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by IfInDoubt
Mon Oct 14, 2013 8:35 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week
Replies: 5086
Views: 627792

Re: What Preps are you doing this week

Was going to be splitting the logs from a recently felled tree, but it was drizzling so stayed in and made Sloe Gin (does that count as prepping) (also bought extra propane for the BBQ should the power go out I can still cook in a relative civilised state, and chucked a bit more winter related kit i...
by IfInDoubt
Sat Oct 12, 2013 8:24 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: A moral compass in an TEOTWAWKI Scenario
Replies: 60
Views: 9416

Re: A moral compass in an TEOTWAWKI Scenario

I have a fairly strong sense of right and wrong. That's not to say I don't apply 'situational ethics', because I do. But my sense of right and wrong, and the fact that I have to live with my actions and their consequences, tends to keep me straight. My general attitude is that I'll help anyone I ca...
by IfInDoubt
Sat Oct 12, 2013 7:40 am
Forum: New Members Start Here
Topic: North AND South lurking
Replies: 8
Views: 937

Re: North AND South lurking

:lol: :lol: :lol: I like that post, IfInDoubt :) and actually, there's new stuff for me in there - SIMs for different networks, and a landline type phone for the car, even if you do need to find a jack in point. Good stuff.[/quote] You can pick sim cards up for 99p from most supermarkets, just activ...
by IfInDoubt
Fri Oct 11, 2013 7:36 am
Forum: New Members Start Here
Topic: North AND South lurking
Replies: 8
Views: 937

Re: North AND South lurking

Welcome to the forum! As the others have said, great intro - can I just ask, with having to work so far away regularly, what have you done about communications? If the mobile phone towers went down, for instance? Radios need training, and power, and one thing I've heard of recently is having a sche...
by IfInDoubt
Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:35 pm
Forum: New Members Start Here
Topic: North AND South lurking
Replies: 8
Views: 937

North AND South lurking

Hi all, been a keen lurker on this and other forums for a while so thought I would sign up so I can add my thoughts where applicable but by way of introduction: I have been a ‘prepper’ since very young, probably inspired by Jerry Ahern’s Survivalist series of pulp fiction books back in the early eig...