Preparedness for when

pineapple

babyshoes wrote: »

Chuckling at the silly puns.

Surely you mean clucking!

siegemode

Hi everyone,
Been mia for a while but trying to keep up. Lots of pages book marked and ideas jotted down. I've been feeling so stressed and overloaded by whats going on in Europe as well as Worldwide. At times I've felt so angry or overwhelmed that I've withdrawn to lala land and cake making, it's so theraputic, especially the quality tasting

Awhile back plant pot heaters were a topic of discussion. Has anyone tried making them ? Where did you find the stainless steel nuts, bolts and washers ?
We now have a collection of pots which were cheap but the nuts and bolts were expensive. We found it difficult to find long bolts and bought a metre of threaded bar for £10.04, 20 x nuts £8.06 and 40 x washers £8.16. All seems a bit expensive but oh is determined to get these heaters to work. First attempt got warm but didn't really give of heat.
Has anyone else tried this and do you have any tips please ?

pineapple

North Korea is now threatening nuclear strike and military deployments are reportedly being put in place.
Expect North Korean Missile Launch Soon - Business Insider
North Korea Warns Of 'Merciless' Nuclear Strike - Yahoo! News UK
N. Korea says it has final approval for nuclear attack on US — RT News
I do hope this is just a dangerous game of bluff because if they hit US itself, all hell will break loose.
Not sure what we as preppers can do about it apart from make sure we are well stocked in case we need to hunker down.

Shazaaym

daz378 wrote: »

bit of a problem , my dads dog an 11 year old bullmastiff , as not eaten properly since sunday , wont go out for walks and any exertion makes her pant more than usual, work as changed my day off to today, by the time i got to my dads after dinner, to late to take her to rspca and she is being very stubborn and may not have got in the taxi (were we to find friendly taxi) there is an emergency rspca number on their website will give it to my dad. im working 8 straight days after today, so cant really help much more, cant really afford private vet....so worrying days

The RSPCA place in Salford is brilliant...i had a few animals treated there over the years and they were really friendly, explained everything in detail, really looked after their patients and charged a very good price. You used to be able to take dogs on the tram as well if you were going there or the PDSA in Old Trafford, but i'm not sure if that's still the case. Good luck, i hope your girl is OK.

RE the chicken feed thing...surely that rule about not feeding scraps from a kitchen that cooks meat is more for businesses serving their chickens/eggs up to the public? I used to feed my chickens allsorts (not meat obvs!) and it never did them or us any harm. I do miss having chickens...they're proper little characters! And it's good to know exactly what's gone into your eggs and meat and that they've felt the wind in their feathers before going to that great roasting tin in the sky

Had some friends round yesterday and decided to cook us all a big pot of chilli over the fire. Bought a tin of kidney beans, completely forgetting that i already had a couple stashed. So, being a good prepper (dib dib dib) i swapped new for old. Opened the tin, and the lid just sank right to the bottom, not 1 blummin' bean in there, just water! :rotfl: Good job it wasn't the zombie apocalypse, i'd have been mightily cheesed off if my last ever chilli before i got eaten had been short of that key ingredient! So hopefully i'm going to get some vouchers in the post. And they didn't say a thing about it being 6 months out of date

Shazaaym

pineapple wrote: »

North Korea is now threatening nuclear strike and military deployments are reportedly being put in place.
Expect North Korean Missile Launch Soon - Business Insider
North Korea Warns Of 'Merciless' Nuclear Strike - Yahoo! News UK
N. Korea says it has final approval for nuclear attack on US — RT News
I do hope this is just a dangerous game of bluff because if they hit US itself, all hell will break loose.
Not sure what we as preppers can do about it apart from make sure we are well stocked in case we need to hunker down.

I think it is all bluff. It's a strange country isn't it...children getting taught in school that Kim Jong Il was born up a mountain and there was unicorns and comets the moment he was born (or some such nonsense), only showing them winning the Olympics, he managed 11 hole-in-ones in his first ever round of golf...there's loads more. Hopefully the son is just following in his fantasist father's footsteps and is trying to convince the populace that he's powerful enough to wipe America off the map, or in a couple of weeks, that he's actually done it, with badly photoshopped pictures as 'proof'.

VJsmum

pineapple wrote: »

North Korea is now threatening nuclear strike and military deployments are reportedly being put in place.
Expect North Korean Missile Launch Soon - Business Insider
North Korea Warns Of 'Merciless' Nuclear Strike - Yahoo! News UK
N. Korea says it has final approval for nuclear attack on US — RT News
I do hope this is just a dangerous game of bluff because if they hit US itself, all hell will break loose.
Not sure what we as preppers can do about it apart from make sure we are well stocked in case we need to hunker down.

I was supposed to be going to Seoul next week for work :eek: Fortunately it has been postponed until September, for a reason other than the threats from the North but still I am relieved. Seoul is only about an hour from the border.

GreyQueen

:beer: Ohh, before I ferget (or go to work) or ferget to go to work, even.............

Happy Birthday missrlr.

suburbanwifey

pineapple wrote: »

North Korea is now threatening nuclear strike and military deployments are reportedly being put in place.
Expect North Korean Missile Launch Soon - Business Insider
North Korea Warns Of 'Merciless' Nuclear Strike - Yahoo! News UK
N. Korea says it has final approval for nuclear attack on US — RT News
I do hope this is just a dangerous game of bluff because if they hit US itself, all hell will break loose.
Not sure what we as preppers can do about it apart from make sure we are well stocked in case we need to hunker down.

What scares me about all this is the real threat that this could launch World War 3. Any Tom Clancy readers out there? he wrote about a similar strike to the Twin Towers (came true) and he wrote about the Third War with the little yellow men, its all coming scarily true. A genius techno thriller writer all he writes seems to have happened so far.

This seriously could start a world war 3, even though it appears at this point to a lot here that the UK is unaffected by this. At the very least fallout from a nuclear weapon is a real threat to us all here. This all is a very real threat to our lives and safety here in the UK as part of the UN and allies to the USA. If China side with the North Koreans we are stuffed (the Chinese are the little yellow men Clancy wrote about) Scary

suburbanwifey

Shazaaym wrote: »

I think it is all bluff. It's a strange country isn't it...children getting taught in school that Kim Jong Il was born up a mountain and there was unicorns and comets the moment he was born (or some such nonsense), only showing them winning the Olympics, he managed 11 hole-in-ones in his first ever round of golf...there's loads more. Hopefully the son is just following in his fantasist father's footsteps and is trying to convince the populace that he's powerful enough to wipe America off the map, or in a couple of weeks, that he's actually done it, with badly photoshopped pictures as 'proof'.

He's a lunatic dictator madman and they are very dangerous people! They are unpredictable and gung-ho and this wee idiot could very easily go nuclear and hit the US. He wants to. I worry he will. I am not so sure its all bluff, the Russians and the US are getting into position. It would be a nuclear war, that thing we all know would pretty much destroy the world as we know it. All it takes is one idiot and its worrying that it could be him.

dandy-candy

suburbanwifey wrote: »

This seriously could start a world war 3, even though it appears at this point to a lot here that the UK is unaffected by this. At the very least fallout from a nuclear weapon is a real threat to us all here. This all is a very real threat to our lives and safety here in the UK as part of the UN and allies to the USA. If China side with the North Koreans we are stuffed (the Chinese are the little yellow men Clancy wrote about) Scary

China does a lot of trade with the US, I can't see either of them wanting to be without the other however different their politics. Previous wars have involved wanting to extend the aggressors land, I can't see anyone seriously planning on taking over the US or having a hope of succeeding.
I actually worry more about Russia than China. China has a booming economy, they won't want to mess it up. Russia however is becoming more oppressive than it has been in decades.