Realisation

[Pete Grey]

Thanks guys i’m glad to know us oldies are all of the same opinions on “the sly sneaky bastard”.

Thankfully with age comes wisdom. We’ve all been through the uncertainty of the cold war and the cuban crisis, when we first started to keep a little extra food, water sterilising tablets, candles etc, after all our parents went through WW2 and had told us what we would need to stock up on.

Then after the breakup of the soviet bloc and the fall of the Berlin wall we became a little complacent, and let things slide.

In the UK we are lucky with our weather, no hurricanes, tsunamis bringing devastation, 2 or 3 bad storms each winter, some severe flooding but not normally much loss of life thank goodness, so we have never had to prepare for bad weather on a large scale.

Now with terrorism, civil war in the middle east, military buildup in Russia and China the old threats are back.

So over last 10 or 12 years we’ve been increasing our preps, it’s helped us be thrifty during the financial crisis, we bought things that last instead of just “fashionable”.

We’ve been more security conscious as crime has risen, and the police has been cut.

And as the world has become more dangerous we’ve built up our food, water, medication, and security and we grow more of our food.

And we make plans, bug in, bug out, GHB, BOB, BOV and BOL.

The more we plan the better we will be when the inevitable happens, it will be the oldies with the knowledge that hold the best cards when TSHTF.

So being older is not always bad, anyway they say 70 is the new 50.