Hello from a very lapsed member.

[Kiwififer]

Hi everyone, I joined a good few years back but never really took part, I just casually browsed and stayed away during the lockdowns.

I’m in Edinburgh (not NZ where I used to live) and I’m probably on here for information more than anything else. With the current bourach going on on the Ukraine I thought I would swing by to have a look at what folk are thinking about things. Hope you are all safe and well in what is a crazy world.

[jennyjj01]

Hi everyone, I joined a good few years back but never really took part, I just casually browsed and stayed away during the lockdowns.

I’m in Edinburgh (not NZ where I used to live) and I’m probably on here for information more than anything else. With the current bourach going on on the Ukraine I thought I would swing by to have a look at what folk are thinking about things. Hope you are all safe and well in what is a crazy world.

Hi and welcome back into the light.
Maybe we all feel a little smug, having comfortably survived covid and having been vindicated for being prepared. Prepper doesn't seem to have the same negative connotation compared to say 2019.
And so, as the news is all doom and gloom about Ukraine, I get the feeling we preppers, and indeed all of us, are just a little too calm. We seem to have all the red flags and alarms, and yet we SEEM to be quite chilled. Personally, I'm spooked and feeling this is the time to redouble our prepping. We have a clear and present danger of WW3 kicking off. I wonder if our grandparents were this calm in early 1939? I bet they were.....
But then I'm always spooked. Occasionally compared to my hero, Chicken Little

[Kiwififer]

Hi Jenny, thanks for saying hello.

I can imagine folk calmly getting on with things in 39, the world wasn’t so interconnected and most folk would have struggled to even point to Poland on a map. I suppose the modern world has brought things a lot closer and we are all children of the Cold War so we are probably clued in more these days. It is scary times when everything is added together, all I cam do is try and prepare for eventualities i can see as best I can and if the balloon goes up, crack open the whisky and wait for the end.

I’m off to get a first aid kit tomorrow and have a look at a portable solar charger. If it comes to nothing then at least I have a couple of essentials for future camping trips…

[Yorkshire Andy]

I’m off to get a first aid kit tomorrow and have a look at a portable solar charger. If it comes to nothing then at least I have a couple of essentials for future camping trips…

Hit eBay they sell refill kits. Go for Bsi workplace refill kit over the hse kits more kit than just a box of bandages and plasters. Then Tesco for a tupaware box to keep it in


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373741999334 ... BM8qrbiN5f


For solar charging look into the Anker folding charger or similar beware of cheap stuff that won't work in the UK on a gray day in winter....


viewtopic.php?f=42&t=17797&start=10#p208842

[jennyjj01]

Hi Jenny, thanks for saying hello.

I can imagine folk calmly getting on with things in 39, the world wasn’t so interconnected and most folk would have struggled to even point to Poland on a map. I suppose the modern world has brought things a lot closer and we are all children of the Cold War so we are probably clued in more these days. It is scary times when everything is added together, all I cam do is try and prepare for eventualities i can see as best I can and if the balloon goes up, crack open the whisky and wait for the end.

I’m off to get a first aid kit tomorrow and have a look at a portable solar charger. If it comes to nothing then at least I have a couple of essentials for future camping trips…

I devoted a thread to my quest for a decent first aid kit. Ended up saving a fair bit of money buying a modest kit and supplementing it a bit.
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=17608&p=205502&hil ... ge#p205502

[Smudge]

Welcome back

[Kiwififer]

Thanks for both bits of advice.

I’ve found a BSI first aid replenishment pack online and will just get a Tupperware box to put it in, it should save me a fair bit.

I also found a Soaraise power bank charger on offer on the South American river site, I think I will either go for that one or nip around the camping stores today to see what they have and shop local.

The wife thinks I am mad btw.

[grenfell]

And so, as the news is all doom and gloom about Ukraine, I get the feeling we preppers, and indeed all of us, are just a little too calm. We seem to have all the red flags and alarms, and yet we SEEM to be quite chilled. Personally, I'm spooked and feeling this is the time to redouble our prepping. We have a clear and present danger of WW3 kicking off. I wonder if our grandparents were this calm in early 1939? I bet they were.....

This is probably the wrong thread to discuss this but the comparison with 1939 is an interesting one. I've read a number of "what ifs" , different scenarios as to how it could have played out. Britain and France committed to protecting Poland's borders with no practical way to actually do that. Still they went to war and the result was one country occupied and fought over for over four years , another bombed and hundreds of thousands of deaths. It seems to me that if Russia were to invade most of their objectives could be achieved before a serious response could be formulated and we could be drawn into a much larger shooting match. As I said "what ifs" have asked how things would have played out if Britain and France had not declared war on Germany. Would Hitler's focus have been sorely on his eastern front?

[Arzosah]

Hi and welcome back into the light.

Welcome, kiwififer - I've already said hello on the "What are you doing" thread, never hurts to say it twice

Maybe we all feel a little smug, having comfortably survived covid and having been vindicated for being prepared. Prepper doesn't seem to have the same negative connotation compared to say 2019.
And so, as the news is all doom and gloom about Ukraine, I get the feeling we preppers, and indeed all of us, are just a little too calm. We seem to have all the red flags and alarms, and yet we SEEM to be quite chilled. Personally, I'm spooked and feeling this is the time to redouble our prepping. We have a clear and present danger of WW3 kicking off. I wonder if our grandparents were this calm in early 1939? I bet they were.....

They definitely were! I'm an amateur genealogist, and my grandparents, on a council house estate in Liverpool in 1939, had booked a holiday in a beachside hut in North Wales, and the 3 generations all piled out there, their first ever holiday in rented accommodation; they came home on the Saturday and were evacuated on the Sunday.

[JamesM95]

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