most effective and the little dangly hose will hang down beside the verandah which I can balance a bowl on to catch the heated water, good stuff!!!

We have a couple of solar showers (haven't tried them yet) and I read somewhere that with the weight of the water the bit you hang them from can break,so I decided to buy a couple of string bags to put them in and then hang the bags up.

rosiepup2000

De-lurking with a suggestion - GreyQueen, could you pack your pies/stores into boring old cardboard boxes, tape them up and label them in big letters as 'Auntie Mabel's stuff.' If asked you could just pass them off as a relly's old junk that you are minding/inherited.

boultdj

GQ, if henry d'vac,wally trolly and the pie's go in the cupboard, does that mean your letting nursie out to 'help' the electrion's?

GreyQueen

boultdj wrote: »

GQ, if henry d'vac,wally trolly and the pie's go in the cupboard, does that mean your letting nursie out to 'help' the electrion's?

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OMG, I am not so evil as to inflict the force of nature which is Nursie on decent, hardworking sparkies. That would be deemed a cruel and unusual punishment.

It'll be tough enough on them to be working on the Towers. In the past few weeks, they have turned up at some flats by appointment for the initial assessment and not been let in despite being able to see that the occupant is inside. They can't work it out. The persons responsible for the non-admissions are the junkies and the dealers. According to legend, the Polis once removed 300 cannabis plants from a Towers flat, which makes my mind boggle as these are such tiny places.......:rotfl:

:cool: There will be worse stashes than FB pies and bottled water being concealed, I do expect.

Frugalsod

GreyQueen wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

OMG, I am not so evil as to inflict the force of nature which is Nursie on decent, hardworking sparkies. That would be deemed a cruel and unusual punishment.

It'll be tough enough on them to be working on the Towers. In the past few weeks, they have turned up at some flats by appointment for the initial assessment and not been let in despite being able to see that the occupant is inside. They can't work it out. The persons responsible for the non-admissions are the junkies and the dealers. According to legend, the Polis once removed 300 cannabis plants from a Towers flat, which makes my mind boggle as these are such tiny places.......:rotfl:

:cool: There will be worse stashes than FB pies and bottled water being concealed, I do expect.

Are you telling us all this so we are all forewarned when your 300 FB tins are really identified as cannabis plants?:rotfl:

To be fair cannabis is actually a very safe drug, no overdoses, and no deaths from it.

Though if your FB pies are really FB pies then you probably have far less to be concerned about than many people. Just say that you won a lifetimes supply of FB pies but they all came at once.

GreyQueen

I wouldn't become too complacent about cannabis; pal works in an acute psychiatric unit and they have regular admissions of people who are addicted to cannabis, despite it triggering psychosis. They get brought in under section, the unit spends about 3 days straightening them out, they are discharged, go back to their usual circle, smoke some more, and have another psychotic episode, are sectioned.

Some of these nitwits are going in and out of the unit every 4-5 days. Gawd knows what permanant damage these psychotic episodes are doing them and how much these fools are costing the NHS.

I've also known, from birth to adulthood, several young people who grew up in cannabis-friendly households, surrounded by the weed and smoking it regularly themselves from early teens. What you end up with all too often is a young person in their twenties with severe psychiatric disorders, unable to work or manage themselves in day-to-day life without professional support workers.

The chief drug at Shoebox Towers is alcohol, closely followed by weed, and other substances are rarer. But cannabis can cause serious side-effects in passive smokers inhaling their neighbours' weed smoke, including hospitalisation in some cases.

And I guess you'd share the outrage of parents such as those whom I've spoken to in the course of my work, who enter their baby or child's bedroom and find it reeking of weed coming through from the conjoined house or flat. It is possible to take on board enough secondhand smoke to fail a drugs test. I loathe cannabis because it triggers a lot of rowdy and thoughtless behaviour and the secondhand smoke gives me heart palpitations and a splitting headache.

Plus I'm pretty sure the late-night callers doing a special rat-a-ta-tat door knock on my door late at night think they're at the drug dealer's gaff nearby..........another of those late last night.

Karmacat

GQ, I'll never forget one sleepless night when I lived in London, and my then-partner had a catatonic episode brought on by cannabis. When he came out of it, he couldn't bear to stay inside, so at 3 in the morning, we went off into the London streets, walking anywhere and everywhere, till he could cope with sitting down. Not the greatest time, and triggered solely by cannabis.

I don't know what causes the vulnerability to it - genetic, psychological, and probably nowadays early exposure, like the poor babies you mention, but individuals' reactions to it vary wildly - just like any other drug, I suppose. No drug is 100% safe.

jk0

GQ, have you got those service ducts sealed up yet?

When I was really hard up, I stuffed mine with newspaper, as I couldn't afford sealant.