The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

boultdj

40 miles to the seaside, I've not even thought about going and seeing the friends who live in Skeggy as much as I would like to go for a paddle in the sea now my leg's have healed up and it's on my wish list for this year along with swimming again.  It's been heart breaking seeing all the mess people are making and leaving behind.

elaine241

I would absolutely love to go to the sea. I miss it dreadfully having been brought up by the sea and not having chance to dip a toe or take a big lungful of sea air. The nearest beach is probably only about 12 miles away, but I wont go until its safe and allowed. I have the mountains and countryside to keep me sane, plus my veg patch, horses, dog, hens and Ohh I suppose the family! LOL
On a different note is anyone drinking more during this trying time? I have always had a glass of wine most evenings but atm I am downing three bottles a week. Not binge drinking but a couple of glasses a night I find allows me to relax and try and forget about all the problems, hate and violence that seems to be rife across the world . I must admit the sunny weather did not help as I would have a glass sat out in the evening sun reading a book. This colder weather has put pay to that but I still curl up on the sofa with a glass. I can not drink fizzy drinks, hi colour squashes or anything with certain colourants in them as they make me unwell ( that's my excuse and I am sticking to it!! LOL). I am not hitting the hard stuff although I am making some rather nice rhubarb and strawberry vodka for later on in the year!

euronorris

We have had a sun and showers day also. Blustery too. Currently sat in the car outside boots, whilst it rains, awaiting a prescription to be filled. My eyes got much with the hayfever, so had to call gp for reinforcements.

Re extra drinking. There were a couple weeks where our consumption increased, not excessively, but noticeably. It then dipped back down again, and we now have a tipple a couple times a week. We try to ensure at least 4 non alcoholic days a week. But we don't get drunk, iyswim. Either a couple of ciders, or a couple of rhubarb and ginger gins, with slimline tonic. We do have some pims in, ready for the summer evenings again. 

thriftwizard

Same down here; you'll all have seen the news coverage of the incidents at Durdle Door. I know it can't have been easy, being locked down for weeks with possibly no garden or balcony even to escape to, but what possessed people to drive for 2½ hours+ (probably a fair bit more) on a gruellingly-hot day, to a very natural area, with no loos or cafés (ok, there's a refreshment van & a loo in the car park at the top of the cliff, but that's a good 10 minutes scramble straight up a very steep cliff) mostly wearing wildly unsuitable footwear, completely trash it, leave their rubbish behind (including used nappies, sanitary-wear, sleeping bags, clothing etc. and worse) & encourage young men to hurl themselves off a 200ft rock arch into 30ft of water? People have been found camping on crumbling cliff-edges, lighting BBQs & campfires on the tinder-dry heathland & forests & generally behaving like complete idiots & it's been going on since well before the lockdown measures were lightened, albeit more subtly back then. Yet everything I've heard in the Government briefings (yes, I'm the one who actually listens to them - keeping tabs on them) indicates that they are actively encouraging people to travel to the coast, and not doing anything to support the local infrastructure to see that this is achieved as safely as can be.

A number of people round here feel that we're almost deliberately being put in harm's way, to try to hide the fact that the statistics show that the virus is very much more prevalent in areas with high population and high levels of air pollution. Possibly a little paranoid, but - it is a bit bizarre...

pollyanna_26

thriftwizard said:

Same down here; you'll all have seen the news coverage of the incidents at Durdle Door. I know it can't have been easy, being locked down for weeks with possibly no garden or balcony even to escape to, but what possessed people to drive for 2½ hours+ (probably a fair bit more) on a gruellingly-hot day, to a very natural area, with no loos or cafés (ok, there's a refreshment van & a loo in the car park at the top of the cliff, but that's a good 10 minutes scramble straight up a very steep cliff) mostly wearing wildly unsuitable footwear, completely trash it, leave their rubbish behind (including used nappies, sanitary-wear, sleeping bags, clothing etc. and worse) & encourage young men to hurl themselves off a 200ft rock arch into 30ft of water? People have been found camping on crumbling cliff-edges, lighting BBQs & campfires on the tinder-dry heathland & forests & generally behaving like complete idiots & it's been going on since well before the lockdown measures were lightened, albeit more subtly back then. Yet everything I've heard in the Government briefings (yes, I'm the one who actually listens to them - keeping tabs on them) indicates that they are actively encouraging people to travel to the coast, and not doing anything to support the local infrastructure to see that this is achieved as safely as can be.

A number of people round here feel that we're almost deliberately being put in harm's way, to try to hide the fact that the statistics show that the virus is very much more prevalent in areas with high population and high levels of air pollution. Possibly a little paranoid, but - it is a bit bizarre...

People drove a very long way to trash this area. There were Yorkshire taxi cabs that travelled here in convoy, Not the cabs that give up a day to bring disadvantaged or disabled youngsters here in summer for a day at the seaside. Private hire and their passengers free to drink themselves sick and avoid a fine for driving under the influence.

My eldest dd lives in Yorkshire and it's a very long way from here. We had a long chat on the phone last night and she told me either the Times or Guardian did one of their best places to visit features in the last few weeks and this coast was featured . All the various reasons to come here. I'm livid, what planet are the media and the trashers on? That was published prior to the loosening for the Shielded on Monday. My youngest dd has been under Shielding since 13th March has abided by the rules and her most recent phone appt from her GP on Tuesday changed nothing. " Stay indoors until the science and figurea say differntly only then will I tell you you are safe to go out."

I've always been quite a calm person but watching the daily clear as mud waffling. Reading GovUKs constant corrections of what the PM said but what he actually meant Covoid not Cholora and similar beggers beliet. UK Water had to put out a correction. Covoid is not present in the UK water supply.contrary to the PMs statement today.

I swear I'll self combust if someone doesn't get a grip. The present situation is of the couldn't organise the proverbial in a brewery model. I know many who think BJ is very amusing. When things are life and death you don't need to send in the clowns . You need the best most informed minds real medical and clinical science and MPs should vote on the those facts not random mutterings.

Things really are beginning to look like the herd immunity idea, survival of the fittest etc. That should never be a thing in so called civilised society.

There was no sign of social distancing from any of our invaders. They've moved on from that if they ever observed it.Like yourself I found it heartbreaking and I wonder what has happened to decency . From the footage and pictures I saw including wheelchair users and mums with prams being forced onto main roads because driveways were blocked and pavements became impromptu parking areas totally illegal of course but ignored  I can only describe it as feral behaviour. There were many large extended family groups from Grandparents to babies. Just what are those youngsters learning? They'll be the next generation and things will go on into the future in the same way.I find it all deeply sad. In fact to my mind it's child neglect. Little toddlers set adrift in inflatables . More work for the coastguards, lifeboats and at one point air sea rescue.

Apologies for the rant.

pollyx

thriftwizard

I see they've dropped the scientists at the daily briefing after JVT, bless his cotton socks, said firmly that the "advice" to stay at home applied to everyone. Clearly the scientists aren't playing the game properly any more...

pollyanna_26

Such a shame when ones chums don't toe the line TW. Speaking of lines I'm still recovering from the JRM conga lines. I watched that MP sweating and wiping his face while trying to ask a question at PMQs and thought it's either self isolating or hospital for you. If you tried really , really hard you could never make this up.

I was born in the late 1940s. I've lived through many governments , remember Brixton, Toxteth etc and all the many happenings through decades . I've carried placards all the way through to those a few years to Save the NHS. That was ignored as were the warnings a few years ago the NHS was not equipped for a major incident  or pandemic. I never imagined we'd get a pandemic but neither did I imagine myself friends and others around the UK would be sewing scrubs and wash bags while organising funding for masks visors etc..

The only thing that cheers me up is my hair which currently is at least 6 inches longer than normal and is really annoying me could be worse. I look at BJ and the Orange one and think it could be worse and I do own and know how to use a hairbrush.

pollyx

daz378

I start a 7  day  work cycle tomorrow...4 of them days 9 hours....got some shopping  in today....ordered a couple more cotton masks......for when it becomes obligatory   on public transport      but i also use them in supermarket....someone got in the lift with me the other day with a young  girl only about 5 or 6  i was wearing my mask...from the 6th floor....should they have still got in ?...stay safe

GreyQueen

In the past few days, I have heard from some people I am acquainted with who have almost certainly had C-19 in March. One couple, one singleton, no connection between them. None of these people have been tested or appear on any set of statistics, not have they been given professional medical care. One man in his fifties, living alone, had to lie on his floor for 5 days, unable to stand or walk, just about able to crawl to the loo. He had called 111 and they were calling him back every 3 hours. He thought he was going to die. The other man, in a couple, was so breathless that he did not dare go to bed for nights, feeling that if he laid down, he would stop breathing. He also thought he would not live to see the morning.

These are healthy people with no pre-existing conditions.

There is a helluva lot more Covid 19 out there than the statisticians have recorded. Be careful, lovely peeps.

Si_Clist

elaine241 said:

On a different note is anyone drinking more during this trying time?

We're still the same as usual - Lidl gin and Waitrose Essential tonic each twice a week as a treat (total £2.57), plus half a pint each of home brewed beer every now and then at 62p the pint.  Also two batches of elderflower champagne totalling 30 litres made a fortnight ago for drinking during the hot weather that it was almost too late for, at 17p/litre.

Judging by what's been going into the bottle banks of late, most other folk round here must be permanently pished. According to one of the dusties recycling and refuse disposal operatives they're handling 3-4 times the usual amount of empty booze bottles for this time of year, and a lot of that's vodka and whiskey bottles.  How folk can afford it I don't know.  Having said that though, what amuses me is why they're carting their empties to the bins in town when they could put them in their recycling bins at home ...