Preparedness for when

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Afternoon all, I've been looking after DD1 for a few days, she's been poorly and tired out after the term from hell, with many problems not of her making but apparently her responsibility to sort out and fix!!!!! Teaching is not at all an easy job!!! So I've been general house orderly, shopper, washerwoman, chief cook and stocker of freezers extroadinaire, she has also just got her first kitten so add lion tamer to the CV as well. Had forgotten just what hard work (as well as utter entertainment) little kitties can be, also how many sharp and pointy appendages they have on every part of thier anatomy and I now have very sore fingers, ankles and shoulders and am apparently a climbing frame as well!! He's beautiful though and will make a very fine cat indeed when he's grown up.

I've been following the news re N. Korea as well and never have thought it anything but Sabre Rattling, not to be too worried by it as it would be unlikely to escalate beyond words, despite the picture painted by the media. The powers that really do hold sway in this world would just withdraw all help and support if they did do anything else, so they would gain nothing by further actions. Don't lose sleep over this one, it's just words. It's nice to be home again and I hope you are all well and content, Cheers Lyn xxx.

pineapple

herbily wrote: »

My big fear is low-grade nuclear fall-out - as in, missile despatched by Kim P-P, but blown up in mid-air by someone else, and dust then being carried in higher levels of atmosphere before descending - and it could end up anywhere? I'm old enough to remember Chernobyl, and not being able to drink milk from certain cows, it all had to be poured down the drain because it was radioactive. Maybe I'm being an idiot, and nothing would get to us from that far away. I'd be happy for someone to prove it's impossible.

I was actually out in the rain just before we were advised not to go out in the rain :huh:. As for certain produce being affected, I'm not convinced that the problem wasn't a lot bigger than was acknowledged. But our economy simply couldn't take the hit, if people were told to stay away from everything affected.
I believe Fukushima will lead long term to more cancers worldwide. And recently we have had this
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/study-fukushima-fallout-may-causing-illness-american-babies-165531579.html
Anyhow I have a ton of links on mitigation therapies if anyone is interested. I even got my own potassium iodide supply after Fukushima (been suffering from 'canadian drugstore' spam ever since :rotfl:)

grandma247

Every time him on tv I don't see a grown man, I see a 3 year old brat.

herbily

Glad you're back, Mrs L! And Daz, belated condolences for Teagan - big dogs don't live as long as the littlies, she lived to a ripe old age for a mastiff - but I know that's not much comfort right now.

I've just discovered that if you paint an 8in by 4in patch of iodine on your stomach it has nearly the same effect as taking iodine tablets:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller37.1.html
Off to the chemists in the morning, to see if I can get the kind of iodine you paint on!

Pineapple, any links you have would be most welcome (but not the Canadian spam!)

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VJsmum wrote: »

Shhhhhh - I've heard a whisper

That next weekend is going to be 18 degrees

:j:beer::T

Fahrenheit?

tina_malteser

GreyQueen
My F.I.L was in the Korean War he's 90 this year, somebody he got to know after was captured and from that day to the day he died he never left a plate empty even when he was full up,..some mental impression embedded i think, not knowing when his next meal would be..Also my mother stays in Ireland and has tablets issued years ago incase of sellafield disater:eek:

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Radiation rots zips.

Hence, Chernobyl fallout.

D&DD

GreyQueen wrote: »

I can remember the Chernobyl fallout over eastern Scotland where I was living at the time. Advisories not to go out in the rain and not to drink the milk. And mountain grazed sheep were unsaleable for years, weren't they?

GQ
I snipped this bit out as I'm of an age too to remember this happening quite clearly but it wasn't until I read this recently that I realised just how widespread the problems were http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster_effects

Down the page theres quite a bit about the farming restrictions in the UK.

Well the Cobb was a short lived escapade as my Dad has been taken ill,Mum has had to have the doc home as he took a turn for the worse this afternoon *why does the older generation have such a stiff ruddy lip a refuse to go to the docs*? Cue much panic from me and the boys were lucky to get a bit of slap it on steak and some burgers incase we had to rush off..

So if I suddenly evaporate into the ether you'll know why but for now you're stuck with me

OH gave me Lakeland vouchers for our anniversary *whoop* so will have a meander on there later.

mardatha

I don't think anybody in this forum gets worried, as such. I think we just get interested (aka nosey)

Popperwell

Thanks for that kezlou...now I may have to see if I can get along to Saltburn and if that means spending less time there...

If Redcar has changed that much it defeats the plan unless I go on the beach and take a big towel to sit on...how things change...