Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

BigMummaF wrote: »

Oo! Oo! Oo!....Please Miss. Me Miss. Me! Me! Here! Miss? Miss!..

Can we have an old London double decker & do it up? Then we can magically break into the exact same song at exact same time and all orf us know ALL the words & actions :T Free people-powered entertainment & enjoyable exercise to warm us up before lighting the fires!

*sings.........badly*
We're all working from our
B.O.Be-ee Bags
Cuz we've had them ready for a
Year or two......

D'you want a bus driver? I've had several years' experience driving a 1956 RT double decker all over the country inc the wilds of Wales and Eire. It was a scream, climb into the cab from outside and the light switches were behind your seat and the indicators on the left of the cab, huge bakelite switches like old-fashioned cooker dials. And the gear lever....!

One like this:




It's in a museum, these days, but we did camp out on it and it had a kitchenette built into a tiny space above the stairwell.

And ours had a lot more dents in it.........:rotfl:

ETA, I'd just like to say, to the lovely but very anxious manager of the fuel station on the outskirts of Luton where we squeezed the 'decker under his canopy with centimeters to spare...........sorry for nearly frightening you to death but we were on the dregs of our tank and couldn't have hung out any longer. Hey, I could get that RT up to 35 mph downhill with the wind behind us (in service it used to be governed down to 17 mph apparently).

craigywv

i would love to go camping in one of those buses! absolutley exhausted today chopped what felt like a 100 weight of carrots and apples for freezers dont drink but have an urge to get steaming..oh texted me there now he due to be made redundant on friday now they telling him they need them another week possibly could limp on till december.Now while this is great news i am in nerves now as i have sorted meticulously our finances for this week as in clearing nearly all of our debt so now if he working till dec i am going to be thrown in to turmoil as i will be looking big amounts for next 3 weeks, hope you understand what im talking about. If i can get through next 3 weeks it will level out again and we be ok.Im not ungrateful he not losing job this week its just we were both prepared and ready for friday, as oh says every week is a bonus and i know that its just i will have to juggle here for 3 weeks. Rant over ! hope your all keeping well. I was in mr t this morning so many items up a few pence!!! we dont have to worry about food i could open a shop, was in getting last of the christmas presents as i wanted all in before oh laid off, what i did notice as i am nosy am gawk in other peoples trollies was a lot of peeps had value range everything! i stocked up on the creamed rice (BYATT! IM STILL AT IT) AND CARROTS PEAS AND OF COURSE THE HEAVENLY TINNED SPUDS. left caps lock on again sorry, away to walk the dog have a lovely evening all xxxxxxxxxx

Dippypud

As a further about food grade buckets and containers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZuOZPtWDMo&feature=youtu.be

The title of the vid is "The Truth about"food grade buckets" and what lots of "survival " websites and Emergency supply suppliers don't want you to know ."

FYI, make of it what you will ...

GreyQueen

craigwv, those buses are bliddy freezing to live on unless you tongue-and-groove them throughout and pack lots of insulation in. We were on RTE once and people pointed and stared as we passed on the street..........back in England we used to get followed around by the Police as this was in the height of the New Age Traveller hysteria.

I can remember learning to drive the RT on this city's bypass and the owner said Have you forgotten about the 13 feet of bus above your head? I was so busy having a whale of a time that I admitted I had.:o

Never forget about the upper deck. Never ever. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world. We once got the AA to come out to it.....it was covered as a camper van, lol. We didn't dare do that twice, though. :rotfl:

craigywv

GreyQueen wrote: »

craigwv, those buses are bliddy freezing to live on unless you tongue-and-groove them throughout and pack lots of insulation in. We were on RTE once and people pointed and stared as we passed on the street..........back in England we used to get followed around by the Police as this was in the height of the New Age Traveller hysteria.

I can remember learning to drive the RT on this city's bypass and the owner said Have you forgotten about the 13 feet of bus above your head? I was so busy having a whale of a time that I admitted I had.:o

Never forget about the upper deck. Never ever. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world. We once got the AA to come out to it.....it was covered as a camper van, lol. We didn't dare do that twice, though. :rotfl:

it sounds great! i want one!I know if i was driving i would forget about the upper deck, must go now dog doing tap dance on floor snorting must be walked:)

wondercollie

Afternoon, all.

It was -6C this morning and the windchill took it down to -14. So winter appears to have started.

I have a confession to make. I made chilli last weekend. Now for the confession. The first two tins of tomatoes I reached for had bulging tops. The tops of the can just didn't look right. So rather than risking botullism off they want to the landfill. I mean between the e-coli recall on meat and my bulging cans, the landfills of Alberta must be heaving.

Son back from Greece. Sounds like he had a whale of a time. Apparently he missed Crete, too hungover to fall out of bed in time. He's said he'd go back again in a minute. It's his year after finishing high school and he hasn't got a clue what he wants to do, so rather than bunging him off to college to figure it out, we told him find a job and/or travel. He's had a labouring type job on weekends during school and his boss gave him full time hours for a year. He's in total agreement that he should work and travel while he decides what to do. At least he's gone off the idea of the French Foreign Legion and is thinking of the police. He's building "life experience" for his application, as they've started looking for that over university time.

Wondercollie is looking anxious. There is only two sacks of kibble in the basement stockroom for him. It hasn't been on sale lately. He loves the Harrington's from Yorkshire and for some reason it's a better price than similar North american made kibbles. Oh, well, I have to start stalking the pet products aisles for him.

Seeing as I'm so far from the double decker bus, I'll just have to sulk and use the Arctic gear that number one son has.

VJsmum

Oh GQ, why am i not surprised! :cool:
:rotfl:

BigMummaF

*stands coyly just inside the door* If you'll have me, could I put myself forward for the Group's CSICSI? I am an avid solverer of crimes against spending & hold many diplomas from Pwoa-roe Polly, all counter-signed by Mrs JB Fletcher & Grissom M.D.
I will also double up as the Community Singing Instigator, as I can usually find a few bars (as in music! well, in this instance but willing to volunteer my services of course :beer: ) to fit the situation

I'm sure Mar would back me up (there's a bag of jelly babies in it for you Pet ) & there's a stack of woman's magazines turning a deep shade of sepia in Mutha's spare room as I type, that I could catalogue & cross reference for knitting patterns & 15 Ways with Weezle recipes to bring to The Cause....

sophlowe45

2tonsils


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/9623863/IMFs-epic-plan-to-conjure-away-debt-and-dethrone-bankers.html


So there is a magic wand after all. A revolutionary paper by the International Monetary Fund claims that one could eliminate the net public debt of the US at a stroke, and by implication do the same for Britain, Germany, Italy, or Japan.

GreyQueen

VJsmum wrote: »

Oh GQ, why am i not surprised! :cool:
:rotfl:

Dunno, I give every appearance of a respectable citizen these days but 18-19 years ago I was a bit of a lass.............:rotfl:We used to go into motorway services (5 adults and 2 kiddies) all boho with our raggle-taggle-patchwork-and-stripy-jumper schtick and respectable citizens used to draw their enfants closer to their flanks with watchful eyes. They'd've really worried if they realised that we were a troupe of professional children's entertainers!

Our reaction to the public assumption that we were riff-raff was to behave absolutely-impeccably with our poshest accents (I speak RP English unless I'm imitating somthing regional for a laugh) and the dissonance really messed with people's heads.

We used to know a lot of the new age travellers (our bus mechanic was one of them and lived on another RT with his family) so we had connections in interesting places.

I've been enjoying a stroll down memory lane with my photie album tonight but can't post the pix as the bus has too many RL identifiers plastered all over it.:rotfl:Those were the days, although I still have cold chills about the night drive from Pembroke Docks to Cardiff in the RT.........I couldn't see too much but what I could see fell under the OMG!!! category. Never been so glad to see dual carriageway and lighting as when we came out of the hills, it was heaven to be on the level again.

If you've never driven anything really big and heavy, you don't understand how much of a factor momentum plays. I was pulsing those brakes in the mountains, oh yes indeedy.

Mind you, if you can drive an RT nothing much holds any fear. I'd love to have a go with a digger or a tank. Pal drove a tank once - envy is a bad thing, isn't it?