THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

GreyQueen

I'm lucky that my part of the country hasn't had anything to speak of, wild weather wise. It started to rain in the last hour, after louring skies since dawn, but it's fizzled out again. Dunno what will happen over the next few hours but I have decided to spend time on domestic matters and perhaps some sewing.


I did nip out this morning to buy a new bike helmet, a planned purchase, not weather related.


In a crisis, if one has to be outside with debris possibly flying (and one should move heaven, hell and high water to avoid being out in it, of course) a bike lid, if one owns such a thing, might't be a bad idea - motorbike lid would be even better.

DigForVictory

thriftwizard wrote: »

release some more fabric out into the wild...

Sounds a splendid way to describe the activity!

A son has taken up mountain biking & I think I am going to get a but insistent on the proper kit. Including hi vis. After all, this tragedy for two families occurred in France, but avoidable accidents should be avoided! And I also have to get this Tom Lehrer song out of my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfW2tYIn8-Q

I wonder who will change their ways soonest, mountain bikers or hunted species - or if the smart animals will now adopt bike trails as a safer place to hang out?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

River that runs under MIL's cottage (the one she won't allow Himself to stay in) was on the point of overflowing yesterday. Has already gone down, but that's going to be an awful lot of water running off the moor over the next few days.

I wonder if it's already completely ruined her posh holiday with the worry?


Oh well. Maybe the piskies will put sand bags against her doors if she's lucky. Because that's the only protection the property's gonna have.

Karmacat

Morning all! I've been AWOL on the high seas for this last week, and flew home yesterday from the south of Spain - and the whole distance was socked in, with what I've now discovered was the aftereffects of a named storm

:eek: I'm kind of proud of myself for not freaking out about the amount of bad-weather turbulence and cloud especially as when we went out, the landing was very rough, quite a few people screamed, but not me :beer:
I was horrified by the false prepping I saw on the ship I was on Mandatory survival drill - they were checking people's cabin numbers to make sure everyone had turned up while the safety announcements about life jackets were being made. Plenty of people couldn't stand for the 20 minutes of the drill, so there were lots of chairs brought out. Others were in wheelchairs, and lots more were holding onto walker frames. How are all of those people going to get into lifeboats?

I did take a few of my own preps - seatbelt cutter (especially because of the coaches, though that wasn't important some of the time because the seatbelts didn't work ). Compass. Water purification tabs. Windup radio. Plasters. Very, very little.

We give away such a lot of our own power when we go on holiday, 95% of the time. Making a bargain with the devil, I suppose - there's no way I'd ever have had the chance to do that (pootle around the western Mediterranean) under my own steam with preps intact.

I've finished with all the cat-and-rabbit sitting for this year too, so I'm determined to get my house and garden into a state that's worthy of belonging to any sort of prepper.

Loved reading the last few pages about allotments and housing and settlements, thank you all.
xxx

mardatha

FROM THE EXPRESS TODAY: erm. again
Freak changes in the composition of space around the sun are about to drive a chain of meteorological events locking the UK into a savage early Arctic freeze, it has been claimed.

The so-called solar corona has become dotted with holes on its Earth-facing side threatening serious knock-on effects to the flow of the jet stream and the weather this winter.

Temperatures are expected to nosedive towards the end of October bringing ‘substantial snowfall’ across Scotland, northern and central England.

It could herald the start of a four-month Polar assault with snow and sub-zero temperatures threatening to grip the nation until February.

Britain could be facing a worse freeze than that wrought by the Beast from the East which brought swathes of the country to a shivering standstill earlier this year.

Despite forecasts for milder conditions over the next few days forecasters are sounding alarm bells for the mercury to plummet within weeks.

WeatherAction’s Piers Corbyn said: “We are expecting some quite severe snowfall before the end of this month and it will not just be confined to the far north, this could reach parts of the Midlands or even further south.

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Better dig out the thermals then!

mumf

That will be because its Winter then?lol.

GreyQueen

At 6 pm on Saturday, I was pootling around town on my pushbike in shirt sleeves, enjoying lovely sunny warm weather.


Today, circa 5 pm, I was out in the wind and the rain and wishing I'd got gloves on. Such a contrast.


I was also :mad: about %$£!?£$% IDIOT PEOPLE (of both genders and a variety of ages) endangering their lives and mine by playing with their flipping smart phones while walking in traffic. As in, stepping off pavements and into the roadway and damn near having me off the bike and on top of them and the tarmac. Where something with an engine can have a go at turning us both into strawberry jam.



I dunno, it seems that every month brings more and more of these idjeets into contact with me and the amount of near misses I've had just in the past seven days is in double-digits.


Situational awareness? Heck, most people can't see an oncoming car or bicycle because they're too busy tapping, pecking and swiping at their techy toys. Heaven help them if something bad happens because they won't have a clue.


Smart Phones - designed by Clever People, made by Slaves, used by Dumb $**ts.


*rant over* just wish George Carlin was still here, would love to hear the rant he'd come out with about these nitwits.

mardatha

You need a set of air horns on that bike GQ !

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

You need a set of air horns on that bike GQ !

Wouldn't work, pet, they don't give any warning. I can scream like a banshee with a second's warning but these fools are walking along the pavement, travelling in the same direction as me, not the slightest sign that they're even thinking about crossing the road (like being at a regular crossing point) and then they pull a 90 degree turn and step off the road and right into my path! Without looking, then get all shocky/ arrisy because you nearly run into them.


:mad: Grrrr! I guess their parents/guardians/schoolteachers once taught them to look before stepping into an actual ROAD but you'd never think it, from how they behave.


It's not just pushbikes they should worry about, there are electric cars here, including one all-electric minicab fleet.


I think walking and playing with a phone ought to be a whipping offence, frankly.:rotfl: