who are we

[Little Lou]

Another on the elderly side, I'm afraid.

53, professional, with top university degree. Successful media executive who gave it all up to be an independent but struggling writer instead. Possibly the most unlikely looking prepper you'll ever meet. Only been doing it seriously for a year. Married, no children. Love fell-walking, and still think of Cumbria as home.

I'm also a chronic asthmatic - have been since childhood. I'm doing all I can for it - have so far stockpiled 18 months' worth of prescription medicine, have acquired a battery-powered nebuliser, am slowly weaning myself to need fewer and fewer drugs, and have experimented with various herbal and homemade remedies which can be used post SHTF. Even so, I know that if disaster lasts much longer than a year, then my chances of survival are slim.

I still have to try. My husband is not a prepper, but he is infinitely better suited to it than I am. He's relatively fit, and can build or repair just about anything, from brick-laying to plumbing and wiring and computers. My job is to keep my (so far oblivious) husband alive for a year, by which time I hope to get him into some kind of group or community which will value his skills. Everything I do is geared to this end.