THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

Freedom of speech is a wonderful democratic right, we don't all have to agree with what is said BUT each and every one of us have the right to say whatever they feel needs to be said. The right words help greatly and consideration for the sensibilities of other readers and posters must always feature in the mix and then there is discussion not dissent.

Feel free to 'clobber' me for anything if anyone wishes to, the information comes from Google and is freely available for anyone to read.

Am I alone in thinking that this poor old 'odd' world has over the past couple of months become even odder in all sorts of places and all sorts of ways? The political aspect of many previously 'reliable' countries has become skewed and inward looking, particularly in the USA where we are coming to expect the totally unexpected, unacceptable and unexplainable from their leaders, the whole of the east is rocky to say the least, N. Korea 'who knows?'. China looks economically strained at the moment, unrest in many other countries and Turkey again 'who knows?' Russia continues to flex muscles and do it's own thing with no predictability and Syria and all that entails from the regime in power to the terrorist Islamic groups seems a law unto itself. Brexit.....the squabble goes on between all politicians, the EU and the rest of Europe and even between the 'United (apparently not so) Kingdom' countries about what they want if/when it happens. We are in political stasis, nothing but turmoil and argument and hard words with no discernible movement forward Oh interesting times indeed!

When is the world, it's leaders and we mere mortals who inhabit it going to actually start to grow towards maturity and stop squabbling over trivialities and start to work all nations together to make it a safe and nurturing place for the coming generations to inhabit? surely that is a bigger, more noble and more worthy path to take than nationalism and war. We all breathe the same air so the climate belongs to all in terms of responsibility for improving it, we all need fresh water and nourishing food to stay alive so surely it's time to acknowledge that 'one size fits all' agricultural policies don't work, we all bleed and die no matter what the cause of wars so is it not time to put aside differences of all kinds and start to work together to heal this broken planet and all the beings on it, make a better future for all instead of threatening the very future of all of us with the aggression of these last few months?

Given the above, I'm going to write a list of changes to make in our lives to hopefully give us a little more security/stability in them going into this uncertain future. We're oldies, less to go than most of you but still wanting the quality of our lives to be as good as we can make it for as long as we have them and vested interest in all our futures because we have family and grandchildren who will have to live on beyond us and who will inherit the results of the actions we do or don't take now.

First and most pressing thing on my list is to find a smaller property closer to family to move to, I'm back up for the grandsons when they're poorly or when parents have commitments that take them away from home. House with a garden is first on the list them, I'll ponder the rest and let you know. What will you do???