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Tales from the Riverbank – Pt 1

Welcome to some of my memories of experiences living off grid on a narrowboat. I guess that a bit of an introduction to the circumstances and type of boat should come first, then I’ll get down to details of life on board. This will take more than one article, so please be patient as it […]

Storing your preps

As our preps rely on us storing things we need to be pretty sure how we are going to do that correctly. Storing things, anything, is not just sticking it in the loft or in the shed and leaving it until we need it. Storing and preserving them for use requires careful handling.

There are […]

Alcohol in preps

A very versatile liquid and one that I recommend we all have is alcohol. It can be bought now in shops but because of the exorbitant taxes put on it by our puritan government it is very expensive to buy. That state will only get worse until, like tobacco, it’ll mainly be bought from the […]

Gridlock

I was stuck in traffic a few days ago for a couple of hours. I put it down to our H&S obsessed society today. Only 10 years ago you could have a multi car pileup. They would drag the vehicles to the side and we would whiz past at 80mph gawking at the damaged vehicles, […]