What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

[Nurseandy]

Joking aside, I used to work in a spinal unit and the number of people who broke their back when they got up for a pee in the night and fell down the stairs in the dark was frightening. I love the dark but a bit of background lighting doesn't go amiss.

[Arzosah]

For your sister would the local pharmacy / boots offering home delivery be cheaper to get them to deliver the needed OTC meds?

I don't think so - I just checked the website, and standard delivery is £3.75 "delivered within 5 days", free if over £25. Next day £4.95 but not for medicines. And she'd have to navigate a website - she's really unwell, I wouldn't want to put her through that. If I ordered it, I'd be spending a lot of money on her behalf, and that could go wrong *so* easily.

[Frnc]

I've fallen down the stairs a few times. First was attic bedroom ladders when I was a kid. Landed on my thumb. Might have dreamed that. Fall (slipped) down another attic bedroom stairs feet first for definite. Also normal stairs feet first once or twice. And fell off a step stool - headbutted the wall and landed with my foot in a bucket of paint. Some Mothers Do Have 'Em for real.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Well I've hit a bit of a milestone I've now got solar lighting of some form in every room in the house (bar the bathroom due to risk of damp damaging the lamp but I've got a light ready to deploy if needed for now it's going to be in the chicken coup to extend their laying time

There's a set of these in the living room and kitchen..

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0B5Q2 ... asin_title

Each lamp contain 2x 18500 cells and are warm white both on full power together rival the room mains light they've also got various modes such as low then high on detection of motion which is ideal for the kitchen low level lighting till you walk in and it gets brighter .. having two lamps I can use one against the other so on the long nights I can effectively give each light 2 days charge between use flicking between the two lamps and as if by magic I put one on full at 7am and ten to 11 it's just shut itself down ..... In a grid down situation it'll be on low power ...

Then upstairs kids room each have a Philips life light pendant so does the master bedroom and top landing which lights the stairs .. kids room the panel isn't the best oriented but it's charging ....

https://www.homebargains.co.uk/products ... dants.aspx

The wife's convinced I'm scared of the dark

But they will allow us an element of normality in a power cut situation and provide safe reliable lighting no fire risk and even lighting reduces the risks of falls or trips
or rollerskating on Thomas the tank engine and the paw patrol dinosaur vehicle

And offer a small saving on the leccy bill as the kids only think that the light switch only had one position....ON!

If little miss continues I'll be having the fuses out of every appliance she leaves on standby

How have you set the lights up without them looking a mess of wires?

Nothing wrong with being scared of the dark, especially if there's Lego on the floor. Having almost died after surfing down the stairs on a small plastic slice of tomato, I think some form of emergency lighting would be a good idea here.

.we rent so I'm limited I've put some small net curtain hooks Into the plaster board to hook the wire up. If it was my own place the floorboards would have been up and I'd have gone about it a totally different way

[jansman]

Joking aside, I used to work in a spinal unit and the number of people who broke their back when they got up for a pee in the night and fell down the stairs in the dark was frightening. I love the dark but a bit of background lighting doesn't go amiss.

You would have to be bonkers to negotiate stairwells/ landings and steps in the dark. There’s no need.

[Frnc]

Head torch is a no-brainer. I have three. One (Black Diamond, 4 x AAA) is on my bed post, plus a 18650 hand torch is within reach next to my bed. My old Petzl head torch is on the cellar door.
Also got the bike front light and a couple of mini torches, and a tiny Petzl head torch.

[jansman]

Head torch is a no-brainer. I have three. One (Black Diamond, 4 x AAA) is on my bed post, plus a 18650 hand torch is within reach next to my bed. My old Petzl head torch is on the cellar door.
Also got the bike front light and a couple of mini torches, and a tiny Petzl head torch.

I am a big fan of head torches. For outside. For an emergency ,I like the battery powered Eveready ‘approach’ lights. They are great! Upstairs they are good for our elderly dog too,as he is almost blind. The other reason is not for energy cost- saving. It is for the ‘chance’ of energy blackouts. I would sooner that a dark room had an automatic light,rather than fumbling to find one. After the blackout,and everything becomes ‘normal’ THEN we bring in the REAL lights.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Head torch is a no-brainer. I have three. One (Black Diamond, 4 x AAA) is on my bed post, plus a 18650 hand torch is within reach next to my bed. My old Petzl head torch is on the cellar door.
Also got the bike front light and a couple of mini torches, and a tiny Petzl head torch.

Don't get me going on head torches

By my bed in the man draw . There's probably half a dozen ranging from a tiny Nebo jobbie that illuminates the entire garden like day light to a couple of Screwfix rechargeable jobbies to the energiser to the £1.99 ever ready cob lights then the car has my atex hazardous atmosphere peltz industrial jobbie ... I got flamed for suggesting it on a hiking forum.. it's totally waterproof sumbersable to a metre, locks off so won't accidentally turn on when folded it protects the lense and is drop proof with a big knob you can operate wearing gloves ....

Used it once when I got the panic call from sister with a gas leak I used it to navigate her house to get the gas off and open all the windows to vent the place . turns out the leak was before the meter where it enters her house in relative safety it's atex zone 2 /22

https://www.gustharts.com/clothing-ppe- ... aoQAvD_BwE

[jansman]

Head torch is a no-brainer. I have three. One (Black Diamond, 4 x AAA) is on my bed post, plus a 18650 hand torch is within reach next to my bed. My old Petzl head torch is on the cellar door.
Also got the bike front light and a couple of mini torches, and a tiny Petzl head torch.

Don't get me going on head torches

By my bed in the man draw . There's probably half a dozen ranging from a tiny Nebo jobbie that illuminates the entire garden like day light to a couple of Screwfix rechargeable jobbies to the energiser to the £1.99 ever ready cob lights then the car has my atex hazardous atmosphere peltz industrial jobbie ... I got flamed for suggesting it on a hiking forum.. it's totally waterproof sumbersable to a metre, locks off so won't accidentally turn on when folded it protects the lense and is drop proof with a big knob you can operate wearing gloves ....

Used it once when I got the panic call from sister with a gas leak I used it to navigate her house to get the gas off and open all the windows to vent the place . turns out the leak was before the meter where it enters her house in relative safety it's atex zone 2 /22

https://www.gustharts.com/clothing-ppe- ... aoQAvD_BwE

I have a 3 cell maglight by our bed. Not the best torch,but it is light…great cosh though! Ask me why!

[Yorkshire Andy]

I have a 3 cell maglight by our bed. Not the best torch,but it is light…great cosh though! Ask me why!

I've got a 4d by the bed the 6d is a bit too long .. the eBay drop in led upgrade made it more useable as a light

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223459181946 ... R4DJ9oTnYA