October 2008
9 posts
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The Lady from DEFRA
Well, that was a lot easier than I expected.
It turns out that Silverfish knows some people who know some people. Once I’d explained Haven to him, he got me in touch with some of his superiors at the MoD. It seems they’ve been thinking about this sort of thing for a while, but from a military perspective - apparently the boys with guns don’t like the idea of an enemy they...
Haven Needs You!
Ok, so, I guess we need to decide who we need.
Haven has to be fully self-sustaining, like a kibbutz for the catastrophe era, so the community needs members who can get the place running and keep it running.
On the food side, while everyone will be involved in the day to day growing (that’s part of the package - if you want to be part of Haven, you have to be willing to get dirty: weeding,...
This green and pleasant land
To quote a certain Hobbit, well, I’m back.
I decided not to log in while I was visiting the Haven site, because there was too much risk some troublemaker might zero my signal and spoil everything. Better safe than sorry.
And yes, I did just refer to it as the Haven site.
It’s perfect. A little tricky to get to, but that’s sort of the point - we’ll need to set up a...
A Little Trip
Well, that’s sorted, then.
I’m taking a little trip. I told the Mongoose I’d look into the posible location, and I’ve got no more work this week that I can’t do on the move (how the hell did we live before laptops?), so I’m off for a few days.
I’ve got tickets. I’m taking the bullet up as far as I can and then I’ll have to organise a boat....
Safe Haven
Guess what I did at the weekend? That’s right, I talked to the Mongoose. Lots.
We sat up for hours discussing things.
Discussing what it would really be like to set up a new home somewhere away from here. Secluded. Making our own power, growing our own food. A little haven of quietude.
We even talked about building a library there. So if the worst of GEAS’s predictions come true and...
Idle Thoughts
I talked with the Mongoose lots at the weekend. We were have idle thoughts that were almost turning into the seeds of a plan. It’s a sort of extreme plan, but a very appealing one.
A haven.
The whole world starts to fall apart, but we build ourselves a nice little haven with self-sufficient living, clean energy and no reliance on the outside. A little idyll to call home.
I even started...
September 2008
8 posts
Amateur Hysterics
My mother’s been watching the tv news (she still resists taking a leap into the 21st century) and finally heard the GEAS announcements, and then heard that a load of people went off the deep end and decided to make nicey-nicey with trains.
So what does she do? Call to make sure I’m ok. Why, because I might throw myself into traffic? I’m worried but I’m hardly hysterical.
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“Wouldn’t want to be a GEAS employee right now. I mean, surely they could have...”
– Rhizomorphic
I feel an REM song coming on, and it isn't 'Shiny...
God, have you seen the leaked reports from GEAS? I’m not sure if they’re leaked or official, but I can’t believe they’d put out something so… drastic.
I mean, that’s all end of the world type stuff. And it’s likie the world’s suddenly gearing up for the apocolypse. And I’m not talking a Buffy Summers ‘it’s the end of the season so...
My news and chat feeds are going insane about some sort of announcement by GEAS. WTF?
I got distracted from work by lots of waffle on my news streams about the colapse of society. It all seems a bit overdramatic, if you ask me.
Anyway, I have to nip out to the north plot - told bigdamnhero I’d try to get the empty bed turned over this afternoon so we can get sowing.
Scrumpers
Almost forgot, looks like the veg thieves have been back. There’s a hole in the ground where there used to be carrots, and some tatties are gone, too. They’re going for the crops we have lots of, at least, so it could be worse, I guess. Still, I put a lot of hard work into those veg, and didn’t do it just so some sods could come and pinch them!
On my mind
The stuff we talked about last night over dinner has been stuck in my head today. I got some work finished this morning (God, remember the days when people actually commuted to work? I can’t imagine that now - a digital office is so much more practical, and all that time I used to spend travelling I can actually get things done) and then found myself surfing the net and checking out how much...
Food for Thought
We had a bit of a dinner party tonight. Nothing special, just the usual suspects. It was a bit of an event, though, because it’s the first time we’ve made a proper dinner party type meal with all our own produce. Impressive, no?
We’ve come a long way. God, I remember when we first got the allotment. The brambles were over my head and it took a while to clear, and that first year...