A Book Recommendation I have just finished reading 'The End of All Things' by Lissa Bryan, published in January this year. At the time I came across this book I knew nothing of Lissa Bryan and it didn't even register with me until I was some way into the read that this was a book... Continue Reading →
What’s Your Money Worth?
Let's just see if we can work out how much the money in your bank account, if you have one, or a $5 note in your pocket, is worth. Suppose that you take your $5 note from your pocket to the bank and tell them to look after it for you. What would they do... Continue Reading →
New Blog ‘Preparations’ Has Moved
I announced a new blog last week, called 'Preparations' on Blogger. In the first post I used this image >>>>> ...but I didn't take my own advice. While I was writing the first post, the desired structure and purpose of the new blog firmed up in my mind. Unfortunately, it proved impossible to build such... Continue Reading →
New Blog
I have just started a new blog on Blogger called Preparations. The concept is that I will there record my own experience as a 'Prepper' getting ready as far and fast as I can for whatever the future holds in store for us/me, locally, nationally, globally. With a growing awareness of the forces shaping our... Continue Reading →
American Biscuit
I made American Biscuits today. Lovely! I won't include a picture so that you will look at the recipe link below (if interested). Lately I have been reading a lot of American post collapse or post apocalypse fiction. It is easy and cheap to get hold of from Amazon as instant Kindle downloads. I hate... Continue Reading →
As online sales outlets are apt to say, ‘Recommended For You’.
This post is simply to recommend to anyone who has the slightest interest in the weather, climate, eating, personal safety, plans, ambitions and pretty much anything else to do with life in general... this article and its embedded video. This is the best of the best I have seen so far, in terms of... Continue Reading →
Beam Me Outta Here, Scotty!
Breaking News! Everything that I have said previously may now be irrelevant. Things are much worse than I thought. We are now at an Alamo situation. The heating of the Arctic Ocean and consequent loss of sea ice cover (today down to less than 2.23 million km2, a drop of over 83% in last 167... Continue Reading →
There will come soft rains…
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 