WTH? Has anyone heard about this?
Ive got plenty of candles, a camping gas stove . Im ready if it comes to that …I remember the 3 day week
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Who claimed this?
All I know is in the news item that I came across and posted.
Someone in the Guardian Newspaper wrote it.
Me too…always prepared…I was in the Brownies & the Girl Guides;
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So, a bit speculative.
Don’t panic, Captain Mainwaring!
According to Wikipedia -
Programme Yarrow is a British government contingency plan to deal with possible nationwide power blackouts.
The plan includes scenarios where power supply is severely compromised for up to a week. The plan was originally developed in 2021 to address the possibility of a major failure of the National Grid.
The plan was stress tested by government in late 2022 to deal with possible outages caused by fuel shortages as a consequence of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Another exercise, Noble Birch, had been conducted in previous months to test the practicality of government continuity in the absence of power.
The programme primarily focuses on how to supply food and water to the young and elderly, how to establish communication with citizens, and how to manage the crisis with planned blackouts if the nation indeed goes to the brink of a nation-wide blackout for a week. The government and local councils had already took part in a series of drills to stress-test the plan of supplying food and water.
I think it’s good that governments test out what will happen in “worst case scenarios” - more reason to panic if they don’t think about it and don’t put plans in place for when the worst happens!
It’s quite charming in a Dickensian kind of way.
I’ll don my nightgown, draw my bed curtains and wait and see what happens next.
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We have plenty of torches and an open fire in one of the rooms, guess I need to get a camping stove to stash away incase.
The energy is going, one way or another, that’s for sure.
I recently read that those Noddy style of nightcaps were designed so that they could droop down the back of your head and be used to keep your neck warm without being long enough to strangle you in your sleep
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How can you be sure?
It’s all the pointers plus, a bit of age old logic.
As it happens, I know about power engineering - that’s what I did for a living for about fifty years. Old age? 75 in my case.
I would not dispute that, but without resource, that feat could not be replicated.
My long hair is good for that, no need for a scarf. 
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I loved Enid Blyton, don’t remember that particular story though.
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What specific resource, or absence of it, did you have in mind?
Coal, Oil, Gas etc etc
Fascinating fact, albeit completely off topic…They used to make Noddy films in a place called Cosgrove Hall, less than a mile from where I live. Sounds grand, but it was the name of the company rather than a building, and the company was set up by a Mr Cosgrove and a Mr Hall. When the film company closed down around 15 years ago, the building was knocked down, and a McCarthy Stone retirement flats building was put up. My MIL lives in one of them…
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