another thread on here set me thinking (the they don't understand thread)
just wondered who on here had stories about when modern technology of utilities etc, have failed and the knowledge of skills like bushcraft/ low tech/ traditional craft knowledge have helped.
One story from us is when we went 23 days without running water in the house due to the big freeze of 2010.. (Jan/Feb time last year.)
Everyone around us was amazed that we appeared to just carry on as normal even though we didn't have water coming out of the taps!...
comments like..
Day one.. what you doing for drinking water?
answer.. melting snow, and boiling it.
Next day.. you still melting the snow then..lol?
answer.. no of course not we filled water but's from the burn.
A few days later.. well you have the kids what about baths etc?
Answer.. we got some water from the loch and put an old tin tub in front of the fire.
a week or so in... what you doing about your clothes washing?
answer.. boiled loch water and a hand wash in the sink...
about three weeks in.. (from people with working taps)
Don't know how your coping, we're even out of bread can't get to the shops.
answer.. oh no probs I'll bake you some.
Everybody in the area seems genuinely astonished we could manage just fine without a basic utility. I think the average Jo public nowadays wouldn't be able to.
Anyone else got similar stories?
just wondered who on here had stories about when modern technology of utilities etc, have failed and the knowledge of skills like bushcraft/ low tech/ traditional craft knowledge have helped.
One story from us is when we went 23 days without running water in the house due to the big freeze of 2010.. (Jan/Feb time last year.)
Everyone around us was amazed that we appeared to just carry on as normal even though we didn't have water coming out of the taps!...
comments like..
Day one.. what you doing for drinking water?
answer.. melting snow, and boiling it.
Next day.. you still melting the snow then..lol?
answer.. no of course not we filled water but's from the burn.
A few days later.. well you have the kids what about baths etc?
Answer.. we got some water from the loch and put an old tin tub in front of the fire.
a week or so in... what you doing about your clothes washing?
answer.. boiled loch water and a hand wash in the sink...
about three weeks in.. (from people with working taps)
Don't know how your coping, we're even out of bread can't get to the shops.
answer.. oh no probs I'll bake you some.
Everybody in the area seems genuinely astonished we could manage just fine without a basic utility. I think the average Jo public nowadays wouldn't be able to.
Anyone else got similar stories?