The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

prepareathome

pineapple said:

I'm the other way round. I've never thought of having an electric one! You can find excellent manual can openers these days - nothing like the instruments of torture some of us were brought up with.

I still have one of those (well hope I do must check the drawer I keep it in) - still has the sharp lethal point at end.  Many years old but I keep it as it's my true emergency option if now power so my Kenwood Electric Can Opener won't work and the new hand operated ones just wander around the top of the can, or fall to bits (both has happened over the years).    I have watched quite a few You Tube videos of people being creative if they find their can opener, be it power by electric or hand, is broken

Si_Clist

FWIW we've been using the Oxo Good Grips manual tin opener on an almost-daily basis for the last three years and it's still good as new.  It's become so indispensible since I got arthritis in my wristicles that there's now a spare one of 'em in the "better get a spare one while we can" cupboard. This is the one I'm on about: they also do a similar one called the soft-grip, about which I know nothing.

https://www.lakeland.co.uk/11559/OXO-Good-Grips-Soft-Handled-Can-Opener?src=gfeed&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkbuKBhDRARIsAALysV52DXB8dY85R-8gtfzhXwc6pzqldGagvHVX2FoHZgCRUtoF5PwEdncaAgfPEALw_wcB

cbsexec

BBC reported both Wales and Scotland have asked the military for help driving ambulances and in Wales A &E depts reported as being at critical point    

MingVase

Carry on Boris, yer doing grand. If there was ever a time for revolution in this country then this is it. But people are too lazy.

Nargleblast

Well, Ming, you'll never get owt done sat in your chair eating jelly babies and knitting, get the other half to give you a lift to Downing Street on his bike!

Toonie

Si_Clist said:

E again TA - just been reading reliable reports from different parts of the country of up to ten minutes on hold to get through on 999 calls, six hour waits for an ambulance, and horrendous waits just for triage at A&E departments, never mind for treatment.  Is this being reported on the televison, in the newspapers and so on or is it all kept under the radar?

Stay safe, folks.

I've seen reports regarding this on BBC local (London) and national news, especially regarding the waits for an ambulance. DP has lots of friends in the London Ambulance Service and they're all saying the same thing, as A&Es are overrun with people who can't get to see their GP, there is no room for ambulances to hand over patients and so they are sometimes waiting in queues up to 10 just to hand over to A&E staff (let alone then cleaning their ambulance before heading back out). Even if you have the armed forces come into help drive ambulances, there is just no way they can hand over their patients and get back out on the road quickly (and of course now the added joy of ambulances having to hunt down diesel to fill up with).

Floss

I was talking to some parents last week, whose 56hr old baby was having surgery. They had been transferred from Lancaster to Liverpool, because Manchester Children's hospital had a 8-10 hour wait for an ambulance transfer. I was also talking to a neonatal consultant who last month had a very prem baby needing to be transferred to our critical care unit but no ambulance.

jamanda

DD has informed me that Iceland have stopped deliveries in her area due to lack of diesel.
Best be aware if you are depending upon a delivery.

(They are telling people to go and fetch their shop)

MingVase

I'm reading that hauliers are saying things will get worse, so I'm ordering up my xmas stuff now.

jamanda

I'm trying to get most of my Christmas shopping done before they sell out.  If not, I can relax anyway when I've got what I need.

Taking advantage of sales too.