Hang in there, Astra! Nothing expresses the joy of life more than surviving a disaster!
What you need is an Italian invasion again. Lets make Beppe emperor and ask him to get your blood pumping once more with a nice invasion.
Seriously though, with the UK financial troubles you do need a personal safety cushion.
As I said elsewhere I slowly accumulated 6 months of food and medicine.
In August I had to have surgery to reattach a tendon on the top of my right foot. They then had to cut my Achilles tendon and insert a spacer to relax the tension so that the other tendon wouldn't be pulled off again. I was told that the full recovery would take about 6 months.
Because I had some money, food, and common medicines saved up
I do not have an emergency. If I had not thought ahead I could have lost my house.
Some use Preparation to insure themselves against earthquakes, flood, ice storms, blizzards, zombie attacks, or whatever. Far from being depressing, I see it as a form of self respect and determination.
I WILL survive!
Suppose something like that Stephen King story was to happen in the UK? The one about monsters in the fog and people trapped in a small market. Without your own supply of food, medicine, and machine guns you would have to try to make it to that sorry excuse for a grocery store.
Or what happens when all the illegal realize that the UK can not only
not protect their sovereignty, but that they can't even afford to ship them out of the country?
Your ancestors beat my ancestors once. If you can't do it again I'll pull a Braveheart on you and
Scotland WILL BE FREE!!!!!
Uhm, wait a minuet. I don't think that I like the way that William Wallace thingie ended. I'll just stay over here if you don't mind.