Preparedness for when

the_cake

Not of earth-shattering importance, but I was in Sainsbobs this evening and they had lots of candles going cheap - ones like big tealights for 19p each, and boxes of 16 household candles for 40p. From the logos on the boxes, it looked as if they were probably left over from a Jewish festival, possibly Chanukah. Might be worth checking out your local!

GreyQueen

DawnW wrote: »

Actually, goats do. I used to keep them, and bindweed was one of their favourite snacks.

Of course, they would eat all the veg as well, given the chance :eek:

He he, should have thought of goats. There was a bit of James Heriot where he was called to a goat which was poorly; it'd eaten a great big pair of bloomers off the linen line but the elastic had caught under it's tongue.

Unfortuntely, don't have goat-access or I'd gladly cart it around to them.

2tonsils, glad you're OK and great news about your internet booster. Be very interested to see the linkies you'd mentioned when you have time to post them. I'm often frustrated that the so-called news seems to select 6-10 items to cover and let the rest of the world go hang.

I was thinking about my EDC. I work in a large municipal building and as such have 100s of colleagues and we are potentially a target for trouble. We have the usual incidents with a very tiny minority of people who are dangerous and kick off and have to be arrested but there are also incidents of bomb threats and risks where we suddenly have to evacuate the building due to fire alarms.

One of them went off one time when I was on my way back from a bathroom break to my office (quite a hike over different floors) and I exited the building by the nearest exit and stood shivering on the street. It occured to me that if this happened again and we had to stay out for some time, or permantly, I'd be a bit stuffed with my money and keys in a bag in another part of the building from the one I exited!

My goal is the my EDC has enough stuff that I could stay out for a day or two without too much suffering; meds, a skeleton washkit, clean pair of undies, a little water and a snack. There's also an emergency sewing kit in there and I'm thinking on some other things, too.

pineapple

GreyQueen wrote: »

My goal is the my EDC has enough stuff that I could stay out for a day or two without too much suffering; meds, a skeleton washkit, clean pair of undies, a little water and a snack. There's also an emergency sewing kit in there and I'm thinking on some other things, too.

Baby wipes, undies and moisturizer for me and to heck with everything else! :rotfl:

GreyQueen

pineapple wrote: »

Oh to heck with the sewing and the washing. If one is female one must have moisturizer! :rotfl:

LMAO! This late-forties female doesn't use moisturiser (oily skin finally coming into the normal range) so no need for the EDC to hold what I don't have at home.

But my emergency washkit in the BOB does have handcream. I wouldn't want to meet the zombie apocalypse with dishpan hands.

I also have some preppish bits and bobs on my keyring; whistle, mini LED torch and a tiny canopener hidden in a leatherette pouch. The don't take up much room or look weird (IMO).

pineapple

I think it was something someone said on here and I thought - what a good idea - it needs bumping!
I'm going to get some seeds from somewhere like this
http://www.realseeds.co.uk/ but for storage not planting. Seeds are portable if one has to relocate due to climate, economics, civil unrest - and if someone nicks your veg you will have seeds as a fall back. They aren't a huge outlay and there is a ton of info on the net about storage. Call it an insurance policy.

GreyQueen

Thanks for that, Pineapple.

I've read about places in the world, often tropical islands, where the tradition is for villagers to have a cyclone garden.

This is an additional, smaller supplentary veg patch. It's further from home and hopefully further from the path of harm from a cyclone and the idea is that if the main veggie patch is destroyed in a storm, they'll have something to fall back on.

For those who have a garden as well as a lottie, it might be an idea to have some veggies growing at home as well as on the lottie in case of looting or loss due to weather events/ major pest infestations.

There's a famous example of taking your seeds with you; the Cherokee Trail of Tears, a shameful incident in the history of North America. The prisoners hid their black beans and carried them with them to new ground against all the odds.

sb44

GreyQueen wrote: »

2tonsils, glad you're OK and great news about your internet booster. Be very interested to see the linkies you'd mentioned when you have time to post them. I'm often frustrated that the so-called news seems to select 6-10 items to cover and let the rest of the world go hang.

Try this site for world news, they have hundreds of newspapers online from around the world.

http://www.thepaperboy.com/

Good too for regional UK papers should you have moved away.

BessieBooBoo

Hello all

Have very tired eyes from spending hours on pintrest! Heckofa lot of ideas on there. Makes me feel below novice level as I am not fully organised, don't have food for a year, a grain miller, or a root cellar, etc. Still, you have to start somewhere...

Now have interview for 2nd job today, here's hoping, and might be a 40 hours a week worker.

The only things I will miss is coming on here as much, and the ddog, although, yet again, she is sleeping. How many hours are normal for dogs sleeping?

Anyhow, OH & I are going to seriously up the food hoarding, I mean, storing.

2T, have to say, you are having things a lot tougher than us here, apart from all the rain. Kind of scary that so many things are on the verge/erupting/splitting out in the Med., hope you and OH remain safe and warm.

BBB

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BBB Do you have a coffee grinder? If you do, then you have a grain mill! Cheers Lyn x.

craigywv

great idea lynn!!