In this current difficult world situation are you thinking of changing how you run your life?

My DD and family came round this afternoon and we talked about’back in the day’.
Mum (97) was telling us (I had heard it all before of course) about the fact that they had a pig in the back garden when the war was on. If you wanted to keep a pig you had to give up your bacon ration and , of course, you had to share it with all and sundry when it was killed.
I think that these days we will survive. At least we don’t need to go to the bottom of the road to go to the loo!
My DGS just kept raising his eyebrows!

There are plenty of calories and protein available cheap for a basic survival diet, shelter, whatever you could find.

That's how many in the third world survive, we see survival today Gaza, we are not going to get to that level of hardship

MOnica: You have missed a trick. Take the Eurostar to Calais and hitch a lift on a dinghy to Kent! All food, heating and other necessities taken care of!!!

What does that mean please? I can't imagine it would be safe for a lone female to hitch hike? Please elucidate.

sixandahalf

*MOnica: You have missed a trick. Take the Eurostar to Calais and hitch a lift on a dinghy to Kent! All food, heating and other necessities taken care of!!!*

What does that mean please? I can't imagine it would be safe for a lone female to hitch hike? Please elucidate.

There’s a clue in the word Dinghy ie on water not the M2 / A2.

Oh excuse my foolishness. I have never heard of the word hitchhiking being applied to a boat.

It still sounds rather unsafe and unwise though.

I think that we're lucky it is this time of year, we have some months coming when we could manage without heating altogether if we needed too.
I also remember the three day week very well as I was working in the City of London then and we had to work every day, but used a camping lantern on the "dark" days. We rather enjoyed going home in the dark, with policemen directing traffic with wands of light at junctions as they do at airports.
We could live without our car pretty well as we're in Greater London, but it would be much tougher for those living without decent public transport.
Many deliveries are made with electric vehicles now, including groceries.

sixandahalf

Oh excuse my foolishness. I have never heard of the word hitchhiking being applied to a boat.

It still sounds rather unsafe and unwise though.

Hundreds of thousands of lone women have come to the uk on the dinghy’s.

So we are in all seriousness suggesting that a poster might enjoy the experience of hitching hiking a ride in a dingy and then all the freebies Kent has on offer?

petra

sixandahalf

Oh excuse my foolishness. I have never heard of the word hitchhiking being applied to a boat.

It still sounds rather unsafe and unwise though.

Hundreds of thousands of lone women have come to the uk on the dinghy’s.

Approximately 196,000 migrants in total crossed the English Channel to the UK in small boats between 2018 and mid-March 2026. The figures are not collected for lone women arrivals, but on average 12% of all small boat arrivals have been female. If you calculate 12% of all arrivals, it does not amount to hundreds of thousands of women, let alone lone women.

sixandahalf

So we are in all seriousness suggesting that a poster might enjoy the experience of hitching hiking a ride in a dingy and then all the freebies Kent has on offer?

Are you serious? 😂

cc

I think that we're lucky it is this time of year, we have some months coming when we could manage without heating altogether if we needed too.
I also remember the three day week very well as I was working in the City of London then and we had to work every day, but used a camping lantern on the "dark" days. We rather enjoyed going home in the dark, with policemen directing traffic with wands of light at junctions as they do at airports.
We could live without our car pretty well as we're in Greater London, but it would be much tougher for those living without decent public transport.
Many deliveries are made with electric vehicles now, including groceries.

Considering the distances they have to travel, it's not the best idea.

Casdon

petra

sixandahalf

Oh excuse my foolishness. I have never heard of the word hitchhiking being applied to a boat.

It still sounds rather unsafe and unwise though.

Hundreds of thousands of lone women have come to the uk on the dinghy’s.

Approximately 196,000 migrants in total crossed the English Channel to the UK in small boats between 2018 and mid-March 2026. The figures are not collected for lone women arrivals, but on average 12% of all small boat arrivals have been female. If you calculate 12% of all arrivals, it does not amount to hundreds of thousands of women, let alone lone women.

Oh dear. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Don’t know where that came from 😂

sixandahalf

So we are in all seriousness suggesting that a poster might enjoy the experience of hitching hiking a ride in a dingy and then all the freebies Kent has on offer?

The remark was tongue in cheek. 🤦🏼‍♀️

These things come along every so often and I used to worry about it but not anymore. Last week our water was cut off for a few hours and that really impacted. A whole town without water. It was nothing to do with any wars just a common or garden fault. My son has OCD and couldn’t have a shower so he was very distressed and in turn I was stressed. We couldn’t flush the loo, have a shower, fill the kettle, it was shocking how much we relied on it. So I won’t be worrying about anything until it affects me directly, there is no point whatsoever.

Deal with things when they happen. Nothing else you can do. You have no power to change or stop anything.
I really cannot understand America supporting Trump.

sixandahalf

Part of me wants to put my fingers in my ears and carry on. Another part of me is afraid.

I'm no gardener unfortunately. I suppose protecting my mental health would be of importance.

Don't be afraid and don't worry, there is absolutely no point. Live your life and do things you enjoy xx

Allira

cc

I think that we're lucky it is this time of year, we have some months coming when we could manage without heating altogether if we needed too.
I also remember the three day week very well as I was working in the City of London then and we had to work every day, but used a camping lantern on the "dark" days. We rather enjoyed going home in the dark, with policemen directing traffic with wands of light at junctions as they do at airports.
We could live without our car pretty well as we're in Greater London, but it would be much tougher for those living without decent public transport.
Many deliveries are made with electric vehicles now, including groceries.

Considering the distances they have to travel, it's not the best idea.

I don't really understand what you are referring to?

cc

Allira

cc

I think that we're lucky it is this time of year, we have some months coming when we could manage without heating altogether if we needed too.
I also remember the three day week very well as I was working in the City of London then and we had to work every day, but used a camping lantern on the "dark" days. We rather enjoyed going home in the dark, with policemen directing traffic with wands of light at junctions as they do at airports.
We could live without our car pretty well as we're in Greater London, but it would be much tougher for those living without decent public transport.
Many deliveries are made with electric vehicles now, including groceries.

Considering the distances they have to travel, it's not the best idea.

I don't really understand what you are referring to?

Many deliveries are made with electric vehicles now, including groceries.

Considering the distances they have to travel, it's not the best idea.

This, cc.

Electric vehicles' deliveries of groceries would not always be a practical option, particularly in rural areas. In particular, although there are a few electric HGVs, transporting goods, particularly from the Continent and distributing it around the country, would be impractical.
Added to which, those doing home deliveries probably could not cover their whole rural area without being recharged.

Added to which, those doing home deliveries probably could not cover their whole rural area without being recharged.

Amazon and other home delivery companies seem to manage, Allira.

Amazon has thousands of vans (upwards of 100,000, some electric) and also some delivery drivers use their own cars.

Waitrose, for example, has about 1,600 delivery vans nationwide, each covering large areas.

icanhandthemback

^Added to which, those doing home deliveries probably could not cover their whole rural area without being recharged.^

Amazon and other home delivery companies seem to manage, Allira.

Amazon and others want happy customers.

Norah

icanhandthemback

Added to which, those doing home deliveries probably could not cover their whole rural area without being recharged.

Amazon and other home delivery companies seem to manage, Allira.

Amazon and others want happy customers.

Amazon and other delivery companies here seem to be make deliveries in private cars more often than not.

My Amazon deliveries are always from a van.It must vary.

Oreo

My Amazon deliveries are always from a van.It must vary.

Agreed. Amazon vans.