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That's why im as off grid as i can be..1970 style. They can switch off my electric, but i have a multifuel stove, so heating ,though hard work shifting coal logs and ashes is not too big a deal. I have my little jackery, and a lifesaver cube.. so water and lights have been upgraded to a...

I've never been called a canary before! Tweet tweet. Thank you. :) :)

I agree with some of your points. I think medicine itself has improved massively, it the system that is now at breaking point. When you can't get what you need because of shortages, as my recent aspirin debacle showed for instance. I'm not advocating everyone has a historical approach to...

Go to Turkey or Greece and see how older folk are respected and treated by their families.generaly. obviously a few fall through the cracks as with any society. I think a lot of our modern disregard was instigated and fueled by the workhouse system. Oh they will get scraped up by them so don't...

I think it's the interconnectedness that is the problem.. it will eventually be our downfall, especially as you say, a Carrington event, or a massive security hack. We are realy compromised, but ignore it for the sake of convenience. It's a dangerous disassociation of our brains, fueled by...

Just give me a dog, horse, veg garden and no close crammed in neighbours, a doctor i can get to see when needed, a small town for shopping about 4/5 miles away by bus, and a moped, a good log burner or multifuel stove, and maybe a solid fuel aga. A phone that works in a power cut. A massive...

My great grandma was born in the late 1800s. She saw everything change in her lifetime dieing at 103 yrs old. Things got better and easier for her during her lifetime.. Would you say life is better and easier nowadays than it was 50 yrs ago, let alone 103? We have many things that make life...

I don't know if anyone remembers the post I put up about the fence replacement around our local school. This pathway is used by everyone walking into the town or to school, doctors dentists dog walkers. In the last two weeks we have had two fires along that path, probably by people dropping...

But we have to ask ourselves WHY it no longer exists. It's because attitudes have changed, respect for older people is now passe no longer seen as a good thing, changing demographics, that have changed our towns and cities, schooling that no longer teaches skills , or respect, and push...

Good news, Yesterday, my nice neighbour bought a new hose, as his old one doesn't reach his new hot tub(jammy so and so) he was going to throw the old one away, so I begged it off him. It doesn't reach the top of the garden, but i can fill cans Sad news, my friend with sheep has blue tongue...

I've already got several pounds of blackberries in the freezer, today I managed a carrier bag full of plums. Jam, wine, crumble, plum flapjacks.. it's a busy time of year for foragers!

Definatly! Kids, and some adults need to learn how to do more than type words into a screen, wave a phone over a machine in a shop and press a microwave button. These are the ones who will struggle massively. Also, there is an entitled section of society, who have everything provided for free...

I understand your reasoning, it's a narrow tightrope tho, support for farmers, but increased prices.how long can that be sustained? A friend of mine has sheep. None are going to the ram this year as the grass situation means feed costs are bleeding them dry having to get feed in to replace the...

Get it now..if you can. Prices will get higher as winter and demand grow. Big farmers will take it all if cattle have to be fed due to a bad winter and deep snow conditions, which is perfectly possible due to the el ninio. I always work smart by working a season or so ahead..supermarkets are...

Not only small in number, but size aswell. My shallots that I've just harvested this morning, are little bigger that the ones I planted. Onions are tiny, runner beans are fewest I've ever grown on a tipi. French beans havnt been too bad, had a useful amount for everyday meals, but I've only got...

I used this type of sleeping bag as a kid at guide camps as we didn't have proper ones. Nice and cosy.

Yes, the soil has a problem. Trying to build up my raised beds, I bought some topsoil and stacked it about 3 inches thick. It worked ok in the past, but this year It's just dried out and gone to dust. No worms to be seen. Heavy organic mulching needed for sure, but that will be after...

Temps going up again this week. Last few days, though rather warm ,we've had a breeze, so it's been bearable. Not sure how long this next one will be, but I pray it's short lived. I'm glad to have my gel cooling mat, not easy to walk around with it though , there are no arm holes! :)

My sweetcorn is about 2 feet high and not moving..it's been a disaster this year. I've used net curtains for shading..all i had to hand :( butterflies still managed to get in on my broccoli. I've almost given up. Another 14 apples dropped overnight. I just can't keep up with it all. So I've...

Blanket pins or kilt pins as i call them, cheap enough, make a couple of blankets into a neat sleeping bag. Plus the blankets won't fall off you at night I lay two blankets covering the bottom one by half the second one. Fold blanket that iso on top over in half, fold underneath blanket over...