What changes can we make to our lives to deal with the economic and energy crises ahead? Have you already started making preparations? Got tips to share?
Potemkin Villager wrote: ↑14 Mar 2022, 22:14
Yep understood. Luckily I first made the move here in the 80s when this property and acre of land was valued at, if you can believe it, about IR£20,000. So although what you are paying seems huge in comparison in the end of the day it is only money which you cannot eat!
The only comparison I am making is with Sussex/Kent. If I wanted a property like that around here I'd be looking at well over £1m.
When you get settled there you must avail of the ferry from Fishguard to to do some research into the edible flora over here.
I have never been to Ireland. Maybe one day. The edible flora are the same as the rest of the British Isles though, with some things missing.
"We fail to mandate economic sanity because our brains are addled by....compassion." (Garrett Hardin)
We have finally exchanged contracts. What a nightmare. The people we are buying off are basically insane (no exaggeration, even their own estate agent agrees), and the people they are buying off were secretly trying to delay the chain from completing until September, because their new build isn't ready and they don't want to move twice. This is regardless of the fact that they agreed to do exactly that back in March. Long story, over now. We're moving to our dream smallholding on the 26th of this month.
"We fail to mandate economic sanity because our brains are addled by....compassion." (Garrett Hardin)
Congratulations.
Hope it all goes well, do feel free to ask if you need any advice on electrical matters, grid supplied of renewable. Or on general doom preps.
Whilst I have some knowledge of building construction and repair, Kenneal is the expert in such matters.
If you have any suspicions about the water supply, DO NOT DRINK IT without formal testing. Use bottled water in the short term until testing can be arranged.
"Installers and owners of emergency diesels must assume that they will have to run for a week or more"
I don't see any reason to worry about the water supply. What should it be tested for?
I don't think it is the water supply that has driven the current owner mad. I suspect she was already mad before she moved there, and is possibly now in the early stage of dementia.
"We fail to mandate economic sanity because our brains are addled by....compassion." (Garrett Hardin)
UndercoverElephant wrote: ↑10 Jul 2022, 12:00
I don't see any reason to worry about the water supply. What should it be tested for?
I don't think it is the water supply that has driven the current owner mad. I suspect she was already mad before she moved there, and is possibly now in the early stage of dementia.
I was thinking of heavy metal contamination, can result in impaired brain function if regularly consumed. If the water supply is private, then accidently or deliberate contamination is possible.
"Installers and owners of emergency diesels must assume that they will have to run for a week or more"
UndercoverElephant wrote: ↑10 Jul 2022, 12:00
I don't see any reason to worry about the water supply. What should it be tested for?
I don't think it is the water supply that has driven the current owner mad. I suspect she was already mad before she moved there, and is possibly now in the early stage of dementia.
I was thinking of heavy metal contamination, can result in impaired brain function if regularly consumed. If the water supply is private, then accidently or deliberate contamination is possible.
It is attached to the mains.
"We fail to mandate economic sanity because our brains are addled by....compassion." (Garrett Hardin)
UndercoverElephant wrote: ↑10 Jul 2022, 12:00
I don't see any reason to worry about the water supply. What should it be tested for?
I don't think it is the water supply that has driven the current owner mad. I suspect she was already mad before she moved there, and is possibly now in the early stage of dementia.
We had a saying in our family. "You don't have to be mad to live here but if you are it helps!"
Is the incoming supply pipe lead or has it been changed to iron or plastic? A lead pipe in an acid soil can cause problems to the pipe and the owner.
Lead water supply pipes are of no concern if the water is hard since the inside of the pipe will become coated hard water scale and will therefore not be in contact with the water.
Soft water is more of a concern since the lead will tend to very slowly dissolve in the water and then be ingested by persons drinking the water. Lead is a long term cumulative danger and there is almost no immediate risk in drinking it. Avoid in the longer term.
If lead water pipes are buried in acidic soil they tend to very slowly dissolve from the outside. This does NOT affect the water quality but will eventually result in the pipe leaking or bursting.
"Installers and owners of emergency diesels must assume that they will have to run for a week or more"
Stumuz2 wrote: ↑11 Jul 2022, 13:55
Croeso i cymru.
Byddwch yn hapus yn eich cartref newydd.
I am never going to be fluent in Welsh. Foreign languages were never a strong point, and my brain is now too old. My 4 year old daughter already speaks more Welsh than I do, and that's just from watching Welsh children's TV.
"We fail to mandate economic sanity because our brains are addled by....compassion." (Garrett Hardin)
My 4 year old daughter already speaks more Welsh than I do, and that's just from watching Welsh children's TV.
My young children starting speaking German about 12 weeks after we moved there.
Decades after returning to the UK, they can still pass as native Germans when they switch languages.
It took me six months to speak 'usable' German, two years to become 'adequate' and six years to be very confident.
