Preparedness for when

Goldiegirl

2T, thanks for that info.

If it's cold, I think we can still go ahead.

We have got warm clothing, with hats and gloves, so we can wrap up. However, I think snow would stop us.

I'll watch the reports with interest.

ginnyknit

Oh Lynn you made me howl with laughter, and I needed it too. You really should write a blog about Yours and Dockys adventures with comments from him or even a book. :rotfl:

2Tonsils, I am shivering ehre at the thought of that shower..oh no Im just shivering. Think its a 2 hot water bottle problem tonight (like Sherlock Holmes 2 pipe problem.

Oh is nicking the pc so I may be gone some time

ClootiesMum

Just a quick update.....
Survivors has arrived - I now need a snow day to watch it. Impatient? Me? Naw...
And "hunter" - me too. Bet we pass each other on the M90 of a morning
Will catch up properly tomorrow but from what I've read - 2T don't you dare leave as my work now think I'm he God of Weather reporting

siegemode

ClootiesMum wrote: »

Just a quick update.....
Survivors has arrived - I now need a snow day to watch it. Impatient? Me? Naw...
And "hunter" - me too. Bet we pass each other on the M90 of a morning
Will catch up properly tomorrow but from what I've read - 2T don't you dare leave as my work now think I'm he God of Weather reporting

Didn't get to sleep until after 6am this morning and was woken by the postman at 9 grrrrrr almost broke my neck on the way down the stairs. Nothing seems to work properly when I first get up and I lack all coordination. However it was the survivors set After appts today we got home and have already watched the first 8 episodes (only 30 to go) and really enjoying it. Far better than the more recent remake and deffinitely the source of my reoccuring dreams since childhood and my anxiety in relation to prepping. My oh never saw it when younger, he was out playing footie and didn't watch much tv, but as I had often talked about it he suggested I order it. Well worth the money if you can afford it. Quite thought provoking and some useful ideas etc. With the way people rely on so much technology these days and the lack of general everyday skills I think the situation would be worse should something like it happen now.

Glad you came back 2T, your weather updates would be missed here. We got very little snow last time round and will probably get away with it again but its good to know in advance just in case.

Started my stock take and haven't got very far as yet, but have located over 40 bags of flour annd about 25 of pasta amongst other things. Had no idea we had that much as its all stashed in every available space. Only have a very small house and I think things have got a little crazy. Must get a grip, declutter and organise. I get a bit obssesive and that coupled with a bargain equals no space left and an oh that won't enter the spare room or kitchen.:o

vanoonoo

i have the 2 'new' series of survivors plus the original ones and like them both for the different things they offer. I felt like the original one got a little bit silly towards the end which is perhaps why it finished but it has got some great tips in it! if I get the chance to watch it again once we've moved I might list some bits out and put some linkies on the earlier pages.

have a good day everyone - keep warm - it's cold out there!

mardatha

I can remember the first series and being a bit shocked because I'd never thought of anything like that happening - but I know I went off it later and stopped watching, maybe that's why Vanoonoo. I haven't heard many people who liked the new one.

VJsmum

Now i want to watch it!! I remember it from when I was a kid but I think I was too old to be a frightened kid and too young to be a frightened adult. I was probably a teenage "yeah, whatever" and thought that mum would sort it out if it happened!

I also remember a children's programme called "changes" about a world with no electricity. It was the first programme I ever saw in colour - on our brand new colour TV, (from Radio Rentals LOL). Ooh I've just googled, it was called "The Changes" and was on in 1975. It was adapted from some books by Peter dickinson - I wonder if they are still available?

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Morning all, GQ I had a small eureka moment when you said Spanish Slugs were advancing armada like upon your plot, Slug Paella!!!!!! It is logical, yes?

I have had all three original Survivors sets on DVD since they were originally released and I must say they are my favourite viewing material when He Who Knows is away. I enjoy them far more than the modern re-make and never get bored watching them, no matter how many times. It's a good yarn but agree the ending of series 3 is a little improbable to say the least!

It's beautifully crisp and even outside today, sunny and most definately not warm the lurcher doesn't mind colder days too much, wish I could say the same!!! Keep yourselves warm and safe and we'll see what this arctic blast brings us over the next few days, stay safe, Cheers Lyn xxx.

p.s this is a subliminal message for MARDATHA ......... BUY WELLIES, Buy Wellies, buy wellies .............................!

GreyQueen

I've enjoyed the first 2 series of the original seventies Survivors and hope to get my mitts on the third.

It's very much a product of its time, but what I liked was that it didn't shy away from hard subjects such as how do you handle a murderer in a world without Police or prisons? How to women manage their fertility in an underpopluated world where their menfolk want to be fathers but they see another woman nearly die of childbirth complications, and don't want to become baby-making machines? How do you equitably-divide resources, organise society, handle encounters with criminals and wannabe scroungers or the simply hopeless fantasists? Once you've got past the OMG we're going to starve or freeze level, how would you want to live if you couldn't ever go back to the way things were pre-SHTF?

I've not watched the more recent series although it seems to be universally-panned by those who have seen it.

There's a series of very interesting posts on The Archdruid Report blog (the weekly one will appear tomorrow UK time) discussing what will happen as we are forced to navigate the long descent from the petroleum age. It's an American blog, although the commentators are global inc Brits, but it is very interesting.

What got me thinking was the discussions that the USA cannot viably continue as a continent-spanning country and is liable to split into regional groupings based on states, or small conglomerations of states with geographic and cultural proximities. And what that might mean for the residents if, for example, you find yourself as a minority grouping within a state with hardline views on your minority.

It's easy to see that you could be looking at internal migrations of certain groups from one mini-state to another.

I've also long speculated on our own small island, having lived in a town (shan't say which) that had long lost the reason for its very existance and is now very high on european levels of deprivation. There is hardly any work there and a large section of the population are dependant on benefits for their livelihood. And have been for 3 generations in some cases. Repeated attempts to revitalise its economy fall down on the uncorrectable shortcomings of the geography.

This town is only a couple of hundred years old and grew up to serve a population plying a very specific trade, which no longer exists. It can't begin to support it's current population without sucking in money from the rest of the country. There are places like this all across the country, that grew from hamlets or small villages into towns because of a specific industry or trade which no longer exists.

If we didn't have sufficient wealth as a state to move it around via the tax and benefit system, or there was no political will to do so, or there was no state due to utter collapse, what would happen to these places?

Inevitably, people would have to leave to seek their chances in places where there was a prospect of making a living from selling their labour, trading or cultivating the land. The shifts in the population would depopulate some areas and overcrowd others, and cause enormous misery.

ETA MrsLW, I'm no fan of paella, slug-based or not. Eww!

mardatha

That sound shighly possible GQ, given the sheer size of America. Here, I think Scotland has far fewer problems than you lot doon south, just because we have far less people. I don't know enough about England to have any ideas but it would make for a really interesting discussion on this thread. TY for that.