10 ways from Ukrainian winters

10 Winter Blackout Tricks

For four winters in Ukraine the power went off for many hours every day. These are the ten things the old people living alone did to make the dark hours safe. Keep this list in your kitchen drawer beside the lamp.

with love, Maria

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  • Find the place where you get stuck
  • Keep two kinds of water
  • A month of medicine, and a paper card
  • Cash in small bills
  • The power bank sleeps in your pocket
  • Your light-hours list
  • Porridge under the fur coat
  • A strand of fairy lights
  • Know your warm room, and who drives you
  • The water-jug lamp

I will write to you when my book of my grandmother's ways is ready. Nothing else, and you can leave any time.

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