Is something about to happen?

Surprised myself this morning when husband started up the usual Starmer-bashing - "look, can't you leave him to it? The poor sod is trying to save the world"
People don't trust him to take care of the UK, so I guess the idea of him having responsibilities on an even bigger scale is quite unnerving.

home owners need to be eyes open to the change

If it mortage rates we're fixed for next few years like a large part of the mortgage market these days - and due to ageing population many more than in past own houses outright.

If it's council tax or energy prices well those affect people in rented properties as well as rents going ever up which is probbaly not great with eldest looking to graduate this year.

Something somewhere is always about to happen/is happening/has happened but there is a very good chance whatever it is/was won't affect you/me

home owners need to be eyes open to the change

Do what I do, OP, and teach your social media algorithms to show you crafting, cookery and how to make up a hooded eyelid.

Let’s not be silly and compare 2026 to the Spanish Armada.

give it time...😂

I was wondering if the OP meant they had a feeling of impending doom personally or for the whole world.
A lot is going on in the world and uncertainties do cause anxiety for many people.

The feeling prior to Covid isn’t really a quantifiable term. Are we talking about the people who locked away early and washed their shopping? Are we talking about the people who could see something was coming, followed the rules but acted quite pragmatically in that they didn’t wash their shopping or leave deliveries in quarantine for weeks? Or the people who felt Covid was a hoax and did what they pleased?

I think you probably mean the first group. They are right in that this is a war that has a big global impact. Shipping lines are disrupted, the costs of goods will increase, stock markets have crashed. However, we’re not looking at conscription. We’re not looking at air raids (here anyway).

Life is generally going to get tougher for everyone (in the UK). Not having your home or child’s school bombed level of tough but people are probably going to go into fuel poverty. Food prices are likely to rise. Cost of getting to work is going to increase. People are going to feel a lot more downtrodden. People will have less money to spend and the economy will retract. The main presiding emotions in Covid were fear and uncertainty. I don’t think that’ll be the case, people will just feel like life is shit and it’s getting shitter and they are getting poorer. Covid had a huge impact on people’s lives and that is still being felt now. People are probably justified in saying this war will have an impact (economically for us) and it’s going to continue for a while.

I disagree with some of the other PPs to say just step away from it. That doesn’t help everyone. Some people need to understand more to actually understand the risk of the truly bad stuff won’t happen.

They won’t do another 6 months payment holiday no chance lance

OP there is ALWAYS something terrible happening somewhere!

Stop watching the news and SM for a while

Why? The park is free, to go for a walk, and sit in. As are most museums. Of course, there may be factors as to whether you enjoy those things, and are able to get to them.

The Middle east currently dealing with a war and that is and will for a while effect oil prices and that will have an effect on econnomies world wide. We've not long had similar shock with Russian/Ukraine war.

Trump president - and that's not going well though so far US hasn't decended into a civil war.

If it an overwhleming sense of doom it's likley your anxiety but when FIL had it it was sign he was about to have a heart attack - so may be worth going to GP just in case.

Let’s not be silly and compare 2026 to the Spanish Armada.

my comment was in relation to the comment said that there’s always things around the world and yes there are, but not all of them impact our economy and our cost of living right now, but this one has and will!

and as much as the burying head in the sand method may work for some, home owners need to go in eyes open! Esp if your on a fix now, you need to be thinking what can I do to prevent my bill sky rocketing. Can you pay down the capital balance? Can you switch now? Etc maybe you do have an erc but maybe it’s only 1%. All things to be very eyes open about.

😅 wishful thinking on my behalf! (Wouldn't it be lovely if we could just cut the crap and have peace again!)

I think it's just because it is around the anniversary of the lockdown. Even if you are not consciously acknowledging that, the length of daylight, Easter eggs in the shops will be niggling at you.

It's similar to how you start to feel awful at the time of year you suffered a bereavement or traumatic event.

Panic buy now. Beat the price rises, fill your boots and your tanks, stock the larder, get a wind up radio and torch, fill bottles with clean water, find your first aid kit.

Or, you could sit in the garden admiring the daffs. Plan what you will be planting in a few weeks time, cut the grass, read a book, go to work, play with the kids, deal with the fallout IF it happens when it happens.

The Government will give us all free gas and electric to see us through. Banks will give us a mortgage holiday of six months with no penalty. What else? Betcha they will! 😊Great little country we live in all the same.

There's always something about to happen. Whatever worrying thing happens next, you can use it as the basis for claiming that you had a premonition of disaster.

Oh Ive got those

What do I do with them, how do they work?

Markets think a base rate rise by the end of the year we were meant to have 2 cuts! But the situation seems to be getting worse on the daily

No more likely than that time when someone contacted the BBC to say that a hurricane was coming.

Most able bodied people have two stalks called legs which grow from their backsides.

Luckily we are coming into Spring/summer so heats off and the tumble will be used sparingly.
Its fuel costs that are worrying me...my eldest commutes a fair distance. If it gets too much she'll try and get work nearer home 😕
No doubt food costs will go up again

You need to avoid reading anything that triggers your anxiety OP that’s what’s leading you to think “something might happen” and for what it’s worth I know the feeling. It’s the feeling that something is going to go catastrophically wrong in the world because you’ve been reading about so many horrific world events.

When the government set up that emergency alert on phones a couple of years ago at the same time they suggested having an emergency stockpile of food, bottled water, candles, batteries etc and my severe anxiety led me to believe they knew something we didn’t.
I started reading about Russia and Ukraine war and googled “could there be a nuclear war” which of course led to lots of random “news” sites that said it could happen then chat forums for preppers who believed it was inevitable.

A few months later they showed the film threads for its 40 year anniversary and I spiralled convinced myself it was going to happen.

My best friend has a basement and I insisted we spend a fortune on emergency supplies and kit it out and even led her to believe we were heading for disaster.

I started therapy and stopped looking online and now the feelings of terror have faded to a bit of worry now and then when I see something on the news. Everyone expected the Iran war to trigger me into panic but I have an Iranian DP who kept me calm.

I still have the basement kitted out but it’s likely pointless because we live somewhere that would be a prime target for a bomb so we likely wouldn’t survive the blast. Bizarrely I find that comforting because it’s surviving in a post nuclear war that made me most anxious

The world isn’t a nice place and there is endless awful things to upset you if you keep looking and it won’t prevent it.
Try to live your life without making it miserable yourself and the more you occupy yourself with positive things the easier it gets.
Another good tip is to tell yourself that unless it’s on a reputable news site like sky news or BBC then it’s likely just to be click bait and not worth reading, if something is headline news you’ll find out without searching and if the government cover it up till the last minute or are unaware you won’t find out until it’s on the news.

Life isn't so light when I receive my electricity bill or get to the checkout in the supermarket. Unfortunately there are some things that lots of us can't ignore and inflation is one of them.

Lol, are you sure?

WWII
WWI
Boer War
Crimean War
Napoleonic Wars
Various invasions, the last by the Dutch
The restoration
The Commonwealth
The Spanish Armada
The Cousins War

Im working backwards but theres plenty more even before that lot.

Country on a knife edge each time.

This is simply more of the same.