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by Arzosah
Mon May 27, 2024 9:20 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Why I Prep: Hope.... Not The Apocalypse!
Replies: 6
Views: 170

Re: Why I Prep: Hope.... Not The Apocalypse!

Wow. A very impressive post, Oakheart. I'm so glad you got some stability and then got custody of your children, good for you. There's a lot of lessons in this for the zombie warriors ...
by Arzosah
Mon May 27, 2024 9:16 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 370
Views: 24686

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 1

That’s pretty much the *emergency* scenario. All prepped for,so that’s good. In between my builder mates have been here fixing,fettling and sorting the house over little things I would normally have done myself. I’m rather happy that we are pretty tidy and bang up to date,as right now I am spending...
by Arzosah
Sun May 26, 2024 8:00 am
Forum: Homes and Retreats
Topic: Forced into getting a smart meter
Replies: 6
Views: 132

Re: Forced into getting a smart meter

Scottish Power are getting there with me too - they used to just email me, then they called me on the phone, sometimes twice a day - I only answered once, then recognised their number, stopped answering. They never left a message. Now they've emailed saying its at the end of its life - I haven't not...
by Arzosah
Sat May 25, 2024 3:00 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Waste Management
Replies: 19
Views: 530

Re: Waste Management

ForgeCorvus wrote: Sat May 25, 2024 2:45 pm Arzosah: Our local council collect food waste that includes tea bags.
Nice one. I wish mine did.
by Arzosah
Sat May 25, 2024 8:05 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Waste Management
Replies: 19
Views: 530

Re: Waste Management

Great topic! One thing I'm concerned with is fabric - I wear my clothes till they've got holes in, literally, or until the zip breaks (a much loved fleece finally did this over the winter). They're no good to take to the charity shop Welcome to the Raggedy Ann club : ) Thanks :D I missed the commen...
by Arzosah
Fri May 24, 2024 9:12 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 370
Views: 24686

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

I have seeds coming up, finally! And they all seem healthy, not drowned. So now I need to carry on weeding so that I have places to plant them all - though quite a few will decorate the very narrow margin at the front of the house.
by Arzosah
Thu May 16, 2024 12:18 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Waste Management
Replies: 19
Views: 530

Re: Waste Management

... the "garden" which is little more than a dog toilet. They never clean it up and I have to spend ten minutes picking up the shit before I can start. Add to this between three adults and two kids they produce a huge amount of rubbish , there's a general waste bin and three recycling bin...
by Arzosah
Tue May 14, 2024 10:01 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Waste Management
Replies: 19
Views: 530

Re: Waste Management

Great topic! One thing I'm concerned with is fabric - I wear my clothes till they've got holes in, literally, or until the zip breaks (a much loved fleece finally did this over the winter). They're no good to take to the charity shop in the condition I leave them, of course, so I often cut squares o...
by Arzosah
Sun May 12, 2024 8:37 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 370
Views: 24686

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

Personally my wife and I were brought up in houses where the heating was basically that of open coal fires. In between rooms you dressed! If you see films or programmes from the 70’s backwards you tend to see folks actually dressed ! Clothes on their backs. :lol: Yep, my parents didn't get central ...
by Arzosah
Fri May 10, 2024 6:23 pm
Forum: New Members Start Here
Topic: New to UK Prepping - Have some experience elsewhere
Replies: 11
Views: 414

Re: New to UK Prepping - Have some experience elsewhere

Welcome to the forum! That's a great first post. You're absolutely right that prepping in South Africa is really different from the crowded UK. So living in East Anglia is a good start you've made :) I'd be really wary of calling what you're doing "prepping" - I'd advise you to investigate...