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Grandpa Hamish
Grandpa Hamish, an older man with a white beard and flat cap, smiling at the camera

Grandpa Hamish

Ready isnae scared. Ready is just sensible.

Be ready for three bad days, one small job at a time.

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Hamish standing at the open door of his whitewashed croft house with an enamel mug, green hills behind
Home is a wee house at the end of a long glen. The kettle's on.
A wooden sailing boat making way under sail in open water

Why listen to an old sailor?

I was born in Greenock in 1938. I spent 24 years in the Merchant Navy and many more living aboard a wee wooden sloop. Then thirty winters on a croft in Wester Ross, where the power goes off more often than the kettle.

The sea teaches you one thing above all: you don't panic, you prepare. Then you put the kettle on.

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Cover of the 30 Days to Ready workbook, showing a torch and a croft cottage
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30 Days to Ready

One small job a day. In a month, your house is ready for three bad days.

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