Saturday 22 January 2011

The Things that Keep Us Here

The Things That keep us here by Carla Buckley.

Mum bought this book and loant it to me. (so I can't share it with anyone :( )

Mum was reading it while we had the floods and evacuation messages so she found it a bit ironic at the time.
I read it in 2 days (I would have read it all at once but these kids keep expecting me to feed them!)

So you can read about it here - http://www.carlabuckley.com/books.php

It's about a family trying to survive during an Avian Flu Pandemic.
I couldn't put it down and it really made me think about how unprepared we all are for any major disasters, be they flu or floods.
So many things fell apart so fast, if everyone is sick, there's no one to deliver milk or operate petrol stations or keep the power running etc.

Because of the floods here it only took 1 day of no normal deliveries for the stores here to run low on milk, and 2-3 days for there to be no vegetables,fruit, bread or milk. Our well built society falls apart pretty damn fast.

I did wish the chapters had "day 13" etc as it was hard to follow the time line and I did wonder how they had frozen vegetables and a loaf of bread after so long with out power.

I was sad when I got to the end of the book as I really liked the characters and would have been happier if the book had been a bit longer. It reminded me slightly of "The Stand" but possibly only because of the flu connection (and because The Stand is one of my fav books ever)

And here's a link with what you should stock your pantry with (just in case)-

http://www.pantrylist.com.au/pantry/dloads/PantryList.pdf

Tuesday 4 January 2011

2011 Wins 2011- $2859 1995-now $65277

Jan

Book from Goodreads $25

Feb
Book from Home magazine $25
Inflatable ball $10 from praise/msterfoods comp
Ipod $66

March
BBC dvds $440
Mightymite plate $10

April
Simple Skincare products $500

May
Ballet tickets $200

June
Puzzle Book $4

July
Whale cruise tickets $258
Avenged seven fold tickets/shirts/cds x6 $840
Eye Roll on $20
Woolies giftcard $100

August
baby show ticket $15

September
Symantec norton 360 $130
Movietickets x2 One day $30
4myearth products $40

October
Tony bennett cd $20
Fiona O'loughlin book $25
Frostbite cookbook $35
Puzzle book $5

November
Movie tickets $26
Mightymite plate $10
Book Night circus $20
Organiser $20

December
Red Dog dvd $20