Animals are being thrown in rescue centres as people struggle to feed themselves or their animals or worse their kids or their animals and the kids are heartbroken at the loss of the animals, reeating property owners are struggling to put up prices as the gov squeezes them to protect the renters, low priced supermarkets are selling higher amounts of own label at reduced prices but the like of Waitrose that seen as a higher priced supermarket - because they pay their farmers a better price are now having to squeeze prices so the farmers will lose for the supermarket to survive and keep its sister shop John Lewis floating.
woodburners are selling quickly here especially if people have trees they can source, the Russian sanctions and the loss of much of Ukraines exports have hit
gas especially
a knock on effect to electricity
fertilisers
wheat I’d impacting food,animal feeds, and thus beef pork chicken eggs, flour pre made breads cake biscuits pizza
wood a lot was imported
fish the price of fish and chips had risen to the point shops are losing customers and shutting down
the hospitality businesses suffered from Covid and the gov cannot afford to subsidise them
our gdp is now scary as hell, how the government will afford to pay the internet let alone get the main debt done defies reason
the eu is similarly effected
they and us have taken in Ukrainians in what was thought to be a short stopgap but it now endless, sone families have kicked them out now the subsidy has gone,
too many single women or women with children were housed with sinle men - I think you can do the math
european nato has relied on us reserves for armaments and are apparantly running critically low on ammo etc, guess who they’ll be looking to to fill that gap, even if they set up new orders they won’t appear overnight.
the uk has staggering low manpower etc nowadays we might have sone of the best (and you can argue that too) but the numbers we have are stupid, we have uk pilot who are taking 9 years to complete training and we have offered training to the Ukrainians on nato kit
tje greenhouse effect may or may not be occurring but certainly there are temperature rises and this has caused very low water levels, last summer 2022 many of the rivers in Europe dropped to such low levels it interfered with an otherwise very busy waterways transport system, garnany etc is hit badly by this
lady year uk had hosepipe bans due to low water levels, and this winter we have failed to recoup the required water,so if we get another hot summer which is likely hosepipe band]s will hit harder, last year Italy a major rice and wheat supplier lost of a third of its harvests, much of Europe suffered.
so far this winter and we are exiting it the feared blackouts due to lack of power have not occurred BUT with the continuing Russian sanctions the gas remains a big proble and much more expensive now which then effects everything from food to production manufacturing supplying homes, and Saudi has to be black mailed when frankly they benefit from higher prices and if you look at it from their point of view once their oil runs out and it is finite they have no income which is why they buy real estate in capitals around the world
companies are thinning staff to overcome overheads and the fact they know that their employees need pay rises to survive,
we are looking at the edge of the water running down the sink.
hence me being glad we are lucky enough to have had the money and sense to invest
solar power a electric car
eood burner ad we have trees to harvest reducing costs
a Jerry built water collection off our roofs into IBCs via hosepipe transfer so it hosepipe bans occur we have sone leeway
wr are already helping my son as he and his girlfriend struggle
abd if anyone has any good news feel free to shout out.
and for the record people took the p out of Prince Charles now King Charles because of his look after the
planet ideas, but it appears he actually was more knowledgeable than those who took the p. Well who woulda thought.
I buy heirloom seeds which I can legally harvest and reuse, technically packet seed we buy should be re bought I know that several US farmers have been taken to court over harvesting seed from food they grew and have been purposely bankrupted, and now a number of countries are looking at 15 minute (or 20 minute) neighbourhoods this will start in cities and despite their promises it will lead to ghettos
because you will be forced to work locally so you cannot travel for better pay turning people into little better than indentured servants. Just a matter of time. And those of us with land out in the boon ies eventually they’ll compulsory purchase now that won’t likely be in our lifetime but I bet it will come, and I don’t see any country being better off,unless there’s a nuclear war then they say new zealand or Australia reminds me of the book the chrysalids by John Wyndham, prophecy or what
and Mehitabel 
