You sound wonderfully level headed and full of the best common sense. I’m so glad your not only survived being raised in a prepper family with so many guns, but thrived in adult hood to see that they weren’t quite the norm. Well done and thanks for your great ideas and good advice. We need more views like yours.

I live on a mixed grazing farm in Australia. We have an orchard full of wonderful fruit trees, berries and vegetables. It has six foot high fences, but kangaroos got in and ate most things in a severe 3 year drought we are still getting over.

ATM we have a five square metre garden of celery and some herbs. Lots more veg as seedlings will take a few more weeks to harvest, but the fresh stuff is best.

I sound kooky, but I always liked shopping, even grocery shopping. I always buy a couple of things I needed or wanted when on sale, I have very well stocked cupboards. So just bought a little extra in the last six weeks of chaos and panic buying; more amazed by the irrational people buying stupid stuff.

I already had about 60 rolls of loo roll before the toilet paper wars started. My kids used to joke that I was a prepper when things fell out of the pantry on them. I’m happy now I always got a little extra.

I have three packs of oats already and honey comes from the hives kept on our own property. Honey is a magic food, the only food that never goes out of date.

Honey is also an antibacterial food. If you have a sore throat, just keep a spoonful in your mouth as long as you can before swallowing. Great for colds or flu, or if you do come down with the dreaded Carona.