Feels like the apocalypse

[housinghero]

Is just me or does it just feel like the bloody end of the world at the moment..

ridiculous heat
water shortages
food shortages
Collapsing government
cost of living
energy prices
impending recession
staff shortgages
risk of fires

We are only just getting over a world wide pandemic- i haven't forgotten that yet....

If I didn't have kids then I would be looking for the nearest tall building.

I do not buy vegetables where you have to add things to make them taste better. I like sprouts.

Things can feel scary now, but we have to remember that people who lived through crisis points and difficult times in the past didn't have any way of knowing how things would work out or how long the hard times would last. Looking back, it's easy to forget how terrified they must have been. We know the outcome, but they didn't. Someday, people will look back at this period of history, too, and be unable to know exactly how it felt to live through it.

Things are always changing, and for better or worse, nothing lasts forever.

I think in good old MN speech you need to 'give your head a wobble'.

I was doing my O levels (yes!) in the 70s when there were power cuts and the 3-day week. I had to revise by candlelight and we had one coal fire to heat one room.

I lived through all the strikes in the 70s- bin men (rubbish piling up in the streets), burials and cremations postponed, the IRA blowing people up in London with bombs in post boxes, so you didn't dare post a letter, the Iranian Embassy hostage siege in London (I lived very near the embassy when the siege was on), fuel rationing (you could only buy so much petrol) and so on.

We will get through this.

Chin up and carry on.

Oh and mortgage interest rates at 15% when buying our first house.

And lots of people had their houses repossessed when mortgage interest rates went that high.

I think it is easier when you are the "child" and your parents are worrying about keeping a roof over your head.

Yep :( climate change, the war in Ukraine, the human rights changes in USA, energy prices and a recession that’s actually scary. People like Andrew tate existing and indoctrinating young boys.
So depressing :(

Sorry no shortages here...
I shop in Aldi, Lidl, Sainsburys, Asda and Tesco

I basically go into whatever shop is on the way home after work / day out

I felt "worldendy" about Ukraine tbh.

You'll feel better next week when it rains

Lots of food in Tesco here and sains but not in Lidl if you go after say midday.

currently got a teen who’s on a gap year but isn’t willing to work for minimum wage and has no motivation to do so, he is kicking back waiting for September then looking for the best paid gap year job.

so it depends on how you spin it, look in certain shops yes they are empty but I can buy what I need if I shop around. There’s minimum wage work if you want it but some people don’t want to earn minimum wage. No hose pipe ban in my postcode. I can see things aren’t rosey around me but I don’t feel like joining the Jehovah’s witnesses yet. Although I appreciate things must look extremely good for them right now.

Frozen sprouts are alright if you roast them. You may need to quarter them once they're defrosted enough though.

Can’t complain about the weather too much. “Back in the day” when most hotels didn’t have air conditioning, we happily went on holiday in the south and we didn’t die. Yes it’s hot but I see no reason for the panic mongers on the telly. It’s hot but unless people have health issues it will be fine.

yes, shortages, that gets on my wick big time. Every time I go to the supermarket there are items on my list I didn’t get such as big standard broccoli. Not the purple sprouting or posh varieties just the normal stuff. I agree it’s not a big issue in the scope of things we ‘ll adjust the menu and get in with it but the lack of HRT (or at least the variety I’m after) is more of a problem.

Energy bills this winter worry me but there isn’t much that can be done about it. We will just have to wait and see what happens. I doubt very much that whoever the new PM will be is going to do much to help working people.

Sometimes I do wonder if it would be better to not watch the news for a few days a week. I feel that since Covid there seems to be a new Crisis somewhere on an almost daily basis.

You do know that we live in a safe secure wealthy country?

What you describe are “normal” conditions in much of the global South, and have always been like that. Interesting you have no understanding of that.

Who are these threads for? They don't help the OPs, or people reading them. The Apocolypse is not nigh, good grief if the current situations make you feel that then it shows how spoilt we have become. God help us if anything really bad happens!

No. But it feels like the 70s and early 80s again.

A flares are coming back too

They want you to feel like this. Don't fall for it - it's probably all orchestrated.

Really? This must be area specific. I'm by the seaside--the beach is packed, bars and restaurants getting busy. People out and about.

I am fed up of going to the shops and not being able to get what I want.
It does seem to vary a lot by area. Where my sister lives the shops are full. Where I am fruit and veg and other items are hit and miss. Even marks and spencers routinely have things missing.

:)

We went away and were surprised by how quiet everywhere was. I can understand popular beaches still being busy in this hot weather though.

We've done a fair few days out and they’ve been packed, lots of good feeling… then there’s mn vibe

@BiscuitLover3678 I'm confused by your post.

I was 16 when doing my O levels , 18 doing my A levels and yes, living at home. But hardly a child. And when I was definitely a child, my dad was unemployed for some time as he was made redundant.

But a few years later when the strikes were rife, I was working, living near London and supporting myself, as I was when mortgage rates shot up to 15%. And during previous years when Wilson was in power, highest rate income tax was 98%!

People have no idea. My parents lived through the General Strike and WW2. And now, the pandemic and rising fuel costs and they just carry on....with a sense of humour.

I think there is a lot of truth in this. As a child at school in the 60s we were told that population explosion was going to lead to mass famine.

And in the 80s we were told we were heading into another Ice Age.

I just feel like I am on a ride I want to get off but can;t! I think the main thing with me is the fact that we havent had time to catch our breath from the pandemic then off we go headfirst into a financial crisis...its just too much somedays.

The warnings of climate change were there and ignored. We will reap what we sow I guess 😞 very worried for my children and their children !

It is all rather negative at the moment indeed.
Lots of serious issues and no action or end to be seen.