Preparedness for when

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Hi MACHASRAVEN welcome into our own brand of alternative thinking that is this thread, good to have you aboard pet. We collectively have addressed in theory at least many of the problems that could befall modern life, one of those being loosing power for a short or long period of time. Most of us have alternative lighting sources, candles and tea lights being the easiest and cheapest and candle holders/lanterns the safest way of using those/ Cheapest and safest way of lighting home is a deep jam jar and a nightlight, half a dozen of those will give a working/reading light if grouped together, they are portable and safe. Next step up is rechargeable torches/lanterns but you have to remember to keep them charged up! battery torches/lanterns, very useful and extra batteries/rechargeable batteries easily obtained. Solar lighting, the freestanding lamps and lanterns are also very useful, nor arte they too expensive, Ikea did a reading lamp called SUNNAN for around £18 that recharges in daylight (not necessarily bright sunlight) I have 2, they live on the windowsill and are always charged up and they are sometimes available on EBay but no longer stocked by Ikea. Current Ikea model is a lantern that can stand on a flat surface or hang up called SOLVINDEN, I have one of those and it too lives on the windowsill and is always fully charged. Solar panels on the roof are the most expensive option along with a small windmill type generator or if you are lucky enough to have a spring on your land it could power a waterwheel!!! not many of us have those. Many solutions to a problem, easily achieved and non too expensive.

Lots of us have wind up radios and lots of books, board games even wind up gramophones for entertainment in a power loss, certainly many of us have installed or are planning to install wood/multi fuel stoves so we have heating if the central heating can't be used, we all have the knowledge of multi layers of thinner clothing being warmer than a couple of clunkers of jumpers etc. most of us have some sort of alternative cooking device so hot food can be made and hot drinks too. We ALL have a store of canned and dried foods and most of us do home preserving/pickling.

If you have a worry, share it, ask the question and someone amongst us, likely several 'someones' will be able to give you answers and solutions!

maryb

To start with I thought Cameron was being honourable in resigning, now I think it was a dereliction of duty. He is leaving the administration in limbo whereas we should be getting on with it to limit the damage.

My great fear was that our politicians would not be able to dig deep and find the will to make this work. It's not looking good.

You need judgement and principles to be a good politician. Scruples preferable as well. A lot of them are shrewd and cunning (Cameron included) but that simply doesn't cut it at a juncture like this. And even if there are some, they can't get on with the job until the top team have finished tearing themselves apart.

And Labour are having their own bout of self destruction rather than coming up with ideas

Head in hands

ivyleaf

GreyQueen wrote: »

I often joke that my 1970s English teacher would be spinning in her grave if she could see some of the things being published today.

Except that good lady is very much alive, according to a relation who knows her socially.

The howling errors are often hononyms, as the people writing them are using their spell-checkers rather than their education. One particularly risable example of this was in a novel published in the last ten years where, in a scene set inside a church, the bride is described as walking down the isle.:rotfl:

The other one which always makes me flinch is s/he was sat - ouch!

I'm seeing a lot of articles recently where the author has used reticent when they actually mean reluctant. Not to mention flaunt instead of flout.
I realised things were getting bad about 15 years ago, when I saw grizzly used rather than grisly - in Good Housekeeping magazine :eek:

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I see Jeremy Corbyn has lost eight members of his team.

machasraven

Thank you Mrs LW for the kind welcome. I do prep as much as I can and have weathered many powercuts and other upsets in my life including being homeless living in a car. My life has not been easy but for the first time I can afford to plan for things instead of having to recycle and bodge.
There is a charger that is called a move power that will charge a phone or tablet 4 - 5 times and has solar recharging which had been very useful when camping.

milasavesmoney

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

At least he knew what, and where, Scotland is.

Bush probably wouldn't have known either.

:rotfl: Only because he has golf courses there. The plane sat down and someone told him, now this is Scotland.

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Yup, we've got a solar charger too, DD1 who is an outdoors gal also has a solar collector that sits on the outside of her backpack so she charges as she goes! Think it's a Power Monkey, works well up mountains apparently!!!

milasavesmoney

debbym wrote: »

These guys were elected demoncratically with an official manefesto - not forced on anyone. What now is that those who wanted to leave Brussels because the leaders were non-elected will now have a country lead by someone who wasn't elected...

Demoncratically......a Freudian typo?

machasraven

The move power is smaller than that it fits into a pocket and I would often leave it on the dash in the car to charge. The power monkey is a brilliant charger to have too.

pineapple

maryb wrote: »

To start with I thought Cameron was being honourable in resigning, now I think it was a dereliction of duty.

I'm not sure it is either. I'm no fan of the man but I imagine the past few months have been hugely pressured. We all know he never wanted to leave and the promise to campaign for Brexit if he didn't get the right deal was just politician speak. When the vote went for 'Out' he probably felt sick. I don't think he would have been able to put his heart into anything to do with Brexit or have any credibility if he did so. Plus whoever does get the job - it's going to be a nightmare.
I just wish, actually, he was going sooner. We now have a no mans land till October and some are talking even later.