Emergency Preparation!

A few days ago we got this book through the post, which offers "helpful" advice that we should apparently follow in the case of any "emergency" that may befall us!

It tries hard to be comprehensive - it tells us what to do if we have a flood, a fire, or need to call the local police. It tells us what to do if the weather is cold or hot, or if we are struck down with a great terminal pestilence, or if we have something such as a power cut (which we have so regularly here, that we can pretty much navigate our house in the dark except for the 5 cats, who just think we're great lumbering blind things to trip up when they can still see perfectly well).

I'm sure if you're 18, have just left home, and have never had a power cut before and so on, then it's terribly helpful, but as I read it the other night, it seemed to ask more questions than it gave answers!

The main thought I had, as I read the bit about "thinking about what you'd do with animals if you had to leave your home in an emergency" is that I should get another hamster carrier, since Robbie and Laura "Cox and Box" in theirs, and if they were put in there together she'd kill him!

Anyway, I did check, but there wasn't a section on "preparing English lessons to teach when you've lost your voice and are really too ill to go to college anyway, but you have to because if you don't teach the required number of hours you fail the course you've spent quite a bit of money and the last 12 weeks of your life doing and there's no time to make it up because it's the end of term next week and you've already missed a lesson owing to getting terminal big poisoning earlier on in term"! Maybe I should get someone to put that on AOB at the next meeting of the Thames Valley Local Resilience Forum - bless their souls!

So I had to make that bit up. Behind the booklet are the texts of the listening exercises in the course book we've been using to teach our classes!

Preparing the lesson was about all I did do today. No energy for anything else. Got a card in the post from MiL, who's now losing all her hair from the chemo - last time she attempted to wash it, it all came out in the basin and stopped the water from going down the plug hole! Oh dear.

There's nothing in the booklet about what to do about that either! Should I send a wig or a plunger?

Or both?