Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

jk0 wrote: »

I am fond of the buses here in Reading, and use them when I'm not carrying tools/ building materials around. Reading buses have an all day ticket called a 'Busabout'. This is £4.30, and allows all day travel in the greater Reading area.

However, they go and spoil that by it not being valid on all routes. Some routes are subsidised by the local councils, as they would not be money making. You can't buy or use a Busabout on them.

If I wanted to visit my mother on the bus, I'd have to get a return to the town centre, and then another return on the bus to Mum's.

Another complication is that of course other bus companies won't take them. Thus even if you see a bus going in the direction you want, you can't take it if it's from another firm.

There must be a way they could make tickets valid on any bus, the same way that train tickets are.

Nationalise them again. Simples. Now where is that meerkat emoji?

Frugalsod

grandma247 wrote: »

Roughly the cost of
ten of those packs would buy you this.

Yes that looks like a better option altogether especially if you combined it with one of their geodesic greenhouses. The larger ones would be perfect for families or even a small community.

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Changing subject entirely I've just been pootling about on fleabay and found you can buy a ready to use fully set up outdoor composting toilet with a liquid separation system built in for under £1500. You can also buy something called a 'Thundertrunk' for £180 which will cope with one person using it for 150 days. It has a transferable seat unit and the idea is to seal the filled trunk and leave it sealed for a couple of years when the organic material inside will turn itself into usable compost. You need about 4 trunks per person in a year. Amazing just what IS available isn't it?

Frugalsod

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Changing subject entirely I've just been pootling about on fleabay and found you can buy a ready to use fully set up outdoor composting toilet with a liquid separation system built in for under £1500. You can also buy something called a 'Thundertrunk' for £180 which will cope with one person using it for 150 days. It has a transferable seat unit and the idea is to seal the filled trunk and leave it sealed for a couple of years when the organic material inside will turn itself into usable compost. You need about 4 trunks per person in a year. Amazing just what IS available isn't it?

Composting toilets have serious advantages in a crisis. I occasionally watch a couple of US RV users who have a compost toilet and there are additional advantages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E2xOoNov9s

COOLTRIKERCHICK

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Don't tend to think in terms of petrol as being "lesser evil" compared to diesel personally.

However, one thing that always struck me forcibly back in my Home City was "Why are all these people valuing their time as worthless and are quite prepared to 'spend' it right left and centre keeping cars on the road?". Forgawdsake - it was possible to get around to many locations in said Home City with just a 10 minute/15 minute wait for a bus and personally I usually didn't even bother to look up the timetable before going to wait for one. I would just head to a bus stop and wait (unless it was a Sunday or Bank Holiday - in which case = fewer buses).

I couldn't/cant understand why people weren't taking into account the number of hours they would be spending on earning money for taxing/insuring/etc the car and then the hours they would have to work to cover the costs of paying for maintenance on the car/replacing it at intervals. It was just a sheer puzzle to me why anyone would spend a 3-figure number of hours per year spending extra time at a job earning the money to cover all those sort of costs - when they could just go out and wait a few minutes for the next bus instead.

I can understand more now I've moved to Back of Beyondsville (ie where you are often told that "Its a good bus service" and then find its only hourly or worse and nowt on Sundays/Bank Holidays and are trying hard to keep the sceptical look off your face when the next person assures you that its 'good' :rotfl:).

I've long thought public transport should be free and frequent and have used some free public transport before now (eg many years back in Nottingham). Its an idea LONG past its time and I have spent time puzzling just why that isn't regarded as "As much of a necessity as access to decent health care".

I'm all the more convinced about the need for decent public transport in Back of Beyondsville - ie because of seeing many people having to cobble together "A Life" from this activity in this village, that activity in that small town, another activity in t'other village - because you're not in a big enough place to have all Your Life where you are living (as in, right now, My Life is spread between my own small town, 4 other towns and 2 villages = 7 different locations to Have A Full Life)

I must admit you are now really getting on my nerves by calling the place you live as back of beyondville and how people there ' cobble together a life'

Again you are comparing a small welsh village/ town with London.. If you don't like it move... Or just shut up and start opening your eyes at the slower pace of life and to get out of the rat race of a large city...

That's it, I bloody love this thread, but just can't stand the way the place where I live is being depicted

' back of beyondville'

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CTC you live in one of the most beautiful countries God saw fit to make, you have the full panoply of Welsh history with all its colour and passion as your heritage, you have wonderful Welsh culture with poetry, music, song, storytelling, you have castles, mountains, national parks and so very much more you are a lucky person to have so much pride in your country, bless you, it's a joy to feel your passionate pride in where you live and who you are, magic my pet, magic!!!

moneyistooshorttomention

CTC - talking about "getting on nerves" and you are the one making personal attacks on someone here (ie myself) - not for the first time.

Lets hope its the last one shall we?

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COOLTRIKERCHICK

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

CTC - talking about "getting on nerves" and you are the one making personal attacks on someone here (ie myself) - not for the first time.

Lets hope its the last one shall we?

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Well stop belittling and undermining the place where you now live

Back of beyondville and cobbling together a life is a disgusting description ...

I have been on this site for years, and have never needed to say something like this to anyone, maybe because no one has said the things you have...

Stop and look around you, and rather compare everything with London..open your eyes to what is around you.... Fields,mountains, a slower pace of life, fresh air...

Frugalsod

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I must admit you are now really getting on my nerves by calling the place you live as back of beyondville and how people there ' cobble together a life'

Again you are comparing a small welsh village/ town with London.. If you don't like it move... Or just shut up and start opening your eyes at the slower pace of life and to get out of the rat race of a large city...

That's it, I bloody love this thread, but just can't stand the way the place where I live is being depicted

' back of beyondville'

Calm Down, Calm Down /scouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPIsTKpAoE4

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I do apologise to people reading...

I read another thread somewhere on mse about a single man, panicking about the child/ working tax credits being cut next year... It sounds as though these a major/ serious cuts.. And she wanted to start preparing now..

How do you think this will effect the economy?? I think sales will plummet..and the economy drop??