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  • elaine241
    elaine241 Posts: 437 Forumite
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    Lucy_Lemon I am in the Black Mountains nr Abergavenny and it is blowing a gale and freezing! I am not isolated up a mountain I have "civilisation" quite near me as I am on the outskirts of a town but with the space of a farm with my ground going up to the mountain.
    Thanks all for the reading suggestions even if they send me into a "must get more preps" flap!



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  • lucy_lemon
    lucy_lemon Posts: 276 Forumite
    You're welcome! I love reading stuff like that - it doesn't make me prep but I enjoy them! I actually love reading this thread, but I am not a prepper at all. Does that make me a bit mad? Haha, oh well!
  • GreyQueen
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    lucy_lemon wrote: »
    You're welcome! I love reading stuff like that - it doesn't make me prep but I enjoy them! I actually love reading this thread, but I am not a prepper at all. Does that make me a bit mad? Haha, oh well!
    :p:D:p Mebbe you're deeply in the Armageddon Cupboard and just working up the courage to come out as a prepper.........:rotfl:

    Glad to have you with us, whatever.
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  • lucy_lemon
    lucy_lemon Posts: 276 Forumite
    GreyQueen wrote: »
    :p:D:p Mebbe you're deeply in the Armageddon Cupboard and just working up the courage to come out as a prepper.........:rotfl:

    Well, my flat is untidy enough at the moment that it looks like the end of the world. Does that count? :p
  • GreyQueen
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    lucy_lemon wrote: »
    Well, my flat is untidy enough at the moment that it looks like the end of the world. Does that count? :p
    :D Definately. And that reminds me that my flat is rather untidy and really ought to be sorted out before bedtime and the start of another work week.

    bon nuit, everyone. I'm putting the pooter to bed.
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  • katieclampet
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    GreyQueen wrote: »
    Try Cormac McCarthy's The Road. I've read it and I sure as heck ain't watching the movie. Scarily-believable.

    Probably the scariest, bleakest book I have ever read!! I wouldnt even dare watch the film.

    Flood by stephen baxter is a good EOTWAWKI type book, quite a realistic scenerio, especially considering the amount of rain we had last summer.

    katie
  • Cheapskate
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    katieclampet wrote: »
    Flood by stephen baxter is a good EOTWAWKI type book, quite a realistic scenerio, especially considering the amount of rain we had last summer.

    katie

    Oh, I've read this, too, quite good! I think the best fiction books like this are ones that take current knowledge and then ask the question "what would happen if...?" supply your own SHTF scenario. Some of Michael Crichton's are like that, and some only-just-science-fiction.

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  • katieclampet
    katieclampet Posts: 832 Forumite
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    Me too! I have made a note of some of the books people have mentioned, and will add them to my amazon "wish list" .

    katie

    ps, great idea GQ about the "gender neutral" look, would never have though of that in a million years! I have learnt so much from this thread :A
  • greenbee
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    GQ - when I learned to drive my ex-police instructor advised keeping a baseball cap, big coat, overtrousers and boots in the car in case I broke down and needed to wait on my own by the side if the road.

    Perplexed pineapple - my parents have 30-year-old solar thermal panels that are still going strong with minimal maintenance.
  • JayneC
    JayneC Posts: 912 Forumite
    Just watched zeitgeist. If i wasn't a conspiracy theorist before i am now. Truly terrifying!
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