What Preps are you doing this week? Part 13

How are you preparing
Frnc
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Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 13

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pseudonym wrote: Tue Aug 04, 2026 9:42 am Cancelled BT landline
Cancelled old Talk Talk Broadband
Set up new EE Broadband only

£125 up :mrgreen:

All due to BT's crap website kept crashing :roll:

Just waiting on the new hub to arrive in the next couple of weeks.
I was with Talk Talk. My account got taken over by Utility Warehouse. They sent a new router. Had no issues apart from them trying to sell me mobile package etc. I assumed the whole company had been migrated, but apparently not.
Peter
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Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 13

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We were with the Post Office, very good, taken over by Shell who sold it to Talk Talk, lots of problems.
Peter
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Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 13

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We had a text this afternoon from the National Grid about potential power cuts, if they are concerned about cuts
in summer we can expect and must prepare for a long cold dark winter.

We didn’t use the multifuel stove last winter, getting to old to lug buckets of coal about, but we have about
half a ton of smokeless coal for emergencies. We have propane for cooking would like more, price including
cost of cylinder is getting silly. We have a small solar set up for lighting and battery charging, we will have to
manage the freezers as best we can adding extra insulation when power is off, and laundry will be hand washing.

So with this in mind we are starting to put together a plan.