When Tyranny comes knocking.

[jumpy]

Some domestic, some not:

Only fill your kettle with as much water as you are going to use - it takes less electricity to boil that water and therefore less money to pay for that electricity.

Switch off lights when you're not in the room.

If your bread is a little bit mouldy, toast it. Bread mould never killed anyone.

Use a microwave to cook with - it costs less than using an electric or gas hob.

Make meals to freeze instead of buying overpriced crap from supermarkets - it's also healthier.

Don't rely on anyone but yourself; because when the time comes, the closeness you feel towards another only serves to emphasize the true gulf between you.

Cotton wool balls soaked in a little bit of Vaseline (petroleum jelly) make good emergency tinder and will take a spark from flint and steel, even when wet and will burn longer than cotton wool on its own.

Keep your knife sharp at all times - a blunt knife is a dangerous knife.

If it feels wrong, then it probably is.

When building a fire, construct a wind-break heat reflector to direct heat back at you eg wattle & daub fence (or whatever). Preferably have your back to something similar too. If no materials are available stack gear/bergens behind you as a wind break.

WATER: without it you'll last 2 days at 48c if you sit in the shade and do nothing. If you have to walk anywhere in 48c you could perhaps cover 25 miles walking at night. During the day, perhaps a little as 5 miles. At 48c with 2L of water, you might last 3 days and travel 35 miles.
Drink 1.5L for every 2 lost.

hah - beware Greeks bearing gifts This thread seemed to change as I was writing this, so perhaps I'm waaay off the mark lol