THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

GreyQueen

DigForVictory, I've often admired the simple slingshot as a practical idea with minimal effort to make but much practise to achieve mastery. Would be an ideal thing to have in a pinch if you needed to knock over a birdie or a bunny for the pot.

Hmm, for ammo, how about carrying one of those little mesh bags of toyshop marbles in your bag? Anyone asks, they're a pressie for the kids/ grandkids/nephews/ pal's kids, delete as applicable according to your age.

Plus it gives you the not-to-be-missed opportunity, if found in a bag search, to quoth: Ooooo! I thought I'd lost my marbles!! :rotfl:

I've often thought of the irrationality of airport searches where they confiscate manicure implements but let you take the makings of garottes - or bootlaces as we call 'em in these here parts - aboard. I'm about to replace a pair of bootlaces with paracord, an old army trick, apparently, see if the break again, huh.

guineapiglet

On BBC news

Global ransomware attack causes chaos - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40416611

Found this bit very scary
Chernobyl nuclear power plant have to manually check radiation levels as it's knocked out the windows controlled sensors

(Going back to lurking now)

GreyQueen

This may be of interest to some of us here: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/site-map.html

I've just been reading about traditional Chinese wheelbarrows. I've given considerable thought to the intermittant need I have to shift loads which are not easily shifted on a pushbike or on my back/ in my own two hands.

We car-free people have to get creative sometimes. :cool:

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Before anyone clicks the link in mrsmortenharket's post, I'd just like to remind those FMs who don't have one, that BBC I-Player requires a licence, even for catch-up programmes.

GreyQueen

S'OK, I remembered and wasn't going to click anyway, depsite being potentially interested.

Just realised that it's 20 years ago this month since I gave up my car and 30 years ago this month that I gave up TV. As in physically gave the item away and never bothered with another one.

And you know what? I don't miss either of them on a regular basis, just miss not having wheels occasionally, but I can always hire something like the van I hired earlier this month do to some running-around in.

greenbee

guineapiglet wrote: »

On BBC news

Global ransomware attack causes chaos - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40416611

Found this bit very scary
Chernobyl nuclear power plant have to manually check radiation levels as it's knocked out the windows controlled sensors

(Going back to lurking now)

https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-data-protection/protect-petya-ransomware/#.WVKTScussZU.linkedin

Don't panic..

moneyistooshorttomention

Hackers - yep....and I went to one of my links to check something on it out yesterday. The Fife Diet (ie about local eating in the area - complete with recipes). It's a bit of a "historic" website now - but....up pops up an odd "Anonymous" group type photo and comment by the hacker saying that they're a hacker group and they've hacked it. Cue for my p.c. starting to make odd noises at me - and I switched it off pronto.

Why would anyone even think of hacking an ordinary innocuous little website like that? Do they do that as a "test run" for hacking an "important" website?

greenbee

More info on how to protect yourself from the current ransomware attack

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40427907

thriftwizard

Thanks for the link, GQ; haven't visited Low-Tech mag for a while. I love the article on fermentation, it's one of the bees in my particular bonnet! Off to start another batch of kimchi and feed my sourdough starter right now, before trotting cross-county to do my mother's totally-hygenic & shrink-wrapped shopping.

thriftwizard

Oooer, I seem to have taken my eye off the ball somewhat... There's a very vague possibility that we may move sometime in the not-too-distant future. To that end I've been sorting & cleaning, with some professional help, odd corners of the house like the "Armageddon Cupboard" and I'm horrified to say that if the last time I checked, everything was still in date, then the last time I checked (and cleaned in there) must have been 2014...

I know I've been somewhat busy, not to say snowed under, what with elderly parents, a small business to run and a "different" young person who is still very much finding her feet. And some things will of course be fine - I've put the dried Mung beans into a sprouting jar & soaked them and there are signs of life a-plenty already - but others, not so. A binbag of stuff has already gone to the Tip and there'll be more to go yet. There's also the fact that the household has been steadily dwindling, and tastes have changed; one girl is pescatarian, the other "minimal meat" so the 5 tins of slightly-out-of-date corned beef will last us a long time yet!

So, though I'm sure most of you are much more organised & on-the-ball about rotating stocks than I have been, here's a little reminder that it's very easy to let the discipline drift when you're busy. I'd hate to be caught out if an Icelandic volcano should blow his or her top bigtime & bring supermarket transport to a halt and all I'd got to feed us is a tin of pilchards & a packet of pasta that went out of date in 2014...