As Today is a Tuesday, I was, of course.joined once again by Margaret Mills who this week took time out to look at the life of an Essex benefactor who lived during the mid 18th century and hailed from Leytonstone, which was, of course, at that time part of our county.
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher opened her own house to help homeless and destitute women – a kind of one person Dr Barnadoes.
The house where she was born later became the site of Whipps Cross Hospital.
The lady in question was born as Mary Bosanquet, later marrying a Methodist minister, thereby becoming Mary Fletcher.
If you missed what Margaret told me you can listen again here:-
Coming right up to date, and in effect taking a peak into the future, and without in any way wishing to be alarmist, the fact is that several European countries are planning to, or have already issued instructions to their countrymen of what to do in the event of invasion, a nuclear attack, or some other potential catastrophe.
With this in mind, I thought it prudent to visit the SECRET NUCLEAR BUNKER last week and establish whether they might be offering any season tickets for emergency accommodation, always, of course, assuming that roads on the approach would be open!
Ideas for survival kits suggest that each household should ensure they have essential supplies to last for a minimum of 72 hours, including at least 6 litres of bottled water, an adequate supply of canned food, batteries, a torch (with batteries), medical supplies including paracetamol – ideal for any headache perhaps resulting from the noise of a nuclear detonation, a battery operated radio, warm clothes, phone chargers – presumably only useful if the power supply is still on, cash – assuming the shops are still open, prescription glasses, duplicate keys – always useful if your house has survived the blast, photo copies of essential documents so you can claim on insurance if your house is destroyed in any nuclear attack – always of course, assuming that the insurance company itself still exists! And games to pass the time.
Apparently we are told that everyone should ensure they close all doors in their homes in the event of a nuclear attack.
That’s a bit like the advice we were offered 40 years ago to quickly nip down to the DIY store to get white paint and brushes to paint your windows white, and then hide under a table!
Personally I think I’ll just down a copious quantity of alcohol.
Well always assuming there is a next week, I hope to have the pleasure of your company once again next Monday,
Scott
