Tetanus is nasty and can still kill. The best cures are prevention.
If you haven’t had a jab for over ten years, best to get one now. If you cut yourself on anything rusty, get a booster jab ASAP either from your JP or Accident and Emergency, which is where you go with injuries.
If things go badly wrong, you may not be able to, and the chances of getting cut will be increased. So if you haven’t had one for the last ten years, get one from your JP, and if you get cut and haven’t had one for a while, get a booster jab.
Monday, 31 August 2009
Sunday, 30 August 2009
What medication do you need?
What medication do you and the people you are looking after need?
Even if this is only antihistamines, it’s a serious consideration. Have stocks, packed and ready.
Are there any other things you need to know or consider? If so, what, and about who? List them and ways of dealing with them. Then take steps to minimise the effects of each one.
Even if this is only antihistamines, it’s a serious consideration. Have stocks, packed and ready.
Are there any other things you need to know or consider? If so, what, and about who? List them and ways of dealing with them. Then take steps to minimise the effects of each one.
Do some of your business in a time bank
The financial system is very artificial and it needs everyone to play fairly and sensibly to continue to survive and for you to be able to rely on it.
The current banking crisis showed that being dependent on a system that is so dependent upon good behaviour from everyone else is a bad idea. Like the whole financial system, the banks were interlinked, and when some weren’t sensible, it took many other people and at least one country down with it. Some business people specialise in taking advantage of market conditions to make their money, and they don't mind creating conditions, inevitably on a grand scale, that adversely affect everyone else to do it.
Time banks are similar to the old way of swapping or bartering, but allow you to trade local units of credit, within a local group, rather than only swapping with just one person. That way, you can trade for many services, including professional services such as dentists, and some groups allow you to trade credit for some goods as well, such as homegrown vegetables.
As well as having an alternative way of trading with people around you, there are other benefits.
It gives you a trusted circle of friends that you can call upon, and that's often the most attractive thing about it for most people. You get to know and trust people in your area, which is quite handy when you need people you can rely on to look after your home, plants, cat and so on, when you go away, for example.
Another major advantage is that if you don't have any money, you can still trade, as long as you can put some time in, (although there can be a small initial charge to cover some administrative costs when you join your local time bank.) After helping someone within the group, they write a cheque for the local time bank currency that you've joined, and you can then spend the amount of credit that you've earned within the group. That means that if the economy slows down and people are conserving their money, you don't suddenly find that you can't get any currency to spend, because people have got limited amounts to spend. That's a very big difference.
Time banks are usually called LETS, which stands for Local Area Trading Scheme, and you can often look one up in your area. If there isn't one, you may be able to ask a website supplying their contact details to add you to a list of people who are interested in starting one of the schemes.
For example, in the UK, you can go to www.letslinkuk.net.
Difficult times are a fact of life, and if you want to get through them, you'd do well to invest a little bit of time and do some of your trading through a Time Bank. In addition to being able to carry on during difficult times, you’ll also find yourself with a circle of friends you can trust.
The current banking crisis showed that being dependent on a system that is so dependent upon good behaviour from everyone else is a bad idea. Like the whole financial system, the banks were interlinked, and when some weren’t sensible, it took many other people and at least one country down with it. Some business people specialise in taking advantage of market conditions to make their money, and they don't mind creating conditions, inevitably on a grand scale, that adversely affect everyone else to do it.
Time banks are similar to the old way of swapping or bartering, but allow you to trade local units of credit, within a local group, rather than only swapping with just one person. That way, you can trade for many services, including professional services such as dentists, and some groups allow you to trade credit for some goods as well, such as homegrown vegetables.
As well as having an alternative way of trading with people around you, there are other benefits.
It gives you a trusted circle of friends that you can call upon, and that's often the most attractive thing about it for most people. You get to know and trust people in your area, which is quite handy when you need people you can rely on to look after your home, plants, cat and so on, when you go away, for example.
Another major advantage is that if you don't have any money, you can still trade, as long as you can put some time in, (although there can be a small initial charge to cover some administrative costs when you join your local time bank.) After helping someone within the group, they write a cheque for the local time bank currency that you've joined, and you can then spend the amount of credit that you've earned within the group. That means that if the economy slows down and people are conserving their money, you don't suddenly find that you can't get any currency to spend, because people have got limited amounts to spend. That's a very big difference.
Time banks are usually called LETS, which stands for Local Area Trading Scheme, and you can often look one up in your area. If there isn't one, you may be able to ask a website supplying their contact details to add you to a list of people who are interested in starting one of the schemes.
For example, in the UK, you can go to www.letslinkuk.net.
Difficult times are a fact of life, and if you want to get through them, you'd do well to invest a little bit of time and do some of your trading through a Time Bank. In addition to being able to carry on during difficult times, you’ll also find yourself with a circle of friends you can trust.
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Waterproof poncho
This is one of the best pieces of kit for more than one reason and it's very cheap, fairly small, lightweight and easy to get hold of.
Military waterproof ponchos are used to cover not just you, but your back bag, holding the rain right off it and going a very long way towards keeping the contents dry. It's essential to keep your clothes and kit dry, and it's difficult to do.
They're fantastic for that, but the best thing about these is that the military ones with the metal ringlets at the corners and along the edges allow you to use ropes, preferably with bungy cords, to tie them to bushes and trees and turn them into instant shelters! You need at least one as a ground sheet too, so if the people you are with have all got one, you can make a waterproof camp very quickly indeed. That's why these are one of the best things you can buy, and why it's best to get others you'd be with, to have one as well.
You need to actually assemble your kit, and it's best to get them now, or they'll suddenly sell out. This has happened before with these. The military surplus ones are £10 or £15 in some places, and they're better than the lightweight ones for a number of reasons. They're stronger than the lightweight ones, really not much bigger when they're packed, and around a quarter to a third of the price of lightweight ones in shops like Nomad. The best place to get them in London is Portobello Road Market on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Don’t forget to open it and have a quick check that it’s okay when you buy it.
One of the people who sells them there is ex-British military, really knows his stuff, and can give you good advice about the best things to buy.
Military waterproof ponchos are used to cover not just you, but your back bag, holding the rain right off it and going a very long way towards keeping the contents dry. It's essential to keep your clothes and kit dry, and it's difficult to do.
They're fantastic for that, but the best thing about these is that the military ones with the metal ringlets at the corners and along the edges allow you to use ropes, preferably with bungy cords, to tie them to bushes and trees and turn them into instant shelters! You need at least one as a ground sheet too, so if the people you are with have all got one, you can make a waterproof camp very quickly indeed. That's why these are one of the best things you can buy, and why it's best to get others you'd be with, to have one as well.
You need to actually assemble your kit, and it's best to get them now, or they'll suddenly sell out. This has happened before with these. The military surplus ones are £10 or £15 in some places, and they're better than the lightweight ones for a number of reasons. They're stronger than the lightweight ones, really not much bigger when they're packed, and around a quarter to a third of the price of lightweight ones in shops like Nomad. The best place to get them in London is Portobello Road Market on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Don’t forget to open it and have a quick check that it’s okay when you buy it.
One of the people who sells them there is ex-British military, really knows his stuff, and can give you good advice about the best things to buy.
Monday, 2 March 2009
Introduction
If you've read the post called Common Sense and the Future on the Understanding Prophecies blog, you'll know that there are very good reasons why the weather conditions on Earth go crazy. The effect of this is that things will suddenly go wrong, so that the only way to get through things is to have done a little preparation. That means starting now.
To give you some idea, everyone will be trying to cope, and normal services, including electricity, gas, water, telephone, internet, shops and transport will be disrupted, along with problems that may force the Government to impose a curfew, just to maintain law and order and keep you safe. In fact, in some disaster scenarios, you may be ordered to stay indoors, where you will need certain basic supplies.
It's public knowledge that in the UK, if there is a large scale problem, the telephone system would be switched over to military use under Operation Cobra, because it couldn't cope with the strain anyway. That would take the phone, computer networks, internet, banks, cash points and credit card facilities straight out. Supplies to shops and fuel stations would also be unreliable.
To get through the plethora of problems that would suddenly happen, you need to have done some preparation, including some basic, sensible shopping. This blog aims to give you some pointers so that you can act now, while you can see them, and get what you need.
Hopefully we will be able to have some useful video tutorials here as well, and you are welcome to participate by sharing what you find. To give you a couple of examples, you might find a website or video about making shelters, or lighting fires. Please email useful things to snowball4.practicalities@blogger.com with a short, basic description of what the link is to. Thanks.
To give you some idea, everyone will be trying to cope, and normal services, including electricity, gas, water, telephone, internet, shops and transport will be disrupted, along with problems that may force the Government to impose a curfew, just to maintain law and order and keep you safe. In fact, in some disaster scenarios, you may be ordered to stay indoors, where you will need certain basic supplies.
It's public knowledge that in the UK, if there is a large scale problem, the telephone system would be switched over to military use under Operation Cobra, because it couldn't cope with the strain anyway. That would take the phone, computer networks, internet, banks, cash points and credit card facilities straight out. Supplies to shops and fuel stations would also be unreliable.
To get through the plethora of problems that would suddenly happen, you need to have done some preparation, including some basic, sensible shopping. This blog aims to give you some pointers so that you can act now, while you can see them, and get what you need.
Hopefully we will be able to have some useful video tutorials here as well, and you are welcome to participate by sharing what you find. To give you a couple of examples, you might find a website or video about making shelters, or lighting fires. Please email useful things to snowball4.practicalities@blogger.com with a short, basic description of what the link is to. Thanks.
Useful TV programs
Grow your own drugs
BBC program about using herbs and fruit etc. for their healing qualities
BBC program about using herbs and fruit etc. for their healing qualities
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