Preparedness for when

thriftwizard

I've been hurtling down county & back up again to rush to Mum's bedside again; her 7th trip to A&E in two weeks. They've kept her in the stroke unit until Monday, but their investigations seem to be limited to upping her medication again.

We went down to visit her at home yesterday, and drove down through the autumn woods ablaze with colour, despite the grey skies; reds & yellows on the trees, and russets and golds on the bracken-covered ground. Back down again today and it's suddenly winter, despite the bright blue sky; the leaves have vanished and the bracken's battered flat to the ground. And it's icy cold out there! Not pleased to return home & find my tender plants still outside, despite my asking for them to be brought inside today. So I've draped them in net curtains & will bring them in myself tomorrow!

Frugalsod

Please queue up for this great bug out location.

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moneyistooshorttomention

Frugalsod wrote: »

Please queue up for this great bug out location.

http://www.harrynorman.com/property-detail/1515791/Address-Undisclosed

Ah...right...renovated in 2012 was it?

....and what has changed their mind since that they are selling it now - not much later? Do we take it as being a sign they have decided the next war won't be nuclear (that's assuming its not the next war we are actually watching being fought out right now...:cool:).

Caterina

Quite frankly, I'd rather be wasted in a nanosecond than live underground for the rest of my life, in isolation.

moneyistooshorttomention

Caterina wrote: »

Quite frankly, I'd rather be wasted in a nanosecond than live underground for the rest of my life, in isolation.

Precisely my view - even if, somehow, I could get all the food/canned entertainment/etc I wanted and never needed any medical attention.

What would be the point of survival to a life of "house arrest"?

jk0

Recently I was reading a Christian website, where is said that dreams were God's way of giving you a little glimpse of your future. Nightmares are explained as being some TV show or film you are silly enough to watch in future.

I have had two very vivid dreams about an incredibly high building where I am viewing or maybe even living in one of the flats. Of course the main lifts break down one day, so I either have a long walk down 32 floors, or have to take an open express service lift that for some reason runs down the outside of the building. These only call at one floor in ten where there is a Co-op shop can you believe? The shop manager asked me if I would take some of the trolleys back to the shops on other floors!

I woke up sure I owned such a flat, and was quite relieved to realise I don't.

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Caterina wrote: »

Quite frankly, I'd rather be wasted in a nanosecond than live underground for the rest of my life, in isolation.

You wouldn't need to live underground, for the rest of your life.

A few months, at most.

moneyistooshorttomention

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

You wouldn't need to live underground, for the rest of your life.

A few months, at most.

Maybe...maybe not...

However - you'd still emerge to a society that had contaminated food/everyone else dead or dying/none of the services working/...and...oh yes...wasn't there something about a "nuclear winter"? (goes off to google if memory serves me aright)....

pineapple

jk0 wrote: »

Recently I was reading a Christian website, where is said that dreams were God's way of giving you a little glimpse of your future. Nightmares are explained as being some TV show or film you are silly enough to watch in future.

I think that's such tosh. I can usually tell the origin of my dreams. Typically they are made up of snippets of memories. They are either working through past events or the 'storyline' reflects any anxieties. One of my failings is procrastination (my 'things to do' list gets bigger by the day). If there is anything important that I am not getting on with, that's when I will have my 'going into an exam room unprepared'/'turning up at the airport without having packed' etc dreams.
It is often a relief to wake up and realise I am not going into an exam or stood passport-less in the airport because I didn't pack//prepare properly.

mardatha

I think dreams are your mind doing it's filing,acting out worries then filing them away. Apart from dreams that come true, they're different. I remember reading that several children dreamt about being engulfed in black mud before Aberfan. If we all get bad dreams at the same time in here maybe we should mention them! lol
I used to dream about funerals before people died, like going to somebody's funeral or once I was dyeing my blue coat black for my MIL's funeral, and it did happen a few months later.