What can you do?

[northernhord]

Actually - most of those seem to come in at more like £90, but it includes all meals (cooked by the volunteers themselves) and accomodation obviously, and if you view it as a holiday/course too, that's still not so bad imo!

That sounds bloody good to me

 

[trashpony]

this thread is quite interesting - we could be self-sufficient couldn't we?

cooking
sewing (including designing and making my own clothes)
drawing/painting
basic carpentry
basic plumbing and electrics (lighting and plumbing in a washing machine level)
bricklaying/patio laying
fencing (of the garden variety rather than the 'en garde' type
grow and propogate plants
make compost
basic car maintenance
tractor driving
put up flat pack furniture
horse riding
baby whispering (learning)

 

[northernhord]

^ top skills there Miss

 

[trashpony]

^ top skills there Miss

Cheers

I should have been a farmer really I think

 

[treefrog]

teaching
cooking
sewing
basic knocking-together-of-stuff-type jobs
basic planting of stuff
basic electrical stuff

erm...

I can handle radioactive sources safely?

 

[ivebeenhigh]

i can shoot and fish and prepare animals/fish
i have built a shed from random bits of wood
i know how to grow stuff
i can play 7 or 8 instruments
i have laid patios/built walls
i have plumbed a bathroom in
i can paint and plaster. im pretty good artistically too
i am really good at teaching kids. i am a I shouldve been a teacher type person

and heaps more other stuff hat i have done a couple of times but couple probably turn my hand to again. i am pretty quick at learning new things.

almost all of this I learnt off my dad, who grew up on a farm, became an apprentice electrician, then was in the army and was a gamekeeper later in life. he is fucking ace at all this sort of practical stuff and I wish i was better at it. but he cant write SQL for shit

 

[sheothebudworths]

That sounds bloody good to me

Yep me too - but I think some people imagine you shouldn't have to contribute towards a working holiday iykwim (it's 9-5, for 6 days out of 7, so certainly full time and potentially pretty knackering, but they encourage you only to apply for work you can cope with and that everyone should work at their own pace) so that was for their benefit really!

I just wish they had some sort of family working holidays.

 

[rekil]

I can tame bad tempered cats.

My great grandad was a blacksmith. I'd love to be able to do that.

 

[Winkybag]

Good with children & animals
Cooking
Figuring out electrical equipment without needing the instruction book
Talking/being friendly
Having a lot of stamina
Building/fixing basic structures
Lifting up heavy things

 

[pembrokestephen]

We seem to be living more and more in an age where no fucker knows how to make anything anymore, many peeps seem quite happy to coast through lives unable to make anything from scratch and happy to buy it from someone who has made it for them, where's the fuckin fun in that I ask myself?
The Stainless steel providor is winning hands down as more and more folk lose traditional skills and crafts pushing us ever forward until we wont be able to do anything other than pop some pre-cooked mush into a microwave.

What traditional skills have you got?
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What's your skills?

Growing fruit and vegetables
brewing wine and beer
baking
carpentry
painting and decorating
playing bass guitar/violin/viola/recorders/singing
writing prose
making Jam
cooking ribsticking vegetarian foodz
A limited amount of vehicle fixing
Computers - fixing, programming, installing networks
Listening to people (surprisingly hard, sometimes)
Electrics
Electronics (a bit - especially, for some weird reason, relay-based control systems)
Plumbing (a bit)
Map reading
Shooting (a bit)
Self-defence/karate
First aid
Spliff-rolling (roach in first, natch)
Driving - fast, and sensible.

Bring on the End Times, I's a-ready...

(you'll notice a certain commonality with yours... )

 

[pembrokestephen]

kill and prepare meat
and a host of other skills id be here for hours if i had to list them

Do it, then! You want a place in this End Times Commune, or what?

(and we probably need ONE person who can kill stuff )

 

[pembrokestephen]

Same ere, me auld fella and old lady got me into doin stuff when i was a kid and I carried on later on, Ive taught young hoard a few things too

Heh, there's a young hoard? He/she's going to be a practical soul, come the day...

 

[8ball]

This thread started with someone saying how useless they were - now it looks like in the event of nuclear apocalypse we could almost get things restarted with just the bods on this thread.

My job will be getting the lekky and internet working so we can find each other

 

[northernhord]

Yep me too - but I think some people imagine you shouldn't have to contribute towards a working holiday iykwim (it's 9-5, for 6 days out of 7, so certainly full time and potentially pretty knackering, but they encourage you only to apply for work you can cope with and that everyone should work at their own pace) so that was for their benefit really!

I just wish they had some sort of family working holidays.

Its a sad of affairs if there aint no family holz innit.

 

[mrsfran]

I can make flaky and choux pastry from scratch.

I can bone a whole chicken and keep it in one piece. Hardly anyone can do that nowadays. It won't help in the event of an apocolypse but it will impress your mother-in-law.

 

[felixthecat]

I can bone a whole chicken and keep it in one piece. Hardly anyone can do that nowadays. It won't help in the event of an apocolypse but it will impress your mother-in-law.

I tried that once and made a right mess of it .

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm ashamed now. I was never very good at anything practical. I can't even change an inner tube on a back wheel cos the chain is too complicated for me.

 

[sheothebudworths]

You're fucking great at fancy dress and stupid photos though OU!

 

[zuszsa]

I can:
catch and gut fish
Make marmalade
Keep chickens (for eggs and meat)
Grow vege and stuff
Build things with wood
Basic car fixing
plaster a wall
unblock pipes
dig a septic tank
hang wallpaper (so long as it doesn't have patterns )
cook tasty stuff without benefit of a receipe
make a hat out of flax

 

[Herbsman.]

nothing

but just in case society crumbles i have a tank full of Ray Mears clones so i will be perfectly well off

Who says they won't kill you, cook you and eat you?

 

[Spion]

Good with metal (I used to be a toolmaker)
Good with car mechanickery
Have restored old motorbikes
Brew beer
Can cook pretty well, IMHO
Grow veggies
Plumbing
Electrics
Woodwork
Painting
Bricklaying (after a fashion)
Dog training (well, I've trained the one we have now pretty well, I think)
Hill walking skills - good at map reading, weather, mountain navigation
I write for a living so must be some good at it
Fishing (+ gutting and filleting)
If you ask me in 12 months time I should be able to say I can play guitar
And I can change nappies and look after kids if need be, tho I'm steering clear of breeding meself

It sure looks like we're all set for when the balloon goes up

 

[northernhord]

^ yep more survival skills ere than you can shake a stick at

 

[susie12]

cooking and baking
sewing
embroidery
gardening
can write stories and poems
knitting (a bit)
crochet
tie dye
batik
applique
quilting
speak little French and Russian
compost making
decorating

 

[MsShirlLaverne]

Cooking (adequate)
baking
knitting
sewing
wine making
hair dying
skinning and gutting rabbits
dog grooming
goat keeping
chicken keeping
painting and decorating
DDA auditing
making art from dead frogs

 

[northernhord]

^ You got Livestock then Shirl?

 

[spanglechick]

cooking a bit
baking - quite well

sewing

painting (as in decorating)
drilling walls, etc.

hang out washing in the very best way for minimal crinkles and shortest drying time. (until three months ago, i thought everyone could do this.)

very basic car mechanics.

drive big things, but not as big as hgvs - vans and big minibuses and stuff).

be very loud, for extended periods without losing my voice. (I don't know why this might help in a "real skills" sense - but i feel it should be noted, it's a particular talent).

 

[Spion]

be very loud, for extended periods without losing my voice. (I don't know why this might help in a "real skills" sense - but i feel it should be noted, it's a particular talent).

Point noted for accommodation plan at the Armagideon/End Times Commune

 

[ICB]

eating
drinking
skinning up

 

[pembrokestephen]

Brew beer
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It sure looks like we're all set for when the balloon goes up

Yep

 

[Spion]

Yep

We've got lots of growing skills too, so we're sorted

On brewing . . . I've kinda settled on a kit-plus approach now. I really don't see the point of boiling for an hour to impart just bitterness when a good kit malt extract has it already and all I need to do is boil for max 15 mins to give maybe some extra grain colour/flavour and hop flavour and aroma. Got an IPA ready to drink this week to which I added some crystal malt and flavour and aroma hops. Made a stong stout yesterday with a Brupaks porter-type kit done to 15 litres instead of 23 (1.070!!!) and flavour hops added.

What you up on the brewery front, PS?