Preparedness for when

RAS

On a completely different note:

My local rail station waiting room houses a book exchange.

And I have joined the local subscription library! Worked out that if I stop buying a couple of magazines that they stock and borrow a DVD a month, I will break even or better. Members can request books which are added to the stock (this month's looked promising) and you do not have to recycle the magazines.

A cup of tea costs the princely sum of 40p; so somewhere in the city centre to hole up and have a cuppa at low cost and get out of the way of the shoppers as well.

nuatha

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Oh well....I must refresh my memory what online material there is for the library back in my home area then - as I have kept my library ticket for that and I might have access to online stuff my current library doesn't have anyway.

Fingers crossed that library ticket will remain fully valid for rest of my life (ie they don't change their system) - though I don't live there any more.

Incidentally I never lived in Manchester, work took me that way occasionally, Manchester held a couple of collections that were useful to some research I was involved in. I've no idea if they still offer this sort of service, or whether anywhere else does.

jk0

Anyone use to use this stuff?:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colgate-Professional-Toothpaste-Complete-80990/dp/B0017KON1O/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_opt?ie=UTF8



Amazon no longer sell it, so I found this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00LI1DVTW?ref_=pe_385721_37038051_TE_3p_dp_1



It arrived today. However, !!!!!!, it's made in China!

Dare I put it in my mouth?

GreyQueen

My Kid Bruv has membership of two county libraries as he visits the main town in that part of the non-resident county every week, so can easily borrow and return. I used to have the same arrangement when I lived at the family home. They didn't give us any grief about being interlopers from across the county line, either.:rotfl:

I get a goodly amount of my reading material from the library but have a bit of success from the 10p and 20p book boxes that some chazzers have. Got a Will Self and a Saint paperback this aft, grand total 30p.

Very minor SHTF at the family home tonight as the downstairs lighting circuit out. Preliminary investigations and fuse changing have determined that this is a job for a professional and that it wasn't possible to get one at 4 pm on a Friday. So they're going to be improvising with standard and table lamps until Monday at the earliest.

We'd forgotten that the lighting circuit for their extension room and shower-room had been taken off the upstairs lighting ciruit when it was wired into the house nearly 20 years ago. So some of the ground floor has proper lighting, at least.:rotfl:

As I remarked to Mum, re the downstairs WC/ shower room having proper lighting still; at least you won't have to find your **** in the dark with both hands.:D

manchestermargo

I live technically in Manchester but in reality I am much nearer the library which is in Trafford. I am sure you have to be a resident of Trafford ( i.e. have to show proof you live in the borough) before you can use their libraries.

Frugalsod

Yesterday I had a mini SHTF moment when a neighbour in my block set his dinner alight. Setting off all the fire alarms. So after realising it was not something else some neighbours found the source (burnt spaghetti on a hob) and after clearing the smoke and opening the windows so it would not re trigger the alarm. I went to see what was being done about the alarm. While many had arrived at the front door, it would appear that there were a few who had ignored the alarms and were still in their apartments. Well they would be toast if it turned out to be more serious and had expanded.

Anyway having lived in a place with lots of fires I had learned to reset a fire alarm with a single press. It pays to know how to deal with alarms if there are false alarms.

Ryanna2599

AnimalTribe wrote: »

Thanks for the information about plasters, I have gel, but it's messy. Plasters would be better. I shall add some to my 'snow bound' stocks.

AnimalTribe these are the burn plasters I have in my preps and I can vouch they work
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Masterchef-Advanced-Hydrogel-plasters-Assorted/dp/B008G0QIMK/ref=sr_1_1?s=drugstore&ie=UTF8&qid=1447456191&sr=1-1&keywords=Masterchef+advanced+burn

thriftwizard

Thinking very much of the people of Paris this morning, and of all who have lost loved ones in this terrible attack.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I felt numb when we watched the news between 2.30am -3am this morning... ( we were up as one of pigs had piglets, so we were up making sure she didn't lay on them)

I honestly think the recent infux of do called refugees masked the ingress of terrorist...

I honestly think it's only a matter of time before all this will cross the channel to us..on the scale that is happening in paris

Nargleblast

Evil personified. May their 42 virgins all be riddled with syphilis.