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3.47 is the best bit, I'm sure one of them was Mardatha...............
Have now ordered new glasses and am grounded awaiting the chief sparkie. I shall remove from easy view a few things like firelighting equipment but leave the knitting out. Cos middle-aged wimmin who knit are harmless, hey?
Never trust a woman with long thin bits of pointy metal. They could be me.It's really easy to default to cynicism these days, since you are almost always certain to be right.0 -
Scottish weather forums muttering about a bad winter to come. Anybody on here in Scotland will know that we've had a very poor cold year so far. Maybe best prep for a winter like 2010.It's really easy to default to cynicism these days, since you are almost always certain to be right.0
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Now revises opinion and decides perhaps FrugalSod is a woman after all.....
...and I cant let her have all the "funnies" you know. So - I'll contribute what I've just been sent by a friend and its how to tell your age by chocolate.
http://www.joe-ks.com/chocolate_Math.htm
which I just did - and it was spot-on accurate for me....:EasterBun0 -
Are any of you still undecided on what bug out vehicle to get? I have just discovered an article to a wide range of used vehicles with the capability of getting anywhere. You just need to decide on what your specific needs are.
http://www.wired.com/2015/06/heres-can-buy-russian-tank/It's really easy to default to cynicism these days, since you are almost always certain to be right.0 -
moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »Now revises opinion and decides perhaps FrugalSod is a woman after all.....
...and I cant let her have all the "funnies" you know. So - I'll contribute what I've just been sent by a friend and its how to tell your age by chocolate.
http://www.joe-ks.com/chocolate_Math.htm
which I just did - and it was spot-on accurate for me....:EasterBunOMG I am 80 in chocolate years! What a traumatic start to the weekend, I may have to go and get some comfort food to cushion the shock, probably something...........chocolate-y?
My bug-out vehicles are sitting on the ends of my legs. Or the pushbike. Bearing in mind how gridlocked this city gets in an ordinary rush hour, and how crazy things are if one of the principle roads is wholly or partially blocked by an accident/ fallen tree, I can see no way in hell of driving out of an urban environment unless you have plenty of warning/ a tank to drive over anything in your path (plus the will to murder anybody who happens to be inside anything in your path).Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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CHOCOLATE
There ya' go and there was me thinking that this webpage must have got some sort of system worked out somehow to fiddle the questions to get the correct result - as I was actually quite surprised to find that mine was accurate. Has been tempted to re-do the test and put in an inaccurate number of times per week I fancy some chocolate and see what happens....
I'm inclined to think re bugging-out as to "Why would I even think along those lines personally?" If SHTF society-wide then I've long since lost count of just how many farms there are round here. There seem to be hundreds of little ones and I come across any number of people with smallholdings or who have just sold smallholdings (ie because they got older and felt they couldn't cope any more). We could pretty much grow any food that would grow in a British climate and if the rest of the world went...we'd still have loads of food...assuming the hordes didn't come heading over the hills and I've been here long enough by now to know that this is an area where "the law gets taken into own hands" sometimes. I expect my face was a picture when I got told of a recent instance of this.0 -
Yeah, MTSTM, but would local farmers/ smallholders want to share the fruits of their labours with you? Do you have something to trade, even sweat equity (helping the culitvation in return for a share of the crop)? If purely-local markets were set up to trade locally-grown foodstuffs, do have some thing/ some skill of value to trade, assuming that notes and coins might be valueless?
People starved in the hyper-inflation in Wiemar Germany and Austria because they hadn't got anything that the farmers wanted badly enough to trade tangibles like spuds, wheat, veggies, milk and cheese, and the currency was hyperinflating so rapidly that only fools would accept it. Some people got by through trading their possessions. One documented trade was a grand piano for 4 sacks of spuds. Many famines aren't caused by a lack of food per se, but a lack of affordable food.
I do know up at the allotments, we share surplus veggies with each other, as well as surplus seedlings, seeds and other resources, but we're already in a neighbourly-recipocal arrangement. We don't have a lot of time for those who take from us without our permission. It causes blood-boiling rage even in these easy times, gawdelp a thief caught redhanded stealing other people's food in a crisis.
One villian would have had an interesting time explaining a puncture wound inflicted by a garden fork when caught nicking by a plotholder late one night. Since that plotholder hasn't been charged with assault, and the incident is now a few years old, I assume that the 'victim' didn't go to the Polis.
I've never known a member of the non-allotment holding public to make an offer a plotholder probably wouldn't refuse; can I help you with the work in return for a share of the crop? I think, subject to a degree of trust in the individual, I could be tempted to go for that myself.Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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I've given up the idea of a sweetie stash GQ. It doesn't work for erm... technical reasons. Ask Thriftwizard.
I just think between the mutterings of bad weather and the knowledge of a bad govt, things def will get harder.0 -
I know exactly what you mean about those technical issues as I have them myself.
And, given the temperament of the grubbyment of the day, they will use austerity as a big stick to beat the poor and vulnerable with, and to make more of us fall into those categories.
Like this week's spurious statement about 7% of all the world's welfare payments being made in this country, depsite us having 1% of the world's population. Really? Bearing in mind plenty of the most densely-populated parts of the world has zilch by way of state welfare. So the populace can get to do fun things to survive like selling their women and children to brothels, living in shanty towns, mutilating their children so they can beg more effectively, growing opium poppies, kidnapping wealthy people, risking life and limb throwing themselves across international borders, hacking down hardwood rainforest trees, scrabbling in mines like something from centuries ago, becoming pirates....... the potential for money-making is just endless.
Perhaps we need to start being more bolshie and start waylaying the drivers of premium marques of motor vehicles on the public highway to extract a local version of the road tax? Or rocking up at Cheltenham Leddies College to kidnap some young gels so their rich mummies and daddies can pay ransom?
Memo to the ruling caste; you need the rest of us, we don't need you, and you're only alive because we haven't suffered enough to take you out - yet.Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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Just a small reflection if you are going to build up a stash of stores to see you through potential problem times I made the decision last year to NOT store dry pulses other than lentils purely because of the amount of fuel it takes to cook them. On the stove in a pressure cooker in normal times it's 20 minutes but if I was relying on gas cannisters or hard foraged firewood to make meals I wouldn't want to spend the hour at the least needed to cook beans or things like brown rice. Lentils (split ones) cook in 20 minutes and will cook as an integral part of a soup/stew so if fuel is a consideration, and in problem times it must be, lentils are your friend. Pop the newly bought pack into the freezer for 24 hours before putting it into storage and you'll kill off any potential insect pests too! Beans I buy in tins, not as cheap as buying dried and cooking them myself but good source of protein and will store for eons unlike the dried ones which become hard and uncookable as they age.0
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