Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

mardatha wrote: »

Even something as simple as a petrol problem could send the whole country into panic within a matter of days. "
Only thing that could send me into a panic would be a serious jelly baby shortage...

The last petrol crisis showed how vulnerable as a nation we are but it does not have to be that way. Having a bicycle during a petrol shortage makes life so much easier. Buying locally does also help. Having plenty of stock of the usual items also allows you to adjust to any upheaval.

Have you made plans for dealing with a jelly baby shortage?

moneyistooshorttomention

1Tonsil wrote: »

That sounds like a great day.

When CERN runs at night we can hear it, it makes a curious sort of noise, a bit like humming deep in the earth, and sometimes sounds like harmonics. I tried to record it , but my batteries went and I only got a very short clip of the sound. Then someone sent me a recording of it at the cern facility in Switzerland and it is exactly what we hear.

When it is on a run, which is in the middle of our night, I am wide awake from when it starts. It does wake me if it starts when I am sleeping and the run takes two or three hours, but sometimes lasts for six or seven hours. I have tried everything to help me sleep, but nothing helps. When it broke down for a few weeks I slept like a log. Since then I have discovered it disturbs quite a few of my friends, many of them getting bad headaches with it as well.

On the day after a big run, we get a lot of static affecting us here. I have been told it is the same in other countries close to it. There are cern facilities in other countries as well. It seems to affect our electrical equipment despite the surge protectors we use on everything . We now unplug everything at night , besides the freezers and essentials.

Oh dear that sounds bad. I would hate that with a passion in your place. Not surprised its disturbing you.

Are you able to link to a clip of that noise you mention (ie that recording at the Cern facility)? Do you have any idea how widespread that noise disturbance is from it?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

mardatha wrote: »

Even something as simple as a petrol problem could send the whole country into panic within a matter of days. "
Only thing that could send me into a panic would be a serious jelly baby shortage...

It would have to be tea bags for me, a while back I went into a right tizz as I run out of tea bags!!!!. It will NEVER happen again lol

jk0

1Tonsil wrote: »

That sounds like a great day.

When CERN runs at night we can hear it, it makes a curious sort of noise, a bit like humming deep in the earth, and sometimes sounds like harmonics. I tried to record it , but my batteries went and I only got a very short clip of the sound. Then someone sent me a recording of it at the cern facility in Switzerland and it is exactly what we hear.

When it is on a run, which is in the middle of our night, I am wide awake from when it starts. It does wake me if it starts when I am sleeping and the run takes two or three hours, but sometimes lasts for six or seven hours. I have tried everything to help me sleep, but nothing helps. When it broke down for a few weeks I slept like a log. Since then I have discovered it disturbs quite a few of my friends, many of them getting bad headaches with it as well.

On the day after a big run, we get a lot of static affecting us here. I have been told it is the same in other countries close to it. There are cern facilities in other countries as well. It seems to affect our electrical equipment despite the surge protectors we use on everything . We now unplug everything at night , besides the freezers and essentials.

You can hear a facility in Switzerland from Corfu? Crikey, it must be deafening in Switzerland.

Are you sure it's not something else 1T? I am sensitive to mobile phones, and can't sleep with one on in the house. (Gives me a banging headache.)

Edit: Maybe you can hear Varoufakis down in his basement printing Drachmas in the dead of night.

Frugalsod

I do not often become #1 but it appears that we are doing really rather well for all the wrong reasons. :beer:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-02/martin-armstrong-warns-1-terrorist-group-you-domestic-citizens

thriftwizard

Can anyone enlighten me as to what's going on in the world of high finance, please? Has disaster been averted? Or are the world's shares sliding gracefully into a bottomless pit? The "Chinese crisis" seems to have virtually vanished from the BBC and other mainstream news sources that I check; is it actually over, or have they just decided it's not news any more?

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Life without TEA is UNTHINKABLE!!! mind you apparently blackberry leaves made into a tisane (5 minute steep in boiling water) are supposed to be very like Indian Tea and you can use them fresh or dried. Not tried it myself but if my tea supply wasn't available I'd surely give it a try!

Looking broadly across the weather prediction sites opinion seems to be that this is an El Nino year and it's bigger than normal which might mean we get a much colder period than normal this winter. Snow is a possibility if that is true and perhaps lots of it but weather prediction in an imprecise science and they don't have a crystal ball so we'll just have to wait and see but if I know my fellow preppers we'll sure as eggs is eggs have made all the provision we need to come through bad weather/cold weather safely and with minimum fuss!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Talking about eggs, I know alotbof peoples chickens have slowed right down laying...

With the BlackBerry tea, has it got to be young leaves or any old ones will do??? Might have a go at that, can you still add sugar and milk lol

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It's a wartime idea CTC and I think you can use any blackberry leaves that are there, springtime young ones would probably have a better flavour but in a pinch ANYTHING that gave me a tea fix would be very welcome, no?

I guess you'd have to try the milk to see if it curdled, sugar shouldn't be a problem though, let us know how you get on.

thriftwizard

CTC, I'd kind of expect my backyard girls' laying to slow down at this time of year - it's moult time. The hybrids will pick up again in a week or two; the pure-breeds probably won't lay again until February, but they'll have a longer life-span - always provided I can continue to keep the sandy-whiskered gentleman out of their run. However mine haven't actually slowed down yet, despite the grim cool, grey weather & at least one of them being somewhat deficient in the upholstery department.

Being who & where you are, are they commercial flocks that are slowing down? That would be worrying.