Preparedness for when

Softstuff

greenbee wrote: »

I'm sure they do... don't think we'll be getting any special deals from any of them if we decide to leave... (I'm betting they charge us extra, because we'll need them more...)

When Australia was dumped as a supply partner it developed trade with Asia. So I'm guessing new relationships would have to be developed over time. Not sure what prices things sell to Asia, but the price you pay is related to the level of the Aussie dollar, currently low against the pound, but that'd change if our exports to the UK improved.

Frugalsod

I suspect that the electricity problem is yet another fear mongering by one group or another. There is no way that the electricity connectors between the UK and the EU will be cut because that is money that we are paying them.

Secondly if there is an energy crisis again we could expect a combination of petrol shortages (it uses a lot of electricity in refining) and rotating black outs like the 1970's. So what can we do? Well lots of candles and tea light heaters will be helpful and efficient fridges and cookers to minimise energy usage as much as possible. It will be a great way to put those bug in preps to good use. If you have solar chargers you will be able to keep the gadgets running and you will have to adapt somehow.

The government might let the market find a solution and allow energy prices rise to choke off demand which will hurt the poorest and things like the warm homes discount are one way that helps the lowest earners. So getting things sorted like insulation will help you more than many other preps.

NewShadow

Can anyone recommend the best/cheapest place to stock up on basic white candles?

Either tealights, or the chunky ones - not the really thin ones that need a holder.

IIR Ikea used to do bags of 30 tealights for £1ish, but I can see them on the website (it was about 10 years ago...)

Thankies.

Frugalsod

NewShadow wrote: »

Can anyone recommend the best/cheapest place to stock up on basic white candles?

Either tealights, or the chunky ones - not the really thin ones that need a holder.

IIR Ikea used to do bags of 30 tealights for £1ish, but I can see them on the website (it was about 10 years ago...)

Thankies.

I ordered 500 tealights from IKEA last year via their website dirt cheap. I also bought lots of tealight holders as well. There was a delivery charge so look at getting as much as possible that you want to get to make the maximum use of that delivery charge.

I think that that IKEA are probably a good source of candles but I did get some from BHS some years ago. Amazon or eBay might be worth looking at.

NewShadow

Found these - 100 @ 1.75

...and these look interesting - 35p each.

Think I could put a metal tray on top of a dozen without them going out? Should I want to mock up a candle heater/cooker?



You're right about postage - £7.50!

Is there anything else that would be worth buying for my prep draw to make the postage a little more worthwhile?

pineapple

I won't burn paraffin wax candles in the house apart from the occasional tea light. I would hate to have to rely on them as a source of light.
Unfortunately beeswax is so much more expensive.:(

moneyistooshorttomention

My first go at making sourdough starter didn't work.

I tried different method - ie rye flour, bottled water and an organic grape thrown in for first couple of days. That did work. I now have my starter ready to go and intend to have my first go at making sourdough bread.

But - I have this hand problem at the moment from that injury. So - for the next week or two I will have to do a no-knead version instead of what I'd planned. I'm just "not going to go there" at any thoughts of my hand not getting back to normal by then - it just will <foot firmly put down>

Can anyone give me a link or personal instructions of what they do that works for making the no-knead wholemeal variety please?

NewShadow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Z30uYnO08

I've used this before with wholewheat, worked okay but I think my kitchen was a little cold - turned out a bit flat.

culpepper

The EU appears to be a club with 'in people' all of whom want to be 'top' and tell everyone else that their way is the only way.
It seems to me, what we should be doing is getting our own food producing industries back up to scratch . I am interested to know how fishing and farming would be affected by leaving because they have deteriorated to almost nothing since we have been members.
Does anyone remember the fishermen saying they were not allowed to fish their own waters but must watch foreign fishing vessels moving in and helping themselves ?
I wonder too, how many countries, ourselves included, have had to refuse certain trades outside of the EU simply because the countries wishing to trade, were not both EU members.

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Ikea sell a pack of 100 tea lights in store for £1.75p they burn for over 4 hours and are useful. The candles I've found that give the brightest light are old fashioned HOUSEHOLD candles which usually come in a box of 6 or 10 and are widely available from hardware stores and also some of the larger supermarkets. They aren't the small night light type though but are tall slim ones. They seem to burn for longer the older they are, I found some at the back of a cupboard that I'd bought back in the 1990s and the light that they give is bright enough to read/work by. Some of the big wholesalers like Makro sell bags of tea light too but you need to be a member or have someone who is get them for you. I'm not a fan of the big thick pillar candles as I find they don't burn evenly and flicker constantly as the middle burns down round the wick and leaves an outside wall that has then to be cut away. Much prefer the smaller ones and find they burn more evenly in a lantern than a votive, hope that's useful!