Keeping yourself – and your family and companions – safe and free from harm is all about observation and understanding of your immediate environment and the spatial awareness that informs your sense of approaching danger. Some of those threats and dangers will come from events that are brewing in the natural, physical world but many might also take the shape of individuals – … [Read more...] about Protect Yourself: Spotting The Bad Guy or Girl
Chernobyl – The Aftermath
You’ll have noticed a fairly regular theme in our blogs. We tend to steer clear of all talk of a nuclear apocalypse and, instead, concentrate on the less dramatic – almost mundane – emergencies and crises that plague our lives. Prepping for these is a way of helping us cope when the inevitable occurs. But we cannot let slip the fact that 35 years ago this April a nuclear … [Read more...] about Chernobyl – The Aftermath
Tips on Personal Safety and Spatial Awareness
Conventional wisdom has it that there are four essential pillars on which personal safety and security can be built. Let’s take a closer look at these pillars and the ways in which each of them relies upon and steadily builds greater spatial awareness. 1. Observation It will come as no surprise that one of the essential requirements for personal safety is the ability to … [Read more...] about Tips on Personal Safety and Spatial Awareness
Tracking in Borneo
During WWII, the British Army set up and armed Chinese guerrillas who did live at that time inside the colonies of the Commowealth in order to fight against the presence of Japan. Eventually, the guerrillas turned out to claim their own ahrence to Mao Tse Tung, and started professing their independence from Mother Country. In 1950, the MPLA (Malayan Peoples Liberation … [Read more...] about Tracking in Borneo
Prepping: it’s the smart way
When such a respectable and respected magazine as US-based The Federalist declares that prepping is the only smart strategy you know you know you have been keeping good company and been following the correct path all along. American Preppers According to a story in The Federalist on the 10th of April 2021, there are now around 3.7 million active preppers in the United … [Read more...] about Prepping: it’s the smart way