Preparedness for when

craigywv

GreyQueen wrote: »

Yeah, but could you get your demon avatar into focus, hen? I've mentioned it before but it messes with my ME-brain; keep having to check that my eyes are in focus.

Nice to see ya, craigy, shame about the book, I could have done you some exerpts on t'interweb, or tied it to a carrier pigeon and winged it across the sea to ya.

I've been fighting with the lurgy since last Weds, have been on doubled-doses of meds and sleeping about 11 hours in 24. Great fun for the family; last saw them at Crimble (was ill, slept all the time) next at Easter (rinse, and repeat).

Never mind, worse things happen at sea. Or so I've been told. I tend to concur with that old adage; Those who would go to sea for pleasure would go to hell for a pastime.

Funnily enough, I don't suffer from seasickness. Absolute terror of drowning in the briny deep, but that's just part and parcel of existential anxiety. Come from a long line of landlubbers.;)

I have had an early baff and am corresponding to you in a delicious brushed cotton ensemble of pink checked pj troosers and a grey pj jacket covered with cartoon penguins. I am technically a middle aged woman but to look at my nightwear drawer, you'd wonder. Better hope not to have to evacuate the Towers overnight. Although I have a mesh draw-string bag alongside the BOB with my trainers and a Goretex shell jacket in it. And sox.

Alrighty, enough idiocy. Gonna count some soup cans......

..................thought you counted them last week!!!!!!!!! your up to something :cool:

GreyQueen

craigywv wrote: »

..................thought you counted them last week!!!!!!!!! your up to something :cool:

Forty-one, forty-two, forty-three.....did someone want something.........?

Blast. Plus one stray Cream of Chicken lurking among the Cream of Tomato ones. That's the trouble with Basics ranges, you actually have to read the label to check what you have.

I have a lifelong fixation with Cream of Tomato soup and until about 15 years ago, I was a Heinz-only girl. Tried other ranges but..... ick. Then they started to want funny-money for their soups and I decided enough was enough; I wanted a can of mostly water not a share in the steel mill wot made it and the cannery which packed it.

So I digressed into Other Brands. The Cream of Chicken was caused my mater's previous foray into mass-purchasing on my behalf (with my money). Firstly, she was instructed to fetch 20 Cream of Toms from her Sainsbugs to her homestead and thence to my flat-let when she visited. Only she failed to enact on my instructions for over a week and in that time the price leapt from 17p to 24p (boo! hiss!). She also Shopped Without Due Care and Attention and got 8 Cream of Chicken among my tommies. I have been soldiering thru them, thought I'd got the lot but there's one beggar left. Gack.

I'm sure you're glad to know that she was suitably-chastened by this epic fail (not). I was shopping for her on Saturday. From her own list. And it's my fault that I didn't know she needed gravy granules. Honestly, I got the custard creams and the cucumber, what more does a body want?

craigy, I was counting the tins under the bed, just needed to add the newly-arrived tins.

craigywv

lol GQ your great fun............aaaahhhhhhh as you all know i am computer illiterate and i have pressed something now my writing is all bold............i quite like it , its like im shouting. gq whatsyour fav tom soup as i too am a heinz only gal but as you saytoooooooooooooo dear. ............going off this bold writing how do i fix it pls xxxxxxxxxx

craigywv

got it fixed xxx feel like Bill Gates now..........

Popperwell

There is a petition gaining many signatures that IDS tries it for a year but it will never happen and it couldn't because he had a job to do but lets be honest if he did not have access to a car service that job would be difficult if using public transport on cost and its lack of reliability in most cases.

I have one link I so want to post and believe to be true as there is so much detail and it contains so many references but after the furore when twitter named a Lord incorrectly regarding another matter I'll pass on this but I so want to share it:mad:

It is connected to parliament and those who are bringing in these measures...

ETA It appears that 500 names are being added to the petition every minute...

Hardup_Hester

Mar's demon is out of focus? Wow, I just thought my eyes were carp.

BessieBooBoo

mardatha wrote: »

You'd probly all have the vapours if you knew what I read. It's not at all old ladylike .. Paranormal horror, ancient evil, awful curses, and demons.
I always say you canny beat a good demon for cheering you up on a bad day

Hello again Mardatha

Have you read the Dexter series? V. good, also saw the tv series... OH turned a lighter shade of pale (not grey); and was seriously concerned at my viewing habits. Absolutely refused to watch Walking Dead, the most he could stand was Trublood. And even that was too much. Sadly, he can't even watch hospital dramas/real life A&E//CSI etc. Even Buffy was too gory! What can you do?

On the reading front, I have too many gardening books to list, love Geoff Hamilton;

Favourites:

Cooking:

Frugal Food by Delia Smith original 1976
Good Housekeeping picture cookery 1961 ed.
Complete book of home preserving 1981
Dried fruit natural goodness all the year round health giving recipes... by Robert Dark 1982

Alcohol:

First steps in winemaking CJJ Berry n.d. 1970s style
Wine making with canned & dried fruit same author 1968
Home brewed beers and stouts same author 1966
Do it yourself wine and beer making ed. Alison Lowe 1974

Chickens: (would like some, but garden tiny and dog wants to eat them!)

Chicken Keepers handbook by Maria Costantino 2011
Poultry production Bundy & Diggins 1974

Green/ethical:

How to live off-grid Nick Rosen 2007 (he reports on off-grid lifestyles, some interviewees remaining anon.)
Self-reliance; recipe for the new millennium by John Yeoman 1999 (like this as there are a lot of real recipes e.g. for soap, wild food, making your own, etc.)
It's not easy being green by !!!!!! Strawbridge 2006 - (enjoyed this but would have liked more real technical detail on how they actually did it).
The no-nonsense guide to climate change by Dinyar Godrej (2001 - interesting but out of date now)
How to be green by John Button 1989 (lots of ideas by FOE)
The little book of big green ideas/2005/FOE.
The end of oil forget author
Save cash & save the planet

Disaster/survival:

Global warming survival kit....by Brain Clegg 2007 good tips but not detailed inc. where to live (not closer than 2 miles to the coast, away from flood zones, not in extreme south or north i.e. too hot or too cold, common sense I guess!)
Food for free Richard Mabey 1980 interesting, but I'd want a second opinion on mushrooms...
Survival handbook by R Mears 1990
Ray Mears vanishing world a life of bushcraft 2008
Ray Mears bushcraft survival 2005
The SAS survival handbook 1986
Sewage solutions by Nick Grant et al 1996 (centre for alternative technology)

Gardening just some of them!
How to store your garden produce-the key to self-sufficiency by Piers Warren 2010 revised
Square foot gardening by Mel Bartholomew 2005
21st century smallholder by Paul Waddington 2006 (well I can dream....)
Salad leaves for all seasons by Charles Dowding (2008 organic)
The gourmet gardener by Bob Flowerdew (2007 organic - like this lots, wish he was back on gardeners world)
Designing and maintaining your edible landscape naturally by Robert Kourik (1986 permaculture)

Fiction:
War of the worlds HG Wells a classic!
The road by Cormac Macarthy - don't read if you are feeling low!
The day of the triffids - Wyndham, oldie but goodie
Midwich Cuckoos, author?
Survivors but on the telly! And the new one they did which wasn't gory enough!
The death of grass ?
Also,one called 'After The Flood' I think, which was a pandemic set in the future.
Don't go crazy for zombies, see too many of them in RL!

Hope this gives you all an appetite for more! Still want to read Scarrow's books, and all the others you've kindly listed here, thanks folks.

Happy reading

BBB

DawnW

Popperwell wrote: »

There is a petition gaining many signatures that IDS tries it for a year but it will never happen and it couldn't because he had a job to do but lets be honest if he did not have access to a car service that job would be difficult if using public transport on cost and its lack of reliability in most cases.

ETA It appears that 500 names are being added to the petition every minute...

Signed it

I'm a 'taxpayer' as the rhetoric goes. I object to all this vilification of people in my name!

Popperwell

I only found out today that there was a big demo against the Trident defence system and by all accounts most want the money diverted to help the people of our country. Even if a party decided to scrap it the money won't be used anywhere else.

Just not be spent/borrowed in the first place.

maryb

The Long Emergency by James Kunstler. If that doesn't make you a serious prepper, nothing will. Even, or especially, if you don't agree with his politics

Half Gone Jeremy Leggett. May be out of date by now but this was the book that first opened my eyes to peak oil. I was terrified by the implications but the book itself is all total reasonableness - and that was the most frightening thing of all. Ever since then I have seen things through the prism of peak oil - and it has made sense of just about everything that has happened since the middle of the first decade of this century

Reinventing Collapse by Dmitry Orlov. He lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union and can see the signs of when and where it is going to happen again.

I've got Self Reliance by John Yeoman but find it a bit superficial on the practicalities.

John Harrison's books are good - they are more about thrifty living verging on self sufficiency, but very practical