THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

fuddle

They'll worry about the practicalities when the lucrative caravanning market takes a nose dive. There's talk about electric cars being able to tow but that's got to be uber niche and not one we'll be entering.

thriftwizard

Not entirely sure any of us will be able to afford electricity by then anyway!

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I think (again I will try later today) that you could probably fry/poach an egg on it if you have a small pan

You mean a pan like this?

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Yup! I have a tiny one egg pan very similar to that!

Jazee

I've just cooked my breakfast egg in a pan like that.

GreyQueen

I've got one of those diddly little pans, too. Mine was from Aldee.

Agree that the idea that we will be able to power mass personalised transport via electricity is hokum, bunkum and utter pie-in-the-sky fantasy. They must think we all came down with the last shower of rain.

There is a telling point about cars, even if we could somehow run them on unicorn f@rts; they take up physical SPACE.

In motion, or parked, they occupy space. Space on the roads is at a premium (and building new roads increases traffic, something which has been known for well over fifty years). There is also the parking issue.

We have enormous problems in the UK because our built environment mostly pre-dates the car and the majority of urban and even suburban households have no land for off-road parking. And even those who do have a driveway etc are reliant on people not parking across it and trapping them on it. I know people who have had great distress, when summoned to the deathbed of a dying parent, to find their vehicle trapped in their driveway.:(

Was talking to a London-based coach driver the other month, a fifty-something man who'd been driving the roads of London and the south for decades. I was lamenting about the poor time-keeping. He expressed his opinion that the roads are at maximum capacity now, and that any hiccup, such as planned roadworks or an accident, forces traffic to a near-standstill.

Guy I know, an uneducated man with shedloads of common sense, has long been saying that our generation (50-somethings) are likely to be the last to be able to drive at will. Seems to me that he's bang on the money.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

Mine was from Aldee.

Same here.

thriftwizard

He expressed his opinion that the roads are at maximum capacity now, and that any hiccup, such as planned roadworks or an accident, forces traffic to a near-standstill.

Traffic down here is at a virtual standstill for most of the week now, during the summer holidays. We are virtually holed up here in our little town for 6 weeks as the main routes are town-to-town jams from Friday morning right through to Monday evening, and the roads are closed at night for essential repairs. Last Monday, my mother had a hospital appointment at 11.15 in our county town, 25 miles to the west. From here to hers usually takes me 25-30 minutes, without breaking any speed limits. It took me 1½ hours on Monday; I arrived just as she was stepping into the taxi she'd called in desperation. If I have to travel down west on a Saturday, I go north then take the single-track back roads west, which is all well & good until some bright spark with a sat-nav towing a 25' caravan behind his Mini has the same idea... We're awaiting another urgent scan appointment; I'm crossing all my fingers that it'll be on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.

It's only a couple of years ago that it was only Saturdays that were bad, and only in the summer holidays. But I spotted the first caravan of the year, usually seen in the February half-term, in the first week of January this year... I think a lot more people are holidaying in the UK, and there are a lot more caravans/RVs/campers on the road than before. I can't complain too much, I'm driving what looks like a camper myself - my work van - but it's all becoming a bit of a nightmare now.

mardatha

TW imagine that along with a flood alert or hurricane or something extreme... that would make me feel very insecure. I'm used to empty roads with the odd sheep sunbathing on them!

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Going a touch OT, is anyone else finding the latest newspaper articles, about Charlie Gard, a bit gh0ulish?