THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

pineapple

On the subject of global doom, my ex husband's mother was a Pentecostalist and as a dutiful daughter in law I went along to a couple of services. The preacher (or whatever they're called) was a very charasmatic man and made a totally convincing case for the End of Times through conflict in the Middle East. Heck he might be right! But the point is this was decades ago and I could easily have had years of life blighted if I had dwelt on it. So rather than 'Don't sweat the small stuff', I've learnt 'Not to sweat the large stuff'. I have no control over what 2 men with big egos and bad haircuts on the other side of the world do. So for today the most pressing issue has to be which stores are open so I can get my chocolate fix.
Happy Easter! :easter_os

cbrown372

Thats exactly what I thought about the miner's lamp style but to be fair when all electric goes out of a Saturday night at 9.30 you want something that is easy switched on We were out for 5 hours and I left one on until I woke with the power coming back on and it was still very bright. Next day I checked that I have plenty of batteries in the house ready for the next time. I did buy one of those light bulbs powered by solar but I think the cat knocked it off the window sill and its certainly not lighting up any longer!

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Having no control over the actions or inactions of a single one of my fellow human beings I will LIVE my life fully and NOT in fear for as long as I have it. There will be no gloom and doom here and we will still be 'living' and getting the most we can out of the very last second we have, wouldn't have it any other way and am certainly NOT going to be scared by the bullying tactics of any politician/despot/world leader elected/dynastic/or tyrant into doing anything else BUT live life to the full. If they decide on Nucelar Armageddon they won't listen to me saying Oy NOOOO! so I'm not going to be listening to their trumpeting and bleating either!!!

Solar lantern from Ikea 'SOLVINDEN' has a hanging handle, mine lives in full daylight on the window sill and is always fully charged up and ready to go. If I remember rightly it was under £15 and as it's solar needs no fuel or batteries and is fume/emission free so might be better for poorly lungs in a small space. Might be worth considering?

ancientofdays

I can do little about it so there's not much point in panicking. I am mildly concerned about my DS what is off to the States in a few weeks.

I have , I think, worked out that my mystery tool is like a long handled azada but one side us a flat blade and the other has tines. Is quite useful.

Does prepping include easter eggs?

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Solar lantern from Ikea 'SOLVINDEN' has a hanging handle, mine lives in full daylight on the window sill and is always fully charged up and ready to go.

The window sill is where my solar/wind-up radio lives, for the same reason.

Went out looking for newspapers, to take to work with me tomorrow (yep, working Bank Holiday Monday ), but could only find a petrol station open, and they had sold out of everything, bar the Express.

monnagran

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Having no control over the actions or inactions of a single one of my fellow human beings I will LIVE my life fully and NOT in fear for as long as I have it. There will be no gloom and doom here and we will still be 'living' and getting the most we can out of the very last second we have, wouldn't have it any other way and am certainly NOT going to be scared by the bullying tactics of any politician/despot/world leader elected/dynastic/or tyrant into doing anything else BUT live life to the full. If they decide on Nucelar Armageddon they won't listen to me saying Oy NOOOO! so I'm not going to be listening to their trumpeting and bleating either!!!

Solar lantern from Ikea 'SOLVINDEN' has a hanging handle, mine lives in full daylight on the window sill and is always fully charged up and ready to go. If I remember rightly it was under £15 and as it's solar needs no fuel or batteries and is fume/emission free so might be better for poorly lungs in a small space. Might be worth considering?

Lyn, I couldn't agree more.

I don't know if there can be anyone on here as old as me, but if there is another ancient crone is it possible that they remember the "1 in 4," scheme?
This was devised in the fifties and was designed to teach one in every four women how to cope in the event of a nuclear war.
I was a student at the time and my college was one of those selected for the training.
As I remember, it all centred on setting up a ' refuge room'. This had to be a room with no outside walls. Not quite sure how many houses can boast one of these, I've certainly never possessed one.
Anyway, we were taught what we needed to equip this room with to keep our family safe. After all these years most of the details are lost in the mists of time, but I do remember that one of the things we had to do was to boil a kettle on an upturned flowerpot over a candle.
Fortunately I decided pretty quickly that in the event I would take my family out into the garden and wait for the end rather than peg out a miserable existence in this bunker type room until we ran out of food, clean air, water or patience.

Had I taken all this seriously I would have spent the last 60 years nurturing this wretched refuge room and living with doom and despondency, anxiously waiting for the sword of Damocles to fall.
It is one thing to be prudent, quite another to be miserably obsessive about the future.

As the man said, "Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet."

x

Nargleblast

Si_Clist wrote: »

Nargleblast's mention of matey boy in North Korea prompts me to post this ...

Now that is disturbing....what about Trump's hair on KJU's face?

Nargleblast

Reminds me of those "Protect and Survive" public info broadcasts that were doing the rounds in the 70s. I think I remember seeing one on TV, and then there were booklets. Very helpful info as to what to do if you get the notification that nuclear missiles have been launched. If I remember rightly, it involved ripping off your internal doors and constructing a makeshift bunker for your family, utilising those piles of sandbags which we all have lying around just in case....you have to get it built and all your kith and kin inside within four minutes, otherwise you are doomed to die a horrible death from radiation poisoning....actually, on second thoughts I' ll give the emergency DIY a miss and have another cuppa before the lights go out.

ivyleaf

pineapple wrote: »

On the subject of global doom, my ex husband's mother was a Pentecostalist and as a dutiful daughter in law I went along to a couple of services. The preacher (or whatever they're called) was a very charasmatic man and made a totally convincing case for the End of Times through conflict in the Middle East. Heck he might be right! But the point is this was decades ago and I could easily have had years of life blighted if I had dwelt on it. So rather than 'Don't sweat the small stuff', I've learnt 'Not to sweat the large stuff'. I have no control over what 2 men with big egos and bad haircuts on the other side of the world do. So for today the most pressing issue has to be which stores are open so I can get my chocolate fix.
Happy Easter! :easter_os

That's my approach too pineapple.

jk0

Sorry to keep banging on about 9/11 folks, but I thought this video might interest you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvAv-114bwM

This guy used to work at NIST who wrote the 9/11 report. He has finally realised it is a lot of cobblers.