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Hi Tengu, You’ve probably discovered that you can buy them for £13 each!!! (considerably over length @ 64cm.) A hacksaw will solve that but you’d be cutting off £4.50 from each one. If you can’t find 9.5mm Aluminium pole sections you can probably use carbon fibre ones while you look. 40cm...

Me too Love that ^^^^^^ Do you think they’d ever manage “viande et trois légumes.”

I’ll never be invited but I’d enjoy doing QI as long as Giles Brandreth wasn’t in the studio.

@lou1661 That’s my whole point isn’t it? You don’t know how it will work until you’ve tried it. In the case of my house, my garden and my family: we practiced it, it worked fine and I’m here to prove it. It was also my point above: that it wouldn’t work now for a couple of pensioners and I...

A survival plan isn’t really complete until the potential victims have used it. When my children were still living with us I did throw a mattress out of a bedroom window, climb out into the roof of a bay window and jump down onto it. @Broch ‘s talk of revising plans made me realise that...

I wonder what the production company would do if they all settled down for a month, accepted the difficulties and got on with it as a community. I wonder what they’d do to provoke drama. This isn’t about survival for them; it’s about making something that will sell on commercial TV and attract...

Point North are very approachable and helpful. If you are not sure which fabric you want you can arrange an appointment and go there.

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It just might show us a little of the psychological aspects of survival but not much. All participants know that it will be over in a month. Not the sort of thing that I’ll be watching but the emergence and maintenance of leadership will be interesting. I wonder if democratic survival is possible.

Banging the old drum again :) W3W will get any emergency vehicle to were you are. I have my W3W written next to my house name on the gate and by the front door. If you haven’t got it - get it. (The free version. They are monetising any features beyond the basic.)

Eëëëexacty. What else is prepping for?

@Falstaff Me too :) Mind You it looks much the same as my Trangia meths bottle! @nigelp Neither would I, and that’s my point. With the DM there to do all the alarmist naysaying and populist criticism of everything why do we need to emulate it here on BcUK?

I’ve got a hose reel by the back door. It can reach the cars and some of the back. It can go through the house and reach the front. It leaks but I’ll manage a wet carpet if the thing is needed. I’ve also got 50M of hose that can reach everywhere. I bought it during that severe drought in...

Two questions I think: Who lit it? Who put it out? I cut my front “lawn” once a year so I had a few square yards of half meter high standing hay on Friday. I cut it down and raked it up finishing with the rotor lawnmower to lift as much of the remainder as possible. However there is still a...

Seriously!!!!! It worked. If you choose to ignore a fire alarm or CO alarm that’s up to you. This is just the same. Nine times out of ten it’s the curry that triggered it. It’s the tenth that counts so you check every time. You don’t take the battery out (do you?) Such a brief...

…… I don’t care how many times I received it. The system worked! Next time it might be a toxic gas emission. I’ll keep the channel open thank you.

By refusing to read it you have no idea what you are ignoring. Would you ignore an extreme weather / flood/ tornado warning? You would if you didn’t read it! I maintain - stupid!

Perhaps some feel that it is some sort of Independence/cool to try to frustrate a government safety initiative. I’d call it stupid.

Just an ordinary birch besom works fine. Birch pole with birch twigs. They catch fire sooner or later but they go out with just a knock. You don’t smack the fire; you brush it and pat it. Brush the burning material back into the burned area. A shovel can work if you sort of roll it over the...

That used to be a winter job in the Forestry Commission - making fire beaters. They were sort of heavy weight besoms. Bloody lethal if You hadn’t been trained to use it. We’d tell enthusiastic Boy Scouts to follow an airborne bracken ember. By the time they reached where it landed there...