Grab bags for Brexit.

Further to paddyanns sad post about Skye Chocolate. This is the cake The Apprentice made for a 40th birthday.
How magnificent

Just to point out that I asked for my post to be deleted and it was not against guidelines.

This happens sometimes when the "night staff" are on can this be addressed?

Hetty58
we decided it was a comic
How funny do you think it was that the Dail Mail was responsible for putting the killers of Steven Laurence in prison.

Very true notanan2!

Didnt you learn about "echo chsmbers" in media studies? (Or as is was called when I went to uni: the Beer degree)

I read all media sources. The least useful media sources are the ones you already agree with: you wont learn anything from them they'll only cement your bias.

A 'grab bag' is actually for making a quick exit away from disaster - 'grab and run'.

Shall I start making up the spare beds?

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It is fashionable to criticise the DM however, it is one of the largest selling newspapers in UK, (only the Sun sells more I believe) also it's online version is very popular.

I choose to read several newspapers with different stances on matters. If you restrict yourself to only reading the newspaper which reflects your views you will never get the full picture. Didn't your studies encourage you to explore all viewpoints?

Yes I did! Easily accessible way to read the news.

And I don't give a flying fig (note the good behaviour there) what effin' media studies taught you.

Gonegirl, did you really mean to say:

'The Daily Mail seems ok to me'?

OK for what? In media studies we decided it was a comic, rather than a newspaper. The mail-o-matic site is good for a laugh, though. It combines things mail readers fear or dislike with others that they hold dear to create headlines:

www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/

I woke in the night wondering what to take in an emergency evacuation but this emergency is real as I'm in an area of bush fires.

Brexit grab bag?? Where would we be evacuating to? Not Europe anyway!

[bemused]

I can’t be arsed. I like the excitement of never being prepared!

sorry dont know why that posted twice

dont know about grab bags for Brexit but anyone got sympathy or advice for these people who have had to fold their previously lucrative business?
THE LAST POST

We regret to inform you that Isle of Skye Chocolate has now closed permanently.

For the past 3 years, ever since the UK voted to leave the EU, we have been "on hold" as far as investment in the business is concerned, due to the UK's uncertain economic future. Our raw material prices have increased by around 30% in that time, mainly due to the fall in the value of the pound against the euro. Being outside the EU single market and common customs tariffs will lead to tariffs of between 10% and 20% being imposed on chocolate from the EU (our chocolate comes from Belgium).

No matter what happens in the future regarding brexit, irreparable damage has been done to our small business. We are not a large producer of chocolate like Cadbury's, but operate at the luxury end of the market with the highest quality ingredients. We are unable to run a profitable business in these trying conditions and so have reluctantly taken the decision to close our doors permanently.

We thank all of our customers and suppliers for their loyalty and support over the past few years.

The Apprentice will continue to make her cakes part-time and will continue to post on Skye Celebration Cakes. If you would like to follow her on that page it would give her a wee boost.

Thank you all again.THE LAST POST

We regret to inform you that Isle of Skye Chocolate has now closed permanently.

For the past 3 years, ever since the UK voted to leave the EU, we have been "on hold" as far as investment in the business is concerned, due to the UK's uncertain economic future. Our raw material prices have increased by around 30% in that time, mainly due to the fall in the value of the pound against the euro. Being outside the EU single market and common customs tariffs will lead to tariffs of between 10% and 20% being imposed on chocolate from the EU (our chocolate comes from Belgium).

No matter what happens in the future regarding brexit, irreparable damage has been done to our small business. We are not a large producer of chocolate like Cadbury's, but operate at the luxury end of the market with the highest quality ingredients. We are unable to run a profitable business in these trying conditions and so have reluctantly taken the decision to close our doors permanently.

We thank all of our customers and suppliers for their loyalty and support over the past few years.

The Apprentice will continue to make her cakes part-time and will continue to post on Skye Celebration Cakes. If you would like to follow her on that page it would give her a wee boost.

Thank you all again.

I heard about this on Twitter. I follow Thames Valley Police.

I don't know about that Gagajo. The Daily Mail seems ok to me. Except for all the celeb crap of course.

Gonegirl, perhaps those 'people' should abandon the Daily Hail and read a sensible paper. If you read crap, you'll end up shitting yourself.

Ha ha! A grab bag for Brexit! What a laugh, it's not a holocaust! If I had to? Fags, Lighter, Alcohol, phone and charger, laptop and charger and of course, chocolate & cheese & onion crisps

When are we going to see the ads urging us to DIG FOR VICTORY and YOUR country needs you ……….

Are we to dig underground shelters from the flac from people like me ...a Remainer ……..

Me too MamaCaz! Failing that, me too annehinkley!

I think you only really need a torch. With a torch you can easily find all the things you need in an emergency. If it was a fire then you really shouldn't stop for anything!

Wind-up radio?
I keep hoping that I will wake up in the morning to find that the whole of our current political mess is nothing more than a prank based on wind-up radio, wind-up television, wind-up newspapers and wind-up social media! (or grimace!)

The Millenium - DH and several colleagues spent eighteen months scrutinising every line of every program involved in running the systems that brought an essential utility to the public. They were checking in case one line in tens of thousands might have contained an electronic instruction that didn't take into acount the fact that a second after 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds of the last day of 1999 would be 0 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds of 2000 which would not have been allowed for in a program written some time previously when computers were less powerful and had less storage built into them

Had there been such a line, and had they missed it, the control systems would have failed, the machinery closed down, the distribution stopped dead. There would have been the mother of all power cuts, affecting homes, hospitals, life support systems, factories, schools, transport, traffic lights, airport control towers, you name it. The country would have ground to a halt, production halted, and lives would certainly have been lost.

Are the majority of us still here and unscathed? Yes, we are, because something was done about it. Not in panic, but as a planned exercise in finding and dealing with the possibility of disaster. It wasn't "Project Fear" It was "Look it full in the face and know what you have to deal with"

I agree with Nonnie about the Millennium situation.

Now that I think about it, I might photocopy things like passports and birth certificates, and put the copies in my emergency box. If we did have to leave suddenly (and we do live on a flood plain) it would be much easier to grab them from the box than root about for them.

I have one! Its actually a grab sized folder of essential documents that I keep in a fire/flood proof box. Some documents are harder to replace than others.

I also have a wind up radio for emergencies, and a stock of non perishables

Not specifically for brexit, more likely extreme weather or even just a fire on my street etc