Even if primordial the art of Tracking is still utterly valuable in our everyday life. Reading tracks (and signs, although microscopic sometimes!) of men, animals and vehicles allow us not only to collect essential data to reconstruct what happened in a specific time/place frame and why, but also to reinforce our situational awareness and, consequentially,…
In the event of a disaster or any kind of natural or manmade catastrophe likely to last longer than a week or so, do you plan to stay put in your own home or head off to somewhere that seems safer? Given that exceedingly few people are likely to have a purpose built “safe space”…
“The British and the Americans are two great peoples divided by a common tongue” famously wrote the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. To the English mind, the stereotypical American is brasher, bolder, brassier, and altogether louder than the stiffly upper-lipped Englishman. Is anything like that distinction apparent in our respective approaches to “prepping”? Stereotypes The…
They might be bandied about in the same breath by some people but is there a difference between Prepping and Survival? What are those differences? Or are they to all intents and purposes the two sides of pretty much the same coin? Let’s take a closer look. Prepper or Survivalist? For many of the proponents…
If 2020 has taught us one thing it is that disasters – manmade or otherwise – have the capacity for upending everything we previously took for granted. Some of that disruption may be inconvenient – like a temporary shortage of your favourite foods – or can be serious enough to become a matter of life…