Preparedness for when

Cheapskate

I've just had a quick tootle round real seeds and will be ordering something this week - their ethos sounds right up my street. This weekend my shopping list includes such glamorous items as candles, night lights, matches, new tins for seed packets, wind-up or solar light, etc - most of which we've run out of or are bu99ered. On Mothers' Day, apart from popping in to see mum I'm staying put; I want to sort out my SHTF stashes (all over the house and often unlisted! ) and do some batch cooking for when the snow or other !!!! weather arrives.

2tonsils - I have a friend who lives on Corfu half the year, and she says similar to you, they live very frugally on the island but have noticed so much hardship and heartache, but feels frustrated that she and neighbours can't help much - they all have low incomes but not as badly off as the locals. Hugs to you all over there, hope you're ok when the storms come.

A xo

mardatha

They start lambing here next week and that's a sure sign of snow - every year the poor wee things get hit. The bad winter two years ago, they lost more than they saved on the hill farms.
I've got a bit more stuff in and filled up cupboards, but not feeling well at all and seriously can't be assed right now. Bad me!

pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

They start lambing here next week and that's a sure sign of snow - every year the poor wee things get hit. The bad winter two years ago, they lost more than they saved on the hill farms.
I've got a bit more stuff in and filled up cupboards, but not feeling well at all and seriously can't be assed right now. Bad me!

The so called Schmallenberg virus has just been on the news again - it's still going. It seems a tad coincidental to me that this started at the time of possible fallout after Fukushima but maybe that's me with my b* big conspiracy hat on. :rotfl:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/02/492911.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/035385_cattle_deaths_virus.html
Meanwhile - no danger to human health! Eat your lamb chops kiddies - nothing to see here...

GreyQueen

Pineapple, I lived in eastern Scotland at the time of Chernobyl and we were officially advised not to drink the milk or go out in the rain. And they had radioactive sheepsies in Wales, too.

Funny how that all goes quiet after a few years, isn't it? The concrete "coffin" over Chernobyl has fallen in, apparently. So don't trust the burgers to keep nuclear waste safe for millenia when they can't even keep a knackered reactor safe for 30 years...........

mardatha

GQ am sure some lamb here was unsafe for a good while after that.

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Morning all, If I have one philosophy on life, it is just to live every second of every day I'm given and enjoy it to the full. Not living in alt or the depths, but just being, and being the best I personally can and enjoying all I have, see and do. Simplistic perhaps, but it makes a difference and even on those days when everything turns to dust and ashes there will be a few little moments where I think I'm so lucky to be here, Hope that helps on dark days, Cheers Lyn xxx.

pineapple

Popperwell wrote: »

Good job most of us want very little. Thanks for that BB. I am very lucky really and should count my blessings...but you know, hard to believe that in approx 6 weeks a year has already passed by and finally I will be having to decide how to lay Mum to rest...that all must be playing its part.

I wasn't particularly fond of my mother but it's still tricky when we get the incessant hype about Mothers Day. I have it twice a year as my father is dead too

mardatha

I've got no family left at all, of my own or older generations. It's the natural way of life isn't it.

pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

I've got no family left at all, of my own or older generations. It's the natural way of life isn't it.

It is - though I actually felt 'orphaned' when the last parent went. And we weren't particularly close. :huh:

pineapple

So far not seen much on the news about last nights outage. Just a reminder to have some cash fall back if you can manage it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/rbs-apologises-after-second-computer-meltdown-means-customers-are-unable-to-withdraw-cash-8523685.html