Preparedness for when

missrlr

^^^what she said very good place

D&DD

Just finished watching Cockneys Vs Zombies and it was truly excellent we all thoroughly enjoyed it.:j
Eldest is off to some thingy at the Excel this weekend and 'Grandad' is going to be there so should have fun!

Wondercollie I usually keep 96 pouches of catfood in (buy when cheap off amazon) plus a couple of bags of litter and a sack of dry food for the cats.
I buy Rosie dogs treats on amazon in packs of 10 or so and I usually have a large sack in of her JWB plus the one shes eating,3 x small sacks and 12 x wet pouches

Dippypud

http://news.yahoo.com/major-solar-flare-erupts-sun-150630753.html


This flare, however, did not unleash a coronal mass ejection, so it is predicted to cause little disruption on Earth and no special auroras. Its powerful radiation was enough, though, to briefly disrupt radios here last night.

The sun is getting more and more active lately as it approaches an expected peak of magnetic activity in 2013.

and to put it all in perspective ...

should we have major power outages around the world, the Amish won't notice a thing :cool:

wondercollie

The 3 kilo sacks don't last long and the next size up is 8 or 15 kilo. His furriness only gets wet food on Sunday morning for a treat.

About the pulling out of the Euro. My oldest (who loves conspiracy theories) was telling me that there is supposed to be a warehouse in Germany just filled with Mark notes for when Merkel pulls out of the Euro. Makes you wonder...

Snow tyres are going on my car tonight. It's been below 0C all day and the sky is grey and heavy. But my knee isn't twinging, so I don't think there's much snow up there. The Canada Geese are gathering and should be heading south soon. Parts of th elocal lake is frozen and strong enough to support a couple of full grown geese (can weigh up to 15 kilo each). I hate those flying poop factories.

meme30

See, when I read Canadian Geese I went AAHHH! then I read "Flying Poop Factories!" :rotfl::rotfl:

vanoonoo

wondercollie wrote: »

About the pulling out of the Euro. My oldest (who loves conspiracy theories) was telling me that there is supposed to be a warehouse in Germany just filled with Mark notes for when Merkel pulls out of the Euro. Makes you wonder...

it wouldnt surprise me (I love a good conspiracy theory too - men on the moon PAH!) - although I would expect there to also be one filled with conterfeit euros or forints or sterling to flood other currencies too and force a collapse. apparently the nazis planned that during WWII but didnt complete the action and cases of 1940's sterling forged notes have been surfacing since - FLAMERS and TROLLS PLEASE NOTE this is not meant as a zenophobic comment just a non political topical ramble about currency

mardatha

Awh wondercollie I love the geese ! We're right under a flight path and near a wintering ground for 3 kinds of geese and I love to watch the big V in the sky and hear them, reminds me that seasons come and season go, the wheel turns - you know? I've watched them year in year out since I was tiny. We have noisy ones and silent ones, grey ones and white ones, plus whooper swans. Last few nights they've been circling over us making a racket Had a lot more flying over this year than I've seen for years - wonder what that means re weather ? Probly that they had a good breeding season

GreyQueen

Morning all.

There is a very low-tech, portable and re-usable water treatment option, the Millbank Bag, which has been around for donkey's years. It's a cloth filter.

With water treatments, esp if using wild water (for want of a better term, it's still early and I'm not properly tea'd up) you need to filter out debris and the use some kind of treatment such as boiling or chemicals to do away with the nasties. Obviously, these are not capable of doing what a full-on water treatment plant can do, so water heavily-contaminated with chemicals won't be rendered safe water.

You can improvise filtration through clothing such as tights, cotton tee-shirts or create natural filters using graded natural materials. You can also capture water in situations where there are no visible sources such as springs and streams by fastening plastic bags over the ends of leafy tree branches (condensation forms inside) or tying clean cloths (scarves?) around your ankles and wading through dew-sodden grass early in the morning, then wringing the water from the cloth.

Obviously, you wouldn't be doing either if there was an easier option.;)

One thing I've been ruminating on is that survival situations bring us right back down to animal level of operations where we have to make a cost-benefit decision about what we do. If we're starving, and we spend more calories of energy gathering or hunting something to eat than we get from eating it, then it becomes too risky to do it, as we end up going backwards.

Equally, we'd have to say to ourselves, That's a useful bit of tinder/ firewood/handful of berries right beside me right now and although I'm not officially out wood-gathering or foraging, they're here and I'll take them now.

I guess we've all seen wildlife documentaries about top predators such as the big cats like cheetahs who hunt very fast-moving prey like antelope and can easily end up too depleted by a couple of unsucessful hunts to attempt a third and would starve. Us omnivores have more flexibility than carnivores but we'd all need a lot more calories than we normally consume to live a life in a survivalist situation.

It's an interesting (well, to me, anyway) that much of what we think of as laziness is simply conservation-of-energy which is hardwired into the species. You don't walk around two sides of a square, you cut across to save a few steps, etc etc.

D&DD

And if all else fails you can do a Bear Gryllis did anyone see that episode where he squeezed the pee out of elephants dung and drank it :eek:...not many elephants round here though..

Well I very nearly had a mini SHTF event but after speaking to my MP he has calmed my fears thankfully all to do with boundary changes/social services and boring stuff but I thought we'd have to move and that was a scary thought!

Just waiting for MrT to bring my limes then off to make Keylime pie *dribbles*

Have a great day all XX

GreyQueen

D&DD wrote: »

And if all else fails you can do a Bear Gryllis did anyone see that episode where he squeezed the pee out of elephants dung and drank it :eek:...not many elephants round here though..

Well I very nearly had a mini SHTF event but after speaking to my MP he has calmed my fears thankfully all to do with boundary changes/social services and boring stuff but I thought we'd have to move and that was a scary thought!

Just waiting for MrT to bring my limes then off to make Keylime pie *dribbles*

Have a great day all XX

One of the most-hollow laughs I had recently was when my MP sent me a puff-piece letter bragging on their "achievements" and as a closer, inviting me to assist their office.

Gordon Bennett, the only place I'd like to assist that loser to is the JobCentre and I was tempted to tell them so, bur thought better of it as occasionally have to deal with their staff as part of my work. Said staff seem to be muppets, actually. As in Gonzo..............:rotfl: