Travel angst?
I still don't know how I will survive with children if there really is nothing left to buy.
Whether it will come to that is the question. I suspect that it will be like it was a long time ago. Today you have to queue up because only sugar is sold and with a bit of luck a piece of chicken, the day after tomorrow there might be flour or milk.
Last Sunday, my child and I drove around to recharge the car's battery. In the countryside, there should be enough possibilities to survive. After all these years, we still do not know anyone from whom we could buy vegetables, eggs and perhaps milk. Many farmers have switched to growing those weedy flowers for petrol and the corn, sunflowers and occasionally the grain doesn't look too good.
How many grains would it take to make one kilo of flour?
In the autumn of 2021, I said I would not plant anymore. Everything dies and that does not make me happy. Even if I don't sow but buy plants, they won't make it in time to bear fruit, not to mention the pests that eat everything.
In any case, I will soon have an abundance of poppies and dandelions again. The leaves of the dandelion can be used as lettuce. With a bit of luck, I will have mulberries, some currants and cherries and in autumn a handful of rose hips. I am not the only one with a bad harvest, by the way. The farmers also complain about it, lack of water is said to be the reason. Soon the war will be blamed, but in fact, it is just that bunch of rich people who seize their chance and make the prices so high that after dangerous injections with many dead and wounded, famine strikes worldwide.
Forewarned is forearmed, so I am going to stock up. Something I do anyway for every winter because with bad weather we cannot leave here and the sandy path is impassable.
I read that with the energy crisis in the making (also planned) travelling, driving and so on will all be banned. So the travel angst will no longer exist. It may be that the car-free Sunday will be reinstated first. I can't say I care, especially if we all take part in it and are willing to save energy, but that's not likely to happen. The large-scale consumers will carry on like usual and won't even turn off a light behind their backs or leave the television off for a day.
I propose that a maximum amount of Kwh2 can be used per residential address per day and then electricity use is cut off. This seems to me to be the only way to use what we have more efficiently. Not that I think it is really necessary. We have plenty of wind turbines standing idle and water not to mention all those fields and roofs full of solar panels. In reality, electricity is given away cheap to Microsoft and the people will just have to suffer because it must be clear that we are at war with Russia. Russians and Europeans should suffer and die for that reason.
Although I don't think I can harvest anything, I bought some seeds and try to make some basic, healthy food myself. Apart from yoghurt and kefir, I provide myself with spring onions (bought in the supermarket and put them in some water) and also the stalk of the lettuce head is in some water now. Who knows, something might grow out of it.
The butts of the carrots do not go fast. The green that grows from them can be eaten and also put into homemade pesto. After two weeks, I still don't see much happening, again because of the cold.
I have sown dill but so far nothing. Maybe I put the car in the sun and use it as a greenhouse?
Prompt: travel angst
