Preparedness for when

fuddle

Nah Nargle. I would wear slightly more for a night out in Durham. A Newcastle night out required very little.

Oh and do I wear leggings? Absolutely as they are perfect for wearing in knee high wellies. Many mothers in Dorset wear them too

fuddle

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

In Leytonstone tube station in last 24 hours - a man slashed anothers throat and hurt 2 other people shouting "This is for Syria".

The police tasered the man.

It was the scenario envisaged on here recently - ie that some might even stick around and film it on their phones. Someone did - I've just watched the clip. Astonished at them sticking around (I certainly wouldn't have) on the one hand but pleased to note that the person doing the filming is same?/similar? nationality to the terrorist (and presumably a Muslim?) and is busily shouting at him "You aint no Muslim. You aint no Muslim bruv" telling him what-for.

And then we stick it on the TV, freeze frame for the papers and plaster it all over the net to sensationalise the act in great detail. :cool:

mardatha

Edinburgh is the same, fuddle. I used to work nights and look out of the windows watching drunken students tottering around in 5" stilettoes and crop tops + mini skirts in sub arctic weather. Then on summer nights they'd be wearing jeans and boots

Karmacat

I'm in the far south of England too - rainy, windy and grey, but no flooding, and no damage. Positive vibes to all in the storm area, hope all of our lot are safe! Picture in The Guardian yesterday was mad: a middle-aged/elderly couple out on a walk for the day, trying to get across a road that had a flood torrent pouring down it, it looked incredibly dangerous

In fact, I popped down to the coast to look at the waves (a few people every year die locally doing that, they get swept off by the waves, they don't realise how far in they come ) and we found dozens of cuttlebones, plus an uncooked lobster shell (gorgeous, that!).

I looked for cuttlebone uses: a mould for making jewellery, a beak sharpener for birds, its used in Chinese medicine for gastric problems (! hmmm), used by dentists to stop bleeding after dental (or nose) work. I only picked them up to put them on the garden, to add to the mulch! I might keep them now

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calicocat wrote: »

I have a fake fur trapper hat. When wearing it last year walking along the beach I swear various small children were grabbing parents hands looking scared, or walking away from me.... :rotfl:

I don't get that one :huh:

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GreyQueen wrote: »

The winds were high overnight, but only the twigs on the trees are waving gently, so nothing more than a breeze out there now.

Same here.

I haven't been out yet, but, from looking out the windows, there doesn't appear to be any damage in the street.

calicocat

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I don't get that one :huh:

As in that I was looking a bit scary in it?....it's actually too big for me, so can often slip a bit sideways adding to the look....:)



Sunshine and wind gone...it's like yesterday never happened..!

Haven't been in the garden yet, but can't see too much damage from the windows. Will have to try and fix side gate so I can let asbo-cat in back garden. She doesn't seem interested though as is on the bed in the sunshine.

No news from friend, so she's either still asleep, or house is fine.

pineapple

It's been really terrible here. Homes flooded and lots with storm damage. Piles of debris and a huge tree from somewhere were dumped by the flood waters in the middle of the village green. I was going to replenish my fuel the day the rain started but didn't and now I'm out of stock. Bad Pineapple. Three attempts to get into Kirkby Stephen today - but only high clearance vehicles or people with no respect for their car engines were getting through. At least it's got all the motorists talking to each other. Everyone you pass it's windows down and 'what's it like?' or 'can you get up there?'. I kept meeting the same man driving round in circles .
And the very worst - dear readers - is that I am also clean out of alcohol

GreyQueen

pineapple wrote: »

It's been really terrible here. Homes flooded and lots with storm damage. Piles of debris and a huge tree from somewhere were dumped by the flood waters in the middle of the village green. I was going to replenish my fuel the day the rain started but didn't and now I'm out of stock. Bad Pineapple. Three attempts to get into Kirkby Stephen today - but only high clearance vehicles or people with no respect for their car engines were getting through. At least it's got all the motorists talking to each other. Everyone you pass it's windows down and 'what's it like?' or 'can you get up there?'. I kept meeting the same man driving round in circles .
And the very worst - dear readers - is that I am also clean out of alcohol

:eek: Oh pineapple, not the alcohol! Say it isn't so!

How is the sweetie situation, are you covered? Mardatha is poised to strap emergency drop-bags of jelly-babies to geese heading sarf, to drop them off to all our fellow preppers in an emergency situation.

Ermm, I may be a bit thick but I'm baffled by you running out of fuel - is this credit for a prepayment meter or something a bit more complicated?

My Dad has been to Braithewaite (me, too, can't remember it as was an ankle-biter) and knows that pub where people are holed up. I could think of worse places to be stranded than a pub....... sending big hugs to anyone who's in the thick of it.

mardatha

fuel=jellybabies GQ I'm surprised at you not knowing that!