This ring is dedicated to individuals desiring to recapture the self-reliant sprit of a bygone era and to those wishing to break free from the yoke of dependency.
My waffle below relates to the martial arts but equally applies to prepping and survival. Too many times people sit on their arses watching TV, reading internet forums, basically doing anything other than prepping, and then making excuses as to why they can't actually do the prepping they are reading about. It's been a over a week since ...
Where to start (Pt 2) - Food - As I mentioned in Part 1 this series is a just general guide to the things you need to consider when starting out. Your own particular circumstances and risks really need to be taken into account when planning your preps, don't rely on lists and information you may find on the internet, just use the information as a guide to the type of ...
Where to start (Pt.1) - Often on Prepping and Survival Forums you will come across someone new to the subject asking for advice on where to start - so here are my suggestions for someone completely new. It doesn't have to cost much money at all if you shop around, and in a lot of cases you will already have bits and pieces laying around the house anyway, it is just ...
Well, possibly - but we also need to put things into perspective Watching the News on tv, or reading the newspapers, and viewing websites, you could be forgiven for thinking that we are all doomed to oblivion within the next few months. While the internet and 24 hour rolling news channels are a handy resource they also rehash the sam...
As my blog name implies I am no spring chicken, in fact to use a couple of chess terms I am a lot nearer the end game than I am the opening. The problems this can cause has been highlighted to me recently by a flare up of my wifes arthritis. She gets it bad in her fingers and when it flares up she really struggles to do the simplest of ta...
Before I start this one I better make it clear that I am not any type of fitness freak, unless the fitness freak you are thinking of smokes 30 cigarettes a day and would faint at the very idea of going for a run. I do train martial arts though, and although fitness isn't always a requirement to defend yourself, it certainly helps. Despite my intens...
Well I looked at the site stats this morning and was amazed, where did all the sudden interest in my little ol' blog come from ? Closer inspection of the stats provided the answer - Prepping Forums. It appears that my entry in January reviewing the UK based sites was linked to on some of the forums. Just to let you know that you can comme...
One issue that often confuses people new to prepping and survival is the concept of the various Bags that are mentioned on forums and other sites. There are many abbreviations for the different types of bags (which doesn't help the new guy) so I thought I better list some of them with an explanation of what the initials mean and the general idea b...
One issue that often confuses people new to prepping and survival is the concept of the various Bags that are mentioned on forums and other sites. There are many abbreviations for the different types of bags (which doesn't help the new guy) so I thought I better list some of them with an explanation of what the initials mean and the general idea b...
Where to start (Pt.1) - Often on Prepping and Survival Forums you will come across someone new to the subject asking for advice on where to start - so here are my suggestions for someone completely new. It doesn't have to cost much money at all if you shop around, and in a lot of cases you will already have bits and pieces laying around the house anyway, it is just ...
I was listening to the "Today" program on R4 this morning when they interviewed a Member of Parliment who was part of the Defence Select Comittee. The Comittee is urging the government to "harden" vital parts of the infrastructure that could be affected by EMP from either a Solar Flare or an air burst nuclear explosion. There was nothing...
Someone who recently viewed this blog asked me whether I was a Prepper or a Survivalist. I replied I was both, to which he seemed a tad upset, he also cast doubt as to whether it was actually possible to be both. To my mind the two terms are pretty much interchangeable, at the very worst they are just two sides of the same coin. I think i...
