Envisaged Power Cuts

[BigC]

you are such a tease

What!.... What's wrong with a bit o forward planning.
Back in the seventies when we had the big strikes over here Candles were a life saver.
I don't know how we'd go on today as everyone had an open fire back then and there for able to cook.
EEE when I was a Lad!
Regards
C

 

[seffieuk]

you are such a tease

What!.... What's wrong with a bit o forward planning.
Back in the seventies when we had the big strikes over here Candles were a life saver.
I don't know how we'd go on today as everyone had an open fire back then and there for able to cook.
EEE when I was a Lad!
Regards
C

Nothing wrong with forward planning Colin, was just thinking you have to be a of a 'certain age' to remember that far back

Luckily we still have an open fire, but wasn't it awful walking home in the pitch black, no street lights, no house lights...........ekky thump, those were the days, the stink of parafin heaters and hurrican lamps blazing away everywhere, by heck they don't know they are born these days

Seffie x

 

[BigC]

Ah yeah I forgot about that Paraffin heater my folks used to have. If the wick wasn't cleaned regularly the whole house used to stink.
Infact I used it to heat my first fish-house.
It was a monster of a thing with a huge glass reservoir bottle you had to turn upside down to feed the thing. Not like the small green house heaters of today.
Doom....Dooom.....The end of the world is nigh....
ATB
C

 

[keenonfish]

You would think they were grateful to have jobs at all in the current climate! I feel another winter of discontent is just over the horizon

well, that's at an interesting comment! The point these workers are trying to make is that foreign labour, which is cheaper, is being used instead of the local labour force. They are trying to save jobs yes their action is illegal, wild cat strikes have been illegal for some years, but have you never felt so strongly about something that you be willing to cross the line (and I don't mean a picket line)? Foreign companies like TOTAL set up Business' here in Britian and then bring in cheap labour from abroad and yes before anyone says it, we are in a Common market place in Europe but in an economic crisis who can blame the workers at TOTAL for wanting local jobs for local people - I would say, 'up the workers'

but yes, I am concerned about power cuts BigC you only have to look back a short way in to our history to see what can happen in an economic crisis

Seffie x

Well I feel I would like to defend my position, however I suspect the thread would go off topic and end up like a similar thread deleted recently so I will bite my tongue and let bygones be bygones.

I will say things are NEVER as simple as they look on the surface and there are no easy solutions to these problems.

Olly.

 

[seffieuk]

I will say things are NEVER as simple as they look on the surface and there are no easy solutions to these problems.

Olly.

Well Olly, I certainly agree with that sentiment

Seffie x

 

[TigerIssey]

Blimey

I go away to Turkey for two weeks (deliberately avoid newspapers and the News I may add) and come back to this. By the amount of posts I have read today it feels I have been away months!!

To aid on your trip of remembrance Big C and Seffie, I have 2 woodvburners with back boilers so we will have heat (hot water relies on pump though), in addition we have LPG gas hob in kitchen so do have potential to boil water and we have the generator. I need the other half to sort this out so that I can just plug into it in daytime (at night he can do it).

I also have candle sconces on the walls so I have light in a powercut too. I am way to organised for this me thinks.

 

[kj23502]

Wow sounds like crazy stuff. Although I love to discuss politics and economics, I'm afraid it will get me into trouble on the board

**besides I don't very much about british politics

'Poly' meaning many and 'ticks' meaning blood-sucking parasites.

Sounds about right for some of our leaders

 

[OscarWilde]

Err Reality Check. If things get so bad that we have prolonged blackouts I expect we will have bigger worries our pet fish.