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by grenfell
Fri May 29, 2026 5:01 pm
Forum: Books and Educational Materials
Topic: Archive.org - Survivors(1975) plus other stuff
Replies: 7
Views: 14621

Re: Archive.org - Survivors(1975) plus other stuff

I remember Survivors from when it was first shown ( well at least as much as I can) . I always thought it had a good dollop of realism that seemed to be missing from primarily Hollywood offerings. Except of course like pretty much all of this genre the mountains of rotting bodies is generally ignore...
by grenfell
Thu May 21, 2026 4:55 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 13
Replies: 492
Views: 547617

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 13

Our house is just shy of 100 years old. When I fitted the kitchen we needed a gas safe plumber so thought while he's doing that he may as well put in the new pipework for the sink and so on so that he had a full days work. I'm glad that I did , one thing I'd not thought of is that the original pipew...
by grenfell
Thu May 21, 2026 7:25 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 13
Replies: 492
Views: 547617

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 13

Some years ago I was working on an old fire damaged building. We were told to just cut off the pipework as it was all "dead" . My workmate angle grinded through a pipe and water started coming through. "Carry on" he was told "it's just what is in the pipes" . Of course ...
by grenfell
Wed Apr 29, 2026 5:09 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: "Barefoot" walking shoes / boots
Replies: 10
Views: 1425

Re: "Barefoot" walking shoes / boots

I've no experience of these fancy modern barefoot jobbies but I did do an experiment with soled medieval hose. For those that don't know hose are the medieval equivalent of trousers and are commonly made with an integral foot , like a stocking , and are tied to the doublet with points which are basi...
by grenfell
Tue Apr 28, 2026 6:15 pm
Forum: Books and Educational Materials
Topic: How LLM's like ChatGPT work
Replies: 4
Views: 10755

Re: How LLM's like ChatGPT work

I'll admit I'm a bit of a ludditte when it comes to AI . I do use chatgpt but really as little more than a glorified search engine. My wife uses it for her ebay activities and my daughter uses the paid for version for work and uni. I see quite a bit of AI on social media and some of it is laughably ...
by grenfell
Thu Apr 09, 2026 5:24 pm
Forum: Homes and Retreats
Topic: Shed Security
Replies: 7
Views: 2612

Re: Shed Security

I have in the past been a victim of the light fingered scrotes . My workshop is sturdily built with two padlocks and a mortice lock on the door . The hinges have bolts rather than just screws and there are shutters on the windows and in addition there is cctv . It might depend on what you are trying...
by grenfell
Thu Apr 09, 2026 5:31 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 13
Replies: 492
Views: 547617

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 13

At the other end of that I'm putting in an increase of price with so.e of my customers. So far I'm finding they are all going along with the rises many of which haven't risen for a few years.
by grenfell
Mon Apr 06, 2026 5:49 pm
Forum: Homes and Retreats
Topic: Prepping - Strength in Numbers / Community
Replies: 16
Views: 6862

Re: Prepping - Strength in Numbers / Community

That goes along with the figures I've read. Using that 150 figure and taking the population as 67 million gives us 446,667 groups or thereabouts which seems like a huge number of possible friction points. And I suppose there must be a contra argument that these 67 million are at least working togeth...
by grenfell
Sun Apr 05, 2026 9:06 am
Forum: Welcome
Topic: Fuel jerry can outdoor storage
Replies: 9
Views: 15743

Re: Fuel jerry can outdoor storage

I'm looking to get an outdoor storage solution for a Wavian UN approved 20L fuel (diesel/petrol) jerry can which I should store outdoors. So far a McGuiver approach is to keep the jerry can in a large wheelie bin (which would be insulated) outside. I do not want to store it indoors even in the gara...
by grenfell
Thu Apr 02, 2026 6:01 pm
Forum: Homes and Retreats
Topic: Prepping - Strength in Numbers / Community
Replies: 16
Views: 6862

Re: Prepping - Strength in Numbers / Community

I can't help thinking that the word community has different meanings to different people. I'm sure some of it is fueled by the Hollywood fantasy of a fortified town patrolled by crossbow wielding guards in a scenario where there has been a huge die off but millions of decomposing bodies are largely ...