UK prepper's guides: practical skills for British homes

Calm, practical, step-by-step guides for UK households that want to go beyond a three-day kit: knots, keeping warm in a power cut, a store cupboard that stays in date, foraging within the law and basic first aid. Each guide is drawn from the book The UK Prepper's Handbook by Rosalind Ashby, with British English, metric units and UK sources.

• How to tie a bowline knot, step by stepThe loop that will not slip, with the rabbit rhyme, plus the round turn and two half hitches.
• Tarp knots: clove hitch, taut-line hitch, trucker's hitch and sheet bendFour knots to fix, adjust and tighten a ridge line and guy lines, and join two different cords.
• How to keep warm in a power cut (UK)Set up one warm room, what never to bring indoors, and the signs of carbon monoxide.
• How much food to stockpile per person (UK)A two-week store cupboard per adult, the three levels, and how to keep it in date.
• Is foraging legal in the UK? The rules in plain EnglishPicking versus uprooting, protected plants, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and the deadly lookalikes.
• The recovery position: step-by-step first aidDR ABC, the 999 call and how to roll someone who is breathing but not responding onto their side.