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- Wed Mar 02, 2022 9:38 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Mainstream?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 830
Mainstream?
This list for a grab bag comes from the Cheshire Resilience Forum ie a government/ local authority/ Police etc etc website. https://cheshireresilience.org.uk/ It is their recommended contents for a grab bag. The list itself is nothing special. The fact that is sitting on a mainstream official websit...
- Wed Mar 02, 2022 9:31 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9
- Replies: 2108
- Views: 113221
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9
Indirect prep but one that actually alarmed me. I have an older brother who lives in London. He has no prepping inclinations and happily lives in London. We got talking about the current situation and the risks we face. I pointed out his flat was all electirc so if there was a power cut he would not...
- Tue Jan 04, 2022 11:38 pm
- Forum: Radio Communications
- Topic: Prepper radio Schedule ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 951
Re: Prepper radio Schedule ?
Hi.
As others have said please introduce yourself in the new members forum.
I am an M0 licence holder but like most others do do not give my callsign as it would end my anonymity.
Likewise regular networks / skeds are a rarity as again most preppers like to be anonymous.
Regards
Appin
As others have said please introduce yourself in the new members forum.
I am an M0 licence holder but like most others do do not give my callsign as it would end my anonymity.
Likewise regular networks / skeds are a rarity as again most preppers like to be anonymous.
Regards
Appin
- Sat Dec 11, 2021 12:16 pm
- Forum: Medical and Healthcare
- Topic: Will the NHS cope
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1361
Re: Will the NHS cope
Start by defining what you mean by fail or cope. The NHS "fails" all the time by not doing as well as it should. On the other hand to most people fail means stop working. that will not happen. The NHS diverts resources on the basis of what is needed.If Omicron stresses the system non urgen...
- Tue Jul 27, 2021 3:13 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 8.
- Replies: 984
- Views: 100496
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 8.
Sorry to hear you are having such a rotten time. Best wishes to both of you. The pulse oximeter is interesting. They are now much cheaper. Boots currrently carry one for £20. When my brother in law who lives nearly 40 miles away got sicj with COVID he got his own pulse ox as a way of watching for de...
- Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:31 pm
- Forum: Medical and Healthcare
- Topic: Novel use of a crisp packet!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1126
Re: Novel use of a crisp packet!
If you can find a copy his book "The Red and Green Life Machine" is an interesting and easy read. If anything it is a book about leadership as much as history. He had to get two groups who had a long standing and bitter rivalry to work as a team. Red - Paras Green = Royal Marines. He was M...
- Wed Jul 21, 2021 9:46 pm
- Forum: Medical and Healthcare
- Topic: Novel use of a crisp packet!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1126
Re: Novel use of a crisp packet!
The problem over sucking wounds is odd. The lung is held to the chest wall by suction. The "space"between the lung and chest wall is filled with a tiny amount of fluid and effectively does not exist. If air leaks from the lung either due to trauma / stab wound / bullet wound etc or a spont...
- Mon Jun 28, 2021 8:41 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
- Replies: 678
- Views: 39924
Advice for a hopeless gardener
OK. One of my big weaknesses is gardening. I am hopeless. I can even kill mint. So suggestions please. Be gentle. How can I educate and improve. I have a typical modern garden ie smallish. Full sun on the back of the house I have some container grown herbs. Attempts at container based strawberries p...
- Thu May 13, 2021 3:56 pm
- Forum: Medical and Healthcare
- Topic: Who's getting the vaccine
- Replies: 106
- Views: 14827
Re: Who's getting the vaccine
Had my second (Pfizer) 10 days ago and felt knackered for days. Also my diabetes control went haywire.
Eldest son gets second tomorrow and Mrs Appin getting her second on Saturday. If she feels bad it wil be my fault.
Eldest son gets second tomorrow and Mrs Appin getting her second on Saturday. If she feels bad it wil be my fault.
- Sat May 01, 2021 11:11 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Geiger Counters & Dosimeters
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1892
Re: Geiger Counters & Dosimeters
Hi I agree you need to think about what you want the geiger counter / dosimeter to tell you and what budget you have. For the first you need some knowledge of dosimetry. Normal background radiation gives a dose of approx 2,700 microsieverts per year in the UK. That's 0.3 microsieverts per hour. Also...