Preparedness for when

Mojoworking

Frugalsod wrote: »

Why should that be any worse? We have a modern society and as long as you are happy that is the most important thing.

Thank you x the wedding clip was hilarious - hell on earth!! I think the world is changing so fast and what was the done thing isn't anymore. Throw into the pot local viewpoints and then generational ones you can get too caught up in things. OH's Nan said to me "in my day we wouldn't have even looked in the pram if the mother wasn't married" she is in her 90s. That was 10 years ago and all her not so subtle hints haven't changed me.

Life changes - it's not that how they did it years ago is better things are just different now and we just pick and chose from a wider range of new and old to make our lives how we want them to be. We all think our ways are best. What a victorian maid wouldn't give for a washing machine hoover and central heating. What I wouldn't give to know how to do a wash if no electric for over 2 weeks or until every item of clothing owned is standing up on it's own.

Mojoworking

And even then I'd try and get someone else to wash them as it looks well hard the old way x

RAS

Swaledale is in the National Park; seriously pretty. Regarded as seriously rural now.

Until you get to some of the areas where the lead is still poisoning the land.

160 years ago it was still an industrial landscape; mainly lead mining but there has been coal mining since medieval times.

That put enormous pressure on the limited housing but people often had access to a small field or two that allowed them to keep a cow or a few sheep.

The poverty was relieved by the stocking knitting industry, which then collapsed at about the same time as the lead industry hit the buffers. The population dropped dramatically over the next 20 years.

On a wider scale it is worth checking out the theories of Andre Gunder Frank who talked about the removal of wealth from peripheral areas to the metropolis.

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MAR a brief look into this years 'El Nino' weather seems to indicate that from all the signs 2015 IS an El Nino year, the last was 2009/10 and indications for El Nino events mean colder dryer weather for Northern Europe and warmer wetter weather for Southern Europe, 2009/2010 was also exceptionally cold , no one was predicting definites for this winter though but if there is a possibility of it being cold and possibly snowy (although that's not been said) it makes sense to be well stocked up, particularly in the north where you are rather than be caught out by weather events.

GreyQueen

When people are comparing area A to area B, I sometimes smile quietly to myself and recall this little tale;

A discontented man is thinking about leaving his home area and goes to see a wise man about whether he should move to B. What are the people in B like? he asks the wise man.

What are the people like where you live now?

Oh, they are the rudest, most thoughtless, most inconsiderate unpleasant people I ever did meet. Can't wait to leave.

I expect you'll find the people in B pretty much the same, commented the wise man.

The thing about moving is that you tend to pack yourself up and take yourself with you. So any discontentedness, unhappinesses or personal irritabilites arrive at your destination with you.

It's a shame, really. Be far better if we could pack a small but heavy bag of all the unhelpful sides to our personalities and send that on a one-way trip to somewhere else and stay happily at home.

Frugalsod

Personally I think people everywhere can be nice, sure there are stereotypes about the Liverpudlians but there is only a sliver of truth about it, and that is the same about anywhere in the world.

greenbee

Great post GQ

Recognising those personality traits is the key. Then we can develop strategies to deal with them. Even if we can't get rid of them, we can certainly learn to manage and control them.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Bedsit bob... You would have to get passed our dragon first lol

Re a potential bad winter... In reality we haven't had a ' bad' winter in a while, a continous cold snap.. So really are due one... All I know is the trees on our land are turning brown, and autumn seems like about 6 weeks early, even the squirrels are at the cobnuts early..

This week I planned to stock up on tinned stuff, not only because of winter, but because of a foreseeable future with very little income..

jk0

I just worked out why the Chilcot Inquiry is taking so long. Yesterday's paper says that Chilcot is paid £790 a day!

I think I'd spin my job out for 6 years if I was getting £790 a day.

Crikey, I'd try and take another 6 years!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Wonder its per working day (5) or 7 days per week lol...

And that's tax payers money!!!