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by GeraldTheBonzai
Thu Jul 23, 2026 9:43 am
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Home Solar System
Replies: 108
Views: 247781

Re: Home Solar System

Still think there is a lot of practical stuff that has not been clarified.

Are they saying that you can use plug in regardless of the type of RCD you have?

What happens if you don't have a smart meter?

Are you supposed to inform your house insurer? (not heard anything on this anywhere).
by GeraldTheBonzai
Tue Jul 21, 2026 5:53 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Moving from Prepare to Implement.
Replies: 39
Views: 936

Re: Moving from Prepare to Implement.

Am also thinking about more local comms. Currently looking at some PMR radios but range is not great. Note that Baofeng walkie talkies are able to use PMR frequencies, but not legally because they are a bit too powerful ;) They are cheap as chips. Most actual PMRs are rubbish. I'm going to do my fo...
by GeraldTheBonzai
Tue Jul 21, 2026 11:49 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Moving from Prepare to Implement.
Replies: 39
Views: 936

Re: Moving from Prepare to Implement.

Been giving the heat issue some thought. As per others, we keep curtains / blinds closed, open/close windows as appropriate. During the winter, we let the house cool down, as its not economical to heat the whole place. As such, we heat just enough to prevent damp / mould etc. However, we try to keep...
by GeraldTheBonzai
Mon Jul 20, 2026 3:36 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Moving from Prepare to Implement.
Replies: 39
Views: 936

Re: Moving from Prepare to Implement.

It looks to me as if I need to up my prepping game. I need to: (in no particular order) keep more cash at home This is on my list too, but I'm also going to include small change. We had a recent power cut on our local high street, no problem most of the shops just pulled out a notebook and calculat...
by GeraldTheBonzai
Mon Jul 20, 2026 12:19 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 13
Replies: 611
Views: 646950

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

Started reading up for my foundation level radio license. Been saying i'd do it for years but recent events have made me get on with it.
by GeraldTheBonzai
Mon Jul 20, 2026 12:16 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 13
Replies: 611
Views: 646950

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

Got a bit fed up of Amazon (and others) deliveries. The whole point of Amazon's Subscribe and Save is to get one delivery a month. But now one of the two items scheduled for Thursday is suddenly coming today. Another day wasted. I found out about pickup locations, and there is a counter near me. Bu...
by GeraldTheBonzai
Sun Jul 19, 2026 3:07 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Vintage Singer 201k sewing machine rebuild/rewire
Replies: 15
Views: 343

Re: Vintage Singer 201k sewing machine rebuild/rewire

And we have one serviced sewing machine :D Was very straightforward as we still have the original manual. What I like was that it was designed from the start to be serviced. Accessible oiling point or oil holes. Everything can be got at, easily. Next up, however, is a re wire. That's going to be mor...
by GeraldTheBonzai
Sun Jul 19, 2026 2:53 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Moving from Prepare to Implement.
Replies: 39
Views: 936

Re: Moving from Prepare to Implement.

Big long post coming here - sorry. Will try and work out how to capture things into a single doc.. What I've done is taken the National Risk Register (NRR) and stuffed it into my AI Prepper model. This is a model I have created based on lots of prep relevant documents. For the NRR, I asked the model...
by GeraldTheBonzai
Sat Jul 18, 2026 9:29 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Moving from Prepare to Implement.
Replies: 39
Views: 936

Re: Moving from Prepare to Implement.

But what would I regard as the tipping point? You know what, we probably need to think about what our tipping point is for each of the items in the National Risk Register - and then see if there are any commonalities between the areas. A cyberattack on the water companies might be different from a ...
by GeraldTheBonzai
Sat Jul 18, 2026 4:55 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Moving from Prepare to Implement.
Replies: 39
Views: 936

Re: Moving from Prepare to Implement.

The trigger for me has been that so many triggers are happening at once - I started to list them and decided not to, because by definition it brings in politics in some ways. I think anybody who's bothered to join this forum knows *what* the triggers might be. It's just the numbers of them right no...