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- Fri May 18, 2012 9:30 pm
- Forum: Homes and Retreats
- Topic: If you live in the south/south East
- Replies: 44
- Views: 7449
Re: If you live in the south/south East
Get your puds on an English heritage/Cadw etc members book that lists all their porperties - these include those massive Iron age forts such as Maiden Castle not just stone keeps and castles. They are huge ,high and can be fortified, with a lot of their original earthworks still intact. Also the nat...
- Wed May 16, 2012 5:36 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: One good reason to prep
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5797
Re: One good reason to prep
Well from a first hand experience but only just started amasing supplies, reducndancey. My OH has just been made redundant so I am glad for that 5kg bag of rice and the 3k bag of pasta in the cupboard. I know I have enough sugar and coffee for the next month and week or two's worth of tinned food no...
- Sat May 12, 2012 9:31 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: From weaner to freezer.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9103
Re: From weaner to freezer.
How exciting! Good luck and thanks for sharing this venture - look forward to following it through the year
- Thu May 10, 2012 7:21 pm
- Forum: Medical and Healthcare
- Topic: Commnity First Response
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2605
Re: Commnity First Response
Something the Bristish Heart foundation are starting to roll out into schools, and which the school I work at has been involved with is the "heart start" programme. It teaches the 10 and 11 years olds and a selection of staff the basic hands only CPR and what to do if somene is having a he...
- Thu May 10, 2012 7:01 pm
- Forum: Homes and Retreats
- Topic: Survivalist?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6466
Re: Survivalist?
It rang true to me,as I always carry a whistle and space blanket when fishing now. I always have one in the car (for accident or breakdown) and one in my hand bag. Going into shock can be a killer. You never know when you will need it. I wish I'd had one when I banged my head in a cave on holiday, ...
- Sat May 05, 2012 11:04 am
- Forum: Homes and Retreats
- Topic: Survivalist?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6466
Re: Survivalist?
most of the traffic is around the coasts, go into the countryside and its empty, i think a lot of the problem is people have to be entertained these days, especially on holiday! very true and couple that this human mentality: But many homeless people don't, they sleep in groups under bridges or in ...
- Sat May 05, 2012 10:45 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Money, money money
- Replies: 128
- Views: 20563
Re: Money, money money
In an ecconomic emergency, having some cash hidden away will be very useful but in a different senario - gobal pandemic for example which is decimating the world population, then cash won't be useful to you until order is re-estblished and then you may find localised coinage springing up. If preppin...
- Sat May 05, 2012 10:35 am
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Planting 2012
- Replies: 86
- Views: 8231
Re: Planting 2012
I got a new allotment patch end of last year so most of the time I have been prepping the soil and weeding as it was just a grassy waste patch to start. How ever now I have got planted lots of spuds and a few row of beetroots and parsnips. Popped in 5 blueberry bushes of diff viarieties and a loneso...
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:07 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: One good reason to prep
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5797
Re: One good reason to prep
Good post - useful angle too when trying to convincve the OHs about the wisdom of prepping, with reference to the fuel strikes and general ecconomic gloom. Thankies
- Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:34 pm
- Forum: New Members Start Here
- Topic: Hello from Florida
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1312
Re: Hello from Florida
Hello and welcome:)