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Survival is not just about living

When I think of survival and survival planning I’m thinking to cover two distinct timescales. Planning ahead for what I need.

The first timescale covers simple survival. The aftermath of a disaster or collapse where everything falls apart and you, and your family, are on your own with no shops to buy food, hungry people […]

Knowledge and understanding

One of the many things that cause confusion for inexperienced people is jargon and procedures. Jargon and process are ways for people who are working somewhere make it more difficult for newcomers to come in and take over their jobs. Whole careers are made up with this today and where before anyone could be in […]

BST in place in UK

Just in case you have forgotten or did not know. British Summer Time is now in place in the UK today. That means it is now officially summer and we are now one hour ahead of UTC and GMT.

Adjust your clocks. Especially if you phone the UK first thing in the morning.

Planning for the best and the worst

Years ago when I started looking at survival it looked like it was going to be easy. You just stocked up on food and other stuff and then lived happily ever after even if the situation was not a temporary one and lasted for years. The thought was that we would always get back to […]