Preparedness for when

mardatha

I wouldn't pay £14 either but might just pay £7
My son once rented a gorgeous house, a lodge for a big estate near here. It had 1881 carved above the door and tiny beautiful cast iron fireplaces in each bedroom. In the livingroom was a big black cast iron fireplace with a wee box for a kettle to sit on at one side of the fire, and a built-in oven at the other. The oven door was done in highly shiny earthenware brown tiles - like those Brown Betty teapots that you get. Inside the oven were 2 shelves and a wire basket thing at the bottom - I found out that is for drying logs. It was perfect. Smallish fire so didnt take tons of coal, but it heated the water/dried the wood/cooked the dinner/made you tea - all at once! I just bet some smartass yuppy type has "renovated" it and put in ugly storage radiators that go off in the powercuts lol.

prepareathome

I still have open cast iron fireplaces in two of my bedrooms ( third doesn't have one) at moment they have furniture in front of them but keep saying I will reorganise and open them up as I did when we first moved here, used to put candles in them and it was lovely in winter.

meme30

Ok! so I'm driving up the hill and see a man taking 5 brand new 5 Gallon water containers out of his car. All full of water! and loading them onto a sack barrow to take into the house. What does he know that I don't?
I realise I no longer look at these things with the same eyes that I used to!! :rotfl:

D&DD

Great spot on the book thanks very much I'm so pleased somewhere has it cheaper as I know people will really enjoy it :j

Well the tart session has ended now to scoff the fruits of our labour..labour being the right word :rotfl:

We're having whatever plus chips tonight as its been a long day and just watered and picked all the garden stuff so its going to be worse tomorrow!

Hello to all new readers,lurkers and posters its so lovely to see we're helping,zombies and all, thanks for the feedback XXX

P.S Cockneys Vs Zombies is on general release today I'm sooo excited :rotfl:

Longships

Maybe it wasn't water - moonshine?

meme30 wrote: »

Ok! so I'm driving up the hill and see a man taking 5 brand new 5 Gallon water containers out of his car. All full of water! and loading them onto a sack barrow to take into the house. What does he know that I don't?
I realise I no longer look at these things with the same eyes that I used to!! :rotfl:

katieowl_2

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/doomsday-preppers/

A linky some of you might enjoy!

Kate

prepareathome

If you want to get your hand in beating off the zombie invasion a National Trust Property near me is asking

'Are you brave enough to fight through the zombie infestation and reach the Hall? ' Its on 28th and 31st Oct.

So there you go, you can practise.

2tonsils

Hi I have just joined the forum. I have read all your posts with a lot of interest as I have been prepping for a while now. It's a good thing I started early as I live in Greece. Things are tough here and have been for some time (I will bring you all up to date bit by bit). This is going to be a very hard winter for many people here. Some of the people are having to live on 300 euros a month for the whole family and there are going to be further cuts to their money.

I have stocks of food and water and other essentials like fuel and other necessities. Luckily my doctor told me a few months ago to stock up on meds we need and vitamins as there were going to be shortages. In the end we had to pay for our own meds in full (despite paying into the health system here ) and the shortages are just starting.

Luckily I stocked up on most things we will need clothes and food wise for the coming months. Fuel is sorted and we have a huge tank of filtered rain water beneath the house (its as big as a swimming pool). Because we won't be spending much more on buying things it means we can pay all the extra taxes that have been forced on us, even though our income is a Navy pension in the UK and we have already been taxed on it...but that is another story.

I brought a hand luggage bag back from the UK with vitamins and over the counter meds. I declared them all to the customs man on duty....who was only interested in whether I had bottled water or not LOL. I nearly gave my DH a heart attack but I decided honesty was the best policy at the time.

Sorry about the long post, just trying to give you some idea of where I am now. I have good skills, can clean and cook most things, sew, am clued up on nutrition and medicine and can do martial arts and sing well on a karaoke (well, you never know when you might need that one lol).:rotfl:

D&DD

Hiya 2tonsils
I'd be really interested to hear more of your experiences out there theres not much getting out in the news about things here.
Did you retire out there?
At least a preppers mindset will be an invaluable help to you and yours,especially the karaoke :D

prepareathome

Nice to meet you 2 tonsils, love the name, just sorry it has to be on a thread like this.

The singing well you might find you can sing for your supper and save your supplies, for me singing would be a good way of warding off thieves as singing voice I do not have .

Please share how things are in Greece for way things are going it looks like its going to get as bad here in UK.

You reminded me I am on our last vitamins must get more.

Most prep sites advise even 1 multi vitamin + minerals a week with a less than best diet can be enough to stave off some health conditions brought on by lack of vits and minerals.

I love Greece fell in love with it more than any other place I have visited, we stayed and travelled around the north and east never made it to Athens but loved the little churches dotted around the countryside, open all night - quite a few nights I would step into one and sit and enjoy the peace and not even my religion but so welcoming yet I almost felt the old gods were still there as well but more around the villages than at the sacred places like dion and or forget name where the ancient Greeks used to go to give offerings to the gods- you walk along a narrow aquaduct to get there, should be waterfall but when I went it hadn't rained for months, got me now what it is called must check my photos on Facebook as put them there to share with some US friends who want to go but cannot ( did Greek history as third subject in my joint degree as so love the place) and the goats just wandering about the scrub, was hard for those living a traditional life even then.

Sorry you have got me wandering down memory lane.....and its lovely memories.

Take care and keep safe